Patents by Inventor Stephan SENN

Stephan SENN 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: 11879389
    Abstract: An exhaust turbine includes a turbine wheel having a plurality of rotor blades, an exhaust outlet where the exhaust outlet is arranged downstream of the rotor blades and is delimited radial to the outside by an axial turbine diffusor. An exhaust mass flow can be output in an axial flow direction by the exhaust outlet duct and the axial turbine diffusor opens downstream, radially to the outside at a non-constant diffusor-opening angle, such that at a first diffusor-opening angle deviates from a second diffusor-opening angle by at least 1°. The exhaust turbine further includes a waste gate duct, the outlet region of which opens into the diffusor or directly downstream of the diffusor into the exhaust outlet duct. The waste gate duct is designed to generate a substantially axial flow direction of a waste gate mass flow at the outlet region of the waste gate duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Turbo Systems Switzerland Ltd.
    Inventors: Christoph Mathey, Stephan Senn
  • Publication number: 20230358167
    Abstract: An exhaust turbine includes a turbine wheel having a plurality of rotor blades, an exhaust outlet where the exhaust outlet is arranged downstream of the rotor blades and is delimited radial to the outside by an axial turbine diffusor. An exhaust mass flow can be output in an axial flow direction by the exhaust outlet duct and the axial turbine diffusor opens downstream, radially to the outside at a non-constant diffusor-opening angle, such that at a first diffusor-opening angle deviates from a second diffusor-opening angle by at least 1°. The exhaust turbine further includes a waste gate duct, the outlet region of which opens into the diffusor or directly downstream of the diffusor into the exhaust outlet duct. The waste gate duct is designed to generate a substantially axial flow direction of a waste gate mass flow at the outlet region of the waste gate duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph Mathey, Stephan Senn
  • Patent number: 11208919
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine rotor (12) having a plurality of turbine rotor blades (2) with a turbine rotor blade height H. The exhaust gas turbine further comprises a diffuser arrangement (20) having a transverse diffuser (1) and an exhaust gas collection chamber (9). The transverse diffuser (1) is arranged downstream of the turbine rotor blades (2). The transverse diffuser (1) has a curved diffuser channel (13) which opens into the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) at a diffuser channel outlet (17). A M/H ratio between an axial extension M of the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 1.0?M/H?4.6 and a P/H ratio between a radial extension P of the diffuser arrangement (20) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.7?P/H?4.9. A D/H ratio between a radial expansion D of the diffuser channel section (13) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.5?D/H?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Stephan Senn, Christoph Mathey
  • Patent number: 11073048
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine wheel (7) with a multiplicity of moving blades (8) and an exhaust-gas outlet duct (15), which is arranged downstream of the moving blades of the turbine wheel. The exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is delimited radially on the outside by an axial turbine diffuser (1) and radially on the inside, at least partially, by a spinner (2). The axial turbine diffuser (1) is formed by a number N>1 of successive conical diffuser segments. An axial diffuser opening angle A between successive diffuser segments is A>1.0°. A ratio L/H between an axial diffuser segment length L and an entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is L/H>0.01. A ratio H/S between the entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct and a maximum radius S of the spinner (2) is H/S>1.0. The spinner (2) is formed by a number P>1 of successive conical spinner segments. An axial spinner opening angle B between successive spinner segments is B>1.0°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Stephan Senn, Christoph Mathey
  • Publication number: 20200277879
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine rotor (12) having a plurality of turbine rotor blades (2) with a turbine rotor blade height H. The exhaust gas turbine further comprises a diffuser arrangement (20) having a transverse diffuser (1) and an exhaust gas collection chamber (9). The transverse diffuser (1) is arranged downstream of the turbine rotor blades (2). The transverse diffuser (1) has a curved diffuser channel (13) which opens into the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) at a diffuser channel outlet (17). A M/H ratio between an axial extension M of the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 1.0?M/H?4.6 and a P/H ratio between a radial extension P of the diffuser arrangement (20) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.7?P/H?4.9. A D/H ratio between a radial expansion D of the diffuser channel section (13) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.5?D/H?3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan SENN, Christoph MATHEY
  • Publication number: 20200217225
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine wheel (7) with a multiplicity of moving blades (8) and an exhaust-gas outlet duct (15), which is arranged downstream of the moving blades of the turbine wheel. The exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is delimited radially on the outside by an axial turbine diffuser (1) and radially on the inside, at least partially, by a spinner (2). The axial turbine diffuser (1) is formed by a number N>1 of successive conical diffuser segments. An axial diffuser opening angle A between successive diffuser segments is A>1.0°. A ratio L/H between an axial diffuser segment length L and an entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is L/H>0.01. A ratio H/S between the entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct and a maximum radius S of the spinner (2) is H/S>1.0. The spinner (2) is formed by a number P>1 of successive conical spinner segments. An axial spinner opening angle B between successive spinner segments is B>1.0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan SENN, Christoph MATHEY
  • Publication number: 20190140492
    Abstract: There is provided a power transmission device for contactless power transmission, comprising a transmitter device and a receiver device, wherein the transmitter device has a first transmitter with a first transmitting frequency and at least one second transmitter with a second transmitting frequency, the second transmitting frequency is different from the first transmitting frequency, and the first transmitter is galvanically separated from the second transmitter, wherein the first transmitter has a first axis of symmetry and the second transmitter has a second axis of symmetry, and the first axis of symmetry of the first transmitter and the second axis of symmetry of the second transmitter are at least approximately coincident in a transmitter axis of symmetry, and wherein the receiver device has a first receiver associated with the first transmitter and a second receiver associated with the second transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Matthias Beyer, Tobias Bayer, Fabian Kayser, Stephan Senn
  • Patent number: 9893570
    Abstract: A system for contactless energy and data transfer has mobile and base parts. The mobile part contains a mobile part transmitter/receiver device transmitting and receiving a data signal, a mobile part transceiver and a current supply having a mobile part resonant circuit receiving an energy signal. The base part contains a base part resonant circuit for emitting the energy signal from an energy signal generator to provide a supply voltage to the current supply, a base part transmitter/receiver device receiving and transmitting the data signal, a base part transceiver, and a pulse width modulator. An impulse width modulator provides the pulse width-modulated signal which cyclically operates the energy signal generator to emit the energy signal in pulse bundles. A parameter specification provides a control signal setting at least one parameter of the pulse width-modulated signal to a value where sufficient energy transfer occurs to provide the supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Beyer, Stephan Senn, Fabian Kayser
  • Publication number: 20160307849
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor substrate; a trench extending into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the trench is partly filled with an electrically conductive structure insulated from the semiconductor substrate; a polysilicon or amorphous silicon routing structure laterally bridging the trench; and an insulation layer between the trench and the routing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Stephan Senn
  • Publication number: 20160226317
    Abstract: A system for contactless energy and data transfer has mobile and base parts. The mobile part contains a mobile part transmitter/receiver device transmitting and receiving a data signal, a mobile part transceiver and a current supply having a mobile part resonant circuit receiving an energy signal. The base part contains a base part resonant circuit for emitting the energy signal from an energy signal generator to provide a supply voltage to the current supply, a base part transmitter/receiver device receiving and transmitting the data signal, a base part transceiver, and a pulse width modulator. An impulse width modulator provides the pulse width-modulated signal which cyclically operates the energy signal generator to emit the energy signal in pulse bundles. A parameter specification provides a control signal setting at least one parameter of the pulse width-modulated signal to a value where sufficient energy transfer occurs to provide the supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias BEYER, Stephan SENN, Fabian KAYSER