Abstract: To create a housing cover for fixing to a housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through openings and with a sealing bead that comprises an elastomeric material, and wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal support face of the housing cover, in which housing cover the course of the sealing bead can be more freely designed and, in particular, laid closer to the fastening means through-openings of the housing cover and which, in particular, is producible from a sheet-shaped starting material, it is proposed that the housing cover comprises at least one deformation limiting element, which projects over the seal support face in the same direction as the sealing bead and limits a deformation of the sealing bead in the assembled state of the housing cover, wherein the deformation limiting element comprises at least one fastening means through-opening portion that extends along a circumferential direction of one of the fastening means through-openings over a circumfe

Abstract: In order to provide a structural component, in particular a cockpit cross-member for a motor vehicle, which can be produced simply and cost-effectively, according to the invention the structural component comprises the following: a profile element which has a peripheral wall that delimits an interior of the profile element at least in regions, and at least one through opening provided in the peripheral wall of the profile element; at least one fastening element which is arranged in the interior of the profile element so as to correspond to the at least one through opening; and at least one pressure-forming portion which is formed on the profile element and/or on the fastening element and positions the fastening element with respect to the through opening.

Abstract: The invention relates to a storage device (200) for receiving, storing and releasing electrical energy, the storage device (200) comprising the following: a storage cell (140); a packing unit (110), the packing unit (110) exhibiting a sealing element (120); and a temperature control zone (130) on one side of the packing unit (110), wherein at least one region of the storage cell (140) extends into the temperature-control zone (130); wherein the sealing element (120) surrounds a cell casing (144) of the storage cell (140) and delimits the temperature-control zone (130) from an adjacent zone.

Abstract: A control device for a battery storage device, which is equipped with components of the electronics system, e.g. battery management system and current measurement shunt, and with components of the electromechanical system, e.g. in the form of relays, fuses, bus bars, and plug connectors, and is accommodated in a closed housing. In order to create a control device in which a predetermined service life can be reliably achieved even without an oversizing of components, it is proposed for the closed housing to be embodied to form a free and/or forced convection, it being possible for the convection to balance out temperature differences inside the housing and throughout the control device.

Abstract: Galvanic cells and/or battery modules comprising several galvanic cells, which have an increased service life and which are in particular easy and inexpensive to manufacture.

Abstract: In order to provide a method by means of which stacks of laminations can be produced in a simple and efficient manner, it is provided that the method comprises the following: coating one or more laminations with a bonding agent; bonding a plurality of laminations to form a sheet metal laminate by means of a first activation of the bonding agent; dividing the sheet metal laminate to produce a plurality of sheet metal laminate units and/or separating out a plurality of sheet metal laminate units from the sheet metal laminate; and bonding the plurality of sheet metal laminate units to form a stack of laminations by means of a second activation of the bonding agent, one or more parameters differing from one another in the first activation and the second activation.

Abstract: In order to provide a seal arrangement, in particular for sealing a first fluid space from a second fluid space or a plurality of fluid spaces, which on the one hand can be produced in a simple and cost-effective manner and also allows reliable sealing of a first fluid space from a second fluid space, it is proposed that the seal arrangement comprises the following: A sealing element for arrangement between a first object and a second object, the sealing element comprising two or more sealing element components which can be or are connected directly or indirectly to one another and which each comprise a base body part and a resilient sealing body part arranged on the base body part, the base body parts of the sealing element components preferably forming a dimensionally stable base body of the sealing element, and the resilient sealing body parts of the sealing element components forming a resilient sealing body for providing a sealing function of the sealing element.

Abstract: An electrochemical device is provided, including a stack of a plurality of electrochemical units, at least one medium channel extending along a stack direction, at least one flow field via which a medium is able to flow transversely to the stack direction from the medium channel to another medium channel, and at least one connecting channel via which the flow field and the medium channel are in fluidic connection. The connecting channel has a medium channel-side mouth opening extending along a circumferential direction of the flow field from a first medium channel-side rim to a second medium channel-side rim, and a flow field-side mouth opening extending along the circumferential direction from a first to a second flow field-side rim. At least one of the flow field-side rims is offset away from the respective other flow field-side rim along the circumferential direction in relation to one of the medium channel-side rims.

Abstract: In order to improve a functional part, in particular a fitting, for example for a housing, comprising a connection receptacle or a plurality of connection receptacles, wherein the connection receptacle or each of the plurality of connection receptacles is configured to receive a connection mating piece of another part, in particular a connection mating piece of a housing part, in particular in the form of a bayonet closure in order to securely and releasably connect the functional part to the other part, it is proposed that the one connection receptacle or at least one connection receptacle, in particular some or each of the plurality of connection receptacles, is configured to receive connection mating pieces of different sizes, in particular so as to produce a secure connection.

Abstract: In order to provide a structural component (100) for a vehicle (102), in particular a bulkhead (104) for a road vehicle, for example for a passenger car (106), which can be produced simply and cost-effectively and preferably simultaneously meets requirements relating to weight reduction and structural integrity, according to the invention the structural component (100), in particular the bulkhead (104), comprises the following: a main body (108), which comprises one or more foamed portions (124) and one or more compact portions (130), the structural component (100) preferably also comprising one or more cover elements (126) which cover the main body (108) in one or more foamed portions (124) and/or in one or more compact portions (130).

Abstract: A battery storage device, in particular a battery storage device for a vehicle, said storage device being simple and in particular inexpensive to produce and allowing a reliable seal. This is achieved in that the battery storage device comprises the following: a battery storage housing that encloses an interior in which one or more battery modules are received or can be received; and one or more temperature-controlling elements through which a temperature-controlling medium can flow in order to control the temperature of one or more battery modules which are received or can be received in the interior of the battery storage housing, wherein the one or more temperature-controlling elements comprise a temperature-controlling medium inflow connection and a temperature-controlling medium discharge connection which are arranged outside of the interior of the battery storage housing, and the one or more temperature-controlling elements are produced by roll bonding in particular.

Abstract: To create a housing cover for fixing to a housing, in particular to a power inverter housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through openings and with a sealing bead that includes an elastomeric material, and wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal bearing surface of the housing cover, in which housing cover the course of the sealing bead can be more freely designed and, in particular, laid closer to the fastening means through openings of the housing cover, it is provided that the housing cover includes at least one deformation limiting element, which projects over the seal bearing surface in the same direction as the sealing bead and limits a deformation of the sealing bead in the assembled state of the housing cover.

Abstract: A braking system for a motor vehicle is proposed, comprising a friction ring and a brake hat, which is configured for fastening the friction ring to a motor vehicle axle, wherein the friction ring and the brake hat are connected to one another by a self-locking and/or self-braced connection.

Abstract: In order to provide an electrochemical cell (100) that can be produced as simply as possible and has as long a service life as possible, according to the invention an electrochemical cell (100), in particular a cylindrical cell, is provided, which comprises: an electrochemical element (104), a housing (106), a first cell terminal (118) and a second cell terminal (120); wherein the electrochemical cell (100) also comprises a cast element, in particular a first cast element (128), for connecting the housing (106) and the first cell terminal (118) and/or a cast element, in particular a second cast element (154), for connecting the housing (106) and the second cell terminal (120).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of electrical energy storage devices and in particular enables simplified manufacture and/or optimised operation thereof in that a cooling module, a cell stack, the entire electrical energy storage device and/or a method for cooling cells are optimised.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a particularly planar component that is as simple as possible to produce and has an optimized stability. In order to achieve said aim, a component is proposed which comprises or is formed from a polymer matrix material and at least one non-compressible filler, wherein an average proportion of the at least one non-compressible filler is preferably approximately 75 wt. % or more, based on the total mass of the component and/or based on a local mass of the component in a locally compacted region of the component, wherein the component has one or more attachment regions for attaching the component to an additional component, and wherein a material of the component is compressed at least in the one or more attachment regions.

Abstract: In order to improve and in particular to more economically manufacture and/or assemble and/or maintain a sump device comprising a sump body particularly for an oil supply in a commercial motor vehicle having a pipe unit comprising a pipe body wherein the sump body is an injection moulded part of plastics material, it is proposed that the pipe unit be arranged on the sump body with play.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide an electrochemical cell which is as simply constructed as possible and which requires as little production effort as possible. This is achieved by an electrochemical cell, in which a first connection conductor is secured to a cover element in a first connection region by means of a first potting element, said first potting element being surrounded and/or accommodated by a first compensation element of the electrochemical cell in the first connection region, and/or in which a second connection conductor is secured to the cover element in a second connection region by means of a second potting element, said second potting element being surrounded and/or accommodated by a second compensation element of the electrochemical cell in the second connection region.

Abstract: A module layer and to a battery system made therefrom, which, as a device for supplying and storing electrical energy between two final end components, comprises a number of battery modules that are electrically connected to one another in series. Each module here consists of a number of elementary cells, which are generally lithium-ion batteries. The module layer is embodied as a structural unit, wherein the cells in the module layer are positioned next to one another in a tray, in an upright position on a base element of the tray, and are enclosed by an outer frame that is embodied as a heat sink and constitutes the rim of the tray, the outer frame has a seal, and the module layer has a section of a central shaft into which bus bars protrude, which produce a conductive connection with the cells of the respective module layer.

Abstract: In order to provide a seal arrangement, in particular for sealing a first fluid space from a second fluid space or a plurality of fluid spaces, which on the one hand is producible in a simple and cost-effective manner and also enables a reliable sealing of a first fluid space from a second fluid space, it is proposed that the seal arrangement comprises the following: A sealing element for arranging between a first object and a second object, wherein the sealing element comprises two or more mutually connectible or mutually connected sealing element components, which each comprise a base body part and an elastic sealing body part arranged on the base body part, wherein the base body parts of the sealing element components form a preferably dimensionally stable base body of the sealing element, wherein the elastic sealing body parts of the sealing element components form an elastic sealing body for providing a sealing function of the sealing element.