Patents by Inventor Wolfram Konig

Wolfram Konig 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).

  • Method for operating a shaft furnace, and shaft furnace operable by that method
    Patent number: 8444910
    Abstract: Apparatus for operating a shaft furnace, whereby an upper section of the shaft furnace is charged with raw materials which due to gravity descend inside the furnace while the atmosphere prevailing within the shaft furnace causes part of the raw materials to melt and/or to be reduced, and in a lower section of the shaft furnace a process gas is injected so as to at least partly modify the atmosphere prevailing in the shaft furnace. The pressure and/or volume flow of the injected process gas is dynamically modulated within a time span of 40 s. Also, a shaft furnace operable by said method, thus achieving improved through-gassing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp At.Pro Tec GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Konig, Wolfram Konig, Hans-Heinrich Heldt, Dieter-Georg Senk, Heinrich-Wilhelm Gudenau, Alexander Babich
  • Method For Operating a Shaft Furnace, and Shaft Furnance Operable By That Method
    Publication number: 20080237944
    Abstract: Method for operating a shaft furnace, whereby an upper section of the shaft furnace is charged with raw materials which due to gravity descend inside the furnace while the atmosphere prevailing within the shaft furnace causes part of the raw materials to melt and/or to be reduced, and in a lower section of the shaft furnace a process gas is injected so as to at least partly modify the atmosphere prevailing in the shaft furnace. The pressure and/or volume flow of the injected process gas is dynamically modulated within a time span of 40 s. Also, a shaft furnace operable by said method, thus achieving improved through-gassing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp AT.PROTEC GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Konig, Wolfram Konig, Hans-Heinrich Heldt, Dieter-Georg Senk, Heinrich-Wilhelm Gudenau, Alexander Babich