Patents by Inventor Rainer Glueck
Rainer Glueck 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: 20190260044Abstract: A flow plate for a humidifier, and to such a humidifier having a plurality of flow plates and water exchange membranes are described. The flow plate has a flow field with a plurality of free-standing support elements, wherein the support elements extend, at least in sections, perpendicular to the flat surface plane of the flow plate. Gas to be humidified or gas giving off moisture flows on the flow field. In the humidifier, the flow plates are arranged in a stack, wherein a membrane composite having at least one water exchange membrane is arranged between each pair of adjacent flow plates in the stack. The support elements improve the performance of the humidifier and therefore the number of flow plates can be reduced, making a lower-weight and space-saving design possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: WERNER BUNTZ, RAINER GLUECK, ANDRE SPEIDEL, THOMAS STOEHR
-
Patent number: 10317144Abstract: A heat exchanger from a stack of plate pairs having fins which are disposed between the plate pairs, and having ducts which vertically extend through the stack, for conveying in and/or conveying out a medium which flows through the plate pairs and which exchanges heat with another medium which flows through the fins, wherein the ducts are formed from openings in the plates and have moldings which extend around opening peripheries, and having a plate, having corresponding openings, which finishes off the stack, wherein a thermally decoupling element, which is inserted either in an integrated or a separate manner and which is incorporated into the vertical duct formation, is disposed between the finishing-off plate and the stack. Such a heat exchanger displays improved resilience to alternating temperature loadings.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Rainer Glück, Klaus Kalbacher, Michael Daniel
-
Publication number: 20190088956Abstract: A separator plate for an electrochemical system may have at least one passage opening for forming a media channel for feeding or discharging media. The system may also have at least one bead arrangement arranged around the at least one passage opening, for the purpose of sealing the passage opening. At least one of the flanks of the bead arrangement may have at least one opening for conducting a medium through the bead flank. The system may also have at least one guide channel that is connected, on an exterior of the bead arrangement, to the openings in the bead flank and is fluidically connected to a bead interior via the opening in the bead flank. The guide channel is designed such that a guide channel width, determined parallel to the flat surface plane of the separator plate, increases at least in some sections in the direction of the bead arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: RAINER GLUECK, CLAUDIA KUNZ, AHMET ORUC, ANDRE SPEIDEL, STEPHAN WENZEL
-
Publication number: 20180358635Abstract: A gas supply and discharge system may have a fuel cell arrangement having at least one electrode, a gas-gas heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first gas to be supplied to the electrode and a second gas discharged or dischargeable from the second electrode, and a humidifier for transferring humidity between the first gas and the second gas. The first gas to be supplied to the electrode can be introduced into the gas-gas heat exchanger before the supply of the first gas to the electrode, and such that the second gas can be introduced into the gas-gas heat exchanger from the electrode in order to transfer heat between the first gas and the second gas in the gas-gas heat exchanger. The first gas and the second gas can be introduced into the humidifier from the gas-gas heat exchanger in order to transfer humidity between the first gas and the second gas in the humidifier. The first gas can be introduced into the fuel cell arrangement from the humidifier and can be supplied to the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: ANDRE SPEIDEL, RAINER GLUECK
-
Patent number: 10084195Abstract: The application relates to a water transfer compound, preferably for use for the humidification of process gases for fuel cells, comprising:—a water-permeable and essentially gas-impermeable water transfer layer as well as—at least one thermoplastic protection layer which is water- and gas-permeable at least in sections, where—the water transfer layer and the thermoplastic protection layer overlap each other at least in sections and comprise a first and a second overlapping area, where—the water transfer layer in the first overlapping area is accessible for humid gases through the thermoplastic protection layer and the water transfer compound is thermocompressed in the second overlapping area so that the water transfer layer in the second overlapping area is not accessible for humid gases through the compressed thermoplastic protection layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Reinz-Dichtungs GmbHInventors: Joachim Scherer, Rainer Glueck, Thomas Stoehr, Werner Buntz, Manfred Bruehl
-
Publication number: 20180205098Abstract: An integrated gas management device (GMD) for a fuel cell has a gas-to-gas humidifier for transferring water from a second gas to a first gas; and a heat exchanger attached to a first end of the humidifier core for cooling the first gas. The GMD may optionally have a thermal isolation plate between the heat exchanger and the first end of the humidifier core. The GMD further has a bypass line to allow the first gas to bypass the humidifier. The first gas may be cathode charge air and the second gas may be cathode exhaust.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Doug Vanderwees, Michael Bardeleben, JR., Raimund Stroebel, Joachim Scherer, Rainer Glueck
-
Publication number: 20180149433Abstract: A heat exchanger, particularly a charge-air cooler, in which heated air is cooled by a cooling fluid, is constructed from stacked pairs of plates with air flow passages arranged between adjacent ones of the plate pairs. Each of the pairs of plates includes an inlet and an outlet for the cooling fluid flow arranged within an inlet and outlet region and aligned with the direction of the air flow through the heat exchanger. A flow barrier formed by beads of the plates is arranged between the inlet and outlet region and a heat exchange section of the plate pair. A flow of cooling fluid is directed through a coolant flow path extending through the plate pair between the cooling fluid inlet and the cooling fluid outlet, with the cooling fluid flow path having a first portion along one longitudinal edge of the plates, a second portion along an opposing longitudinal edge of the plates, and a third portion extending through the heat exchange section between the first and second portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Thomas Peskos, Rainer Glueck, Frank Lippke
-
Patent number: 9947946Abstract: An integrated gas management device (GMD) for a fuel cell comprises a gas-to-gas humidifier for transferring water from a second gas to a first gas; a heat exchanger attached to a first end of the humidifier core for cooling the first gas; and/or a water separator attached to a second end of the humidifier core for removing liquid water from the second gas. The GMD may optionally comprise a thermal isolation plate between the heat exchanger and the first end of the humidifier core. The GMD further comprises a bypass line to allow the first gas to bypass the humidifier. The first gas may comprise cathode charge air and the second gas may comprise cathode exhaust.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Dana Canada CorporationInventors: Doug Vanderwees, Michael Bardeleben, Raimund Stroebel, Joachim Scherer, Rainer Glueck
-
Patent number: 9909812Abstract: The disclosure relates to a heat exchanger, for example an indirect air cooler, in which the air, for example compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine, is cooled, for example by a fluid, wherein the heat exchanger is constructed from stacked pairs of plates. The exemplary fluid can be conducted into an inlet region and/or outlet region of the plate pairs in at least one flow path approximately in the direction of the common edge, and further through at least a first duct approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and passes further through the plate pairs over the largest heat exchange area of the plate pairs approximately in countercurrent with respect to the air, in order to flow through at least one second duct, approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and back to the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Thomas Peskos, Rainer Glück
-
Patent number: 9709342Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement in a housing, such as an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine, has at least one stack including tubes and fins and an end plate having media connections, and wherein the stack is inserted into the housing and is fastened therein. A connecting block which contains the media connections and/or at least one profiled rail is arranged on the end plate. The housing has at least one cross-section-expanding wall graduation and/or at least one receptacle integrated into the housing wall, wherein the connecting block sits in the cross-section expansion and/or a cross section of the receptacle corresponds approximately to a cross section of the rail.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Marius Dornseif, Klaus Kalbacher, Rainer Glück
-
Patent number: 9671168Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement, for example for an internal combustion engine, having a brazed radiator block (1) which has flow paths (10) formed from pairs of plates and has flow ducts (3) between the plate pairs (P), wherein in each case at least one plate (11) of each plate pair has a plate elongation (12), and wherein the brazed radiator block is arranged in a housing (2) and, at its circumference, is sealed off with respect to the housing. To improve the sealing action between the radiator block (1) and the housing (2), it is provided according to the invention that the plate elongations (12) are formed such that a prescribed dimension of the brazed radiator block (1) can be set by means of deformation of the plate elongations (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Rainer Glück
-
Publication number: 20160079615Abstract: The application relates to a water transfer compound, preferably for use for the humidification of process gases for fuel cells, comprising:—a water-permeable and essentially gas-impermeable water transfer layer as well as—at least one thermoplastic protection layer which is water- and gas-permeable at least in sections, where—the water transfer layer and the thermoplastic protection layer overlap each other at least in sections and comprise a first and a second overlapping area, where—the water transfer layer in the first overlapping area is accessible for humid gases through the thermoplastic protection layer and the water transfer compound is thermocompressed in the second overlapping area so that the water transfer layer in the second overlapping area is not accessible for humid gases through the compressed thermoplastic protection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: JOACHIM SCHERER, RAINER GLUECK, THOMAS STOEHR, WERNER BUNTZ, MANFRED BRUEHL
-
Publication number: 20160056483Abstract: The application relates to a water transfer compound, preferably for use for the humidification of process gases for fuel cells, comprising: —a water-permeable and essentially gas-impermeable water transfer layer as well as—at least one thermoplastic protection layer which is water- and gas-permeable at least in sections, where—the water transfer layer and the thermoplastic protection layer overlap each other at least in sections and comprise a first and a second overlapping area, where—the water transfer layer in the first overlapping area is accessible for humid gases through the thermoplastic protection layer and the water transfer compound is thermocompressed in the second overlapping area so that the water transfer layer in the second overlapping area is not accessible for humid gases through the compressed thermoplastic protection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: JOACHIM SCHERER, RAINER GLUECK, THOMAS STOEHR, WERNER BUNTZ, MANFRED BRUEHL
-
Publication number: 20150241128Abstract: A heat exchanger from a stack of plate pairs having fins which are disposed between the plate pairs, and having ducts which vertically extend through the stack, for conveying in and/or conveying out a medium which flows through the plate pairs and which exchanges heat with another medium which flows through the fins, wherein the ducts are formed from openings in the plates and have moldings which extend around opening peripheries, and having a plate, having corresponding openings, which finishes off the stack, wherein a thermally decoupling element, which is inserted either in an integrated or a separate manner and which is incorporated into the vertical duct formation, is disposed between the finishing-off plate and the stack. Such a heat exchanger displays improved resilience to alternating temperature loadings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Rainer Glück, Klaus Kalbacher, Michael Daniel
-
Publication number: 20150136589Abstract: An electrochemical system has two separator plates as well as a membrane-electrode assembly arranged at least in regions between the separator plates. The separator plates and the membrane-electrode assembly each have at least two passage openings for a flush arrangement of the separator plates and the membrane-electrode assembly at positioning devices during the assembly of the electrochemical system. At least one resilient bridge is arranged at the periphery of at least one passage opening for a mechanical butting to the at least one positioning device in such a manner that during the stacking of the separator plates and the membrane-electrode assemblies, the membrane-electrode assemblies center themselves in a direction orthogonal to the stack direction between the separator plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Horst Gehring, Claudia Kunz, Bernadette Gruenwald, Rainer Glueck, Joachim Scherer
-
Publication number: 20150129183Abstract: A heat exchanger having a cooler block including a stack of plates arranged in plate pairs. The cooler block defines flow paths and flow ducts and has an outer circumference. At least some of the plate pairs include a bent edge having an elongation, the elongation on one plate pair in the stack extending to the next plate pair in the stack such that a substantially smooth contour of the cooler block is formed in at least one circumferential region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Thomas Peskos, Eugen Auerbach, Wolfgang Schatz-Knecht, Thomas Eckert, Rainer Glück
-
Publication number: 20150068717Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement, for example for an internal combustion engine, having a brazed radiator block (1) which has flow paths (10) formed from pairs of plates and has flow ducts (3) between the plate pairs (P), wherein in each case at least one plate (11) of each plate pair has a plate elongation (12), and wherein the brazed radiator block is arranged in a housing (2) and, at its circumference, is sealed off with respect to the housing. To improve the sealing action between the radiator block (1) and the housing (2), it is provided according to the invention that the plate elongations (12) are formed such that a prescribed dimension of the brazed radiator block (1) can be set by means of deformation of the plate elongations (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Rainer Glück
-
Publication number: 20150047818Abstract: The disclosure relates to a heat exchanger, for example an indirect air cooler, in which the air, for example compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine, is cooled, for example by a fluid, wherein the heat exchanger is constructed from stacked pairs of plates. The exemplary fluid can be conducted into an inlet region and/or outlet region of the plate pairs in at least one flow path approximately in the direction of the common edge, and further through at least a first duct approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and passes further through the plate pairs over the largest heat exchange area of the plate pairs approximately in countercurrent with respect to the air, in order to flow through at least one second duct, approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and back to the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Thomas Peskos, Rainer Glück
-
Publication number: 20150004504Abstract: An integrated gas management device (GMD) for a fuel cell comprises a gas-to-gas humidifier for transferring water from a second gas to a first gas; a heat exchanger attached to a first end of the humidifier core for cooling the first gas; and/or a water separator attached to a second end of the humidifier core for removing liquid water from the second gas. The GMD may optionally comprise a thermal isolation plate between the heat exchanger and the first end of the humidifier core. The GMD further comprises a bypass line to allow the first gas to bypass the humidifier. The first gas may comprise cathode charge air and the second gas may comprise cathode exhaust.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Michael Bardeleben, Raimund Stroebel, Joachim Scherer, Rainer Glueck
-
Publication number: 20140224458Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement in a housing, such as an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine, has at least one stack including tubes and fins and an end plate having media connections, and wherein the stack is inserted into the housing and is fastened therein. A connecting block which contains the media connections and/or at least one profiled rail is arranged on the end plate. The housing has at least one cross-section-expanding wall graduation and/or at least one receptacle integrated into the housing wall, wherein the connecting block sits in the cross-section expansion and/or a cross section of the receptacle corresponds approximately to a cross section of the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Marius Dornseif, Klaus Kalbacher, Rainer Glück