Patents by Inventor Volker Lang

Volker Lang 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).

  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-PORT POWER CONVERTER AND INVERTER ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20200381915
    Abstract: A multi-port power converter includes a housing that includes a plurality of ports structured to electrically interface to a plurality of loads, the plurality of loads having distinct electrical characteristics. The multi-port power converter also includes a plurality of solid state components configured to provide selected electrical power outputs and to accept selected electrical power inputs and a plurality of solid state switches configured to provide selected connectivity between the plurality of solid state components and the plurality of ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Wayne Mensch, Brandon William Fisher, Robert Stephen Douglass, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Suda, Asheesh Soni, Karsten Gerving, Guido Völlmar, Gerd Schmitz, Christoph Bausch, Ute Molitor, Lutz Friedrichsen, Kai Schroeder, Julia Otte, Madeline Philipsohn, Norbert Roesner, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Paolo D'amico, Jalpa Shah, Meng Wang, Damrongrit Piyabongkarn, Niles Stephen Ramseyer, Dennis Dukaric, Matt Haylock, Justin Keith Griffiths
  • Self-resetting current limiter
    Patent number: 10770255
    Abstract: A self-resetting current limiter includes: a first connecting contact for bringing the current limiter into contact with a first electrical conductor a second connecting contact for bringing the current limiter into contact with a second electrical conductor; a first movable contact member; and a second movable contact member, wherein the first and the second movable contact members are electrically interconnected in a first position of the first and the second movable contact member, such that a current path between the first and the second connecting contact is closed, and wherein the first and the second movable contact members are separated from one another in a second position of the first and the second movable contact member, such that the current path between the first and the second connecting contact is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Anke Juelich, Klaus Dauer, Volker Lang, Guenter Baujan, Hartwig Stammberger
  • POWER DISTRIBUTION AND CIRCUIT PROTECTION FOR A MOBILE APPLICATION HAVING A HIGH EFFICIENCY INVERTER
    Publication number: 20200274375
    Abstract: A power electronics assembly for a mobile application includes a first power electronics component selectively coupled to a high source on a first side and coupled to a high voltage battery on a second side, a second power electronics component selectively coupled to one of a low load or a low voltage battery on a first side and coupled to the high voltage battery on a second side; and a controller, including an operating mode circuit structured to determine a discharge operating mode for the mobile application, a power electronics configuration circuit structured to provide a switch state value for the first power electronics component and the second power electronics component in response to the discharge operating mode, and wherein the first power electronics component and the second power electronics component are responsive to the switch state value to coupled selected ones of the high source, low load, and low voltage battery to the high voltage battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Justin Keith Griffiths, Nilesh Surase, Ritika Shetty, Shalini Tripathy, Somdut Dey, Madhavi Gupta, Mayura Madane, Sadiya Qureshi, Toseed Khan, Amit Chavan, Kumar Prasad Telikepalli, Atul Solvande, Hao Wang, Jiong Chen, Yueyue Deng, Jason Carroll, Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur, Jacob William Green, Chakravarthi Kandru, Cheng Luo, Tianyang Jiang, Cheng Wan, Ye Zhu, John Trublowski, Robert Stephen Douglass, Rajen Modi, Nilay Mehta, Laura Natali Valencia Fritsch, Han Li, Dongxin Jin, Lewei Qian, Jun Li, Hongrae Kim, Daniel R. Ouwenga, Patrick Herranz, Miroslav Horejs, Rohit Baranwal, Zhe Zhang, Martin Wayne Mensch, Brandon William Fisher, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Kumar Suda, Asheesh Kumar Soni, Rene Guy Gallet, Michael Scott Sullivan, Karsten Gerving, Guido Völlmar, Gerd Schmitz, Christoph Bausch, Ute Molitor, Lutz Friedrichsen, Kai Schroeder, Julia Otte, Madeline Philipsohn, Norbert Roesner, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Paolo D'Amico, Jalpa Shah, Meng Wang, Damrongrit Piyabongkarn, Niles Stephen Ramseyer, Dennis Dukaric, Matt Haylock, Anvaya R. Hingangave, Devendra Patil
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION IN AN ELECTRIC MOBILE APPLICATION USING A COMBINED BREAKER AND RELAY
    Publication number: 20190296541
    Abstract: A mobile application includes a motive power circuit having a power storage device and an electrical load, where the power storage device and the electrical load are selectively electrically coupled through a power bus. The application includes a power distribution unit (PDU) electrically interposed between the power storage device and the electrical load, where the PDU includes a breaker/relay positioned on one of a high side and a low side of the power storage device. The breaker/relay includes a fixed contact and a moveable contact selectively electrically coupled to the fixed contact, where the moveable contact allows power flow through the power bus when electrically coupled to the fixed contact, and prevents power flow through the power bus when not electrically coupled to the fixed contact. The breaker/relay includes an armature coupled to the moveable contact, and capable to open or close the motive power circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Martin Wayne Mensch, Brandon William Fisher, Robert Stephen Douglass, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Suda, Asheesh Soni, Karsten Gerving, Guido Völlmar, Gerd Schmitz, Christoph Bausch, Ute Molitor, Lutz Friedrichsen, Kai Schroeder, Julia Otte, Madeline Philipsohn, Norbert Roesner, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Paolo D'amico, Jalpa Shah, Meng Wang, Damrongrit Piyabongkarn, Niles Stephen Ramseyer, Dennis Dukaric, Matt Haylock
  • Quenching plate arrangement for a switching device
    Patent number: 10354814
    Abstract: A quenching plate arrangement for a switching device has plural quenching plates for arc splitting and/or lengthening; a guiding plate, the quenching plates being arranged substantially next to one another to firm a stack, the guiding plate laterally delimiting the stack, the guiding plate protruding beyond the quenching plates in a main extension direction; and a DC-suitable switching device having a first contact and a second contact, at least the second contact being movable relative to the first contact, a first and second running rail arrangement for conducting an arc with respective first and second current directions, the two running rail arrangements having respective first and second running rails, the two first and two second running rails respectively running in opposite directions from the first and second contacts, and the first running rails being connected in an electrically conducting manner in closed loop form, with the quenching plate arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • High-speed circuit breaking array for breaking a current path in a switching device
    Patent number: 10217589
    Abstract: A high-speed circuit breaking array, for breaking a current path in a switching device in the event of a short circuit or overload, has a drive for moving a drive armature from a standby position to a trigger position, wherein the movement of the drive armature is designed to act on at least one movable contact of the switching device in such a way that the current path is broken using a holding device. A switching device having a contact system has at least one fixed contact and at least one movable contact, wherein in order to make and break a current path the movable contact can be reversibly moved in relation to the fixed contact between a make position and a break position using a drive for the purpose of functional switching, and has a high-speed circuit breaking array of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: Volker Lang
  • Switching device having a drive for functional switching and a high-speed circuit breaker for breaking a current path in the switching device
    Patent number: 10128058
    Abstract: A switching device, for the on-off switching of a current passing through a current path, has at least one fixed contact and at least one movable contact, wherein the movable contact can be moved relative to the fixed contact for making or breaking the current path, and a drive for the functional movement of a jumper between a contact-making position and a contact-breaking position. In the contact-making position with the fixed contact, the movable contact makes the current path. The switching device includes a high-speed circuit breaker for breaking the current path in the event of a short circuit or overload, wherein the armature of the high-speed circuit breaker is rigidly coupled to the movable contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: Volker Lang
  • METHOD FOR MASS HUMANIZATION OF RABBIT ANTIBODIES
    Publication number: 20180319869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a population of 20 or more nucleic acids, each encoding at least one protein comprising at least one immunoglobulin variable domain having a rabbit-derived CDR3 amino acid sequence embedded in essentially human framework sequences, as well as to a population of nucleic acids and a population of proteins relates thereto and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jacob E. Gunn GLANVILLE, Vera MOLKENTHIN, Remko Albert GRIEP, Ahmad TRAD, Peter MILOVNIK, Volker LANG
  • SELF-RESETTING CURRENT LIMITER
    Publication number: 20180174789
    Abstract: A self-resetting current limiter includes: a first connecting contact for bringing the current limiter into contact with a first electrical conductor a second connecting contact for bringing the current limiter into contact with a second electrical conductor; a first movable contact member; and a second movable contact member, wherein the first and the second movable contact members are electrically interconnected in a first position of the first and the second movable contact member, such that a current path between the first and the second connecting contact is closed, and wherein the first and the second movable contact members are separated from one another in a second position of the first and the second movable contact member, such that the current path between the first and the second connecting contact is interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Anke Juelich, Klaus Dauer, Volker Lang, Guenter Baujan, Hartwig Stammberger
  • QUENCHING PLATE ARRANGEMENT FOR A SWITCHING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180174775
    Abstract: A quenching plate arrangement for a switching device has plural quenching plates for arc splitting and/or lengthening; a guiding plate, the quenching plates being arranged substantially next to one another to firm a stack, the guiding plate laterally delimiting the stack, the guiding plate protruding beyond the quenching plates in a main extension direction; and a DC-suitable switching device having a first contact and a second contact, at least the second contact being movable relative to the first contact, a first and second running rail arrangement for conducting an arc with respective first and second current directions, the two running rail arrangements having respective first and second running rails, the two first and two second running rails respectively running in opposite directions from the first and second contacts, and the first running rails being connected in an electrically conducting manner in closed loop form, with the quenching plate arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • Implant and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 9849005
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an implant and an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, including a body having a coating on at least a portion of the surface thereof, and the degradation of which can be influenced from the outside in a targeted manner, the method having the following steps: a) providing an implant body, and b) applying a coating to the surface of the implant body, wherein the coating comprises unfilled cavities, preferably in the form of microbubbles (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Biotronik AG
    Inventors: Robert Schmiedl, Matthias Gratz, Max Schaldach, Volker Lang
  • SWITCHING DEVICE HAVING A DRIVE FOR FUNCTIONAL SWITCHING AND A HIGH-SPEED CIRCUIT BREAKER FOR BREAKING A CURRENT PATH IN THE SWITCHING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170345585
    Abstract: A switching device, for the on-off switching of a current passing through a current path, has at least one fixed contact and at least one movable contact, wherein the movable contact can be moved relative to the fixed contact for making or breaking the current path, and a drive for the functional movement of a jumper between a contact-making position and a contact-breaking position. In the contact-making position with the fixed contact, the movable contact makes the current path. The switching device includes a high-speed circuit breaker for breaking the current path in the event of a short circuit or overload, wherein the armature of the high-speed circuit breaker is rigidly coupled to the movable contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Volker Lang
  • HIGH-SPEED CIRCUIT BREAKING ARRAY FOR BREAKING A CURRENT PATH IN A SWITCHING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170345595
    Abstract: A high-speed circuit breaking array, for breaking a current path in a switching device in the event of a short circuit or overload, has a drive for moving a drive armature from a standby position to a trigger position, wherein the movement of the drive armature is designed to act on at least one movable contact of the switching device in such a way that the current path is broken using a holding device. A switching device having a contact system has at least one fixed contact and at least one movable contact, wherein in order to make and break a current path the movable contact can be reversibly moved in relation to the fixed contact between a make position and a break position using a drive for the purpose of functional switching, and has a high-speed circuit breaking array of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Volker Lang
  • Switching device which is suitable for DC operation
    Patent number: 9552943
    Abstract: A switching device suitable for DC operation includes at least a pair of contacts having a first and second contact, wherein at least one of the two contacts is mobile and the two contacts are in contact with one another in a switched-on state and are not in contact with one another in a switched-off state, having an arc driver arrangement which generates a magnetic field at least in the region of the pair of contacts, and comprising a first arc guiding arrangement by which an arc which is produced between the contacts is guided in a first current direction to a quenching device for quenching the arc, wherein a second arc guiding arrangement is provided, by means of which an arc which is produced between the contacts is guided in a second current direction, which is opposite the first current direction, to said quenching device for quenching the arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: EATON ELECTRICAL IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • Switching device
    Patent number: 9418804
    Abstract: A switching device having at least one contact pair includes a first contact and a second contact, where at least the second contact is movable relative to the first contact. There is an extinguishing device with at least one extinguishing chamber for extinguishing an arc produced between the contacts, a first guide rail arrangement for guiding the arc with one direction of current and a second guide rail arrangement for guiding the arc with the second direction of current in said extinguishing chamber. Both guide rail arrangements have a first guide rail and a second guide rail, where both first guide rails starting from the first contact run in the opposite direction, and both second guide rails starting from the second contact run in the opposite direction. The first guide rails are connected with each other in an electrically conductive arrangement in the form of a closed loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: EATON ELECTRICAL IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • Method for determining if an implantable medical device is magnetic resonance conditional
    Patent number: 9411027
    Abstract: A method for determining if an implantable medical device (IMD) in a patient is magnetic resonance conditional. Embodiments include a Home Monitoring Service Center (HMSC) that indicates if the IMD is MR conditional and what those conditions are. The IMD includes memory with flags, enabling a physician to set a flag to “MR conditional” if the IMD is MR conditional, if there are no abandoned leads in the patient, and if there are no other hardware in the patient that are not MR conditionally approved. In embodiments, the flags indicate safe for 1.5 T, 3.0 T, 1.5 & 3.0 T, up to 2 W/Kg, up to 4 W/Kg, with/without exclusion zone, and date flags are set. During home monitoring, the HMSC reads out a status of the MR conditional flags and the date last confirmed. If the patient needs an MRI scan, physician queries HMSC to determine MR conditional status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. von Arx, Volker Lang
  • Electrical switching device
    Patent number: 9330866
    Abstract: Electrical switching device having a housing, at least two switching chambers within the housing with contacts to interrupt at least one current path, an arc extinguishing device for each switching chamber, and at least one guide channel within the housing, which directs the arc gas exiting the arc extinguishing device towards at least one of the exhaust openings to allow the arc gases to exit the housing, whereby each switching chamber has a guide channel, and whereby the guide channels of the different switching chambers are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: EATON ELECTRICAL IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • Polarity independent switching device for carrying and disconnecting direct current
    Patent number: 9224558
    Abstract: A polarity-independent switching device for carrying and disconnecting high DC currents has a gastight, encapsulated, electrically insulating housing which can be filled with an insulating gas, and at least one pair of contacts disposed in the housing and made up of a fixed contact and a mobile contact. The two contacts are in contact with each other in a switched-on state of the switching device and are not in contact in a switch-off state of the switching device. An arc driver arrangement is included which generates a magnetic field at least in the region of the pair of contacts, as well as a first arc routing arrangement with which an arc produced between the contacts is guided in a first current direction to a quenching area arranged at a distance from the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: EATON ELECTRICAL IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
  • Maintenance system for maintaining an energy accumulator arrangement
    Patent number: 9220914
    Abstract: An energy accumulator arrangement for an electromedical implant includes a battery, a capacitor, and a charging device which is designed to supply an electric charge from the battery to the capacitor according to a charging program. A maintenance system for maintaining the energy accumulator arrangement includes a monitoring device contained in the implant which captures a physical parameter value of the energy accumulator arrangement; an evaluation unit for evaluating the captured physical parameter value and generating a resulting evaluation result signal; a transceiver contained in the implant which sends the captured physical parameter value to the evaluation unit, and receive the evaluation result signal generated by the evaluation unit; and additionally a control unit contained in the implant which controls the charging device and the monitoring device, and adapts the charging program as a function of the evaluation result signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & CO KG
    Inventors: Thomas Doerr, Volker Lang
  • Switch with quenching chamber
    Patent number: 9214305
    Abstract: A switch for multi-pole direct current service independent of polarity includes a plurality of switching chambers. Each chamber includes a double interrupter having two separate fixed contacts with a first contact area, a movable contact piece with two second contact areas, each for creating a connection between the contact areas in an ON state and for separating the contact areas in an OFF state, and at least two quenching devices for quenching arcs occurring when the OFF state is brought about. The switch also includes magnets for exerting a magnetic field in an area of the contact areas to exert a magnetic force on the arcs and drive the arcs, independent of their current direction, in the direction of one of the erasing devices. The contact pieces are disposed with the second contact areas essentially in a line perpendicular to a direction of motion of the arcs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: EATON ELECTRICAL IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Volker Lang, Lutz Friedrichsen