Patents by Inventor Georg Votteler
Georg Votteler 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: 11777148Abstract: An accumulator may include a housing with at least two mutually opposite housing walls, accumulator cells arranged between the housing walls and following one another in a stacking direction, and at least one intermediate piece arranged in the housing between at least one of the accumulator cells and one of the housing walls and that retains the accumulator cells in the housing. At least one intermediate piece may be configured as a mutable intermediate piece in such a way that the mutable intermediate piece may be changeable between a first state having a first thickness extending in a spacing direction between the associated housing wall and the associated at least one of the accumulator cells, and a second state having a second thickness extending in the spacing direction, wherein the second thickness may be greater than the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Inventors: Peter Geskes, Michael Moser, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20230012363Abstract: A battery device of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The battery device includes a battery housing with a cell stack of rechargeable individual battery cells that are stacked one on top of the other with contact along a stack center axis in a stack direction arranged therein. The battery housing includes a housing base, on which the cell stack is arranged and held in a flat manner with contact. For controlling a temperature of the cell stack, the housing base has a heat exchanger section, through which fluid is flowable. The heat exchanger section is reinforced via a profile structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Michael Moser, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Publication number: 20230011285Abstract: A battery may include at least two battery cells and at least two electrical cell contacts for picking up a monitoring signal. The battery may include a main board arranged spaced apart from the battery cells. The main board may include at least two electrical board contacts. The main board may include at least one electronic component configured to process the monitoring signal. The battery may include a flexible conductor track for electrically connecting each cell contact with an associated board contact. The conductor track may include (i) a cell portion connected to the cell contacts and (ii) a board portion connected to the board contacts. The conductor track may include at least two electrical conductors connected to one of the cell contacts and the associated board contact. The battery may include a support plate supporting the board portion of the main board.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Julius Aktas, Ursula Steeb, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Publication number: 20220379708Abstract: A motor vehicle battery for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The motor vehicle battery includes a one-piece holder including a plurality of holding portions connected to one another via a bending portion of the holder. The bending portion upon a force introduction at the plurality of holding portions permits a bending of at least one of the plurality of holding portions about a bending axis of the bending portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Thomas Eichinger, Tilman Kaiser, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20220367953Abstract: A battery module for a traction battery of a battery electric vehicle and a method for manufacturing a battery module are disclosed. The battery module includes a cohesive battery cell stack and a module housing. A guide unit with at least two guide rails are provided on two opposite sides of the battery module. The battery cell stack is inserted into the module housing in a direction of insertion via the at least two guide rails and held transversely to the direction of insertion. The battery cell stack is bonded to the module housing via a cured adhesive. The cured adhesive defines a form-fitting unit that holds the battery cell stack in the module housing in at least one of a form-fitting and force-fitting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Julius Aktas, Peter Geskes, Stefan Moedinger, Stephan Schild, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Publication number: 20220294043Abstract: A housing for an energy storage device of a vehicle may include a main housing and a temperature control plate. The main housing may form a housing interior for a plurality of energy storage cells of the energy storage device. A temperature control fluid may flow through the temperature control plate for the temperature control of the plurality of energy storage cells. The main housing and the temperature control plate may be configured such that the temperature control plate can be inserted into the housing interior in an insertion direction. In an inserted configuration, the temperature control plate may form a positive connection with the main housing which may prevent displacement of the temperature control plate in the main housing transversely to the insertion direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Julius Aktas, Thomas Eichinger, Peter Geskes, Stefan Moedinger, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann, Dietmar Wilhelm
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Publication number: 20220289055Abstract: A positioning device for location positioning of a plurality of energy storage cells of an energy storage device of a vehicle, a cover for closing such a positioning device, an energy storage device with such a positioning device, and a such cover are provided. The present disclosure is based on a general idea of providing a positioning device for energy storage cells which allows both material savings and functional integration of a number of functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Julius Aktas, Stefan Moedinger, Eduard Reimer, Karl-Ulrich Schmid-Walderich, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Publication number: 20220278388Abstract: An electric battery may include a battery housing, a plurality of battery cell modules, an electrical current conduction, and a cover. The battery housing may include a plurality of housing cut-outs that are sealed via a cooling plate. The battery cell modules may be configured to store electric energy and may be thermally connected to the cooling plate. Each of the battery cell modules may include an electrical positive connection and an electrical negative connection. The electrical current conduction may be configured to supply the battery cell modules electric energy. The electrical current conduction may include a first electrical conductor rail and a second electrical conductor rail. The cover may be detachably coupled to the battery housing. The first conductor rail may include a plurality of rail elements. One of the rail elements may be configured to electrically connect adjacent battery cell modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Publication number: 20220278390Abstract: An electric battery may include a battery housing, at least one battery cell module, a coolant supply and discharge, and a sealing mechanism. The battery housing may partially surround a housing interior and may include at least one housing opening that may be sealed via a cooling plate. The least one battery cell module may be arranged in the housing interior and on the cooling plate. The coolant supply and discharge may be disposed outside of the battery housing. The coolant supply and discharge may, fluidically separated from the housing interior, communicate with a coolant path of the cooling plate. The sealing mechanism may be arranged between the cooling plate and the battery housing such that the sealing mechanism seals both the housing interior as well as a transition from the coolant supply and discharge to the coolant path against external surroundings of the battery housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Peter Geskes, Georg Votteler, Johannes Weinmann
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Patent number: 11342610Abstract: An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle may include a plurality of battery cells stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block, and a housing including a support frame limiting the housing towards an outside on four sides. The support frame may include at least two longitudinal members and at least two cross members perpendicularly aligned with one another. At least one longitudinal member of the at least two longitudinal members may be configured to conduct a coolant. The at least one battery block may abut against at least one of (i) the at least one longitudinal member and (ii) at least one of the at least two cross members to transfer heat. A plurality of connection points of the at least one longitudinal member, through which the coolant is flowable, may be configured on an outside of the support frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventors: Peter Geskes, Thomas Kalmbach, Andre Loges, Michael Moser, Joachim Treier, Georg Votteler, Mario Wallisch
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Patent number: 11233284Abstract: An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells which are stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block. The at least one battery block is arranged in a housing of the accumulator arrangement. A cooling device includes a cooling plate arranged on one side on the battery block and extending parallel to the stacking direction. On the at least one cooling plate at least one cover plate with at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is secured, facing away from the at least one battery block. The cooling plate forms an outer contour of the fluid-tight housing. The at least one cooling channel of the cover plate is open towards the at least one cooling plate and is closed by the at least one cooling plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Peter Geskes, Michael Moser, Joachim Treier, Georg Votteler
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Patent number: 10989338Abstract: A hose arrangement for a motor vehicle may include a flexible elongated bellows including a plurality of radially orientated pleats and two axial longitudinal ends. The hose arrangement may also include at least one reinforcement rib which, on an outside, is coupled to a pleat tip of a respective pleat of the plurality of pleats in a material-bonded manner via two-component injection moulding. The at least one reinforcement rib may engage about the respective pleat in a circumferential direction. The at least one reinforcement rib may have at least two rib segments disposed following one another in the circumferential direction. Each of the at least two rib segments may radially cover the pleat tip by a segment angle of 30° to 310° in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventors: Michael Forstner, Pierre-Yves Guiton, Sven Alexander Kaiser, Samuel Kohler, Parzani Massimo, Katrin Schindele, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20200321659Abstract: An accumulator may include a housing with at least two mutually opposite housing walls, accumulator cells arranged between the housing walls and following one another in a stacking direction, and at least one intermediate piece arranged in the housing between at least one of the accumulator cells and one of the housing walls and that retains the accumulator cells in the housing. At least one intermediate piece may be configured as a mutable intermediate piece in such a way that the mutable intermediate piece may be changeable between a first state having a first thickness extending in a spacing direction between the associated housing wall and the associated at least one of the accumulator cells, and a second state having a second thickness extending in the spacing direction, wherein the second thickness may be greater than the first thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Peter Geskes, Michael Moser, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20200136213Abstract: An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle may include a plurality of battery cells stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block, and a housing including a support frame limiting the housing towards an outside on four sides. The support frame may include at least two longitudinal members and at least two cross members perpendicularly aligned with one another. At least one longitudinal member of the at least two longitudinal members may be configured to conduct a coolant. The at least one battery block may abut against at least one of (i) the at least one longitudinal member and (ii) at least one of the at least two cross members to transfer heat. A plurality of connection points of the at least one longitudinal member, through which the coolant is flowable, may be configured on an outside of the support frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Peter Geskes, Thomas Kalmbach, Andre Loges, Michael Moser, Joachim Treier, Georg Votteler, Mario Wallisch
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Publication number: 20200112071Abstract: An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells which are stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block. The at least one battery block is arranged in a housing of the accumulator arrangement. A cooling device includes a cooling plate arranged on one side on the battery block and extending parallel to the stacking direction. On the at least one cooling plate at least one cover plate with at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is secured, facing away from the at least one battery block. The cooling plate forms an outer contour of the fluid-tight housing. The at least one cooling channel of the cover plate is open towards the at least one cooling plate and is closed by the at least one cooling plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Peter Geskes, Michael Moser, Joachim Treier, Georg Votteler
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Patent number: 10569209Abstract: A flat filter element for filtering a fluid may include a filter body made up of a folded filter material. The filter element may also include a circumferential edge and a side edge running in a circumferential direction along the circumferential edge. The side edge may have at least one strip portion, running along the side edge, with a side strip that may be separate from the filter body and arranged on the filter body. The side edge may also have at least one adhesive portion running along the side edge for sealing the filter body. The at least one adhesive portion may be formed by gluing of least two folds, adjacent along the side edge, in a region of the side edge.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Karl Breitfuss, Tobias Heck, Sven A. Kaiser, Stefan Kaiser, Ruediger Knauss, Marc Schuller, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20190360617Abstract: A hose arrangement for a motor vehicle may include a flexible elongated bellows including a plurality of radially orientated pleats and two axial longitudinal ends. The hose arrangement may also include at least one reinforcement rib which, on an outside, is coupled to a pleat tip of a respective pleat of the plurality of pleats in a material-bonded manner via two-component injection moulding. The at least one reinforcement rib may engage about the respective pleat in a circumferential direction. The at least one reinforcement rib may have at least two rib segments disposed following one another in the circumferential direction. Each of the at least two rib segments may radially cover the pleat tip by a segment angle of 30° to 310° in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Michael Forstner, Pierre-Yves Guiton, Sven Alexander Kaiser, Samuel Kohler, Parzani Massimo, Katrin Schindele, Georg Votteler
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Publication number: 20170266602Abstract: A flat filter element for filtering a fluid may include a filter body made up of a folded filter material. The filter element may also include a circumferential edge and a side edge running in a circumferential direction along the circumferential edge. The side edge may have at least one strip portion, running along the side edge, with a side strip that may be separate from the filter body and arranged on the filter body. The side edge may also have at least one adhesive portion running along the side edge for sealing the filter body. The at least one adhesive portion may be formed by gluing of least two folds, adjacent along the side edge, in a region of the side edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Karl Breitfuss, Tobias Heck, Sven A. Kaiser, Stefan Kaiser, Ruediger Knauss, Marc Schuller, Georg Votteler