Patents by Inventor Walter Wolf

Walter Wolf 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: 11964538
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include first and second supply ducts, a mixing section having a mixing duct into which the first and second supply ducts may lead, the first and second supply ducts arranged in the mixing section adjacent one another in a transverse direction, and first and second guides in the mixing section each running in the transverse direction and being located opposite one another in a longitudinal direction running transversely to the transverse direction, each guide having two guide walls running in the transverse direction and located opposite one another in a height direction running transversely to the transverse direction and longitudinal direction, at least one of the guide walls sloping away from the other guide wall at a slope angle with respect to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Fraas, Holger Laux, Thorsten Moellert, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20240076439
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composition at least including (A) at least one epoxy-group terminated polyoxazolidinone, derived from at least one polyisocyanate compound and at least one aliphatic polyepoxide compound, (B) at least one compound having at least one group that is reactive towards terminal epoxy-groups, and (C) at least one solvent. The molar ratio of the epoxy groups of the polyepoxide compound to the isocyanate groups of the polyisocyanate compound is 50:1 to 2.4:1. The at least one epoxy-group terminated polyoxazolidinone is present in an amount of 50 to 95% by weight, in respect of the solid content of the composition. The sum of all components in respect of the solid content of the composition adds up to 100% by weight and where the solid content of the composition is at least 35% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Irene Cristina Latorre Martinez, Yvonne Reimann, Jan Weikard, Florian Golling, Laura Woods, Christoph Guertler, Aurel Wolf, Kai Laemmerhold, Stefan Westhues, Sohajl Movahhed, Walter Leitner, Charlotte Over, Chicco Manzuna Sapu, Mathias Glassner
  • Patent number: 11731488
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include a housing, a fluid channel system, a heat exchanger, and a slider arrangement. The slider arrangement may include at least one first slider and at least one second slider arranged within the fluid channel system upstream of the heat exchanger and downstream of the heat exchanger respectively. The first and second slider may be guidable transversely with respect to at least one fluid flow. The first and second slider may each be actuatable. At least one of a volume flow and a mass flow of at least one fluid flow may be at least one of controllable and regulatable via actuation of the first slider. At least one of a predetermined fluid temperature and a predeterminable fluid temperature of a mixed fluid may be settable and at least two fluids may be mixable via actuation of the second slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventor: Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20230076020
    Abstract: An air conditioning system of a motor vehicle, having a housing with at least two independent air ducts formed therein, which are arranged separately from each other by at least one partition wall in the housing. A cooling heat exchanger is arranged in the housing such that it is flowed through by air, which can flow into the at least two independent air ducts. A heating heat exchanger is arranged in the housing such that it protrudes into the at least two independent air ducts and is flowed through by air of the at least two independent air ducts. The heating heat exchanger being an electrically operable heat exchanger, which is formed with several independently heated heat exchanger areas, so that the air flowing through an heat exchanger area is independently heatable and each independent air duct is provided at least one heat exchanger area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Holger LAUX, Walter Wolf, Marc Fraas
  • Patent number: 11597254
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include a housing, a fluid channel system, a heat exchanger, and a slider arrangement. The slider arrangement may include at least one first slider and at least one second slider arranged within the fluid channel system upstream of the heat exchanger and downstream of the heat exchanger respectively. The first and second slider may be guidable transversely with respect to at least one fluid flow. The first and second slider may each be actuatable via a respective pinion shaft. At least one of a volume flow and a mass flow of at least one fluid flow may be at least one of controllable and regulatable via actuation of the first slider. At least one of a predetermined fluid temperature and a predeterminable fluid temperature of a mixed fluid may be settable and at least two fluids may be mixable via actuation of the second slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 11536392
    Abstract: A shaft-bearing bush assembly for a valve arrangement for an air-conditioning system is disclosed. The shaft-bearing bush assembly includes a shaft drive-connectable to a valve of the valve arrangement and a bearing bush, in which the shaft is rotatably received relative to the bearing bush between a first rotary position and a second rotary position about an axis of rotation extending along the axial direction. A bush projection is non-rotatably arranged on the bearing bush relative to the bearing bush and a shaft projection is non-rotatably arranged on the shaft relative to the shaft. The bush projection and the shaft projection are matched to one another such that the bush projection provides a rotary stop for the shaft projection for limiting the rotary movement of the shaft between the first rotary position and the second rotary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Marc Fraas, Holger Laux, Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 11471815
    Abstract: An air filter for a ventilation system of a motor vehicle may include a plate-shaped filter body of a folded filter material and at least one sealing strip secured to a lateral edge of the filter body. Adjacent folds of the filter body may be connected to one another via a seam, may follow one another in a longitudinal filter direction, and may extend in a transverse filter direction. The at least one sealing strip may have at least one removal opening penetrating the at least one sealing strip. At least one removal nozzle for removing air flowing through the air filter may be securable to the at least one removal opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Markus Michael, Florian Muhrer, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20220271380
    Abstract: A battery device is provided which includes a cell stack of rechargeable individual battery cells which are touchingly stacked and clamped to one another in a stack direction, in particular so-called hard case battery cells, wherein on at least one mounting surface of a cell housing of a respective individual battery cell including mounting surfaces that are arranged rectangularly, at least one separate channel web for forming a liquid channel that can be flowed through is arranged. At least one of the respective channel webs is touchingly fixed in a firmly bonded manner to the respective mounting surface by bonding, practically with web adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Kranich, Heiko Neff, Carolin Vesenmaier, Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 11299008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluid line system (10) for guiding fluid, in particular for a motor vehicle. The fluid line system (10) comprises a sensor device (20) for capturing sensor parameters and a housing (30), which has two or more housing parts (40, 60). Each housing part (40, 60) has a mounting surface area (50, 70) for arranging a further housing part (40, 60). The housing (30) further has a groove arrangement (80), which comprises at least one groove recess (90), which is arranged on a mounting surface area (50, 70), wherein a groove recess (90) has a groove opening (95), which opens out to the respective mounting surface area (50, 70). In any case, the groove opening (95) is closed by in a fluid-tight manner means of the mounting surface area (50, 70) of at least one further housing part (40, 60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Eberle, Florian Klein, Anja Reiter, Oliver Schultze, Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 11241935
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system comprises a channel system, a system conveying device positioned in the channel system and configured to convey air in the channel system, a sensor device comprising at least one analysis channel and configured to measure a characteristic of air flowing through the at least one analysis channel, and a suction jet pump comprising a motive-fluid inlet, a suction inlet, and a pump outlet. The system conveying device separates a suction area of the channel system arranged upstream of the system conveying device from a pressure area of the channel system arranged downstream from the system conveying device, and the sensor device further comprises a sensor outlet configured to release air from the sensor device. The motive-fluid inlet is fluidically connected to the pressure area via a suction jet branch-off point within the channel system, and the suction inlet is fluidically connected to the sensor outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Eberle, Rainer Knoeller, Markus Michael, Anja Reiter, Oliver Schultze, Isabelle Seitz, Joachim Treier, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20210178858
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include a housing, a fluid channel system, a heat exchanger, and a slider arrangement. The slider arrangement may include at least one first slider and at least one second slider arranged within the fluid channel system upstream of the heat exchanger and downstream of the heat exchanger respectively. The first and second slider may be guidable transversely with respect to at least one fluid flow. The first and second slider may each be actuatable. At least one of a volume flow and a mass flow of at least one fluid flow may be at least one of controllable and regulatable via actuation of the first slider. At least one of a predetermined fluid temperature and a predeterminable fluid temperature of a mixed fluid may be settable and at least two fluids may be mixable via actuation of the second slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20210180716
    Abstract: A shaft-bearing bush assembly for a valve arrangement for an air-conditioning system is disclosed. The shaft-bearing bush assembly includes a shaft drive-connectable to a valve of the valve arrangement and a bearing bush, in which the shaft is rotatably received relative to the bearing bush between a first rotary position and a second rotary position about an axis of rotation extending along the axial direction. A bush projection is non-rotatably arranged on the bearing bush relative to the bearing bush and a shaft projection is non-rotatably arranged on the shaft relative to the shaft. The bush projection and the shaft projection are matched to one another such that the bush projection provides a rotary stop for the shaft projection for limiting the rotary movement of the shaft between the first rotary position and the second rotary position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Fraas, Holger Laux, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20210178857
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include first and second supply ducts, a mixing section having a mixing duct into which the first and second supply ducts may lead, the first and second supply ducts arranged in the mixing section adjacent one another in a transverse direction, and first and second guides in the mixing section each running in the transverse direction and being located opposite one another in a longitudinal direction running transversely to the transverse direction, each guide having two guide walls running in the transverse direction and located opposite one another in a height direction running transversely to the transverse direction and longitudinal direction, at least one of the guide walls sloping away from the other guide wall at a slope angle with respect to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Fraas, Holger Laux, Thorsten Moellert, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20210178855
    Abstract: A ventilation device may include a housing, a fluid channel system, a heat exchanger, and a slider arrangement. The slider arrangement may include at least one first slider and at least one second slider arranged within the fluid channel system upstream of the heat exchanger and downstream of the heat exchanger respectively. The first and second slider may be guidable transversely with respect to at least one fluid flow. The first and second slider may each be actuatable via a respective pinion shaft. At least one of a volume flow and a mass flow of at least one fluid flow may be at least one of controllable and regulatable via actuation of the first slider. At least one of a predetermined fluid temperature and a predeterminable fluid temperature of a mixed fluid may be settable and at least two fluids may be mixable via actuation of the second slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 10946718
    Abstract: An air-conditioning unit of a vehicle for air-conditioning a vehicle interior may include a unit outlet for discharging air into the vehicle interior, an outside-air duct for an intake of outside air, and an air recirculation duct for recirculation of inside air from the vehicle interior. The air-conditioning unit may also include an outside-air shut-off element arranged in the outside-air duct, which in a closed position blocks a flow of outside air through the outside-air duct, and a recirculated-air shut-off element arranged in the air recirculation duct, which in a closed position blocks a flow of inside air through the air recirculation duct. The air-conditioning unit may further include a sensor device for detecting a property of air. On at least one duct of the outside-air duct and the recirculation duct, a bypass may be arranged which bypasses an associated shut-off element and is fluidically connected to the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Eberle, Rainer Knoeller, Markus Michael, Anja Reiter, Oliver Schultze, Joachim Treier, Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 10926611
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle to air-condition a vehicle interior may include a channel system through which air is flowable and an outside-air channel configured to let outside air into the channel system. The air-conditioning system may also include a system conveying device separating a suction area from a pressure area and a system filter device separating a raw area from a pure area. The system filter device may include a filter housing and a filter material. The air-conditioning system may additionally include a system outlet to let air into the vehicle interior and a sensor device, including a sensor housing, in which at least one analysis channel is arranged, through which air, a characteristic of which is measured, is flowable. The sensor device may also include at least one sensor inlet and at least one sensor outlet to let air in and out of the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Markus Michael, Walter Wolf, Anja Reiter, Florian Klein
  • Patent number: 10843526
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle may include a channel system configured to allow air to flow therethrough during operation and at least one heat exchanger positioned within the main channel and configured to air-condition air supplied to a motor vehicle interior of the motor vehicle. The channel system may include a main channel. The system may include a sensor device configured to measure an air characteristic of air to be analysed. The sensor device may include an analysis channel which the air to be analysed can flow through, a generation device configured to generate electromagnetic waves penetrating the analysis channel, a sensor temperature-control space separated from the analysis channel, and a temperature-control channel configured to apply air-conditioned air to the generation device to control a temperature of the generation device. The generation device is at least partially arranged in the sensor temperature-control space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Knoeller, Markus Michael, Anja Reiter, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20200338954
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluid line system (10) for guiding fluid, in particular for a motor vehicle. The fluid line system (10) comprises a sensor device (20) for capturing sensor parameters and a housing (30), which has two or more housing parts (40, 60). Each housing part (40, 60) has a mounting surface area (50, 70) for arranging a further housing part (40, 60). The housing (30) further has a groove arrangement (80), which comprises at least one groove recess (90), which is arranged on a mounting surface area (50, 70), wherein a groove recess (90) has a groove opening (95), which opens out to the respective mounting surface area (50, 70). In any case, the groove opening (95) is closed by in a fluid-tight manner means of the mounting surface area (50, 70) of at least one further housing part (40, 60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Eberle, Florian Klein, Anja Reiter, Oliver Schultze, Walter Wolf
  • Patent number: 10761006
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system of a vehicle for air-conditioning a vehicle interior compartment may include a channel system which is flowed through by air and a sensor device for detecting at least one property of air. The sensor device may include at least one analysis channel through which air is flowable during operation, and a generating device configured to generate and emit electromagnetic waves. The sensor device may also include a diverting device configured to divert the electromagnetic waves emitted by the generating device at least partially into an interaction section of the at least one analysis channel, through which interaction section the diverted electromagnetic waves may pass and interact with air flowing through the at least one analysis channel. The sensor device may also include a detector which detects the diverted electromagnetic waves after the interaction with the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Knoeller, Markus Michael, Anja Reiter, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20200147539
    Abstract: An air filter for a ventilation system of a motor vehicle may include a plate-shaped filter body of a folded filter material and at least one sealing strip secured to a lateral edge of the filter body. Adjacent folds of the filter body may be connected to one another via a seam, may follow one another in a longitudinal filter direction, and may extend in a transverse filter direction. The at least one sealing strip may have at least one removal opening penetrating the at least one sealing strip. At least one removal nozzle for removing air flowing through the air filter may be securable to the at least one removal opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Michael, Florian Muhrer, Walter Wolf