Abstract: A method for soldering a stator of an electric machine to a cooler is described. Firstly, the stator and/or the cooler is coated, at least partially, with a layer of solder. Then, the stator is brought together with the cooler such that the layer of solder is between the stator and the cooler. Finally, the cooler is heated to the melt temperature of the layer of solder in order to produce a solder connection between the stator and the cooler. The cooler can also act as support. Furthermore, a stator for an electric machine, comprising a stator support and a solder connection between the stator and the stator support is described.

Abstract: A clutch has a stationary carrier, a first clutch member and a second clutch member. The first clutch member and the second clutch member are disposed so as to be rotatable about a common axis. The carrier has a coil arrangement, which is partially accommodated in a first partial core containing soft iron and which faces towards the first clutch member. The first clutch member has a second partial core, containing soft iron, having magnetic-flux poles that at least partially enclose the coil arrangement of the stationary carrier. The second clutch member has permanent-magnet elements, which face towards the magnetic-flux poles and which, are at least partially in alignment with at least some of the magnetic-flux poles. The first clutch member and the second clutch member are set up to transmit a torque and/or a rotary motion from the one clutch member to the other clutch member.

Abstract: A fluid injection valve having an inlet which is set up to receive fluid from a supply line and is connected to a chamber, a fluid outlet which is connected to the chamber, is set up to allow fluid to flow out of the fluid injection valve and has a valve arrangement having a valve seat and a valve element, wherein the valve element is set up to perform opening and closing movements relative to the valve seat, a linear actuator which is set up to move the valve element relative to the valve seat, and a spring arrangement which exerts on the valve element a force which is dependent on the fluid pressure prevailing in the chamber.

Abstract: A brake unit for a hydraulic, single-circuit or multi-circuit braking system of a land vehicle, with fluid on-off valves to be operated electrically, an electronic closed-loop/open-loop control circuit to provide control signals for the fluid on-off valves by which the hydraulic pressure in the brake circuits is modulated, a unit body, which consists of at least two ceramic boards connected to each other, and which has the fluid on-off valves, hydraulic connecting lines between the fluid on-off valves being incorporated in the boards, and at least one of the boards being used as the carrier board for electrical/electronic components and electrical connecting lines of the electronic open-loop/closed-loop control circuit.

Abstract: In order to provide a compact and highly efficient electric machine having high power density, an electric machine excited by permanent magnets, comprising a stator and a rotor, is provided. The stator comprises a coil arrangement and the rotor has permanent magnet elements. The coil arrangement comprises a winding and surrounds a flux yoke. The flux yoke comprises at least one limb. Between every two limbs, flux guide parts are arranged that are spaced apart from each other and that are aligned with the ends of the limbs. Neighbouring permanent magnet elements have opposing magnetic orientations and are combined to form a magnet disc. On the side facing away from the limbs of the permanent magnet elements, flux guide parts are arranged. The limbs and the flux guide parts face the permanent magnet elements forming an air gap.

Abstract: In the drive train of a combustion engine an auxiliary arrangement is arranged which is to be coupled with an axial flow machine including a stator and a rotor, in order to perform an actuating movement. The stator has a coil arrangement, and the rotor has an essentially cup-shaped support for permanent magnet elements. The coil arrangement of the stator has at least one cylindrical winding and is at least partially enclosed by two essentially pot-shaped magnetic flux yokes. Each of the pot-shaped magnetic flux yokes has side areas with magnetic flux poles whose outsides are oriented towards the permanent magnet elements of the rotor. The magnetic flux poles of the stator are arranged spaced apart from the permanent magnet elements of the rotor. The magnetic orientation of neighboring permanent magnet elements towards the air gap alternates.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, in particular for injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, said fuel injection valve comprising a fuel inlet which is designed to allow fuel to flow into the fuel injection valve, and an actuating device which can be electrically activated and cooperates with a valve arrangement in order to discharge fuel into the combustion chamber in a directly or indirectly controlled manner via a fuel outlet the actuating device having a solenoid arrangement which is to be energized, a substantially magnetically soft magnet yoke arrangement which cooperates therewith, and a substantially magnetically soft magnet armature arrangement which cooperates therewith. The magnet yoke arrangement is constituted by at least two yoke discs. At least one of the faces of each yoke disc has at least one pole web which together with the solenoid arrangement acts upon the magnet armature arrangement.

Abstract: A linear actuator is provided with an armature and a stator. The armature has at least two stacks of permanently magnetic rods one over another, the stacks being arranged at a predetermined distance from each other. The stator is at least partly produced from a soft magnetic material, and comprises at least two pairs of teeth with teeth opposite each other, each pair of teeth receiving one of the two stacks between them while forming an air gap. The stator has at least two magnetically conducting inner areas which are located between the two stacks and arranged at a predetermined distance from each other in the direction of motion of the armature. The inner areas are each at least partially surrounded by a substantially hollow cylindrical coil arrangement, the central longitudinal axis of which is oriented substantially transversely to the direction of motion of the armature.

Abstract: Linear machine with a stator and a rotor, which are separated by an air gap and have at least one stator coil and/or one rotor coil respectively. The stator or rotor has a soft magnetic iron body with a stator back or rotor back, on which grooves are formed at a distance from each other, forming teeth. In the grooves, multiple conductor bars of the stator coil or rotor coil are arranged in rows. On the faces of the stator or rotor, end connectors which connect the conductor bars and extend over multiple grooves are present. Each conductor bar has a cavity on the face of at least one of its ends. Each end connector has an extension, which is arranged and dimensioned in such a way as to engage in an electrically conducting manner into the respective cavity of the conductor bar, on its section facing the respective front end of the conductor bars.

Abstract: A gas exchange valve actuator for a valve-controlled internal combustion engine is equipped with a rotor, which is to be coupled to a valve member, and a stator, wherein the rotor has at least two stacks, which are arranged at a predetermined distance from one another, of superposed permanently magnetic bars, and the stator is formed, at least partially, from a soft-magnetic material and has at least two pairs of teeth with mutually opposed teeth, of which each pair of teeth receives one of the two stacks between them in each case, while forming an air gap, and wherein the stator has at least two magnetically conductive inner regions which are located between the two stacks and arranged at a predetermined distance from one another in the direction of movement of the rotor and which are at least partially surrounded, in each case, by an essentially hollow-cylindrical coil arrangement, the central longitudinal axis of which is oriented approximately transversely to the direction of movement of said rotor.

Abstract: In an electrical axial flow machine, comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein either the stator comprises a coil arrangement and the rotor is provided with permanent magnet elements, or wherein the rotor comprises a coil arrangement and the stator is provided with permanent magnet elements, the stator is arranged spaced from the rotor under the formation of an air gap, each of the magnetic flux yokes has several neighbouring magnetic flux poles, the coil arrangement has at least one hollow cylindrical winding which is at least partially encompassed by magnetic flux yokes, the magnetic flux poles each have an outside which is oriented to the permanent magnet elements beyond the air gap, neighbouring permanent magnet elements in the circumferential direction have an alternating magnetic orientation towards the air gap, at least several of the magnetic flux poles are in certain positions of the rotor relative to the stator at least partially oriented in alignment with the permanent magnet elements, the magnetic

Abstract: The energy storage has an electrical machine with a rotor and a stator. The stator is separated from the rotor by an air gap and has at least one stator coil which, under operating conditions, interacts with the rotor via a rotating field. In one variant, the rotor surrounds the stator and is adapted to rotate about the stator. Another variant provides for the rotor to surround the stator and to be adapted to rotate within the stator. The rotor is associated with a rotating mass with which it forms a cylindrical body with two end faces and a lateral surface. In the area of at least one of its end to faces—in the installed position of the energy storage, of the bottom end face—the cylindrical body has at least one permanent magnet which corresponds with at least one stationary permanent magnet of identical polarity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a timing drive for an internal combustion engine, comprising a crankshaft, at least one camshaft, a driven gear that is connected to the crankshaft, at least one driving gear which drives the associated camshaft and a transmission that interconnects the driven gear and the at least one driving gear. An electric motor is provided which engages with the transmission in an offset manner relative to the crankshaft and the at least one camshaft as well as in an offset manner relative to the associated driven gear and the associated at least one driving gear by means of an intermediate gear. Furthermore, a control device is provided, with the aid of which the electric motor can be triggered in such a way that additional torque and/or an additional torque profile can be introduced into the transmission and/or can be tapped from the transmission based on at least one operational parameter and/or at least one operational situation of the transmission. Also disclosed is a corresponding method.

Abstract: In the drive train of a combustion engine an auxiliary arrangement is arranged which is to be coupled with an axial flow machine comprising a stator and a rotor, in order to perform an actuating movement. The stator has a coil arrangement, and the rotor has an essentially cup-shaped support for permanent magnet elements. The coil arrangement of the stator has at least one cylindrical winding and is at least partially enclosed by two essentially pot-shaped magnetic flux yokes. Each of the pot-shaped magnetic flux yokes has side areas with magnetic flux poles whose outsides are oriented towards the permanent magnet elements of the rotor. The magnetic flux poles of the stator are arranged spaced apart from the permanent magnet elements of the rotor. The magnetic orientation of neighbouring permanent magnet elements towards the air gap alternates.

Abstract: An electronic assembly for switching electric power, comprising two power supply buses spaced from each other between which semiconductor switches to be driven by means of a control input are arranged at a power output for providing electric power, a capacitor arrangement bridging the two power supply buses, which extends at least partially over the length of the power supply buses, two contact layers originating from one each of the power supply buses and covering the capacitor arrangement at least partially, with the contact layers comprising free end portions which mutually project one another towards the respective other one of the power supply buses, and with the two contact layers having a freely accessible contact area each which is adapted for contact making with correspondingly configured power terminals.

Abstract: A fluid injection valve having an inlet which is set up to receive fluid from a supply line and is connected to a chamber, a fluid outlet which is connected to the chamber, is set up to allow fluid to flow out of the fluid injection valve and has a valve arrangement having a valve seat and a valve element, wherein the valve element is set up to perform opening and closing movements relative to the valve seat, a linear actuator which is set up to move the valve element relative to the valve seat, and a spring arrangement which exerts on the valve element a force which is dependent on the fluid pressure prevailing in the chamber.

Abstract: The energy storage device has an electrical machine (12) comprising a rotor (14) and a stator (16), the stator (16) being separated from the rotor (14) by an air gap (18) and having at least one stator coil (20). The rotor (14), moreover, has a fly-mass (22) and, together with the latter, constitutes a rotating body. The rotor (14) or the rotating body consists of a multiplicity of thin sheet-metallic discs (30), which have the form, substantially, of an annular disc having an outer edge and an inner edge. There has been applied to these sheet-metal discs (30), at their outer edge, a first tensile stress and, at their inner edge, a first shear stress.

Abstract: Device for recovering electrical energy from the exhaust heat of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle, with a heat exchanger, through which the exhaust gas of the combustion engine is to flow on the input side, and through which heat exchanger fluid, which in operation of the combustion engine is to be brought in the heat exchanger to a first, high temperature and/or pressure level, is to flow on the output side. The device has at least one Laval nozzle, which has an inlet and an outlet, the inlet of which is to be connected to an output-side outlet of the heat exchanger, the outlet of which is directed onto turbine blade wheels of a constant-pressure turbine, and which is dimensioned so that it loads the constant-pressure turbine with steam which has a lower second temperature and/or pressure level than the first, high temperature and/or pressure level and has a high flow velocity.

Abstract: An active compensation filter for the application in the electric power supply in a land vehicle, which comprises a high-pass filter which is to be coupled with a supply voltage line which carries a supply voltage, in order to detect frequency and amplitude of interference voltage components of the supply voltage. A signal amplifier which is connected in series with the high-pass filter amplifies the detected interference voltage components and supplies them to a coupling element as output signals, which is connected in series with the signal amplifier and comprises a primary side and a secondary side. The primary side is fed with the output signals of the signal amplifier and the secondary side is looped into the supply voltage line.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems of combustion engines, in particular for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of a combustion engine, comprising a fuel inlet which is adapted to have fuel flow into the fuel injection valve, an electrically controllable actuation means which cooperates with a valve arrangement in order to cause the fuel in a directly or indirectly controlled manner to exit into the combustion chamber through a fuel outlet, with the actuation means comprising a magnet coil arrangement to be supplied with current, an essentially soft magnetic magnet yoke arrangement cooperating with same, as well as an essentially soft magnetic magnet armature arrangement cooperating with same, with the magnet yoke arrangement and/or the magnet armature arrangement comprising a configuration which reduces eddy currents.