Patents by Inventor Thomas Andersson

Thomas Andersson 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: 9840951
    Abstract: An apparatus for the cleaning of crankcase gas from an internal combustion engine includes a housing and a separation chamber for the crankcase gas with a centrifugal rotor arranged for the cleaning of the crankcase gas in the separation chamber. The centrifugal rotor includes a drive shaft extending into a drive chamber of the apparatus. A turbine is connected to the drive shaft. A nozzle is arranged to receive pressurized liquid from the combustion engine and to direct the pressurized liquid in a jet from a nozzle opening against the turbine for rotation of the centrifugal rotor. An adapter element is configured such that the apparatus is mountable onto the combustion engine with a drive liquid passage in communication with the nozzle. The nozzle is integrally formed with the adapter element with a nozzle passage having a conical shape which converges in the flow direction towards the nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson Aginger, Lars-Göran Nylen
  • Publication number: 20170239329
    Abstract: The present invention provides Annexin A5 for use in a prophylactic or therapeutic method of preventing, reducing, delaying the onset of, or delaying the progression of, direct viral damage to the vascular system and/or immune system, in a subject, wherein the viral infection is caused by a virus selected from the group consisting of (a) a virus capable of causing hemorrhagic fever (VHF), and (b) a virus that presents phosphatidylserine (PS) and mediates cell infection and/or internalisation through PS binding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Johan FROSTEGÅRD, Anna FROSTEGÅRD, Marianne SVÄRD, Thomas ANDERSSON
  • Patent number: 9643344
    Abstract: It is presented a method for producing a cured polymer structure from a polymer compound which is UV curable and partly UV transparent. The method comprises injecting the polymer compound into a mold (2), which mold (2) has at least one wall (7) defining a mold space (6) for receiving the polymer compound in the mold space (6). The at least one wall (7) of the mold (2) is UV transparent and comprises a thermoplastic polymer. The polymer compound is then irradiated through the at least one wall (7), by means of at least one UV semiconductor light source, thereby curing the polymer compound to form the cured polymer structure. An assembly for producing a polymer structure and a mold (2) is also presented herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Kungsörs Plast AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson
  • Patent number: 9518621
    Abstract: A clutch arrangement includes a shift piston and a piston housing. The shift piston is arranged to be displaced in an axial direction relative to the piston housing between at least one gear position and a neutral position. The clutch arrangement also includes a spring element for forcing the shift piston towards the neutral position. The clutch arrangement includes a first return piston and a second return piston arranged on opposite sides of the spring element, and the spring element is accommodated within a recess of the shift piston and is pretensioned between the first return piston and the second return piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson
  • Publication number: 20160195016
    Abstract: An oil bearing to support a rotor of a turbine, especially of a gas turbine, wherein the rotor extends along a rotor axis coinciding with a bearing axis, has at least one oil bearing pad being lubricated by oil, including an oil sump suitable and located to collect the oil from the bearing pads by forces of gravity, including a drain system of the oil sump to conduct the oil away from the oil sump. The drain system includes at least three drain openings of the oil sump, wherein a first drain opening joining a first drain line is located between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock according to the bearing axis, wherein a second drain opening joining a second drain line is located between 5:30 and 6:30, wherein a third drain opening joining a third drain line is located between 7 o'clock and 8 o'clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Nigel Burns, Mikael Frejd
  • Publication number: 20160131159
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes at least one rotor assembly and at least one compressor casing. The compressor casing has at least one inner compressor casing chamber for arranging the rotor assembly and at least one outer compressor casing chamber for tempering the compressor casing. The inner and outer compressor casing chambers are separated from each other by a separating casing wall. The outer compressor casing chamber has at least one boundary casing wall. The boundary casing wall and the separating casing wall are oppositely spaced such that the outer compressor casing chamber is formed. The boundary casing wall has at least one inlet opening for leading in an inlet tempering gas flow with tempering gas into the outer compressor casing chamber such that a tangential material temperature variation of the compressor casing is reduced in comparison to a non tempered compressor casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Allan Persson
  • Patent number: 9322307
    Abstract: A device for cleaning a gas which is contaminated with particles, includes a centrifugal separator with a centrifugal rotor for separating the particles from the gas and a drive arrangement for rotating the centrifugal rotor about a rotational axis. The drive arrangement includes an impulse turbine drivingly connected to the centrifugal rotor and a nozzle for a pressurized fluid, the impulse turbine being arranged with buckets for receiving a jet of pressurized fluid from a nozzle directed against the buckets which are configured such that the fluid jet direction is reversed along a height of the bucket. The height of the bucket is 2-3 times the diameter of the nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson Aginger
  • Patent number: 9261210
    Abstract: It is presented a pipe connector (1) comprising a tubular part (2) having a first portion (2-1) with a first outer diameter and second portion (2-2) with a second outer diameter which is larger than the first outer diameter, which second portion has a circumferential groove (11), a removable stop ring (5), which, when arranged in the groove (11), protrudes radially from the tubular part (2), and a flange part (7) having a central through opening for receiving the tubular part (2), wherein the flange part (7) has a shoulder (13) for abutting against the stop ring (5) when the flange part (7) is arranged around the stop ring (5), wherein the first portion (2-1) has a plastic external peripheral surface, and the second portion (2-2) of the tubular part (2) has a metal external peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: OPW Sweden AB
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Lars Selling
  • Patent number: 9199381
    Abstract: A parallel-kinematical machine (20) that includes three setting devices (24.1, 24.2, 24.3) each of which can be lengthened and shortened individually, wherein each setting device (24.1, 24.2, 24.3) is connected to a first, a second and a third respective inner gimbal ring (23.1, 23.2, 23.3) of universal gimbal joints (UGJ) and that each inner gimbal ring (23.1, 23.2, 23.3) is mounted in bearings (25, 26, 27) for rotation in gimbal holders (21, 22) which are rotationally mounted in outer gimbal bearings (28, 29, 39) in an outer mounting (290) wherein the first inner gimbal ring (23.1) and the third inner gimbal ring (23.3) are mounted for rotation in a common outer gimbal holder (21) which is mounted for rotation about a common gimbal axis (32, 52) and in that the second inner gimbal ring (23.2) is mounted for rotation in a single gimbal holder (22) which is mounted in two opposite bearings for rotation about a second gimbal axis (31, 51) which is not aligned with said common gimbal axis (32, 52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: EXECHON EMIRATES AB
    Inventors: Karl-Erik Neumann, Thomas Andersson, Kristoffer Larsson, Fredrik Palmquist
  • Publication number: 20150316294
    Abstract: A coaxial borehole heat exchanger includes an innermost pipe and an intermediate pipe arranged coaxially outside the innermost pipe. The intermediate pipe has an inner surface provided with a plurality of axial grooves, and the inner diameter of the intermediate pipe corresponds to the outer diameter of the innermost pipe. The coaxial borehole heat exchanger further includes an outermost pipe arranged coaxially outside the intermediate pipe, wherein the outermost pipe has an inner surface provided with a plurality of axial grooves, and wherein the inner diameter of the outermost pipe corresponds to the outer diameter of the intermediate pipe, wherein the innermost pipe and the plurality of axial grooves of the outermost pipe define liquid flow channels, and wherein the axial grooves of the intermediate pipe define a thermal insulation layer between the axial grooves of the outermost pipe and the innermost pipe. A method of producing a coaxial borehole heat exchanger is also presented herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: TRIOPIPE GEOTHERM AB
    Inventor: Thomas ANDERSSON
  • Publication number: 20150299622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for laundering textiles, where the wash liquor is reused in one or more wash cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Merete Faergemand, Thomas Andersson
  • Publication number: 20150292571
    Abstract: A clutch arrangement includes a shift piston and a piston housing. The shift piston is arranged to be displaced in an axial direction relative to the piston housing between at least one gear position and a neutral position. The clutch arrangement also includes a spring element for forcing the shift piston towards the neutral position. The clutch arrangement includes a first return piston and a second return piston arranged on opposite sides of the spring element, and the spring element is accommodated within a recess of the shift piston and is pretensioned between the first return piston and the second return piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson
  • Patent number: 9068614
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided for supplying oil to a brake arranged for braking an output shaft of a planetary gear. The arrangement includes a rotatable impeller for supplying oil to the brake and the impeller is arranged to be rotated by an input shaft of the planetary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Mats Akerblom
  • Publication number: 20150068172
    Abstract: An apparatus for the cleaning of crankcase gas from an internal combustion engine includes a housing and a separation chamber for the crankcase gas with a centrifugal rotor arranged for the cleaning of the crankcase gas in the separation chamber. The centrifugal rotor includes a drive shaft extending into a drive chamber of the apparatus. A turbine is connected to the drive shaft. A nozzle is arranged to receive pressurized liquid from the combustion engine and to direct the pressurized liquid in a jet from a nozzle opening against the turbine for rotation of the centrifugal rotor. An adapter element is configured such that the apparatus is mountable onto the combustion engine with a drive liquid passage in communication with the nozzle. The nozzle is integrally formed with the adapter element with a nozzle passage having a conical shape which converges in the flow direction towards the nozzle opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson Aginger, Lars-Göran Nylen
  • Patent number: 8870527
    Abstract: A bearing vibration measuring device for a turbo machine in which an outer housing and an inner housing are held concentrically at a distance from one another by way of at least one strut is provided. A bearing housing is disposed which is accessible from the outer housing through a radially extending access hole in the strut, the device includes a rod with an inner longitudinal end and an outer longitudinal end facing away from the inner longitudinal end, the rod being housed in access hole and being fastened at the inner longitudinal end to the bearing housing and including at least one vibration sensor on the outer longitudinal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Nigel Burns
  • Patent number: 8844598
    Abstract: A fusion welding socket for coupling together double walled plastic conduits including an inner pipe, an outer pipe surrounding the inner pipe and an annular space arranged between the inner and outer pipes. The fusion welding socket includes a main body comprising a first end portion, a second end portion and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion has at least one inner diameter which is smaller than the inner diameters of the first and second end portions. Three heating coils are embedded in the first end portion, the second end portion and the intermediate portion, respectively, for fusing together the first and second end portions with a respective outer pipe of a first and second conduit and the intermediate portion with a respective inner pipe of the first and second conduit. A passageway includes an annular space is arranged to connect the annular spaces of the first and second conduit after fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kungsors Plast AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson
  • Patent number: 8819953
    Abstract: An apparatus for revealing the geometry of operative cylinders, in particular during the grinding operation of the same, includes a pair of movable clamps which can be moved away from and towards each other with respect to a fixed intermediate structure, the clamps having tilted surfaces in opposite directions to each other according to a swallowtail arrangement with respect to a cylinder being measured, positioned between them and between a surface of the fixed intermediate structure, the surfaces of the movable clamps and the surface of the fixed intermediate structure always being kept in contact with the cylinder, whether still or rotating, wherein the fixed structure also has, in its interior, parts of a group which interact with each other to correlate the movement of the clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Tenova S.p.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Paolo Gaboardi, Massimiliano Giucolsi, Fabrizio Porta
  • Publication number: 20140020842
    Abstract: A fusion welding socket for coupling together double walled plastic conduits including an inner pipe, an outer pipe surrounding the inner pipe and an annular space arranged between the inner and outer pipes. The fusion welding socket includes a main body comprising a first end portion, a second end portion and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion has at least one inner diameter which is smaller than the inner diameters of the first and second end portions. Three heating coils are embedded in the first end portion, the second end portion and the intermediate portion, respectively, for fusing together the first and second end portions with a respective outer pipe of a first and second conduit and the intermediate portion with a respective inner pipe of the first and second conduit. A passageway includes an annular space is arranged to connect the annular spaces of the first and second conduit after fusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson
  • Publication number: 20140018227
    Abstract: A device for cleaning a gas which is contaminated with particles, includes a centrifugal separator with a centrifugal rotor for separating the particles from the gas and a drive arrangement for rotating the centrifugal rotor about a rotational axis. The drive arrangement includes an impulse turbine drivingly connected to the centrifugal rotor and a nozzle for a pressurized fluid, the impulse turbine being arranged with buckets for receiving a jet of pressurized fluid from a nozzle directed against the buckets which are configured such that the fluid jet direction is reversed along a height of the bucket. The height of the bucket is 2-3 times the diameter of the nozzle opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson Aginger
  • Patent number: D804605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TA TEKNIK & EKONOMI KONSULT
    Inventor: Thomas Andersson