Patents by Inventor Michael Meinert

Michael Meinert 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: 10343534
    Abstract: An arrangement for inductively transmitting energy for charging an energy storage device of a rail vehicle. A first induction element transfers energy to a second induction element. An inverter with an adjustable AC voltage frequency provides an AC voltage to the first induction element. A controller controls the AC voltage frequency of the inverter. A measuring device ascertains a power output value during the wireless energy transmission and transmits the value to the controller and the controller adjusts AC voltage frequency of the inverter downward from an upper threshold until a pre-specified power output value is set while energy is being transmitted. The first induction element is paired with a track for rail traffic. The system and a method are also described for inductively transmitting energy for charging an energy storage device of a rail vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Fischperer, Jens Helfrich, Jochen Mast, Michael Meinert, Jean Schutz
  • Patent number: 10056841
    Abstract: An energy storage arrangement or configuration includes an energy store or storage device which can be connected to an electrical energy supply via a buck converter and a choke device. A boost converter is connected parallel with the energy store and the buck converter. The energy store is configured to be charged to a higher voltage level than the voltage level of the electrical energy supply. An energy storage system having multiple energy storage configurations and a method for operating an energy storage configuration are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Fischperer, Michael Meinert
  • Publication number: 20170182895
    Abstract: An arrangement for inductively transmitting energy for charging an energy storage device of a rail vehicle. A first induction element transfers energy to a second induction element. An inverter with an adjustable AC voltage frequency provides an AC voltage to the first induction element. A controller controls the AC voltage frequency of the inverter. A measuring device ascertains a power output value during the wireless energy transmission and transmits the value to the controller and the controller adjusts AC voltage frequency of the inverter downward from an upper threshold until a pre-specified power output value is set while energy is being transmitted. The first induction element is paired with a track for rail traffic. The system and a method are also described for inductively transmitting energy for charging an energy storage device of a rail vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: ROLF FISCHPERER, JENS HELFRICH, JOCHEN MAST, MICHAEL MEINERT, JEAN SCHUTZ
  • Publication number: 20160211753
    Abstract: An energy storage arrangement or configuration includes an energy store or storage device which can be connected to an electrical energy supply via a buck converter and a choke device. A boost converter is connected parallel with the energy store and the buck converter. The energy store is configured to be charged to a higher voltage level than the voltage level of the electrical energy supply. An energy storage system having multiple energy storage configurations and a method for operating an energy storage configuration are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: ROLF FISCHPERER, MICHAEL MEINERT
  • Patent number: 8940426
    Abstract: A device stores electric energy, in particular for the traction supply of a rail vehicle. The device has a plurality of chargeable storage cells with cell poles, a cooling body that is in thermal contact with the storage cells, and a plurality of bridge members, by way of which two of the plurality of storage cells are in electric contact. Accordingly, at least some of the bridge members contact the storage cells on the sides thereof facing the cooling body. A bridge member contains a connecting web having two recesses and two connecting parts, each being introduced into one of the recesses. Each connecting part is connected to a cell pole of a storage cell to be contacted. The connecting parts are fixed non-rotatably and non-displaceably in a connecting web by a releasable tensioning device. Thus the efficiency and service life of the energy storage device can be increased by reducing the thermal resistance between the storage cells and the cooling body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Gebhard, Alexander Hahn, Norbert Huber, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Patent number: 8698345
    Abstract: An electric drive system, in particular for a rail vehicle, includes an electric energy accumulator and an electrochemical energy accumulator, connected in parallel. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a component, e.g., a diode with a transmission direction facing away from the electrochemical energy accumulator, is situated in a connecting line between the electric energy accumulator and the electrochemical energy accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Günter Kristen, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Patent number: 8552681
    Abstract: An energy storage system for a track-guided vehicle includes at least one electrical energy storage device and at least one electrochemical energy storage device connected through at least one converter to a supply line and to a drive unit for the vehicle. Individual phases of said at least one converter can be operated as independent direct-current controllers for independent charging and discharging of different energy storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20120219837
    Abstract: A device stores electric energy, in particular for the traction supply of a rail vehicle. The device has a plurality of chargeable storage cells with cell poles, a cooling body that is in thermal contact with the storage cells, and a plurality of bridge members, by way of which two of the plurality of storage cells are in electric contact. Accordingly, at least some of the bridge members contact the storage cells on the sides thereof facing the cooling body. A bridge member contains a connecting web having two recesses and two connecting parts, each being introduced into one of the recesses. Each connecting part is connected to a cell pole of a storage cell to be contacted. The connecting parts are fixed non-rotatably and non-displaceably in a connecting web by a releasable tensioning device. Thus the efficiency and service life of the energy storage device can be increased by reducing the thermal resistance between the storage cells and the cooling body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bruno Gebhard, Alexander Hahn, Norbert Huber, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20120087092
    Abstract: A uniform temperature of the machines to be cooled is obtained by way of a device for cooling at least one power component. The device has a cooling medium line, a cooling medium pump and a heat exchanger. Furthermore, streams of cooling media are to be kept low. A return runs back in the direction of an inlet along a flow up to an outlet. In this way, a counter stream interconnection for averaging a flow and a return temperature of a cooling medium is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Huber, Michael Meinert, Armin Rastogi, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20120055659
    Abstract: A device for exchanging heat has a plate stack of at least a first, a second, and a third plate. The three or more plates are stacked one on top of the other and have recesses which are arranged in a regular pattern on a plane of the respective plates. The first and the second plates as well as the second and the third plates are stacked in such a manner that each adjacent plate forms at least one common cooling channel, which is accessible to a fluid, running in a direction on the plane of plates. The two or more cooling channels are formed by way of recesses, which partially but not entirely overlap, in the adjacent plates. The one or more cooling channels of the first and second plates are entirely spatially separated from at least one cooling channel of the second and third plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Hubert, Michael Meinert, Armin Rastogi, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20110018492
    Abstract: An energy storage system for a track-guided vehicle includes at least one electrical energy storage device and at least one electrochemical energy storage device connected through at least one converter to a supply line and to a drive unit for the vehicle. Individual phases of said at least one converter can be operated as independent direct-current controllers for independent charging and discharging of different energy storage devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20100320835
    Abstract: A device for operating a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an energy feed device is connected to a drive device via a drive rectifier, and to an energy store via an energy storage rectifier. In at least one embodiment, there is provision that the energy storage rectifier can be reconfigured. Its output is connected to the energy store and to the drive device via switches, with the result that the energy storage rectifier can be connected to the drive device instead of to the energy store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens AG
    Inventors: Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20100253146
    Abstract: An electric drive system, in particular for a rail vehicle, includes an electric energy accumulator and an electrochemical energy accumulator, connected in parallel. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a component, e.g., a diode with a transmission direction facing away from the electrochemical energy accumulator, is situated in a connecting line between the electric energy accumulator and the electrochemical energy accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Günter Kristen, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20100205982
    Abstract: A device is disclosed for cooling an energy accumulator in a rail vehicle. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, the energy accumulator has a direct thermal connection to an evaporator and the evaporator and a condenser form part of a circuit of a refrigerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg
  • Publication number: 20100200190
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for cooling an energy accumulator in a rail vehicle, using air. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, the air is fed to the energy accumulator directly from an already cooled or air-conditioned area of the rail vehicle. This occurs in particular when the temperature of the area is lower than the external temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Eckert, Michael Meinert, Karsten Rechenberg