Camera system for gas-insulated switchgear systems
A camera system for gas-insulated switchgear systems, includes a front plate of the gas-insulated switchgear system having two front-plate connections, a central unit, and at least one camera in a camera housing or in respective camera housings. The line between the front-plate connections and the at least one camera is branched in the shape of a y and the data communication and the current and voltage supply of the central unit occur via a common connection.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Synchronous machine module, vehicle drive and vehicle
The synchronous machine module includes a synchronous machine and a rotational speed controller for controlling a rotational speed of the synchronous machine, which rotational speed controller has a detector for detecting a variable which is formed by the effective power or is dependent thereon. The rotational speed controller is designed to set the rotational speed of the synchronous machine and/or the time profile thereof as a function of the detected variable and/or its time profile. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Automation facility and method for operating the automation facility
A method for operating an automation facility, wherein and to an the automation facility includes a simulation server, which has a simulation framework for simulation of the process behavior of sensors and/or actuators in accordance with a simulation model, where a large number of simulation models is stored in the simulation server, which can be loaded into the simulation framework, includes a simulation interface for simulating the communication behavior of the sensors and/or actuators and for connecting the modelled process behavior to a controller, and includes an operator system for process control and process operation such that it becomes possible to verify, in a simplified manner within the context of what is known as a “factory acceptance test” (fat) during the test or during the verification of functionality, whether testing was performed with the simulation models provided for this purpose.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Monitoring an integrity of a test dataset
A method as well as a crypto-arrangement and a computer program product for monitoring an integrity of a test dataset, wherein a random sample of a test dataset is checked for integrity is provided. The method for monitoring an integrity of a test dataset includes the following steps: random sample-type selection of the test dataset from a dataset to be transferred via a communications connection; cryptographically protected provision of the selected test dataset to a test unit, wherein a communication via the communications connection is carried out uninfluenced by the selection and preparation; testing of the cryptographically protected test dataset for integrity by the test unit, based on cryptographic calculations and plausibility information.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method determines a fault position of a fault on an electrical line. First time stamped current and voltage values are measured at a first line end. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure deals with the detection of a blockage in the air-supply duct or flue of a burner assembly. In some embodiments, a method or system may detect blockages in the form of coverings and with burner assemblies to burn fossil fuels. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Compressor arrangement and gas turbine engine
A compressor arrangement has a main compressor section and boundary walls of a main fluid path through the main compressor section. The main compressor section is segmented into an upstream and downstream sub section, each with at least one row of blades and vanes arranged within the main fluid path. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Combining a precipitation-hardening nickel-base alloy with a steel or titanium substrate makes it very easy to repair parts, the nickel-base alloy having good erosion-resistant properties. A method for producing is disclosed. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Cold gas dynamic spraying using a mask
The present disclosure relates to coating a carrier component by means of cold gas dynamic spraying. For example, a method for coating a carrier component may include: laying a mask with an opening on the component; depositing a material through the opening to completely fill up the mask opening; removing any material located above the upper side to form a flat surface even with the upper side of the mask; laying a second mask on the first mask; depositing the material again; removing any deposited material located above the upper side of the second mask to form a flat surface even with the upper side of the second mask; repeating layers of additional masks and material deposition until the deposited material reaches a required thickness on the carrier component; and after completion of the coating to the required thickness, removing the masks.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A lifting apparatus for an industrial processing station, i.e., a lifting table for conveying a body shell during series production of motor vehicles, wherein the lifting apparatus conveys a workpiece on a top frame moved in a purely vertical direction, where the lifting apparatus has, as first vertical guide, at least one isosceles slider-crank mechanism actuated by a motorized drive element, where the isosceles slider-crank mechanism, which consists of a fixed-bearing swing arm with a swing-arm bearing thereof, a control arm with a control-arm guide, a control-arm central joint and a fixed-bearing joint connected to the top frame, is configured to move via actuation of the tie rod acting on the fixed-bearing swing arm, and where particular use of an isosceles slider-crank mechanism, which is also known literature as a “scott-russell mechanism”, provides a simple and effective vertical guide system that allows low overall heights with a minimum production outlay.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Safety method for a railway network
A protection method for a railway network, which is divided into section segments by section elements and can be traveled upon by vehicles. In order to optimize the vehicle sequence in the railway network, different train sequence point types are specified and different braking curves of the same braking curve type are provided by the vehicles. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Mounting arrangement for an interior furnishing element on the body of a vehicle
A variable securing configuration for an interior equipment element on the body of a vehicle, particularly a passenger seat on the side wall of a rail vehicle, includes at least one body-side engagement device and a securing rail connected to the interior equipment element. In order to be able to produce such a securing configuration easily and cost-effectively, the body has recesses disposed at equal distances between one another in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and at least one retention element of the engagement device engages with the recesses. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Method for manufacturing a housing of a turbomachine
A method for manufacturing a housing of a turbomachine, in particular a housing of a radial turbo compressor. The method includes the following steps: a) providing a hollow body that is closed in a circumferential direction and extends along an axis; b) coating the inner side of the hollow body with a corrosion-resistant layer that is more resistant to corrosion than the material of the hollow body; c) dividing the hollow body into two half-shells along the axis in a separation joint plane; d) assembling the housing by joining both half-shells and fastening both half-shells in the region of the separation joints, which were created by separation, by means of detachable fastening elements.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Edm drilling of ceramics and device
Ceramics or ceramic layer systems can be machined due to the use of high speeds of an edm electrode. Disclosed is a method and an edm device for carrying out the method for drilling ceramics or ceramic-coated components, which uses an edm electrode and wherein the edm electrode is rotated at a speed of at least 1000 rpm, in particular of at least 10,000 rpm, for drilling through the ceramic or through the ceramic-coated component.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An electrical circuit arrangement has at least one capacitor (1) and at least one other circuit part (4) electrically cooperating with the first capacitor (1). The first capacitor (1) is part of a first capacitor arrangement (2) which annularly surrounds the cavity (3). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An electrical machine includes a first active part and a second active part. Both the first active part and the second active part have a plurality of laminated sub-cores, with each laminated sub-core having a plurality of individual laminations. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to a cooling arrangement for an electronic component. Some embodiments of the teachings thereof may include a heat sink with a contact surface as an interface for the electronic component. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to electric coil systems having a choking coil for inductive-resistive current limitation. The teachings herein may be embodied in an inductive-resistive current limitation system and to a method of production with such an electric coil system. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A field control device for a high-voltage system includes a shielding element for field control, which can be connected to an electrical conductor of the high-voltage system in an electrically conductive manner and, when connected to the conductor, at least partly delimits a weak-electric-field spatial region. A cooling body, which can be connected to the electrical conductor in a thermally conductive manner and which is disposed within the weak-field spatial region, has an outer surface area which is greater than an outer surface area of the shielding element. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for transmitting data to produce an interactive image, a computer program for implementing the method and a client-server system operating based on the method, wherein the server, when handling a large volume of data, produces an image based on the data and transmits the image to the client for display by the client, where in the event of a user action relative to the image, user action-specific coordinates are transmitted from the client to the server that determines in the data a data point associated with the user action-specific coordinates and the pertaining detailed information and transmits the detailed information to the client for display on the client such that large volumes of data can be displayed on the client via a small data transfer between the server and the client.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A rotary actuator includes a cylindrical main body, an actuating handle placed on the cylindrical main body and having a display area, a crown, and an inserted base which is arranged in the cylindrical main body and has contours which engage in contours of the crown. The rotary actuator further includes a guide element for guiding the inserted base and the crown.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
When carrying out an industrial process or during the operation of an industrial system or machine, relevant data is to be detected without additionally loading the control of the industrial process or the system or machine in question. For this purpose, the invention provides a control system (1, 4, 5; 1′, 4′, 5′; 1″, 4″, 5″) with a real control (1; 1′; 1″) for controlling an industrial process, a system or a machine; a virtual control (4; 4′; 4″) for simulating the control of the industrial process, the system, or the machine; synchronization means for synchronizing the real control (1; 1′; 1″) and the virtual control (4; 4′; 4″); and a higher-level processor unit (5; 5′; 5″) for detecting and/or generating operating data and/or state data with respect to the process, the system, or the machine, wherein the operating data and/or state data is based on data originating from the virtual control (4; 4′; 4″). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system and method is disclosed for development of a control application for a controller of an automation system. The controller receives sensor signals associated with perception of a first real component during an execution of the control application program. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to accelerometers. Various embodiments of the teachings thereof may be used in a generator. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A waste-heat steam generator has an exhaust gas channel in which at least one evaporator heating surface and at least one preheater heating surface are arranged. The evaporator heating surface and the preheater heating surface are connected together such that the preheater heating surface is arranged upstream of the evaporator heating surface on the feed-water side. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method of monitoring the amount of lubricant inside a bearing of a wind turbine is provided. The bearing includes a lubricant for reducing wear and fatigue of the bearing, a seal for minimizing the amount of lubricant which is leaking out of the bearing, a ventilation device with at least one pressure compensation hole for enabling a pressure compensation between the sealed bearing and the ambient, and a lubricant drain hole for enabling lubricant to exit the bearing in a controlled manner. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A component, provided with a thread has increased play in the axial direction in comparison with a standard thread, which allows nuts to be screwed on, even in the case of highly preloaded bolts, and also enables a highly loadable threaded connection. For this purpose, the play is monotonically increasing in the axial direction.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A securing device for a turbine blade wherein the securing device prevents the turbine blade from moving radially and axially and includes a retaining piece that includes a projection which extends into a recess in the root of the turbine blade and which prevents the blade from moving axially.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A trailing edge cooling feature for a turbine airfoil (10) includes a plurality of pins (22a-l) positioned in an airfoil interior (11) toward the trailing edge 20), each extending from the pressure side (14) to the suction side (16) and further being elongated in a radial direction (r). The pins (22a-l) are arranged in multiple radial rows (a-l) spaced along the chordal axis (30), with the pins (22a-l) in each row (a-l) being interspaced to define coolant passages (24a-l) therebetween. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A light signal, in particular for rail-bound traffic routes, includes a light source, an optical system and a control device for adjusting an emission characteristic. In order to improve the way optical parameters, in particular regarding brightness, phantom light and path geometry can be adjusted, the control device is configured to adjust the transmission properties of at least one smart glass element disposed in the luminous or light flux.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A stator for an electric machine includes a stator carrier having a plurality of grooves with a respective groove base, and a motor winding having at least one first strand. A predetermined number of first grooves of the plurality of grooves is associated with the first strand. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Provided are methods and to-devices for increasing the reliability of a software by applying a patch to the software, wherein the application of the patch is performed if a specifiable reliability status is indicated by reliability information associated with the patch, wherein an indicator for successful increasing of the reliability of the software by application of the patch is represented by the reliability information. The methods and devices can be used for the maintenance of industrial installations.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A pressure sensor assembly that includes a tube, wherein a membrane to which the pressure to be measured is applied is arranged in the cross-section of the tube, where the membrane has a high flexural rigidity in its central region and is mounted in an elastic manner in the axial direction in the edge region in the tube, two limbs are used to elastically mount the membrane, the mutually facing sides of the two limbs being provided with elongation sensors for detecting an axial movement of the membrane, the movement depending on the pressure to be measured, and where the sensors advantageously do not contact the process medium and a pressure-tight feedthrough for electric signals is not required such that the pressure sensor assembly has a particularly simple structural design and can be used advantageously in measurement converters for process instrumentation.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for heating an operating agent for a rail vehicle, particularly for heating a reducing agent for the after-treatment of exhaust gas. A coolant liquid is pumped through a cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine by a pump when the operating agent heating system is in an operating mode and, also in the operating mode, the coolant liquid can be pumped through a main heating circuit by the pump in order to heat the operating agent in a reservoir. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to charging energy stores, for example for charging electrical vehicle batteries. Various embodiments may include methods for controlling charging operations. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A device for the computer-aided creation of an asymmetric checksum by a first communication partner, in which a processor calculates a mapped checksum by means of bijective mapping from a first checksum, wherein the first checksum from the set of all possible checksums is assigned by means of a first function to respectively one message from a set of all possible messages, the first checksum is prepared in particular by mapping the set of all possible checksums onto a first set by a second function. Information is distributed which defines an inverse function relative to the bijective mapping to at least one second communication partner, wherein the first checksum is calculated from the mapped checksum by means of the inverse function. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a method (100) for switching between desired value filters (26, 28) of a drive means (52) for a machine axis (10, 12) during operation. An input signal (20) is applied to the first and to the second desired value filter (26, 28) for producing a first and a second output signal (23, 33). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A printed circuit board (pcb) power cell (100) for arranging in a multi-cell power supply (500) includes a housing assembly (102) with a multiple section housing (104, 106), and a pcb assembly (120) positioned within the housing assembly (102), wherein the housing assembly (102) and the pcb assembly (120) are configured to provide an integrated voltage isolation of the power cell (100) which supports an output voltage of the multi-cell power supply (500). Furthermore, a multi-cell power supply (500) including a pcb power cell (100) with isolation is described.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An active part of an electrical machine, such as a rotor or a stator, an electrical machine having the active part, which has a main body and a winding that is surrounded by an encapsulation compound, where the encapsulation compound has at least three regions, where the winding extends through the main body in a slot in a first region, where the winding surrounded by the encapsulation compound projects out of the main body at least in a third region, and which has at least a second region arranged between the first region and the third region in the active part, where the encapsulation compound has a different composition in the second region than in the first region or the third region.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A bi-nuclear phosphorescent emitter according to the following formula is disclosed. The emitter may include metal atoms m1 and m2, fluorescent emitter ligands lf, lf′, terminal ligands lt, lt′, and bridging ligands lv, lv′, wherein m1 and m2 are in, tl, sn, pb, sb, and bi; lf and lf′ are comprise substituted or non-substituted c6-c70 aromatics or heteroaromatics; lv and lv′ are fluorinated or non-fluorinated, bi-dentate c2-c30 heteroalkyl or heteroaromatics; lt and lt′ are fluorinated or non-fluorinated, mono-, bi-, or tri-dentate c2-c30 o—, s—, n, heteroalkyl or heteroaromatics; and n and m are 1 or 2 independently of one another.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Systems, apparatus, and methods for accessory tripping and resetting of circuit breakers are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention include a breaker handle; a breaker trip bar; an accessory trip device; an accessory pocket configured to receive the accessory trip device; and an adapter module disposed within the accessory pocket between the accessory trip device and the breaker handle, and coupled to the breaker handle, the breaker trip bar, and the accessory trip device, the adapter module including linkages configured to boost a force output by the accessory trip device. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to switchgear. Various embodiments may include medium- or high-voltage switchgear with a gas-tight insulating space. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A traffic monitoring system for a traffic area with parking surfaces for vehicles or a freely arrangeable row of vehicles includes overhead radar sensors oriented towards the area for capturing a chronological sequence of digital radar images thereof. An analyzing unit detects vehicles parked on the area and ascertains locations and dimensions thereof from the captured sequence and determines an occupancy state of the surfaces from a data comparison of the ascertained locations and dimensions of parked vehicles with configured geodata of surfaces. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Provided is a method and a system for providing authors of user-generated data with a transparent and fair share in the economic profit produced from these data within the scope of a social commerce platform of a user community, in which a respective relative game result share is calculated for a respective author of user-generated data, for example annotated travel movement profiles, on the basis of gamification categories relevant to a performance indicator, for example the number of calls and user ratings, in which the total economic profit of the social commerce platform produced from the user-generated data is determined on the basis of at least one performance indicator of the social commerce platform, and in which a respective share in the economic profit is determined for the respective author of user-generated data by multiplying the total economic profit by the respective relative game result share.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
In a control method for the movement of a tool with a machine tool, the machine tool involves a numerically controlled machine tool, in order to produce an arbitrary required surface of a workpiece by machining. A numeric path program is created which describes the machining of the workpiece with the tool at machining points and which controls the control device. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An engineering system for an industrial process automation system, wherein objects predefined by a user selection are loaded for processing from a database into at least one processing memory area, where upon initiation of a user release of objects to be released that have been loaded into a selected processing memory area, a check is performed to establish whether a processing memory area directly of higher priority is present, direct predecessors in the processing memory area of higher priority are determined for releasable objects that have been loaded into the selected processing memory area and added to the releasable objects upon a positive result, objects hierarchically subordinate to objects among the releasable objects to be released are determined and tagged for release, and where objects tagged for release, via a change of their assignment, are shifted from the selected user memory area into the user memory area of higher priority.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A position is determined using gnss (global navigation satellite systems) with an antenna assembly having a number of antennas that are oriented with different direction vectors. Antenna-received signals are supplied to an evaluation assembly, which includes gnss receivers and an evaluation device. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A through-flow measurement arrangement and measuring transducer for process instrumentation that includes the through-flow measurement arrangement, wherein the through-flow measurement arrangement operating in accordance with the differential-pressure method includes a tube and an elastically deformable measuring diaphragm arranged in the cross section of the tube and a strain sensor that detects the deformation and converts it into an electric signal, where the measuring diaphragm and the tube are formed in one piece from uniform material, and where both side of the measuring diaphragm each pass into the tube via a fillet groove and the at least one strain sensor is arranged on the circumferential side of the tube opposite the fillet groove.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for predetermining a thickness of a coating which is to be arranged on a substrate is provided. A spray spot is arranged on a surface of the substrate or a test substrate. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A heat exchange system with at least two heat exchange chambers is provided. Each of the heat exchange chambers includes heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A heat exchange system with at least one heat exchange chamber is provided. The heat exchange chamber includes heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A hybrid component (45) is provided including a plurality of laminates (10) stacked on one another to define a stacked laminate structure (58). The laminates (10) include a ceramic matrix composite material (22) and at least one opening (24) defined therein. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A turbine airfoil (10) includes a flow displacement element (26) occupying a space between a pair of adjacent partition walls (24) in an interior portion (11) of a generally hollow airfoil body (12). The flow displacement element (26) includes an elongated main body (28) extending lengthwise in a radial direction and a pair of connector ribs (32, 34) respectively connecting the main body (28) to pressure and suction sides (16, 18) of the airfoil (10). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A quenching chamber of an entrained-flow gasifier that gasifies fuels at temperatures of up to 1,800° c. And pressures of up to 10 mpa, wherein an annular chamber through which cooling water flows is formed between the pressure-bearing tank and the inner jacket. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A delivery point sorting device with two feeders for receiving and forwarding mail in streams, where a diverging apparatus divert module is configured to process the mail from the two feeders and a merge module converges the streams of mail from the two feeders and distributes the mail to respective endpoints. Sorting endpoints are used for loading the mail received from this converging apparatus. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to electronics. The teachings thereof may be embodied in cooling members for electronic components and/or methods for producing cooling members with an assembly side for an electronic component. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An embodiment of the present invention relates to the technical field of networks, in particular to a testing method, device and system for testing the performance of a deep packet inspection (dpi) device. In this method, a performance analyzing device respectively acquires packet transmission characteristics of packets when being directly forwarded and packet transmission characteristics of the packets having been processed by the dpi device; and a test result on the performance of the dpi device with larger reference significance is acquired by comparing the two packet transmission characteristics.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A bell-shaped rotor of an electric machine includes a cylindrical segment and a conical segment, wherein the cylindrical segment has magnetically active regions and nonmagnetic regions, where the rotor is produced at least partially via an additive production method, where the electric machine includes, in particular, an outer stator, an inner stator, which is arranged concentric to the outer stator within the outer stator, and the rotor, which is arranged concentric to the outer stator and the inner stator between the outer stator and the inner stator.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for stabilizing a frequency in an ac voltage grid includes exchanging active power between the ac voltage grid and an energy storage device of a compensation installation in which the energy storage device is connected to the ac voltage grid. An electrical power is transmitted in an interconnector that connects the ac voltage grid to a further ac voltage grid. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A converter configuration has a converter. The ac voltage side of which can be connected to an ac voltage grid and the dc voltage side of which can be connected to a storage configuration. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A supply device supplies electrical power to an electrical assembly at a high-voltage potential. The supply device has a series circuit composed of at least one series resistor and a supply unit. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A short-term cloud forecasting system includes a cloud segmentation processor that receives image data from images captured by an all sky camera. The cloud segmentation processor calculates a probability for each pixel in an image that the pixel is representative of a cloud. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method estimates a system value which indicates a state of an electrical distribution system. The method includes the steps of measuring one or more electrical quantities at a plurality of system nodes and providing measurement values, and generating the system value based on the measurement values as well as on weighting coefficients that define or reflect the timely change rate of the measurement values and/or the transmission rate of the measurement values.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A multi-way valve has an upper part, a lower part and a central part connected to the upper part via an interposing first membrane and the lower part via an interposing second membrane, wherein the upper and lower parts contain recesses on the upper and lower part faces facing the membranes, where a control fluid is introducible into the recesses, the central part contains a pair of openings in regions opposite the recesses on the central part faces lying adjacent to the membranes, where while introducing the control fluid into a recess, the membrane closes respective opposite openings in the central part, and where the membrane otherwise recedes into the recess, thereby releasing the opposite openings, where valve connections are mounted on the upper or lower part such that the central part can have a very thin design while preventing dead regions in the channel systems.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A heat exchange system with at least two heat exchange chambers is provided. Each of the heat exchange chambers includes heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Apparatus and method for a combustion turbine engine are provided. A pre-mixing passage (24) has an upstream inlet arranged to receive a flow of air to be mixed with fuel. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A fuel manifold (10) configured to form a base support structure (12) to support a plurality of fuel nozzles (14) in a combustor of a gas turbine engine is provided. The fuel manifold includes stage fuel galleries (16, 18), and fuel feed bosses (20, 22) may be configured to connect to respective tubes arranged to deliver gas fuel to the stage fuel galleries (16. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A heat exchange system with at least one heat exchange chamber with heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber, wherein the heat exchange chamber boundaries include at least one first opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one second opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior is provided. At least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An interlocking modular airfoil for a turbine. The airfoil includes at least one support column extending from a lower plate and at least one first filament having at least one first side aperture that receives the support column in a first transverse direction. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A gas diffusion electrode and electrolysis cells containing gas diffusion electrodes are provided. The gas diffusion electrodes include a copper-containing carrier, and first and second layers. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
First subareas of a layer of powder applied on a substrate are heated locally with a process beam so as to heated, but not yet interconnect the grains of the powder in the first subareas. A temperature profile of the applied layer is evaluated proximate to the first subarea as a function of the distance from the respective first subarea and/or the time. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Casting method and cast manifold are provided. The method allows configuring conduits, such as conduits (46, 48) in a fuel feed boss (20) and/or a base rocket (13), which are part of the manifold for removing a ceramic core (44) from the cast without forming extraneous holes in the body of the manifold. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates slip techniques for lost casting cores. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods for producing a slip for use in casting, e.g., for production of complex metal blades in gas turbines. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Method and system for providing information data using a notification system for an application of a terminal is provided. The steps include: reception of a notification registration by the notification system from the terminal during registration of the terminal with the notification system; transmission of a notification which contains information data as notification content; derivation of the notification token by a web service, addressed by the notification address, of a gateway component from a call parameter obtained, the derived notification token being transmitted to a delivery system together with the information data or an access address for accessing the information data; identification of the terminal by the delivery system on the basis of the notification token obtained, and forwarding of the information data or the access address for accessing the information data to the application of the identified tenninal by the delivery system.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The switching performance of a half-bridge arrangement particularly for a converter shall be improved. For this purpose, a half-bridge arrangement has a circuit board having at least four trace layers and two switching elements and a capacitor device arranged on opposite sides of the circuit board and interconnected so as to produce, during a commutation event of the half-bridge arrangement, at least two dipoles having opposite spatial directions.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A laminated core arrangement for an electric machine includes a laminated core having at least two part cores which are arranged in an axial direction. Each of the part cores has a plurality of polygonal individual sheets, with at least one of the individual sheets being round and disposed between the part cores. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A direct-current switching device for interrupting an electric direct current flowing along a medium or high-voltage current path, includes an electric circuit assembly having a mechanical switching device to be switched in the medium or high-voltage current path. The electric circuit assembly further has an lc circuit with an inductive component in order to force a current zero crossing in the mechanical switching device connected in the medium or high-voltage current path, a capacitive component for forming a resonant circuit being closed by the switching device, and a switchable semiconductor component for generating an excitation frequency exciting the resonant circuit. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a method (100) for orientation of a workpiece (20) to be processed, comprising the steps of: a) providing a processing path (27) fixed on the workpiece for processing the workpiece (20); b) selecting a rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); c) simulating the processing path (27) taking account of the rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); d) determining at least one process variable (40) of the machining of the workpiece (20); wherein the steps b) to d) are repeated by modifying the at least one rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20) until the at least one process variable (40) reaches a target value (43).. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method of operating an intelligent programmable logic controller (plc) as part of a production process within an automation system includes the intelligent plc receiving automation system data and a semantic context model comprising a plurality of ontologies providing formal specifications of conceptual entities associated with the automation system. The intelligent plc creates one or more semantic annotations for the automation system data using the semantic context model. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A chromatograph and a method of acquiring and displaying a real-time chromatogram using time-stamped asynchronous messaging are provided. The method includes generating a chromatogram of a sample, acquiring segments of data points of the chromatogram in real-time, annotating in real-time the segments of data points of the chromatogram with timing stamps of cycle events of an analysis cycle using time-stamped event messages, receiving the time-stamped event messages asynchronously and displaying each cycle event of the cycle events of the analysis cycle and each segment of the segments of data points of the chromatogram in a display module as being received.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An acoustically dampened gas turbine engine (10) having a gas turbine engine combustor (12) with an acoustic damping resonator system (10) is disclosed. The acoustic damping resonator system (10) may be formed from one or more resonators (16) formed from a resonator housing (18) positioned within the gas turbine engine combustor (12) at an outer housing (20) forming a combustor basket (22) and extending circumferentially within the combustor (12). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A turbine airfoil (10) includes an impingement structure (26a, 26b) comprising a hollow elongated main body (28) positioned in an interior portion (11) of an airfoil body (12). The main body (28) extends lengthwise along a radial direction and defines coolant cavity (64) therewithin that receives a cooling fluid (60). ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A rail installation has an overhead line in the region of a stop and at least one rail vehicle with a current collector for making contact with the overhead line. The overhead line has a central part having a limited, predefined length and an adjoining end portion. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to chemical synthesis. Various embodiments of the teachings thereof may include the synthesis of methanol, generated from hydrogen and a carbonaceous gas. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
In a sequence of digitized images having a plurality of pixels, a signal is coded for each of the images that is dependent on the image content of the images. The uncoded signal is reconstructed and reconstructed images are derived therefrom in the course of the coding process. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system and a method are disclosed for controlling a charging level of at least one capacitor. In an embodiment, the system includes a sound wave sensor configured to detect sound signals from the capacitors; a sound evaluation unit configured to evaluate the sound signals detected by the sound wave sensor; and a control unit configured to control the charging level of the at least one capacitor. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system and method for regulating a voltage at a point of common coupling (35) (pcc) of a distributed energy resource farm (1) connected to an electrical power grid (37). The distributed energy resource farm includes a plurality of connected distributed energy resources (2, 3) each supplying a terminal voltage. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A power plant installation includes a feed connection for feeding energy into an external energy supply grid and at least one energy-generating unit. The power plant installation includes at least one energy storage unit and at least one isolated component grid which is connected to the feed connection via a converter of the power plant installation and is electrically isolated from the feed connection and the external energy supply grid by the converter, the at least one energy-generating unit and/or the at least one energy storage unit are connected to the isolated component network, and the powerplant installation has a control device which, by actuating the converter, the energy-generating unit and/or the energy storage unit, adjusts the feed behaviour of the power plant installation which is effective towards the outside at the feed connection.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A phase conductor arrangement for an electricity transmission device has an electroconductive main member. The electroconductive main member extends along a main axis. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Disclosed is a switching device comprising a vacuum tube and an adjustable drive for opening, and closing the contacts of the switching device. The switching device also comprises a sensor for detecting physical properties of the operating site of the switching device. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A product model data set with data for production steps to be carried out for the product and sub-products thereof is generated and assigned to a product copy to be produced. Data on a production step is read from the product model data set, and a production module which is available for carrying out the production step is ascertained. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An operator system for a process control system, wherein the operator system includes an operator server and at least one operator client connected to the operator server, where operators authenticate with respective login data via the at least one operator client or via a plurality of operator clients of the operator system on an authentication server and the authentication server generates, for each of the authenticated operators one operator-specific data record, in which an access or functional right to at least one operator server application is stored such that during the operating and monitoring of a process to be controlled, access or functional rights can be temporarily transferred from one of the operators to the other operator in a secure manner with respect to the security aspects, without which end changes would need to be made in an access and functional rights list via an engineering system.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A circuit board with a conductor path having a recess, an implant with left, right, lower and upper edges arranged in the recess, where the implant has first and second optical layers, a second optical layer and a conductor arranged between them, the first and the second optical layer each have at least one light-conducting structure with first and second ends, where a light-conductor is arranged in a right edge of the implant, in which respective second ends of the light-conducting structures are located, such that light fed in at the first end of the optical fiber of the first optical layer is deflected to the second end of the light-conducting structure of the second optical layer such that a beam path of the light encompasses the conductor, and the circuit also includes an optical transmitter and an optical receiver with and evaluator that form a fiber optic current sensor.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A premixed dual fuel burner includes a burner head, a burner interior elongated along a main axis and having an upstream side enclosed by a swirler and a downstream side enclosed by a premixing section, and an injection component. The burner head and sides are serially arranged. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for predicting a combustion error type of a combustion flame. A raw signal of an error parameter of the combustion flame within a predefined time span is measured, the error parameter is adapted for determining the combustion error type. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A computer implemented method for the prediction of the surge point of a compressor includes: generating a plurality of meshes: a compressor inlet mesh, at least a compressor rotor stage mesh, and a compressor outlet mesh, representing a plurality of exit guide vanes and an exit nozzle and extending up to a final nozzle exit area; assembling the plurality of meshes to obtain the cfd domain; specifying boundary conditions of the computational domain; specifying atmospheric pressure conditions at the final nozzle exit area; computing compressor inlet mass flow rate and compressor pressure ratio; checking if the numerical stability limit is not reached, as a result of the numerical stability limit not being reached: decreasing dimensions of the final nozzle exit area; generating again the compressor outlet mesh; repeating the steps of specifying atmospheric pressure at the final nozzle exit area, the step of computing, and the step of checking.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A noise reducing wind turbine blade is disclosed. The wind turbine blade includes a blade body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side, and a pressure side. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to insulation. Teachings thereof may be embodied in a solid insulation material, especially in tape form, the use thereof in a vacuum impregnation process and to an insulation system produced therewith, and also an electrical machine comprising the insulation system, especially for the medium- and high-voltage sector, namely for medium- and high-voltage machines, especially rotating electrical machines in the medium- and high-voltage sector, and to semifinished products for electrical switchgear. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A turbomachine component having a solid body with an elongated clearance, a channel located within the clearance of that body, where the channel is free of struts between the channel and a section of the body which is surrounding the channel to provide a continuous thermal insulation gap between the channel and the section of the body. The channel and the body are built in an additive manufacturing generation process synchronously layer by layer, from a metallic powder, wherein successive layers are selectively fused to build the body and the channel. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An electric motor control system includes an electric motor motion signal detection part, configured to provide an electric motor motion signal of the electric motor every other first interval time based on a received first encoder signal sent by the first encoder; a shaft motion signal detection part configured to provide a shaft motion signal of the shaft every other second interval time based on a received second encoder signal sent by the second encoder; and a main control apparatus configured to receive and calculate, according to the electric motor motion signal and the shaft motion signal, an electric motor motion parameter of the electric motor at a moment every other second interval time.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Disclosed is a device for recognizing an arcing fault in incident light, comprising a sensor for detecting absorption lines of the incident light, and an evaluation unit which generates an evaluation signal then characteristic absorption lines are detected.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A thing information transmission method, apparatus and system in the internet of things are for reducing risk of sensitive information leakage when thing information is acquired in the current internet of things. In a thing information transmission method of an embodiment, a second device sends thing identification information to a first device, and the first device sends a thing information request message to a third device, the thing information request message including verification information and the thing identification information, the verification information not including device identification information about the second device and also not including identity identification information about a user. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A thing information transmission method, apparatus and system in the internet of things are for reducing risk of sensitive information leakage when thing information is acquired in the current internet of things. In a thing information transmission method of an embodiment, a second device sends thing identification information to a first device, and the first device sends a thing information request message to a third device, the thing information request message including verification information and the thing identification information, the verification information not including device identification information about the second device and also not including identity identification information about a user. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An apparatus for using a certificate on a device is proposed, including a processing unit for generating a certificate request and a transmitter-receiver unit for transmitting the generated certificate request to a first external computing unit, which is configured to generate a certificate for the device and to allow a second external computing unit to re-sign the certificate with an additional manufacturer's signature, and for receiving the re-signed certificate from the external computing unit. The processing unit is further configured to check the manufacturer's signature based on information stored in the device and to use the certificate depending on a result of the check. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system and a method for visualizing related data in a multidisciplinary engineering system 60 are provided. A visualization of a multi-discipline system 60 based on a meta model is controlled by input from a user. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method generates data elaboration software architectures suitable for mes or mom systems. The method includes providing at least one source program block capable of generating a suitably formatted signal capable of being processed and at least one elaboration program block capable of elaborating the signals generated by the source program blocks.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An automation system, a controller, a field device and method for operating the automation system, wherein a first field device is provided for an operation on site with an operating unit, where depending on an operator input, the first field device transmits a request for a provision of data to the controller, which returns to the field device corresponding data relating to functionalities in the automation system lying outside the first field device, and where information corresponding to the data is output on the operating unit of the first field device such that an on-site display in the automation system of existing measurement values that were previously not available on the first field device, or a configuration of automation functions which do not run on the first field device is advantageously permitted.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Provided is a control device for a production module having a data memory for storing operational settings of production modules and restrictions, which must be complied with by at least some of the operational settings. A settings management module is used to determine the external operational setting of an adjacent production module on which a local operational setting of the production module is dependent on the basis of a common restriction. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for configuring a switched-mode power supply with multiple output channels, where the switched-mode power supply includes at least one operating element for each output channel, where the operating element is used to manually adjust an operating parameter for the corresponding output channel, the switched-mode power supply also includes an interface for performing a remote configuration, where each manually adjusted operating parameter is output to a remote configuring unit via the interface, and each manually adjusted operating parameter is transferred into a switched-mode power supply configuration that is set via the configuring unit such that, in a manual mode, adjusted operating parameters are transferred into the remote configuration and are used in a remote mode upon restarting the switched-mode power supply.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
In a method for detecting self-excited vibrations of a separating machine tool or of a tool of the separating machine tool or of a workpiece machined by the separating machine tool, detecting while the workpiece is machined by the separating machine tool, a measurement signal representing a physical variable; forming from the measurement signal a reference signal and a filtered filter signal; generating, with an envelope curve demodulator, from the reference signal an envelope curve reference signal and from the filtered filter signal an envelope curve filter signal; comparing the envelope curve reference signal with the envelope curve filter signal and generating at least one first comparison value defined as a ratio of a magnitude of the envelope curve reference signal and a magnitude of the envelope curve filter signal, and detecting the self-excited vibrations based on the first comparison value.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for operating a power plant having a gas turbine and an emergency fuel system where in a normal operating state, gas is supplied from a supply line to the combustion process of the gas turbine, and in addition gas is supplied from the supply line to a gas liquefaction plant where it is liquefied, forming a liquid gas which is stored in a liquid gas store. In special operating state, liquefied gas is drawn from the liquid gas store and is evaporated in an evaporator, and is fed in the gaseous state into the combustion process of the gas turbine.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system and method for supplying an energy grid with energy from an intermittent renewable energy source having a production unit for producing hydrogen and nitrogen, a mixing unit configured to receive and mix the hydrogen and the nitrogen produced by the production unit, an ammonia source for receiving and processing the hydrogen-nitrogen-mixture, an ammonia power generator for generating energy for the energy grid, a heat distribution system with one or more heat exchangers, and an ammonia cracker, which is fluidly connected to the ammonia storage vessel and to the ammonia power generator, and which is configured and arranged to receive ammonia from the ammonia storage vessel, to effect a partial cracking of the received ammonia to form an ammonia-hydrogen-mixture and to direct the ammonia-hydrogen-mixture to the ammonia power generator for combustion.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A machine having a shaft with a stage having a first shaft section having a first diameter, a second shaft section having a second diameter that is shorter than the first, forming a radially extending rotatable shaft end surface; a housing; and a bearing supporting the shaft on the housing by its second shaft section, and lubricated by a lubrication fluid. A sealing chamber has a sealing fluid that prevents the lubrication from leaving the bearing, and is axially limited by the shaft end surface and bearing end side, and radially inwardly limited by the second shaft section released from the bearing. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
In order to control a technical system, a user control variable is read in and a plurality of control variable variants of the user control variable are generated. A respective trajectory of the technical system is extrapolated for the user control variable and for the control variable variants, for which a respective reliability is evaluated. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method of controlling a non-productive movement of a tool from a starting position to an end position in a travel envelope of a machine tool includes the steps of a) providing a collision-free first trajectory for the non-productive movement of the tool, b) determining a second trajectory that is improved over the first trajectory with regard to a selectable target parameter using an algorithm, and c) checking the second trajectory for collisions and, if the second trajectory is free of collisions, providing an instruction corresponding to the second trajectory. The first trajectory in step a) includes plural rectilinear segments and the second trajectory in step b) includes a polynomial segment and, if the second trajectory is not free of collisions in step c), steps b) to c) are repeated so that the algorithm is provided with a modified model of the travel envelope in a repeat of step b).. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method and an apparatus for authenticating a service user for a service that is to be provided. The method has the following steps: a) provision of an anonymous and self-signed certificate, produced by a service use means of the service user, for set-up of a connection, protected by the use of a security protocol, for data transmission between the service use device which is for example, a mobile device or a pc, via his anonymous, self-signed certificate and a service provision device, for example, a server, at the application level using the group signature, and b) verification of the provided anonymous and self-signed certificate by means of a group signature, assigned to a group, for detecting the authorization of the service user to use the service, in order to establish whether the service user providing the certificate through his service use device is a member of the group.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a rotor (10) for a reluctance machine (e), wherein the rotor (10) has a laminate stack (14) with layers (16), each of the layers having a plurality of flux-conducting portions (24) which are formed in each case by a magnetically conductive rotor lamination (18) and extend between two adjacent d-axes and transversely to a respective q-axis (30), wherein the flux-conducting portions (24) are separated from each other by in each case a flux barrier (22) which is filled with a casting compound. The aim of the invention is to additionally provide a permanent magnetic excitation in the rotor (10) without degrading the reluctance of the rotor. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to current limiter devices. Various embodiments thereof may be useful for limiting a short-circuit current in a superordinate electrical supply system, wherein the current limiter device has a current-limiting coil device and a switch electrically connected in series with the coil device and/or methods for limiting a short-circuit current in an electrical supply system with such a current limiter device. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to transformers. Teachings thereof may be embodied in a transformation unit having a primary winding and a secondary winding. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a solid, in particular strip-shaped insulation material, to the use thereof in a vacuum impregnation method and a thus produced insulation system and to an electric machine using the insulation system, in particular for the medium and high voltage range, that is for medium and high voltage machines, in particular rotating electric machines in the medium and high voltage range and to semi-finished products for electric switching systems. According to the invention, the curing catalyst is a covalently-bridged di-imidazol derivative and/or a covalently-bridged di-pyrazol derivative.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to insulation. Various embodiments thereof may include a solid insulation material and/or a formulation for production of an insulation system. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Independent subspace analysis (isa) is used to learn (42) filter kernels for cle images in brain tumor classification. Convolution (46) and stacking are used for unsupervised learning (44, 48) with isa to derive the filter kernels. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Provided is a system and a simulator for the disengageable simulation of installations or machines within programmable logic controllers, in which control program and simulation program are strictly separate within the same processing environment, wherein the direction of access for the input/output memory area during normal operation and the consistent reversal thereof in the simulation part are ensured, and which involves the simulation program being executed between the program cycles, with a virtual clock being stopped during the simulation. As a result, the test on an unaltered user program in the plc avoids errors in the startup or test phase through code changes, and a timing response as in the genuine installation, particularly in the event of tests on timers and under race conditions, achieves a higher level of program quality through better test results.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Provided is a method for generating a device-specific identifier in a device which contains at least one programmable circuit component and the circuit of which consists of individual components that are configured by loading a bitstream, having the following method steps: displaying the reference identifier as a bit sequence and assigning each bit of the reference identifier to a respective different component of the circuit component; generating a reference bitstream for a reference circuit of the circuit component, the bitstream containing at least the specified component of the reference identifier, and entering the device specific identifier as a binary sequence by overwriting the bits of the corresponding components of the reference identifier directly in the reference bitstream.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A solar drive system, having: at least one photovoltaic array generating a dc current; at least one inverter electrically connected to the photovoltaic array for inverting the dc current into an ac current; at least one electric motor electrically connected to the inverter for supplying the electric motor with the ac current; and at least one device for determining a present rotational frequency of the electric motor; wherein the inverter is configured to track a maximum power point of the photovoltaic array by performing a perturb and observe maximum power point tracking method and to determine a step direction of the perturb and observe maximum power point tracking method using the determined present rotational frequency of the electric motor.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for determining the fault location of a ground fault relating to a line of a three-phase electrical energy supply network with an ungrounded neutral point, in which current and voltage values are measured at one line end of the line. Following the occurrence of a ground fault on the line, the location of the fault is defined using the measured current and voltage values. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method of coating a superalloy substrate, includes (a) aluminising the surface of the substrate to form an inner coating layer; (b) applying a slurry with a solid content including cr, al, ni and co onto the inner coating layer, where the cr-content of the solid content is between 15% and 30% by weight thereof, and diffusion heat treating the slurry applied to the inner coating layer at a temperature above 800° c. For 1 to 8 hours to form an intermediate coating layer; and (c) applying a cr-free slurry with a solid content including al and ni onto the intermediate coating layer, where the al-content of the solid content is between 15% and 30% by weight of the solid content, and diffusion heat treating the slurry applied onto the intermediate surface layer at a temperature above 800° c. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A ring segment for a gas turbine has a base body having a first surface subjectable to hot gas, second surface arranged opposite of the first surface and fastening elements extending from the second surface. The ring segment extends in the axial direction and in an azimuthal direction of the gas turbine. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to turbomachines. Teachings thereof may be embodied in a blade for a turbomachine, having an interior space which is surrounded by a wall structure which forms the surface of the blade. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to the redundant supply of kinetic energy to a drive system of an aircraft in order to ensure in each case largely safe operation of the aircraft during normal operation of the system and also in various emergency scenarios. The system has two electrical machines (110, 130), each of which is connected to in each case one of the two propellers. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The disclosure relates to a propeller drive that is, in particular, an aircraft drive and includes a propeller machine and an electric drive connected without a converter to the propeller machine. The aircraft includes such a propeller drive.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A trackside railway apparatus includes at least one sensor device which is configured to detect at least one use of at least one trackside component of a railway installation. A storage device stores at least one item of use information dating or tracing back to the detection of the use. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A system includes a set of passenger seat devices in a transport unit and a control unit. In order to permit an identification of seat locations to be changeable, a communication unit exchanges data between the set of passenger seat devices and the control unit. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates powder-bed-based additive manufacturing of a component in a powder bed. For example, a method for monitoring a process for powder-bed-based additive manufacturing of a component in a powder bed may include: using an image sensor to image a surface of the powder bed; illuminating the surface of the powder bed diagonally from above from at least one direction by a light source; and evaluating an image depicted on the image sensor to monitor the surface of the powder bed.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a method (100) for determining an optimised trajectory for a non-productive movement of a tool (10) of a machine tool, from a starting position (12) to an end position (14). The non-productive movement is carried out in a spatially restricted travelling area (20) which is represented by geometric conditions. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An automation system comprises a local threat information server operating within automation plant and a plurality of field devices operating at a control layer of the automation plant. The local threat information server is configured to: receive threat information from one or more external sources, receive plant information from one or more internal sources, set a threat level according to one or more of the threat information and the plant information, and distribute an indication of the threat level to one or more control layer devices. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The invention relates to a mobile network subscriber (10) for use in a cabled network (1), particularly in a collector wire network of an electric telpher, wherein the cabled network (1) has at least one first segment (s1) and at least one second segment (s2) and wherein the mobile network subscriber (10) has a first slave modem (sm1), a second slave modem (sm2), a first contact arrangement (k1) and a second contact arrangement (k2) in each case. In order to allow a change between two segments of a network in a simple and efficient manner, it is proposed that the slave modems (sm1, sm2) be provided for communication with at least one first master modem (mm1) and/or at least one second master modem (m2) via the contact arrangements (k1, k2) and the segments (s1, s2), wherein the mobile network subscriber (10) is provided for movement along the segments (s1, s2), the contact arrangements (k1, k2) of the mobile network subscriber (10) being arranged such that the change from the first segment (s1) to the second segment (s2) involves at least one of the contact arrangements (k1, k2) being connected to the first segment (s1) and at least one further contact arrangement (k1, k2) being connected to the second segment (s2).. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for producing hole-transporting electrical layers includes reacting a functionalized organic matrix compound with at least one cross-linking reagent on a substrate, which thereby forms higher-molecular-weight compounds. The functionalized organic matrix compound may include particular constituents arranged in a particular chemical formula.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The disclosure relates to an electrical switching contact, including a contact carrier and a contact plating, which has a contact material, and to a method for producing the electrical switching contact. The disclosure is characterized in that a layer that may be sintered is arranged between the contact material and the contact carrier in order to connect the contact material to the contact carrier.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A capacitor system includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor, having essentially the same capacitance, and a current limiter. A first terminal of the first capacitor and a first terminal of the second capacitor are connectable to a first busbar. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A burner for a gas turbine, wherein the burner has a combustion chamber, a preheating device adapted to preheat air before it enters the combustion chamber and a swirler adapted to guide a swirler air flow that has the preheated air to the combustion chamber, wherein the swirler has a base plate with a surface that confines the swirler air flow, wherein the surface has a hole adapted to inject a liquid fuel into the swirler air flow and the base plate has a channel for transporting the liquid fuel to the hole, wherein at least a part of the channel is oriented essentially parallel to the surface so that the liquid fuel streams essentially parallel to the surface and is preheated by the swirler air flow.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A burner for a gas turbine engine has a combustion chamber and a swirler adapted to guide a swirler air flow to the combustion chamber, wherein the swirler has a first wall confining the swirler air flow as well as a second wall confining the swirler air flow on the same side as and downstream with respect to the swirler air flow from the first wall and being displaced with respect to the first wall in a direction away from the swirler air flow so that a step being able to cause a flow separation of the swirler air flow is formed by the first wall and the second wall, wherein the second wall has a through hole in its surface adapted to inject a liquid fuel into the swirler air flow.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An exhaust-steam casing for a turbine, the exhaust-steam casing being designed to discharge the exhaust steam of the turbine in a radial direction with respect to a longitudinal axis of a rotor shaft of the turbine and having an upper exhaust-steam casing part and at least one side exhaust-steam casing part. The upper exhaust-steam casing part and/or the side exhaust-steam casing part have a lower exhaust-steam casing part connection surface for connecting the exhaust-steam casing to a lower exhaust-steam casing part. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A coolable wall element for a gas turbine, having a base body with a first surface subjectable to a hot gas, second surface arranged opposite of the first surface, and first seat for housing edges of an impingement plate. The wall element has an impingement plate partly inserted into the first seat located at a distance and adjacent to the second surface. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A gas turbine guide vane segment has a first guide vane part with an aerofoil and a first platform section and a second guide vane part with a second platform section. The first guide vane part and the second guide vane part are separately manufactured parts joined together such that the second platform section defines a leading edge of the gas turbine guide vane segment and such that the first platform section and the second platform section form an aligned common platform surface of the gas turbine guide vane segment. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A rotor blade arrangement for a turbomachine having a blade carrier, on whose outer circumferential surface there is formed a circumferential t-shaped slot, having a blade ring which has a plurality of blades and spacers, that are inserted in alternation into the t-shaped slot, and having support elements that are braced between the blades and spacers on one hand and a base of the t-shaped slot on the other hand such that the blades and spacers are pressed radially outward, a separate support element being assigned to each spacer and being releasably held thereon, in particular secured in a clamping manner. A method includes assembling a rotor blade arrangement.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
The present disclosure relates to electrolysis. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a reduction process and/or an electrolysis system for electrochemical carbon dioxide utilization wherein carbon dioxide is introduced into an electrolysis cell and reduced at a cathode. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
An architecture and a signaling process are created for transmitting call images from a first telecommunication device to a second telecommunication device to establish communication link from the first telecommunication device to the second telecommunication device is established via a telecommunication network. The inventive method is suitable particularly for establishing a connection for call image transmission between sip supporting telephones and non-sip supporting telephones.. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A radio communication system in which first and second communication devices are linked redundantly to an industrial communication network, wherein the first communication device is connected to a serialization unit connected to a network infrastructure device, first and second radio base stations are connected to the network infrastructure device, the second communication device is indirectly or directly connected to a first and a second radio subscriber station, the first radio subscriber station is connected to the first radio base station whilst the second radio subscriber station is connected to the second radio base station, where the serialization unit replaces destination addresses in data frames conveyed by the first communication device with addresses of the first or second radio subscriber stations, where the radio subscriber stations replace destination addresses corresponding to their address in data frames conveyed via the radio base stations with original destination addresses replaced in the serialization unit.. . ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
A method for operating a network, such as an automation network, for example, has multiple node devices provided that are networked to one another. There is a global time available, and the node devices record their operating parameters. ... Siemens Aktiengesellschaft