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).
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Publication number: 20070017904Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2004Publication date: January 25, 2007Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Publication number: 20060243703Abstract: The invention relates to a outdoor bushing for connecting an air-insulated high-voltage conductor to components in a grounded housing enclosed by gas, comprising fixing elements for mounting the outdoor bushing on the housing in a gas-tight manner and an open-air connection for connecting the high voltage conductor, said connection being attached to the fixing elements in a gas-tight manner by means of a hollow insulator. In the latter, electroconductive connection elements extend between the open-air connection and an internal connection for connecting the components. The aim of the invention is to provide an outdoor bushing of this type, which offers other functions in addition to the connection of an air-insulated high-voltage conductor to the protective-gas insulated atmosphere of a grounded housing, by means of its connection elements. To achieve this, said connection elements comprise a disconnecting switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2004Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Publication number: 20060245128Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Hans-Peter Dambietz, Manfred Meinherz
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Publication number: 20060138088Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2004Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Manfred Meinherz, Eckard Wagner
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Publication number: 20060124599Abstract: A displaceable contact piece of an earthing switch transverses the wall of a housing of a capsule. Said displaceable contact piece is sealed with respect to the capsule housing wall by means of a sealing element. The displaceable contact piece is connected in an electrically conducting manner to the capsule housing wall via the sealing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2004Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wolfgang Braun, Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6697247Abstract: In a high voltage system having a device for optical detection of a parameter of a high voltage device, an optically detectable code is provided in the detection range of the device and permits an assignment of the parameter to a specific location in the high voltage system.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Meinherz, Michael Suhr
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Patent number: 6686553Abstract: A three-phase encapsulated high-voltage circuit breaker for outdoor use, whose interrupter units are arranged in a tubular switch housing which is arranged horizontally. Phase connections of the interrupter units are passed vertically and together through in each case one connecting flange, with each connecting flange having an associated splitting module which is fitted with outdoor bushings. Each phase connection has an associated current transformer, and these items are located within the housing and are attached to the respective splitting module.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2001Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Publication number: 20040011765Abstract: In a three-phase encapsulated high-voltage circuit breaker for outdoor use, whose interrupter units (2) are arranged in a tubular switch housing (1) which is arranged horizontally, out of which the cable connections (21, 22) of the interrupter units (2) are passed vertically and together through in each case one connecting flange (6, 7), with each connecting flange (6, 7) having an associated splitting module (12, 13) which is fitted with outdoor bushings (10, 11), and each cable connection (21, 22) having an associated current transformer (17, 18), these items are located within the switch housing (1) and, for this purpose, are attached to the respective splitting module (12, 13).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2001Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6624360Abstract: A bushing, which normally includes an insulator, having a high-voltage connection and a metallic foot part, and an electrical conductor, the foot part of the insulator) is in the form of a curved housing part in which a post insulator for the electrical conductor is arranged. This configuration of the bushing allows the bushing to be arranged inclined on encapsulating housings in which the flange plane of the connecting flange for the bushing runs horizontally or vertically.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6437276Abstract: A three-phase-encapsulated high-voltage circuit breaker, arranged horizontally and with a compact construction, is intended to have as small a physical height as possible and to require as small an installation area as possible. To this end, the tubular switch enclosure is provided at each of its ends with a connecting flange for horizontal connection of a surface-mounted enclosure. The drive device is attached to a mounting flange in the casing region of the switch enclosure. The circuit breaker poles are supported via insulating posts on the casing of the switch enclosure and are in the form of bushings for the coupling elements which are connected to the drive device. The power movement of a lever drive arranged downstream of a coupling element passes via a direction-changing lever which is mounted in the respective circuit breaker pole. The internal construction of such a circuit breaker may also be applied to single-phase-encapsulated circuit breakers.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Manfred Meinherz, Bernd Raeth, Michael Suhr
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Publication number: 20020017394Abstract: A bushing, which normally comprises an insulator, having a high-voltage connection and a metallic foot part, and an electrical conductor, the foot part of the insulator) is in the form of a curved housing part in which a post insulator for the electrical conductor is arranged. This configuration of the bushing allows the bushing to be arranged inclined on encapsulating housings in which the flange plane of the connecting flange for the bushing runs horizontally or vertically.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6175167Abstract: In a high-voltage outdoor switch including a housing and an interrupter unit arranged in it, two current transformers are arranged on the enclosure of the switch, one to each side of the intrrupter unit. It was previously to install current transformers separate from high-voltage outdoor switches. The construction complexity and the costs are reduced by the constructional combination of the switch with the current transformers.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Lorenz, Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6127641Abstract: An attachment of high-voltage lead-in insulators (1, 1') on enclosure housings (1, 1') using elbow-shaped additional housings which have rotary joints to allow the insulators to rotate in order to maintain a connection distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 6087590Abstract: An enclosed high-voltage electric line having a high-voltage electric conductor (2) which is supported inside an enclosure (1) by one or more supporting elements (3, 4, 5), each with at least one insulator part (6, 7, 8). The conductor has at least one borehole (12, 13, 14) to accommodate one end of each supporting element (3, 4, 5). At least one supporting element has a metallic sleeve (9, 10, 11) that passes at least partially through the borehole, is supported in the area of the edge of the borehole, surrounds part of the insulator part and forms in its interior a stop (18) that limits displacement of the insulator part into the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Meinherz, Dieter Lorenz
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Patent number: 5932858Abstract: A stored-energy mechanism for a high-voltage circuit-breaker pole filled with an insulating gas with a drive rod, which transmits the drive movement to an interrupter unit by thrust or traction and which can be driven through a drive crank attached to a drive shaft, and with an opening spring coupled to an opening crank attached to the drive shaft and with a closing spring driving a closing crank attached to the drive shaft. It is provided that the closing crank and the opening crank are arranged outside the insulating gas chamber. The drive crank is arranged inside the insulating gas chamber, a carrier block seals the chamber filled with insulating gas against the outer chamber, the drive shaft traverses a housing wall of the carries block in a gas-tight manner, and the carrier block forms an end support for the closing spring and the opening spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 5907123Abstract: A metal-sheathed high-voltage line with a high-voltage conductor and a metal sheath surrounding it coaxially has at least one securing element for a disk-shaped insulating support which has a first and second ring), each of which is concentric with the high-voltage conductor and each of which has a web projecting radially with respect to the longitudinal axis of the high-voltage line, where the insulating support is secured between the webs of the rings. The rings are jammed tightly by a wedge action on the high-voltage conductor.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Friedrich Lobner, Thomas Kelch, Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 5872346Abstract: A high-voltage metal-cladded switchgear having two busbars (1, 2) and a power switch (4) with a first connected to terminals (12, 13) of two isolating switches (10, 11). The power switch has a contact point (17) that can be removed from the enclosure (3) together with the power switch (4) and has at least two contact devices for connection to the terminals (12, 13) of the isolating switches (10, 11). No assembly work is necessary inside the enclosure (3). The internal conductors are connected by inserting the power switch (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Meinherz, Thomas Kelch
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Patent number: 5841629Abstract: A high-voltage hybrid design switchgear with three power switch housings (1, 2, 3) arranged next to one another in series, each of which is connected to a horizontally arranged cylindrical adapter box (14, 15, 16). The adapter boxes (14, 15, 16) are arranged with their axes in parallel. Each adapter box has at least one high-voltage outdoor terminal (22, 23, 24) at a different distance from the series of power switch housings (1, 2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus-Dieter Jeske, Manfred Meinherz
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Patent number: 5728988Abstract: High-voltage power switch including a first and a second contact piece that form an air gap in the switched-off state, a compression piston that surrounds the first contact piece, a drivable compression cylinder that surrounds the second contact piece in the switched-on state, and a first field electrode that surrounds the second contact piece in the switched-off state and is axially movable in relation thereto. The high-voltage power switch also provides that the first field electrode is insulated from the compression cylinder and axially movable in relation thereto and the compression cylinder is displaced by a distance from the second contact piece in the switched-off state.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1996Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Meinherz, Gunther Gilmozzi, Edelhard Kynast, Lutz-Rudiger Janicke
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Patent number: 5291369Abstract: A three-pole, metal-encased, pressurized-gas-insulated, high-voltage switchgear may include a single-pole, encapsulated, high-voltage power switch. Breaker units are located in a pressure chamber and are arranged with longitudinal axes thereof parallel to one another, and are attached to a bearing component which also carries the casing of the drive. In order to increase the mechanical rigidity of the bearing component, a shared gear casing with two partitions is provided for the switching mechanism, to which the breaker units are attached via bearing rings. The bearing rings, held by bridges, lie in front of three apertures on a side wall of the gear casing, to the flanges of which the pressure chambers are also attached. In the interior of the gear casing, carriers for the bearings of the drive shafts are provided, which proceed from the partitions or an outer wall. All bearing and sealing surfaces of the gear casing lie in parallel planes in each case, and can be machined in a single clamping process.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1992Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Kelch, Manfred Meinherz