Patents by Inventor Thomas KÜPPERS

Thomas KÜPPERS 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).

  • Publication number: 20210040950
    Abstract: A scroll compressor having a housing composed of multiple sub-housings (12, 14, 16), comprising a motor sub-housing which is equipped with a drive motor with a stator fixed to the housing and a coaxial rotor fixed to a main shaft mounted on one side of the stator by a first main shaft bearing; a bearing sub-housing that adjoins the motor sub-housing on the side facing away from the first main shaft bearing and supports a second main shaft bearing and an orbital guide of a first scroll-type displacement device, which is eccentrically connected to the main shaft and orbits during a rotation of the main shaft and into which a second scroll-type displacement device fixed to the housing engages axially; and a housing cover which adjoins the bearing sub-housing and terminates the housing. The second scroll-type displacement device is directly connected to the bearing sub-housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel BLASKO, Thomas KÜPPERS, Michael LÜER
  • Patent number: 10598542
    Abstract: A method for operating a machine plant having a shaft train, including: a) determining the harmonic frequency of a torsional vibration mode of the shaft train and determining mechanical stresses arising during a vibration period of the torsional vibration mode; b) determining a correlation for each torsional vibration mode between a first stress amplitude, at a position of the shaft train that carries risk of stress damage, and a second stress amplitude, at a measurement location of the shaft train, using stresses determined for the respective torsional vibration mode; c) establishing a maximum first stress amplitude for the position; d) establishing a maximum second stress amplitude, corresponding to the maximum first stress amplitude, for the measurement location; e) measuring the stress of the shaft train while rotating; f) determining a stress amplitude at each harmonic frequency; g) emitting a signal when the stress amplitude reaches the maximum second stress amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo Balkowski, Ulrich Ehehalt, Oliver Hensel, Dirk Huckriede, Thomas Küpper, Bernd Lacombe, Ümit Mermertas, Uwe Pfeifer
  • Publication number: 20190316576
    Abstract: A compressor housing has a housing body that is embodied so as to be open at two opposing end faces of the housing body, and a base element which closes one of the two open end faces of the housing body in an assembled state of the compressor housing, the base element being frictionally secured in the assembled state with its outer peripheral surface against an inner peripheral surface of the housing body by means of an interference fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel BLASKO, Thomas KÜPPERS, Michael LÜER
  • Publication number: 20190242388
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor arrangement for compressing a gas. The compressor arrangement comprises a drive unit with a driveshaft that can be driven in rotation and at least one compressor which comprises a compressor casing, at least one gas inlet opening formed in the compressor casing and at least one gas outlet opening formed in the compressor casing and fluidically connected to the at least one gas inlet opening. The compressor also has at least one impeller, which is arranged in the compressor casing, is connected in fixed rotation with the driveshaft and can be driven in rotation, for delivering the gas from the at least one gas inlet opening to the at least one gas outlet opening, and has at least one bearing device for bearing the at least one impeller, wherein the at least one bearing device is arranged on the compressor casing and on the at least one impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Jürgen Krines, Evgenij Rjabchenko, Manuela Gans, Frank Mahaleth, Thomas Küpper, Christian Burger
  • Publication number: 20170254696
    Abstract: A method for operating a machine plant having a shaft train, including: a) determining the harmonic frequency of a torsional vibration mode of the shaft train and determining mechanical stresses arising during a vibration period of the torsional vibration mode; b) determining a correlation for each torsional vibration mode between a first stress amplitude, at a position of the shaft train that carries risk of stress damage, and a second stress amplitude, at a measurement location of the shaft train, using stresses determined for the respective torsional vibration mode; c) establishing a maximum first stress amplitude for the position; d) establishing a maximum second stress amplitude, corresponding to the maximum first stress amplitude, for the measurement location; e) measuring the stress of the shaft train while rotating; f) determining a stress amplitude at each harmonic frequency; g) emitting a signal when the stress amplitude reaches the maximum second stress amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo Balkowski, Ulrich Ehehalt, Oliver Hensel, Dirk Huckriede, Thomas Küpper, Bernd Lacombe, Ümit Mermertas, Uwe Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 8647710
    Abstract: A method for production of a substrate having a patterned optical coating on a curved surface is provided. The method includes applying a masking to a sub-area of the curved surface applying an optical coating using a vacuum deposition method, and removing the masking. A coated substrate, which can be produced in particular by the method described above, is also provided. The coated substrate includes a curved surface that is provided with at least one patterned optical coating. The at least one patterned optical coating is provided on at least one sub-area of the curved surface and is missing on at least one adjacent sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Küepper, Dieter Wittenberg, Christoph Moelle, Lutz Zogg
  • Patent number: 8435650
    Abstract: In order to provide a thermostable and highly effective barrier coating on a substrate, and to protect the substrate against the effect of harmful gas components even at high temperatures, the invention provides a coated substrate comprising a barrier coating having a multiplicity of consecutive individual layers respectively of a kind differing from or similar to a neighboring individual layer, the individual layers exhibiting a layer thickness of respectively at most 50 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Andree Mehrtens, Thomas Küpper, Margareta Hamel, Christoph Moelle
  • Patent number: 8268410
    Abstract: In the case of CVD methods, comprising PECVD and PICVD methods, the aim of the invention is to improve the impurity-free and, as far as possible, temporally and quantitatively precise feeding of process gases for the targeted layer systems. To this end, the invention provides a coating system and a method for coating articles with alternating layers, in the case of which process gases are introduced in an alternating fashion into a gas mixing point and mixed with a further gas and led to the reaction chamber, in which the deposition is carried out by producing a plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christoph Moelle, Lars Bewig, Thomas Kuepper
  • Patent number: 7965043
    Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge vessel of a quartz glass for discharge lamps with a diffusion barrier inner layer of silicon oxide, which as a single layer is applied and/or is generated on the inner surface as well as to a method for generating and/or applying such a diffusion barrier inner layer and to the use of such a discharge vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Auer Lighting GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Küpper, Margareta Hamel, Christoph Mölle, Dietmar Ehrlichmann, Rainer Kronfoth, Klaus Günther
  • Patent number: 7947337
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating substrates by means of plasma enhanced vapor deposition are provided, in which at least part of the surroundings of the substrate surface of a substrate to be coated is evacuated and a process gas with a starting substance for the coating is admitted, wherein the coating is deposited by a plasma being ignited by radiating in electromagnetic energy in the surroundings of the substrate surface filled with the process gas. The electromagnetic energy is radiated in by a multiplicity of pulse sequences, preferably microwave or radiofrequency pulses, with a multiplicity of pulses spaced apart temporally by first intermissions, wherein the electromagnetic energy radiated in is turned off in the intermissions, and wherein the intermissions between the pulse sequences are at least a factor of 3, preferably at least a factor of 5, longer than the first intermissions between the pulses within a pulse sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kuepper, Lars Bewig, Christoph Moelle, Lars Brandt, Thomas Niklos
  • Patent number: 7713638
    Abstract: The invention relates to layer systems having at least one layer comprising titanium aluminum oxide. The layer comprising titanium aluminum oxide may be either a functional layer—with or without interruption by an intermediate layer which is optically inactive—or a functional layer formed from a metal oxide which is interrupted by an intermediate layer comprising titanium aluminum oxide. The layer systems are structurally and thermally stable at operating temperatures of over 600° C. The layer systems may either comprise only one functional layer or may be a multilayer system, preferably an alternating layer system composed of functional layers with high and low refractive indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christoph Moelle, Lars Bewig, Frank Koppe, Thomas Kuepper, Stefan Geisler, Stefan Bauer, Juergen Dzick, Christian Henn
  • Patent number: 7704683
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing at least one optical filter layer segment on a substrate. The process includes applying a masking comprising a resist layer on a surface of the substrate, depositing an optical filter layer on the surface and the resist layer by vacuum deposition, and removing the resist layer with a portion of the optical filter layer thereon from the surface. The deposition of the optical filter layer, at least at times, takes place at a temperature of over 150° C., preferably in a range from over 150° C. up to and including 400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Dieter Wittenberg, Thomas Kuepper, Lutz Zogg, Andree Mehrtens
  • Patent number: 7641773
    Abstract: A method of producing substrates with functional layers which have high optical properties and/or a high surface smoothness, in particular a low turbidity and significantly lower roughness, is provided. The method includes a sputtering process for coating a substrate with at least one functional layer, the sputtering process being interrupted at least once by the application of an intermediate layer with a thickness of less than 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christoph Moelle, Lars Bewig, Frank Koppe, Thomas Kuepper, Stefan Geisler, Stefan Bauer
  • Publication number: 20090140628
    Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge vessel of a quartz glass for discharge lamps with a diffusion barrier inner layer of silicon oxide, which as a single layer is applied and/or is generated on the inner surface as well as to a method for generating and/or applying such a diffusion barrier inner layer and to the use of such a discharge vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kuepper, Margareta Hamel, Christoph Moelle, Dietmar Ehrlichmann, Rainer Kronfoth, Klaus Guenther
  • Publication number: 20090142524
    Abstract: In order to provide a thermostable and highly effective barrier coating on a substrate, and to protect the substrate against the effect of harmful gas components even at high temperatures, the invention provides a coated substrate comprising a barrier coating having a multiplicity of consecutive individual layers respectively of a kind differing from or similar to a neighboring individual layer, the individual layers exhibiting a layer thickness of respectively at most 50 nanometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andree Mehrtens, Thomas Kuepper, Margareta Hamel, Christoph Moelle
  • Patent number: 7533628
    Abstract: A reactor for simultaneous coating of eyeglasses on both sides thereof. Two partial devices are provided, each with a microwave energy waveguide, a gas supply and an apparatus for evacuating the coating chamber where the first and second devices can be moved relative to each other to open and close the coating chamber. The coating chamber itself is removable from the device and includes two gas supply connections and two connections for evacuating the coating chamber as well as microwave windows for coupling in microwave energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Lars Bewig, Thomas Küpper
  • Patent number: 7434537
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating objects having a single microwave source, two or more coating chambers, and an impedance structure or a waveguide structure. The coating chambers are connected to the single microwave source. The impedance structure or waveguide structure divides the microwave energy in order to generate plasmas in the coating chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Stephan Behle, Lars Bewig, Thomas Küpper, Wolfram Maring, Christoph Mölle, Marten Walther
  • Patent number: 7413767
    Abstract: A method for producing optical functional coatings comprising niobium, tantalum, titanium or aluminum by supplying a precursor gas of low vapor pressure in a CVD coating system. A precursor selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Ti, and Al compounds having a vapor pressure is maintained within a first supply container at a first temperature T1 and a first pressure p1. Precursor vapor of the precursor is supplied from the first supply container to an intermediate storage device through a first gas line which fluidly communicates the first supply container and the intermediate storage device. A carrier gas or reaction gas is supplied to the first gas line such that a mixture of the precursor with the carrier gas or the reaction gas is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Hartmut Bauch, Lars Bewig, Lutz Klippe, Thomas Küpper
  • Patent number: 7381469
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coated object in which coatings remain of a constant and unchanged high quality despite operating temperatures of more than 350° C. This is achieved with interlayers which deliberately interrupt and thereby stabilize the morphology of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christoph Moelle, Lars Bewig, Frank Koppe, Thomas Küpper, Stefan Geisler, Stefan Bauer, Jürgen Dzick
  • Publication number: 20080124488
    Abstract: The invention is based on the object of reducing the heating of substrates during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. For this purpose, a method and an apparatus for coating substrates by means of plasma enhanced vapor deposition are provided, in which at least part of the surroundings of the substrate surface of a substrate to be coated is evacuated and a process gas with a starting substance for the coating is admitted, wherein the coating is deposited by a plasma being ignited by radiating in electromagnetic energy in the surroundings of the substrate surface filled with the process gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kuepper, Lars Bewig, Christoph Moelle, Lars Brandt, Thomas Niklos