Patents by Inventor Dirk BAEDER

Dirk BAEDER 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: 20230170552
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, the battery arrangement has a high voltage battery which has a battery housing and several battery cells in the battery housing, and a flooding device for flooding the high voltage battery. The flooding device has at least one supply connection, and the battery arrangement is formed to introduce a cooling medium supplied to the at least one supply connection into the battery housing. Furthermore, the flooding device includes at least one drain through which cooling medium supplied to the battery housing can be guided out of the battery arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20230125689
    Abstract: A battery arrangement with a battery housing in which at least one battery element is arranged. The battery arrangement includes an extinguishing device which has at least one extinguishing unit which is also arranged in the battery housing. The extinguishing unit includes a housing element and an extinguishing agent which is arranged in a cavity in the housing element. The extinguishing unit has a detonation mechanism which is designed to cause a detonation of the housing element and a release of the extinguishing agent in the form of an aerosol when a predetermined fire condition, which results from a fire in the at least one battery element, is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20220355138
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a battery and an extinguishing agent supply device for guiding an extinguishing agent at the extinguishing agent supply device to the battery. The extinguishing agent feed device has a first connector coupling to an extinguishing agent reservoir external to the motor vehicle, a second connector connected to at least one component of the battery, and a line from the first connector to the second connector. The line includes at least one first line section which, with respect to an intended installation position of the battery arrangement in the motor vehicle, has a positive slope in relation to a horizontal and with respect to an extension direction of the line from the first connector to the second connector; and/or the extinguishing agent supply device has a closure element having an active locking mechanism which is unlockable or lockable by an associated unlocking unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20220280823
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery, which has a battery housing and at least one battery cell arranged in the battery housing. The motor vehicle has an extinguishing agent line for guiding an extinguishing agent, which includes a first end which opens at least into the battery housing and a second end which opens into a region of the motor vehicle which is arranged in an interior of the motor vehicle. In this case, the second end has a coupling element for coupling to an extinguishing agent reservoir. The extinguishing agent line has a closure device releasable under at least one predetermined condition, which releases a supply of extinguishing agent through the first end into an interior of the battery housing only when the at least one predetermined condition is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20220161078
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for cooling at least one first and/or second battery module of a high-voltage battery for a motor vehicle. The cooling arrangement has a line arrangement which includes a feed connection, a first and second opening respectively associated with the first and second battery module, and which is designed as branched, so that a cooling medium provided at the feed connection can be led via a first line branch to the first outlet opening and via a second line branch to the second outlet opening and can be led selectively out of the first outlet opening or the second outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20220161077
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having an access area for extinguishing a battery fire. The motor vehicle includes a high voltage battery with a battery housing and at least one battery cell, a receiving area in which the high voltage battery is received, a side wall which bounds the receiving area in one direction, and an access area which is positioned in the side wall and through which an extinguishing device can be introduced at least partially into the receiving area from a side of the side wall facing away from the high-voltage battery. The receiving area has at least one defined dead area associated with the access area, in which no battery cell is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk BAEDER, Michael GRABOWSKI