Patents by Inventor Joerg Merwerth

Joerg Merwerth 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: 11433770
    Abstract: A method for switching off a current-excited synchronous machine of a motor vehicle, the current-excited synchronous machine having a rotor supplied by an excitation circuit of power electronics and a stator supplied via a bridge circuit of the power electronics, the method including interrupting a current supply to the rotor and the stator. The method further includes switching over the excitation circuit of the power electronics to a first freewheeling position, whereby energy contained in the excitation circuit and in the rotor is fed into a first energy store via a first feedback arrangement, and switching over the bridge circuit of the power electronics to a second freewheeling position, whereby energy contained in the bridge circuit and in the stator is fed into a second energy store via a second feedback arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zakaria El Khawly, Igor Gusyev, Joerg Merwerth, Nuno Miguel Silva Cerqueira, Christian Steinbauer
  • Patent number: 11374446
    Abstract: A pole shoe of an electric machine limits a winding surface of a rotor that can rotate about an axis of rotation. The pole shoe is connected to a pole web of the rotor. An outer side of the pole shoe, which faces away from the pole web in the connected state, has a first region having a substantially sinusoidal contour profile and a second region having a second contour profile. The second contour profile is different from the first contour profile and is formed in such a way that the winding surface in a circumferential direction of the rotor is lengthened with respect to a winding surface of a pole shoe having an outer side extending exclusively substantially sinusoidally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Endre Barti, Dragoljub Duricic, Zakaria El Khawly, Daniel Loos, Joerg Merwerth
  • Patent number: 11025138
    Abstract: An electric machine has a housing and has a stator inside the housing, surrounding a rotor arranged on a motor shaft so as to be fixed to the shaft. A rotary field winding, at the ends of the stator, forms a winding head. The winding heads are embedded in a thermally conductive encapsulation material, wherein the encapsulation material is in thermal contact with the housing along the outer circumference of the winding head. A segmented cooling plate is arranged on the inner circumference of the encapsulation winding head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julian Blum, Andreas Huber, Markus Lang, Joerg Merwerth, Angusto Guccione
  • Publication number: 20210006105
    Abstract: A rotor for a separately excited inner rotor synchronous machine of an electrically drivable motor vehicle, having a plurality of rotor windings for forming a rotor magnetic field and a rotor core for holding the rotor windings, wherein the rotor core has an annular rotor yoke with a number of rotor poles corresponding to a number of rotor windings. The poles are arranged along a rotor circumference on the rotor yoke and the rotor windings are arranged on the poles, wherein the rotor poles are formed of multiple parts and each has a rotor tooth and at least one pole shoe element separate therefrom. The rotor teeth are formed as a single piece with the rotor yoke, and the pole shoe elements are mechanically connectable to the rotor teeth after arranging the rotor windings on the rotor teeth. Also provided are the synchronous machine, a motor vehicle and a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Silko FEUSTEL, Bernhard HUEBNER, Daniel LOOS, Joerg MERWERTH, Yann TREMAUDANT, Klaus VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 10840751
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20190356182
    Abstract: A pole shoe of an electric machine limits a winding surface of a rotor that can rotate about an axis of rotation. The pole shoe is connected to a pole web of the rotor. An outer side of the pole shoe, which faces away from the pole web in the connected state, has a first region having a substantially sinusoidal contour profile and a second region having a second contour profile. The second contour profile is different from the first contour profile and is formed in such a way that the winding surface in a circumferential direction of the rotor is lengthened with respect to a winding surface of a pole shoe having an outer side extending exclusively substantially sinusoidally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Endre BARTI, Dragoljub DURICIC, Zakaria EL KHAWLY, Daniel LOOS, Joerg MERWERTH
  • Publication number: 20190275890
    Abstract: A method for switching off a current-excited synchronous machine of a motor vehicle, the current-excited synchronous machine having a rotor supplied by an excitation circuit of power electronics and a stator supplied via a bridge circuit of the power electronics, the method including interrupting a current supply to the rotor and the stator. The method further includes switching over the excitation circuit of the power electronics to a first freewheeling position, whereby energy contained in the excitation circuit and in the rotor is fed into a first energy store via a first feedback arrangement, and switching over the bridge circuit of the power electronics to a second freewheeling position, whereby energy contained in the bridge circuit and in the stator is fed into a second energy store via a second feedback arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Zakaria EL KHAWLY, Igor GUSYEV, Joerg MERWERTH, Nuno Miguel SILVA CERQUEIRA, Christian STEINBAUER
  • Publication number: 20190157924
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20180323685
    Abstract: An electric machine has a housing and has a stator inside the housing, surrounding a rotor arranged on a motor shaft so as to be fixed to the shaft. A rotary field winding, at the ends of the stator, forms a winding head. The winding heads are embedded in a thermally conductive encapsulation material, wherein the encapsulation material is in thermal contact with the housing along the outer circumference of the winding head. A segmented cooling plate is arranged on the inner circumference of the encapsulation winding head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Julian BLUM, Andreas HUBER, Markus LANG, Joerg MERWERTH, Angusto GUCCIONE
  • Patent number: 9876403
    Abstract: Spatially mutually close pole components are offset with respect to one another such that their influences on a given harmonic of the vibrations occurring during operation cancel one another as much as possible. The present invention therefore suggests concepts and makes dimensioning proposals by means of which certain harmonic orders of the operating noise can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julian Blum, Reinhard Doerfer, Joerg Merwerth, Zhiwei Zheng, Michael Schwarzer
  • Publication number: 20150015107
    Abstract: Spatially mutually close pole components are offset with respect to one another such that their influences on a given harmonic of the vibrations occurring during operation cancel one another as much as possible. The present invention therefore suggests concepts and makes dimensioning proposals by means of which certain harmonic orders of the operating noise can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Julian BLUM, Reinhard DOERFER, Joerg MERWERTH, Zhiwei ZHENG, Michael SCHWARZER
  • Patent number: 8575807
    Abstract: An electric drive motor that is intended for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a stator and a rotor with at least one pole pair, wherein each pole of a respective pole pair has a magnet arrangement having at least one buried magnetic layer. The drive motor is characterized in that each pole has a number of magnetic flux influencing groups, each of which has a number of air-filled recesses, which are not assigned to a magnet of a respective magnetic layer for purposes of flux conductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Merwerth, Jens Halbedel, Guenter Schlangen
  • Publication number: 20120267977
    Abstract: An electric drive motor that is intended for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a stator and a rotor with at least one pole pair, wherein each pole of a respective pole pair has a magnet arrangement having at least one buried magnetic layer. The drive motor is characterized in that each pole has a number of magnetic flux influencing groups, each of which has a number of air-filled recesses, which are not assigned to a magnet of a respective magnetic layer for purposes of flux conductance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Merwerth, Jens Halbedel, Guenter Schlangen
  • Patent number: 8076794
    Abstract: A multi-voltage vehicle electrical system for a motor vehicle is provided, including at least one multi-voltage generator, a first energy store, whose energy may be fed into a first low-voltage vehicle electrical system branch having low-voltage consumers, and a second energy store, whose energy may be fed into a second high-voltage vehicle electrical system branch having high-voltage consumers, as well as at least one controllable switching device, using which the energy generated by the multi-voltage generator may be distributed to the first and the second vehicle electrical system branches, the first and the second energy stores being connected in series to one another and the first vehicle electrical system branch being connected to a node between the first and the second energy store and to a reference potential of the first energy store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Proebstle, Michael Roesler, Joerg Merwerth, Thomas Christ
  • Publication number: 20080284246
    Abstract: A multi-voltage vehicle electrical system for a motor vehicle is provided, including at least one multi-voltage generator, a first energy store, whose energy may be fed into a first low-voltage vehicle electrical system branch having low-voltage consumers, and a second energy store, whose energy may be fed into a second high-voltage vehicle electrical system branch having high-voltage consumers, as well as at least one controllable switching device, using which the energy generated by the multi-voltage generator may be distributed to the first and the second vehicle electrical system branches, the first and the second energy stores being connected in series to one another and the first vehicle electrical system branch being connected to a node between the first and the second energy store and to a reference potential of the first energy store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut PROEBSTLE, Michael Roesler, Joerg Merwerth, Thomas Christ