Patents by Inventor Norbert Wöhner

Norbert Wöhner 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: 10700582
    Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine has a rotor bar (4) in a rotor stack (1), wherein the bar (4) can be tipped at a tipping point (11, 12, 13) when the bar (4) has not yet been cast. The rotor bar (4) can in this case have a contour on a radial outer face, wherein the bar (4) can also have a channel (27), the opening (29) in said channel being wider than the shoulders (32, 33) of the limbs (30, 31) which form the channel (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Michael Müller, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 10320261
    Abstract: For reducing vibrations and noise in electrical machines a rotor is mounted in a magnetic alignment device while a bearing shield is loosely held relative to a stator. The rotor is driven by the stator and vibrations of the rotor are detected. A magnetic alignment device is controlled so as to reduce the vibrations. Finally the bearing shield is fixed to the stator in a position determined by the controlling of the magnetic alignment device. Thus electromagnetic forces are taken into consideration during vibration and noise reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 9800103
    Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance motor includes a laminated core having a number of rotor sheet metal blanks. Each rotor sheet metal blank includes flux barriers cast with a non-ferromagnetic casting compound and at least one soft-magnetic rotor sheet which delimits the flux barriers. Flux barriers of adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks are arranged offset relative to one another so that the flux barriers of one of the adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks are delimited in an axial direction at least partially by the rotor sheets of the other one of the adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks, with the casting compound of the flux barriers adhering in an adhesion zone to the rotor sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Matthias Warmuth, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20170271938
    Abstract: A segmented component for a housing includes a first shaped part, a first segment having a first cast metal region which is material-bonded to the first shaped part by a first bonding zone. The first shaped part is material-bonded to a second cast metal region of a second segment by a second bonding zone. At least one additional element is material-bonded to the second segment by a third bonding zone and material-bonded to the first segment by a fourth bonding zone, wherein the first shaped part, the first and second segments, and the at least one additional element defining an extension of an interior space of the housing in a cross-sectional plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Norbert WÖHNER
  • Patent number: 9768666
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes a substantially hollow-cylindrical stator stack provided with wire windings and an end winding, which adjoins the stator stack in the axial direction. The stator stack includes a number of slots, wherein a coolant line is inserted into the respective slot. To improve efficiency of the electric motor, a section of the respective coolant line extends into the region of the end winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20170170703
    Abstract: For reducing vibrations and noise in electrical machines a rotor is mounted in a magnetic alignment device while a bearing shield is loosely held relative to a stator. The rotor is driven by the stator and vibrations of the rotor are detected. A magnetic alignment device is controlled so as to reduce the vibrations. Finally the bearing shield is fixed to the stator in a position determined by the controlling of the magnetic alignment device. Thus electromagnetic forces are taken into consideration during vibration and noise reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20150372546
    Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance motor includes a laminated core having a number of rotor sheet metal blanks. Each rotor sheet metal blank includes flux barriers cast with a non-ferromagnetic casting compound and at least one soft-magnetic rotor sheet which delimits the flux barriers. Flux barriers of adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks are arranged offset relative to one another so that the flux barriers of one of the adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks are delimited in an axial direction at least partially by the rotor sheets of the other one of the adjacent rotor sheet metal blanks, with the casting compound of the flux barriers adhering in an adhesion zone to the rotor sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, MATTHIAS WARMUTH, NORBERT WÖHNER
  • Patent number: 9154017
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator, a rotor magnetically interacting with the stator, a shaft supported on the stator for rotation in a first direction of rotation and in a second direction of rotation which is opposite to the first direction of rotation, wherein the rotor is arranged on the shaft, a first axial fan mounted on the shaft on a side of the rotor for co-rotation with the shaft in the first direction of rotation and having freewheeling capability on the shaft in the second direction of rotation, and a second axial fan mounted on the shaft on the same side of the rotor as the first axial shaft for co-rotation with the shaft in the second direction of rotation and having freewheeling capability on the shaft in the first direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 8836193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine. In order to increase the electrical efficiency for a cage rotor composed of two materials, the cage rotor comprises a rotor core (1) having grooves (3), end rings (5) of a first material that are cast onto the rotor core on the end face, and conductors (4) that are arranged in the grooves and that are made of a second material that has an electric conductivity that is higher than the electric conductivity of the first material, wherein the conductors (4) comprise a coating (8) made of a coating material on the surface of the conductors, wherein the coating adjoins the second material of the conductors (4) by means of a first alloy layer (2) made of the second material and the coating material and adjoins the cast first material by means of a second alloy layer (9); made of the first material and the coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Jens Kurth, Michael Müller, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20140217840
    Abstract: A stator (1) for an electric motor, which comprises a substantially hollow-cylindrical stator stack (2) provided with wire windings and an end winding (6), which adjoins the stator stack (2) in the axial direction, wherein the stator stack (2) comprises a number of slots (4), wherein a coolant line (8) is inserted into the respective slot (4), is intended to enable a further improvement of the efficiency of the electric motor. For this purpose, a section (10) of the respective coolant line (8) extends into the region of the end winding (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20130187512
    Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine has a rotor bar (4) in a rotor stack (1), wherein the bar (4) can be tipped at a tipping point (11, 12, 13) when the bar (4) has not yet been cast. The rotor bar (4) can in this case have a contour on a radial outer face, wherein the bar (4) can also have a channel (27), the opening (29) in said channel being wider than the shoulders (32, 33) of the limbs (30, 31) which form the channel (27).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Michael Müller, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20130175892
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator, a rotor magnetically interacting with the stator, a shaft supported on the stator for rotation in a first direction of rotation and in a second direction of rotation which is opposite to the first direction of rotation, wherein the rotor is arranged on the shaft, a first axial fan mounted on the shaft on a side of the rotor for co-rotation with the shaft in the first direction of rotation and having freewheeling capability on the shaft in the second direction of rotation, and a second axial fan mounted on the shaft on the same side of the rotor as the first axial shaft for co-rotation with the shaft in the second direction of rotation and having freewheeling capability on the shaft in the first direction of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Norbert Wöhner
  • Publication number: 20110316380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine. In order to increase the electrical efficiency for a cage rotor composed of two materials, the cage rotor comprises a rotor core (1) having grooves (3), end rings (5) of a first material that are cast onto the rotor core on the end face, and conductors (4) that are arranged in the grooves and that are made of a second material that has an electric conductivity that is higher than the electric conductivity of the first material, wherein the conductors (4) comprise a coating (8) made of a coating material on the surface of the conductors, wherein the coating adjoins the second material of the conductors (4) by means of a first alloy layer (2) made of the second material and the coating material and adjoins the cast first material by means of a second alloy layer (9); made of the first material and the coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Jens Kurth, Michael Müller, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 7780108
    Abstract: In a method for winding an electrical machine, a winding auxiliary body is placed on at least one of the end faces of a base body such as to cover at least one of the slot end openings within a circumferential bridging area. Electrical conductors of a winding system are inserted in at least one of the slots whose slot end opening is on one side of the bridging area and passed through an uncovered slot end opening. Subsequently, the electrical conductors are deflected by the winding auxiliary body and guided to a further uncovered one of the slot end openings on another side of the bridging area. After placement of an end plate having an axially projecting separating element and plugging an axial attachment cutout of the winding auxiliary body onto the separating element, the winding auxiliary body is removed, thereby producing a winding element of the winding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eduard Lyschick, Fridolin Mahlmeister, Michael Menz, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 7745969
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a basic bed having a opposite axial end sides and slots, wherein the slots an the end sides have each a slot end opening. A winding system has electrical conductors which are accommodated in the slots wherein the electrical conductors extend out on one of the end sides of at least one of the slot end openings. The electrical conductors are hereby laid within a bridging region extending in a circumferential direction on the at least one end side and are inserted into at least one other one of the slot end openings. Arranged on the at least one end side in the bridging region is a first guide element for guiding the electrical conductors of a first subwinding of the windings stem. An end late is arranged on the at least one end side and has at least one axially protruding separating element with the first guide element having a base bearing a against the separating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eduard Lyschick, Fridolin Mahlmeister, Michael Menz, Norbert Wöhner