Patents by Inventor Jerome RAGOT
Jerome RAGOT 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: 12614945Abstract: A sliding cover for a salient-pole rotor of an electric machine is configured to close a slot formed between two rotor poles of the salient-pole rotor which are adjacent in the peripheral direction and two supporting rings of the salient-pole rotor which are mutually axially opposite. The sliding cover is of a multi-part design and includes a slot wedge, which can be mechanically connected to the two adjacent rotor poles; a support, which is linearly guided in the slot wedge and includes a sealing surface of the sliding cover for pressing against at least one of the supporting rings and can be slid axially along the slot wedge in order to change the axial position of the sealing surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Lang, Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
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Patent number: 12587056Abstract: A rotor includes a magnetic field-generating component for producing a rotor magnetic field and a rotor core for holding the component. The rotor core has an annular rotor yoke and at least two rotor poles which are arranged on the rotor yoke and are configured in multiple parts, and each of which has a rotor tooth integrally formed on the rotor yoke and a pole shoe that is separate from the rotor tooth for arranging the component on the corresponding rotor tooth. The pole shoes are pressed radially against the respective rotor tooth, and the rotor has auxiliary joining parts, each of which is configured to fix at least one pole shoe to the corresponding rotor tooth by a force-fitting connection and which are at least partly arranged in respective pole gaps between two rotor poles and are secured to the rotor yoke by at least one connection element.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Silko Feustel, Jerome Ragot, Yann Tremaudant
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Patent number: 12580438Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes at least one rotor laminated core that has at least one coil receiving opening, at least one coil device which is located in the at least one coil receiving opening, and at least one holding device which is joined to the rotor laminated core and prevents an outward movement, brought about by centrifugal force, of the at least one coil device in the radial extension direction of the rotor and out of the at least one coil receiving opening during normal use of the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
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Patent number: 12424886Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor, in particular for a current-excited synchronous machine, comprising a rotor main body which has a plurality of rotor teeth, the rotor teeth being wound with a conductor material in order to form a winding, the conductor material having conductor ends which, in order to produce an electrical connection, are pressed axially against a stop via a contact element, and the contact element or the stop being designed to electrically connect, in the circumferential direction, at least two conductor ends.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
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Patent number: 12255498Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Lang, Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
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Publication number: 20250088051Abstract: An electric axial flux machine includes a permanent magnet arrangement having permanent magnets to excite a magnetic flux, a flux-guiding carrier having two axially opposite end sides, wherein at least one of the end sides has carrier regions to which the permanent magnets are secured, and a binding arrangement for absorbing forces acting on the permanent magnets, which has a plurality of bindings extending axially through the carrier and at the end side over the permanent magnets to fix the permanent magnets to the associated carrier regions and to absorb forces acting axially on the permanent magnets, and where the carrier has axial passages through which the bindings are guided and which wrap the permanent magnets and the carrier regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Alena BABL, Matthias Dorfner, Zakaria El Khawly, Jerome Ragot
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Publication number: 20240372429Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main part which has at least one pole core, at least one winding device which is received on the at least one pole core, and at least one contact device which is rotationally fixed to the rotor main part and which is coupled to the at least one winding device to conduct a current. The at least one winding device includes at least one winding that is plugged onto the at least one pole core and has two winding wire ends, at least one winding wire end of which is coupled to the at least one contact device to conduct a current via at least one plug connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Markus LANG, Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20240322633Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (20) for an electric machine (10), comprising:—at least one rotor laminated core (30) that has at least one coil receiving opening (40);—at least one coil device (50) which is located in the at least one coil receiving opening (40); and—at least one holding device (70) which is joined to the rotor laminated core (30) and prevents an outward movement (B), brought about by centrifugal force, of the at least one coil device (50) in the radial extension direction (R) of the rotor (20) and out of the at least one coil receiving opening (40) during normal use of the electric machine (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20240283317Abstract: A sliding cover for a salient-pole rotor of an electric machine is configured to close a slot formed between two rotor poles of the salient-pole rotor which are adjacent in the peripheral direction and two supporting rings of the salient-pole rotor which are mutually axially opposite. The sliding cover is of a multi-part design and includes a slot wedge, which can be mechanically connected to the two adjacent rotor poles; a support, which is linearly guided in the slot wedge and includes a sealing surface of the sliding cover for pressing against at least one of the supporting rings and can be slid axially along the slot wedge in order to change the axial position of the sealing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Markus LANG, Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20240204604Abstract: A rotor includes a magnetic field-generating component for producing a rotor magnetic field and a rotor core for holding the component. The rotor core has an annular rotor yoke and at least two rotor poles which are arranged on the rotor yoke and are configured in multiple parts, and each of which has a rotor tooth integrally formed on the rotor yoke and a pole shoe that is separate from the rotor tooth for arranging the component on the corresponding rotor tooth. The pole shoes are pressed radially against the respective rotor tooth, and the rotor has auxiliary joining parts, each of which is configured to fix at least one pole shoe to the corresponding rotor tooth by a force-fitting connection and which are at least partly arranged in respective pole gaps between two rotor poles and are secured to the rotor yoke by at least one connection element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Silko FEUSTEL, Jerome RAGOT, Yann TREMAUDANT
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Publication number: 20240162767Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor, in particular for a current-excited synchronous machine, comprising a rotor main body which has a plurality of rotor teeth, the rotor teeth being wound with a conductor material in order to form a winding, the conductor material having conductor ends which, in order to produce an electrical connection, are pressed axially against a stop via a contact element, and the contact element or the stop being designed to electrically connect, in the circumferential direction, at least two conductor ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 11817744Abstract: A stator for an electric machine of a motor vehicle includes a laminated core having an inner side with winding grooves and an outer side. Windings, which are arranged in the winding grooves, form winding heads on axially opposing front faces of the laminated core. A cooling jacket conducts cooling fluid and has a first metal sheet which forms an inner wall of the cooling jacket facing the laminated core, and a second metal sheet which forms an outer wall of the cooling jacket surrounding the inner wall. An axial height of the cooling jacket exceeds an axial height of the laminated core. The cooling jacket has a laminated-core cooling jacket region for encasing the laminated core and two axially opposing winding-head cooling jacket regions adjoining the laminated-core cooling jacket region for encasing the winding heads.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Felix Bolotnikov, Thomas Hoefler, Joachim Maerz, Jerome Ragot
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Publication number: 20230179047Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Markus LANG, Jerome RAGOT, Robert SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 11549557Abstract: A shaft-hub connection including a hub element and a shaft element is provided. The hub element includes a hub. The shaft element includes at least one first elongated region arranged in at least one second elongated region of the hub and is at least rotationally fixed to the hub element by way of a longitudinal press-fit including the elongated regions. The longitudinal press-fit has at least one first excess region with a first excess, and at least one second excess region, following the first excess region in the circumferential direction of the shaft element, with a second excess that is smaller than the first excess.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Endre Barti, Jerome Ragot, Anastasios Vichos
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Patent number: 11381138Abstract: A cooling cap for a stator of an electrical machine of a motor vehicle is provided. The cooling cap can be fitted onto an end winding of electrical windings of the stator which project beyond an axial end of a laminated core of the stator and which cooling cap is designed as a heat sink for cooling the end winding, wherein the cooling cap is formed, at least in regions, from an electrical insulating material. A stator and a motor vehicle including the cooling cap are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Julian Blum, Andreas Huber, Jerome Ragot, Jens Richter
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Publication number: 20200412183Abstract: A stator for an electric machine of a motor vehicle includes a laminated core having an inner side with winding grooves and an outer side. Windings, which are arranged in the winding grooves, form winding heads on axially opposing front faces of the laminated core. A cooling jacket conducts cooling fluid and has a first metal sheet which forms an inner wall of the cooling jacket facing the laminated core, and a second metal sheet which forms an outer wall of the cooling jacket surrounding the inner wall. An axial height of the cooling jacket exceeds an axial height of the laminated core. The cooling jacket has a laminated-core cooling jacket region for encasing the laminated core and two axially opposing winding-head cooling jacket regions adjoining the laminated-core cooling jacket region for encasing the winding heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Felix BOLOTNIKOV, Thomas HOEFLER, Joachim MAERZ, Jerome RAGOT
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Patent number: 10840751Abstract: An electrical synchronous machine is provided for a rail-free vehicle. The vehicle has drive wheels and the synchronous machine is designed to generate a torque, which propels the vehicle, at the drive wheels. The synchronous machine has a stator and a rotor which rotates around the stator, wherein the stator has a stator winding of at least three-phase construction for forming a rotating stator magnetic field, and wherein the rotor has at least one rotor winding which is designed for forming a rotor magnetic field. A method for at least partially circumferentially establishing a current-excited synchronous machine provides a rotor yoke, provides a large number of rotor poles, fastens the rotor poles to the rotor yoke for forming a rotor, provides a stator, and inserts the stator into the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Burghard Baier, Julian Blum, Dragoljub Duricic, Zakaria El Khawly, Augusto Guccione, Andreas Huber, Daniel Loos, Joerg Merwerth, Jerome Ragot, Jan-Oliver Roth, Berthold Schinnerl, Jan Sousek, Sherif Zaidan
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Publication number: 20200244145Abstract: A cooling cap for a stator of an electrical machine of a motor vehicle is provided. The cooling cap can be fitted onto an end winding of electrical windings of the stator which project beyond an axial end of a laminated core of the stator and which cooling cap is designed as a heat sink for cooling the end winding, wherein the cooling cap is formed, at least in regions, from an electrical insulating material. A stator and a motor vehicle including the cooling cap are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Julian BLUM, Andreas HUBER, Jerome RAGOT, Jens RICHTER
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Publication number: 20190390717Abstract: A shaft-hub connection including a hub element and a shaft element is provided. The hub element includes a hub. The shaft element includes at least one first elongated region arranged in at least one second elongated region of the hub and is at least rotationally fixed to the hub element by way of a longitudinal press-fit including the elongated regions. The longitudinal press-fit has at least one first excess region with a first excess, and at least one second excess region, following the first excess region in the circumferential direction of the shaft element, with a second excess that is smaller than the first excess.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Endre BARTI, Jerome RAGOT, Anastasios VICHOS
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Publication number: 20190157924Abstract: An electrical synchronous machine is provided for a rail-free vehicle. The vehicle has drive wheels and the synchronous machine is designed to generate a torque, which propels the vehicle, at the drive wheels. The synchronous machine has a stator and a rotor which rotates around the stator, wherein the stator has a stator winding of at least three-phase construction for forming a rotating stator magnetic field, and wherein the rotor has at least one rotor winding which is designed for forming a rotor magnetic field. A method for at least partially circumferentially establishing a current-excited synchronous machine provides a rotor yoke, provides a large number of rotor poles, fastens the rotor poles to the rotor yoke for forming a rotor, provides a stator, and inserts the stator into the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Burghard BAIER, Julian BLUM, Dragoljub DURICIC, Zakaria EL KHAWLY, Augusto GUCCIONE, Andreas HUBER, Daniel LOOS, Joerg MERWERTH, Jerome RAGOT, Jan-Oliver ROTH, Berthold SCHINNERL, Jan SOUSEK, Sherif ZAIDAN