Patents by Inventor Karl Schollhorn

Karl Schollhorn 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: 7762558
    Abstract: A device for sealing a rotating shaft that penetrates a stationary housing wall has a sealing ring fastened to the housing wall and arranged between the housing wall and a shaft. The sealing ring has sealing oil supply bores supplying sealing oil into a sealing gap formed between an inner wall surface of the sealing ring and an outer wall surface of the shaft. The inner wall surface has pocket-shaped recesses where the sealing oil supply bores open. The pocket-shaped recesses extend in the circumferential direction of the sealing ring. The inner wall of the sealing ring has at least one circumferential boundary stay that delimits and seals the pocket-shaped recesses in an axial direction of the sealing ring toward the first or second housing side. The inner wall surface of the sealing ring has a circumferential groove that connects the pocket-shaped recesses to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sensoplan Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl Schöllhorn
  • Publication number: 20070114728
    Abstract: A device for sealing a rotating shaft that penetrates a stationary housing wall has a sealing ring fastened to the housing wall and arranged between the housing wall and a shaft. The sealing ring has sealing oil supply bores supplying sealing oil into a sealing gap formed between an inner wall surface of the sealing ring and an outer wall surface of the shaft. The inner wall surface has pocket-shaped recesses where the sealing oil supply bores open. The pocket-shaped recesses extend in the circumferential direction of the sealing ring. The inner wall of the sealing ring has at least one circumferential boundary stay that delimits and seals the pocket-shaped recesses in an axial direction of the sealing ring toward the first or second housing side. The inner wall surface of the sealing ring has a circumferential groove that connects the pocket-shaped recesses to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SENSOPLAN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Karl Schollhorn
  • Patent number: 5266861
    Abstract: In large electric machines, the electrical connection between the exciter supply lead (5, 6), which extends axially in the center of the rotor, and the exciter winding conductors in the winding overhang of the rotor is highly stressed electrically and mechanically. If the terminal stud (1) is slotted in the shank (2) in the longitudinal direction of the stud, there being provided at least three slots (13) which extend radially up to the longitudinal axis of the stud, the stud becomes more elastic transversely to the longitudinal direction, and it can be purposively cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
    Inventor: Karl Schollhorn
  • Patent number: 5241231
    Abstract: In large electric machines, the electrical connection between the exciter supply lead (7, 8), which extends axially in the center of the rotor, and the exciter winding conductors (4) in the winding overhang (3) of the rotor is highly stressed electrically and mechanically. If use is made of an elastic exciter terminal stud (13) made from steel, and the connecting conductors (17, 18) are supported between the exciter terminal stud (13) and the conductors (4) of the rotor winding overhang on the rotor cap, preferably on its cap plate (6), excessive stresses occur neither on the shaft (2) nor on the connecting conductors (17, 18). It is preferable in this arrangement to make use of a terminal stud (13) that is slotted in the longitudinal direction of the stud and has at least three slots. Such a stud is elastic transversely to its longitudinal direction and can be purposively cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
    Inventors: Werner Haditsch, Karl Schollhorn, Rudolf Paul
  • Patent number: 4634910
    Abstract: A rotor of an electrical machine having directly cooled rotor winding, including winding conductors forming a conductor bundle, located one above the other in respective grooves and fastened therein by respective groove wedges, the winding conductors each having at least two adjacent half cooling ducts extending in the longitudinal direction of the conductors. Provided in a central section of the rotor assembly are two gas outlets offset relative to one another in a peripheral direction of the rotor and in which the cooling ducts are interrupted by separating means. At each interruption point, the respective half cooling duct is in connection with a respective radially extending duct, which ends at the surface of the rotor. In order to avoid increases in temperature in the region of the gas outlet, the gas outlets of a conductor bundle are offset retative to one another in the longitudinal direction of the conductors. The radial ducts emerge into holes penetrating the groove wedges approximately radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri & Company Limited
    Inventor: Karl Schollhorn