Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (100) for an electric machine having a stator core (102) and at least one winding (110) which has a winding head (120) protruding axially beyond the stator core (102), wherein the winding head (120) comprises portions of the winding which form reversals of the winding wires, winding connection lines (126) for energizing the winding (110) and at least one radially outwardly arranged first set of winding portions (127) and one radially inwardly arranged second set of winding portions (128) spaced apart from the first set, wherein the portions of the winding connection lines (126) each run in the circumferential direction, do not protrude axially beyond the first (127) and the second (128) sets of winding portions and are arranged radially between and fixed by the first (127) and the second (128) sets of winding portions. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a stator (100) and to an electric machine having such a stator (100).

Abstract: The invention relates to an engagement relays (20) for an electric machine which preferably serves as a starter device (10) for engaging a pinion, wherein the engagement relay (20) has a contact device (65) for electrically connecting electrical contacts (120, 121) having a switching axis (67) which can be actuated for the purpose of electrical connection, having a thrust motor (60) which serves to shift the switching axis (67) and the thrust motor (60) has a movable part (57) which serves to activate the switching axis (67), wherein the movable part (57) is connected to a driver (85), wherein a stop part (84) can move relative to the movable part (57) of the thrust motor (60) in a state of rest of the engagement relay (20) there is a gap(s) between the stop part (84) and the driver (85), wherein after the switching of the engagement relay (20) a contact device (65) is activated and as a result a switch of the circuit of the starter motor (23) is closed, wherein a movable part (57) of a thrust motor (60) of t

Abstract: A Rotor of a claw pole machine (12), having a rotor winding (5), which is surrounded by pole fingers of claw poles, for generating an excitation field, and having permanent magnets (8, 10), wherein two permanent magnets (8), which are arranged offset in the circumferential direction and have a magnetization in the circumferential direction, are allocated to a pole finger (3) in the axial direction next to the pole finger, a magnetic flux guiding element (9) being arranged between the two permanent magnets (8).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electric machine which can be operated using PWM control (A1) and using block control (A3), wherein a transfer control (A2) is used for transfer between the PWM control (A1) and the block control (A3), in which method, within the scope of controlling a torque of the electric machine, a d value of a phase voltage is set as a manipulated variable and a q value of the phase voltage is changed continuously.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining phase currents of an electric machine including a converter and stator including stator windings (phase number of at least three), in which the phase currents of measuring phases (at least two), are measured, the phase currents being measured in a measuring interval when the active switching elements of the measuring phases in a lowside path of the converter are activated in a switching interval delimited by a switching-on point-in-time and switching-off point-in-time, the phase currents of the remaining phases being determined arithmetically from the measured phase currents so that the measured phase currents, a spatial angle of the measuring phases, and a spatial angle of the remaining phases are used for arithmetic determination, in which the measuring interval is selected to be with respect to time outside a switching-on point-in-time or switching-off point-in-time of at least one of the active switching elements of the stator phases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection plate for an electric machine, which can be connected to a stator or a stator-side component, wherein at least one axially protruding pressing element is integrally formed on the connection plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for actuating a starter device (10), wherein the starter device (10) comprises a starting pinion (22) which is to be meshed with a toothed ring (25) of an internal combustion engine (210), the internal combustion engine (210) having a drive shaft (222). The invention is characterized in that a) first a rotational speed (n, n1, n2, n3) of the drive shaft (222) is determined, b) said rotational speed (n, n1, n2, n3) is then compared to a predefined rotational speed value (nG), and c) in the case that the rotational speed (n, n1, n2, n3) is less than or equal to the predefined rotational speed value (nG), the starting pinion (22) is toed in the direction of the toothed ring (25).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for switching off a multi-phase electric machine (110) in a motor vehicle, the multi-phase electric machine (110) comprising a rotor having a rotor winding (101) and a stator having a multi-phase stator winding (110a), wherein in a block mode (210) of the electric machine (110) a parameter influencing a synchronous generated voltage vector (Up) of a synchronous generated voltage is adjusted such that the synchronous generated voltage reaches a first threshold value (S1), wherein the block mode (210) is deactivated when the first threshold value (S1) is reached and a PWM mode (220) for applying a phase voltage with a phase voltage vector (Us) is activated, wherein the phase voltage vector (Us) and the synchronous generated voltage vector (Up) are varied in PWM mode (220) until the parameter influencing the synchronous generated voltage reaches a further threshold value (S2), wherein the phase voltage is switched off when the further threshold value (S2) is reached.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining a torque accuracy of a torque transmitted from a belt-driven starter-generator of an internal combustion engine to the internal combustion engine, which is similar to a learning process or a calibration of the actual torque of the starter-generator with respect to a setpoint torque, includes controlling the belt-driven starter-generator to transmit a specified test torque to the internal combustion engine during a predefined test time interval during coasting down of the internal combustion engine, determining a speed variable that is dependent on a speed of the internal combustion during the test time interval, comparing the speed variable to a reference variable, and deducing the torque accuracy from this comparison.

Abstract: A method for operating a belt-driven starter generator of an internal combustion engine, in which a time interval between an onset of a rotary motion of the belt-driven starter generator and an onset of a rotary motion of the internal combustion engine is determined, the determined time interval is compared to a reference value, and the structural change of a belt of the belt-driven starter generator is inferred therefrom, and a torque of the belt-driven starter generator and/or a torque of a component connected to the belt is restricted as a function of the structural change of the belt.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining an accuracy of a torque transmitted by a belt-driven starter generator of an internal combustion engine to the internal combustion engine, the method being similar to a learning operation or a calibration of the actual torque of the starter generator with respect to a setpoint torque, includes: in an idling instance of the internal combustion engine, controlling the belt-driven starter generator to transmit a specified test torque to the internal combustion engine and decreasing the torque of the internal combustion engine by the specified test torque; determining and evaluating a speed variable, which is a function of a speed of the internal combustion engine; and deducing the torque accuracy from the evaluated speed variable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a starting method for internal combustion engines in motor vehicles, comprising a start-stop system, and to a starting device (10) for carrying out said method, said starting device comprising a starter motor (11) and an insertion device (12, 20) which axially inserts a slip-on pinion (13) into a crown gear (14) of the internal combustion engine when a stop cycle begins. In order to minimize the period until the engine can be restarted, the pinion (13) is resiliently inserted into the still rotating crown gear (14) by means of a pressure spring (25) when the stop phase begins, once the internal combustion engine (15) is switched off but before it comes to a standstill and with the starter motor (11) switched off.

Abstract: An electric machine having a housing part which is in the form of a drive bearing (19), having an electric motor (13) as a drive, having a planetary gearing (153) and having a drive element (22), wherein the planetary gearing (153) has at least one planet gear (16) which meshes with an internal gear (73), and a gear carrier (95) which is coupled to the drive element (22) can be driven by means of the planet gear (160), wherein the internal gear (73) has at least one engagement element and the housing part has at least one engagement element, and the at least two engagement elements engage into one another in alternating fashion, characterized in that an intermediate bearing carrier (98) has at least one engagement element and the housing part has at least one engagement element, and the at least two engagement elements engage into one another in alternating fashion.

Abstract: A method for determining the phase currents of an electric machine having a power converter, and a stator, the power converter having, for each phase, an upper branch having an upper switch and a lower branch having a lower switch, all the upper branches being connected to an upper DC voltage terminal and all the lower branches to a lower DC voltage terminal. The power converter is operated in an active rectification mode in which each upper switch is closed only as long as a phase voltage at the relevant upper switch is higher than a voltage at the upper DC voltage terminal, and each lower switch being closed only as long as a phase voltage at the relevant lower switch is lower than a voltage at the lower DC voltage terminal; phase branch currents being measured in all the lower branches.

Abstract: A method for determining belt wear in a belt drive, wherein the belt is loaded with a defined torque and the rotation angle of a pulley is determined.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for switching off a multi-phase electric machine (110) in a motor vehicle, the multi-phase electric machine (110) comprising a rotor having a rotor winding (101) and a stator having a multi-phase stator winding (110a), wherein in a block mode (210) of the electric machine (110) a parameter influencing a pole wheel voltage vector (Up) of a pole wheel voltage is adjusted such that the pole wheel voltage reaches a first threshold value (S1), wherein the block mode (210) is deactivated when the first threshold value (S1) is reached and a PWM mode (220) for applying a phase voltage with a phase voltage vector (Us) is activated, wherein the phase voltage vector (Us) and the pole wheel voltage vector (Up) are varied in PWM mode (220) until the parameter influencing the pole wheel voltage reaches a further threshold value (S2), wherein the phase voltage is switched off when the further threshold value (S2) is reached.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator winding for a transversal flow machine, the stator winding (98) being embodied as a cord (244) and said cord (244) having a plurality of individual wires (242). Said stator winding (98) is embodied as a coil with several windings (245), characterized in that one or more windings (245) are layered in the axial direction or radial direction.

Abstract: A method for energizing the stator windings of a rotating field machine operable in motor mode, the stator windings respectively being impinged upon with phase currents that are predefined using a vector-based method. The phase currents are impinged upon at least in part with bias currents that are determined by the vector-based method in such a way that they exhibit no torque effectiveness in the rotating field machine.

Abstract: A method for starting an internal combustion engine using a starter generator to which the engine is connected via a belt drive, the belt drive including a belt pulley of the starter generator, a belt pulley of the internal combustion engine, and a belt connecting the belt pulleys in a torque-transmitting manner, includes operating the starter generator such that its drive torque output to the belt pulley of the starter generator is according to a drive torque curve by which an output torque generated temporarily on the belt pulley of the internal combustion engine exceeds the drive torque of the starter generator, taking a gear ratio of the belt drive into consideration.

Abstract: Method for forming at least one U-shaped winding element (10) for an electromagnetically excitable core (11) of an electric rotation machine (12), wherein the U-shaped winding element (10) has a first rod section (13) and a second rod section (15) which are connected by an arcuate connection section (16), wherein an inner tool part (23) having at least one recess (29) in the region of its outer circumference is provided, and an outer tool part (26) having at least one recess (30) in the region of its inner circumference is provided, and at least the U-shaped winding element (10) is inserted into the inner tool part (23) and the outer tool part (26) such that one rod section (13) is inserted into a recess (29) of the inner tool part (23), the other rod section (15) is inserted into a recess (30) of the outer tool part (26), and such that the inner tool part (23) and the outer tool part (26) are rotated with respect to one another about the axis of rotation (36), wherein in that context the at least two rod sec