Patents by Inventor Daniel Merz
Daniel Merz 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).
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Patent number: 12068637Abstract: A bandage for a rotor of an electrical machine that may be used in an electrical drive system of an aircraft is provided. The bandage, which serves to fix permanent magnets to the rotor, includes two rings, which are coaxial circular ring-like components, that are connected together by axial webs. The permanent magnets each have axial grooves on a surface of the respective permanent magnet facing the stator. The bandage is arranged on the rotor such that the permanent magnets lie between the rings, and the axial webs are positioned in the axial grooves. Since a thickness of the axial webs corresponds to a depth of the axial grooves, the magnet surfaces and the surface of the bandage are flush with one another, such that the bandage requires no additional space in an air gap.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Tobias Vermeulen, Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
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Publication number: 20240178711Abstract: A structure for an electric machine includes a stator, a housing, and a cooling system for cooling the stator. The cooling system is configured to remove heat from the stator at a predefined reference temperature with a heat-removal rate that is greater than or equal to 5 kW.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventor: Daniel MERZ
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Publication number: 20240178709Abstract: A structure for an electric machine includes a stator and a housing. The structure has a high-temperature torque transfer capability denoting a maximum transferrable torque between the stator and the housing at a first, higher temperature, and a low-temperature torque transfer capability denoting a maximum transferrable torque between the stator and the housing at a second, lower temperature. A ratio of the high-temperature torque transfer capability divided by the low-temperature torque transfer capability is greater than or equal to 1.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventor: Daniel MERZ
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Patent number: 11799331Abstract: A stator pole for a stator of a transverse flux machine is provided. The stator includes a stator winding arranged in a winding space, and the winding space being formed circumferentially in a circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of a rotor. The stator pole has a body element made of a ferromagnetic material, which has at least one pole head which, in the installation position, may be arranged opposite the one rotor, and a magnetic return path region, which may be arranged facing away from the one rotor, wherein a number of the pole heads of the stator pole correspond to a number of the rotors. The stator pole is configured to occupy only a portion of a circumference of the winding space in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic return path region has a curved shape which adjoins the at least one pole head, as a result of which the magnetic return path region is designed to define the winding space in part transversely to the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
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Publication number: 20230144639Abstract: A stator pole for a stator of a transverse flux machine is provided. The stator includes a stator winding arranged in a winding space, and the winding space being formed circumferentially in a circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of a rotor. The stator pole has a body element made of a ferromagnetic material, which has at least one pole head which, in the installation position, may be arranged opposite the one rotor, and a magnetic return path region, which may be arranged facing away from the one rotor, wherein a number of the pole heads of the stator pole correspond to a number of the rotors. The stator pole is configured to occupy only a portion of a circumference of the winding space in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic return path region has a curved shape which adjoins the at least one pole head, as a result of which the magnetic return path region is designed to define the winding space in part transversely to the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
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Patent number: 11611247Abstract: A stator pole for a stator of a transverse flux machine is provided. The stator includes a stator winding arranged in a winding space, and the winding space being formed circumferentially in a circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of a rotor. The stator pole has a body element made of a ferromagnetic material, which has at least one pole head which, in the installation position, may be arranged opposite the one rotor, and a magnetic return path region, which may be arranged facing away from the one rotor, wherein a number of the pole heads of the stator pole correspond to a number of the rotors. The stator pole is configured to occupy only a portion of a circumference of the winding space in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic return path region has a curved shape which adjoins the at least one pole head, as a result of which the magnetic return path region is designed to define the winding space in part transversely to the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
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Publication number: 20220200366Abstract: A tooth for a stator of an electrical machine and geometry of a tooth head region of a stator tooth are provided. In the case of a typical radial flux machine with an external stator and an internal rotor, the tooth head region has an asymmetry in an axial direction of view that is created by the fact that a recess is provided at a first tangential end of the tooth head region. A position of the first tangential end depends on a preferential direction of rotation of the rotor of the electrical machine and is chosen such that it is situated at a rear end of the head region when viewed in the preferential direction of rotation of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
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Publication number: 20220123613Abstract: A bandage for a rotor of an electrical machine that may be used in an electrical drive system of an aircraft is provided. The bandage, which serves to fix permanent magnets to the rotor, includes two rings, which are coaxial circular ring-like components, that are connected together by axial webs. The permanent magnets each have axial grooves on a surface of the respective permanent magnet facing the stator. The bandage is arranged on the rotor such that the permanent magnets lie between the rings, and the axial webs are positioned in the axial grooves. Since a thickness of the axial webs corresponds to a depth of the axial grooves, the magnet surfaces and the surface of the bandage are flush with one another, such that the bandage requires no additional space in an air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Tobias Vermeulen, Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
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Publication number: 20210099036Abstract: A stator pole for a stator of a transverse flux machine is provided. The stator includes a stator winding arranged in a winding space, and the winding space being formed circumferentially in a circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of a rotor. The stator pole has a body element made of a ferromagnetic material, which has at least one pole head which, in the installation position, may be arranged opposite the one rotor, and a magnetic return path region, which may be arranged facing away from the one rotor, wherein a number of the pole heads of the stator pole correspond to a number of the rotors. The stator pole is configured to occupy only a portion of a circumference of the winding space in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic return path region has a curved shape which adjoins the at least one pole head, as a result of which the magnetic return path region is designed to define the winding space in part transversely to the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao