Patents by Inventor Sven Hornfeldt

Sven Hornfeldt 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: 7046492
    Abstract: A power transformer/inductor includes at least one winding. The winding is made of a high voltage cable that includes an electric conductor, and around the electric conductor is arranged a first semiconducting layer, around the first semiconducting layer is an insulating layer, and around the insulating layer is a second semiconducting layer. The second semiconducting layer is directly earthed at both ends of the winding and furthermore at least at two points per turn of every winding such that one or more points are indirectly earthed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Udo Fromm, Sven Hornfeldt, Par Holmberg, Gunnar Kylander, Li Ming, Mats Leijon
  • Patent number: 6970063
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power transformer/inductor comprising at least one winding. The windings are designed by means of a high-voltage cable, comprising an electric conductor, and around the conductor there is arranged a first semiconducting layer, around the first semiconducting layer there is arranged an insulating layer and around the insulating layer there is arranged a second semiconducting layer. The second semiconducting layer is earthed at or in the vicinity of both ends (261, 262; 281, 282) of each winding and furthermore one point between both ends (261, 262; 281, 282) is directly earthed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Udo Fromm, Sven Hornfeldt, Par Holmberg, Gunnar Kylander, Li Ming, Mats Leijon
  • Publication number: 20050099258
    Abstract: A power transformer/inductor includes at least one winding. The winding is made of a high voltage cable that includes an electric conductor, and around the electric conductor is arranged a first semiconducting layer, around the first semiconducting layer is an insulating layer, and around the insulating layer is a second semiconducting layer. The second semiconducting layer is directly earthed at both ends of the winding and furthermore at least at two points per turn of every winding such that one or more points are indirectly earthed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: ASEA BROWN BOVERI AB
    Inventors: Udo Fromm, Sven Hornfeldt, Par Holmberg, Gunnar Kylander, Li Ming, Mats Leijon
  • Patent number: 6175294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transformer with superconducting primary and secondary windings (1, 2), concentrically wound around a core limb (3), between which windings there is a concentric tubular space, the main channel, with insulation material (10) for insulation between the two windings. Cylindrical screens (11, 12) of a magnetic material with a high relative permeability are concentrically introduced into the insulation material at the two ends of the main channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB
    Inventor: Sven Hörnfeldt
  • Patent number: 5850054
    Abstract: A connection arrangement between superconducting strands of a winding located in a cryotank with strands located external thereof is disclosed. Current leads inside the cryotank are mutually insulated by spacers and current leads outside the cryotank are grouped and interconnected into corresponding single current leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB
    Inventors: Dietrich Bonmann, Sven Hornfeldt
  • Patent number: 5720173
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling of current leads (6, 7) in the bushings of a cryotank (1), wherein the current leads in the gas-filled part of the cryotank are designed as plate-formed sub-leads (12) surrounded by a casing (8) of insulating material with an inner open part of rectangular shape. Between all the sub-leads inside the cryotank there are arranged a number of rows of inclined transverse ribs (13a, 13b, . . . 13n, 14a, 14b . . . 14n) of insulating material. On the inner walls of the casing, facing the plate edges of the sub-leads, and at the ends of the transverse ribs, shelves (15, 16) are fixed whereby spiral cooling coils are formed around the current leads from the lower edge of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB
    Inventors: Dietrich Bonmann, Sven Hornfeldt
  • Patent number: 5689223
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to produce superconducting coils with small overall height, they are made from a plurality of coil subunits, optionally with a plurality of layers for each coil subunit, in particular in the case of the low-voltage coil of a transformer. The coil subunits contain as electrical conductor a high-temperature superconductor, around which a fibrous glass is spun and which is embedded in a glass-fiber reinforced epoxy resin or in a plastic. The coil subunits are placed around a transformer core in a cryostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Anton Demarmels, Sven Hornfeldt, Friedrich Konig, Jakob Rhyner, Jose Maria Rivera
  • Patent number: 5568114
    Abstract: A winding support body (6, 10) for transformers/reactors with a winding of a tape-formed superconductor (8), wherein the support body consists of a substantially straight, circular-cylindrical tubular body which, on the side where the winding is to be placed and out towards the two ends, is provided with a helical slot with a plane surface with a width equal to the width of the tape. In this way, each turn of the slot around the support body forms a surface which practically constitutes the envelope surface of a straight frustum of a cone. The angle (v) between a generatrix (9) of the envelope surface and the axial center line of the support body increases for each turn out towards the ends of the support body in such a way that the envelope surface at all points coincides with the direction of the magnetic field (FIG. 4 ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: ASEA Brown Boveri AB
    Inventors: Thomas Fogelberg, Uno Gafvert, Sven Hornfeldt