Patents by Inventor Swen Wiethoff

Swen Wiethoff 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: 11165303
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a guide ring for connection to a housing of an electric machine comprising: a main body having a ring element; a plurality of busbars; and a plurality of pressure elements. The busbars are overmolded by the main body. Each of the plurality of pressure elements projects from an outer circumferential surface of the main body and to frictionally connect the guide ring to an inner receiving surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Swen Wiethoff, Zoran Dmitrasinovic
  • Publication number: 20200099268
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a guide ring for connection to a housing of an electric machine comprising: a main body having a ring element; a plurality of busbars; and a plurality of pressure elements. The busbars are overmolded by the main body. Each of the plurality of pressure elements projects from an outer circumferential surface of the main body and to frictionally connect the guide ring to an inner receiving surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Swen Wiethoff, Zoran Dmitrasinovic
  • Patent number: 9172121
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery holder (1) for galvanic cells, in which a first honeycomb structure (2.1 to 2.n), comprising a lower and an upper basic cooling body (3.1, 3.2) and at least one intermediate cooling body (4), is provided, wherein in each case, galvanic cells can be arranged on a cell level (5.1 to 5.n) in each case between one of the basic cooling bodies (3.1, 3.2) and one of the intermediate cooling bodies (4) and/or between two of the intermediate cooling bodies (4), wherein the galvanic cells of one of the cell levels (5.1 to 5.n) are displaced to the side to the galvanic cells of at least one adjacent cell level (5.1 to 5.n) by half the width of a galvanic cell, and wherein the intermediate cooling body (4) and the basic cooling bodies (3.1, 3.2) are formed in an area between the galvanic cells according to the outer contours of the galvanic cells, and wherein each of the cooling bodies (3.1, 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH
    Inventors: Nevzat Güner, Swen Wiethoff, Knut Welke, Sönke Gürtler, Rogelio Villarroel, Martin Voss, Reinhard Kassen, Reinhard Ganghofner, Michael Keller, Peter Birke, Axel Rudorff
  • Patent number: 8669001
    Abstract: A device for joining and storing energy storage cells having a flexible envelope and which are arranged in a rigid housing having a window opening on a planar side thereof and two openings for the metallic current leads of the energy storage cell. The device includes a sheet metal frame in which the energy storage cells are inserted and in which a heat sink is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Unterdörfer, Peter Birke, Swen Wiethoff, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20130196198
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery holder (1) for galvanic cells, in which a first honey-comb structure (2.1 to 2.n), comprising a lower and an upper basic cooling body (3.1, 3.2) and at least one intermediate cooling body (4), is provided, wherein in each case, galvanic cells can be arranged on a cell level (5.1 to 5.n) in each case between one of the basic cooling bodies (3.1, 3.2) and one of the intermediate cooling bodies (4) and/or between two of the intermediate cooling bodies (4), wherein the galvanic cells of one of the cell levels (5.1 to 5.n) are displaced to the side to the galvanic cells of at least one adjacent cell level (5.1 to 5.n) by half the width of a galvanic cell, and wherein the intermediate cooling body (4) and the basic cooling bodies (3.1, 3.2) are formed in an area between the galvanic cells according to the outer contours of the galvanic cells, and wherein each of the cooling bodies (3.1, 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Nevzat Güner, Swen Wiethoff, Knut Welke, Sönke Gürtler, Rogelio Víllarroel, Martin Voss, Reinhard Kassen, Reinhard Ganghofner, Michael Keller, Peter Birke, Axel Rudorff
  • Patent number: 8343648
    Abstract: An energy storage cell having a flexible envelope, which cell is attached flat to a heat-conducting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Unterdörfer, Peter Birke, Swen Wiethoff, Reinhard Kassen, Nevzat Güner, Stefan Tillmann, Markjus Schweizer-Berberich, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20100200314
    Abstract: An energy storage assembly with a plurality of flat electrochemical cells, each of them includes a pair of electrodes which electrically connect the electrochemical cells with each other through outward electrode terminals, wherein each electrochemical cell includes as a pair of outward electrode terminals a straight outward terminal and a curved outward terminal, the electrochemical cells are connected with each other that a straight outward terminal of one of the electrochemical cell is connected with a curved outward terminal of an adjacent electrochemical cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Birke, Swen Wiethoff, Michael Keller, Frank Czogalla, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Hideo Yabe, Kiyoko Abe, Kazunori Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100104937
    Abstract: An energy storage cell having a flexible envelope, which cell is attached flat to a heat-conducting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Unterdörfer, Peter Birke, Swen Wiethoff, Reinhard Kassen, Nevzat Güner, Stefan Tillmann, Markus Schweizer-Berberich, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20100104933
    Abstract: A device for joining and storing energy storage cells having a flexible envelope and which are arranged in a rigid housing having a window opening on a planar side thereof and two openings for the metallic current leads of the energy storage cell. The device includes a sheet metal frame in which the energy storage cells are inserted and in which a heat sink is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Jens Unterdorfer, Peter Birka, Swen Wiethoff, Michael Keller
  • Publication number: 20080308367
    Abstract: An air spring and damper unit for vehicles has, as operating spaces, at least two pressure spaces filled with compressed air and connected to one another via flow channels. The pressure spaces have movable walls in the form of rolling bellows or folding bellows, wherein a pilot-controlled main valve which can be loaded with a control pressure on the low-pressure side is configured at least in one flow direction in a first flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Nevzat Gilner, Swen Wiethoff, Knut Welke, Sonke Gurtler, Rogelio Villaroel, Martin Voss, Reinhard Kassen, Reinhard Ganghofner, Michael Keller, Peter Birke, Axel Rudorff