Patents by Inventor Imke DITTMANN

Imke DITTMANN 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: 20250015430
    Abstract: A degassing channel arrangement for a battery of a motor vehicle for discharging gases from a battery cell of the battery, has and having at least one degassing channel. The degassing channel arrangement includes a carrier for a battery housing of the battery, which carrier is designed as a hollow profile and extends in a first direction. A channel wall of the degassing channel represents a first part of a carrier wall of the carrier, which surrounds a first carrier interior of the carrier, and a channel interior of the degassing channel represents at least a part of a first carrier interior, in which at least one first sealing unit is arranged, which separates in a sealing manner a first subarea of the first carrier interior from a second subarea of the first carrier interior comprising the channel interior of the degassing channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Imke DITTMANN, Thorsten KEIM, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHÜSSLER
  • Publication number: 20240313334
    Abstract: An emergency degassing arrangement for a motor vehicle, which has a gas discharge channel for discharging gases emerging from a battery cell from the motor vehicle into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, an outlet opening of the gas discharge channel located at one end of the gas discharge channel and opening into the surroundings, and an emergency degassing device which is arranged at the end of the gas discharge channel and has a closure. This closure comprises a flap which is rotatably mounted around a pivot axis for closing the outlet opening, and the flap is transferable from a closed position to at least one open position by rotating around the pivot axis, in which a gas flowing out of the outlet opening and partially flowing against the flap can be diverted by the flap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Imke DITTMANN, Thomas MILDE