Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Issel

Wolfgang Issel 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: 7802465
    Abstract: A collecting conduit for leakage monitoring and leakage location at an installation, includes a support pipe having openings. An outer surface of the support pipe is covered by a layer being permeable to a substance to be monitored, at least on a segment extending in longitudinal direction of the support pipe. An electrically conductive layer extends in longitudinal direction. The substance (L) can at least penetrate into the electrically conductive layer and the electrically conductive layer has an ohmic resistance dependent on the substance penetrating into it. An apparatus and a method for leakage monitoring and leakage location are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Areva NP GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel
  • Patent number: 7770435
    Abstract: A collector line for leakage monitoring and leakage location at a plant includes a carrier tube having a wall with openings formed therein, which are sealed with silicone rubber. This makes it possible to use the collector line during low ambient temperatures. A device and a method for leakage monitoring and leakage location and a pipeline having a collector line, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Areva NP GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Issel, Peter Jax
  • Publication number: 20080053198
    Abstract: A collector line for leakage monitoring and leakage location at a plant includes a carrier tube having a wall with openings formed therein, which are sealed with silicone rubber. This makes it possible to use the collector line during low ambient temperatures. A device and a method for leakage monitoring and leakage location and a pipeline having a collector line, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: AREVA NP GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Issel, Peter Jax
  • Patent number: 7270019
    Abstract: An assembly for monitoring and locating leaks in an installation includes a collecting line formed of a material that is impermeable to a substance to be monitored. The collecting line has a multiplicity of openings spaced apart in its longitudinal direction. The openings are closed with a filter element of a sintered metallic material that is permeable to the substance and has been subjected to a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Areva NP GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel
  • Publication number: 20070157744
    Abstract: An assembly for monitoring and locating leaks in an installation includes a collecting line formed of a material that is impermeable to a substance to be monitored. The collecting line has a multiplicity of openings spaced apart in its longitudinal direction. The openings are closed with a filter element of a sintered metallic material that is permeable to the substance and has been subjected to a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel
  • Publication number: 20070119238
    Abstract: A collecting conduit for leakage monitoring and leakage location at an installation, includes a support pipe having openings. An outer surface of the support pipe is covered by a layer being permeable to a substance to be monitored, at least on a segment extending in longitudinal direction of the support pipe. An electrically conductive layer extends in longitudinal direction. The substance (L) can at least penetrate into the electrically conductive layer and the electrically conductive layer has an ohmic resistance dependent on the substance penetrating into it. An apparatus and a method for leakage monitoring and leakage location are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel
  • Patent number: 5271901
    Abstract: A device for detecting a medium includes a sensor hose to be laid at a medium to be detected. A material is disposed at least in the vicinity of the sensor hose. The material reacts when in contact with the medium to be detected to produce a substance being capable of diffusion and being detectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Issel, Peter Jax, Wilhelm Leuker
  • Patent number: 5057289
    Abstract: A process for the separation of uranium and plutonium as well as fission ducts including technetium from a nitric acid feed solution (fuel solution) in which said solution is treated with an extraction agent in an organic solvent to charge said agent with U, Pu and fission products including technetium by the counterflow process. The charged extraction agent containing U, Pu and fission products including technetrium is treated with a washing solution and subsequently with a reducing agent for the separation of the uranium from the plutonium and from fission products including technetium not previously washed out. To improve the separation of uranium and obtain a cleaner uranium end product, the treatment of the organic solvent containing said charged agent with reducing agent is effected in one or more stages by the crossflow process instead of by the counterflow process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Wideraufarbeitung von Kernbrennstoffen mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Issel, Werner Knoch, Hartmut Ramm
  • Patent number: 4735095
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hollow conduit for utilization in determining concentration profiles of liquid or gaseous substances along a route, wherein the conduit provided for accommodation of a testing medium, which latter is to be moved therethrough in chronological intervals and is to be guided past a detector, is fashioned so that the substances can penetrate into the interior of the conduit. This hollow conduit consists of a material through which the substances can diffuse into the interior of the conduit. In the interior of the conduit, a hollow innner conduit 3 is provided, the wall of which has openings 5 and which consists of a compound impermeable for the substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel
  • Patent number: 3977233
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for the determination of concentration profiles of liquid or gaseous substances along a path length, for example, crude oil and gas pipeline installations, wherein a length of hollow conduit filled with a column of test medium is laid along a path length, the hollow conduit being constructed to permit diffusion of the substances thereinto establishing a distribution corresponding to the concentration profile to be determined and the column of test medium is pushed through the hollow conduit at chronological intervals past a sensor sensitive to the substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Inventor: Wolfgang Issel