Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Aktiengesellchaft

Reinhard Maier

Gerd Griepentrog

Heinz Mitlehner

Bernd Trautmann

Thomas Ostertag

Wolf-Eckhart Bulst

Jorg Kieser

Christian Schreckinger

Erich Zerbian

Gerhard Trenkler

Werner Hartmann

Diethard Runggaldier

Oliver Sczesny

Bernhard Streich

Jürgen Rupp

Klaus Dostert

Peter Kaluza

Lutz-Ruediger Jaenicke

David-Walter Branston

Josef Burger

Norbert Elsner

Egid Schneider

Norbert Trapp

Reinhard Wedekind

Hermann Zierhut, Deceased

Peter Priebe

Gerhard Schr&ouml;ther

Werner Ruile

Peter Friedrichs

Hermann Zierhut

Leonhard Michael Reindl

Sylvio Kosse

Norbert Mitlmeier

Gerd Scholl

Herbert Gambach

Wolfgang Schelter

Wolfgang Feil

David Walter Branston

Wilfried Jaehner

Holger Hochgraef

Reinhold Schörner

Richard Schmidt

Erich Voss

Lutz-Rüdiger Jänicke

Andreas Krätzschmar

Reinhard Herbst

Michael Schröck

G&uuml;nter Lins

Paul Fr&ouml;hlich

Wilfried Matthee

Thomas Nippert

Kurt Goth

Andreas Pohl

Ingeborg Zierhut

Dietrich Amft

Michael Anheuser

Walter Roethlingshoefer

Franz Ultsch

Anthoula Panagou

Werner Elischer

Ansgar Muller

Bernd Traumann

A switching device for switching bipolar DC currents in a high-voltage system includes at least two electromechanical switching units and a semiconductor switching arrangement. The electromechanical switching units have a first switching status and a second switching status. In the first switching status, the DC current can be passed via at least one of the electromechanical switching units without in this case flowing via the semiconductor switching arrangement. In the second switching status of the electromechanical switching units, the DC current can be passed via the semiconductor switching arrangement and can be switched off.

Switching device

A switch for a high-voltage direct current transmission path includes a vacuum circuit breaker for disconnecting the transmission path and a gas-insulated circuit breaker for disconnecting the transmission path. The gas-insulated circuit breaker is connected in series with the vacuum circuit breaker. A device is provided for building up a counter-current against the current in the transmission path for the purpose of reducing the current across the vacuum circuit breaker. The elements of the switch are actuated by a control device in such a way that the switch is switched off at or close to the zero crossing of the current.

Switch for a transmission path for high-voltage direct current

An electromagnetic drive unit is disclosed, including a yoke and a movable armature. In at least one embodiment, the yoke and the armature have a matched shape so that, when the electromagnetic drive unit is activated, the armature is adapted to at least partially cross the yoke. An electromechanical switching device is also disclosed.

Electromagnetic drive unit and an electromechanical switching device

An electromechanical switching device, especially a contactor or a multifunctional device including a contactor, includes at least one stationary contact piece, at least one movable contact piece movable to and from the at least one stationary contact piece for opening or closing a current path and an electromagnetic drive unit including a yoke and a coil and a movable armature. In at least one embodiment, the electromagnetic drive unit is adapted to displace the movable contact piece in response to a voltage applied to the coil. The at least one movable contact piece and the at least one stationary contact piece are adapted to limit movement of the armature after activation of the electromagnetic drive unit.

In breaker devices an early short-circuit recognition is required and also a tripping of the contacts. The recognition of a short-circuit occurs so early that with consideration of the response time of the measuring probes and the unlocking mechanism by a suitable analysis algorithm the release of the movable contact occurs before or at least at the time that the current-breaking forces correspond to the contact force. The contact force is hence compensated for and a rapid opening of the contacts can be achieved.

Breaker device for low-voltage applications

An anti-serial cascade circuit including two silicon carbide JFETs and two silicon MOSFETs is known. Disclosed is a combination of a JFET, a smart power MOSFET SPM and a thyristor with an associated trigger circuit, which is connected in parallel to the SPM. According to an embodiment of the invention, a logic circuit co-ordinates the functional sequence.

Electronic switching device, in particular circuit-breaker and associated operating method

An electromagnetic switching device is disclosed with an electromagnet and a movable magnet armature, which is mounted in the switching device with a resetting force, which counteracts the closing force, is different than zero in an OPEN position and is formed at least partially by a magnet arrangement with at least one permanent magnet. The magnet arrangement is arranged fixed in position in the switching device outside the magnetic circuit formed from the electromagnet and the magnet armature, and whose resetting force, which acts on the magnet armature, is at a maximum in the OPEN position.

Electromagnetic switching device

A drive solenoid, a yoke, an armature and at least one contact are mounted in a housing of an electromagnetic switching device. The drive solenoid, yoke and armature are inductively intercoupled, in such a way that when an inrush current is applied to the drive solenoid, the armature can be displaced into a pickup position, thus directly or indirectly actuating the contact. The yoke and/or armature contain(s) pulverulent magnetic material.

In installations including fixed and mobile structural elements and a rotary current motor as a drive, the rotary current motor can be used for the wireless transmission of both energy and/or data. The transmission from the fixed structural elements to the mobile structural elements of the rotary current motor is especially inductive. In the corresponding device including a rotary current motor including a stator and a secondary element, the secondary element is not embodied as a solid conductor with or without a laminated core, according to prior art, but rather as a laminated core including integrated windings which is the same as, or similar to, the stator.

Method for the wireless and contactless transport of energy and data, and corresponding device

A method with corresponding circuit arrangement is disclosed, whereby for evaluation of a measured signal arising as an analogue value with a potential greater than zero potential in a measuring device requiring a supply current, the measured information therefrom is transmitted as a digital signal to an analytical unit lying at earth potential after an A/D conversion. The generated digital signal thus provides the clock signal for a modulation of the supply current and thus also carries out the function of the carrier for the information content of the measured signal. Curved characteristic lines for compression/decompression of the signals are used. Suitable devices for temperature compensation may be similarly provided.

Method and circuit arrangement for current measurement

A switching device includes a working circuit, to which an operating voltage can be or is applied to which has at least one electronic switching element. This switching element includes at least one control terminal for applying a switching signal and is switched off or switched on depending on the switching signal. At least one electronic protection element is for protecting the switching element in its switched state from excessive Joule losses in the event of danger, especially in the event of an overload or a short circuit. The protection element bears the predominant part of the operating voltage that is released at the working circuit. The switching device includes a switching-off device, which, in the event of danger, automatically switches the switching element to the switched off state, using the energy contained in the operating current or the operating voltage passing through the working circuit or the voltage that is released at the working circuit or at the protection element exceeds a predetermined upper limit value.

Electronic switching device

The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method is well-known for transmitting data on electrical power supply lines. According to this method, the items of information to be transmitted are distributed among numerous carriers, and the composite signal of the modulated carrier signals is transmitted in the form of an OFDM block. Standard OFDM methods are, however, highly sensitive to strong periodic pulse jammers. According to the invention, the method is thus devised such that the OFDM blocks to be transmitted have a length of approximately 85% of the interval between two periodic disturbing pulses. The carrier interval accordingly results from the reciprocal duration of the OFDM blocks. The transmitted OFDM blocks are synchronized with pulse-shaped periodic jammers in such a manner that one block at a time is located between two disturbing pulses. The pulse-shaped jammers can be gated at the receiver. To this end, the inventive device comprises an appropriately designed transmitter () and an associated receiver ().

Method and device for transmitting data on at least one electrical power supply line

It is a known fact that even information signals in the kilohertz and megahertz range can be transmitted via the bus systems of power transmission networks. The invention provides a method and a system for improving the transmission behavior by feeding the signals not to the bus of the power supply but at the end of an outgoing line or a bus bar trunking system facing away from the power feed. The connection to the telecommunication system is made via a PLC bus line (), said bus line () being connected to the bus bar trunking systems/outgoing lines (. . . ) via PLC bus elements (. . . ).

Method for transmitting high-frequency signals to low-frequency networks and corresponding system

A method for transmitting data via a traction current conductor which simultaneously conducts drive current for a vehicle and in which an interruption in the data transmission by an arc cccurring between a vehicle-end drive current collector and the traction current conductor is reliably avoided. The method for trandsmitting data via a traction current conductor, in which at the transmitter end at least two data signals including in each case the data in an identical form are fed into the traction current conductor with different frequency channels. In the event of an arc occurring at the receive end, the received data of that data signal or those data signals whose amplitude does not drop below a ratio necessary for achieving a specific bit error probability with respect to the amplitude of the interference signal S(f), is selected for evaluation.

Method for transmitting data via a traction control which carries an electrical driving current for vehicles

Reduced tensioning time for electronically controlled switch contactors

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Herzogenaurach, Germany

Reinhard Maier