Patents Assigned to Compact Dynamics GmbH
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Patent number: 7476997Abstract: A travelling field machine with a stator and a rotor which are separated by an air gap and each of which comprises at least one stator coil or one rotor coil, with the stator or the rotor, respectively, comprising a soft magnetic iron body with a stator or rotor back, in which spaced grooves are formed, generating teeth, and in each of the grooves several conductor bars of the stator coil or the rotor coil, respectively, are arranged in series comprising end connectors arranged at the faces of the stator or the rotor, respectively, which connect the conductor bars extending across at least one groove, with the conductor bars comprising conductor portions of different length projecting beyond the faces of the stator or rotor, respectively, and the end connectors being arranged in a stacked fashion in the axial direction at the faces of the stator or the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20080284259Abstract: A linear actuator is provided with a rotor and a stator. The rotor comprises 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 rotor. 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 rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20080252150Abstract: A linear actuator in an electric percussion tool is equipped with a rotor 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, 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, are arranged at a predetermined distance from one another in the direction of movement of the rotor and 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 the rotor, and the rotor has a driving element which is able to transmit a mechanical impulse to aType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20080092854Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: COMPACT DYNAMICS GMBHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20080048493Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 7279820Abstract: A machine with transversal flux comprises a stator and a rotor. Therein, either the stator has a coil arrangement and the rotor is provided with permanent magnet elements, or the rotor may have a coil arrangement and the stator is provided with permanent magnet elements. The coil arrangement has at least one cylindrical winding and is encompassed by a magnetic flux yoke which in a sectional view along the centre longitudinal axis of the coil arrangement is approximately C-shaped. The magnetic flux yoke has a leg at each end which at least partially encompasses one face each of the coil arrangement. At one surface area of the coil arrangement several magnetic flux conducting pieces are arranged coaxially with the centre longitudinal axis of the coil arrangement in several rows. Under the formation of an air gap, the permanent magnet elements are arranged whose magnetic orientation towards the air gap is alternating.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20070052315Abstract: A travelling field machine with a stator and a rotor which are separated by an air gap and each of which comprises at least one stator coil or one rotor coil, with the stator or the rotor, respectively, comprising a soft magnetic iron body with a stator or rotor back, in which spaced grooves are formed, generating teeth, and in each of the grooves several conductor bars of the stator coil or the rotor coil, respectively, are arranged in series comprising end connectors arranged at the faces of the stator or the rotor, respectively, which connect the conductor bars extending across at least one groove, with the conductor bars comprising conductor portions of different length projecting beyond the faces of the stator or rotor, respectively, and the end connectors being arranged in a stacked fashion in the axial direction at the faces of the stator or the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2004Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 7049716Abstract: The invention concerns a fluid-cooled electrical machine with a housing in which are arranged a stator and a rotor with stator and/or rotor coils, wherein the electrical machine is coupled heat-conductively with a cooling device arranged on its periphery and connected with an electronic power control. The electronic power control is divided into several modules, each of which are electrically connected with at least one of the stator and/or rotor coils, wherein the modules are arranged distributed on the periphery of the electrical machine and coupled heat-conductively with the cooling device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 7014587Abstract: An automatic powershift gearbox with at least one gearbox assembly for selecting the respective gear ratios and with at least one multiple-disk clutch capable of being actuated in a controlled manner for holding or releasing individual elements of the planet gear, which allows gear shift operations without interrupting the torque flow. The multiple-disk clutch comprises a first and a second disk set which are in mutual engagement and can be brought into friction engagement by axial compression against one another. The first disk set is connected with a first shaft, and the second disk set is connected with a second shaft. The multiple-disk clutch is coupled by a transmission with an electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator, for bringing the two disk sets into and out of friction engagement by means of the electric machine. The rotor of the electric machine is supported rotatably and axially movable on one of the shafts by means of a gearbox for converting a rotary motion into a thrust motion.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Grundl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 6930428Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly of an electric machine with at least two abutting circular ring or circular disk-shaped sheet metal layers, wherein each of the sheet metal layers is formed by several circular ring or circular disk-shaped sheet metal segments which are arranged concentrically about a centre axis, of which two each are abutting under the formation of a connecting joint and comprise a predetermined minimum cross-sectional area in the radial direction, and with the sheet metal segments of abutting sheet metal layers partially overlapping one another in the circumferential direction and are joined by welds distributed along the circumferential area, with the number of welds between a connecting joint of two sheet metal segments of a sheet metal layer and a connecting joint of two sheet metal segments of a neighbouring sheet metal layer being calculated in such a manner that the sum of the effective areas of these welds is at least approximately equal to the predetermined minimum cross-sectionType: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 6865888Abstract: A turbo-compressor (20, 121) for a piston combustion engine (10), with the turbo-compressor (20, 121) comprising a fresh air inlet (24) and a fresh air outlet (26), with the turbo-compressor (20, 121) to be connected with the combustion engine (10) via the fresh air outlet (26), the turbo-compressor (20, 121) comprising a transmission shaft (32) coupled with an electric machine (30) for at least one compressor wheel (34), in order to set the compressor wheel (34) in rotation via the electric machine (30), whereby compressed fresh air is provided at the fresh air outlet (26) for the combustion engine (10), and with the electric machine (30) being a reluctance machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 6755161Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas exchange valve drive for a valve-controlled combustion engine with a hollow cylindrical rotor (16) to be coupled with a valve member (12) and a stator (18), wherein the rotor (16) comprises permanent-magnetic rings (30) concentrically arranged one above the other, the stator (18) is at least partially constructed of a soft magnetic material and comprises at least one tooth (22) facing towards the rotor (16), the stator (18) comprises a radially inner magnetically conductive area (50) and a radially outer magnetically conductive area (52), with the rings (30) of the rotor (16) being arranged between the inner area (50) and the outer area (52) of the stator (18), and the outer area (52) of the stator (18) in at least one partial section (54) is designed with a C-shaped cross-section and comprises at least one stator coil (28).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
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Patent number: 6753674Abstract: Half-bridge assembly for switching electrical power, wherein at least two semiconductor switches are connected in series forming a half-bridge; each semiconductor switch comprises a control input, the first semiconductor switch comprises a first power terminal which can be connected with a high voltage potential; the second semiconductor switch comprises a second power terminal which can be connected with a low voltage potential; a second power terminal of each first semiconductor switch is connected with a first power terminal of the respective second semiconductor switch; each of the semiconductor switches comprises a free-wheeling diode which is located parallel to both power terminals of the respective semiconductor switch; and a Schottky diode is connected in parallel to each free-wheeling diode, each semiconductor switch with its free-wheeling diode and each Schottky diode is connected with a heat sink in a heat conductive manner, with the thermal resistance between each Schottky diode and the heat sinkType: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbHInventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann