Patents by Inventor Hans-Georg Schweiger

Hans-Georg Schweiger 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).

  • Patent number: 9825340
    Abstract: An electric energy storage device has a housing, a positive pole and a negative pole, and a deep discharge device integrated in the housing. The device further has a discharge load and it is configured such that the two poles can be electrically connected by way of the discharge load. There is enabled targeted and controlled deep discharging of the energy storage device and improved operating reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Lutz Elsholz, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9728807
    Abstract: An electrochemical or electric layer system, having at least two electrode layers and at least one ion-conducting layer disposed between two electrode layers. The ion-conducting layer has at least one ion-conducting solid electrolyte and at least one binder at grain boundaries of the at least one ion-conducting solid electrolyte for improving the ion conductivity over the grain boundaries and the adhesion of the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Olaf Böse, Michael Keller, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9296302
    Abstract: A charging device for an energy store, e.g., a lithium ion battery in an electric vehicle, may include a circuit for adjusting the charging device in a full charging mode or a parked charging mode, wherein the charging device is set up for producing a fully charged state of the energy store in full charging mode, and for producing a parked charged state of the energy store in parked charging mode, wherein the parked charging state corresponds to a reduced charge state of the energy store. Methods for operating such a charging device, and an electric vehicle having such a charging device, may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Stefan Bonnekessel, Björn Demitter, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9246338
    Abstract: Energy storage arrangement for safely discharging an energy accumulator with electric poles via which the energy accumulator can be at least discharged, an electrically conductive conductor medium in the form of a fluid or fine-grained bulk material or a mixture of both, a reservoir container which is filled with the conductor medium, a collecting container which is provided for accommodating the conductor medium and which encloses the electric poles of the energy accumulator, and a triggerable discharging device, by means of which, in the case of triggering, conductor medium is discharged from the reservoir container into the collecting container such that the electric poles of the energy accumulator are connected to one another in an electrically conductive fashion via the conductor medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: ZENTRUM FUR SONNENENERGIE—UND WASSERSTOFF-FORSCHUNG BADEN-WURTTEMBERG GEMEINNUTZIGE STIFTUNG, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Harry Döring, Harald Brazel, Michael Wörz, Olaf Böse, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9105882
    Abstract: An energy storage cell has a cell body with an areal expansion in an extension plane, with four side faces bounding a circumference of the area of extent and having each two of the side faces parallel to one another. A conductor electrode and a second electrode are disposed on one of the side faces symmetrically in the direction of the circumference of the extension plane relative to a center of the corresponding side face. A line from a contact point between an inward facing edge of the electrodes to a center point of the extension plane encloses an angle ? of 10°<?<36° with the corresponding side face. The center of the side face and/or a contact point of an outward facing edge of the electrodes forms an angle ? about the center point of the extension plane of 8°<?<45° with the corresponding side face with said center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Michael Schiemann, Olaf Böse, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Michael Keller
  • Patent number: 8993140
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery cell has at least one energy-optimized cell unit and at least one power-optimized cell unit. The power-optimized cell unit is configured in such a way that it can be used to generate a higher power than with the energy-optimized cell unit. The energy-optimized cell unit is configured in such a way that it can be used to store a higher quantity of energy per volume of the energy-optimized cell unit and/or per mass of the energy-optimized cell unit than with the power-optimized cell unit. The at least one energy-optimized cell unit and the at least one power-optimized cell unit are arranged in a common cell housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schiemann, Peter Birke, Carsten Patzelt, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Bjoern Ripp
  • Patent number: 8993150
    Abstract: A battery has two or more individual cells that are connected in series and which, for contacting purposes, each has at least one contact electrode to the positive electrode (cathode) and at least one contact electrode to the negative electrode (anode). The two are made of metals that differ from each other. The contact electrodes to the anode and the cathode have passive corrosion protection at least in the respective contacting region of the contact electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Bergmann, Michael Schiemann, Peter Birke, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Michael Keller
  • Patent number: 8932745
    Abstract: A method for connecting cell outgoing conductors of a first and a second cell. Here, a connection between the first and second cell outgoing conductors is produced by means of a connecting apparatus, which includes a first and a second component. At the same time, however, the first and second components also have the function of pre-bending the cell outgoing conductor of the first and second cells, respectively, in order thus to enable a particularly low physical height of the cell outgoing conductor arrangement. A system according to the invention includes a first and a second cell, which have cell outgoing conductors that are connected and shaped in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automative GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Abraham, Nevzat Guener, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Stefan Tillmann
  • Publication number: 20130196196
    Abstract: A battery includes a plurality of flat cells which are electrically connected in parallel and/or in series with one another and which, when disposed next to one another in rows perpendicular to their flat sides, form a substantially prismatic configuration. In order to obtain more accurate information about the state of the individual flat cells during operation of the battery and, for example, to allow such information to be used for matched temperature management, a heat dissipation plate, which is thermally linked to at least one flat side of a plurality of the flat cells and in each of which at least one temperature sensor is integrated, is provided in each case in the configuration. The battery may be used for spatially resolved battery temperature measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Ossama Obeidi, Michael Schiermann, Peter Birke, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Nevzat Guener
  • Publication number: 20130127421
    Abstract: Energy storage arrangement for safely discharging an energy accumulator with electric poles via which the energy accumulator can be at least discharged, an electrically conductive conductor medium in the form of a fluid or fine-grained bulk material or a mixture of both, a reservoir container which is filled with the conductor medium, a collecting container which is provided for accommodating the conductor medium and which encloses the electric poles of the energy accumulator, and a triggerable discharging device, by means of which, in the case of triggering, conductor medium is discharged from the reservoir container into the collecting container such that the electric poles of the energy accumulator are connected to one another in an electrically conductive fashion via the conductor medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Harry Döring, Harald Brazel, Michael Wörz, Olaf Böse, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Publication number: 20130122398
    Abstract: An electrochemical or electric layer system, having at least two electrode layers and at least one ion-conducting layer disposed between two electrode layers. The ion-conducting layer has at least one ion-conducting solid electrolyte and at least one binder at grain boundaries of the at least one ion-conducting solid electrolyte for improving the ion conductivity over the grain boundaries and the adhesion of the layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Olaf Böse, Michael Keller, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Publication number: 20130095368
    Abstract: An energy storage cell has a cell body with an areal expansion in an extension plane, with four side faces bounding a circumference of the area of extent and having each two of the side faces parallel to one another. A conductor electrode and a second electrode are disposed on one of the side faces symmetrically in the direction of the circumference of the extension plane relative to a center of the corresponding side face. A line from a contact point between an inward facing edge of the electrodes to a center point of the extension plane encloses an angle ? of 10°<?<36° with the corresponding side face. The center of the side face and/or a contact point of an outward facing edge of the electrodes forms an angle ? about the center point of the extension plane of 8°<?<45° with the corresponding side face with said center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Michael Schiemann, Olaf Böse, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20130095354
    Abstract: A battery has two or more individual cells that are connected in series and which, for contacting purposes, each has at least one contact electrode to the positive electrode (cathode) and at least one contact electrode to the negative electrode (anode). The two are made of metals that differ from each other. The contact electrodes to the anode and the cathode have passive corrosion protection at least in the respective contacting region of the contact electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Bergmann, Michael Schiemann, Peter Birke, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20130089761
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery cell has at least one energy-optimized cell unit and at least one power-optimized cell unit. The power-optimized cell unit is configured in such a way that it can be used to generate a higher power than with the energy-optimized cell unit. The energy-optimized cell unit is configured in such a way that it can be used to store a higher quantity of energy per volume of the energy-optimized cell unit and/or per mass of the energy-optimized cell unit than with the power-optimized cell unit. The at least one energy-optimized cell unit and the at least one power-optimized cell unit are arranged in a common cell housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Schiemann, Peter Birke, Carsten Patzelt, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Bjoern Ripp
  • Publication number: 20120275799
    Abstract: An electric energy storage system for a vehicle, such as an electric or hybrid vehicle. The energy storage system has multiple electric components and data transmission devices for transmitting data signals between the electric components. Here, the data transmission devices include at least one transmission link for electromagnetic radiation to transmit data signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Abraham, Sven Bergmann, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Publication number: 20120276773
    Abstract: A method for connecting cell outgoing conductors of a first and a second cell. Here, a connection between the first and second cell outgoing conductors is produced by means of a connecting apparatus, which includes a first and a second component. At the same time, however, the first and second components also have the function of pre-bending the cell outgoing conductor of the first and second cells, respectively, in order thus to enable a particularly low physical height of the cell outgoing conductor arrangement. A system according to the invention includes a first and a second cell, which have cell outgoing conductors that are connected and shaped in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Abraham, Nevzat Guener, Hans-Georg Schweiger, Stefan Tillmann
  • Publication number: 20120249076
    Abstract: An electric energy storage device has a housing, a positive pole and a negative pole, and a deep discharge device integrated in the housing. The device further has a discharge load and it is configured such that the two poles can be electrically connected by way of the discharge load. There is enabled targeted and controlled deep discharging of the energy storage device and improved operating reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Lutz Elsholz, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger
  • Publication number: 20120242288
    Abstract: A charging device for an energy store, e.g., a lithium ion battery in an electric vehicle, may include a circuit for adjusting the charging device in a full charging mode or a parked charging mode, wherein the charging device is set up for producing a fully charged state of the energy store in full charging mode, and for producing a parked charged state of the energy store in parked charging mode, wherein the parked charging state corresponds to a reduced charge state of the energy store. Methods for operating such a charging device, and an electric vehicle having such a charging device, may also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Stefan Bonnekessel, Björn Demitter, Michael Schiemann, Hans-Georg Schweiger