Patents by Inventor Werner Kuhnel

Werner Kuhnel 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: 8155271
    Abstract: The present embodiments related to a device having a device element to which a high voltage can be applied. The device is provided with at least one additional conducting element which is disposed, embodied and connected in such a way that the element is assigned a defined potential value and a change to the electric field generated by the high voltage in the sense of a more favorable field distribution is effected by means of position, shape and potential value. According to the invention, maximum loads on switching elements are avoided and undesirable phenomena such as voltage breakdowns or flow voltages are counteracted as a result of the more favorable field distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Richard Eichhorn, Werner Kühnel, Sabine Missel
  • Patent number: 7899150
    Abstract: A computer tomography device is provided. The computer tomography device includes a rotating part and a stationary part. The rotating part has an X-ray tube for radiographing an object to be examined with X-rays and a detector for detecting the X-rays transmitted through the object. A stationary part has a data processing device for evaluating the detected measuring results, and a transmitter for supplying the X-ray tube and/or the detector and other rotating consumers with supply voltage by contactless transmission of electric power between the stationary and the rotating part. The transmitter is designed for contactless data transmission between the stationary part and the rotating part in addition to the contactless transmission of electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kühnel
  • Publication number: 20090304144
    Abstract: A computer tomography device is provided. The computer tomography device includes a rotating part and a stationary part. The rotating part has an X-ray tube for radiographing an object to be examined with X-rays and a detector for detecting the X-rays transmitted through the object. A stationary part has a data processing device for evaluating the detected measuring results, and a transmitter for supplying the X-ray tube and/or the detector and other rotating consumers with supply voltage by contactless transmission of electric power between the stationary and the rotating part. The transmitter is designed for contactless data transmission between the stationary part and the rotating part in addition to the contactless transmission of electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kühnel
  • Publication number: 20090039710
    Abstract: The present embodiments related to a device having a device element to which a high voltage can be applied. The device is provided with at least one additional conducting element which is disposed, embodied and connected in such a way that the element is assigned a defined potential value and a change to the electric field generated by the high voltage in the sense of a more favorable field distribution is effected by means of position, shape and potential value. According to the invention, maximum loads on switching elements are avoided and undesirable phenomena such as voltage breakdowns or flow voltages are counteracted as a result of the more favorable field distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Richard Eichhorn, Werner Kuhnel, Sabine Missel
  • Patent number: 7425096
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gantry for an x-ray device. According to the invention at least one screening device used to reduce interactions with electromagnetic disturbance fields is provided for the at least one transmitter for the non-contact power or signal transmission between a stationary part and a rotatable part of the gantry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kühnel
  • Publication number: 20080049904
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gantry for an x-ray device. According to the invention at least one screening device used to reduce interactions with electromagnetic disturbance fields is provided for the at least one transmitter for the non-contact power or signal transmission between a stationary part and a rotatable part of the gantry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kuhnel
  • Patent number: 7110499
    Abstract: The disclosed, embodiments relate to a high-voltage supply (11, 13, 23) for an X-ray device. The X-ray device comprises an X-ray tube (15) and a high voltage generator(1), for generation of the high voltage necessary for operating the X-ray tube (15). The high voltage supply (11, 13, 23) comprises electrically-conducting lines (11, 13), for the connection of the high voltage generator to the X-ray tube (15). Each of the lines (11, 13) comprises one end which may be connected to the high voltage generator (1) and a further end which may be connected to the X-ray tube (15). At least one end of at least one of the lines (11, 13) may be connected to an electrical terminal resistor (39) which may be arranged between the line (11, 13) and the high voltage generator (1), or between the line (11, 13) and the X-ray tube (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kühnel
  • Publication number: 20060023841
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a high-voltage supply (11, 13, 23) for an X-ray device. The X-ray device comprises an X-ray tube (15) and an X-ray generator (1), for generation of the high voltage necessary for operating the X-ray tube (15). The high voltage supply (11, 13, 23) comprises electrically-conducting lines (11, 13), for the connection of the X-ray generator to the X-ray tube (15). Each of the lines (11, 13) comprises one end which may be connected to the X-ray generator (1) and a further end which may be connected to the X-ray tube (15). At least one end of at least one of the lines (11, 13) may be connected to an electrical terminal resistor (39) which may be arranged between the line (11, 13) and the X-ray generator (1), or between the line (11, 13) and the X-ray tube (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kuhnel
  • Patent number: 6768786
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for generating an X-ray tube voltage is described, wherein a switching device, connected downstream of a voltage controller (Gsu) and a oscillating current controller (Gri), operable to compare a first controlling variable value (Yu(t)) and a second controlling variable value (Yz(t)) and is operable to send the lesser of the first and second controlling variable values (Yu(t) and Yz(t) onward as a resultant controlling variable value (Y(t)) to the inverse rectifier circuit (Gsi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kühnel, Markus Hemmerlein
  • Publication number: 20040017893
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for generating an x-ray tube voltage is described, comprises an inverse rectifier circuit (Gsi) for generating a high-frequency alternating voltage, a high-voltage generator (Gsu) for converting the high-frequency inverse rectifier into a high voltage for the x-ray tube, and a voltage controller (GRU), which based on a deviation of an actual x-ray tube voltage (VU(t)) from a set-point x-ray tube voltage (WU(t)) generates a first controlling variable value (YU(t)) for a controlling variable for the inverse rectifier circuit (Gsi).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Walter Beyerlein, Werner Kuhnel, Markus Hemmerlein
  • Patent number: 4917944
    Abstract: The invention describes a weatherable, plasticizer-free, uncrosslinked, and deep-drawable sheet, especially for the internal outfitting and external outfitting of automotive vehicles, as well as a process for its production, containing 65-25% by weight of a partially crystalline ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and 35-75% by weight of a homo- and/or copolymer of propylene, 0-10% by weight of fillers, as well as stabilizers and lubricants, the extruded or calendered sheet exhibiting a tensile strength at break in the longitudinal direction of at least 20 N/mm.sup.2. An advantageous further development of the invention comprises a composite sheet of EPDM/PP sheet with a crosslinked polyolefin foam layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Huels Troisdorf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Breitscheidel, Rudolf Kautz, Werner Kuhnel, Manfred Simm, Paul Spielau, Richard Weiss
  • Patent number: 4833005
    Abstract: A laminate is made of textile sheet structures of synthetic fibers or glass fibers with a covering of polypropylene. The polypropylene is crosslinked by addition of crosslinking agents. The laminate has good electrical insulating properties, perfect solder bath stability, and good mechanical machinability. This laminate is provided, in heated presses, with metal layers or can be provided, in heated presses, with metal layers or can be provided with such metals layers by the application of metallic foils or by electrolytical methods, and serves for the manufacture of printed circuits and ribbon cables. An advantageous production of the textile sheet structures encased with crosslinked polypropylene can be performed on roll stands by thermoplastic encasing and smoothing in a continuous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karlo Klaar, Paul Spielau, Werner Kuhnel
  • Patent number: 4751121
    Abstract: The invention describes a multi-ply, self-adhesive and deep-drawable protective sheet, especially for the internal and external outfitting of automotive vehicles, consisting of a carrier sheet containing a thermoplastic synthetic resin based on an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and/or an ethylene-propylene copolymer and a homo- and/or copolymer of propylene, small amounts of fillers and conventional additives; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer based on an alkyl acrylate and/or methacrylate and/or a copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated monomer, such as acylic acid, and a cover layer of a unilaterally siliconized polyolefin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Huels Troisdorf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Manfred Simm, Paul Spielau, Rudolf Kautz, Johan Harmsen, Henk van der Mey
  • Patent number: 4680317
    Abstract: An expandable molding composition for the production of a cross-linked foam material, and a process for the manufacture of the foam from a mixture of polyolefin and a selected, partially crystalline ethylene-propylene terpolymer, a blowing agent, and optionally a crosslinking agent are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Paul Spielau
  • Patent number: 4652326
    Abstract: A process for the production of semifinished products and/or molded components from polypropylene by grafting thereto an alkoxysilane compound in the presence of an organic peroxide involves mising the polypropylene, the silane compound, and the peroxide and subsequently plasticizing and extruding at a temperature of about 170.degree.-240.degree. C. The process utilizes an essentially isotactic homopolymer of propylene with a density of about 0.90-0.91 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt index MFI (#.degree. C./5 kp) of smaller than 0.7 g/10 min, preferably smaller than 0.1 g/10 min, and with a molecular weight higher than 5.multidot.10.sup.5. An initially non-crosslinked semifinished product is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Spielau, Werner Kuhnel, Karlo Klaar, Bertram Gaspar, Richard Weiss, Horst Ulb, Hans-Ulrich Breitscheidel, Gerd Klingberg, Jurgen Fenske
  • Patent number: 4614753
    Abstract: A method for producing foam polyolefin products which are light-stable and weather-resistant are obtained by the combined use of the following stabilizers:(a) phenolic antioxidants,(b) substituted benzophenones and/or substituted benzotriazoles, and(c) sterically hindered amines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Paul Spielau
  • Patent number: 4590221
    Abstract: A method for producing foam polyolefin products which are light-stable and weather-resistant are obtained by the combined use of the following stabilizers:(a) phenolic antioxidants,(b) substituted benzophenones and/or substituted benzotriazoles, and(c) sterically hindered amines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Paul Spielau
  • Patent number: 4511619
    Abstract: A sealing sheet for the building industry made up of at least one layer which contains an elastomeric synthetic resin that is devoid of, i.e., free of vulcanization accelerator, and that contains fillers, especially carbon admixed with an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and/or ethylene-propylene copolymer and which has, on the outside and/or between layers of a synthetic resin, a reinforcing layer laminated in place with the use of heat and comprised of a fabric, a mat, a knitted material, a nonwoven material, or a similar material formed of a synthetic resin and/or of glass fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel AG
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Peter Putz, Manfred Simm, Paul Spielau
  • Patent number: 4442483
    Abstract: A resonant circuit inverter has an LC series resonant circuit and a switching device for connecting the resonant circuit with periodically alternating polarity to a dc voltage source, the switching device feeding a high voltage transformer. The resonant circuit inverter further includes an interstage transformer having a primary winding serving as the inductance in the LC resonant circuit and having a secondary winding connected to the primary winding of the high voltage transformer, the high voltage transformer having a secondary winding at which the load voltage is tapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Baumann, Werner Kuhnel, Manfred Rattner
  • Patent number: 4435466
    Abstract: A multi-layered sealing sheet for the building industry is prepared so that all plies which contain elastomeric synthetic resins are devoid of vulcanization accelerator and consist of an elastomeric synthetic resin on the basis of ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers and/or ethylene-propylene copolymers. A reinforcing insert is laminated in between the layers with the use of heat and is a fabric, a mat, a knitted material, or a similar material of synthetic resin fibers and/or glass fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Kuhnel, Peter Putz, Manfred Simm, Paul Spielau