Patents by Inventor Gerd Futterlieb

Gerd Futterlieb 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: 11581727
    Abstract: A temperature monitoring device for protecting the winding of an electronically commutated electric motor from being heated over a specified limit temperature TG regardless of the rotational speed includes a phase current detection device for detecting the phase current IWinding for the motor windings, an overcurrent switch-off device for switching off the electric motor if a maximum permissible phase current IShutdown is exceeded, and an overcurrent monitoring device, which is connected to the overcurrent switch-off device, in order to transmit to it a switch-off signal if the detected phase current IWinding exceeds the maximum permissible phase current IShutdown ascertained by a detection and computing device, wherein an algorithm in which the measured ambient temperature TU is incorporated is used when ascertaining the maximum permissible phase current IShutdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerd Futterlieb, Jens Rössler, Malte Pils, Oliver Kleinheinz
  • Publication number: 20200244063
    Abstract: A temperature monitoring device for protecting the winding of an electronically commutated electric motor from being heated over a specified limit temperature TG regardless of the rotational speed includes a phase current detection device for detecting the phase current IWicklung for the motor windings, an overcurrent switch-off device for switching off the electric motor if a maximum permissible phase current IAbschalt is exceeded, and an overcurrent monitoring device, which is connected to the overcurrent switch-off device, in order to transmit to it a switch-off signal if the detected phase current IWicklung exceeds the maximum permissible phase current IAbschalt ascertained by a detection and computing device, wherein an algorithm in which the measured ambient temperature TU is incorporated is used when ascertaining the maximum permissible phase current IAbschalt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Gerd Futterlieb, Jens Rössler, Malte Pils, Oliver Kleinheinz
  • Patent number: 9018810
    Abstract: A stator for a brushless, electronically commutated electric motor having a stator core wound with stator windings and control electronics for controlling the stator windings. The stator core together with the stator windings are enclosed in a molded encapsulation made of a plastic material of a defined thermal conductivity (?St). The temperature sensor is arranged on the outside at the encapsulation, and the control electronics are designed such that they calculate the temperature in the region of the stator windings on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor taking into account a specific stator temperature profile stored in a memory. Furthermore, the invention relates to a brushless, electronically commutated electric motor having a stator as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Hartmann, Gerd Futterlieb
  • Publication number: 20120313462
    Abstract: A stator for a brushless, electronically commutated electric motor having a stator core wound with stator windings and control electronics for controlling the stator windings. The stator core together with the stator windings are enclosed in a molded encapsulation made of a plastic material of a defined thermal conductivity (?St). The temperature sensor is arranged on the outside at the encapsulation, and the control electronics are designed such that they calculate the temperature in the region of the stator windings on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor taking into account a specific stator temperature profile stored in a memory. Furthermore, the invention relates to a brushless, electronically commutated electric motor having a stator as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Holger Hartmann, Gerd Futterlieb