Patents Assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
  • Publication number: 20220242045
    Abstract: A 3D printing device for building up a three-dimensional workpiece layer-by-layer includes a first side having a removal area in which a workpiece is built up by the printing device, wherein the removal area provides manual removability of the workpiece therefrom; a second side having a workpiece output from which the workpiece is removable; and a conveying device configured to remove the workpiece from the removal area in an automated way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicants: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg, AIM3D GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan BEETZ, Clemens LIEBERWIRTH, Vincent MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20220194215
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling an electrically driven or driveable motor vehicle, having a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, having an air-guiding channel which connects the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and which has two diametrically oppositely situated passage openings which are reversibly closable by means of a first air guide and by means of a second air guide, and having a cooler fan which is arranged downstream of the second heat exchanger in terms of flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nils SPRINGER, Thomas DREESEN
  • Patent number: 11339707
    Abstract: A fan assembly including a first cooling fan arranged with respect to an air flow direction downstream of a heat exchanger and a second cooling fan. The first cooling fan is a radial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air radially and the second cooling fan is an axial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air axially. The axial fan is arranged downstream of the heat exchanger and laterally adjacent to the radial fan in a plane parallel to the rear side of the heat exchanger in a plane parallel to the front side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Marco Wichers, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20220134662
    Abstract: A 3D printing device includes at least one printing nozzle for a layer-by-layer application of a printing material provided for the production of a component to be printed along a direction of application (R). The 3D printing device has a temperature control device that is configured and provided both to cool and warm already applied printing material in the region of the printing nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg, AIM3D GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan BEETZ, Clemens LIEBERWIRTH, Vincent MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20220134661
    Abstract: A platform unit for being arranged on a base plate of a 3D printing device, wherein the platform unit defines a printing area for a component to be built up three-dimensionally in layers. The platform unit can be detachably fastened to the base plate and has at least one heating device for heating the printing area and/or at least one removable sintering base plate, which defines at least part of the printing area, and/or at least one magnetizing device for the alignment of magnetic particles printed for the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg, AIM3D GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan BEETZ, Clemens LIEBERWIRTH, Vincent MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20220118825
    Abstract: An electrical coolant drive including a motor housing, which accommodates an electric motor and has a fluid-tight housing intermediate wall forming an electronics housing accommodating a motor electronics system, at least one through-opening is introduced into the housing intermediate wall, via which a phase connection of a stator winding of the electric motor is guided into the electronics housing in a fluid-tight and pressure-tight manner to contact the motor electronics, and a step surrounding the through-opening is introduced into the housing intermediate wall, and a first sealing ring sits in the through-opening, directly in contact with the phase connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Christopher LIEPOLD
  • Publication number: 20220115923
    Abstract: An electric motor which is designed as an internal rotor, comprising a laminated stator core and a functional support which is arranged on a rear side that faces away from an output side of the laminated stator core. The functional support includes a plastic housing and connecting elements which are integrated in the plastic housing and protrude therefrom in the axial direction of the laminated stator core. The functional support is interlocking and/or integrally connected to the laminated stator core in the axial direction at a lateral outer surface of the laminated stator core by means of the connecting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Steffen MANGER, Sven Anton BÜCHNER, Benjamin NELSON, Florian WINTER, Anna FESER, Steffen REIHER, Christof GOEKE, Marcus BALSAM
  • Publication number: 20220112901
    Abstract: An impeller of a motor vehicle, in particular a cooling fan, comprising a hub, to which a number of fan blades are connected. The fan blades are inclined in relation to a rotational axis of the impeller and have in each case a section which in the top view is S-shaped along the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Michael MAUSS
  • Publication number: 20220109341
    Abstract: An electric motor including a stator, an end insulator, and a connection unit is provided. The stator may extend in an axial direction and may include a winding wire. The connection unit may include a housing and a lead frame. The housing may have an annular shape and may include an inner periphery, an outer periphery, and a medial portion extending therebetween. The housing may include a protrusion that may extend in an axial direction from the medial portion. The lead frame may include a number of busbars that may be coupled to the housing and fixed to the winding wire. The protrusion may contact an inner periphery of the end insulator or the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Karl KRUG, James SALO, Wolfgang STRAUß
  • Publication number: 20220109346
    Abstract: An electric motor including a housing, a busbar, an end plate, and a contact adapter. The housing may include a shield that may define an aperture. The busbar may extend from a stator towards the aperture and the busbar may be disposed within the housing. The contact adapter may include a base member, a contact member, and a protrusion. The contact member may extend from the base member and contact the busbar. The protrusion may extend from the base member and the protrusion may be sandwiched between the shield and the end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Stanley SIMPSON, Joseph SURIANO
  • Publication number: 20220025899
    Abstract: The cooling fan module may include a fan assembly and a fan shroud. The fan shroud of the cooling fan module may include a first sidewall that may extend in a radial direction and define an opening. The fan assembly may include a hub disposed within the opening, a blade extending from the hub to a distal end that may include a first side and a second side converging to form a first leading edge with respect to the rotational direction. The fan assembly may include a winglet that may include a first fin, extending in the axial direction from the distal end of the blade and a second fin extending in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Tao HONG
  • Patent number: 11220953
    Abstract: A cooler fan module, having: a fan frame, a fan wheel recess formed in the fan frame, wherein the fan wheel recess is bounded by a frame ring, a motor mount, which is arranged within the fan wheel recess and is mechanically connected to the fan frame by means of struts, a motor, more particularly an electric motor, which is held at least partially in the motor mount, and a fan wheel, which is arranged in the fan wheel recess and is rotationally driven by the motor, wherein the cooler fan module further has a separately formed, annular structure element, which is arranged on the frame ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Antje Findeisen, Tilman Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20220003144
    Abstract: A fan assembly including a first cooling fan arranged with respect to an air flow direction downstream of a heat exchanger and a second cooling fan. The first cooling fan is a radial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air radially and the second cooling fan is an axial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air axially. The axial fan is arranged downstream of the heat exchanger and laterally adjacent to the radial fan in a plane parallel to the rear side of the heat exchanger in a plane parallel to the front side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Marco WICHERS, Thomas DREESEN
  • Publication number: 20210359572
    Abstract: A housing may include a first end that may define a first aperture. The stator may be disposed in the housing and include a bus bar that may extend towards the first aperture. The contact adapter may be fixed to the first end of the housing and may include a base member and a contact member. The base member may define a contact aperture and may include a body and a collar that may extend from the body. The body and the collar may define a pocket and the contact aperture may be disposed in the pocket. The contact member may include a first end, a second end, and a medial portion extending therebetween. The first end may extend from the body into the pocket and may contact the bus bar. The second end may extend from the base member and may be configured to contact an electrical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Joseph SURIANO, Peter HAUCK, Christoph EHEHALT
  • Publication number: 20210285534
    Abstract: An electronic unit, in particular for an electric fluid pump of a motor vehicle, having a functional element for holding electronics, and a heat sink arranged on the functional element, wherein the functional element and the heat sink are sealed from one another in fluid-tight fashion by means of a cured sealing compound of a liquid seal, and wherein the functional element has at least one ventilation opening, which is open in the course of a curing process for the sealing compound, and which, after the curing process, is sealed in fluid-tight fashion by means of a closure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nico WIEßMANN, Peter SUDERMANN, Stephan ROOS, Christian SCHUMPA, Fabian MÜLLER, Hans-Jürgen GEßNER
  • Publication number: 20210288546
    Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine, more particularly an electric motor of a motor vehicle, comprising: a laminated stator core, which has a number of stator teeth and is provided with a rotating field winding, which is arranged on the stator teeth and comprises a plurality of phases, the phases of the rotating field winding being formed from a continuously wound winding wire; and a connecting device having a number of U-shaped sockets corresponding to the number of phases, said sockets being provided for each holding one insulation displacement contact as a point of connection of the winding wire to phase terminals on a stator end face, each socket having two vertical U legs and a contact slot arranged therebetween for receiving the winding wire, one of the two vertical U legs of the socket being longer in an axial direction than the other vertical U leg in each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nico WIEßMANN, Alexander VOLKAMER, Wolfgang STRAUß
  • Publication number: 20210265878
    Abstract: An electric motor, in particular for an oil pump, comprising a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator has through-openings, which are continuous in the axial direction, for screw elements, and comprising a functional support, which is arranged on an end face with respect to the axial direction of the stator and which has a contoured contact section for the stator and screw receiving areas for the screw elements. The screw receiving areas protrude out of the contoured contact section for the stator in the axial direction, and the screw receiving areas are received in the through-openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nico WIEßMANN, Peter SUDERMANN, Stephan ROOS, Alexander VOLKAMER
  • Publication number: 20210207600
    Abstract: A valve assembly for an electrical refrigerant compressor of a motor vehicle, comprising: a flexurally elastic valve plate for the pressure-regulated opening and closing of an outlet opening of the refrigerant compressor; and a rigid stop plate for limiting the movement of the valve plate, the stop plate and the valve plate being in the form of a preassembled component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Björn FAGERLI, Budi RINALDI, Pierre SCHMITT, Regina KILIAN
  • Publication number: 20210180595
    Abstract: A compressor module with an pot-shaped compressor casing with a casing bottom and a casing wall which has an outlet for a compressed refrigerant, with a separator device for separating a lubricant mixed in with the refrigerant, the separator device is introduced into a high-pressure chamber of the compressor casing, wherein the separator device has a hollow-cylindrical chamber wall which forms a separation chamber fluidically connected to the outlet, and the a separator is received in the separation chamber to form an annular space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Björn FAGERLI, Budi RINALDI, Dennis RYMA, Pierre SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20210178519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a welding assembly (2, 8), in particular a housing of an electrical machine (1). A first, cold-formed joining partner (2), which is formed from a cold-formable first aluminium alloy having a low silicon content, and a second joining partner (8) formed from a second aluminium alloy having an increased silicon content as compared to the first aluminium alloy are provided. Said joining partners are joined by means of laser beam welding. The silicon content of the second aluminium alloy is increased relative to the first aluminium alloy in such a way that a silicon content of at least approximately 3% is provided in a welding zone (74) between the first and the second joining partner (2, 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Dominik FENTEN, Michael SCHULZE, Julian SCHMITT, Ralph KALTHOFF