Patents by Inventor Nicolas Flahaut
Nicolas Flahaut 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).
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Publication number: 20240097230Abstract: The invention relates to a battery device (10) for a motor vehicle, having a plurality of battery cells (12) which are accommodated in a housing and rest at least against a heat-conducting potting compound (20) or a heat-conducting pad, which potting compound or pad rests against at least one structural component (22) of the battery device (10), as a result of which heat (14) can be dissipated from the battery cells (12) to the structural component (22) via the heat-conducting potting compound (20) or the heat-conducting pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Savo ASANIN, Nicolas FLAHAUT, Philip GUERRERO, Michael HUBER, Tuncay IDIKURT, Qi LI, Alexander RHEINFELD, Robin RUECKER, Aron VARGA, Tyron VIGODSKI, Linda WENZEL
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Patent number: 11183720Abstract: A cooling device for a battery assembly, in particular a high-voltage storage unit, of an electrically driven vehicle has multiple cooling lines in which a coolant is conducted. The cooling device is designed to transfer heat from the battery assembly to the coolant. The cooling device has at least two individual cooling elements which are designed separately, which lie opposite a battery, and each of which is supplied with coolant via a dedicated valve paired with the respective individual cooling element. A unit including a battery assembly and such a cooling device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sebastian Siering, Michael Huber, Nicolas Flahaut, Andreas Ring, Jan Feddersen
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Patent number: 10910685Abstract: Vehicle having a high-voltage battery which has a housing, wherein the housing has a housing floor which is essentially parallel to an underlying surface on which the vehicle is standing or travelling, a housing cover which is arranged spaced apart from the housing floor, housing walls via which the housing floor is connected to the housing cover. The housing has at least one housing structure plate which has a plane of maximum size which is perpendicular with respect to the housing floor and with respect to the housing cover, and an underside which faces the housing floor or is connected thereto, and an upper side which faces the housing cover or is connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Schwarzer, Semi Ben Salah, Nicolas Flahaut
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Patent number: 10836233Abstract: A heating system for an electric or hybrid vehicle is provided. The heating system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heater heat exchanger which is arranged in a heating circuit, for air-conditioning the interior, a high-voltage storage device which is arranged in an HVS circuit, and a cooler which is arranged in a cooling circuit. The heating circuit, the HVS circuit, and the cooling circuit are integrated into a common coolant circuit. In a first HVS cooling operation, the HVS circuit is separated from the cooling circuit and connected to a chiller in order to discharge heat into the refrigerant circuit. In a second HVS cooling operation, the HVS circuit is connected to the cooling circuit via a chiller bypass in order to discharge heat via the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Allgaeuer, Oliver Horn, Markus Moser, Nicolas Flahaut
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Patent number: 10658713Abstract: A cooling device for stored energy sources, in particular for motor vehicles, is provided. The cooling device includes: multiple separate cooling modules, through which coolant can flow, for absorbing heat from the stored energy source, each module having an inflow and an outflow; a common feed line, from which the inflows of the cooling modules branch off; and a common discharge line, into which the outflows of the cooling modules open.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sebastian Siering, Florian Einoegg, Michael Huber, Nicolas Flahaut
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Patent number: 10654336Abstract: A heating system for an electric or hybrid vehicle, to which a high-voltage accumulator is connected, includes a coolant circuit having a heating circuit to which a heating heat exchanger is connected for air-conditioning the interior, and having a cooling circuit to which a cooler and a heat source are connected. The heating system has at least two refrigerating circuits, wherein a first refrigerating circuit includes an air-conditioning evaporator for air-conditioning the interior, and a first condenser, by which the first refrigerating circuit is thermally coupled to the coolant circuit in order to dissipate heat from the first refrigerating circuit. The second refrigerating circuit is thermally coupled by a second condenser to the coolant circuit. The two refrigerating circuits, however, are not coupled to each other. At least one of the refrigerating circuits further includes a chiller in order to dissipate heat from the coolant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Allgaeuer, Nicolas Flahaut, Markus Moser, Marion Mack, Oliver Horn
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Patent number: 10530023Abstract: A cooling element is provided for at least one object, in particular for a high-voltage battery. The cooling element includes a coolant inlet, to which a refrigerant can be supplied and which is connected to a main line. The cooling element is designed to transfer heat from the object to the refrigerant. The cooling element further includes at least one distributor which distributes the refrigerant from the main line to a plurality of parallel lines, wherein the refrigerant is present in the cooling element as a two-phase mixture and the distributor is configured to distribute the refrigerant uniformly to the parallel lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Nicolas Flahaut, Sebastian Siering
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Patent number: 10414240Abstract: A method for air conditioning an electric or hybrid vehicle includes preconditioning a high voltage accumulator of the electric or hybrid vehicle. The electric or hybrid vehicle has an interior and the high voltage accumulator is air conditioned with an air-conditioning unit having a determined cooling potential. The high voltage accumulator has a current HVS temperature. The interior has a current interior temperature. During the preconditioning, the high voltage accumulator is supercooled in a preconditioning mode with the air-conditioning unit to an HVS temperature that is below an HVS operating temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Marc-Thomas Eisele, Christian Kulp, Nicolas Flahaut, Karsten Berg, Martin Knott
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Publication number: 20190181518Abstract: A cooling device for a battery assembly, in particular a high-voltage storage unit, of an electrically driven vehicle has multiple cooling lines in which a coolant is conducted. The cooling device is designed to transfer heat from the battery assembly to the coolant. The cooling device has at least two individual cooling elements which are designed separately, which lie opposite a battery, and each of which is supplied with coolant via a dedicated valve paired with the respective individual cooling element. A unit including a battery assembly and such a cooling device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Sebastian SIERING, Michael HUBER, Nicolas FLAHAUT, Andreas RING, Jan FEDDERSEN
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Publication number: 20190074561Abstract: Vehicle having a high-voltage battery which has a housing, wherein the housing has a housing floor which is essentially parallel to an underlying surface on which the vehicle is standing or travelling, a housing cover which is arranged spaced apart from the housing floor, housing walls via which the housing floor is connected to the housing cover. The housing has at least one housing structure plate which has a plane of maximum size which is perpendicular with respect to the housing floor and with respect to the housing cover, and an underside which faces the housing floor or is connected thereto, and an upper side which faces the housing cover or is connected thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Michael SCHWARZER, Semi BEN SALAH, Nicolas FLAHAUT
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Patent number: 10126027Abstract: A control device, and a method for operating the control device, optimizes cooling of a high-voltage accumulator using an air-conditioning system in a vehicle. A coolant flow which is insufficient is detected by an evaporator for the high-voltage accumulator and, as a result, heat losses inside a condenser of the air-conditioning system are reduced for increasing the flow of the coolant.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karsten Berg, Alexander Meijering, Marc-Thomas Eisele, Sebastian Siering, Nicolas Flahaut
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Publication number: 20180319246Abstract: A heating system for an electric or hybrid vehicle, to which a high-voltage accumulator is connected, includes a coolant circuit having a heating circuit to which a heating heat exchanger is connected for air-conditioning the interior, and having a cooling circuit to which a cooler and a heat source are connected. The heating system has at least two refrigerating circuits, wherein a first refrigerating circuit includes an air-conditioning evaporator for air-conditioning the interior, and a first condenser, by which the first refrigerating circuit is thermally coupled to the coolant circuit in order to dissipate heat from the first refrigerating circuit. The second refrigerating circuit is thermally coupled by a second condenser to the coolant circuit. The two refrigerating circuits, however, are not coupled to each other. At least one of the refrigerating circuits further includes a chiller in order to dissipate heat from the coolant circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Christian ALLGAEUER, Nicolas FLAHAUT, Markus MOSER, Marion MACK, Oliver HORN
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Publication number: 20180236842Abstract: A heating system for an electric or hybrid vehicle is provided. The heating system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heater heat exchanger which is arranged in a heating circuit, for air-conditioning the interior, a high-voltage storage device which is arranged in an HVS circuit, and a cooler which is arranged in a cooling circuit. The heating circuit, the HVS circuit, and the cooling circuit are integrated into a common coolant circuit. In a first HVS cooling operation, the HVS circuit is separated from the cooling circuit and connected to a chiller in order to discharge heat into the refrigerant circuit. In a second HVS cooling operation, the HVS circuit is connected to the cooling circuit via a chiller bypass in order to discharge heat via the cooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Christian ALLGAEUER, Oliver HORN, Markus MOSER, Nicolas FLAHAUT
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Publication number: 20180034119Abstract: A cooling device for stored energy sources, in particular for motor vehicles, is provided. The cooling device includes: multiple separate cooling modules, through which coolant can flow, for absorbing heat from the stored energy source, each module having an inflow and an outflow; a common feed line, from which the inflows of the cooling modules branch off; and a common discharge line, into which the outflows of the cooling modules open.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Sebastian SIERING, Florian EINOEGG, Michael HUBER, Nicolas FLAHAUT
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Publication number: 20170282677Abstract: A method for air conditioning an electric or hybrid vehicle includes preconditioning a high voltage accumulator of the electric or hybrid vehicle. The electric or hybrid vehicle has an interior and the high voltage accumulator is air conditioned with an air-conditioning unit having a determined cooling potential. The high voltage accumulator has a current HVS temperature. The interior has a current interior temperature. During the preconditioning, the high voltage accumulator is supercooled in a preconditioning mode with the air-conditioning unit to an HVS temperature that is below an HVS operating temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Marc-Thomas EISELE, Christian KULP, Nicolas FLAHAUT, Karsten BERG, Martin KNOTT
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Publication number: 20160285145Abstract: A cooling element is provided for at least one object, in particular for a high-voltage battery. The cooling element includes a coolant inlet, to which a refrigerant can be supplied and which is connected to a main line. The cooling element is designed to transfer heat from the object to the refrigerant. The cooling element further includes at least one distributor which distributes the refrigerant from the main line to a plurality of parallel lines, wherein the refrigerant is present in the cooling element as a two-phase mixture and the distributor is configured to distribute the refrigerant uniformly to the parallel lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Nicolas FLAHAUT, Sebastian SIERING
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Patent number: 9419264Abstract: The invention relates to an energy storage module for a device for supplying voltage, particularly in a motor vehicle. The energy storage module includes several prismatic storage cells that are arranged behind one another and stacked in at least one row, two end plates, and at least one tension element. The at least one row of stacked storage cells is braced between the two end plates by the tension element, and at least one of the end plates has at least one supporting surface for support on a structure carrying the energy storage module. The energy storage module also includes at least one thermally insulating element arranged on the supporting surface for thermal insulation between the at least one of the end plates and the carrying structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tuncay Idikurt, Nicolas Flahaut, Gerd Woesle
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Publication number: 20160233565Abstract: A battery module is provided having a cooling apparatus including at least one first line and at least one second line, wherein the first line and the second line conduct a fluid and absorb heat from cells of the battery module and transfer the heat to the fluid. The first line and the second line extend perpendicular to the cells of the battery module. The first line and the second line are arranged parallel to one another. A flow direction of the fluid in the first line is opposite a flow direction of the fluid in the second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Stephan WEILEDER, Nicolas FLAHAUT, Michael HUBER, Florian EINOEGG, Sebastian SIERING, Andreas RING
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Publication number: 20160102894Abstract: A control device, and a method for operating the control device, optimizes cooling of a high-voltage accumulator using an air-conditioning system in a vehicle. A coolant flow which is insufficient is detected by an evaporator for the high-voltage accumulator and, as a result, heat losses inside a condenser of the air-conditioning system are reduced for increasing the flow of the coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Karsten BERG, Alexander MEIJERING, Marc-Thomas EISELE, Sebastian SIERING, Nicolas FLAHAUT
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Patent number: 9269500Abstract: A power supply device for a hybrid or electric motor vehicle, in particular a passenger vehicle or a motorcycle, includes a plurality of electrochemical storage cells and/or double-layer capacitors. The electrochemical storage cells and/or double-layer capacitors have a casing surface and, in an axial direction, a base surface and a cover surface which are connected by the casing surface, and each include electrodes. Adjacent to the casing surface of at least one of the storage cells and/or double-layer capacitors, a heat-conducting cooling apparatus is disposed which, although electrically insulated from the at least one storage cell and/or double-layer capacitor, is in thermal contact with a first circumferential section of the casing surface and dissipates the heat energy introduced by the casing surfaces of the at least one storage cell and/or the double-layer capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Bayeriche Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Alexander Meijering, Micha Dirmeier, Philipp Petz, Nicolas Flahaut, Frank Eckstein, Bjoern Lath, Hubertus Goesmann