Patents by Inventor Carsten Lorenz

Carsten Lorenz 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: 20250055068
    Abstract: An inter-cell cooling device for arrangement in an intermediate space between two battery cells arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling device has a first side wall with a first outer side for arrangement on a first cell side and a second side wall opposite the first side wall with respect to a first direction and with a second outer side for arrangement on a second cell side, as well as a heating device designed as a heating layer for heating the inter-cell cooling device. With respect to the first direction, at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second side wall as part of the central inter-cell cooling region of the inter-cell cooling device, and the heating layer is designed to heat a coolant located in the at least one cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20250007036
    Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement a battery module for arrangement in an intermediate space between twin an intermediate space between two battery cells of a cell stack which are arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling unit has two cooling walls including a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first of the two battery cells and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second of the two battery cells. At least one free space through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second cooling walls. At least one first opening is arranged in at least one of the two cooling walls, through which first opening a fluidic connection is provided between the at least one free space and an environment of the inter-cell cooling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20250007082
    Abstract: A battery assembly with a battery and a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from the battery, which includes at least one battery cell. The cell degassing channel has a chamber which is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced into it and can be guided through it along at least one gas discharge path to at least one outlet opening of the chamber. The chamber has at least one gas guiding structure arranged in an interior of the chamber and not running in a straight line in a main course direction that corresponds to a first direction, which is designed such that the at least one gas discharge path has multiple changes of direction in its course in the main course direction with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER, Martin SCHÜSSLER
  • Publication number: 20240413481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cell degassing channel arrangement with a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from a battery which has at least one battery cell, wherein the cell degassing channel has at least one inlet opening, and has an outlet opening, and is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced through the at least one inlet opening into the cell degassing channel, can be guided through the channel to the outlet opening and can be discharged from the outlet opening. In particular, the cell degassing channel has at least one component for gas cooling that is different from a cooling device for cooling the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20240387899
    Abstract: A cooling device for an energy storage, which has multiple cooling channels through which a coolant can flow and an adjusting device which includes at least one temperature-dependently adjustable adjusting element, through the adjustment of which a flow characteristic of at least one of the cooling channels can be changed. The cooling device is designed as an inter-cell cooling element for arrangement in an intermediate space between a first and a second storage cell of the energy storage. Through the displacement of the at least one adjusting element the flow characteristic of at least one first of the cooling channels can be changed with respect to a second of the cooling channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Paul FRANK, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240351641
    Abstract: An underride guard for a motor vehicle for arrangement below a high-voltage battery of the motor vehicle. The underride guard is plate-shaped, has a first surface, at least one plastic layer and at least one electrical component arrangement which includes at least one associated electrical line. In particular, the at least one electrical line is arranged on a support and is embedded together with the support in the plastic layer or is arranged on the plastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Florian ACHHAMMER, Carsten LORENZ, Martin SCHÜSSLER, Oliver STOLL
  • Publication number: 20240351469
    Abstract: A detection arrangement for detecting a possible fault of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The detection arrangement has an underride guard, a sensor arranged on or integrated into the same, and a control device for detecting at least two different possible fault cases including a possible first fault case and a possible second fault case, and for determining based on a measurement signal received from the sensor, whether the possible first or second fault case is present. At least one first reaction measure is assigned to the possible first fault case and at least one second reaction measure, which is different from the first, is assigned to the possible second fault case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Florian ACHHAMMER, Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER, Martin SCHÜSSLER
  • Publication number: 20240347853
    Abstract: A battery fire prevention system for a battery of a motor vehicle including several battery cells for preventing a battery fire resulting from a thermal runaway of a first battery cell of the battery cells of the battery. The battery fire prevention system includes a cell degassing channel connected to the battery cells and into which a gas escaping from a respective battery cell is introduced and discharged to at least one escape opening of the cell degassing channel, a gas flow influencing structure as part of the cell degassing channel, which influences the course of the gas flow flowing through the cell degassing channel, formed by the gas escaping from the first battery cell, and a cooling device for cooling the first battery cell in thermal runaway mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Paul SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20240339722
    Abstract: A gas discharge chamber for discharging gases from a motor vehicle battery. A gas emerging from the motor vehicle battery and introduced into the gas discharge chamber through an inlet opening can be passed through this to an outlet opening. The gas discharge chamber has a gas discharge channel arranged in a first region of its interior, which has a partially gas-permeable channel wall which separates the first region from a second region of the interior into which the inlet opening opens, at least partially, and the outlet opening opens into an interior of the gas discharge channel in the first region. A gas permeability of the channel wall varies depending on a distance from the at least one outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHÜSSLER
  • Publication number: 20240339693
    Abstract: An intercell cooling element for arrangement between two battery cells, which has a flexible outer shell which encloses an interior and which has a coolant supply connection and a coolant discharge connection. A first and opposite second outer side of the outer shell adjoin one another on outer edges of the outer shell. The intercell cooling element includes a spacer element arrangement which has at least two incompressible spacer element sections to provide a defined minimum distance between a first edge area of the first battery cell. and a second edge area of the second battery cell when the intercell cooling element is arranged between the first and second battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240339718
    Abstract: A cell degassing channel for discharging gases from a battery with at least one battery cell. The cell degassing channel has a chamber which has at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening and which is designed such that a gas exiting from the at least one battery cell can be introduced into the chamber through the at least one inlet opening and can be led through the same along at least one gas discharge path to at least one outlet opening of the chamber. The chamber has at least one first perforated plate which is arranged in an interior space of the chamber and has multiple first holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Luca OLMO, Paul SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20240339651
    Abstract: A cell separation element for arrangement in an intermediate space between two battery cells. The cell separation element is designed to be at least partially elastically compressible with respect to a first direction. The cell separation element has a first corrugated structural wall with a corrugated structure. When the cell separation element is arranged as intended in the intermediate space, a first side surface of the corrugated structural wall faces a first of the two battery cells and a second side surface of the corrugated structural wall faces a second of the two battery cells. The structural wall is designed to provide a restoring force when the cell separation element is compressed with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240266635
    Abstract: A cell cooling unit for multi-sided cooling of a prismatic battery cell of a battery module. The cell cooling unit has a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first side of the prismatic battery cell and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second side of the battery cell. The second cooling wall connects at right angles to the first cooling wall. The first cooling wall has at least one first cooling channel portion through which a liquid coolant can flow, and the second cooling wall has at least one second cooling channel portion through which a liquid coolant can flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20230104209
    Abstract: A cell separating device for spacing two adjacent battery cells in a battery module. The cell separating device includes an incompressible frame unit and a deformable compression element enclosed by the frame unit. The frame unit includes a first frame member and a second frame member for enclosing the compression element, between which the compression element is arranged with a specified edge region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Martin SCHUESSLER
  • Publication number: 20220285784
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, which has a battery having at least one battery cell which has at least one releasable degassing opening, and a degassing device which is fluidically coupled to the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell and is designed to lead gases escaping from the at least one releasable degassing opening of the battery cell and entering the degassing device out of the battery. The degassing device has at least one exhaust gas duct arranged outside the battery, which is fluidically coupled to the battery and which is designed in such a way that a gas flowing into the exhaust gas duct via the coupling point can be conducted to an outlet opening of the exhaust gas duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHUESSLER, Thomas WITTENSCHLAEGER
  • Publication number: 20210322285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment mixture based on spherical particles having a defined particle-size distribution, and to the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses, in cosmetic formulations, as tracer, as filler and for the preparation of pigment preparations and dry preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Sylke KLEIN, Lilia HEIDER, Carsten LORENZ, Sabine SCHOEN
  • Patent number: 10988075
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes at least one headlight, a position and/or acceleration sensor, and a control unit for adjusting a light/dark boundary of the headlight. Pitch movements of the vehicle can be detected by the position and/or acceleration sensor, and a change in the light/dark boundary due to the respective pitch movement can be compensated for by the control unit. The position and/or acceleration sensor and the control unit are arranged in the headlight or directly on the headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Axel Mueller, Marc Necker, Stephan Finn, Katharina Wagner, Stefan Töpfer, Joerg Moisel, Björn Böke, Marcus Fiege, Ismail Kilic, Carsten Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20200198525
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes at least one headlight, a position and/or acceleration sensor, and a control unit for adjusting a light/dark boundary of the headlight. Pitch movements of the vehicle can be detected by the position and/or acceleration sensor, and a change in the light/dark boundary due to the respective pitch movement can be compensated for by the control unit. The position and/or acceleration sensor and the control unit are arranged in the headlight or directly on the headlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Axel MUELLER, Marc NECKER, Stephan FINN, Katharina WAGNER, Stefan TÖPFER, Joerg MOISEL, Björn BÖKE, Marcus FIEGE, Ismail KILIC, Carsten LORENZ
  • Patent number: 9178228
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid oxide fuel cell system, wherein planar fuel cells are arranged in stacked form and in this respect an integrated post-combustion of non-oxidized components, or of not fully oxidized components, in the exhaust gas can take place. The fuel cells of a system in accordance with the invention have a cathode-electrolyte-anode unit. A bipolar plate is arranged between two respective fuel cells and channels for the supply and removal of a fuel gas to anodes and of an oxidizing agent to cathodes are present. The exhaust gases at the anode side or at the cathode side are introduced via internal additional channels or directly into an afterburner in which a catalytic post-oxidizing of the exhaust gas mixture formed with the exhaust gas at the anode side and at the cathode side takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marc Heddrich, Felix Marschallek, Wieland Beckert, Thomas Pfeifer, Michael Stelter, Matthias Jahn, Andreas Pönicke, Carsten Lorenz, Rico Belitz
  • Publication number: 20150023899
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment mixture based on spherical particles having a defined particle-size distribution, and to the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses, in cosmetic formulations, as tracer, as filler and for the preparation of pigment preparations and dry preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Sylke KLEIN, Lilia HEIDER, Carsten LORENZ, Sabine SCHOEN