Patents by Inventor Felix Noack

Felix Noack 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: 10158272
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having an air inlet opening near a front or rear end of the housing for aspirating air, and an air outlet opening for expelling air. The housing accommodates a stator, and a rotor is mounted in the housing for rotation about an axis of rotation. Mounted on a side of the housing in parallel relation to the axis of rotation is a hood-like attachment to cover the air inlet and outlet openings so that air expelled from the housing through the air outlet opening is fed back to the air inlet opening. Disposed in the stator are pipes for flow of a liquid cooling medium to directly cool the stator during operation. At least some of the pipes project beyond the stator toward the front and rear ends, so that during operation heat is removed by the pipes from air flowing in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Felix Noack, Martin Sindelka, Sebastian Weiss
  • Patent number: 9871425
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing which accommodates a stator and a rotor rotationally supported about an axis of rotation, and has a front/rear air inlet opening on a top face and an air outlet opening therebetween. A front/rear air conveying element draws into the air inlet openings air which is discharged from the air outlet opening during operation. A cooler is mounted on the top face of the housing, covering the air inlet openings and the air outlet opening in a hood-like manner, such that discharged air is fed back to the air inlet openings. The cooler has a front/rear partition arranged between the air outlet opening and the corresponding air inlet opening and extending upward from the top face. Air guiding elements are arranged in the housing and/or in the cooler for feeding discharged air at least partially to the respective other air inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felix Noack, Sebastian Weiss, Patric Willems, Josef Zwack
  • Patent number: 9680340
    Abstract: An electrically rotating machine, includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor and/or the stator including a laminated core, with an air gap being formed between the rotor and the stator, said rotor having axially and radially extending cooling paths in flow communication with each other and in flow communication with radially extending cooling paths of the stator via the air gap, wherein the radially extending cooling paths of the stator are respectively axially aligned with the radially extending cooling paths of the rotor; at least one fan for conducting an air flow through the axially and radially extending cooling paths of the rotor, the air gap and the cooling paths of the stator, wherein the air gap has at least one constriction defined by sheets of the laminated core of the rotor having an outer radius greater than remaining ones of the sheets of the laminated core of the rotor and/or by sheets of the laminated core of the stator having a smaller inner radius than remaining ones of the sheets of the lamin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTEINGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felix Noack, Zdenek Spera, Christoph Stuckmann, Sebastian Weiss
  • Publication number: 20160204680
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having an air inlet opening near a front or rear end of the housing for aspirating air, and an air outlet opening for expelling air. The housing accommodates a stator, and a rotor is mounted in the housing for rotation about an axis of rotation. Mounted on a side of the housing in parallel relation to the axis of rotation is a hood-like attachment to cover the air inlet and outlet openings so that air expelled from the housing through the air outlet opening is fed back to the air inlet opening. Disposed in the stator are pipes for flow of a liquid cooling medium to directly cool the stator during operation. At least some of the pipes project beyond the stator toward the front and rear ends, so that during operation heat is removed by the pipes from air flowing in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: FELIX NOACK, MARTIN SINDELKA, SEBASTIAN WEISS
  • Publication number: 20150318749
    Abstract: An electrically rotating machine, includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor and/or the stator including a laminated core, with an air gap being formed between the rotor and the stator, said rotor having axially and radially extending cooling paths in flow communication with each other and in flow communication with radially extending cooling paths of the stator via the air gap, wherein the radially extending cooling paths of the stator are respectively axially aligned with the radially extending cooling paths of the rotor; at least one fan for conducting an air flow through the axially and radially extending cooling paths of the rotor, the air gap and the cooling paths of the stator, wherein the air gap has at least one constriction defined by sheets of the laminated core of the rotor having an outer radius greater than remaining ones of the sheets of the laminated core of the rotor and/or by sheets of the laminated core of the stator having a smaller inner radius than remaining ones of the sheets of the lamin
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: FELIX NOACK, ZDENEK SPERA, CHRISTOPH STUCKMANN, SEBASTIAN WEISS
  • Publication number: 20140028124
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing which accommodates a stator and a rotor rotationally supported about an axis of rotation, and has a front/rear air inlet opening on a top face and an air outlet opening therebetween. A front/rear air conveying element draws into the air inlet openings air which is discharged from the air outlet opening during operation. A cooler is mounted on the top face of the housing, covering the air inlet openings and the air outlet opening in a hood-like manner, such that discharged air is fed back to the air inlet openings. The cooler has a front/rear partition arranged between the air outlet opening and the corresponding air inlet opening and extending upward from the top face. Air guiding elements are arranged in the housing and/or in the cooler for feeding discharged air at least partially to the respective other air inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Felix Noack, Sebastian Weiss, Patric Willems, Josef Zwack
  • Patent number: D898670
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan Andersson, Stephan Hühne, Jürgen Labermeier, Josef Niedermeyer, Uwe Scharf, Felix Noack