Patents by Inventor Franz-Josef Wostmann
Franz-Josef Wostmann 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).
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Patent number: 12214417Abstract: The invention relates to a casting mould for producing helical cast bodies (1), in particular coils, springs or spirals, having a mould (10) in the form of a permanent mould which determines the outer contour of the helical body and consists of a ceramic material or is coated by a ceramic material; a supporting tool (8), which supports the mould (10) from outside; and a mould core (12), which defines the continuous opening within the helical body (1) and consists of a ceramic material or is coated by a ceramic material, the mould core being formed in particular as a core puller.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Matthias Busse, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 12151425Abstract: A method for producing a helical casting pattern. The method including: providing a pattern body having a longitudinal axis, a cavity extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and a pattern body wall that surrounds the cavity; providing a processing tool for creating a recess; arranging the pattern body and the processing tool such that the processing tool extends at least partially through the pattern body wall in the radial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis; and rotatably driving at least one of the processing tool and the pattern body about one of the longitudinal axis of the pattern body and an axis parallel thereto, relative to one another, with a relative movement between the pattern body and the processing tool in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis being produced one of continuously or at least intermittently during or in alternation with the relative rotational movement.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Matthias Busse
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Patent number: 12115577Abstract: A method for producing a helix includes a step of providing a permanent mold with mold halves which are joined together on a mold parting line. The method additionally has a step of joining together the mold halves of the permanent mold such that the permanent mold has a cavity, which defines the shape of the helix or the shape of a bent-up helix, when the permanent mold is joined together, wherein the helix or the bent-up helix has a flattened profiled winding cross-section which has two opposite flat sides, an outer side and an inner side opposite the outer side, and the mold parting line runs at least partly along the outer side and/or the inner side and/or edges of the profiled winding cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Michael Heuser, Matthias Busse
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Patent number: 12011765Abstract: The invention relates to a coil-tooth module and to a method for the production thereof. A prefabricated coil is filled with a metallic powder, and this powder is subsequently pressed to form a tooth, so that a coil-tooth module is created, in which the tooth directly abuts the coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Matthias Busse, Christian Weck, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 11973383Abstract: The present application creates a roller molding method for producing a spiral structure or a coil, in particular a spiral structure for use in electric machines, wherein material is supplied between a first roller and a second roller running opposite thereto, wherein the first roller has first teeth, and the second roller has second teeth, said first and/or second teeth having tooth flanks with cavities for receiving the supplied material, wherein the teeth are designed and aligned such that the cavity of at least one tooth is at least temporarily delimited by the surface of a tooth of the other roller when the rollers are rotating such that the supplied material is molded between the teeth into a portion of the spiral structure or the coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Matthias Busse, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 11967868Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a helical metal body (1, 1?), in particular made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. A blank is first produced in a primary shaping process, a metal forming process, or in a removal process, in particular a machining process, and one or more recesses (100, 101, 201, 202, 203) are then introduced into the blank using a removal process, said recesses defining a circumferential coil, the adjacent windings thereof being mutually spaced, in particular electrically insulated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Matthias Busse, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 11845124Abstract: A roller casting method produces a spiral structure, in particular a spiral structure for use in electric machines. Molten metal is supplied between a first roller and a second roller miming opposite thereto, wherein the first roller has first teeth, and the second roller has second teeth, said first and/or second teeth having tooth flanks with cavities for receiving the supplied molten metal. The teeth are designed and aligned such that the cavity of at least one tooth is at least temporarily delimited by the surface of a tooth of the other roller when the rollers are rotating such that the supplied molten metal is molded between the teeth while cooling and is molded into a section of the spiral structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Michael Heuser, Matthias Busse
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Patent number: 11813666Abstract: A casting core for casting moulds can include a central core and a core shroud arranged around the central core. The core shroud containing contains or consists of ceramic particles bound to a binder. The central core contains ceramic particles bound to a binder, wherein the ceramic particles of the central core contain at least one component, which exhibits, at a temperature in a range from 100° C. to 1500° C., a thermally induced phase transformation, and/ or at least two components, the thermal expansion coefficients of which at 20° C. differ by at least 5·10?6K?1.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Lukas Stumm, Christian Soltmann, Matthias Busse
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Patent number: 11794236Abstract: The present invention relates to a casting core for casting molds, wherein the casting core contains or consists of ceramic particles bound with a silica sol. The casting core has a pore structure, in which the average pore size of the pores increases at least in sections from the outside to the inside in the casting core. The present invention also relates to a method for producing the casting core according to the invention and to the use of the casting core according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Matthias Busse, Christian Soltmann, Lukas Stumm, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 11702735Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a carbonaceous coating for protection of a passive electrical component from attack by ammonia, wherein the carbonaceous coating is a sol-gel coating or a plasma-polymeric coating. This coating comprises a particular carbon content.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Dirk Salz, Andreas Stake, Malte Burchardt, Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Stefan Dieckhoff, Christoph Regula, Christopher Dölle, Ralph Wilken
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Patent number: 11646148Abstract: The invention relates to a passive electrical component, especially a coil, having an interlayer, wherein the interlayer has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the surface of the passive electrical component covered with the interlayer, and disposed atop that a plasma-polymeric carbon-containing coating having a carbon content measured at a depth of 80 nm away from the side of the plasma-polymeric coating remote from the interlayer, wherein the plasma-polymeric coating comprises a carbon content of 50 to 100 atom %, preferably 50 to 90 atom %, or is configured as an organometallic coating a carbon content of 2 to 50 atom %, in each case measured by means of XPS.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung dee angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Dirk Salz, Ralph Wilken, Stefan Dieckhoff, Malte Burchardt, Christopher Dölle, Christoph Regula, Franz-Josef Wöstmann
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Patent number: 11612930Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for production and use of a casting mold for casting components. The casting mold comprises at least one casting mold frame made of metal and/or of an alloy, and also one or more ceramic casting mold inserts introduced into the at least one casting mold frame. The casting mold insert(s) have the negative contour or part of the negative contour of a component to be produced or of the combination of a component to be produced with one or more casting cores.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Lukas Stumm, Christian Soltmann, Matthias Busse
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Patent number: 11590564Abstract: Disclosed herein is a casting core for casting molds, the casting core comprising an inner core and an outer core arranged around the inner core. The outer core contains or consists of ceramic particles bound with a binder. The inner core contains ceramic particles bound with a binder and additionally one or more placeholder elements. The placeholder element(s) is/are at least partially thermally decomposable. Also disclosed is a method for producing the casting core and use of the casting core.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Lukas Stumm, Christian Soltmann, Matthias Busse
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Publication number: 20220266331Abstract: The casting of metals or salt and products made by casting metals or salts are described. For example, a method for casting metals or salts includes evacuating a mold that is pressurized with an inert gas and coupled to a pressurized source of molten metal or salt, wherein the pressurization of the source is sufficiently high to drive the molten metal or salt into the mold in response to the evacuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.VInventors: Franz-Josef Wostmann, Christoph Pille, Matthias Busse
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Publication number: 20220271608Abstract: A motor housing for an electric motor may have an inner part having a hollow-cylindrical base body and at least one rib arranged on the outside of the base body and a casing slipped over the inner part and contacting the at least one rib. A cooling channel may be formed between the inner part and the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.Inventors: Franz-Josef WÖSTMANN, Jonas KLEI
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Publication number: 20220149706Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a helical metal body (1, 1?), in particular made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. A blank is first produced in a primary shaping process, a metal forming process, or in a removal process, in particular a machining process, and one or more recesses (100, 101, 201, 202, 203) are then introduced into the blank using a removal process, said recesses defining a circumferential coil, the adjacent windings thereof being mutually spaced, in particular electrically insulated from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Matthias BUSSE, Franz-Josef WÖSTMANN
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Publication number: 20220048100Abstract: The invention relates to a casting core for casting moulds, wherein the casting core comprises a central core and a core shroud arranged around the central core. The core shroud contains or consists of ceramic particles bound to a binder. The central core contains or consists of ceramic particles bound to a binder, wherein the ceramic particles of the central core contain or consist of at least one component, which exhibits, at a temperature in a range from 100° C. to 1500° C., a thermally induced phase transformation, and/or at least two components, the thermal expansion coefficients of which at 20° C. differ by at least 5·10?6 K?1. The invention further relates to a method for producing the casting core according to the invention and the use of the casting core according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Franz-Josef WÖSTMANN, Lukas STUMM, Christian SOLTMANN, Matthias BUSSE
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Publication number: 20220040751Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a helix (2). A permanent mold with mold halves which can be joined together on a mold separation plane is provided. The mold halves of the permanent mold are joined together such that the permanent mold has a cavity, which defines the shape of the helix (2) or the shape of a bent-up helix, when the permanent mold is joined together. The specified helix (2) or the bent-up helix has a flattened profiled winding cross-section which has two opposite flat faces (2.1, 2.1?), an outer face and an inner face (2.3) opposite the outer face. The mold separation plane runs at least partly along the flat faces (2.1, 2.1?) from the inner face to the outer face (2.3), wherein the permanent mold has a bulge (2.5) which extends along the mold separation plane and protrudes into the cavity at least in a region in which the mold separation plane runs along one of the flat faces (2.1, 2.1?) such that the cast body is provided with recesses (2.5) on the flat faces (2.1, 2.1?).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Franz-Josef WÖSTMANN, Michael HEUSER, Matthias BUSSE
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Publication number: 20220013286Abstract: A method for producing a spiral-shaped body, in particular an electric coil, made of an electrically conductive material. First, the material is wound about a mandrel in a casting mold in order to form a coil with a plurality of windings, and pressure is then exerted onto the coil in the axial direction of the coil. The pressure leads to a deformation and compression of the cross-section of the individual windings in the axial direction of the coil. By compressing the coil, an optimal use of space is achieved with an electric coil, for example for an electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Matthias BUSSE, Franz-Josef WÖSTMANN
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Publication number: 20210370395Abstract: The invention relates to a coil-tooth module and to a method for the production thereof. A prefabricated coil is filled with a metallic powder, and this powder is subsequently pressed to form a tooth, so that a coil-tooth module is created, in which the tooth directly abuts the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Matthias BUSSE, Christian WECK, Franz-Josef WÕSTMANN