Patents Assigned to Wieland-Werke AG
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Patent number: 12225689Abstract: A cooling system for the liquid immersion cooling of electronic components. The system includes a container containing, in an interior, liquid heat transfer fluid into which electronic components are immersed, the container having a gas space above the surface of the liquid heat transfer fluid, and a heat exchanger device in the gas space of the container for forming liquid heat transfer fluid. The cooling system further includes a lock device on the container for exchanging electronic components, and the lock device has a lock space, which lock space is hermetically sealed with respect to the gas space of the container to prevent gas exchange.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Achim Gotterbarm, Manfred Knab, Jochen Dietl, Harald Gaibler
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Patent number: 12130307Abstract: A method for producing a device for measuring current strengths. The method includes providing a resistor arrangement with two connection elements and a resistor element arranged between the connection elements, molding a contact element from the material of the connection element or from the material of the resistor element. The contact element has an end face remote from the resistor arrangement and a cavity open on the end face. The method further includes providing a circuit board with a through-bore on whose inner surface electrically conductive material is present, positioning the circuit board on the resistor arrangement such that the contact element projects into the through-bore, and expanding the contact element in the radial direction using an expansion element inserted into the cavity of the contact element to establish an electrically conductive connection between the contact element and the electrically conductive material on the inner surface of the through-bore.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Gerhard Thumm, Dragoslav Vucic-Seele, Tony Robert Noll
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Patent number: 12071692Abstract: An electrically conducting material including a substrate composed of copper or a copper alloy, and a coating composed of at least one layer. The coating has an outermost layer consisting to an extent of at least 90 vol % of an intermetallic phase which is or includes Cu6Sn5. The surface of the outermost layer that faces away from the substrate has insular, silver-rich precipitations with an area fraction of 7 to 20%.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Michael Bohsmann, Robert Zauter
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Patent number: 11821922Abstract: A method for producing a device for measuring current intensities, including: providing a resistor arrangement having connection elements and a resistor element arranged therebetween in a current flow direction. The resistor element and the connection elements consist of different electrically conductive materials; forming a contact pin from the material of at least one connection element; positioning a printed circuit board with a conductor track and a passage bore on the resistor arrangement such that the contact pin projects through the passage bore and has on the side of the printed circuit board facing away from the resistor arrangement a protrusion; laterally widening the contact pin in the region of the protrusion by deforming the material such that the printed circuit board is mechanically fixed to the resistor arrangement; and producing an electrically conductive connection between the contact pin and the conductor track of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf
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Patent number: 11621107Abstract: A resistor assembly including at least two connector elements and at least one strip-like or plate-like resistor element arranged between the connector elements. The resistor element has an upper side, a lower side and two longitudinal sides parallel to each other. The at least one resistor element is of a material of which the electrical conductivity is lower than the electrical conductivity of the material of the connector elements. The resistor element has, on at least its upper side or at least its lower side, at least one shaped element as a positioning aid.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Tony Robert Noll, Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Kim-Oliver Guther, Felix Schulz, Philipp-Morris Egle, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Jochen Walliser
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Patent number: 11539259Abstract: The invention relates to a contact device (1) for a stator (2) of an electric machine, wherein the contact device (1) has a contact carrier (4) made from an electrically insulating material, an upper side, which can be positioned to face away from the stator (2), and, at least on the upper side which can be positioned to face away from the stator (2), electrically conductive connection conductors (41) for contacting a plurality of coils (3), arranged over the circumference of the stator (2), via coil conductors (31). The contact device (1) furthermore has feedthrough openings (5), through which the coil conductors (31) of the coils (3) can be guided such that at least one coil conductor (31) can be connected to a connection conductor (41).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Nico Wieprecht
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Patent number: 11447847Abstract: A copper alloy having the following composition (in % by weight) Zn: 17 to 20.5%, Ni: 17 to 23%, Mn: 8 to 11.5%, optionally up to 4% Cr, optionally up to 5.5% Fe, optionally up to 0.5% Ti, optionally up to 0.15% B, optionally up to 0.1% Ca, optionally up to 1.0% Pb, balance copper and unavoidable impurities, wherein the proportion of copper is at least 45% by weight. Further, the ratio of the proportion of Ni to the proportion of Mn is at least 1.7 and the alloy has a microstructure which has inclusions of MnNi and MnNh precipitates.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Igor Altenberger
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Patent number: 11349245Abstract: An arrangement of components for transferring electric current from a current-feeding component to a current-discharging component, including a first component, which feeds current to the arrangement or discharges current from the arrangement. The first component includes a first metallic material and, on at least one surface, has at least one spring lamella composed of the first metallic material and machined out of the first metallic material at the surface. The lamella is machined out of the first metallic material at the surface of the first component such that it is connected monolithically to the first component in a connecting region and, starting therefrom extends as far as a free end and, when deflected out of a rest position toward the surface of the first component, exerts a spring force directed away from the surface. A second component is in immediate contact with the lamella of the first component.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Tony Robert Noll, Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Jochen Walliser
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Patent number: 11221185Abstract: A method for forming features in an exterior surface of a heat transfer tube includes forming a plurality of channels into the surface, where the channels are substantially parallel to one another and extend at a first angle to a longitudinal axis to the tube. A plurality of cuts are then made into the surface substantially parallel to one another and extend at a second angle to a longitudinal axis to the tube different from the first angle. Individual fin segments extend from the surface and are separated from one another by the channels and the cuts. The fin segments have a first channel-adjacent edge adjacent substantially parallel to the channel, a first cut-adjacent edge substantially parallel to the cut, and a corner formed by a second channel-adjacent edge and a second cut-adjacent edge. A tube formed using this method can be used as a condenser tube.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Evraam Gorgy
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Patent number: 11172659Abstract: The invention relates to a wire material consisting of metallic material having an oxide surface, wherein the oxide surface of the wire material has a first oxide layer, which covers the metallic material at least in part and has a thickness of at least 200 nm to 2 ?m, and the oxide surface of the wire material has a second oxide layer which covers metallic material in the regions which are not covered by the first oxide layer. According to the invention, the second oxide layer has a maximum thickness of 0.01 to 10% of the thickness of the first oxide layer. The invention furthermore relates to a mesh and a breeding cage for aquaculture.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Benjamin Figelius, Timo Allmendinger, Daniel Steitz, Susanne Böhme
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Patent number: 11142810Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding element consisting of a copper-zinc alloy containing the following components (in % by weight): 60.0 to 64.0% Cu, 0.2 to 0.5% Si, 0.6 to 1.2% Fe, optionally also up to a maximum 1.5% Sn, optionally also up to a maximum 0.25% Pb, optionally also up to a maximum 0.08% P, the remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities. The copper-zinc alloy has a grain structure consisting of an ?- and ?-phase with a volume content of the ?-Phase of at least 90%, and iron silicides are embedded in the grain structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Hans-Achim Kuhn, Susanne Böhme, Tobias Neubrand, Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser
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Patent number: 11131006Abstract: The invention relates to a treatment device and a method for removing coatings, comprising a vibratory conveyor with a conveying channel, which is designed in the manner of a trough, in order to form a treatment bath with a liquid decoating medium, comprising an inlet end and an outlet end for bulk material, wherein the conveying direction of the conveying channel runs from the inlet end to the outlet end. The conveying channel has below the surface of the treatment bath at least one feeding device and at least one discharging device for the decoating medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Frank Michael Keppeler, Andreas Reindl, Frank Sälzle
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Patent number: 11108309Abstract: A squirrel cage rotor, is made up of a shaft, a rotor laminated core with rotor bars which are arranged in the interior, and short-circuiting rings with clearances through which the bar ends of the rotor bars extend out of the rotor laminated core. The rotor bars, on their surface, at least partially have an electrical insulation layer, wherein the electrical insulation layer is cohesively connected only to the surface of the rotor bars. The squirrel cage rotor is intended, in particular, for use in an asynchronous machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Michael Lieble
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Patent number: 11073343Abstract: A metal heat exchanger tube has integral ribs formed on the outside of the tube. The ribs have a rib base, rib flanks, and a rib tip. The rib base protrudes substantially radially from the tube wall. A channel is formed between the ribs, in which channel additional structures spaced apart from each other are arranged. The additional structures divide the channel between the ribs into segments. The additional structures reduce the cross-sectional area in the channel between two ribs through which flow is possible by at least 60% locally and, at least thereby, limit a fluid flow in the channel during operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Achim Gotterbarm, Ronald Lutz, Jean El Hajal, Manfred Knab
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Publication number: 20210225565Abstract: A resistor arrangement having a first electrically conductive connection element and a second electrically conductive connection element, a first resistance element which is electrically conductively connected to the first connection element, a second resistance element which is electrically conductively connected to the second connection element, an electrically conductive intermediate element arranged between the first resistance element and the second resistance element and connected with these resistance elements in an electrically conductive manner, wherein the connection elements, the resistance elements and the intermediate element are arranged side by side in a row. The connection elements and the intermediate element on the one hand and the resistance elements on the other hand formed of different materials, wherein the material of the first resistance element differs from the material of the second resistance element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicants: Wieland-Werke AG, Munich Electrification GmbHInventors: Michael WOLF, Gerhard THUMM, Volker VOGGESER, Stefan GOEDE, Konstantin REICHMEYER
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Patent number: 11041233Abstract: A copper-nickel-tin alloy with excellent castability, hot workability and cold workability, high resistance to abrasive wear, adhesive wear and fretting wear and improved resistance to corrosion and stress relaxation stability, consisting of (in weight %): 2.0-10.0% Ni, 2.0-10.0% Sn, 0.01-1.0% Fe, 0.01-0.8% Mg, 0.01-2.5% Zn, 0.01-1.5% Si, 0.002-0.45% B, 0.004-0.3% P, selectively up to a maximum of 2.0% Co, selectively up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, the residue being copper and unavoidable impurities. The ratio Si/B of the element-contents in wt. % of the elements silicon and boron is a minimum 0.4 and a maximum 8 such that the copper-nickel-tin alloy has Si-containing and B-containing phases, phases of the systems Ni—Si—B, Ni—B, Fe—B, Ni—P, Fe—P, Mg—P, Ni—Si, and Mg—Si, and other Fe-containing phases and Mg-containing phases.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Kai Weber
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Patent number: 11035030Abstract: A copper-nickel-tin alloy with excellent castability, hot and cold workability, high resistance to abrasive wear, adhesive wear and fretting wear and improved resistance to corrosion and stress relaxation stability, consisting of (in weight %): 2.0-10.0% Ni, 2.0-10.0% Sn, 0.01-1.5% Si, 0.01-1.0% Fe, 0.002-0.45% B, 0.001-0.15% P, selectively up to a maximum of 2.0% Co, optionally also up to a maximum 2.0% Zn, selectively up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, the residue being copper and unavoidable impurities. The ratio Si/B of the element contents in wt. % of the elements silicon and boron is a minimum 0.4 and a maximum 8 such that the copper-nickel-tin alloy has Si-containing and B-containing phases, phases of the systems Ni—Si—B, Ni—B, Fe—B, Ni—P, Fe—P, Ni—Si, and other Fe-containing phases, which improve the processing and use properties of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Kai Weber
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Patent number: 11035024Abstract: A high-strength copper-nickel-tin alloy with excellent castability, hot workability and cold workability, high resistance to abrasive wear, adhesive wear and fretting wear and improved resistance to corrosion and stress relaxation stability, consisting of (in weight %): 2.0-10.0% Ni, 2.0-10.0% Sn, 0.01-1.5% Si, 0.002-0.45% B, 0.001-0.09% P, selectively up to a maximum of 2.0% Co, optionally also up to a maximum of 2.0% Zn, selectively up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, the residue being copper and unavoidable impurities. The ratio Si/B of the element contents in wt. % of the elements silicon and boron is a minimum 0.4 and a maximum 8 such that the copper-nickel-tin alloy has Si-containing and B-containing phases and phases of the systems Ni—Si—B, Ni—B, Ni—P and Ni—Si, which significantly improve the processing properties and use properties of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Kai Weber
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Patent number: 11035025Abstract: A high-strength copper-nickel-tin alloy consisting of (in weight %): 2.0-10.0% Ni, 2.0-10.0% Sn, 0.01-0.8% Mg, 0.01-1.5% Si, 0.002-0.45% B, 0.004-0.3% P, selectively up to a maximum of 2.0% Co, optionally also up to a maximum 2.5% Zn, selectively up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, the residue being copper and unavoidable impurities, where the ratio Si/B of the element contents in wt. % of the elements silicon and boron is a minimum 0.4 and a maximum 8. The high-strength copper-nickel-tin alloy has Si-containing and B-containing phases and phases of the systems Ni—Si—B, Ni—B, Ni—P, Mg—P, Ni—Si, Mg—Si and other Mg-containing phases which significantly improve the processing properties and use properties of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Kai Weber
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Patent number: 11028463Abstract: The invention relates to a high-strength as-cast copper alloy containing tin, with excellent hot-workability and cold-workability properties, high resistance to abrasive wear, adhesive wear and fretting wear, and improved corrosion resistance and stress relaxation resistance, consisting (in wt. %) of: 4.0 to 23.0% Sn, 0.05 to 2.0% Si, 0.005 to 0.6 B, 0.001 to 0.08% P, optionally up to a maximum of 2.0% Zn, optionally up to a maximum of 0.6% Fe, optionally up to a maximum of 0.5% Mg, optionally up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, with the remainder being copper and inevitable impurities, characterised in that the ratio of Si/B of the element content of the elements silicon and boron lies between 0.3 and 10. The invention also relates to a casting variant and a further-processed variant of the tin-containing copper alloy, a production method, and the use of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventor: Kai Weber