Patents by Inventor Eduard Main

Eduard Main 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: 11824222
    Abstract: A high-voltage battery for an electrically operated vehicle, the battery housing of which has a housing cover and a housing lower part which delimit a housing interior which is divided into at least one battery cell compartment equipped with battery cells and at least one component compartment for electronic components. A degassing space is formed between a battery cell top of the battery cells and the housing cover, into which space hot exhaust gas flows during a thermal event in one of the battery cells from an exhaust gas outlet of the damaged battery cell. The high-voltage battery has a partition wall which separates the degassing space from the component compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marvin Czech, Eduard Main
  • Publication number: 20230112971
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for cooling a cell assembly having multiple cell units of a motor vehicle battery. The cooling arrangement has multiple cooling units, and a respective one of the cooling units is associated with one of the cell units. The cooling arrangement includes a control device adapted to separately control a cooling capacity for a respective one of the cooling units. In this case, the control device is designed to control the cooling units differently in a specific first cooling mode than in a specific second cooling mode different from the first. The cooling arrangement is configured in such a way that, in the event of a fault case affecting a first cell unit of the multiple cell units, a switch is performed from the first cooling mode to the second cooling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20230075123
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, with a first battery module including at least one first battery cell and a second battery module including at least one second battery cell. Here, the first battery module has a first module housing with a first interior space in which the at least one first battery cell is arranged, and the second battery module has a second module housing with a second interior space in which the at least one second battery cell is arranged. The first and second interior spaces are designed to be sealed with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Eduard MAIN
  • Patent number: 11380959
    Abstract: A housing assembly for a high-voltage energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, wherein the housing assembly comprises a housing for accommodating multiple accumulator modules, which housing comprises an outer side, which, in a state in which the multiple accumulator modules are accommodated in the housing, faces away from the multiple accumulator modules. In this case, the housing assembly includes an electrically insulating insulation element, which is arranged in at least one defined region of the outer side of the housing which, when the housing is located in its intended installation location in the motor vehicle, faces toward at least one vehicle electrical system component of a vehicle electrical system (comprised by the motor vehicle having a reduced voltage level in relation to the high-voltage energy accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beck, Eduard Main
  • Publication number: 20220166077
    Abstract: An energy storage device for storing electrical energy. The energy storage device has an energy storage housing for receiving at least one battery cell stack and a control device. The at least one battery cell stack has at least two battery cells and is arranged between at least two opposite housing walls of the energy storage housing. The energy storage device has at least one sensor device which is arranged between the at least one battery cell stack and one of the housing walls of the energy storage housing, and which is configured to detect a mechanical pressure exerted by the battery cell stack and the housing wall on one another, and provide this as measurement data to the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tamas GYULAI, Eduard MAIN, Walter SCHMIEDER
  • Publication number: 20210351474
    Abstract: A high-voltage battery for an electrically operated vehicle, the battery housing of which has a housing cover and a housing lower part which delimit a housing interior which is divided into at least one battery cell compartment equipped with battery cells and at least one component compartment for electronic components. A degassing space is formed between a battery cell top of the battery cells and the housing cover, into which space hot exhaust gas flows during a thermal event in one of the battery cells from an exhaust gas outlet of the damaged battery cell. The high-voltage battery has a partition wall which separates the degassing space from the component compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marvin CZECH, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20200365852
    Abstract: A housing assembly for a high-voltage energy accumulator of a motor vehicle, wherein the housing assembly comprises a housing for accommodating multiple accumulator modules, which housing comprises an outer side, which, in a state in which the multiple accumulator modules are accommodated in the housing, faces away from the multiple accumulator modules. In this case, the housing assembly includes an electrically insulating insulation element, which is arranged in at least one defined region of the outer side of the housing which, when the housing is located in its intended installation location in the motor vehicle, faces toward at least one vehicle electrical system component of a vehicle electrical system (comprised by the motor vehicle having a reduced voltage level in relation to the high-voltage energy accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang BECK, Eduard MAIN
  • Patent number: 8919300
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a heat exchanger which is disposed in a cooling system, and a fan unit which forms part of a radiator grille and is constructed to generate an air flow through the heat exchanger. The fan unit has at least one fan which is constructed to generate a primary air flow, and a ring element which is constructed to generate from the primary air flow an amplified secondary air flow to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Carsten Klinkert, Sebastian Schwartze, Eduard Main, Siegfried Karmann