Patents Assigned to Magna Steyr
  • Patent number: 8776926
    Abstract: A fixing device for releasable fixing an electrical energy accumulator to a carrying structure of a motor vehicle includes at least one insertion bolt and a receiver unit for the insertion bolt which are provided on the carrying structure and on the energy accumulator (or vice versa). The insertion bolt includes a retaining protrusion and the receiver unit includes a cage and a locking element mounted in the cage. The cage includes an insertion opening into which the insertion bolt can be introduced along an insertion direction, and the locking element can be moved between a release position and a locked position. In the release position, the locking element opens the insertion opening for introduction of the insertion bolt and in the locked position engages behind the retaining protrusion of the insertion bolt when the insertion bolt is introduced in the insertion opening of the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Thomas Auer, Martin Rodler
  • Publication number: 20140175767
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel suspension for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, having a transverse leaf spring arranged transversely relative to a vehicle longitudinal axis. The transverse leaf spring is supported at each of the two sides of a vehicle longitudinal center plane by at least one resilient member on a vehicle-side support which is securely connected to the vehicle superstructure or an auxiliary frame which is connected to the vehicle superstructure. The resilient member and the support form an articulated engagement. With an articulated engagement provided at each side of the vehicle longitudinal center plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicants: Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG and CoAG, Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Marc Simon, Paul Zandbergen, Thomas Gerhards, Walter Shimpl
  • Publication number: 20140178719
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an immersion tolerant electrical energy storage system for use with electric vehicles. The energy storage system is equipped with a sealed battery unit and a sealed heat exchanger that cooperates to inhibit the intrusion of fluids and other contaminants into the system. The ability to limit intrusion of such fluids and contaminants provides improved service life for the batteries in the battery unit and components of the thermal control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Magna Steyr
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Storc, Jonas Bereisa, David Edwin Barnhart, Williams B. Suber, James Edward Robertson, Kenneth Ratkovich
  • Publication number: 20140174572
    Abstract: A tank system for a motor vehicle, the tank system having a tank, a reservoir arranged in the tank, at least one supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the tank, and an extraction unit which is adapted to extract fuel from the reservoir via an engine feed line and deliver the fluid to a drive unit of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fuel Systems GesmbH
    Inventors: Bernd KAHLER, Wolfgang VOGLMEIER
  • Publication number: 20140162100
    Abstract: A battery system and a method for producing a battery system. The battery system has a plurality of battery cells, a covering plate provided on and/or over the battery cells to cover the battery cells, and cell connectors configured to electrically connect battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG
    Inventors: Kevin FISTER, Thomas KROPSCH
  • Publication number: 20140154537
    Abstract: A safety device for a vehicle having a battery system with a plurality of battery cells, a method for controlling the safety device, and a system that includes the safety device and the battery system. The safety device includes an electronic unit; a first device configured to detect an insulation resistance between components of the battery system and a reference potential, which components are connected in an electrically conductive manner to at least one battery cell; a second device configured to supply and/or discharge heat to and/or from the battery cells via a heat transfer medium which circulates in at least one circular flow pattern; and at least a first cut-off valve configured to interrupt the circular flow path of the heat transfer medium and which is actuated by the electronic unit from an open position into a closed position when the detected insulation resistance is below a predetermined limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG
    Inventors: Peter DÄMON, Thomas TRATHNIGG
  • Publication number: 20140140369
    Abstract: A battery system including a plurality of battery cells and at least one electronic unit having a circuit board and a temperature measuring device with at least two infrared temperature sensors arranged on and operatively connected to the circuit board and configured to measure a temperature of a predetermined measurement region on a surface of the battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG
    Inventor: Michael ERHART
  • Publication number: 20140134469
    Abstract: A battery system having at least one battery cell, an absorption element, and a temperature-control system having a liquid temperature-control medium configured to cool and/or heat the battery cells in a battery housing, and a motor vehicle having such a battery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG
    Inventors: Peter Dämon, Georg EICHBERGER
  • Publication number: 20140130896
    Abstract: A pressurized storage tank arrangement having at least two pressurized storage tanks, the at least two pressurized storage tanks being configured for connection to one another in a fluid-conducting manner via a connecting device. The at least two pressurized storage tanks are configured for connection to the connecting device in a fluid-conducting manner at a first and a second connecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventor: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
  • Publication number: 20140124039
    Abstract: A pressure accumulator system, and a method of operating a pressure accumulator system. The method includes operatively connecting a tank neck to at least two pressure accumulator vessels having different admissible operating pressures, in which at least one of the pressure accumulator vessels has an admissible operating pressure lower than a maximum applicable pressure at the tank neck, simultaneously filling via the tank neck the at least two pressure accumulator vessels with a fluid medium, and preventing an inadmissible pressure rise in the pressure accumulator vessels with the lower admissible operating pressure during the simultaneous filling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Guido BARTLOK, Franz MAYR
  • Publication number: 20140124062
    Abstract: A pressure shut-off valve unit for a pressure accumulator vessel. A valve housing has a valve chamber with an accumulator region, an intake opening and an outlet opening facing the pressure accumulator vessel. A piston has at least one axial connecting channel, a first effective piston surface facing an inlet region of the valve chamber and a second effective piston surface adjacent to the accumulator region, the piston being axially movable via a change in pressure of the accumulator region of the valve chamber. Sealing elements are arranged in the valve chamber and which are configured to guide in an axially movable manner the piston. A sealing body of the at least two sealing elements or the valve housing form a valve seat, and a passage opening arranged between the intake opening and the outlet opening is reversibly closed and opened via a change in pressure of the accumulator region of the valve chamber. In a unpressurized state, the passage opening is kept open by at least one spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR FAHRZEUGTECHNIK AG & CO KG
    Inventors: Franz MAYR, Armin SCHEINOST
  • Publication number: 20140124071
    Abstract: A tank neck unit for a vehicle that includes a tank neck operatively connected to a pressure accumulator system of the vehicle and which is configured for a predetermined maximum pressure which is greater than a permissible operating pressure of the pressure accumulator system. A shut-off valve is arranged in a throughflow path between the tank neck and an outlet region of the tank neck unit, the shut-off valve being configured to prevent an increase in pressure of the pressure accumulator system beyond the permissible operating pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Oliver ESL, Franz MAYR
  • Publication number: 20140124063
    Abstract: Shut-off valve for a pressure accumulator vessel for a medium, wherein a valve housing has a valve chamber with an intake opening and an outlet opening facing the pressure accumulator vessel, a movable piston, and at least one spring, wherein the piston has at least one axial connecting channel and is guided in an axially movable manner by at least two sealing elements arranged in the valve chamber, wherein a first effective piston surface of the piston, the first effective piston surface facing an inlet region of the valve chamber, and a sealing body form a valve seat, and wherein, by changing the pressure in an accumulator region of the valve chamber, the accumulator region being adjacent to a second effective piston surface, the piston is axially movable and a passage opening arranged between the intake opening and the outlet opening may be reversibly closed and opened, wherein, in the unpressurized state, the passage opening is kept open by the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Franz MAYR, Armin SCHEINOST
  • Publication number: 20140127452
    Abstract: A honeycomb core having a lattice structure which includes a resin-impregnated matrix, a method for producing such a honeycomb core, a sandwich panel having such a honeycomb core, and use of such a honeycomb core or such a sandwich panel in automobile construction. The matrix is impregnated inhomogeneously with the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Magna Steyr Fahzeugtechnik AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dietz, Christoph Krammer
  • Patent number: 8714390
    Abstract: A container for operating media of motor vehicles which is chemically stable both in respect of the fuel carried and in respect of additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Kögel
  • Publication number: 20140117796
    Abstract: An electric motor having a housing having a front and a rear end plate, a rotor that is mounted in the end plates, a stator, the core of which stator includes stator plates that are aligned with respect to each other in the axial direction of the rotor, and a housing cooling system that includes a tube that surrounds the stator core, the being concentrically surrounded by at least one cooling channel that is open towards the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR FAHRZEUGTECHNIK AG & CO KG
    Inventor: Helmut KASSLER
  • Publication number: 20140102354
    Abstract: A pressure indicator for a high-pressure accumulator system, and which includes a pressure indicating element having a channel. The pressure indicating element moves between a starting position and a pressure-indicating position in response to pressure on a side facing a pressure-monitoring region and which is counter to a force of at least one compression spring on the pressure indicating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Franz MAYR, Carsten SCHMIDT, Alexander SCHÄRFL
  • Publication number: 20140099498
    Abstract: A carbon composite component composed of a plastics-carbon-fibre composite material. The carbon composite component is made up of individual regions, in which at least one ply is composed, in at least a first region, of carbon fibres, and at least one additional region and/or the first region includes a ply which is composed of metal cords which are arranged spaced apart from one another and spatially oriented in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Bernhard HOFER, Harald ZACHNEGGER
  • Publication number: 20140097011
    Abstract: A composite component composed of a plastics-fibre composite material, having at least two plies of fibre-reinforced material, and at least one electrical line arranged between the at least two plies of fibre-reinforced material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventor: Bernhard HOFER
  • Patent number: 8684455
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat including a seat portion having a wind deflector provided in a storage compartment thereof, the wind deflector being mounted for movement between a rest position in the storage compartment and an active position out of the storage compartment. The seat portion also has a rotational joint configured to permit rotation of the seat portion between a first orientation in which the seat portion permits a user to assume a seated position, and a second orientation in which the seat portion permits the wind deflector to assume the active position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Sabine Bernhard, Manuel Erlacher, Achim Schmidt