Patents by Inventor Stefan Kern

Stefan Kern 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: 9611850
    Abstract: A method and a device for fixing and synchronizing rotary pistons in a rotary piston pump involves introducing the rotary pistons into the pump space of the rotary piston pump. A shaft stub of each rotary piston is then pushed through a pump rear wall onto a driveshaft provided for the respective rotary piston. The rotary pistons are aligned and synchronized in the pump space via a template, the template being fixed detachably to a pump housing. The shaft stubs of the respective rotary piston are connected, after the synchronization, in each case via a clamping device in a friction-locked manner to the respective driveshaft, outside the pump space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Weigl, Reinhard Denk, Hisham Kamal, Josef Strassl, Robert Kurz, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Thomas Boehme, Gunther Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Matthias Gradl, Erwin Weber, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Marcel Verhoeven
  • Patent number: 9525295
    Abstract: In a method for operating an electric device, which includes a first storage battery pack, a second storage battery pack and an electrical load, no more than one storage battery pack is discharged at any given time to operate the load. In the process, the storage battery pack to be discharged is selected as a function of a temperature of the first storage battery pack and a temperature of the second storage battery pack and/or as a function of an internal resistance of the first storage battery pack and an internal resistance of the second storage battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kern, Andreas Friese, Andreas Kynast, Philipp Zipf
  • Publication number: 20160032892
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm includes: receiving temperature data associated with a plurality of locations along a sound path between the wind farm and a sound immission point from one or more sensors; estimating a propagation characteristic of the sound path based at least in part on the temperature data; predicting a noise level at the sound immission point based at least in part on the propagation characteristic; determining a control signal for one or more wind turbines in the wind farm based at least in part on the noise level; and using the control signal to control the one or more wind turbines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas Herrig, Seongkyu Lee, Stefan Kern, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Benoit Philippe Petitjean, Roger Drobietz, Sujan Kumar Pal, Biju Nanukuttan
  • Patent number: 9028233
    Abstract: A rotary piston pump equipped with a motor having two counter-rotating rotary pistons. The two rotary pistons are housed in an oval pump housing. The two rotary pistons are arranged on a first output shaft and a second output shaft. The first output shaft and the second output shaft are driven and synchronized via at least one elastic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Pumpen & Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Juergen Linde, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Robert Kurz, Reinhard Denk, Josef Strassl, Thomas Boehme, Hisham Kamal, Stefan Weigl, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Gunter Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Erwin Weber, Marcel Verhoeven, Mathias Gradl, Udo Enderle
  • Publication number: 20150050174
    Abstract: A rotary piston pump for the delivery of liquids and for the delivery of liquids containing solids. The rotary piston pump includes a pump housing which is provided with an inlet and an outlet. The pump housing includes a lining. Disposed in the pump housing, or inside the lining, are at least two counter-rotating rotary pistons, which form pump spaces during their rotation. During the rotational movement, the rotary pistons are sealed against one another, against the pump housing and against the lining. Disposed in the pump housing and/or in the lining, in the spatial vicinity of the inlet and/or the outlet, are means with which the pulsation can be reduced or even completely prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Weigl, Reinhard Denk, Hisham Kamal, Josef Strassl, Robert Kurz, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Thomas Boehme, Gunther Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Matthias Gradl, Erwin Weber, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Marcel Verhoeven
  • Publication number: 20140360359
    Abstract: A rotary piston for a rotary piston pump includes at least one supporting body, through which a rotational axis of the rotary piston extends, and at least one end cap section, which is disposed radially outwards from the at least one supporting body and is connected flexibly, preferably elastically, to the at least one supporting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Liessel Roland, Wolfgang Nindel, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Robert Kurz, Reinhard Denk, Josef Strassl, Thomas Boehme, Hisham Kamal, Stefan Weigl, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Gunther Herr, Marcel Verhoeven, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Matthias Gradl, Erwin Weber
  • Publication number: 20140345451
    Abstract: A method and a device for fixing and synchronising rotary pistons in a rotary piston pump are disclosed. The rotary pistons are introduced into the pump space of the rotary piston pump. A shaft stub of each rotary piston is then pushed through a pump rear wall onto a driveshaft provided for the respective rotary piston. The rotary pistons are aligned and synchronised in the pump space by means of a template, the template being fixed detachably to a pump housing. The shaft stubs of the respective rotary piston are connected, after the synchronisation, in each case by means of a clamping device in a friction-locked manner to the respective driveshaft, outside the pump space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Stefan Weigl, Reinhard Denk, Hisham Kamal, Josef Strassl, Robert Kurz, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Thomas Boehme, Gunther Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Matthias Gradl, Erwin Weber, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Marcel Verhoeven
  • Publication number: 20140348687
    Abstract: A rotary piston pump with at least two double- or multi-lobe rotary pistons rotating in opposite directions, the drive shafts whereof include seals, wherein the seals are constituted as slip ring seals or lip seals or stuffing-box seals, which in each case are disposed on the shaft shoulder belonging to the respective rotary piston, and one slip ring per seal is provided with a locking device, which includes a large number of fixing positions. The seals are pushed onto a tubular shoulder of the rotary piston, the rotary piston is introduced into the pump housing, the securing element is connected to the slip ring seal in a form-fit manner by rotation of the rotary piston and the shaft shoulder is then rigidly connected to the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Stefan Weigl, Reinhard Denk, Hisham Kamal, Josef Strassl, Robert Kurz, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Thomas Boehme, Gunther Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Matthias Gradl, Erwin Weber, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Marcel Verhoeven, Thomas Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20140112777
    Abstract: A system for mitigating wake losses in a windfarm is disclosed. The system may include a first horizontal axis wind turbine configured to rotate in a first direction and a second horizontal axis wind turbine positioned adjacent to the first horizontal axis wind turbine. The second horizontal axis wind turbine configured to rotate in a second direction, wherein the first direction is opposite the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Chiranjeev Kalra, Stefan Kern, Henk-Jan Kooijman
  • Publication number: 20140007845
    Abstract: An injector for a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, namely for a common rail fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine which is formed in particular as a large diesel internal combustion engine or ship's diesel internal combustion engine, having an injection nozzle, a control valve and a retaining body. The injection nozzle and the control valve form a clamped composite, and the composite formed of the injection nozzle and control valve can be mounted on the retaining body as a unit and disassembled from the retaining body as a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Atzkern, Maximilian lndrich, Stefan Kern, Claudius Weber, Ludwig Maier, Holger Schaar, Wolfgang Wagner, Thomas Klaua, Harald Wellenkötter, Werner Wörle
  • Publication number: 20130257386
    Abstract: In a method for operating an electric device, which includes a first storage battery pack, a second storage battery pack and an electrical load, no more than one storage battery pack is discharged at any given time to operate the load. In the process, the storage battery pack to be discharged is selected as a function of a temperature of the first storage battery pack and a temperature of the second storage battery pack and/or as a function of an internal resistance of the first storage battery pack and an internal resistance of the second storage battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan KERN, Andreas FRIESE, Andreas KYNAST, Philipp ZIPF
  • Publication number: 20130129555
    Abstract: The rotary piston pump includes two counter-rotating rotary pistons and an oval pump housing. Every rotary piston has a rotary piston vane and is provided with a contact element. The contact points of the flanks of the two rotary pistons in which the two rotary pistons form a friction pairing are provided with a contact element each. The interior of the oval pump housing is likewise provided with an exchangeable contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Hans Juergen Linde, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Robert Kurz, Reinhard Denk, Josef Strassl, Thomas Boehme, Hisham Kamal, Stefan Weigl, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Gunter Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Erwin Weber, Marcel Verhoeven, Mathias Gradl
  • Publication number: 20130094985
    Abstract: A rotary piston pump equipped with a motor having two counter-rotating rotary pistons. The two rotary pistons are housed in an oval pump housing. The two rotary pistons are arranged on a first output shaft and a second output shaft. The first output shaft and the second output shaft are driven and synchronized via at least one elastic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Hans Juergen Linde, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Robert Kurz, Reinhard Denk, Josef Strassl, Thomas Boehme, Hisham Kamal, Stefan Weigl, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Gunter Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Erwin Weber, Marcel Verhoeven, Mathias Gradl, Udo Enderle
  • Patent number: 7609116
    Abstract: A millimetric-wave amplifier arrangement comprises a first amplifier whose output is connected to one input of the second amplifier via an adjustable attenuator. Both amplifiers are integrated on a single substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Gregor Gerhard, Stefan Kern, Stefan Koch
  • Patent number: 7130606
    Abstract: An integrated semiconductor mixer includes a substrate (10), a radio-frequency balun (12) disposed on the substrate (10), a local oscillator balun (14) disposed on the substrate (10), an intermediate-frequency port (16) disposed on the substrate (10), and a mixer diode array (18), disposed on the substrate (10), that communicates with the radio-frequency balun (12), the local oscillator balun (14), and the intermediate-frequency port (16), in which the radio-frequency balun (12) is shielded from the local oscillator balun (14) by plated holes (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Marconi Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Gerhard, Stefan Kern, Stefan Koch
  • Publication number: 20060208797
    Abstract: A millimetric-wave amplifier arrangement comprises a first amplifier whose output is connected to one input of the second amplifier via an adjustable attenuator. Both amplifiers are integrated on a single substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Gregor Gerhard, Stefan Kern, Stefan Koch
  • Patent number: 7102873
    Abstract: A capacitor element on a chip, e.g., a MMIC chip, includes a main capacitor in parallel with a series configuration of trimming capacitors. The total capacitance value of the parallel arrangement can be increased from its inherently minimum value by applying one or more laser pulses to one or more of the trimming capacitors, such that in each case a short-circuit is produced between the metallization layer to which the pulses are applied and the other metallization layer making up the trimming capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Marconi Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kern, Marco Trautwein, Martin Schallner
  • Publication number: 20050231299
    Abstract: An integrated circuit having at least one microstrip line and at least one port, and a method of manufacturing the circuit are used, in particular, for test passes for development purposes during chip production and also during chip manufacture. At least some of the ports and/or microstrip lines in the integrated circuit have a removable, reflection-free termination which is integrated on the chip. The integrated circuit is produced in a first step, with at least some of the ports and/or microstrip lines in the integrated circuit being provided with a removable, reflection-free termination which is integrated on the chip, and in a second step for this termination to be removed from a prescribable selection of the ports and/or microstrip lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventor: Stefan Kern
  • Patent number: 6919773
    Abstract: A monolithically integrated microwave guide component for overcoupling high frequencies includes a first micro-waveguide that is structured on a micro-waveguide chip, and comprises a second micro-waveguide that is structured on a carrier substrate. The microwave guides are contacted to one another by a chip through-plating. The microwave guides each include, in the contact region, an integrated compensating structure that serves to compensate for reflections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Marconi Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kern, Gregor Gerhard
  • Publication number: 20050105244
    Abstract: A capacitor element on a chip, e.g., a MMIC chip, comprises a main capacitance in parallel with a series configuration of trimming capacitors whose total capacitance can be increased from its inherently minimum value by applying one or more laser pulses to one or more of the trimming capacitors, such that in each case a short-circuit is produced between the metallization layer to which the pulse is applied and the other metallization layer making up the trimming capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Kern, Marco Trautwein, Martin Schallner