Patents by Inventor Rolf Vollmer
Rolf Vollmer 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: 7977826Abstract: The permanently excited synchronous machine (1) includes a rotor (3) and a stand (2) which contains a three-branched winding system (8) which comprises tooth coils. The stand (2) has a total of three or six grooves (5) and a tooth (6, 7) is formed there between. A total of three tooth coils (9) are arranged in the grooves (5) and each coil is associated with one of the three winding phases. The number of user pole pairs (pN) is four or five. The rotor (3) has twice as many user pole pairs (pN) of permanent magnets (18) which are evenly distributed on the periphery.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Vollmer, Holger Schunk, Erich Bott, Matthias Braun
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Patent number: 7915777Abstract: The invention relates to a ring coil motor (1, 20) with a primary part (3, 21) and a secondary part (2, 22), wherein the primary part (3, 21) has a ring coil (6, 25) and permanent magnets (9, 27).Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20110006617Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a cost-effective, easily regulated rotary-linear drive. Therefore, the invention provides for the rotary-linear drive to connect a rotary drive (10) to a linear drive module (11). The linear drive module (11) comprises a rotatable drive-side receiving device for receiving a torque from the rotary drive (10). Additionally, the linear drive module has a linear motor, the armature (15) of which is rotatable, is rotated by a stator (14), and comprises an output element for the purpose of driving the shaft (12) in a rotary-linear fashion. To this end, the linear drive module (11) also comprises a coupling device (16) that couples the receiving device and the armature (15) in a rotationally secure but not linear fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Budde, Aziz Inalkac, Mykhaylo Toldonov, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 7859160Abstract: The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2), which has slots (6) distributed about the periphery, between which a tooth (7, 8) is placed, and in which a winding system (9) with at least one winding phase is placed. Each winding phase contains at least one coil group. Each coil group contains a first single coil (10) and at least one additional coil (11). All single coils (10, 11) of each coil group are electrically connected in series. Each of the additional single coils (11) is arranged in an offset manner with an offset angle (?mk,i) in relation to the first single coil (10). The respective offset angle (?mk,i) is calculated according to: formula (I) in which k ? {1, 2, . . . (n?I, i ? {0, 1, . . . (6?pN?1)}, n being a group coil number of all single coils (10, 11) of the respective coil group, k being a coil index of the additional single coils (11), i being a position index, and pN being an effective pole number.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20100264770Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous machine for suppressing harmonics includes a stator and a rotor with permanent magnets. Each permanent magnet represents a magnetic pole and is, when viewed in the circumferential direction of the rotor, shaped as a parallelogram or an arrow. The pole coverage is less than one. The permanent magnets are staggered at a staggering angle, wherein the permanent magnets of one pole are arranged in the axial direction with an increasing offset of a circumferential angle in relation to a first permanent magnet of this pole. Each permanent magnet is skewed at a skew angle defined by a circumferential angle of a projection of a tip portion of the parallelogram or arrow. The optimal skew and staggering angles are calculated from the design parameters for the stator and the number of pole pairs and the number of poles in the axial direction of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: MATTHIAS BRAUN, Holger Schunk, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 7777373Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device (1,2) pertaining to an electrical machine (10), said cooling device (1,2) comprising at least one rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) for heat-conductive connection to the electrical machine (10). The invention also relates to an electrical machine (10) comprising a housing (18) and/or a stator (14), said housing (18) and/or stator (14) being applied to a cooling device (1,2) comprising a rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) extending axially in relation to the electrical machine. Said heat-conducting means (3,4) is to be received by the stator (14) and/or the housing (18) or arranged on the stator (14) and/or the housing (18).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erich Bott, Detlef Potoradi, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 7755315Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a linear/rotation drive with an improved transmitter device for detecting the linear and rotational movements. For this purpose, the transmitter device (12, 14, 16, 17) for detecting the linear movement and/or rotational movement of the secondary part (4) of the linear drive (2) configured as an external rotor is at least partially arranged inside the primary part (6) of the linear drive (2). In this manner, the transmitter device (12, 14, 16, 17) is located in a magnetically shielded area. In order to avoid eccentricities in the transmitted device (12, 14, 16, 17), a journal (10) of the secondary part (4) is mounted on a bearing (11) in the primary part (6).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erich Bott, Matthias Braun, Holger Schunk, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 7732967Abstract: Disclosed is an electric machine (1) comprising a stator (2) that encompasses a winding system (10) with three winding branches, and a certain number of effective pole pairs. Each winding branch is provided with at least one coil group, each of which contains an even number of serially connected individual coils (11) that generate an individual magnetic field, respectively. Two respective individual coils (11) of a coil group are offset relative to each other in a circumferential direction of the stator (2) in such a way that the associated individual magnetic fields are provided with an offset electrical angle relative to one another at the sixth harmonic of the number of effective pole pairs, said offset electrical angle being equal to an odd multiple of 180°.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Vollmer, Holger Schunk, Albrecht Storath
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Publication number: 20100133940Abstract: A three-phase dynamoelectrical permanently excited synchronous machine includes a stator with teeth which point to a rotor, wherein twelve slots are formed between the teeth. The slots have coil sides of coils of a winding system in such a manner that two coil sides of different coils are situated in each slot. The rotor has a cylindrical support structure which is provided with permanent magnets defined by an inner radius which corresponds to a radius of the support structure, and by an outer radius which is smaller than their inner radius. The permanent magnets are formed with ten magnet poles when viewed in a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: UDO GROSSMANN, Holger Schunk, Rolf Vollmer, Michael Zastrow
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Patent number: 7709984Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining the center deviation of a shaft (3) comprising a stator (1) in which an exciting winding system provided with a number of Perr pole pairs is arranged and two output winding systems provided with respective number of Paus pole pairs, wherein the output winding systems are remotely arranged with respect to each other in the stator, the shaft (3) is movably placed in the stator (1) in such a way that it makes it possible to display the shaft center deviation, when ¦Perr?Paus¦=1, an air gap is situated between the stator (1) and the shaft (3), the device voltage source is arranged for supplying the exciting winding system with an alternating voltage and the device output evaluation system is provided for determining the center deviation according to the voltage induced by the output winding systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Braun, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 7705507Abstract: The electrical machine has a stator, which comprises thirty-six slots and thirty-six teeth with an alternating sequence and a winding system (10) which is arranged at least partially in the slots and has three winding phases (34, 35, 36). The winding system (10) contains in total eighteen coil elements (11-28), which are laid in each case two slots, with the result that a slot associated with another of the coil elements (11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 28) is located between the two slots associated with one of the coil elements (13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27). In each case two of the coil elements (11-28) form one of nine interwound groups of coil elements (29), wherein, of the four adjacent slots belonging to a group of coil elements (29), the first and the third slot are associated with one coil element (13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27), and the second and the fourth slot are associated with the other coil element (11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 28) in this group of coil elements (29).Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20100052466Abstract: According to the invention, the torque ripple of electrical machines is supposed to be further reduced. For this purpose, it is provided to dispose the magnetic poles, for example, on the surface of a rotor in a plurality of sections (A1, A2) at different angles. The result are helix angles (?1, ?2), which have different amounts. Also more than two different helix angles, up to a continuous course of the boundary lines (G4) between the poles, can be implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Vollmer, Marcus Ziegler
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Publication number: 20100013332Abstract: A magnetic radial bearing and a bearing system for supporting a rotating shaft are disclosed. The bearing has a number of electromagnets circumferentially arranged around a rotating shaft. Each of the electromagnets has a coil which is electrically connected so as to generate both a magnetic bias and a rotating three-phase field. First terminals of opposing coils are connected in common to a corresponding phase of a three-phase controller for generating the rotating field, whereas second terminals of the coils not connected to the same phase are connected at corresponding star points. The star points are connected to DC power for generating the magnetic bias.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: ROLF VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20100013333Abstract: A magnetic radial bearing and a magnetic bearing system for non-contact support of a rotor shaft are disclosed. The magnetic radial bearing for non-contact support of a rotor shaft includes a rotating-field machine stator with a plurality of stator slots distributed in a circumferential direction, and stator teeth with radial ends arranged between adjacent stator slots. The number of stator teeth is equal to the number of stator slots. A three-phase stator winding is wound around the stator slots for producing a rotating magnetic field. An axially extending permanent magnet in form of a strip or plate is arranged at the radial end of each stator tooth, wherein permanent magnets that are adjacently arranged in the circumferential direction have alternating opposing radial magnetization directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20100013341Abstract: An electric machine for direct drive or braking applications with coils providing improved power efficiency and heat transfer is disclosed. The electric machine has a coil body and a winding with a plurality of turns wound on the coil body. Each of the various turns is located in a separate plane. Respective end sections of two different turns are connected by a connecting element, with a major directional component of the connecting element being oriented in an axial direction perpendicular to the plane of one of the two turns. Axially adjacent turns can thereby be connected to one another together. This arrangement reduces or eliminates empty spaces in the slots, particularly when the turns are made from flat wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Rolf VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20100000830Abstract: During combined rotatory-linear displacements of a shaft (2), either both motions, or one of them, is supposed to be decelerated without high energy expenditure in a simple manner. To this end, a brake comprising a brake holder (1) and at least two arc-shaped brake shoes (5) are proposed, which are each provided with a brake lining, are fastened to the brake holder (1), and can be pressed against the displaceable shaft (2). In this way, advantageously both the linear motion and the rotatory motion of the shaft (2) can be decelerated. In order to decelerate only the linear motion, an axially fixed brake sleeve, which is rotatorily mounted on the shaft, can be used. Furthermore, a linear ball bushing can be used to decelerate the rotatory motion without influencing the linear motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Budde, Aziz Inalkac, Mykhaylo Toldonov, Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20090322174Abstract: In a three-phase permanent-magnet synchronous machine, a pole gap and a skew of permanent magnets on the rotor are designed such that oscillating torques which are caused by the fifth and seventh harmonics of the stator field and of the rotor field are mutually reduced. In particular, the skew can be chosen as a function of the pole gap, such that the majority of the respective oscillating torques is neutralized. This results in minimal torque ripple.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: UDO GROSSMANN, ROLF VOLLMER, MICHAEL ZASTROW
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Publication number: 20090315424Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous machine includes a stator that has slots and a rotor that has permanent magnets which form magnet poles. The permanent magnets are shell magnets having two curved surfaces. Each shell magnet covers a predetermined part of a magnet pole. The external radius of the shell magnets is less than 0.6 times the radius of the stator bore. Each shell magnet has a quasi-radial magnetic preferred direction that is directed substantially perpendicular to its outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: ROLF VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20090302832Abstract: The invention relates to more accurate rotative and linear positional measurement for a rotary-linear drive. A measuring system comprising a linear sensor (12) and a rotary sensor (20) is disclosed. A decoupling unit (11,14,17) decouples the rotary displacement from the linear displacement of a shaft (10); The decoupling unit (11,14,17) has either a first measuring section (11), which is coupled in a fixed manner to the shaft to be measured (10) and tapped by the linear sensor (12) and a second measuring section (17), which is exclusively non-rotatably coupled to the shaft to be measured (10) and is tapped by the rotary sensor (20), or a first measuring section, which is coupled in a fixed manner exclusively linearly to the shaft to be measured and is tapped by the linear sensor and a second measuring section, which is non-rotatably coupled to the shaft to be measured and is tapped by the rotary sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Budde, Aziz Inalkac, Mykhaylo Toldonov, Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20090295236Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine which comprises a first machine part (30), comprising a stator element (31) and a rotor element (32) and being configured as a rotary actuator which interacts with a rotary movement of the rotor element (32). The electric machine (40) also comprises a second machine part (20), comprising a primary part (1) and a secondary part (2) and being configured as a linear actuator which interacts with a linear movement of the secondary part (2). The rotor element (32) of the first machine part (30) and the secondary part (2) of the second machine part (20) are interlinked. The secondary part (2) of the second machine part (20) can be rotated and is configured as an external rotor. Such a secondary part (2) allows to generate a higher power of a secondary machine part (20) acting as the linear motor. The secondary part (2) is mounted in the center thereof in relation to the primary part (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2005Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erich Bott, Rolf Vollmer, Matthias Braun, Holger Schunk