Patents by Inventor Gerald Richter

Gerald Richter 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: 20240098925
    Abstract: A housing unit for an electronic component, in particular for an inverter of an electrical refrigerant compressor, wherein the housing unit includes a first housing element and a second housing element, which can be connected to a housing part of the refrigerant compressor, in particular to a motor housing of the refrigerant compressor, and in the process form a cavity which accommodates the electronic component, in particular the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Michael Friedl, Dirk Gutberlet, Steffen Koch
  • Patent number: 11104201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-zone air conditioning system for vehicles (1) with several air conditioning zones (2), in particular for buses, characterized thereby that an air temperature control unit (3) is implemented to generate simultaneously warm air and cold air, wherein the cold air across a cold air duct (5) and the warm air across a warm air duct (6) extend separated from one another as a double conduit over the length of the vehicle (1) and that decentralized air mixing units (4) with at least one air outlet (20) are disposed along the double conduit and that the air outlets (20) are assigned to the air conditioning zones (2) of the vehicle (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Martin Hötzel, Gerald Richter, Tobias Haas, Martin Schulze
  • Patent number: 11063460
    Abstract: A battery system includes: a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other in series between a first node and a second node; an intermediate node dividing the plurality of battery cells into a first subset of battery cells and a second subset of battery cells; a step-down converter connected in parallel with the plurality of battery cells between the first node and the second node and having an output node; a first diode, an anode of which is connected to the intermediate node and a cathode of which is connected to the output node; and a control unit interconnected between the output node and the first node and configured to control the step-down converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maximilian Hofer, Stefan Doczy, Michael Haindl, Gerald Richter, Birgit Weissensteiner, Peter Kurcik, Manfred Marchl
  • Patent number: 10875385
    Abstract: A climate control system for conditioning air of a motor vehicle passenger compartment and a method for operating same includes a climate control unit with a housing with a first flow channel and a second flow channel for conducting air, a refrigerant circulation and first and second coolant circulation. Refrigerant circulation is implemented with refrigerant-air heat exchanger operable as evaporator independently of operating mode Refrigerant-air heat exchanger is disposed within housing of the climate control unit. First refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger operates as condenser/gas cooler independently of operating mode. Second refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger operates as evaporator independently of the operating mode are disposed outside of housing of climate control unit. First coolant circulation comprises second refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger and heat exchangers for conditioning components of power train and a battery heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Navid Durrani, Martin Hötzel, Tobias Haas, Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf
  • Patent number: 10603977
    Abstract: Air conditioning system for multi-zone air conditioning of a motor vehicle interior comprising a casing with a mixing chamber and several zone outlets outgoing from mixing chamber, in which an evaporator and at least one heat exchanger are disposed such that main air flow from evaporator through at least one heat exchanger into zone outlets is linear and at least two bypass channels, each comprising a louver, in order to circumvent at least one heat exchanger connect a region downstream of evaporator and a region downstream of at least one heat exchanger, wherein the first bypass channel, as a mixing bypass channel, opens out into mixing chamber and the second bypass channel, as a stratification bypass channel, opens out into a zone outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Torsten Klein, Thomas Ehlers
  • Publication number: 20190372381
    Abstract: A battery system includes: a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other in series between a first node and a second node; an intermediate node dividing the plurality of battery cells into a first subset of battery cells and a second subset of battery cells; a step-down converter connected in parallel with the plurality of battery cells between the first node and the second node and having an output node; a first diode, an anode of which is connected to the intermediate node and a cathode of which is connected to the output node; and a control unit interconnected between the output node and the first node and configured to control the step-down converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Maximilian HOFER, Stefan DOCZY, Michael HAINDL, Gerald RICHTER, Birgit WEISSENSTEINER, Peter KURCIK, Manfred MARCHL
  • Patent number: 10449834
    Abstract: A refrigerant circuit for a vehicle air conditioning system with heat pump function includes at least one evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser. The refrigerant circuit for the vehicle air conditioning system further includes an expansion element. A supplemental evaporator is arranged upstream from the compressor in a separate fluid guiding arrangement in the refrigerant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter
  • Publication number: 20190263223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a climate control system (1) for conditioning the air of a motor vehicle passenger compartment. The climate control system (1), developed for operation in chiller mode, in heat pump mode as well as in reheat mode, comprises a climate control unit (2) with a housing (3) with a first flow channel (4) and a second flow channel (5) for conducting air, a refrigerant circulation (20) as well as a first coolant circulation (40) and a second coolant circulation (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Navid DURRANI, Martin HÖTZEL, Tobias HAAS, Gerald RICHTER, Marc GRAAF
  • Patent number: 10363792
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system for conditioning air in a vehicle passenger compartment is configured to operate in a cooling system mode for cooling air to be supplied to the passenger compartment and in a heat pump mode for heating the same, and to operate in a reheating mode. The air-conditioning system includes a housing having a first flow channel and a second flow channel for guiding air to an air distribution system having discharge ports communicating with the passenger compartment, and a refrigerant circulation system having at least two heat exchangers. In this case, the first heat exchanger that operates as an evaporator regardless of operating modes is disposed in the first flow channel, and the second heat exchanger that operates as a condenser/gas cooler regardless of operating modes is disposed in the second flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf, Julia Roeb, Toni Spies
  • Publication number: 20190160909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-zone air conditioning system for vehicles (1) with several air conditioning zones (2), in particular for buses, characterized thereby that an air temperature control unit (3) is implemented to generate simultaneously warm air and cold air, wherein the cold air across a cold air duct (5) and the warm air across a warm air duct (6) extend separated from one another as a double conduit over the length of the vehicle (1) and that decentralized air mixing units (4) with at least one air outlet (20) are disposed along the double conduit and that the air outlets (20) are assigned to the air conditioning zones (2) of the vehicle (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Martin Hötzel, Gerald Richter, Tobias Haas, Martin Schulze
  • Patent number: 10279655
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a motor vehicle operable in refrigeration mode and in heat pump mode, as well as in reheating mode. The operating mode adjusted by controlling air dampers and air directing elements. The air conditioning system has a housing having a cold air flow path a warm air flow path, and an air outlet. The air outlet formed in the region of the cold air flow path and discharging air into the environment. The warm air flow path branches off from the cold air flow path. The cold air flow path and the warm air flow path lead into a first mixing chamber. The air conditioning system further includes a refrigerant circuit having a heat exchanger operable as an evaporator, a compressor, a heat exchanger operable as a first condenser/gas cooler, a heat exchanger operable as a second condenser/gas cooler, and an expansion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter
  • Patent number: 10252596
    Abstract: Vehicle climate control system and method for control of the vehicle climate control system for temperature regulation of a vehicle battery, the vehicle climate control system includes a refrigerant circuit containing at least a compressor, a gas cooler/condenser, an expansion element, an evaporator, as well as refrigerant lines to connect the components, wherein an intermediate expansion element is arranged upstream from the expansion element in the refrigerant flow direction and a heat exchanger for the temperature regulation of a vehicle battery is arranged between the expansion elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Marc Graaf, Toni Spies, Gerald Richter
  • Patent number: 10144267
    Abstract: A device for guiding air for an air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The air conditioning system includes air outlets. The device is designed so that it encloses a volume and within the volume at least one air channel extending continuously from an inlet to an outlet is formed. The device is arranged in such a way that can be shifted in a continuously variable manner in a direction between two end positions, wherein the device in the end positions in each case closes an air outlet. The device may be arranged in an air conditioning system for a motor vehicle with means for conveying, for cooling and for heating an air mass flow, including a housing with a mixing chamber, in which the device for guiding air is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Evzi Duka, Sezgin Gökcen, Michael Fietz
  • Patent number: 10017031
    Abstract: The invention concerns an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle including a housing with a first flow channel and a second flow channel for conducting air and a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser. The evaporator is arranged in the first flow channel and the condenser in the second flow channel. The air conditioning system is designed for cooling and heating the passenger compartment and for a reheat operation. The setting of the operating mode is done only via the controlling of air guidance mechanisms. One of the heat exchangers evaporator or condenser is arranged with a part of the heat transfer surface in both the first and the second flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Roberto Della Rovere, Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter, Felix Girmscheid
  • Patent number: 9963010
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, including an outlet section for diverting at least a portion of an air-mass flow circulating in the air conditioning system into the environment of the motor vehicle, a housing for directing the air-mass flow, wherein at least one fan for conveying the air-mass flow is designed within the housing, as well as a coolant circuit for tempering components of the motor vehicle, in particular, components of a power train, having a coolant-air-heat exchanger for transferring heat from the coolant to an air-mass flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Joern Froehling, Karl Schlesinger, Gerald Richter, Balthasar Schillemeit, Marc Graaf, Frank Schmitz, Roberto Della Rovere
  • Publication number: 20180029437
    Abstract: Air conditioning system for multi-zone air conditioning of a motor vehicle interior comprising a casing with a mixing chamber and several zone outlets outgoing from mixing chamber, in which an evaporator and at least one heat exchanger are disposed such that main air flow from evaporator through at least one heat exchanger into zone outlets is linear and at least two bypass channels, each comprising a louver, in order to circumvent at least one heat exchanger connect a region downstream of evaporator and a region downstream of at least one heat exchanger, wherein the first bypass channel, as a mixing bypass channel, opens out into mixing chamber and the second bypass channel, as a stratification bypass channel, opens out into a zone outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Torsten Klein, Thomas Ehlers
  • Publication number: 20170299232
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system for conditioning air in a vehicle passenger compartment is configured to operate in a cooling system mode for cooling air to be supplied to the passenger compartment and in a heat pump mode for heating the same, and to operate in a reheating mode. The air-conditioning system includes a housing having a first flow channel and a second flow channel for guiding air to an air distribution system having discharge ports communicating with the passenger compartment, and a refrigerant circulation system having at least two heat exchangers. In this case, the first heat exchanger that operates as an evaporator regardless of operating modes is disposed in the first flow channel, and the second heat exchanger that operates as a condenser/gas cooler regardless of operating modes is disposed in the second flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf, Julia Roeb, Toni Spies
  • Patent number: 9789745
    Abstract: An air intake of an air conditioning system a motor vehicle having a fresh air duct configured to receive fresh air, a recirculated air duct configured to receive air from a passenger area of the motor vehicle, and an air outlet configured to channel the fresh air or the air from a passenger area of the motor vehicle to a blower. The air intake also has a valve disposed in the housing and rotates about a rotational axis between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Martin Paul Nowak
  • Publication number: 20170217278
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system for conditioning air in a vehicle passenger compartment including a housing having a first flow channel and a second flow channel for guiding air, and a refrigerant circulation system having at least two heat exchangers. An air guide device is disposed between the evaporator and the passenger compartment in the first flow channel, and an air guide device is disposed between the condenser/gas cooler and the passenger compartment in the second flow channel. The air guide device disposed in the first flow channel consists of multiple parts such as at least two members, and the members are respectively assigned to air channels extending to the passenger compartment, are independently controllable, and are movable so as to open or close the respective air channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf, Julia Roeb, Toni Spies
  • Publication number: 20170113515
    Abstract: A refrigerant circuit for a vehicle air conditioning system with heat pump function includes at least one evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser. The refrigerant circuit for the vehicle air conditioning system further includes an expansion element. A supplemental evaporator is arranged upstream from the compressor in a separate fluid guiding arrangement in the refrigerant circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter