Patents by Inventor Georg ENKIRCH

Georg ENKIRCH 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: 20230387532
    Abstract: A battery casing for accommodating at least one battery component in a battery casing volume, said battery casing having at least one plastic battery casing shell, which at least partly defines the battery casing volume, and at least one fastening device for attaching the battery component to the battery housing shell, the battery casing being characterized in that the battery casing shell includes at least one reinforcing structure which extends into the battery casing volume, and the fastening device is supported on the reinforcing structure. The present invention further discloses a traction battery for a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle having a traction battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Christine Laskowski, Utsav Panchamia, Georg Enkirch, Havya Premkumar
  • Publication number: 20230369705
    Abstract: A battery housing for a traction battery. The battery housing includes a first housing shell, and a second housing shell which can be connected to the first housing shell, for bounding an interior formed to receive at least one battery module. The first housing shell has a first collar which runs at least partially around the first housing shell. The second housing shell has a second collar which runs at least partially around the second housing shell. The battery housing has at least one connection element having two pressure limbs. The at least one connection element engages around the first collar and the second collar and to clamp by the two pressure limbs of the connection element exerting a normal force on the first collar and on the second collar. The first collar and/or the second collar has at least one first latching means. The connection element has at least one second latching means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Guido Schafer, Stefan Lenz, Felix Haas, Georg Enkirch, Muhamed Mulalic, Marcel Kruger, Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Patrick Daniel Maguire, Kanchana Perumalla
  • Publication number: 20230327259
    Abstract: A battery casing system for a traction battery in a motor vehicle, said battery casing system comprising a battery casing having a plastic battery casing shell which at least partially defines a battery casing volume for accommodating at least one battery component. The battery casing system of the invention is characterized in that same includes at least one reinforcing means which can be connected to an outer face of the battery casing shell and which is formed separately from the battery casing shell. The invention further relates to a traction battery comprising a battery casing system as well as to a motor vehicle comprising a traction battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Christine Laskowski, Utsav Panchamia, Georg Enkirch, Havya Premkumar
  • Patent number: 11695173
    Abstract: A battery housing arrangement, in particular a battery housing assembly of a vehicle traction battery which can be temperature-controlled by a fluid, comprises a battery housing which encloses an interior space for receiving battery cells, and a heat transmission device which has an inlet tube, an outlet tube and a heat exchanger element arranged fluidically therebetween. The fluid is able to flow through the heat transmission device from the inlet tube via the heat exchanger element to the outlet tube. The heat exchanger element can be accommodated in the battery housing. The battery housing has at least one through-opening for feeding through the inlet tube and the outlet tube, and the battery housing has at least one closure element which is inserted into the at least one through-opening and forms a closure between the inlet tube and/or the outlet tube and the at least one through-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Guido Schäfer, Moritz Lipperheide, Georg Enkirch, Stefan Lenz
  • Publication number: 20230187774
    Abstract: A traction battery including a battery shell and a plurality of battery modules arranged in the battery shell. Each battery module has a safety valve. The traction battery also includes a battery cover and a ventilation element for aerating and/or venting the traction battery. The traction battery has a guide means, which is regularly permeable, at least in part, to a designated fluid volume flow, for deflecting a designated fluid volume flow emerging in a designated manner from a safety valve in the direction of the ventilation element. The traction battery has a venting channel which extends from the guide means to the ventilation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander PECHAN, Georg ENKIRCH, Mario STRACK, Tobias VENNEFROHNE
  • Publication number: 20230103100
    Abstract: A battery shell, in particular, a battery shell for a traction battery of a motor vehicle, comprises a semi-permeable membrane that is integrally bonded or frictionally connected to the battery shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Lenz, Georg Enkirch, Ibrahim Koukan, Stefan Trötschel
  • Publication number: 20230047239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery shell, in particular a battery shell of a traction battery, the battery shell being formed from plastics material, the battery shell having a fastening system for fastening a component to the battery shell, the fastening system having a guide rail, an inner profile and a fastening element, the guide rail being integrally or interlockingly connected to the battery shell, the inner profile being guided by the guide rail, the fastening element being designed to establish a connection between the component and the inner profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Lenz, Hartmut Wolf, Andreas Weimer, Georg Enkirch
  • Publication number: 20220231353
    Abstract: A battery housing arrangement, in particular a battery housing assembly of a vehicle traction battery which can be temperature-controlled by a fluid, comprises a battery housing which encloses an interior space for receiving battery cells, and a heat transmission device which has an inlet tube, an outlet tube and a heat exchanger element arranged fluidically therebetween. The fluid is able to flow through the heat transmission device from the inlet tube via the heat exchanger element to the outlet tube. The heat exchanger element can be accommodated in the battery housing. The battery housing has at least one through-opening for feeding through the inlet tube and the outlet tube, and the battery housing has at least one closure element which is inserted into the at least one through-opening and forms a closure between the inlet tube and/or the outlet tube and the at least one through-opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Guido Schäfer, Moritz Lipperheide, Georg Enkirch, Stefan Lenz
  • Publication number: 20220216538
    Abstract: A battery housing assembly includes a battery housing which encloses an interior for receiving a plurality of battery cells. A heat transfer device which has an inlet, an outlet, and at least one fluid channel arranged fluidically therebetween. The fluid flows through the heat transfer device from the inlet to the outlet via the at least one fluid channel that is arranged in the interior. A contact side of the channel is pressed against at least one contact element to the battery cells in order to transfer heat. At least one expansion element, as a result of the fluid in the heat transfer device being pressurized, expands in order to press the at least one fluid channel against the at least one contact element by bracing against a bracing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Felix HAAS, Moritz LIPPERHEIDE, Georg ENKIRCH
  • Publication number: 20210226275
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery cooling element having: an outer surface for resting at least in regions against a battery cell and/or for resting at least in regions against a battery module comprising at least two battery cells; an inner chamber for receiving a cooling medium, which inner chamber is surrounded at least in regions by the outer surface; and a cooling medium inlet connected to the inner chamber and a cooling medium outlet connected to the inner chamber, wherein the outer surface is made, at least in regions, of a thermally conductive, flexible film which can be shaped by a fluid pressure of the cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Georg ENKIRCH, Felix HAAS, Moritz LIPPERHEIDE