Patents by Inventor Werner Hartmann

Werner Hartmann 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: 20110167959
    Abstract: A method for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is described. According to the method, a carrier gas containing dust particles is guided through a heating zone of an electrode less plasma torch, the gas being converted to a plasma by inductive heating prior to being blown into a region of the installation which receives the molten bath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Thomas Matschullat
  • Publication number: 20110168618
    Abstract: A device for separating ferromagnetic particles from a suspension has a tubular reactor and a plurality of magnets which are arranged outside the reactor, the magnets (9) being movable along at least a part of the length of the reactor (2) up to the vicinity of a particle extractor (5) by means of a rotary conveyor (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Vladimir Danov, Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20110162956
    Abstract: In a method for separating rich ore particles from agglomerates which contain said rich ore particles and magnetizable particles attached thereto, especially Fe3O4, in which agglomerates of the rich ore particle and the magnetizable particle are bonded by organic molecular chains, the agglomerates are contained in a suspension containing a carrier fluid and are broken up by an input of mechanical energy so that an agent contained in the suspension and decomposing the exposed, hydrophobic molecular chains can act upon the molecular chains. The Fe-containing oxide components are separated from the suspension in a magnetic separation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Vladimir Danov, Werner Hartmann
  • Patent number: 7939971
    Abstract: High-voltage pulses are generated and injected in a parallel-capacitative manner into the first stage of a multistage Marx generator at suitable intervals. The high-voltage pulses result in a longitudinal overvoltage triggering of the first spark gap of the Marx generator. As a result, industrial applications are able to generate, in a fault-free manner, high-voltage pulses having a predetermined repetition rate over a prolonged period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20110000826
    Abstract: In a device and a method for extracting non-magnetic ores from a pulp comprising non-magnetic ore particles and having a solid fraction of at least 30 mass percent, the pulp flows continuously through a reactor in the direction of flow and magnetic or magnetizable magnet particles that form ore magnetic particle agglomerations with the non-magnetic ore particles are added to said pulp. The ore magnetic particle agglomerations are moved by a magnetic field into an accumulation range of the reactor, and are then discharged out of reactor range and separated into ore and magnetic particles. In a device and a method, the separated magnetic particles are treated, in particular hydrophobized, such that during a new interaction with non-magnetic ore particles, new ore magnetic particle agglomerations are formed. Accordingly, a high yield of ores can be obtained and the mine can be operated in an economical and environmentally friendly manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Diez, Imme Domke, Werner Hartmann, Hartmut Hibst, Wolfgang Krieglstein, Alexej Michailovski, Norbert Mronga, Michael Riebensahm, Wolfgang Schmidt, Thomas Servay
  • Patent number: 7808196
    Abstract: In the case of an electromotive auxiliary drive for vehicles, particularly for windscreen wiper drives or adjustment drives for vehicle elements with a secondary transmission for the electromotor, with at least one magnetic sensor, which acts in conjunction with a signal transmitter or permanent magnet arrangement formed of at least one permanent magnet and rotating with a drive shaft or a gear wheel in order to record the angle position and/or modification of the angle position of the rotation of the shaft or the gear wheel, the permanent magnet arrangement is arranged on the front side on a shaft end bedded in a bearing arrangement or on a drive element bedded in the bearing arrangement and arranged on the shaft. The at least one magnetic sensor is arranged opposite the permanent magnet arrangement in the direction of the shaft axis within the bearing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Miguel A. Sebastian Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20100196234
    Abstract: A method in which CO2 is placed on an adsorber and an adsorption reaction with ammonia, that is used as a chemical absorption agent, occurs, is provided. The CO2 extracted from the waste gas is joined to the ammonia on the catalytic surface using a heterogeneous, catalytic reaction. At least two reactors are provided in the associated device. The reactors, which operate alternately, are switched between the adsorption of CO2 and the regeneration of the absorption agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Hammer, Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20100170876
    Abstract: A circuit breaker has at least one housing having at least one opening, and at least one pair of contacts located in the housing, the contacts of the pair of contacts being mobile in relation to each other for opening and closing an electric circuit. An open-pore metal foam (20) is interposed between at least one of the pairs of contacts and at least one housing opening (11), the metal foam being electrically insulated from the current-carrying elements of the circuit breaker (1). An open-pore metal foam (20), produced of a zinc base alloy or aluminum base alloy, can be used as a cooling structure for the dissipation of heat from switching gases that are produced by an electric switching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Bach, Werner Hartmann, Detlev Schmidt, Günter Seidler, Sezai Türkmen, Artur Wajnberg
  • Publication number: 20100118453
    Abstract: A device (1) has a series circuit of submodules with a power semiconductor circuit and an energy accumulator connected in parallel with the power semiconductor circuit. Each submodule is associated with a short circuit device for shorting the submodule. The short circuit device is a vacuum switching tube. The device is cost-effective and at the same time enables safe bridging of a defective submodule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Dorn, Werner Hartmann
  • Patent number: 7692911
    Abstract: In devices for producing strong current high power impulses, the electronic components, which include passive components including capacitors and/or switch elements, including semi-conductor switches, diodes or similar elements, need to be protected against overcurrents in the event of an error function. Generally, serial resistance and serial inductance are used. The serial resistance and the serial inductance are combined together in such a manner that a coil having necessary resistance and inductance values is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Michael Römheld
  • Publication number: 20090184585
    Abstract: High-voltage pulses are generated and injected in a parallel-capacitative manner into the first stage of a multistage Marx generator at suitable intervals. The high-voltage pulses result in a longitudinal overvoltage triggering of the first spark gap of the Marx generator. As a result, industrial applications are able to generate, in a fault-free manner, high-voltage pulses having a predetermined repetition rate over a prolonged period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventor: Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20090052821
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for an output shaft of a gear of an electromotive windscreen wiper drive has the output shaft and an eccentric grommet configured to align the output shaft with at least one further gear element by rotation around an grommet axis. The eccentric grommet is anchored by being pressed into a receiving opening of a bearing housing for a press-fit. The eccentric grommet a has no flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Valeo Wischersysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20080317395
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a shaft of an electric auxiliary motor for vehicles, wherein the shaft with a shaft end reaches through one of a housing opening and a through opening into a chamber formed in a gearbox housing, wherein the shaft is supported in a bearing bush which lies against a surface on the abutment side surrounding the through opening and wherein the bearing bush is fixed in the chamber by a filling body made of a hardened filling mass scaling the chamber from the outside inwards, wherein the chamber is equipped with at least one of a fixing surface and a sealing surface surrounding the axis of the shaft, against which the filling body is pressed as a result of shrinkage of the hardened filling mass upon hardening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Martin Wellhausser, Christof Heuberger, Siegfried Stefani
  • Publication number: 20080246374
    Abstract: In the case of an electromotive auxiliary drive for vehicles, particularly for windscreen wiper drives or adjustment drives for vehicle elements with a secondary transmission for the electromotor, with at least one magnetic sensor, which acts in conjunction with a signal transmitter or permanent magnet arrangement formed of at least one permanent magnet and rotating with a drive shaft or a gear wheel in order to record the angle position and/or modification of the angle position of the rotation of the shaft or the gear wheel, the permanent magnet arrangement is arranged on the front side on a shaft end bedded in a bearing arrangement or on a drive element bedded in the bearing arrangement and arranged on the shaft. The at least one magnetic sensor is arranged opposite the permanent magnet arrangement in the direction of the shaft axis within the bearing arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Miguel A. Sebastian Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20080196854
    Abstract: To increase the processing speed of a sieve mechanism (9) for extracting carrier liquid from a fiber suspension (39) during the production of paper (27), paperboard, or cardboard, the sieve mechanism (9) is provided with a first electrode (43) which is disposed above, in, or below a sieve region and is connected to a high-voltage surge generator (46). A plasma can be generated in the fiber suspension (39) or in the immediate vicinity thereof, whereby the tensile strength of the paper (27) is also increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Helmut Figalist, Werner Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20080130184
    Abstract: In devices for producing strong current high power impulses, the electronic components, for example, passive components such as capacitors and/or switch elements, such as semi-conductor switches, diodes or similar elements, need to be protected against overcurrents in the event of an error function. Generally, serial resistance and serial inductance are used. The serial resistance and the serial inductance are preferably combined together in such a manner that a coil comprising necessary resistance and inductance values is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Michael Romheld
  • Publication number: 20080023445
    Abstract: A switching contact is disclosed for vacuum interrupters, having a radial or axial magnetic field. In at least one embodiment, the switching contact includes a switching contact carrier and a contact plate. The switching contact carrier contains a coil for generating a magnetic field, said coil being formed by slitting the wall of a pot-like contact carrier. The outer diameter of the slitted wall of the pot-like carrier is smaller than the diameter of the contact plate located thereon. The switching contact is also provided with an annular supporting body which is inserted between the contact plate and the base of the contact carrier and surrounds the contact carrier at least in the slitted region. A vacuum gap is provided between the outer supporting body and the slitted wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Wilfried Haas, Werner Hartmann, Michael Romheld
  • Publication number: 20070271968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for applying liquid onto a running web (B), particularly dyeing liquid onto a textile web with a pole. The inventive device is embodied so as to be selectively operable in an injection mode in which the liquid is delivered to the volume of the web (B) at an increased pressure or in a pouring mode in which the liquid is applied to at least one surface of the web (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: EDUARD KUSTERS MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Jochen Brands, Klaus Flocken
  • Publication number: 20070261383
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to the use of electromagnetic fields for influencing combustion processes. According to an embodiment of the invention, the flame is controlled by the coupling of repeated, inductive, pulsed energy. The associated device uses at least one induction coil that at least partially surrounds the flame and the device is equipped with a controllable switch or a high frequency generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Jorg Kieser
  • Publication number: 20070102269
    Abstract: In a drive for a switching device, stored energy is converted into a rapid switching movement and a switching body is hence activated. An energy conversion occurs as a result of an underwater electrical discharge, by the application of stored electrical energy in order to evaporate a drive medium, by which an exclusive pressure is generated for operating the switching body. An advantage is presented of the possibility of the complete recondensation/recombination of the working medium and a greatly increased lifespan compared to a conventional explosive drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventor: Werner Hartmann