Patents by Inventor Eric De La Chaux

Eric De La Chaux 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: 11588372
    Abstract: An electrical drive unit has a housing having a metal pole housing, which accommodates a stator and a rotor, and a separately produced electronic housing which axially adjoins the pole housing and accommodates an electronic unit. At least one contact element is integrated inside the electronic housing and forms, via at least one ground pin, an electrically conductive connection between the electronic housing and the pole housing to establish a ground connection. An open flange and a cylindrical circumferential wall are formed on the pole housing, against which circumferential wall the at least one ground pin radially bears in a resilient manner, and the at least one ground pin has a side surface facing the circumferential wall, wherein a bearing contour is formed on the side surface and bears against the circumferential wall only in an approximately punctiform manner with respect to an axial direction and/or a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eric De La Chaux, Fengmei Cheng, Helmut Meier, Jan Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20210028667
    Abstract: An electrical drive unit has a housing having a metal pole housing, which accommodates a stator and a rotor, and a separately produced electronic housing which axially adjoins the pole housing and accommodates an electronic unit. At least one contact element is integrated inside the electronic housing and forms, via at least one ground pin, an electrically conductive connection between the electronic housing and the pole housing to establish a ground connection. An open flange and a cylindrical circumferential wall are formed on the pole housing, against which circumferential wall the at least one ground pin radially bears in a resilient manner, and the at least one ground pin has a side surface facing the circumferential wall, wherein a bearing contour is formed on the side surface and bears against the circumferential wall only in an approximately punctiform manner with respect to an axial direction and/or a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Eric De La Chaux, Fengmei Cheng, Helmut Meier, Jan Wilhelm