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).

  • Publication number: 20070017904
    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: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20060243703
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20060245128
    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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Dambietz, Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20060138088
    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: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Eckard Wagner
  • Publication number: 20060124599
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braun, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6697247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Michael Suhr
  • Patent number: 6686553
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Publication number: 20040011765
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6624360
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6437276
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Manfred Meinherz, Bernd Raeth, Michael Suhr
  • Publication number: 20020017394
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6175167
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Lorenz, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6127641
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 6087590
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Dieter Lorenz
  • Patent number: 5932858
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 5907123
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Lobner, Thomas Kelch, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 5872346
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Thomas Kelch
  • Patent number: 5841629
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Jeske, Manfred Meinherz
  • Patent number: 5728988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Gunther Gilmozzi, Edelhard Kynast, Lutz-Rudiger Janicke
  • Patent number: 5291369
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Kelch, Manfred Meinherz