Patents by Inventor Benjamin KRANK

Benjamin KRANK 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: 20250062661
    Abstract: A spray oil cooling device for a stator core periphery of an electric drive unit in a motor vehicle comprising an oil pump for providing a cooling oil mass flow and an oil line for guiding the cooling oil mass flow starting from the oil pump to at least one first oil spray area at stator winding heads of a first stator end face, and at least one second oil spray area at stator winding heads of a second stator end face, wherein the oil line is designed to guide the cooling oil mass flow between the first and the second oil spray area, remote from a stator core cooling sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Konstantin KORDVEE, Benjamin KRANK, Matthias LEPSCHI
  • Patent number: 12206293
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotor for an electromechanical energy converter has a rotor shaft designed, at least in portions, as a hollow shaft and having a first, open axial end, a liquid-guiding device extending through the first end into the rotor shaft, wherein an annular liquid space is between the liquid-guiding device and the rotor shaft in the radial direction, and the liquid-guiding device has an interior space for guiding liquid and a liquid inlet opening into the interior space and arranged at a first axial end of the liquid-guiding device, the liquid-guiding device, at a second axial end, is received in the rotor shaft and guiding relative to the rotor shaft, and has a liquid outlet opening fluidically connecting the interior space to the annular liquid space, and the liquid outlet opening is between the first and second ends of the liquid-guiding device in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benjamin Krank, Florian Puschmann, Simon Strasinsky, Bernhard Wolf
  • Patent number: 12180999
    Abstract: A shaft bearing point has a radial shaft bearing in which a drive shaft is rotatably supported relative to a machine housing. The radial shaft bearing is arranged directly or indirectly in a machine housing wall separating a lubricant space from a lubricant-free space. The radial shaft bearing has a lubricant side facing the lubricant space, and a seal side facing away from the lubricant space, in the axial direction, and a radial shaft seal is provided which is arranged at an axial distance to the seal side such that a lubricant chamber is produced between the seal side and the radial shaft seal ring in the axial direction. The lubricant chamber is equipped with a chamber separating wall. The chamber separating wall separates the lubricant chamber into a storage chamber, which is arranged between the seal side and the chamber separating wall, and a seal chamber, which is arranged between the chamber separating wall and the radial shaft seal ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benjamin Krank, Matthias Lepschi, Maximilian Rosenberger, Thomas Spiess
  • Publication number: 20240429775
    Abstract: A flow element and an electric machine are provided. The electric machine includes a rotor arranged on a rotor shaft, a stator and a flow element, which is designed to direct a fluid output from the rotor shaft into an interior of the electric machine to an end side of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Bernhard WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240348128
    Abstract: A stator cooling arrangement for a stator of an electric drive engine in a motor vehicle, having stator core cooling with a first coolant and stator winding head cooling with a second coolant which differs from the first coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Matthias LEPSCHI, Robin MAROTZKE, Thomas PROSSER, Anastasois VICHOS, Bernhard WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240339895
    Abstract: A circulation sump device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle, which can be lubricated and/or temperature-controlled via a lubricant, comprising a lubricant sump with a first axial region and a second axial region, a lubricant reservoir which extends below the lubricant sump in the first axial region and is connected to the lubricant sump via a lubricant drain opening, and a lubricant sump pump line which is designed to pump lubricant out of the second axial region of the lubricant sump into the lubricant reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Ferdinand WEIDINGER, Bernhard WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240171043
    Abstract: A rotor device for an electric machine, comprising: a rotor which comprises a rotor laminated core having a plurality of pole legs which project radially from a central axis of the rotor and can be wrapped around by respective rotor windings; at least one cooling fluid line, which extends in the circumferential direction between adjacent pole legs with its longitudinal extension direction parallel to the central axis of the rotor, and which is designed for a cooling fluid to flow through it for cooling of the rotor; and at least one collecting ring, which is provided on an end face of the rotor and is designed to collect cooling fluid flowing along the end face and to supply it to the at least one cooling fluid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Simon STRASINSKY, Bernhard WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240171027
    Abstract: A rotor shaft assembly for an electric machine, comprising a hollow rotor shaft which is designed to accommodate a rotor and delimits a hollow space that is designed such that a cooling medium can flow through in order to cool the rotor shaft, and comprising a lance projecting into the hollow space, which has an out-flow region, via which the cooling medium guided in the lance can flow out of the lance and into the hollow space, and in which the lance has a swirling device, with which turbulence can be generated in the cooling medium when same is flowing out of the lance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Joachim MAERZ, Ignacio SERRAHIMA, Bernhard WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240162785
    Abstract: A stator arrangement of a stator of an electric machine, includes a cooling-fluid conducting element on the stator, wherein the cooling-fluid conducting element is arranged on an end face of the stator, and protrudes at least regionally from the end face of the stator in the axial direction of the stator, with the result that, by the cooling-fluid conducting element, cooling fluid flowing along the end face of the stator can be collected, and has at least one deflection region which is designed to deflect the collected cooling fluid to a stator connection device of the stator, with the result that, for cooling the stator connection device, the cooling fluid can flow around the stator connection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Christian PUZZO, Jens RICHTER
  • Publication number: 20230332647
    Abstract: A shaft bearing point has a radial shaft bearing in which a drive shaft is rotatably supported relative to a machine housing. The radial shaft bearing is arranged directly or indirectly in a machine housing wall separating a lubricant space from a lubricant-free space. The radial shaft bearing has a lubricant side facing the lubricant space, and a seal side facing away from the lubricant space, in the axial direction, and a radial shaft seal is provided which is arranged at an axial distance to the seal side such that a lubricant chamber is produced between the seal side and the radial shaft seal ring in the axial direction. The lubricant chamber is equipped with a chamber separating wall. The chamber separating wall separates the lubricant chamber into a storage chamber, which is arranged between the seal side and the chamber separating wall, and a seal chamber, which is arranged between the chamber separating wall and the radial shaft seal ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Matthias LEPSCHI, Maximilian ROSENBERGER, Thomas SPIESS
  • Publication number: 20230105191
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotor for an electromechanical energy converter has a rotor shaft designed, at least in portions, as a hollow shaft and having a first, open axial end, a liquid-guiding device extending through the first end into the rotor shaft, wherein an annular liquid space is between the liquid-guiding device and the rotor shaft in the radial direction, and the liquid-guiding device has an interior space for guiding liquid and a liquid inlet opening into the interior space and arranged at a first axial end of the liquid-guiding device, the liquid-guiding device, at a second axial end, is received in the rotor shaft and guiding relative to the rotor shaft, and has a liquid outlet opening fluidically connecting the interior space to the annular liquid space, and the liquid outlet opening is between the first and second ends of the liquid-guiding device in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin KRANK, Florian PUSCHMANN, Simon STRASINSKY, Bernhard WOLF
  • Patent number: 11356001
    Abstract: A cooling device for a stator of an electrical machine, for fitting together with a hollow cylindrical laminated core of the stator, includes multiple cooling channels for conducting cooling fluid along the laminated core, and a fluid ring for provision on an end face of the laminated core. The fluid ring has two fluid ring channels for distributing the cooling fluid to the cooling channels and for receiving the cooling fluid from the cooling channels, and at least two cooling fluid connections for introducing and removing the cooling fluid into and from the fluid ring channels. The fluid ring channels have circumferential-angle-dependent flow cross-sections in the flow direction, in order to evenly distribute the cooling fluid to the cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Huber, Benjamin Krank, Jens Richter
  • Publication number: 20220045575
    Abstract: A cooling device for a stator of an electrical machine, for fitting together with a hollow cylindrical laminated core of the stator, includes multiple cooling channels for conducting cooling fluid along the laminated core, and a fluid ring for provision on an end face of the laminated core. The fluid ring has two fluid ring channels for distributing the cooling fluid to the cooling channels and for receiving the cooling fluid from the cooling channels, and at least two cooling fluid connections for introducing and removing the cooling fluid into and from the fluid ring channels. The fluid ring channels have circumferential-angle-dependent flow cross-sections in the flow direction, in order to evenly distribute the cooling fluid to the cooling channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas HUBER, Benjamin KRANK, Jens RICHTER