Patents by Inventor Bernd Blankenbach

Bernd Blankenbach 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).

  • Patent number: 11735986
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electrical machine includes providing the stator including a ring-shaped stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart along a circumferential direction of the stator body protrude radially to the inside. A space is thereby provided between two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. Second, a first injection molding of two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction with a plastic is performed. Third, a stator winding is arranged in the space. Fourth, a second injection molding of the stator winding arranged in the space with the plastic is performed such that an air gap and/or an air trap between the stator teeth injection molded in the second step and the stator winding after the arrangement of the stator winding in the space in the third step, is filled with the plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Patent number: 11482900
    Abstract: An insulating body for an electric machine includes outer walls of a plastic, which delimit a body interior. In the body interior, at least one winding zone for receiving a stator winding and at least one passage zone for receiving a cooling passage are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Patent number: 11451103
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a rotor that is rotatable about a rotation axis, and includes a stator having electrically conductive stator windings. The machine includes a cooling channel through for cooling the stator windings. The stator has teeth extending arranged at a distance from one another along a circumferential direction of the rotor, the stator teeth protruding inwardly and carrying the stator windings. An interspace is formed between two stator teeth which are adjacent in the circumferential direction. An interspace is arranged in an insulation body having outer walls composed of a plastic, which delimit a body interior, in which a winding zone and a channel zone are provided. A stator winding is arranged in the at least one winding zone of the insulation body and a cooling channel for a is arranged in the at least one channel zone of the insulation body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20220021259
    Abstract: An insulation body for an electrical machine may include a plurality of outer walls. The outer walls may be composed of a plastic. The outer walls may define a body interior having at least one winding zone configured to receive a stator winding, and at least one channel zone for receiving a cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20220014062
    Abstract: An electric machine may include a rotor and at least one cooling channel. The rotor may be rotatable about an axis defining an axial direction and include a stator having electrically conductive stator windings. A coolant may flow through the at least one cooling channel to the cool the stator windings. The stator may include teeth extending along the axial direction. The at least one cooling channel and the stator windings may be arranged in at least one intermediate space formed between two adjacent stator teeth. A plastic for transmitting heat from the stator windings to the at least one cooling channel may be arranged in the intermediate space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161947
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electrical machine includes providing the stator including a ring-shaped stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart along a circumferential direction of the stator body protrude radially to the inside. A space is thereby provided between two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. Second, a first injection molding of two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction with a plastic is performed. Third, a stator winding is arranged in the space. Fourth, a second injection molding of the stator winding arranged in the space with the plastic is performed such that an air gap and/or an air trap between the stator teeth injection molded in the second step and the stator winding after the arrangement of the stator winding in the space in the third step, is filled with the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161917
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulation body (100) for an electrical machine (1). The insulation body (100) comprises outer walls (101a, 101b, 101c, 101d) composed of a plastic (K), which delimit a body interior (104). At least one winding zone (106a, 106b) for receiving a stator winding (6) and at least one channel zone (107a, 107b) for receiving a cooling channel (10) are provided in the body interior (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200156296
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electrical machine may first include providing a stator having a ring-shaped stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart from one another along a circumferential direction of the stator body, for accommodating stator windings, protrude, wherein a space, in each case, may be embodied between two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction. The method then may include first injection molding at least two stator teeth, which are adjacent in the circumferential direction, with a plastic, arranging at least one stator winding in the space between the at least two stator teeth, and second injection molding the stator winding with the plastic, so that at least one of an air gap and an air trap formed between the at least two stator teeth first injection molded and the stator winding is filled with the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161916
    Abstract: An electrical machine may include a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, by way of which an axial direction of the electrical machine may be defined, a stator having electrically conductive stator windings, and at least one cooling channel through which a coolant may be flowable for cooling the stator windings. The stator may have stator teeth extending along the axial direction, arranged spaced apart from another along a circumferential direction of the rotor, and bearing the stator windings. The at least one cooling channel and at least one stator winding may be arranged in at least one intermediate space formed between two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction. A plastic for transferring heat from the at least one stator winding to the at least one cooling channel may be arranged in the at least one intermediate space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161918
    Abstract: An insulating body for an electric machine includes outer walls of a plastic, which delimit a body interior. In the body interior, at least one winding zone for receiving a stator winding and at least one passage zone for receiving a cooling passage are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Patent number: 8274186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle, comprising a clutch arrangement having a first rotatable clutch part and a second rotatable clutch part, which clutch parts can be separated from one another and which can be connected to one another, and comprising an electrical machine which is arranged concentrically with respect to the first clutch part and has a rotor, wherein the rotor is connected with the first clutch part and comprises a plurality of magnetic flux influencing portions, the magnetic flux influencing portions being arranged distributed over the circumference of the rotor with a predetermined rotor pitch. Here, the first clutch part comprises a shaft toothing that is adapted to the rotor pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG
    Inventors: Uli Christian Blessing, Bernd Blankenbach, Benjamin Kesel, Winfried Schulz, Kevin Gutmann, Matthias Doelling, Mark Absenger
  • Publication number: 20110057522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle, comprising a clutch arrangement having a first rotatable clutch part and a second rotatable clutch part, which clutch parts can be separated from one another and which can be connected to one another, and comprising an electrical machine which is arranged concentrically with respect to the first clutch part and has a rotor, wherein the rotor is connected with the first clutch part and comprises a plurality of magnetic flux influencing portions, the magnetic flux influencing portions being arranged distributed over the circumference of the rotor with a predetermined rotor pitch. Here, the first clutch part comprises a shaft toothing that is adapted to the rotor pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG, GETRAG FORD Transmissions GmbH
    Inventors: Uli Christian Blessing, Bernd Blankenbach, Benjamin Kesel, Winfried Schulz, Kevin Gutmann, Matthias Doelling, Mark Absenger