Patents by Inventor Petra Kluge-Weiss

Petra Kluge-Weiss 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: 7651636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nonlinear electrical material with improved microvaristor filler (1?), to devices and electrical apparatuses comprising such nonlinear electrical material and to a production method thereof. According to invention, the filler (1?) comprises larger spherical particles (5) and smaller irregular particles (6) that are arranged interstitially and provide non-point-like and/or multiple contact areas (56, 56a, 56b, 66) owing to their irregular outer shape comprising edges and faces. Embodiments, among other things, relate to: spherical particles (5) being calcinated and broken-up to retain their original shape; irregular, spikly shaped, particles (6) obtained by calcinating or sintering and crushing or fracturing granules or blocks; and addition of a third filler fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Hansjoerg Gramespacher, Michael Hagemeister, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Felix Greuter, Lise Donzel, Reto Kessler
  • Patent number: 7618550
    Abstract: The polymer compound contains a polymer matrix and a filler embedded in the matrix. The filler comprises two filler components with nonlinear current-voltage characteristics deviating from one another. By selection of suitable amounts of these filler components, a polymer compound with a predetermined nonlinear current-voltage characteristic deviating from these two characteristics can be formed in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Felix Greuter, Yvo Dirix, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Walter Schmidt, Reto Kessler
  • Publication number: 20080023678
    Abstract: The polymer compound contains a polymer matrix and a filler embedded in the matrix. The filler comprises two filler components with nonlinear current-voltage characteristics deviating from one another. By selection of suitable amounts of these filler components, a polymer compound with a predetermined nonlinear current-voltage characteristic deviating from these two characteristics can be formed in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Felix Greuter, Yvo Dirix, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Walter Schmidt, Reto Kessler
  • Patent number: 7320762
    Abstract: The polymer compound contains a polymer matrix and a filler embedded in the matrix. The filler comprises two filler components with nonlinear current-voltage characteristics deviating from one another. By selection of suitable amounts of these filler components, a polymer compound with a predetermined nonlinear current-voltage characteristic deviating from these two characteristics can be formed in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Felix Greuter, Yvo Dirix, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Walter Schmidt, Reto Kessler
  • Publication number: 20050218380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nonlinear electrical material with improved microvaristor filler (1?), to devices and electrical apparatuses comprising such nonlinear electrical material and to a production method thereof. According to invention, the filler (1?) comprises larger spherical particles (5) and smaller irregular particles (6) that are arranged interstitially and provide non-point-like and/or multiple contact areas (56, 56a, 56b, 66) owing to their irregular outer shape comprising edges and faces. Embodiments, among other things, relate to: spherical particles (5) being calcinated and broken-up to retain their original shape; irregular, spikly shaped, particles (6) obtained by calcinating or sintering and crushing or fracturing granules or blocks; and addition of a third filler fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Hansjoerg Gramespacher, Michael Hagemeister, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Felix Greuter, Lise Donzel, Reto Kessler
  • Patent number: 6678139
    Abstract: The bushing has an electrical conductor (1) to which high voltage can be applied. One section of the electrical conductor (1) is surrounded by a varistor arrangement (9). The bushing also contains two electrical connections (4, 6), one (6) of which can be connected to high voltage and the other (4) can be connected to ground, a bushing insulator (5) provided between the electrical conductor (1) and the varistor arrangement (9), and a clamping apparatus (11) which applies a contact force to the electrical connections (4, 6) and to the varistor arrangement (9) located in between them like a sandwich. The clamping apparatus has an insulating part which applies the contact force to the two electrical connections. The bushing insulator is in the form of a molding and has a supporting element, provided with a guide surface, for a contact (1a) (which is connected to the electrical conductor (1)) in a plug connection to a cable or to an apparatus bushing of an electrical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Felix Greuter, Thomas Christen, Petra Kluge-Weiss
  • Publication number: 20030010960
    Abstract: The polymer compound contains a polymer matrix and a filler embedded in the matrix. The filler comprises two filler components with nonlinear current-voltage characteristics deviating from one another. By selection of suitable amounts of these filler components, a polymer compound with a predetermined nonlinear current-voltage characteristic deviating from these two characteristics can be formed in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Felix Greuter, Yvo Dirix, Petra Kluge-Weiss, Walter Schmidt, Reto Kessler
  • Patent number: 6469611
    Abstract: The nonlinear resistor has varistor behaviour and has a matrix and a filler in powder form which is embedded in the matrix. The filler contains sintered varistor granules with predominantly spherical particles of doped metal oxide. These particles are made up of crystalline grains separated from one another by grain boundaries. The filler also contains electrically conductive particles, which cover at most a part of the surfaces of the spherical particles, and/or the varistor granules contain two fractions of particles with different sizes, of which the particles in the first fraction have larger diameters than the particles in the second fraction and are arranged essentially in the form of close sphere packing and the particles in the second fraction fill the interstices formed by the sphere packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Petra Kluge-Weiss, Felix Greuter, Ralf Strümpler
  • Patent number: 4519850
    Abstract: In a process for the thermo-migration of liquid phases in a temperature gradient, which process starts from a metal coating (2) on a semiconducting substrate (1), the metal coating (2) is applied to a plane substrate surface (11), the temperature gradient is produced, in vacuo, by means of two flat faces (5, 6), which are parallel and can be heated uniformly, and is reversed by lowering the temperature of the warmer face and, at the same time, raising the temperature of the cooler face. The smooth temperature distribution leads to a reduction in the number of process steps, while at the same time yielding good results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri & Company Limited
    Inventor: Petra Kluge-Weiss