Patents by Inventor Christian Brückner

Christian Brückner 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: 20220385155
    Abstract: A coil with a distributed winding formed from hairpins that each have two straight-line conductor portions arranged in different slots of a coil body. Contact regions shaped in circumferential direction adjoin the conductor portions at one axial end and are connected at the other axial end through a turning region. The contact regions have at the end remote of the coil body a connection portion that are aligned in radially extending rows. The contact regions of a layer are shaped in the same circumferential direction. A portion of the contact regions of an outer layer is deformed in radial direction to form an additional, and these contact regions are shaped in a circumferential direction opposite to the contact regions of the outer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan REUTER, Matthias EBERT, Ralf WITTSTADT, Christian BRÜCKNER, Katja WILLACKER, Roland LINDWURM, Jochen WITTMANN, Christoph WIEDER
  • Patent number: 11476738
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine includes a stator winding having a plurality of coils, the coils are connected to one another by connection conductors. A temperature sensor is arranged at a connection conductor and is in thermal contact with the connection conductor for detecting a temperature. Two parallel current paths are formed at the connection conductor and the temperature sensor is arranged at one of the current paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Daniel Schmitt, Christian Brückner, Sebastian Baumgart, Klaus Reuter
  • Publication number: 20220149691
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wiring configuration for a stator of an electric machine. The wiring configuration comprises a busbar which forms a segment of a switching ring with an outer connection and a winding connection. Outer connection elements and winding connection elements are arranged in a wiring region. The wiring configuration additionally comprises a receiving element which is at least thermally coupled to the busbar. The receiving element is arranged outside of the wiring region. The disclosure additionally relates to a temperature sensor device for plugging onto the receiving element of the wiring configuration and to a system for detecting the temperature of a stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Katja Willacker, Christian Brückner, Daniel Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20210211023
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine includes a stator winding having a plurality of coils, the coils are connected to one another by connection conductors. A temperature sensor is arranged at a connection conductor and is in thermal contact with the connection conductor for detecting a temperature. Two parallel current paths are formed at the connection conductor and the temperature sensor is arranged at one of the current paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel SCHMITT, Christian BRÜCKNER, Sebastian BAUMGART, Klaus REUTER
  • Publication number: 20210211022
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine includes a stator winding having a plurality of coils connected to one another by connection conductors, and a temperature sensor arranged at a connection conductor in thermal contact with the connection conductor for sensing a temperature. A fastening element is likewise supported at the connection conductor and is provided for fastening the temperature sensor to the connection conductor. The fastening element is formed for mounting at the connection conductor without the use of tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel SCHMITT, Christian BRÜCKNER, Sebastian BAUMGART, Klaus REUTER
  • Patent number: 10748720
    Abstract: A connecting device may electrically connect an electric motor to an electronic switchgear unit. The connecting device may include a bus bar that has a first interface, a second interface, and a linear section therebetween, where the first interface is bowed in a direction at least partially transverse to a longitudinal direction of the linear section of the bus bar. The first interface may be configured to electrically connect to at least one line that conducts a drive current of the electric motor through a crimp connection, and the second interface may be configured to electrically connect to the electronic switchgear unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Heinz Reichert, Michael Kohr, Nicolas Schreibmüller, Christian Brückner
  • Patent number: 10601276
    Abstract: Electric machine having a rotor and a stator with stator coils arranged thereon, a wiring arrangement with a conductor support element and with connection conductors arranged at the latter, which connection conductors are connected to winding ends of the stator coils inside a wiring area. The wiring area is filled with an insulating potting material. The potting material has a cable feedthrough structure in the form of a free space forming a passage through the potting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Matthias Rauch, Manfred Zimmer, Christian Brueckner
  • Publication number: 20190074147
    Abstract: A connecting device may electrically connect an electric motor to an electronic switchgear unit. The connecting device may include a bus bar that has a first interface, a second interface, and a linear section therebetween, where the first interface is bowed in a direction at least partially transverse to a longitudinal direction of the linear section of the bus bar. The first interface may be configured to electrically connect to at least one line that conducts a drive current of the electric motor through a crimp connection, and the second interface may be configured to electrically connect to the electronic switchgear unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Heinz Reichert, Michael Kohr, Nicolas Schreibmüller, Christian Brückner
  • Publication number: 20170207675
    Abstract: A coil for a stator of an electric machine, comprising a winding body with a winding area formed by a winding carrier and two legs that limit the winding area connected to the winding carrier. At least one leg has a first wire guide area, a coil winding arranged at the winding body and which has a winding wire with a winding start area and a winding end area and with coil ends extending, respectively, from the winding start area and the winding end area. One coil end is arranged at the first wire guide area and exits from the coil at the first wire guide area. A coil end located between the winding start area or the winding end area and the first wire guide area is constructed with a free wire portion in which the winding wire is arranged in a cantilevering manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Ralf RÖNNEBECK, Christian BRÜCKNER, Michael MEIER
  • Publication number: 20160164366
    Abstract: Electric machine having a rotor and a stator with stator coils arranged thereon, a wiring arrangement with a conductor support element and with connection conductors arranged at the latter, which connection conductors are connected to winding ends of the stator coils inside a wiring area. The wiring area is filled with an insulating potting material. The potting material has a cable feedthrough structure in the form of a free space forming a passage through the potting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Matthias RAUCH, Manfred ZIMMER, Christian BRUECKNER
  • Patent number: 9318929
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator which carries a polyphase coil winding, wherein coil ends are connected in a predetermined manner to a plurality of electric connection conductors. The electric machine comprises a power connection unit having a plurality of terminal conductors which are constructed separate from the connection conductors and which by a first end portion are bondingly connected or connectable to the connection conductors and by a second end portion are connected or connectable to the electrical energy source. The power connection unit is constructed as a plastic composite element, in which the terminal conductors are embedded at least over a portion of their length in a plastic shell so as to be spaced apart from one another, and wherein first end portions of the terminal conductors project out of the plastic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Schäflein, Matthias Weidner, Udo Niehaus, Matthias Cudok, Christian Brückner, Stefan Keller
  • Publication number: 20120313460
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator which carries a polyphase coil winding, wherein coil ends are connected in a predetermined manner to a plurality of electric connection conductors. The electric machine comprises a power connection unit having a plurality of terminal conductors which are constructed separate from the connection conductors and which by a first end portion are bondingly connected or connectable to the connection conductors and by a second end portion are connected or connectable to the electrical energy source. The power connection unit is constructed as a plastic composite element, in which the terminal conductors are embedded at least over a portion of their length in a plastic shell so as to be spaced apart from one another, and wherein first end portions of the terminal conductors project out of the plastic shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Alexander SCHÄFLEIN, Matthias Weidner, Udo Niehaus, Matthias Cudok, Christian Brückner, Stefan Keller
  • Patent number: 7022843
    Abstract: Improved ?,??-dihydroxy meso-substituted chlorin, bacteriochlorin or isobacteriochlorin compounds are provided as photosensitizers. Pharmaceutical compositions and photodynamic therapy comprising them are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Jill Kirsten MacAlpine, Christian Brückner, David Dolphin
  • Patent number: 6498269
    Abstract: A method for the oxidation of substrates comprising treating an aqueous, basic solution of a substrate having an oxidizable functionality using an elemental halogen as terminal oxidant in the presence of an oxoammonium catalyst/halide co-catalyst system. Use of elemental halogen, preferably chlorine gas or elemental bromine, unexpectedly allows oxidation without significant degradation of the substrate. The substrate is preferably a monosaccharide, oligosaccharide, or polysaccharide, and the oxidizable functionality is preferably an aldehyde, hemiacetal, or a primary alcohol. An effective source of the oxoammonium catalyst is 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy (TEMPO) and a particularly economical and effective catalyst is 4-acetylamino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: The University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Nabyl Merbouh, James M. Bobbitt, Christian Brückner