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).

  • Publication number: 20260155473
    Abstract: A traction battery for a motor vehicle, with a cell module including a battery cell arrangement and a temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the battery cell arrangement. A cell connector is arranged between each pair of battery cells of the battery cell assembly, which connector is connected to connection terminals of the battery cells in order to establish an electrical connection between the battery cells. The temperature control device includes a temperature control element with at least one fluid channel and a temperature control surface to which the battery cells are in heat-transferring contact. A heat transfer projection extends from the temperature control element between the battery cells and is in heat-transferring contact with the cell connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20260121165
    Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement between two battery cells of a battery module. The inter-cell cooling unit has an outer casing that provides a first cooling side and a second cooling side opposite the first cooling side in the first direction, and at least one first cooling channel section extending within the outer casing that can be flowed through by a coolant. The inter-cell cooling unit includes a multi-layer compression component which is arranged within the outer casing and which includes at least one first outer layer made of a first plastic material and a compression layer made of a second plastic material which is more compressible than the first plastic material and which is flatly adjacent to the first outer layer with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Anja JÄSCHKE, Eduard MAIN, Maria SAUER, Olaf SCHARGE
  • Publication number: 20260066598
    Abstract: A module connector arrangement for a battery module having a cell stack which includes a plurality of battery cells arranged next to one another in a stacking direction (x), the module connector arrangement having an end plate for delimiting the end of the cell stack in the stacking direction (x), and the end plate includes an insertion opening and a receiving space accessible from outside the end plate via the insertion opening for receiving two busbar ends of a first and a second busbar to be electrically contacted over a flat surface in a receiving region of the receiving space. In particular, the module connector arrangement includes a clamping device adjacent to the receiving region and operable from outside the end plate for clampingly fastening the busbar ends received in the receiving region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20260031466
    Abstract: A cell separating element for arrangement between two battery cells, which includes an outer wall which encloses an interior space and which provides a first outer wall and an opposite second outer wall, a first cooling region located in the interior space, which adjoins the first outer wall and which includes a first cooling channel, and a second cooling region located in the interior space, which adjoins the second outer wall and which includes a second cooling channel. The cell separating element includes a compression layer made of an elastically deformable material arranged in the interior space. The compression layer is arranged between the first and second cooling regions with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Onur EMRE, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20260011844
    Abstract: A cell separating element for arrangement between two battery cells. The cell separating element is elastically compressible with respect to a first direction and, in an uncompressed state, has a maximum first thickness of the cell separating element in at least one first region and a maximum second thickness of the cell separating element in at least one second region, which are different, and in a state of the cell separating element in which the at least one first region and the at least one second region are compressed to an identical maximum thickness with respect to the first direction, the restoring forces caused by the compression of the cell separating element in the at least one first region and in the at least one second region are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN, Julius RAUSCH
  • Patent number: 12485799
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Eduard Main
  • Publication number: 20250233234
    Abstract: An energy storage device for a motor vehicle, including an energy storage housing and at least one battery cell accommodated therein. At least one cooling device is arranged adjacent to the battery cell or to at least one of the battery cells in such a way that this battery cell can be cooled by a cooling fluid guided in at least one cooling fluid guide portion of the cooling device. At least one portion of the cooling device is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the adjacent battery cell or the adjacent battery cells due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the cooling device in such a way that the cross-section of the cooling fluid guide portion is reduced at least in portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20250233225
    Abstract: A battery cell housing for forming a battery cell for an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The battery cell housing has at least one receiving chamber in its interior for receiving at least one active material unit. The receiving chamber is delimited on the outside by at least one housing wall, the housing wall has at least one cooling chamber for guiding a cooling fluid provided for cooling the active material unit. At least one portion of the housing wall is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the active material unit due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the housing wall such that the cross-section of the cooling chamber is reduced at least in portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20250087803
    Abstract: A battery housing arrangement with a first housing unit for accommodating at least two prismatic battery cells, which has a side wall, a first outer wall with a first wall portion, and a second outer wall opposite the first outer wall with a second wall portion, which is opposite the first wall portion, the side wall connecting the first and second outer walls to one another. The first housing unit can be reversibly coupled to a second housing unit of the same design as the first housing unit, forming a cuboid receiving space, in such a way that the side wall of the first housing unit is opposite a side wall of the second housing unit, and in that the at least two prismatic battery cells can be arranged next to one another in the receiving space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN, Peter JURIS, Dirk HOEFNER, Sebastian ENDERLE
  • Publication number: 20250055068
    Abstract: An inter-cell cooling device for arrangement in an intermediate space between two battery cells arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling device has a first side wall with a first outer side for arrangement on a first cell side and a second side wall opposite the first side wall with respect to a first direction and with a second outer side for arrangement on a second cell side, as well as a heating device designed as a heating layer for heating the inter-cell cooling device. With respect to the first direction, at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second side wall as part of the central inter-cell cooling region of the inter-cell cooling device, and the heating layer is designed to heat a coolant located in the at least one cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20250007036
    Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement a battery module for arrangement in an intermediate space between twin an intermediate space between two battery cells of a cell stack which are arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling unit has two cooling walls including a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first of the two battery cells and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second of the two battery cells. At least one free space through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second cooling walls. At least one first opening is arranged in at least one of the two cooling walls, through which first opening a fluidic connection is provided between the at least one free space and an environment of the inter-cell cooling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240387899
    Abstract: A cooling device for an energy storage, which has multiple cooling channels through which a coolant can flow and an adjusting device which includes at least one temperature-dependently adjustable adjusting element, through the adjustment of which a flow characteristic of at least one of the cooling channels can be changed. The cooling device is designed as an inter-cell cooling element for arrangement in an intermediate space between a first and a second storage cell of the energy storage. Through the displacement of the at least one adjusting element the flow characteristic of at least one first of the cooling channels can be changed with respect to a second of the cooling channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Paul FRANK, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240339693
    Abstract: An intercell cooling element for arrangement between two battery cells, which has a flexible outer shell which encloses an interior and which has a coolant supply connection and a coolant discharge connection. A first and opposite second outer side of the outer shell adjoin one another on outer edges of the outer shell. The intercell cooling element includes a spacer element arrangement which has at least two incompressible spacer element sections to provide a defined minimum distance between a first edge area of the first battery cell. and a second edge area of the second battery cell when the intercell cooling element is arranged between the first and second battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240339651
    Abstract: A cell separation element for arrangement in an intermediate space between two battery cells. The cell separation element is designed to be at least partially elastically compressible with respect to a first direction. The cell separation element has a first corrugated structural wall with a corrugated structure. When the cell separation element is arranged as intended in the intermediate space, a first side surface of the corrugated structural wall faces a first of the two battery cells and a second side surface of the corrugated structural wall faces a second of the two battery cells. The structural wall is designed to provide a restoring force when the cell separation element is compressed with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Uwe GERLINGER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • Publication number: 20240332666
    Abstract: A battery module for a motor vehicle, including a cell stack with a first stack side and with a plurality of battery cells, each of which has a first pole terminal on a first cell side which is part of the first stack side, and including a module housing in which the cell stack is arranged and which has a cooling cover. A space is formed between the first stack side and the cooling cover, which space is only partially filled with the heat-conducting compound, so that at least a contiguous first partial region of the space, which is located between the first pole terminals and the cooling cover, is completely filled with the heat-conducting compound, and a second partial region of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Waldemar BAUER, Florian EIDMANN, Jens FRONEMANN, Eduard MAIN, Martin MOISSL
  • Publication number: 20240266635
    Abstract: A cell cooling unit for multi-sided cooling of a prismatic battery cell of a battery module. The cell cooling unit has a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first side of the prismatic battery cell and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second side of the battery cell. The second cooling wall connects at right angles to the first cooling wall. The first cooling wall has at least one first cooling channel portion through which a liquid coolant can flow, and the second cooling wall has at least one second cooling channel portion through which a liquid coolant can flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN
  • 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