Patents by Inventor Martin Glinka
Martin Glinka 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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Patent number: 11904911Abstract: A rail-bound vehicle includes an energy storage device having a traction battery and a cooling device for cooling the traction battery using a coolant circulating in at least one coolant circuit. The energy storage device supplies a traction device of the vehicle with electrical energy. At least one air-conditioning device air conditions a passenger compartment of a car of the vehicle using a refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circuit, and a control device controls the air-conditioning device. The air-conditioning device has a heat exchanger coupling the refrigerant circuit of the air-conditioning device to the coolant circuit of the cooling device of the energy storage device. The control device controls a flow of the refrigerant through the heat exchanger. An energy storage device, an air-conditioning device, an arrangement for cooling a traction battery and a method for controlling the arrangement are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventor: Martin Glinka
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Publication number: 20220238938Abstract: An energy storage device has a housing with two opposing sidewalls, a module with two opposing cooling walls which are arranged between the sidewalls, a heat sink on which the cooling walls are arranged, at least two energy storage units, which are arranged between the cooling walls and on the heat sink, and a pressure element which is arranged between the two energy storage units. The pressure element presses the energy storage units against the respectively adjacent cooling wall. Ideally, a vehicle is configured with an energy storage device of this kind.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Martin Glinka, Mathias Wesley Schenkel, Stefan Teichmann
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Patent number: 10836265Abstract: A vehicle has a brake device with a friction brake unit, an electrical brake unit and a brake control device. In order to provide a vehicle having a reliable and structurally simple brake device, the friction brake unit has brake components made of a composite material and the brake control device includes a monitoring device for monitoring a brake operation performed by the electrical brake unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventor: Martin Glinka
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Publication number: 20200331504Abstract: A rail-bound vehicle includes an energy storage device having a traction battery and a cooling device for cooling the traction battery using a coolant circulating in at least one coolant circuit. The energy storage device supplies a traction device of the vehicle with electrical energy. At least one air-conditioning device air conditions a passenger compartment of a car of the vehicle using a refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circuit, and a control device controls the air-conditioning device. The air-conditioning device has a heat exchanger coupling the refrigerant circuit of the air-conditioning device to the coolant circuit of the cooling device of the energy storage device. The control device controls a flow of the refrigerant through the heat exchanger. An energy storage device, an air-conditioning device, an arrangement for cooling a traction battery and a method for controlling the arrangement are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventor: MARTIN GLINKA
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Patent number: 10486534Abstract: A drive protection device for protecting a traction drive in a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes at least one switching unit having an activation position and a deactivation position that protects the drive. A control unit is provided to trigger a transfer into the deactivation position, in at least one first operating situation, when an operating variable of the drive is in a critical region. In order to provide a drive protection device of this type, which can be used with a high degree of safety in as-wide-as-possible a range of operating situations of the vehicle, while still being simple to construct and cost-effective to implement, the control unit maintains the activation position, in at least one second operating situation, when the operating variable is in the critical region.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventors: Jumei Cai, Martin Glinka
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Patent number: 10266057Abstract: A compressed air system contains a compressed air reservoir, a compressed air line system and a drive system connected on an inlet side to the compressed air reservoir by way of the compressed air line system. The drive system has a drive and a drive controller, the drive system has a valve provided so as to pneumatically separate the drive controller from the drive.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventors: Martin Glinka, Matthias Kurz, Alexander Trupp
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Publication number: 20190023151Abstract: A vehicle has a brake device with a friction brake unit, an electrical brake unit and a brake control device. In order to provide a vehicle having a reliable and structurally simple brake device, the friction brake unit has brake components made of a composite material and the brake control device includes a monitoring device for monitoring a brake operation performed by the electrical brake unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventor: MARTIN GLINKA
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Patent number: 10093326Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes an undercarriage unit having at least one first wheel set supported on a track and a main body supported on the first wheel set. The main body has a coupling mechanism for mechanically coupling to at least one car body of the vehicle. At least one first driving motor for driving the first wheel set, at least one power supply unit for supplying the driving motor with electrical power and at least one inverter unit are provided. The power supply unit is disposed at least partially in a region of the undercarriage unit in order to permit the undercarriage unit of the assembly to be expanded with regard to the functionalities of the undercarriage unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Glinka, Thorsten Stuetzle, Martin Teichmann
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Publication number: 20180072160Abstract: A drive protection device for protecting a traction drive in a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes at least one switching unit having an activation position and a deactivation position that protects the drive. A control unit is provided to trigger a transfer into the deactivation position, in at least one first operating situation, when an operating variable of the drive is in a critical region. In order to provide a drive protection device of this type, which can be used with a high degree of safety in as-wide-as-possible a range of operating situations of the vehicle, while still being simple to construct and cost-effective to implement, the control unit maintains the activation position, in at least one second operating situation, when the operating variable is in the critical region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: JUMEI CAI, MARTIN GLINKA
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Patent number: 9855848Abstract: A current collector for a rail-mounted vehicle includes a collector arm and an insulation system which has insulating posts for the electrically insulating fastening of the collector arm on a vehicle roof element above an electrically grounded roof surface. In order to achieve a flatter roof structure, the insulation system includes an electrically insulating layer, which is disposed between the roof surface and the collector arm and is spaced apart from the roof surface by an air gap.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Martin Glinka
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Publication number: 20170297590Abstract: A rail vehicle for transporting people, which is in the form of an articulated train-type multiple unit, includes at least two car bodies. Adjoining car bodies are supported on a common central running gear and end car bodies are additionally supported on end running gears. All of the running gears have a distance between the centers of the bogies of two adjoining running gears of from 18 to 21 m, and the end car bodies have a length of from 24 to 27 m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicants: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, SIEMENS AG OESTERREICHInventors: BERND BILSTEIN-HEMMER, MARTIN GLINKA, MICHAEL GOERNER, MARC GOTTWALD, MICHAEL KAMMLER, CHRISTIAN KUETER, KLAUS PAFFRATH, MARTIN TEICHMANN
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Patent number: 9496786Abstract: A voltage setting device has at least one multi-step voltage output, at least one power converter unit, which has at least one first power element that forms at least a part of a power converter branch, and a control unit that controls the first power element according to a first voltage step structure to provide a branch voltage. The power converter unit includes at least one second power element that, together with the first power element, forms the power converter branch and includes a group of modules, each with at least one energy storage device, a switch group and a module output. In a given control mode the control unit controls the group of modules to provide the branch voltage in cooperation with the first power element according to a second voltage step structure which is more detailed than the first voltage step structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Martin Glinka
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Publication number: 20160318527Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes an undercarriage unit having at least one first wheel set supported on a track and a main body supported on the first wheel set. The main body has a coupling mechanism for mechanically coupling to at least one car body of the vehicle. At least one first driving motor for driving the first wheel set, at least one power supply unit for supplying the driving motor with electrical power and at least one inverter unit are provided. The power supply unit is disposed at least partially in a region of the undercarriage unit in order to permit the undercarriage unit of the assembly to be expanded with regard to the functionalities of the undercarriage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: MARTIN GLINKA, THORSTEN STUETZLE, MARTIN TEICHMANN
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Publication number: 20160200198Abstract: A compressed air system contains a compressed air reservoir, a compressed air line system and a drive system connected on an inlet side to the compressed air reservoir by way of the compressed air line system. The drive system has a drive and a drive controller, the drive system has a valve provided so as to pneumatically separate the drive controller from the drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: MARTIN GLINKA, MATTHIAS KURZ, ALEXANDER TRUPP
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Publication number: 20150283906Abstract: A current collector for a rail-mounted vehicle includes a collector arm and an insulation system which has insulating posts for the electrically insulating fastening of the collector arm on a vehicle roof element above an electrically grounded roof surface. In order to achieve a flatter roof structure, the insulation system includes an electrically insulating layer, which is disposed between the roof surface and the collector arm and is spaced apart from the roof surface by an air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventor: Martin Glinka
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Publication number: 20150028831Abstract: A voltage setting device has at least one multi-step voltage output, at least one power converter unit, which has at least one first power element that forms at least a part of a power converter branch, and a control unit that controls the first power element according to a first voltage step structure to provide a branch voltage. The power converter unit includes at least one second power element that, together with the first power element, forms the power converter branch and includes a group of modules, each with at least one energy storage device, a switch group and a module output. In a given control mode the control unit controls the group of modules to provide the branch voltage in cooperation with the first power element according to a second voltage step structure which is more detailed than the first voltage step structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Martin Glinka
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Patent number: 8453814Abstract: A motor drive circuit for a rail vehicle has a step-up converter, which is disposed at the input of the motor drive circuit, and which converts a mains DC voltage, at the input of the motor drive circuit into an intermediate circuit DC voltage. A pulse rectifier, which is downstream from the step-up converter, can be connected at the output to a drive motor of the rail vehicle and it is capable of converting the intermediate circuit DC voltage of the step-up converter into a motor drive voltage for driving the drive motor. A control unit activates the step-up converter in operation such that the converter generates the predetermined rated intermediate circuit DC voltage for a mains DC voltage below a predetermined rated intermediate circuit DC voltage as the intermediate circuit DC voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Herbert Gambach, Martin Glinka, Ulrich Wenkemann
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Publication number: 20110011300Abstract: A motor drive circuit for a rail vehicle has a step-up converter, which is disposed at the input of the motor drive circuit, and which converts a mains DC voltage, at the input of the motor drive circuit into an intermediate circuit DC voltage. A pulse rectifier, which is downstream from the step-up converter, can be connected at the output to a drive motor of the rail vehicle and it is capable of converting the intermediate circuit DC voltage of the step-up converter into a motor drive voltage for driving the drive motor. A control unit activates the step-up converter in operation such that the converter generates the predetermined rated intermediate circuit DC voltage for a mains DC voltage below a predetermined rated intermediate circuit DC voltage as the intermediate circuit DC voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Herbert Gambach, Martin Glinka, Ulrich Wenkemann