Patents by Inventor Arnoud Smit

Arnoud Smit has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230015579
    Abstract: An electrical device for a converter has at least one capacitor having a first connection and a second connection, a first busbar and a second busbar is disclosed. A respective busbar has a greater extension along a transverse direction than along a longitudinal direction, and has a greater extension along the longitudinal direction than along a vertical direction. The respective busbar has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite one other with respect to the vertical direction. The device also has a first contact-connection device electrically conductively contact-connected to the first connection and via which the first connection is electrically conductively connected to the first busbar, and a second contact-connection device electrically conductively contact-connected to the second connection via which the second connection is electrically conductively connected to the second busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Alexander Bucher, Harald Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11417470
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DC link capacitor module (1, 1?), in which a coil (4, 5) is electrically conductively attached to two mutually opposite electrode plates (2a, 2b), wherein a plurality of first connecting means (6) are provided on each electrode plate (2a, 2b) to produce a detachable or non-detachable plug-in connection to second connecting means (9a, 9b), which correspond thereto and are attached to a bus bar (7a, 7b) of a power electronics module (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Daniel Zitzmann, Harald Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20210110978
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DC link capacitor module (1, 1?), in which a coil (4, 5) is electrically conductively attached to two mutually opposite electrode plates (2a, 2b), wherein a plurality of first connecting means (6) are provided on each electrode plate (2a, 2b) to produce a detachable or non-detachable plug-in connection to second connecting means (9a, 9b), which correspond thereto and are attached to a bus bar (7a, 7b) of a power electronics module (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Arnoud SMIT, Daniel ZITZMANN, Harald HOFMANN
  • Patent number: 10748835
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an aluminum heat sink and at least one nickel sheet segment. The nickel sheet segment is connected to the aluminum heat sink by a solder layer. The cooling device includes a securing surface for securing and for heat absorption. The securing surface being formed by that side of the nickel sheet segment which faces away from aluminum heat sink. The aluminum heat sink is formed from a plurality of aluminum sheets which are stacked one above another and are connected to one another. At least one aluminum sheet includes cutouts which form a cooling channel covered by at least one of the aluminum sheets. Furthermore, a method for producing a cooling device and also a power circuit comprising a heat sink as described here are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Publication number: 20190295922
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an aluminum heat sink and at least one nickel sheet segment. The nickel sheet segment is connected to the aluminum heat sink by a solder layer. The cooling device includes a securing surface for securing and for heat absorption. The securing surface being formed by that side of the nickel sheet segment which faces away from aluminum heat sink. The aluminum heat sink is formed from a plurality of aluminum sheets which are stacked one above another and are connected to one another. At least one aluminum sheet includes cutouts which form a cooling channel covered by at least one of the aluminum sheets. Furthermore, a method for producing a cooling device and also a power circuit comprising a heat sink as described here are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Patent number: 10366937
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an aluminum heat sink and at least one nickel sheet segment. The nickel sheet segment is connected to the aluminum heat sink by a solder layer. The cooling device includes a securing surface for securing and for heat absorption. The securing surface being formed by that side of the nickel sheet segment which faces away from aluminum heat sink. The aluminum heat sink is formed from a plurality of aluminum sheets which are stacked one above another and are connected to one another. At least one aluminum sheet includes cutouts which form a cooling channel covered by at least one of the aluminum sheets. Furthermore, a method for producing a cooling device and also a power circuit comprising a heat sink as described here are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Patent number: 10314208
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cooling devices. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods for producing cooling devices and power circuits equipped with a cooling device. Embodiments may include cooling device having an aluminum cooling element; and at least one nickel metal sheet connected to the aluminum cooling element by a solder layer; wherein the cooling device includes a mounting surface formed by a side of the at least one nickel metal sheet facing away from the aluminum cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Patent number: 10186936
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric machine having a stator, a rotor and an inverter arranged in an inverter housing. The rotor is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis with its rotor axis in a first end shield and in a second end shield. The second end shield is arranged in or on the inverter housing. At least one suction opening and at least one blowing opening are arranged on the radial periphery of the second end shield. At least two cooling fins are provided on the second end shield, a baffle is arranged between the cooling fins of the second end shield and the stator and the rotor which is arranged in the stator, such that a cooling medium flowing radially through the at least one suction opening is guided to the at least one blowing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, David Charles, Robert Krause, Arnoud Smit
  • Publication number: 20180197806
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an aluminum heat sink and at least one nickel sheet segment. The nickel sheet segment is connected to the aluminum heat sink by a solder layer. The cooling device includes a securing surface for securing and for heat absorption. The securing surface being formed by that side of the nickel sheet segment which faces away from aluminum heat sink. The aluminum heat sink is formed from a plurality of aluminum sheets which are stacked one above another and are connected to one another. At least one aluminum sheet includes cutouts which form a cooling channel covered by at least one of the aluminum sheets. Furthermore, a method for producing a cooling device and also a power circuit comprising a heat sink as described here are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Publication number: 20170366074
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric machine having a stator, a rotor and an inverter arranged in an inverter housing. The rotor is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis with its rotor axis in a first end shield and in a second end shield. The second end shield is arranged in or on the inverter housing. At least one suction opening and at least one blowing opening are arranged on the radial periphery of the second end shield. At least two cooling fins are provided on the second end shield, a baffle is arranged between the cooling fins of the second end shield and the stator and the rotor which is arranged in the stator, such that a cooling medium flowing radially through the at least one suction opening is guided to the at least one blowing opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, David Charles, Robert Krause, Arnoud Smit
  • Publication number: 20170196117
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cooling devices. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods for producing cooling devices and power circuits equipped with a cooling device. Embodiments may include cooling device having an aluminum cooling element; and at least one nickel metal sheet connected to the aluminum cooling element by a solder layer; wherein the cooling device includes a mounting surface formed by a side of the at least one nickel metal sheet facing away from the aluminum cooling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Arnoud Smit, Thomas Schmid, Lars Keller, Soeren Rittstieg
  • Patent number: 7864529
    Abstract: To improve coolant sealing or reduce the risks in the event of leakage for an electronic unit, e.g. an engine control unit, containing electric and/or electronic components which are disposed on an upper side of a thermally conductive electronic base plate and thermally coupled to the base plate, the base plate in turn being thermally coupled to a coolant passage, there is provided a particular configuration and arrangement of the components delimiting a coolant passage. Advantageously, the underside of the base plate can come into direct contact with a coolant (“direct cooling”). By making a ridge running in an annularly closed manner and being formed in one-piece with the base plate, coolant escaping from the coolant passage is prevented from passing directly to the underside of the base plate. Accordingly, the coolant passage may be sealed by a “double sealing arrangement” on the underside of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive AG
    Inventors: Radu Vasile Bojan, Arnoud Smit, Remus Sovagau
  • Patent number: 7542291
    Abstract: In order to improve the heat dissipation capacity in an electronic circuit configuration with one or more printed circuit boards thermally coupled by one flat side to a heat sink having at least one coolant duct, the flat side immediately adjoins the coolant duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Karrer, Bernhard Lichtinger, Johannes Mehler, Folker Renken, Florian Schupp, Arnoud Smit
  • Publication number: 20080285230
    Abstract: To improve coolant sealing or reduce the risks in the event of leakage for an electronic unit, e.g. an engine control unit, containing electric and/or electronic components which are disposed on an upper side of a thermally conductive electronic base plate and thermally coupled to the base plate, the base plate in turn being thermally coupled to a coolant passage, there is provided a particular configuration and arrangement of the components delimiting a coolant passage. Advantageously, the underside of the base plate can come into direct contact with a coolant (“direct cooling”). By making a ridge running in an annularly closed manner and being formed in one-piece with the base plate, coolant escaping from the coolant passage is prevented from passing directly to the underside of the base plate. Accordingly, the coolant passage may be sealed by a “double sealing arrangement” on the underside of the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE AG
    Inventors: Radu Vasile Bojan, Arnoud Smit, Remus Sovagau
  • Publication number: 20070297145
    Abstract: In order to improve the heat dissipation capacity in an electronic circuit configuration with one or more printed circuit boards thermally coupled by one flat side to a heat sink having at least one coolant duct, the flat side immediately adjoins the coolant duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Volker Karrer, Bernhard Lichtinger, Johannes Mehler, Folker Renken, Florian Schupp, Arnoud Smit
  • Publication number: 20060232940
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a housing, wherein the base body of the housing (10) is initially separated from a hollow profile and a printed circuit board (1) is subsequently inserted into the base body of the housing (10). The base body of the housing (10) is then closed laterally with the aid of covering elements (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Karl Smirra, Gunter Scheid, Georg Fischer, Arnoud Smit