Patents by Inventor Jan Zach

Jan Zach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9103742
    Abstract: A sensor line for monitoring for and locating leaks in an installation, in which chlorine escapes to the area surrounding the installation if there is a leak. The sensor line contains a carrier pipe. The wall of the carrier pipe has openings which are closed by at least one layer which is permeable for chlorine and contains a halogen-containing siloxane rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Areva GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Fleischer, Walter Knoblach, Jan Zach
  • Patent number: 7779526
    Abstract: A method for producing a collecting line, and a collecting line produced according to the method is provided for detecting and locating an agent discharging into the environment of the collecting line in case of leakage. Such a collecting line has a carrier pipe, the wall of which is equipped with openings that are sealed by an elastic material that is permeable for the agent. Accordingly, a hose made of the permeable elastic material, the inside diameter of which is smaller than the outside diameter of the carrier pipe, is elastically expanded by creating a pressure difference between the interior and the exterior of the hose. The carrier pipe is inserted into the radially expanded hose, and the radially expanded hose is attached to the outside surface of the carrier pipe by reducing the pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: AREVA NP GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Storb, Arno Balthasar, Jan Zach, Walter Knoblach, Hans-Joachim Wittmann
  • Patent number: 7684951
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting a pulse-type mechanical effect at a system component, include continuously recording an operating noise in the system component with a sensor disposed at the system component and converting the operating noise with the sensor into a measured signal subjected to a mathematical transformation. A sliding mean is calculated by determining quantiles from determined transformations and an evaluation function, which displays an application of the pulse-type mechanical effect on the system component, is derived from the sliding mean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Areva NP GmbH
    Inventors: Bela Bechtold, Peter Jax, Vojtech Ocelik, Jan Zach
  • Publication number: 20090235723
    Abstract: A sensor line for monitoring for and locating leaks in an installation, in which chlorine escapes to the area surrounding the installation if there is a leak. The sensor line contains a carrier pipe. The wall of the carrier pipe has openings which are closed by at least one layer which is permeable for chlorine and contains a halogen-containing siloxane rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: AREVA NP GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick Fleischer, Walter Knoblach, Jan Zach
  • Publication number: 20090217504
    Abstract: A method for producing a collecting line, and a collecting line produced according to the method is provided for detecting and locating an agent discharging into the environment of the collecting line in case of leakage. Such a collecting line has a carrier pipe, the wall of which is equipped with openings that are sealed by an elastic material that is permeable for the agent. Accordingly, a hose made of the permeable elastic material, the inside diameter of which is smaller than the outside diameter of the carrier pipe, is elastically expanded by creating a pressure difference between the interior and the exterior of the hose. The carrier pipe is inserted into the radially expanded hose, and the radially expanded hose is attached to the outside surface of the carrier pipe by reducing the pressure difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: AREVA NP GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Storb, Arno Balthasar, Jan Zach, Walter Knoblach, Hans-Joachim Wittmann
  • Patent number: 7542860
    Abstract: A method and device detect a position of a pulsed mechanical effect on a plant component. An operating noise in the plant component is continuously recorded by sensors which are arranged on the plant component and converted by the above into a measured signal. The measured signals of the sensors undergo a transformation in a first time window. A first evaluation function is derived from a plurality of first transformations determined in this manner, the evaluation functions display an appearance of the pulsed mechanical effect. Accordingly, when detecting an effect following the second shorter time window having the same algorithms, second transformed and respectively, second evaluation functions are derived, from which, respectively, one time point is determined. Wherein the sound signal produced by the effect impacts upon the sensor. From there, running time differences produced between the sensors can be exactly reconstructed on the position of the effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Areva NP GmbH
    Inventors: Bela Bechtold, Peter Jax, Vojtech Ocelik, Jan Zach
  • Publication number: 20090048791
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting a pulse-type mechanical effect at a system component, include continuously recording an operating noise in the system component with a sensor disposed at the system component and converting the operating noise with the sensor into a measured signal subjected to a mathematical transformation. A sliding mean is calculated by determining quantiles from determined transformations and an evaluation function, which displays an application of the pulse-type mechanical effect on the system component, is derived from the sliding mean.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: AREVA NP GMBH
    Inventors: Bela Bechtold, Peter Jax, Vojtech Ocelik, Jan Zach
  • Publication number: 20080288187
    Abstract: A method and device detect a position of a pulsed mechanical effect on a plant component. An operating noise in the plant component is continuously recorded by sensors which are arranged on the plant component and converted by the above into a measured signal. The measured signals of the sensors undergo a transformation in a first time window. A first evaluation function is derived from a plurality of first transformations determined in this manner, the evaluation functions display an appearance of the pulsed mechanical effect. Accordingly, when detecting an effect following the second shorter time window having the same algorithms, second transformed and respectively, second evaluation functions are derived, from which, respectively, one time point is determined. Wherein the sound signal produced by the effect impacts upon the sensor. From there, running time differences produced between the sensors can be exactly reconstructed on the position of the effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: AREVA NP GMBH
    Inventors: Bela Bechtold, Peter Jax, Vojtech Ocelik, Jan Zach