Patents by Inventor Werner Herkert

Werner Herkert 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).

  • Patent number: 10032549
    Abstract: A superconducting coil device includes a superconducting flat conductor having one or more torsional turns. The flat conductor is wound around a winding support to define multiple turns of the conductor around the support. In at least one of the turns, the flat conductor is twisted through approximately 180 degrees about a longitudinal axis of the flat conductor, to thereby switch a contact side of the flat conductor from radially inwardly facing to radially outwardly facing, or vice versa. The contact side of the flat conductor at an inner turn faces a center of the winding and, and at an outer turn faces away from the center of the winding. The inwardly-facing contact side of the strip at an inner turn may be coupled to an inner contact element, and the outwardly-facing contact side at an outer turn may be conductively coupled to an outer contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Otto Batz, Werner Herkert, Anne Kuhnert, Peter Kummeth
  • Publication number: 20160118172
    Abstract: A superconducting coil device includes a superconducting flat conductor having one or more torsional turns. The flat conductor is wound around a winding support to define multiple turns of the conductor around the support. In at least one of the turns, the flat conductor is twisted through approximately 180 degrees about a longitudinal axis of the flat conductor, to thereby switch a contact side of the flat conductor from radially inwardly facing to radially outwardly facing, or vice versa. The contact side of the flat conductor at an inner turn faces a center of the winding and, and at an outer turn faces away from the center of the winding. The inwardly-facing contact side of the strip at an inner turn may be coupled to an inner contact element, and the outwardly-facing contact side at an outer turn may be conductively coupled to an outer contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto Batz, Werner Herkert, Anne Kuhnert, Peter Kummeth
  • Patent number: 8260386
    Abstract: The superconducting winding (2) is configured such that it has a band-shaped HTS conductor (4) of the Röbel-conductor type, made of band-shaped HTS individual conductors that are transposed among each other. An armoring band (5) is to be wound to the prefabricated HTS conductor (4), the band not being metallurgically connected to the HTS conductor (4) and being subject to a comparatively larger winding tension (WZ2). The armoring band (5) is wound at a winding tension (WZ2) that is at least 1.5 times, preferably at least 3 times as large as the winding tension (WZ1) of the HTS conductor (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Herkert, Volker Hussennether
  • Publication number: 20090206968
    Abstract: The superconducting winding (2) is configured such that it has a band-shaped HTS conductor (4) of the Röbel-conductor type, made of band-shaped HTS individual conductors that are transposed among each other. An armoring band (5) is to be wound to the prefabricated HTS conductor (4), the band not being metallurgically connected to the HTS conductor (4) and being subject to a comparatively larger winding tension (WZ2). The armoring band (5) is wound at a winding tension (WZ2) that is at least 1.5 times, preferably at least 3 times as large as the winding tension (WZ1) of the HTS conductor (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Hussennether, Werner Herkert
  • Patent number: 5100867
    Abstract: In a known process, oxide powders derived from the four-component systems yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen or lanthanum-strontium-copper-oxygen are mixed, pressed, sintered, ground and then heat-treated to produce a superconducting material which can be shaped to the desired cross-section. According to the invention, the powder is compacted by isostatic pressing and the blank so obtained is extruded at a temperature.gtoreq.500.degree. C. to form a metallic sheath with a deformation ratio of at least 50%. The extruded blank is then converted to wire or strip. The current-carrying capacity of the high-temperature superconductor is improved by the extrusion and the resulting alignment of the crystallites. The process can be implemented using known high-temperatures superconducting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Gunzelmann, Reiner Muller, Werner Herkert, Joachim Grosse, Gunter Tiefel