Patents by Inventor Dierk Hoffmann

Dierk Hoffmann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230073289
    Abstract: A housing for a traction battery of a hybrid or electric vehicle may include at least two housing parts and at least one coolant tube. The at least two housing parts may include a first housing part and a second housing part, which are separate from one another. Each of the housing parts may include a bottom and a plurality of side walls perpendicularly projecting from the bottom. The at least one coolant tube may be arranged between a first side wall of the first housing part and a second side wall of the second housing part. The at least two housing parts may each be glued to the at least one coolant tube via a respective adhesive layer of a plurality of adhesive layers such that the at least two housing parts are connected to one another via the at least one coolant tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Davide Belardo, Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Stefan Kaiser, Ruediger Knauss, Michael Mundorff, Nico Storz
  • Publication number: 20230018642
    Abstract: A battery housing for receiving at least one battery cell module is disclosed. The battery housing includes at least one housing part surrounding a housing interior. A film composed of a metal is arranged, at least in portions, on an outside of the at least one housing part facing away from the housing interior. A studded structure is provided on a surface of the film facing away from the at least one housing part. The studded structure includes a plurality of studs arranged spaced apart from one another and projecting from the surface of the film. The plurality of studs support themselves on the outside of the at least one housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Geskes, Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Martin Janssen, Ruediger Knauss, Peter Ruppricht, Nico Storz
  • Publication number: 20220285769
    Abstract: A battery housing for accommodating battery cells of a battery may include at least two housing parts delimiting an inner volume. Each housing part of the at least two housing parts may have a connecting section. The connecting sections of the at least two housing parts may rest on one another. The at least two housing parts may be connected to one another via the connecting sections. Each housing part may have a plastic base body and a metal layer disposed on the base body for electromagnetic shielding of the inner volume. The metal layer may extend into the connecting section of the corresponding housing part such that the metal layers, in the connecting sections resting on one another, contact each other along an extension of the connecting sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Ruediger Knauss, Peter Ruppricht
  • Patent number: 11437678
    Abstract: A battery module for a traction battery may include a module housing through which a coolant is flowable and at least one battery cell stack arranged within an interior space of the module housing. The at least one battery cell stack may include a plurality of battery cells arranged one after another along a stack direction. The plurality of battery cells may be arranged within the module housing such that a coolant flowable through the module housing directly contacts the plurality of battery cells. A locking mechanism may form-fittingly connect the at least one battery cell stack to the module housing via (i) a plurality of housing-side locking points and (ii) a plurality of stack-side locking points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Tilman Kaiser, Ruediger Knauss
  • Publication number: 20210359360
    Abstract: An accumulator for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The accumulator includes at least one rechargeable accumulator cell and a housing where the accumulator cell is arranged in an interior space of the housing. The housing has a top and a bottom located opposite the top. The interior space is filled with a temperature-control liquid during operation, which surrounds and temperature-controls the accumulator cell. A vent opening is provided on the bottom for venting the interior space. A channel body is providing having at least one lower opening and at least one upper opening. The lower opening being fluidically connected to the vent opening. The upper opening is fluidically connected to a gas collection space in the interior space that is spaced apart from the bottom towards the top, so that a flow path extends between the gas collection space and the vent opening through the channel body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Ruediger Knauss
  • Publication number: 20210013553
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery may include a housing and a plurality of rechargeable battery cells accommodated in an internal volume of the housing. The housing may include a first housing part and a second housing part. A tension rod may undoably couple the first housing part and the second housing part. The tension rod may include a bolt and a bolt head. The bolt may be guided through the internal volume and may include a structure configured to form an undoable connection with a counter-structure arranged on the first housing part. The second housing part may include a feed-through orifice open to the internal volume and a surrounding environment of the housing. A plug may, when in an open position, open up a fluidic drain path from the internal volume to the surrounding environment of the housing. The plug may also, when in a closed position, shut off the drain path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Ruediger Knauss
  • Publication number: 20200411821
    Abstract: A battery module for a traction battery may include a module housing through which a coolant is flowable and at least one battery cell stack arranged within an interior space of the module housing. The at least one battery cell stack may include a plurality of battery cells arranged one after another along a stack direction. The plurality of battery cells may be arranged within the module housing such that a coolant flowable through the module housing directly contacts the plurality of battery cells. A locking mechanism may form-fittingly connect the at least one battery cell stack to the module housing via (i) a plurality of housing-side locking points and (ii) a plurality of stack-side locking points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Dierk Hoffmann, Tilman Kaiser, Ruediger Knauss
  • Patent number: 7473353
    Abstract: A fuel filter of an internal combustion engine has a filter housing in which water separated from the fuel may collect within the filter so as to permit collection of the largest possible quantity of separated water in the smallest possible overall volume. This fuel filter has a liquid line which leads out of an area of the filter housing that is exposed to fuel and in which separated water can settle out due to gravity into a water collecting chamber situated outside the filter housing. There is also an upper area of the water collecting chamber which is connected by a connecting line mounted there to a fuel delivery line of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Mahle Filtersysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Riccardo Carlo Giolitti, Dierk Hoffmann, Thomas Weiser
  • Publication number: 20070114160
    Abstract: A fuel filter having a filter housing of an internal combustion engine in which water separated from the fuel may collect within the filter is to permit collection of the largest possible quantity of separated water in the smallest possible overall volume. To this end, such a fuel filter is characterized by the following features: a liquid line (3) leads out of an area of the filter housing that is exposed to fuel and in which separated water can settle out due to gravity into a water collecting chamber (4) situated outside the filter housing, an upper area of the water collecting chamber (4) is connected by a connecting line (5) mounted there to a fuel delivery line (1) of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Riccardo Giolitti, Dierk Hoffmann, Thomas Weiser