Patents by Inventor Heiko Neff
Heiko Neff 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: 9677823Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a first fluid port and having a second fluid port, wherein the housing is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the fluid ports, wherein the housing can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, wherein the housing is of multi-part design and has a housing upper part and a housing lower part, wherein the housing upper part and/or the housing lower part has a base region and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region, wherein housing the two parts are formed from a plastic or a fiber composite material.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Caroline Schmid, Michael Moser, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Holger Schroth, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Anton Kierig, Thomas Schiehlen
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Patent number: 9643391Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling the temperature of an energy accumulator, more particularly for a vehicle. The device has a first outer wall element and a second outer wall element. A main surface of the first outer wall element and a main surface of the second outer wall element are interconnected by means of a rib made of a hardened adhesive. The rib forms at least one fluid conduction channel for conducting a temperature control fluid between the first outer wall element and the second outer wall element.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Nikolaus Daubitzer, Lars Ludwig, Heiko Neff
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Patent number: 9593891Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a first and a second collecting tank, with at least one tube arranged between the two collecting tanks, each having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. At least one tube end is in fluid communication with a collecting tank and is connected to the collecting tank via a form-fitting and/or integrally bonded connection, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Michael Moser, Caroline Schmid, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Holger Schroth, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Anton Kierig, Thomas Schiehlen, Stefan Hirsch, Nic Sautter
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Patent number: 9553345Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular for controlling the temperature of batteries or electronics, having at least one header with a bottom and a top, with openings which are provided in the bottom for receiving tube ends of tubes which are in fluidic communication with the headers, the headers being formed from a U-shaped element with two parallel limbs and a bottom region which connects the limbs, the openings being provided in the bottom region and a wall region which is introduced between the limbs being provided as top.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Stefan Hirsch, Heiko Neff, Martin Engelhardt
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Patent number: 9470438Abstract: The application relates to thermoelectric temperature control units, for example for controlling the temperature of an energy storage device in a motor vehicle. An exemplary embodiment comprises a Peltier element, having a first and a second surface, wherein the second surface is substantially adjacent or opposite to the first. The first surface is connected in a thermally conductive manner to a first and/or second flow duct, through which a fluid can flow. The second surface is connected in a thermally conductive manner to a heat-producing element, wherein the first flow duct is in fluid communication at one of the ends thereof with a first header, and the second flow duct is in fluid communication at one of the ends thereof with a second header, and the first flow duct and the second flow duct are in fluid communication at the respective second ends thereof with a common reversing header.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Jürgen Grünwald, Heiko Neff, Dirk Neumeister, Manuel Wehowski, Martin Steinbach, Florin Moldovan
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Patent number: 9429372Abstract: An accumulator for a cooling fluid is provided that includes a floor. The floor has an interface for connecting a chamber of the accumulator to at least one cooling tube. The floor also has an opening that extends at least over a partial area of the chamber. The accumulator furthermore has a lid that is embodied in such a way as to seal the opening of the floor in a fluid-tight manner. The lid is embodied as wire or extrusion profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Stefan Hirsch, Heiko Neff, Achim Wiebelt
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Patent number: 9366486Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a fluid inlet and having a fluid outlet, wherein the heat exchanger is in fluid communication via the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet with a fluid circuit, having a flow-guiding element in the interior of the housing, wherein the housing is formed from a substantially planar housing upper part and a substantially trough-like housing lower part, wherein the housing lower part has a base region and an encircling side wall, wherein the housing lower part is formed by a supporting structure and an encasement and the supporting structure is at least partially surrounded by the encasement, wherein the supporting structure is formed from a metallic material, and the encasement is formed substantially from a plastic, wherein the housing upper part is formed from a plastic and the housing lower part is connected to the housing upper part substantially by means of plastic-on-plastic contact.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Caroline Schmid, Michael Moser, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Holger Schroth, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Anton Kierig, Thomas Schiehlen
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Publication number: 20160056512Abstract: A heat exchanger component of a temperature control system of an electrical energy store may include a carrier material and at least two layers. The at least two layers may include a first layer composed of an electrically insulating material and a second layer that may facilitate temperature control via at least one of cooling and heating the electrical energy store.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: MAHLE BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Caroline Schmid, Michael Moser, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Alexandra Schnaars, Volker Schall, Nic Sautter, Stefan Hirsch
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Publication number: 20160056511Abstract: A heat exchanger component of a temperature control system of an electrical energy store may include a carrier material and at least two layers. The at least two layers may include a first layer composed of an electrically insulating material and a second layer that may facilitate temperature control via at least one of cooling and heating the electrical energy store.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: MAHLE BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Caroline Schmid, Michael Moser, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Alexandra Schnaars, Volker Schall, Nic Sautter, Stefan Hirsch
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Patent number: 9112208Abstract: A module system is provided that includes at least one module support and at least one module support and at least one energy storage module that is connected to the at least one module support. The module support and the energy storage module have cooling fluid connections, electric contacts, and coupling elements that are adapted to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Kohlberger, Michael Moser, Heiko Neff, Caroline Schmid, Hans-Georg Herrmann
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Publication number: 20150204620Abstract: A heat exchanger, particularly for a motor vehicle, having a tube/fin bundle with tubes, through which a coolant can flow, and having at least one manifold into which the coolant, coming out of the tubes, can flow, whereby the at least one manifold has a manifold top part and a manifold bottom part, whereby outwardly extending protrusions, which form a passage geometry for receiving the tubes of the tube/fin bundle, are formed on the manifold top part and the manifold bottom part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Caroline JANZEN, Michael MOSER, Heiko NEFF
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Publication number: 20150034287Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling a vehicle battery, in particular for hybrid or electric vehicles, having at least one fluid collector made of plastic, which is connected to at least one cooling element. In a heat exchanger in which the energy efficiency of the motor vehicle is increased, the cooling element is designed as a plastic tube, in which a fluid is conducted from the first fluid collector to a second fluid collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Juergen OTTO, Marta LUCKA-GABOR, Katia HENDRICKX, Heiko NEFF, Caroline JANZEN
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Patent number: 8863543Abstract: A device for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle is provided that includes a cooling body which has a plurality of feed flow channels and a plurality of return flow channels. At least a multiplicity of the feed flow channels and return flow channels are arranged adjacent to one another in an alternating fashion in the cooling body.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Heckenberger, Stefan Hirsch, Heiko Neff, Tobias Isermeyer, Caroline Schmid, Jalal Mohamed-Ali, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Achim Wiebelt
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Publication number: 20140305622Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling the temperature of an energy accumulator, more particularly for a vehicle. The device has a first outer wall element and a second outer wall element. A main surface of the first outer wall element and a main surface of the second outer wall element are interconnected by means of a rib made of a hardened adhesive. The rib forms at least one fluid conduction channel for conducting a temperature control fluid between the first outer wall element and the second outer wall element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Nikolaus Daubitzer, Lars Ludwig, Heiko Neff
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Publication number: 20140090812Abstract: Heat exchanger having a first collecting box and having a second collecting box, having at least one tube arranged between the two collecting boxes, wherein a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet are provided which are arranged individually on in each case one of the collecting boxes or on a single one of the collecting boxes, wherein the tube is received at the ends in an opening in in each case one of the collecting boxes and is in fluid communication with the collecting boxes, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge whose contour corresponds to the outer contour of the tube, and in that the opening is designed such that the opening cross section narrows toward the interior of the collecting box and the tube can be inserted, under preload at the circumference, into the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
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Publication number: 20140090810Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a fluid inlet and having a fluid outlet, wherein the heat exchanger is in fluid communication via the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet with a fluid circuit, having a flow-guiding element in the interior of the housing, wherein the housing is formed from a substantially planar housing upper part and a substantially trough-like housing lower part, wherein the housing lower part has a base region and an encircling side wall, wherein the housing lower part is formed by a supporting structure and an encasement and the supporting structure is at least partially surrounded by the encasement, wherein the supporting structure is formed from a metallic material, and the encasement is formed substantially from a plastic, wherein the housing upper part is formed from a plastic and the housing lower part is connected to the housing upper part substantially by means of plastic-on-plastic contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
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Publication number: 20140090813Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a first fluid port and having a second fluid port, wherein the housing is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the fluid ports, wherein the housing can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, wherein the housing is of multi-part design and has a housing upper part and a housing lower part, wherein the housing upper part and/or the housing lower part has a base region and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region, wherein housing the two parts are formed from a plastic or a fiber composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
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Publication number: 20140090803Abstract: Connecting system for a heat exchanger, the housing of which is formed by a housing top part and a housing bottom part, wherein the connecting system has a first and a second connecting element, by means of which the housing bottom part is connected to the housing top part by a positive and/or material connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN, Nic SAUTTER, Stefan HIRSCH
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Publication number: 20140090811Abstract: Heat exchanger (1) having a housing (9), having a first fluid port (6, 7) and having a second fluid port (7, 6), wherein the housing (9) is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the first fluid port (6, 7) and the second fluid port (7, 6) and can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, characterized in that the housing (9) is of multi-part design and is formed by a housing upper part (3) and a trough-like housing lower part (2), wherein the housing lower part (2) has a base region (7) and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region (6), wherein the housing upper part (3) or the housing lower part (2) is formed from a plastic and the respective other housing part (3, 2) is formed from a plastic, a metallic material or a fiber composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
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Publication number: 20140090823Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a first and a second collecting tank, with at least one tube arranged between the two collecting tanks, each having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. At least one tube end is in fluid communication with a collecting tank and is connected to the collecting tank via a form-fitting and/or integrally bonded connection, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael MOSER, Caroline SCHMID, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN, Stefan HIRSCH, Nic SAUTTER