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).

  • Patent number: 12068637
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Tobias Vermeulen, Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
  • Publication number: 20240178711
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel MERZ
  • Publication number: 20240178709
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel MERZ
  • Patent number: 11799331
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230144639
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11611247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220200366
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
  • Publication number: 20220123613
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Vermeulen, Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz
  • Publication number: 20210099036
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Daniel Merz, Andreas Reeh, Yunyang Zhao