Patents by Inventor Kai Trukenmueller

Kai Trukenmueller 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: 10823632
    Abstract: In a method for identifying an unbalance correction for flexible rotors (1), the rotor (1) is rotatably mounted in two bearing devices. An RPM sensor (4) records the speed of the rotor (1) and a radial movement of the rotor (1) is recorded, by means of position sensors (3) at measuring points (6), during an unbalance measurement run or a plurality of unbalance measurement runs for different rotor speeds. The measured values recorded are fed to an evaluation device (5), which determines the eccentricity measured values assigned to the measuring points (6) by means of expanding the influence coefficient method, and therefore unbalances are determined per plane and eccentricities are determined per measuring point for each measurement run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Trukenmueller
  • Patent number: 10823633
    Abstract: A method is described for calibrating a balancing machine, in which a rotor (1) to be corrected is rotatably mounted in bearings (2) and a correction run k is performed, wherein at least one measuring sensor (3) determines an initial vibration of the rotor (1) prior to an imbalance correction and transmits this vibration to an evaluation device (4), which stores the measured value as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}0. After an imbalance on the rotor (1) is corrected, a residual vibration of the rotor (1) is measured by measuring sensor (3), transmitted to the evaluation unit (4) and stored as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}1. The difference ?{right arrow over (s)}={right arrow over (s)}1?{right arrow over (s)}0 formed from the measurement data and the corrected imbalance is stored for compensation run k as ?{right arrow over (s)}k and {right arrow over (u)}k by the evaluation unit (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Trukenmueller
  • Publication number: 20190271609
    Abstract: A method is described for calibrating a balancing machine, in which a rotor (1) to be corrected is rotatably mounted in bearings (2) and a correction run k is performed, wherein at least one measuring sensor (3) determines an initial vibration of the rotor (1) prior to an imbalance correction and transmits this vibration to an evaluation device (4), which stores the measured value as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}0. After an imbalance on the rotor (1) is corrected, a residual vibration of the rotor (1) is measured by measuring sensor (3), transmitted to the evaluation unit (4) and stored as vibration vector {right arrow over (s)}1. The difference ?{right arrow over (s)}={right arrow over (s)}1-{right arrow over (s)}0 formed from the measurement data and the corrected imbalance is stored for compensation run k as ?{right arrow over (s)}k and {right arrow over (u)}k by the evaluation unit (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai TRUKENMUELLER
  • Publication number: 20190242774
    Abstract: In a method for identifying an unbalance correction for flexible rotors (1), the rotor (1) is rotatably mounted in two bearing devices. An RPM sensor (4) records the speed of the rotor (1) and a radial movement of the rotor (1) is recorded, by means of position sensors (3) at measuring points (6), during an unbalance measurement run or a plurality of unbalance measurement runs for different rotor speeds. The measured values recorded are fed to an evaluation device (5), which determines the eccentricity measured values assigned to the measuring points (6) by means of expanding the influence coefficient method, and therefore unbalances are determined per plane and eccentricities are determined per measuring point for each measurement run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai TRUKENMUELLER
  • Patent number: 9057650
    Abstract: Using a force-measuring balancing machine (1), the empirically determined permanent calibration is corrected in that the resonant frequencies (?1) of the rotor (2) to be balanced are calculated, in a translatory direction and (?2) in a rotational direction, from the mass (mR) of a rotor (2) to be balanced, which is mounted in the balancing machine (1), the co-oscillating mass (Ms) of the bearing supports (3), the rigidity (c) of the bearing supports (3) and the spacing (L) of the rotor bearings, and a frequency response calculated from the resonant frequencies (?1, ?2) and the frequency (?) of the rotor (2) is introduced to the permanent calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Trukenmueller