Patents Assigned to Technologies AG
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Patent number: 11451165Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control processing method for an inverter device having an H5 topological structure. The control processing method includes: when a power grid supplies power normally, using a unipolar H5 PWM modulation mode to enable the inverter device to work in a grid-connected power generation mode; when the power grid supplies power abnormally or the power grid is in outage for a short time, using a unipolar H5 PWM constant-voltage modulation mode to enable the inverter device to work in an off-grid power generation mode; and when the power grid is in outage for a long time, using an H5-1 PWM constant-voltage modulation mode to enable the inverter device to work in an emergency SPS power generation mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventor: Ning Li
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Patent number: 11446957Abstract: A hybrid connection element, in particular a bearing outer element of a wheel bearing, includes a core part made of steel and a reinforcement part made of plastic. The reinforcement part at least partially encases the core part. The core part includes a hollow cylindrical bearing unit extending in an axial direction and a flange extending in a radial direction. The reinforcement part includes at least one reinforcement rib which transmits force between the bearing unit and the flange of the core part.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Manfred Kraus, Holger Kaup, Kerstin Beyer, Peter Niebling, Alexander Seiffer, Michael Oliver Kobes, Lucas Gruener, Berthold Krautkrämer
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Medical instrument for torque control tightening a threaded implant device and packaging of the same
Patent number: 11446123Abstract: An instrument for holding and torque control tightening of a threaded implant device with an extender, the instrument including a frame forming a gripping handle and a holder, an elastic device that is arranged at the frame to provide a predefined elasticity to the frame, and a torque measurement device arranged on the frame, wherein the holder is configured to (i) removably hold the threaded implant device and to (ii) hold the extender for tightening the threaded implant device to an object after the threaded implant device has been removed from the holder, and the torque measurement device is configured to measure a torque applied to the threaded implant device via the extender by a deformation of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Ruetschi Technology AGInventors: Christoph Ruetschi, David Chenaux -
Publication number: 20220293960Abstract: An electrode unit (1, 1a, 1b), in particular for a redox flow cell (8), including at least one metallic substrate (2) and a coating (3) which is applied to the substrate (2), wherein the coating (3) includes at least one protective layer (4) which is formed from titanium-niobium nitride (TiNbN) and/or titanium-niobium carbide (TiNbC). A redox flow cell (8), in particular a redox flow battery, having at least one such electrode unit (1, 1a, 1b) is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Ladislaus DOBRENIZKI, Moritz WEGENER, Johannes LANDMANN, Tim HOSENFELDT
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Publication number: 20220290760Abstract: A coolant regulator is provided including a housing having a coolant chamber and a rotary vane arranged therein, a drive shaft leading out of the coolant chamber that rotates the rotary vane, and a shaft seal which seals the coolant chamber from the surroundings. The shaft seal seals against a housing inner lateral surface of a housing recess and sealingly encloses the drive shaft. An end portion of the shaft seal facing the rotary vane is a circular ring that, under elastic deformation of the bead thereof, seals against the housing inner lateral surface on the outer circumference and encompasses a spreading ring on the inner circumference that limits an axial shift of the shaft seal toward the rotary vane to a dimension d<s. s is the axial distance between the bead center of the undisplaced shaft seal and the opening of the housing recess facing the rotary vane.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Huilan ZHOU, Thomas TRAUDT
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Publication number: 20220289171Abstract: An acceleration method for a hybrid drivetrain includes providing the hybrid drivetrain, setting an initial torque transmission ratio of a belt-drive transmission to a lower transmission ratio, and opening a first disconnect clutch to interrupt torque transmission between an internal combustion engine and an electric machine. The method also includes receiving an acceleration command, shifting the torque transmission ratio with a transmission adjustment gradient from the lower transmission ratio towards an upper transmission ratio, increasing a rotor speed of a rotor shaft of the electric machine with a rotor shaft adjustment gradient, and engaging a first disconnect clutch to rotate an ICE shaft to start the internal combustion engine and increase a rotational speed of the ICE shaft towards a current rotor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Marcel Adrian, Yunfan Wei
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Publication number: 20220294607Abstract: A sender configured to participate in an in-vehicle network is configured to receive a request for transmitting a payload and generate, in response, a first header in a transport layer and/or a network layer. The sender is further configured to access a key of k bytes length and to generate an authentication tag using the key and at least the first header as additional authentication data. The authentication tag serves to indicate an authenticity of a first frame on the transport and/or network layer as an original frame sent from the sender to a receiver. The sender is configured to generate the first frame comprising the first header, a transport layer payload, and the authentication tag and forward the first frame to the data link layer. The data link layer generates a second frame on the data link layer and transmits the second frame to the in-vehicle network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Alexander ZEH, Vivin Richards ALLIMUTHU ELAVARASU, Harald ZWECK
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Patent number: 11444802Abstract: A circuit has a driver circuit with a slew-rate controller, an output stage and a monitoring circuit. The output stage is connected to a first bus line and to a second bus line, and the driver circuit is designed to control the output stage on the basis of a first logic signal in such a manner that a corresponding bus voltage is produced between the first bus line and the second bus line. The slew-rate controller is coupled to the driver circuit and is designed to set a slew rate of the driver circuit on the basis of an input signal. The monitoring circuit is designed to generate the input signal for the slew-rate controller, wherein the input signal indicates a higher slew rate during an arbitration phase of a data frame contained in the first logic signal than during a data transmission phase of the data frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Jens Repp
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Patent number: 11440396Abstract: A hybrid module for a motor vehicle for coupling an internal combustion engine, comprises a first drive shaft, a first electrical machine and a first coupling device, as well as a second drive shaft and, associated therewith, a second electrical machine, and a second coupling device; and further comprises an output element, the first or second drive shaft being connectable to the output element by way of a first or second coupling device, wherein the two coupling devices can be simultaneously actuated by a movement of an actuation element which is mechanically coupled to the two coupling devices. The hybrid module disclosed provides a drive device for a motor vehicle that offers energy-efficient operation in a plurality of different operating modes while requiring a small installation space.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Benjamin Stober, Dierk Reitz, Steffen Lehmann
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Patent number: 11440360Abstract: A first tire pressure sensor module is configured to provide information related to a pressure of a tire of a vehicle and comprises a pressure sensor configured to determine the information related to the pressure of the tire. The pressure module further includes a controller configured to selectively operate the tire pressure sensor module in an active state and in an inactive state, wherein an energy consumption of the tire pressure sensor module is lower in the inactive state than in the active state. The controller is further configured to control an output of the information related to the pressure of the tire in the active state, and operate the tire pressure sensor module in the inactive state based on determining that information related to a velocity of the tire indicates a velocity above a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Peine, Thomas Lange
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Patent number: 11443990Abstract: In some examples, a device includes a power structure and a sensing structure that is electrically isolated from the power structure. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether the sensing structure includes a prognostic health indicator, wherein the prognostic health indicator is indicative of a health of the power structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Sergio De Gasperi, Michael Nelhiebel, Alexander Mayer, Dieter Haerle, Andrea Baschirotto
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Patent number: 11444155Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a first load electrode disposed on a first surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor body, a first doped region disposed in the silicon carbide semiconductor body and electrically connected to the first load electrode, and an insulated gate field effect transistor electrically connected in series with the first doped region, the insulated gate field effect transistor including a source region and a body region, the body region being electrically connected to the first load electrode, wherein a geometry and dopant concentration of the first doped region is such that a resistance of the first doped region increases by at least a factor of two as load current in the insulated gate field effect transistor rises.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andreas Huerner, Dethard Peters
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Patent number: 11444011Abstract: An embodiment of a semiconductor package includes a leadframe having leads, a mold compound partly encasing the leadframe so that the leads protrude from the mold compound, a power transistor die attached to the leadframe at a first side of the leadframe, and a driver die attached to the leadframe at a second side of the leadframe opposite the first side so that the power transistor die and the driver die are disposed in a stacked arrangement. The driver die is configured to control the power transistor die. The driver die is in direct electrical communication with the power transistor die only through the leadframe and any interconnects which attach the power transistor die and the driver die to the leadframe. Corresponding methods of manufacturing the semiconductor package are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Woon Yik Yong, Andreas Kucher, Chia-Yen Lee, Shao Ping Wan
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Patent number: 11441618Abstract: A conducting element for conducting a pressurized fluid and for conducting a cooling fluid, as well as a hybrid module and a drive assembly having a hybrid module are provided. The conducting element for conducting a pressurized fluid for hydraulically actuating a clutch unit and for conducting cooling fluid for cooling a clutch unit has a cylindrical section and a securing section. At least one pressurized fluid channel is formed in the securing section for transporting pressurized fluid. The conducting element also has at least one cooling fluid channel which has at least one axial direction component in the cylindrical section, wherein the flow line element is fluidically connected to the cooling fluid channel for supplying a clutch unit and/or electric machine with cooling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Simon Ortmann, Philipp Tepper, Dominik Weis
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Patent number: 11441656Abstract: A differential (1) includes pinion gears (2, 3), a drive wheel (4), and at least one cover (5, 13), wherein: the outside of the drive wheel (4) has toothing (7) extending circumferentially around an axis of rotation (6) and the inside of the drive wheel is provided with bearing points (8, 9); the pinion gears (2, 3) are mounted on the bearing points (8, 9) in the drive wheel (4); and the differential (1) is closed on at least one side by the at least one cover (5, 13).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Jochen Loeffelmann, Florian Reinle, Peter Welker
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Patent number: 11440372Abstract: A roll stabilizer for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of sensors for detecting a plurality of measurement variables, in particular a torque sensor, a rotor position sensor and optionally an actuator temperature sensor. Each of the sensors resides on a separate sensor circuit board which is separate from a motherboard. The motherboard has electronics for evaluating the measurement variables detected by the sensors and/or for forwarding said measurement variables to an external control device.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Maximilian Stubenvoll, David Nass, Andreas Zahnleiter
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Patent number: 11441888Abstract: An off-axis counter is suggested that is arranged to count magnetic poles of a magnetic field source that turns around a rotation axis modulo an integer number. Also, a rotation angle sensing device and a method for determining a rotation angle are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Udo Ausserlechner
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Publication number: 20220282760Abstract: A separating clutch for a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a torque forwarding component, an outer multiple disc carrier fixed to the torque forwarding component for conjoint rotation, a first plurality of friction discs, a second plurality of friction discs arranged to transmit torque through a non-positive connection with the first plurality of friction discs, a pressing element having a first side facing the friction discs and a second side, opposite the first side, facing away from the friction discs, and a restoring spring. The pressing element is for axially displacing a one of the first or second plurality of friction discs to realize the non-positive connection, and the restoring spring contacts the pressing element for canceling the non-positive connection. The restoring spring engages through and behind the first side from the second side in a positively locking connection with the pressing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Hurle, Ivo Agner, Aurelie Keller
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Publication number: 20220286002Abstract: An electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle includes a housing, a stator, which is fixedly accommodated in the housing, and a rotor, which is mounted rotatably relative to the stator. The stator has a laminated core composed of a plurality of punched lamination segments and has a wire winding region connected to the laminated core. Each lamination segment has, on its radial exterior, at least one radial recess also created by means of the punching production. A coolant guide channel is delimited directly by an outer periphery of the laminated core. A recess of a first lamination segment is spaced apart, along the outer periphery, from a recess of a second lamination segment directly abutting the first lamination segment in such a way that the recess of the first lamination segment is at least partly axially covered by an end face of the second lamination segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Michael Marsetz, Christian Ludwig
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Publication number: 20220283429Abstract: A method of Lissajous scanning includes transmitting a plurality of light pulses at a plurality of time moments based on a trigger signal; driving about a first rotation axis at a first driving frequency (f1) according to a first driving signal and driving about a second rotation axis at a second driving frequency (f2) according to second driving signal; controlling the first and second driving signals to generate a Lissajous scanning pattern according to a predefined frame rate (FR); selecting the first and second driving frequencies such that the frame rate is a greatest common divisor thereof and such that they satisfy the following equation: f2?f1=(2*N+1)*FR; determining the plurality of time moments; and generating the trigger signal based on the determined plurality of time moments, wherein the plurality of time moments (ti) are determined according to the following equation: t i = 2 ? i + 1 8 * FR * F 1 ? F 2 , where : F 1 = f 1 FR , F 2 = f 2 FR , i = 0 , 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Boris KIRILLOV