Patents by Inventor Walter Kufner

Walter Kufner 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: 20220194231
    Abstract: In an electric vehicle electric power generated during a regenerative braking operation performed by one or more first electric machines may partially or entirely be consumed by one or more second electric machines of the electric vehicle. In some illustrative embodiments the one or more second electric machines may be operated in a non-torque mode of operation, thereby avoiding any mechanical interference with the power consuming one or more electric machines that are operated in the regenerative mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Walter KUFNER
  • Patent number: 10886754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery management system and an electric energy storage equipped with the battery management system, which enable the adjustment of one or more variable connection voltages. In particular the energy storage of the present invention may provide highly dynamic varying output voltages, for instance in the form of an AC voltage. In this way energy storages may, for instance, be directly operated in connection with an electric power grid or may establish electric AC power grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: IDETEC GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kufner
  • Publication number: 20190109469
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery management system and an electric energy storage equipped with the battery management system, which enable the adjustment of one or more variable connection voltages. In particular the energy storage of the present invention may provide highly dynamic varying output voltages, for instance in the form of an AC voltage. In this way energy storages may, for instance, be directly operated in connection with an electric power grid or may establish electric AC power grids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventor: Walter KUFNER
  • Patent number: 10084325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery management system and an electric energy storage equipped with the battery management system, which enable the adjustment of one or more variable connection voltages. In particular the energy storage of the present invention may provide highly dynamic varying output voltages, for instance in the form of an AC voltage. In this way energy storages may, for instance, be directly operated in connection with an electric power grid or may establish electric AC power grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: IDETEC GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kufner
  • Publication number: 20170047747
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery management system and an electric energy storage equipped with the battery management system, which enable the adjustment of one or more variable connection voltages. In particular the energy storage of the present invention may provide highly dynamic varying output voltages, for instance in the form of an AC voltage. In this way energy storages may, for instance, be directly operated in connection with an electric power grid or may establish electric AC power grids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventor: Walter KUFNER
  • Patent number: 5362159
    Abstract: A sealed four-row tapered roller bearing, useable for working rolls of roll stands, is provided with axial multipart inner and outer races and tapered rollers arranged between the bearing races, sealing of the seat of the outer race parts in the housing being preferably effected by O-rings which are arranged in annular grooves of the outer race parts. The bearing chamber is sealed axially outward by sealing rings which are fastened in annular grooves in the bore of the outer race parts and rest with sealing lips on surfaces of the inner race, the separating line between the front faces of the inner races being sealed off by a sealing ring which rests on the inner races.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Kufner, deceased, Lothar Meidl
  • Patent number: 4714359
    Abstract: A rolling bearing arrangement for supporting a journal of a work roll has two cylindrical rolling bearings for carrying radial loads and an inclined rolling bearing for carrying axial loads arranged between the cylindrical rolling bearings. The rows of rolling bodies of the inclined rolling bearing have radially inwardly directed lines of load transmission and are displaceable on at least one of the respective raceways in both directions transverse to the rolling direction. The end surfaces of the inner ring of the inclined rolling bearing are slidably displaceable in a substantially radial direction on the opposing end surfaces of the inner rings of the cylindrical rolling bearings. The radial play between the inner ring of the inclined rolling bearing and the journal is greater than the radial play between the inner rings of the cylindrical rolling bearings and the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Winter, Walter Kufner
  • Patent number: 4621932
    Abstract: Four-row cylindrical roller bearing for the working or back-up rolls of high-speed roll stands, in which, so that the rollers of all rows can roll evenly at high speeds without slippage, and also so that the bearing can be easily disassembled, the inner ring is provided with flanges on both sides of each row of rollers and, in the installed state, at least the two rows of rollers facing the roll body are each guided in a separate cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: SKF GmbH, Schweinfurt
    Inventors: Walter Kufner, Heinrich Winter
  • Patent number: 3988047
    Abstract: In a bearing assembly for a roll the journal of the roll is supported radially by roller bearings mounted in a stationary support structure. The thrust bearing for the assembly includes a pair of outer rings mounted co-axially at the end of the journal, and a central ring therebetween and supported by the support structure. The rings define a pair of races for tapered roller bearings. The surfaces of the central disk extend normal to the axis of the journal. A support for the central ring includes a bolt co-axial with the journal and extending into a recess at the end of the journal. Apertures are provided in the structure to permit the flow of cooling air at the end of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: SKF Industrial Trading and Development Company, B.V.
    Inventor: Walter Kufner