Patents by Inventor Volker Danowsky

Volker Danowsky 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).

  • Overvoltage protection system and overvoltage protection element for an overvoltage protection system
    Patent number: 6111740
    Abstract: An overvoltage protection system with an overvoltage protection element (1) and an ignition aid which triggers the overvoltage protection element (1), the overvoltage protection element (1) having two main electrodes (2, 3) and an air-breakdown spark gap (4) which acts between the main electrodes (2, 3). An overvoltage protection system having a relatively small and also largely constant operating voltage is implemented by there being an ignition circuit (5) with an ignition voltage output (6) as the ignition aid, the overvoltage protection element (1) having an ignition spark gap (7) which acts between the main electrodes (2, 3) with at least one ignition electrode (8) and the ignition electrode (8) being connected to the ignition voltage output (6) of the ignition circuit (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Volker Danowsky, Eberhard Lehmann, Klaus Scheibe, Joachim Schimanski, Joachim Wosgien