Patents by Inventor Josef Tommer

Josef Tommer 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: 6657330
    Abstract: In a turbo generator with a rotor with direct gas cooling, which rotor is provided with a rotor winding arranged around a central rotor body, said rotor winding being on the front sides covered by one each annular cap plate, and in which rotor cold cooling gas for cooling the rotor flows into ring gap segments between the cap plate and the rotor body, whereby the ring gap segments are bordered, when seen in circumferential direction, on the sides in each case by the section of an end spacer plate provided between the cap plate and the rotor winding, whereby this section is projecting into the ring gap, improved cooling is achieved in that separations of the cooling gas stream on flowing into the ring gap segments are avoided by designing the sections of the end spacer plates, whereby these sections adjoin the ring gap, in a manner that is advantageous with respect to the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: Jürgen Baer, Josef Tommer
  • Publication number: 20030094866
    Abstract: In a turbo generator with a rotor with direct gas cooling, which rotor is provided with a rotor winding arranged around a central rotor body, said rotor winding being on the front sides covered by one each annular cap plate, and in which rotor cold cooling gas for cooling the rotor flows into ring gap segments between the cap plate and the rotor body, whereby the ring gap segments are bordered, when seen in circumferential direction, on the sides in each case by the section of an end spacer plate provided between the cap plate and the rotor winding, whereby this section is projecting into the ring gap, improved cooling is achieved in that separations of the cooling gas stream on flowing into the ring gap segments are avoided by designing the sections of the end spacer plates, whereby these sections adjoin the ring gap, in a manner that is advantageous with respect to the flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Jurgen Baer, Josef Tommer
  • Patent number: 6259166
    Abstract: A generator with double driving machinery. On one side of the generator, a gas turbine is coupled directly with a generator shaft. On the other side of the generator, opposite from the gas turbine, a steam turbine is connected via a transmission gear with the generator shaft. The transmission gear is situated between the generator shaft and a slip ring shaft of a slip ring unit. During operation, the slip ring shaft is not influenced by a torque stress formed by the steam turbine. The generator shaft and the slip ring shaft, as well as a first gear shaft, situated between the generator shaft and the slip ring shaft, are constructed at least partially as hollow shafts. The first gear shaft may also be constructed completely as a hollow shaft. The bores of the generator shaft, the slip ring shaft, and the first gear shaft hold an excitation conductor for transmitting an excitation current from the slip ring unit to the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventor: Josef Tommer
  • Patent number: 6252328
    Abstract: An electrical machine (10), in particular a generator, comprises a rotor (12) with pole zones, in which pole zones amortisseur bars (15) designed as wedges are arranged, which amortisseur bars (15), on the outside of the rotor (12), are pushed into slots (14) provided for this purpose and running in the longitudinal direction and are held in the slots (14) by supporting means (28) against the centrifugal forces occurring during rapid rotation of the rotor (12) and which are connected to one another in an electrically conductive manner at the ends of the rotor (12) by an amortisseur ring (18) or amortisseur segments (17), which enclose the rotor (12) in an annular or ring-section-shaped manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Ernst Brem, Josef Tommer