Patents by Inventor Werner Krebs

Werner Krebs 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: 20240128489
    Abstract: A battery is provided for supplying a transmitter and/or receiver of a radio tag with an electrical current of. The battery includes a first and a second cell, each comprising a respective negative electrode, a respective positive electrode, and a respective separator. The battery further includes a plurality of separate electrical conductors, including a first conductor that electrically contacts a first electrode of the first cell, a second conductor that electrically connects a second electrode of the first cell to a first electrode of the second cell to form a series connection therebetween, and a third conductor that electrically contacts a second electrode of the second cell. The battery additionally includes a first substrate and a second substrate between which the first cell, the second cell, and the plurality of separate electrical conductors are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sabrina LANG, Martin KREBS, Werner FINK
  • Patent number: 11590948
    Abstract: A fluid container for supplying a consuming device with a working fluid, including at least one connector piece having a shut-off valve arranged therein for preventing undesired escaping of the working fluid from the fluid container. In order to increase safety against undesired emptying of the fluid container, it is provided that the valve closure body, in the closed state of the shut-off valve, is accommodated in the fluid container completely inside a contour formed by an outer edge of the connector piece, and provision is made, for support against the valve closure body, of a support, which, upon insertion of the connector piece into the receiving seat, engages at least regionally into the connecting duct and in this way displaces the valve closure body in the connecting duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Horst Krämer, Manfred Rüffer, Stephan Schlicht, Jörg Loke, Zdenek Rozsypal, Jaroslav Masek
  • Patent number: 11067279
    Abstract: A method, including: operating an industrial gas turbine engine having a plurality of combustor cans arranged in an annular array, each can having burner stages and a pilot burner arrangement having a premix pilot burner and a diffusion pilot burner; operating in asymmetric combustion, wherein at least one can is a warm can where respective burners stages are off and remaining cans operate as hot cans where respective burner stages are on; and while maintaining a constant rate of fuel flow to the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can, changing fuel fractions within the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Clifford E. Johnson, Weidong Cai, Krishna C. Miduturi, Ben Karanja, Michael Huth, Werner Krebs, Mark Seifarth, Thomas Primke, Yohannes Ghermay
  • Publication number: 20210179048
    Abstract: A fluid container for supplying a consuming device with a working fluid, including at least one connector piece having a shut-off valve arranged therein for preventing undesired escaping of the working fluid from the fluid container. In order to increase safety against undesired emptying of the fluid container, it is provided that the valve closure body, in the closed state of the shut-off valve, is accommodated in the fluid container completely inside a contour formed by an outer edge of the connector piece, and provision is made, for support against the valve closure body, of a support, which, upon insertion of the connector piece into the receiving seat, engages at least regionally into the connecting duct and in this way displaces the valve closure body in the connecting duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Horst Krämer, Manfred Rüffer, Stephan Schlicht, Jörg Loke, Zdenek Rozsypal, Jaroslav Masek
  • Publication number: 20200309375
    Abstract: A method, including: operating an industrial gas turbine engine having a plurality of combustor cans arranged in an annular array, each can having burner stages and a pilot burner arrangement having a premix pilot burner and a diffusion pilot burner; operating in asymmetric combustion, wherein at least one can is a warm can where respective burners stages are off and remaining cans operate as hot cans where respective burner stages are on; and while maintaining a constant rate of fuel flow to the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can, changing fuel fractions within the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Clifford E. Johnson, Weidong Cai, Krishna C. Miduturi, Ben Karanja, Michael Huth, Werner Krebs, Mark Seifarth, Thomas Primke, Yohannes Ghermay
  • Publication number: 20200292372
    Abstract: A fluid container having a device which is arranged in an interior space within the fluid container and which serves for monitoring the fill level of a fluid, the device comprising a linearly movable position encoder having a magnet element, the position of which correlates with the fill level of the fluid in the fluid container, and comprising a signal unit, which generates at least one electrical signal in a manner dependent on the position of the magnet element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Stephan Schlicht, Horst Krämer, Manfred Rüffer, Werner Krebs, Swen Ottmann
  • Patent number: 10131334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake fluid container for a master cylinder in a hydraulic brake system. A safety valve is provided to ensure that the neck of the brake fluid container closes when the brake fluid container is detached from the master cylinder, for example in case of an accident. The safety valve is disposed in a cartridge which can be inserted from outside in a tightly sealing manner into the neck of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Stephan Krebs, Horst Krämer, Harald König, Stephan Schlicht
  • Patent number: 10088163
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Patent number: 10024540
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a gas turbine is provided. The combustion chamber comprises at least one first and one second jet carrier, of which at least one is provided for injecting an operating gas in the combustion chamber such that waste gas formed in the flame zone thereof is circulated to a mixing zone of the first jet carrier. In order to achieve a compact combustion chamber, the jet carriers are positioned in relation to each other such that waste gas from the flame zone of the first jet carrier flows directly to the mixing zone of the second jet carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs
  • Patent number: 9988958
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gas turbine combustor including a combustion structure (10) having a combustor liner (14) and a flow sleeve (12). The combustor liner (14) includes inner and outer surfaces (31, 30) and defines a combustion zone (15). The gas turbine combustor further includes a plurality of hollow airfoil-shaped structures (22) affixed to the combustor liner (14) and extending radially outwardly into an airflow space (18) defined radially between the flow sleeve (12) and the combustor liner (14). Each hollow structure (22) includes at least one metering tube (26) providing acoustic communication between the combustion zone (15) and the hollow structure (22). The metering tubes (26) are detachably coupled to the combustor liner (14) for permitting interchanging of the metering tube (26) with at least one additional metering tube having at least one different dimension to effect a change in an acoustic characteristic of the hollow structure (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Danning You, Anthony L. Schiavo, John M. Crane, Bernd Prade, Werner Krebs
  • Publication number: 20170314433
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gas turbine combustor including a combustion structure (10) having a combustor liner (14) and a flow sleeve (12). The combustor liner (14) includes inner and outer surfaces (31, 30) and defines a combustion zone (15). The gas turbine combustor further includes a plurality of hollow airfoil-shaped structures (22) affixed to the combustor liner (14) and extending radially outwardly into an airflow space (18) defined radially between the flow sleeve (12) and the combustor liner (14). Each hollow structure (22) includes at least one metering tube (26) providing acoustic communication between the combustion zone (15) and the hollow structure (22). The metering tubes (26) are detachably coupled to the combustor liner (14) for permitting interchanging of the metering tube (26) with at least one additional metering tube having at least one different dimension to effect a change in an acoustic characteristic of the hollow structure (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Danning YOU, Anthony L. SCHIAVO, John M. CRANE, Bernd PRADE, Werner KREBS
  • Patent number: 9797518
    Abstract: A pressure medium container for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system. A pressure medium container is provided including a container casing the interior of which can be filled with a pressure medium via a filler pipe and is closed off by a closure cap fixed to the filler pipe. A sealing element made from an elastomeric material is provided between the filler pipe and a bottom of the closure cap. The sealing element has a valve which rests on a support pedestal arranged on the closure cap is closed in a non-actuated initial state and reaches an opened actuated state under the control of differential pressure, whereby a pressure is equalized between an interior of the pressure medium container and an ambient atmosphere. Direction-dependently, the valve has different valve opening resistances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Swen Ottmann, Hans-Jürgen Neumann, Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, Christoph Schiel
  • Publication number: 20170254541
    Abstract: A burner having a pre-mixing passage delimited radially outwardly by a wall, a burner lance and a plurality of fuel injectors arranged in the pre-mixing passage, the injectors extending from the burner lance in the direction of the wall and having fuel nozzles. The fuel supply arrangement has at least one fluidic oscillator that has an interaction chamber, an inlet to the interaction chamber connected to a fuel channel of the fuel supply arrangement, a first outlet channel of the interaction chamber extending at least to a first fuel nozzle and a second outlet channel extending at least to a second fuel nozzle, the fluidic oscillator has one feedback line for each outlet channel, one end of the feedback line terminating into the respective outlet channel downstream of the at least one fuel nozzle, and the other end thereof terminating into an inlet region of the interaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Patrick Lapp, Sebastian Pfadler, Daniel Vogtmann
  • Publication number: 20170217414
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake fluid container for a master cylinder in a hydraulic brake system. A safety valve is provided to ensure that the neck of the brake fluid container closes when the brake fluid container is detached from the master cylinder, for example in case of an accident. The safety valve is disposed in a cartridge which can be inserted from outside in a tightly sealing manner into the neck of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Stephan Krebs, Horst Krämer, Harald König, Stephan Schlicht
  • Patent number: 9656645
    Abstract: A hydraulic fluid container for a hydraulic brake system, includes a hydraulic interface for connecting the hydraulic fluid container to another component. The hydraulic fluid container has a container housing, and the interface includes at least one connector arranged on the container housing, the connector received in a receiving seat of the other component. The connector has a channel which ensures a hydraulic connection between an interior of the container housing and the other component. A blocking device for blocking the hydraulic connection is provided, wherein the blocking device is opened when the connector is received in the receiving seat, the blocking device having a movable valve piston and a sealing element. The aim of the invention is to improve the blocking device and reduce the space requirement and assembly complexity. This is achieved in that the sealing element is designed to secure the position of the valve piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, David Sibr
  • Patent number: 9630387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the continuous inline production of coated polymeric substrates or laminates and also to an apparatus for implementing this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Kanzler, Thomas Hasskerl, Ghirmay Seyoum, Patrick Kliem, Werner Krebs, Dieter Foerster, Manfred Dannehl
  • Publication number: 20160052497
    Abstract: A hydraulic fluid container for a hydraulic brake system, includes a hydraulic interface for connecting the hydraulic fluid container to another component. The hydraulic fluid container has a container housing, and the interface includes at least one connector arranged on the container housing, the connector received in a receiving seat of the other component. The connector has a channel which ensures a hydraulic connection between an interior of the container housing and the other component. A blocking device for blocking the hydraulic connection is provided, wherein the blocking device is opened when the connector is received in the receiving seat, the blocking device having a movable valve piston and a sealing element. The aim of the invention is to improve the blocking device and reduce the space requirement and assembly complexity. This is achieved in that the sealing element is designed to secure the position of the valve piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, David Sibr
  • Publication number: 20160018109
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Publication number: 20150330523
    Abstract: A pressure medium container for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system. A pressure medium container is provided including a container casing the interior of which can be filled with a pressure medium via a filler pipe and is closed off by a closure cap fixed to the filler pipe. A sealing element made from an elastomeric material is provided between the filler pipe and a bottom of the closure cap. The sealing element has a valve which rests on a support pedestal arranged on the closure cap is closed in a non-actuated initial state and reaches an opened actuated state under the control of differential pressure, whereby a pressure is equalized between an interior of the pressure medium container and an ambient atmosphere. Direction-dependently, the valve has different valve opening resistances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Swen Ottmann, Hans-Jürgen Neumann, Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, Christoph Schiel
  • Patent number: 9156455
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly including a pressure medium reservoir and a manually actuable master cylinder, in particular for a hydraulic motorcycle brake system, wherein the pressure medium reservoir is connected permanently to the master cylinder by at least one pressure medium connection, wherein the master cylinder has at least one pressure chamber, which can be connected to wheel brakes. According to the invention, provision is made for a protection device to be arranged in the region of the pressure medium connection, the device preventing air from penetrating into the pressure chamber and allowing air to escape in the direction of the pressure medium reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Stefan A. Schmitt, Peter Tandler, Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, Hans-Jürgen Neumann, Christoph Schiel