Patents Assigned to Bühler Motor GmbH
  • Publication number: 20190285142
    Abstract: A set for the manufacture of epicyclic gear trains with different gear reductions, including at least one planet carrier, which features at least two first holes arranged on a first circular line, and at least two second holes arranged on a second circular line, and at least one first cover ring for a first gear reduction and at least one second cover ring for a second gear reduction, each of which features at least two bearing holes for receiving bearing pins of planet gears, wherein the first cover ring features at least two connecting pins for connecting to the first holes of the planet carrier, and the second cover ring features at least two connecting pins for connecting to the second holes of the planet carrier. In addition, the invention relates to a gear assembly that is formed from such a set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Kirchgeßner, Katherine Bee, Jürgen Strüber, Sebastian Krippner, Julia Tiller, Reiner Hettych
  • Publication number: 20190285169
    Abstract: A series for an epicyclic gear train and a planet gear carrier consisting of a carrier base with a plurality of axial receptacles for bearing pins of planet gears and a depression for receiving an axial section of a pinion. The object of the present invention is to specify a planet gear carrier, which shifts the boundaries of the reduction range such that a greater variation of the reduction gear ratios is possible, wherein an economical process is used and reliable production is ensured. Also described is a series of planetary gear trains having the same properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Ahrens, Fabian Zimber, Katherine Bee
  • Patent number: 10396617
    Abstract: An electronically commutated direct current motor with a housing, a housing cover, a bearing shield, a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor includes a shaft and a permanent magnet and the stator consists of single terminals, which are provided with terminal insulation. The direct current motor ensures a space-saving construction connection of motor components or components with the housing of the electronic commutated direct current motor, conforming to its class, wherein additional connections or sealing elements are not required, wherein a firm and sealed connection can be manufactured upon demand and an easy integration of other functions and interfaces is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Guttenberger, Nikolaus Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20190260256
    Abstract: A stator of an electronically-commutated DC motor, with a stator core, an insulating cap, a stator winding, and a winding interconnection, wherein the winding interconnection consists of several sheet-metal elements and several insulating elements which are arranged between the sheet-metal elements. The aim of the invention is to provide a simple design for a generic stator consisting of easy-to-manufacture and easily-shaped components, wherein production tolerances can be compensated for in a simple manner. A further aim consists of being able to use reliable and proven production processes which are also as easy as possible to monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Günther, Reiner Hettych, Martin Gundermann
  • Publication number: 20190242394
    Abstract: A pump impeller consisting of at least three different material regions, wherein an impeller wheel with a hollow shaft defines a first material region, a bearing component defines a second material region, and a permanent magnet defines a third material region. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing the pump impeller, and to a centrifugal pump with the pump impeller. The object of the invention is to provide a robust construction, optimal venting, secure attachment of the bearing component, economic production, and a possibility of axial length tolerance compensation given a pump impeller with plastic-bonded permanent magnets. Furthermore, an optimally accurate unbalance-reduced connection between the bearing component and the magnet material should be producible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Krippner, Andrea Bindig, Harald Rausch, Jürgen Ehrsam, Klaus Weiske
  • Publication number: 20190238015
    Abstract: A rotor device for an electric motor and/or generator with a rotor body and a plurality of magnets, wherein the rotor body comprises a rotor shaft seat and a plurality of magnet receptacles arranged coaxially with the rotor shaft seat. The magnets are rigidly positioned and mounted in the magnet receptacles by means of a plastic molding compound injected into the magnet receptacles, which plastic molding compound forms at least one cover element that covers the openings of the magnet receptacles at least partially. The cover element comprises at least one magnet wheel centering means and/or at least one magnet wheel alignment means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Georg Bernreuther
  • Patent number: 10352432
    Abstract: A gear housing for an epicyclic gear set, the gear housing including a hollow wheel having internal teething and a first front end with a first front-side joining surface; a housing cover having a second front end with a second front-side joining surface for longitudinally axially covering the hollow wheel; and a bonded connection for connecting the first front end to the second front end through the mating of the first and second front-side joining surfaces, at which the hollow wheel and the housing cover are connected to each other by a bonded connection, in particular, by heated tool welding, infrared welding, ultrasonic welding, or rotary friction welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Olaf Richter, Daniel Kirchgessner, Reiner Hettych
  • Patent number: 10352994
    Abstract: A magnet assembly in an electric drive having a shaft. The assembly includes a permanent magnet bonded in plastic and having two protrusions. An adapter has two protrusions and two recesses. The end face of the shaft has two cavities, which receive the two adapter protrusions to mount the adapter to the shaft. The two protrusions of the magnet are received in the recesses in the adapter in order to mount the magnet to the adapter. In another embodiment the shaft has an outer circumferential surface. Here, the adapter has a recess of a first shape and a second recess for mounting the adapter onto the outer circumferential surface of the shaft and the permanent magnet has a protrusion shaped to mate with the first shape of the first recess in the adapter, and the first recess is configured to receive the protrusion to mount the magnet to the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Ahrens, Georg Bernreuther, Olaf Richter, Andreas Wall
  • Publication number: 20190214877
    Abstract: A drive including a commutator motor having a motor housing, an end shield secured to the housing, feedthroughs defined in the end shield, brushes mounted in the feedthroughs; and at least one stranded conductor forming a direct electrical and mechanical connection between a brush and the terminal contact arranged outside the motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Antes, Bernd Reinecker, Georg Bernreuther
  • Publication number: 20190214864
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor of an electric motor, includes a laminated core having magnet pockets, the laminated core being composed of two partial laminated cores. A plurality of permanent magnets are held in a force-fitting manner in magnet pockets of the laminated core, the magnets extending over both partial laminated cores. Sheet metal tongues, which maintain the force fit of the permanent magnets, are deflected in the first partial laminated core in a first axial direction and in the second partial laminated core in a second axial direction opposite to the first direction, wherein the partial laminated cores consist of stamped metal sheets and the permanent magnets are pressed into the magnet pockets in the stamping direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Günther, Martin Gundermann, Mladen Zec, Jochen Bauer, Andreas Wall, Klaus Weiske, Armin Suttner-Reimann
  • Patent number: 10348157
    Abstract: An electric motor, in particular a pump motor, made up of a permanent magnet rotor, a wound stator, having a stator laminate package, insulating elements and a stator winding, a motor housing made of plastic material and a component carrying a rotor bearing, in particular a pump head. It is an object of the invention to provide a generic motor with a reliable and economically feasible fastening of the stator to the motor housing, wherein heat expansion cracks are avoided and noise transmissions can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Ehrsam, Harald Rausch, Maximilian Schupfner, Thomas Häusler, Matthias Krause
  • Publication number: 20190199156
    Abstract: A stator of a three-phase electronically commutated DC motor, having a stator core, an insulating material body and a coil wire, wherein the stator core has a closed back iron and a plurality of stator poles pointing radially inwardly from the back iron, which contacts the insulating material body axially at the stator core, and covers both the back iron and also the stator poles. The stator is for a brushless DC motor designed in such a way that it is designed for a 48V on-board electrical system, being especially compact and nevertheless reliably preventing coil wires of different phases from touching each other and an economical production process being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bernreuther, Matthias Ahrens
  • Patent number: 10323642
    Abstract: A pump motor having a permanent magnet rotor, a containment shell, a wound stator, a motor housing, a pump head, a shaft, which is secured in the containment shell on the one hand and in the pump head on the other hand, and a fixed bearing, which is pressed or injected into the permanent magnet rotor and rotatably mounts it on the shaft. The pump motor provides a reliable and economically producible bearing of the permanent magnet rotor on the shaft in a generic pump motor, in which the bearing abutting uniformly against the shaft over the entire bearing length and during a complete rotation can be achieved, small angle errors can be compensated, and noises can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Weiske
  • Publication number: 20190178363
    Abstract: A gearbox for a planetary gear having a hollow-cylindrical housing body having a first internal gear, and a bearing flange engaging at least in sections coaxially in the housing body, so that an overlap area is formed, wherein the housing body and the bearing flange are firmly bonded to each other in the overlap area by laser irradiation welding. The bearing flange has a second internal gear in the overlap area. The gearbox relates to a planetary gear and a motor/transmission combination having such a gearbox and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Antes, Bernd Reinecker, Olaf Richter, Klaus Weiske, Reiner Hettych
  • Publication number: 20190176418
    Abstract: A method for producing a ring gear for a planetary gear train, wherein a continuous profile is produced by an extrusion process and the continuous profile is subsequently cut to a predetermined cutting length in order to form a ring gear body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Richter, Daniel Kirchgessner
  • Publication number: 20190162216
    Abstract: A mechanical connection between a ring gear made of plastic, and a housing part, the mechanical connection includes a heat-shrunk tubing made of plastic, the heat-shrunk tubing positioned in a connecting region between the ring gear and the housing part to create a positive-locking and/or frictional connection between the ring gear and the housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Bierl, Daniel Kirchgessner, Reiner Hettych
  • Patent number: 10267313
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump impeller in an electromotive centrifugal pump, the impeller including a base body having a bearing to which is attached, on a first end, a permanent-magnetic rotor and, on a second end, a cover disk that is mounted on the base body; and a plurality of pump blades made of first and second parts, the first part being a base blade segment attached to the base body thus forming a first unitary piece and a cover disk blade segment attached to the cover disk thus forming a second unitary piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Bernreuther, Olai Ihle, Klaus Weiske
  • Publication number: 20190109516
    Abstract: A fluid pump, having a pump impeller, mounted so as to rotate around an axle, in a conveyed medium in a wet area and a conductor plate, which is arranged in a dry area sealed off from the conveyed medium, wherein radial forces of the axle are accommodated, on one side, by a separating wall between the dry area and the wet area and by a pump head on the other side. The object of the invention is to provide structural features to ensure an optimum dissipation of heat from a conductor plate and its power components to the conveyed medium without negatively impacting the hydraulic efficiency of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Georg Bernreuther
  • Patent number: 10256702
    Abstract: A transducer device for attachment to one end of a shaft of an electric drive, the shaft having a shaft axis. The transducer device includes at least one recess in the shaft end. Means are provided for engaging the transducer device with the at least one recess to create a form fitting connection acting in the direction of the shaft axis. Finally, a securing means is provided for preventing detachment of the form-fitting connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Ludwig Hager
  • Publication number: 20190103773
    Abstract: An electronically commutated direct current motor made up of a cylindrically shaped non-ferrous stator winding; a cylindrically shaped, magnetically conductive back iron arranged radially outside of the stator winding; and a cylindrically shaped permanent magnet rotor arranged concentrically within the stator winding, wherein the magnetically conductive back iron has different magnetic conductivities over its circumference
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Brunner, Armin Suttner-Reimann, Mladen Zec