Patents by Inventor Manfred Meinherz

Manfred Meinherz 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: 8859925
    Abstract: An electric switchgear includes an interrupter unit having a first connecting line and a second connecting line. The interrupter unit is disposed inside a fluid-tight encapsulating housing that is filled with an electrically insulating fluid. The interrupter unit is further surrounded by a shielding housing in at least some sections. The first connecting line has a flow channel for the fluid. A first outlet opening of the flow channel leads to the shielding housing and a second outlet opening leads to the exterior of the shielding housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Lüthy, Tomasz Magier, Manfred Meinherz, Clemens Rüthnick
  • Patent number: 8834212
    Abstract: An electrical contact element has a primary axis. The primary axis pierces a polygonal base surface of the contact element. A contact bushing is arranged around the primary axis. An orifice of the contact bushing opens into a top surface which is arranged on a side of the contact element lying opposite to the base surface. The top surface bulges spherically over the base surface and transitions continually into a lateral face connecting the base surface and top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 8633413
    Abstract: A switchgear assembly has a contact gap and an insulating material nozzle. The insulating material nozzle at least partly encloses the contact gap. A nozzle channel for the insulating material nozzle opens with a outlet opening in a hot gas space. A deflector element is disposed within the hot gas space which defines a deflector channel. The deflector channel has a segment which has an expanding cross-section in the stream direction of a switching gas in the hot gas space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Hold Dienemann, Stefan Giere, Volker Lehmann, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 8598483
    Abstract: A switching device assembly with a contact gap has a nozzle made of insulating material. The nozzle made of insulating material is formed with a nozzle channel that ends in a hot gas space. A deflector element is arranged within the hot gas space. The deflector element is supported inside the deflector channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hold Dienemann, Volker Lehmann, Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20130201607
    Abstract: A compressed-gas-insulated polyphase switch panel includes a circuit-breaker module. The circuit-breaker module is equipped with a first connection side and a second connection side. The first connection side is connected to a busbar module. The second connection side is connected to a bushing module. The bushing module and the busbar module have polyphase compressed-gas-insulated phase conductor sections. The circuit-breaker module is respectively connected through connection modules to the busbar module and to the bushing module. Each of the connection modules includes single-phase compressed-gas-insulated phase conductor sections. The circuit-breaker module likewise has single-phase compressed-gas-insulated phase conductor sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Sascha Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20120312668
    Abstract: An electric switchgear includes an interrupter unit having a first connecting line and a second connecting line. The interrupter unit is disposed inside a fluid-tight encapsulating housing that is filled with an electrically insulating fluid. The interrupter unit is further surrounded by a shielding housing in at least some sections. The first connecting line has a flow channel for the fluid. A first outlet opening of the flow channel leads to the shielding housing and a second outlet opening leads to the exterior of the shielding housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Lüthy, Tomasz Magier, Manfred Meinherz, Clemens Rüthnick
  • Publication number: 20120295492
    Abstract: An electrical contact element has a primary axis. The primary axis pierces a polygonal base surface of the contact element. A contact bushing is arranged around the primary axis. An orifice of the contact bushing opens into a top surface which is arranged on a side of the contact element lying opposite to the base surface. The top surface bulges spherically over the base surface and transitions continually into a lateral face connecting the base surface and top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20110297648
    Abstract: A switching device assembly with a contact gap has a nozzle made of insulating material. The nozzle made of insulating material is formed with a nozzle channel that ends in a hot gas space. A deflector element is arranged within the hot gas space. The deflector element is supported inside the deflector channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Hold Dienemann, Volker Lehmann, Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20110297647
    Abstract: A switchgear assembly has a contact gap and an insulating material nozzle. The insulating material nozzle at least partly encloses the contact gap. A nozzle channel for the insulating material nozzle opens with a outlet opening in a hot gas space. A deflector element is disposed within the hot gas space which defines a deflector channel. The deflector channel has a segment which has an expanding cross-section in the stream direction of a switching gas in the hot gas space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Hold Dienemann, Stefan Giere, Volker Lehmann, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 7750264
    Abstract: A high-voltage switch configuration having a subdivision housing, which is supported on a frame by an insulating supporting housing, and having a switch which is fitted to this subdivision housing and has an insulator, a switching chamber surrounded by the insulator, and disconnectible contacts which are accommodated in the switching chamber. The switch can be switched via a switching linkage that can be operated by a drive and is arranged within the supporting housing and the subdivision housing. At least three switches are attached to the subdivision housing, and each switch has a separate associated switching linkage with a separate drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Laskowski, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 7746200
    Abstract: A drive device has a rotatable driving shaft and a driven shaft. The driving shaft, or input shaft, and the driven shaft, or output shaft, are joined to each other by way of a magnetic coupling. The driven shaft can be blocked in a direction of rotation such that magnetic forces emanating from the magnetic coupling cause the driven shaft to move in a direction opposite that of the direction of blocking. The driven shaft moves in a springing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Jörg Tietze
  • Patent number: 7692113
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch assembly comprising an essentially tubular enclosed housing. The tubular axis of the enclosed housing deviates from the horizontal and the vertical. The switch assembly comprises an interrupter unit, to which three main leads are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 7579570
    Abstract: A high-voltage outdoor bushing configuration includes an electrically insulating casing and an electrically conductive housing. An isolating gap is located inside the electrically conductive housing. The isolating gap interrupts a phase conductor into first and second sections. A switching piece or an element of a multi-part switching piece can be moved at an angle relative to an axis along which the phase conductor extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Bauch, Manfred Meinherz, Eckard Wagner
  • Patent number: 7485807
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas-insulated bus bar component comprising a grounded housing that is filled with protective gas and at least one bus bar conductor, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the housing and is supported on said housing by means of insulating bus bar supports. According to the invention, each bus bar conductor is connected to a disconnecting switch that is insulated by protective gas. The aim of the invention is to provide a component of this type, which can be simply connected to and disconnected from an air-insulated conductor, even when operational. To achieve this, the disconnecting switch is located in an outdoor bushing that is fixed to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Dambietz, Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20080314724
    Abstract: A high-voltage switch configuration having a subdivision housing, which is supported on a frame by an insulating supporting housing, and having a switch which is fitted to this subdivision housing and has an insulator, a switching chamber surrounded by the insulator, and disconnectible contacts which are accommodated in the switching chamber. The switch can be switched via a switching linkage that can be operated by a drive and is arranged within the supporting housing and the subdivision housing. At least three switches are attached to the subdivision housing, and each switch has a separate associated switching linkage with a separate drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Laskowski, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 7378759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disconnecting switch assembly for disconnecting air-insulated electrical lines, which have one or more phases, with at least one grounded housing that is filled with protective gas, with open air ducts, which are attached to the housing(s) in a gastight manner and which each have an open-air connection for connecting the lines, and with gas-insulated disconnecting switches, which are placed inside the open-air ducts. At least three open air ducts are provided for each phase whose open-air connections can be electrically connected to one another by means of the disconnecting switch over current path piece mounted inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Eckhard Wagner
  • Publication number: 20080047374
    Abstract: A drive device has a rotatable driving shaft and a driven shaft. The driving shaft, or input shaft, and the driven shaft, or output shaft, are joined to each other by way of a magnetic coupling. The driven shaft can be blocked in a direction of rotation such that magnetic forces emanating from the magnetic coupling cause the driven shaft to move in a direction opposite that of the direction of blocking. The driven shaft moves in a springing manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Joerg Tietze
  • Publication number: 20070151953
    Abstract: A compressed-gas-insulated switching deviceincludes a grounded encapsulating housing formed of an electrically conductive material and an electrically insulated phase conductor disposed inside the encapsulating housing. First and second flanges are disposed on the grounded encapsulating housing. Insulating housings respectively containing a switch disconnector and an interrupter unit of a power circuit breaker, are connected to the flanges. The insulating housings containing the switch disconnector and the interrupter unit are interchangeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20070151952
    Abstract: A high-voltage outdoor bushing configuration includes an electrically insulating casing and an electrically conductive housing. An isolating gap is located inside the electrically conductive housing. The isolating gap interrupts a phase conductor into first and second sections. A switching piece or an element of a multi-part switching piece can be moved at an angle relative to an axis along which the phase conductor extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Ulrich Bauch, Manfred Meinherz, Eckard Wagner
  • Publication number: 20070119818
    Abstract: A bushing configuration includes a switch disconnector connected to an electrically insulating casing in the form of an outdoor bushing. A tubular electrode is disposed in a region of a flange of the electrically insulating casing and the switch disconnector and projects over the flange. A common gas area is formed by the electrically insulating casing and a housing of the switch disconnector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz