Patents by Inventor Kurt Fork

Kurt Fork 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: 5547337
    Abstract: In a method and a device for the closed-loop control of a turbine-generator configuration, a turbine control element is supplied with a first correcting variable and an exciter control element is supplied with a second correcting variable. The correcting variables in each case are formed from at least one reference value. In order to ensure reliable closed-loop control, the first correcting variable for the turbine control element is composed of at least two partial correcting variables. One of the partial correcting variables is derived from the reference value for forming the second correcting variable for the exciter control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Fork, Frank Krutemeier
  • Patent number: 4897607
    Abstract: A method and device for detecting and localizing fault in electrical installations includes performing partial discharge measurements and high-frequency measurements at least at one location in the electrical installation and optionally in all phases, selectively comparing the measurement values with each other and with calibration signals, drawing conclusions from the measurements regarding the location and the type of the fault, selectively continuously and periodically performing the measurements at least at three measuring points while the installation is in operation, simulating the electrical installation in a computer as a high-frequency network, while simulating fault with the signals originating therefrom at the measuring points, comparing any measurement values which indicate fault with the simulated signal values for different fault types and fault locations, and determining the type and location of the fault from the simulated signal values which best agree with the measurement values and from the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Grunewald, Kurt Fork, Jurgen Weidner, Reinhold Koziel
  • Patent number: 4814699
    Abstract: A method for partial discharge detection and breaking spark measurement in a dynamo-electric high-voltage machine, especially for monitoring insulation status during operation of a stator winding and connected electrical output lines in a turbo-generator. The generator includes a stator having a stator winding and a stator housing, a rotor with an exciter winding and a shaft, defining an air gap between the rotor and the stator. At least one oil lubricated slide bearing supports the shaft of the rotor with a bearing shell being electrically insulated from the ground. The method includes decoupling the frequency spectrum of high-frequency electromagnetic oscillations resulting from the occurrence of partial discharges or breaking sparks and delivering the frequency spectrum of high-frequency electromagnetic oscillations to a partial discharge measurement apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhold Koziel, Kurt Fork, Jurgen Weidner
  • Patent number: 4393345
    Abstract: A circuit for damping hunting oscillations of controlled electric machines. The circuit is provided with a measuring circuit for determining the hunting oscillations and an identifier circuit for determining the angle components of such hunting oscillations. A phase shifter circuit is provided for receiving the angle components produced by the identifier circuit and forming a hunting oscillation correction signal which is shifted in phase from the hunting oscillations by a predetermined phase angle. The hunting oscillation correction signal is conducted to a control unit of the electric machine. The invention is particularly useful in damping hunting by the rotors of voltage controlled synchronous generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Fork, Wolfgang Kaufhold, Wolfgang Meusel, Hermann Waldmann
  • Patent number: 4057714
    Abstract: Device for monitoring the service life of the shaft of a turbine-generator set includes an analog computer circuit having a pair of inputs and an output, means for feeding to the inputs of the analog computer circuit electrical quantities proportional to the voltage and the current of the generator, the analog computer circuit having means for converting the electrical quantities that are proportional to the generator voltage and current to an electrical quantity proportional to the electrical torque in the air gap of the generator, a simulation circuit having an input connected to the output of the analog computer circuit for receiving therefrom the electrical quantity proportional to the electrical torque in the air gap of the generator, the simulation circuit comprising means for determining the torques in individual sections of the shaft of the turbine-generator set and having a multiplicity of outputs corresponding to the number of individual sections of the shaft, an analog-to-digital converter having a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Fork, Dietrich Lambrecht, Hermann Waldmann, Helmut Hofmann
  • Patent number: 4015186
    Abstract: In a system for limiting torque occurring in a turbine-generator shaft when a three-pole short circuit is switched off, one pole of a switch that switches-off the short circuit is opened first, and both of the other poles are then opened after the passage of a predetermined delay period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Kurt Fork
  • Patent number: 3976917
    Abstract: An overload protection device for a turboset including an alternating current generator, a turbine for the drive thereof, and a network supplied from the generator when disconnecting any short circuit within the network comprises a memory connected to the generator for storing a voltage vector corresponding to positive sequence components obtained therefrom prior to the occurrence of a fault in the network, a comparison circuit connected to the memory and to the generator for comparison of of the stored voltage vector with a voltage vector corresponding to positive sequence components obtained from the generator following occurrence of the fault to generate a difference value, and a switch interconnected between the network and the generator for being released upon the difference value exceeding a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Kurt Fork