Patents by Inventor Ekard Grossmann

Ekard Grossmann 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: 11577611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (400) for discharging a high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) with a discharge circuit (120), wherein the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) comprises an intermediate circuit capacitor (130), having the steps of: ascertaining (410) the voltage (U_ZK) of the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110); and actuating (420) the discharge circuit (120) on the basis of the ascertained voltage (U_ZK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ekard Grossmann
  • Patent number: 11498424
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (400) for discharging a high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) with a discharge circuit (120), wherein the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) comprises an intermediate circuit capacitor (130), having the steps of: ascertaining (410) the voltage (U_ZK) of the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110); and actuating (420) the discharge circuit (120) on the basis of the ascertained voltage (U_ZK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ekard Grossmann
  • Publication number: 20200189394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (400) for discharging a high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) with a discharge circuit (120), wherein the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110) comprises an intermediate circuit capacitor (130), having the steps of: ascertaining (410) the voltage (U_ZK) of the high-voltage intermediate circuit (110); and actuating (420) the discharge circuit (120) on the basis of the ascertained voltage (U_ZK).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Ekard Grossmann
  • Patent number: 10479206
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for changing from the idle operating state of an electric motor (5) having three phase terminals (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) to a short-circuit operating state. Thereby significant voltage rises are avoided. For this purpose, after receiving (120) a request for changing of the operating state of the electric motor (5) to the short-circuit operating state, three switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are closed. Thereby the switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are at least partially closed successively and the times of closing the individual switching elements are predetermined as a function of control parameters of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ekard Grossmann, Marcus Abele, Torsten Heidrich
  • Patent number: 10116240
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for jointly controlling asynchronous machines (2; 3) of a motor vehicle (1) having a first asynchronous machine (2) and a second asynchronous machine (3) for driving the motor vehicle (1); an inverter (4), which is designed to supply the first asynchronous machine (2) and the second asynchronous machine (3) with a common stator voltage (5) at a common stator frequency (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ekard Grossmann
  • Patent number: 10003283
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a method for changing the operating state of an electric machine to the free-wheeling mode, in which significant excessive increases in voltage can be avoided. In the freewheeling mode, the individual phase connections of an electric machine are disconnected electrically from one another in order to change the electric machine into a safe operating state. According to the invention, only some of the phase currents of the electric machine are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluated phase currents, suitable times for the disconnection of all the phase connections are determined, that is to say even for the phases in which no evaluation of the phase currents takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ekard Grossmann, Daniel Raichle
  • Publication number: 20180013361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for jointly controlling asynchronous machines (2; 3) of a motor vehicle (1) having a first asynchronous machine (2) and a second asynchronous machine (3) for driving the motor vehicle (1); an inverter (4), which is designed to supply the first asynchronous machine (2) and the second asynchronous machine (3) with a common stator voltage (5) at a common stator frequency (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Ekard Grossmann
  • Publication number: 20170313193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for changing from the idle operating state of an electric motor (5) having three phase terminals (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) to a short-circuit operating state. Thereby significant voltage rises are avoided. For this purpose, after receiving (120) a request for changing of the operating state of the electric motor (5) to the short-circuit operating state, three switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are closed. Thereby the switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are at least partially closed successively and the times of closing the individual switching elements are predetermined as a function of control parameters of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ekard Grossmann, Marcus Abele, Torsten Heidrich
  • Publication number: 20170077843
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and a method for changing the operating state of an electric machine to the free-wheeling mode, in which significant excessive increases in voltage can be avoided. In the freewheeling mode, the individual phase connections of an electric machine are disconnected electrically from one another in order to change the electric machine into a safe operating state. According to the invention, only some of the phase currents of the electric machine are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluated phase currents, suitable times for the disconnection of all the phase connections are determined, that is to say even for the phases in which no evaluation of the phase currents takes place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Ekard Grossmann, Daniel Raichle