Patents by Inventor Ralf Bode

Ralf Bode 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: 10213875
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a housing of a turbomachine, in particular a housing of a radial turbo compressor. The method includes the following steps: a) providing a hollow body that is closed in a circumferential direction and extends along an axis; b) coating the inner side of the hollow body with a corrosion-resistant layer that is more resistant to corrosion than the material of the hollow body; c) dividing the hollow body into two half-shells along the axis in a separation joint plane; d) assembling the housing by joining both half-shells and fastening both half-shells in the region of the separation joints, which were created by separation, by means of detachable fastening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Dieter Naß
  • Publication number: 20180272470
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a housing of a turbomachine, in particular a housing of a radial turbo compressor. The method includes the following steps: a) providing a hollow body that is closed in a circumferential direction and extends along an axis; b) coating the inner side of the hollow body with a corrosion-resistant layer that is more resistant to corrosion than the material of the hollow body; c) dividing the hollow body into two half-shells along the axis in a separation joint plane; d) assembling the housing by joining both half-shells and fastening both half-shells in the region of the separation joints, which were created by separation, by means of detachable fastening elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Dieter Naß
  • Patent number: 9746085
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal for sealing a sealing region between a rotor and stator of a rotary machine includes, a base, and a plurality of sealing rings. The sealing rings are formed on the base, project into the sealing region and form, between them labyrinth valleys bounded, laterally, by the sealing rings and, in the floor of the valleys, by the base. The sealing rings, in at least one region, include at least one material which is different from that of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 9234429
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a compressor blade, comprising the following steps: forging a blank made of an austenitic-ferritic steel; uniaxially stretching and plastically deforming the blank while at least the elongation and the deformation force of the blank are detected and monitored; and ending the stretching after a defined limit value for the stress has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20150295465
    Abstract: A can for an electric motor, especially for an electric motor in a compressor, the can be at least partially provided with an ethyl silicate coating is provided. A method for producing a can of this kind is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 9130417
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator housing and a winding assembly surrounding the rotor. The winding assembly is arranged in the stator housing and has an axially extending effective region in which the winding assembly is set up to interact electrodynamically with the rotor. The stator housing has a peripheral opening slot on the side facing the rotor. The opening slot corresponds in its axial extent to the axial extent of the effective region of the winding assembly and in which an electrically non-conductive can of the electric machine is inserted. The can is sealed off with the stator housing in such a manner that the winding assembly is hermetically separated from the rotor. The can extends axially only on the effective region of the winding assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 9106123
    Abstract: A method for producing a cage rotor for an asynchronous machine is provided. The method includes providing a rotor body having a conductor bar segment in which conductor bars are provided, producing conductor bar slots in the conductor bar segment, wherein one conductor bar slot is provided for each of the conductor bars and producing short circuit ring recesses for short circuit rings, wherein the conductor bar slots each open into the short circuit ring recesses, pressure die casting cage material in the conductor bar slots, in situ, so that the conductor bars are formed of the conductor bar material in the conductor bar slots and the short circuit rings are formed in the short circuit ring recesses, and generating an area in the conductor bar material and the rotor body material including a metallurgical bond between the conductor bar material and the rotor body material at interfaces between the conductor bars and the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 9046105
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a metal core, a plurality of electrical conductors arranged on the metal core, and a metallic corrosion protection layer enveloping the metal core and the plurality of conductors. The corrosion protection layer is laid as a solid body around the metal core and the conductors and fastened at least to the metal core. The corrosion protection layer is at least a part of a hot-pressing containment for isostatic pressing of the conductors in the metal core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20140300230
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a metal core, a plurality of electrical conductors arranged on the metal core, and a metallic corrosion protection layer enveloping the metal core and the plurality of conductors. The corrosion protection layer is laid as a solid body around the metal core and the conductors and fastened at least to the metal core. The corrosion protection layer is at least a part of a hot-pressing containment for isostatic pressing of the conductors in the metal core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 8847449
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor is provided. The rotor includes a metal cone upon which a plurality of electrical conductors are arranged. A metallic corrosion protection layer is provided that envelopes the metal core and the conductors. The corrosion protection layer is laid around the metal core and the conductors as a solid body and fastened at least to the metal core. The corrosion protection layer is at least a part of a hot-pressing containment for isostatic pressing of the conductors in the metal core. The rotor, which is suitable for a high-speed electric motor for the industrial sector, can be produced at low cost and can be used reliably to compress chemically aggressive industrial process gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20140215822
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a compressor blade, comprising the following steps: forging a blank made of an austenitic-ferritic steel; uniaxially stretching and plastically deforming the blank while at least the elongation and the deformation force of the blank are detected and monitored; and ending the stretching after a defined limit value for the stress has been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20130309098
    Abstract: A turbocompressor rotor for a turbocompressor for compressing process gas has a rotor body which makes contact with the process gas and which is produced entirely from a stainless steel material including 0.3 to 1.2% carbon and 12 to 19% chromium, wherein the steel material includes the alloy X39CrMo17-1.9. A process for producing such a turbocompressor rotor by casting includes manufacturing a casting model corresponding to the geometry of the rotor body by rapid technology and producing a casting mold using the casting model, or manufacturing a casting mold corresponding to the negative geometry of the rotor body by rapid technology, introducing the liquid steel material into the casting mold to form a cast workpiece as the rotor body, and finishing the turbocompressor rotor with the rotor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20130287566
    Abstract: A plain bearing for a turbomachine rotor is proposed. The plain bearing has a bearing body for mounting the turbomachine rotor and has a solid lubricant powder for lubricating a bearing contact area between the bearing body and the turbomachine rotor. The bearing body is produced from an acid-gas-resistant, solid-solution-strengthened powder of a nickel-based material or from a martensitic, austenitic or ferritic-austenitic non-rusting powder of a steel material, and the solid lubricant powder is produced from an acid-gas-resistant material. The bearing body has a hardness of at most 40 Rockwell hardness HRC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Norbert Stradmann
  • Publication number: 20130094950
    Abstract: A compressor unit includes a motor and a compressor in a casing of a gastight form. The casing houses the motor and the compressor. The motor includes a rotor surrounded by a stator which has an encapsulation formed on the inner diameter as a separating can, so that a medium being handled does not damage the stator. The separating can includes a polymer matrix which is reinforced using a plurality of fibers. The polymer matrix is at least partly a ceramic fiber reinforced polymer matrix. The plurality of fibers are formed as continuous filaments. The continuous filaments include the length of at least 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Sebastian Lang
  • Publication number: 20130062987
    Abstract: A method for producing a cage rotor for an asynchronous machine is provided. The method includes providing a rotor body having a conductor bar segment in which conductor bars are provided, producing conductor bar slots in the conductor bar segment, wherein one conductor bar slot is provided for each of the conductor bars and producing short circuit ring recesses for short circuit rings, wherein the conductor bar slots each open into the short circuit ring recesses, pressure die casting cage material in the conductor bar slots, in situ, so that the conductor bars are formed of the conductor bar material in the conductor bar slots and the short circuit rings are formed in the short circuit ring recesses, and generating an area in the conductor bar material and the rotor body material including a metallurgical bond between the conductor bar material and the rotor body material at interfaces between the conductor bars and the rotor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20120228830
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal for sealing a sealing region between a rotor and stator of a rotary machine includes, a base, and a plurality of sealing rings. The sealing rings are formed on the base, project into the sealing region and form, between them labyrinth valleys bounded, laterally, by the sealing rings and, in the floor of the valleys, by the base. The sealing rings, in at least one region, include at least one material which is different from that of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20120223605
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator housing and a winding assembly surrounding the rotor. The winding assembly is arranged in the stator housing and has an axially extending effective region in which the winding assembly is set up to interact electrodynamically with the rotor. The stator housing has a peripheral opening slot on the side facing the rotor. The opening slot corresponds in its axial extent to the axial extent of the effective region of the winding assembly and in which an electrically non-conductive can of the electric machine is inserted. The can is sealed off with the stator housing in such a manner that the winding assembly is hermetically separated from the rotor. The can extends axially only on the effective region of the winding assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Ralf Bode
  • Publication number: 20120091841
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor is provided. The rotor includes a metal cone upon which a plurality of electrical conductors are arranged. A metallic corrosion protection layer is provided that envelopes the metal core and the conductors. The corrosion protection layer is laid around the metal core and the conductors as a solid body and fastened at least to the metal core. The corrosion protection layer is at least a part of a hot-pressing containment for isostatic pressing of the conductors in the metal core. The rotor, which is suitable for a high-speed electric motor for the industrial sector, can be produced at low cost and can be used reliably to compress chemically aggressive industrial process gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Biesenbach, Ralf Bode
  • Patent number: 8066830
    Abstract: A method for the production of steels is provided. A heat treatment is carried out, in which the steel is hardened in water twice at different high temperatures, and subsequently subjected to an annealing treatment. It has been shown that the steel 26NiCrMoV14-5 has a high subzero toughness. In one aspect, the steel is usable down to a temperature of at least minus 170° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Beate Langenhan
  • Publication number: 20100295396
    Abstract: A separating can is provided. Fluid flow engines and drive motors can be encased in a housing, if a separation is made in the electric motor by a tube-shaped component, known as the separating can. The separating can must be sufficiently large to be strong and electrically non-conductive. The separating can is made at least partially of a ceramic or glass-like material, or is made at least partially of a polymer matrix reinforced using fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Ralf Bode, Sebastian Lang