Patents by Inventor Korbinian WEBER

Korbinian WEBER 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: 12142416
    Abstract: An electrical machine having a winding support having multiple grooves, which carries at least one winding. The winding is formed by a conductor which has multiple groove sections which each extend within one of the grooves of the winding support and which are conductively connected by connecting sections of the conductor, which are outside the grooves. The conductor has an insulation layer applied to the conductor at least in the groove sections. The insulation layer has layer thicknesses different from one another for at least two of the groove sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 11837922
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator and a rotor arranged on a hollow shaft and able to turn relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, wherein the hollow shaft comprises, in a shaft casing, at least one shaft exit opening for coolant supplied to a shaft interior space of the hollow shaft. A cover element is arranged next to the rotor on the hollow shaft, in which is formed a fluid duct comprising a fluid duct inlet and a fluid duct outlet, wherein the fluid duct inlet overlaps with the shaft exit opening and the fluid duct outlet overlaps with a coolant duct inlet of a coolant duct reaching through the rotor in the axial direction relative to the axis of rotation, having a coolant duct outlet on its side opposite the coolant duct inlet, through which the coolant emerges from the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Moritz Lux, Lars Wetterau, Peter Suess, Maximilian Schröder, Vladimir Chernogorski, Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 11777357
    Abstract: An electric machine comprises a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator comprises a stator body which carries at least one respective winding of at least one phase, wherein the winding of the respective phase or at least one of the windings of the respective phase is conductively connected to a respective contact bridge, which connects the respective winding to an associated power source and/or drain, wherein the respective winding and the contact bridge connected to it each end in a conductor section which extends away from the stator body in the axial direction of the electric machine, these conductor sections being conductively connected to one another, wherein a fixing section of the respective contact bridge is arranged stationary with respect to a housing accommodating the stator by being fixed by an insulation element or directly, on the one hand, to the housing itself and/or, on the other hand, to the power source and/or drain, which, in turn, is fixed to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Patrick Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11652383
    Abstract: An electrical machine with a winding support is provided, which comprises a cylindrical base body and support teeth projecting radially from the base body and has grooves bounded by the base body and in each case two of the support teeth, and at least one winding supported by the winding support, which winding is formed by conductively connected conductor sections, which are each guided through at least one of the grooves of the winding support and project beyond the winding support at the axial end faces of the winding support, wherein a respective clamping ring is arranged at each axial end face of the winding support, wherein each clamping ring forms support sections that each extend radially along a respective axial end face of a respective one of the support teeth and mechanically contact at least parts of the conductor sections guided through the grooves adjacent to the respective support tooth, wherein the respective support section contacts the axial end face of the respective support tooth in a conta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Max Possen
  • Patent number: 11637468
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, having a laminated core, which is arranged on a shaft and provided with magnets. Multiple individual adjoining plates pushed onto a shaft or of partial laminated cores having multiple plates have a central borehole accommodating the shaft. At least a part of the plates or partial laminated cores are pushed onto the shaft pivoted by a predetermined pivot angle (?). Every plate or partial laminated core includes multiple coolant passages arranged distributed around the center (Z) of the borehole. The angle offset of two adjacent coolant passages corresponds to the pivot angle (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Lars Wetterau
  • Patent number: 11489412
    Abstract: A method for producing a component for an electric machine from a laminated core, which includes multiple grooves and a central axis, and a plurality of wire elements. Each wire element includes two legs made of wire, which are or will be connected to one another via a bend made of wire. At least the legs of the wire elements are arranged in parallel to the axis in the grooves. A temperature sensor is fastened at a bend of at least one wire element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Thomas Breuer
  • Publication number: 20220227422
    Abstract: A unit mounting in a vehicle, in which a drive unit is attached via a unit bearing to a body-side bearing bracket, which unit bearing is a rubber-metal bearing having a sleeve-shaped bearing core, which is screwed together with the body-side bearing bracket by a bearing bolt guided through the sleeve-shaped bearing core. The drive unit has a unit housing, in which a bearing receptacle is formed for the unit bearing. The housing-side bearing receptacle is formed as a bearing cup open on one side having a hollow cylindrical receptacle space, specifically in particular having a closed bearing base, from which a cylindrical circumferential peripheral wall is raised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Gilbert SCHANTL, Marek BUJAK, Stefan RUGIES, Hans-Peter FRENSCH, Andreas WEBER, Korbinian WEBER, Thomas WITTENSCHLÄGER
  • Patent number: 11258338
    Abstract: An electric motor including a stator body with a stator laminated core and a stator slot, wherein the stator slot has a slot wall with a slot wall insulation for electrical insulation, as well as at least one electrical conductor which is received by the stator slot, the slot wall insulation having a tooth-shaped configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian Weber
  • Publication number: 20210391116
    Abstract: An electrical machine having a winding support having multiple grooves, which carries at least one winding. The winding is formed by a conductor which has multiple groove sections which each extend within one of the grooves of the winding support and which are conductively connected by connecting sections of the conductor, which are outside the grooves. The conductor has an insulation layer applied to the conductor at least in the groove sections. The insulation layer has layer thicknesses different from one another for at least two of the groove sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian WEBER
  • Publication number: 20210351651
    Abstract: An electrical machine, including a winding carrier, which has a multiple grooves and bears at least one winding. Each winding is formed by a conductor having multiple groove portions, which are led through respective grooves of the winding carrier and conductively connected by connection portions of the conductor that lie outside of the grooves; when current flows through the conductor in question from a first connection point to a second connection point of the winding in question, the current is led about an axis of rotation of the electrical machine with a first direction of revolution in all the connection portions that lie in a first conductor portion of said conductor, which first conductor portion includes multiple connection portions, and with a second direction of revolution opposite the first direction of revolution in all the connection portions that lie in a second conductor portion of said conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian WEBER
  • Publication number: 20210281134
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator and a rotor arranged on a hollow shaft and able to turn relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, wherein the hollow shaft comprises, in a shaft casing, at least one shaft exit opening for coolant supplied to a shaft interior space of the hollow shaft. A cover element is arranged next to the rotor on the hollow shaft, in which is formed a fluid duct comprising a fluid duct inlet and a fluid duct outlet, wherein the fluid duct inlet overlaps with the shaft exit opening and the fluid duct outlet overlaps with a coolant duct inlet of a coolant duct reaching through the rotor in the axial direction relative to the axis of rotation, having a coolant duct outlet on its side opposite the coolant duct inlet, through which the coolant emerges from the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Moritz LUX, Lars WETTERAU, Peter SUESS, Maximilian SCHRÖDER, Vladmir CHERNOGORSKI, Korbinian WEBER
  • Patent number: 11043865
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine having a rotor shaft, a winding support coupled to the rotor shaft in rotationally fixed manner, and at least one winding arranged on the winding support or a squirrel cage arranged on the winding support, wherein the rotor includes at least one heat pipe running at an angle to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Korbinian Weber
  • Publication number: 20210175766
    Abstract: An electric machine comprises a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator comprises a stator body which carries at least one respective winding of at least one phase, wherein the winding of the respective phase or at least one of the windings of the respective phase is conductively connected to a respective contact bridge, which connects the respective winding to an associated power source and/or drain, wherein the respective winding and the contact bridge connected to it each end in a conductor section which extends away from the stator body in the axial direction of the electric machine, these conductor sections being conductively connected to one another, wherein a fixing section of the respective contact bridge is arranged stationary with respect to a housing accommodating the stator by being fixed by an insulation element or directly, on the one hand, to the housing itself and/or, on the other hand, to the power source and/or drain, which, in turn, is fixed to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Korbinian WEBER, Patrick HERRMANN
  • Publication number: 20210075288
    Abstract: An electrical machine with a winding support is provided, which comprises a cylindrical base body and support teeth projecting radially from the base body and has grooves bounded by the base body and in each case two of the support teeth, and at least one winding supported by the winding support, which winding is formed by conductively connected conductor sections, which are each guided through at least one of the grooves of the winding support and project beyond the winding support at the axial end faces of the winding support, wherein a clamping ring is arranged at both axial end faces of the winding support, which clamping ring forms support sections that each extend radially along a respective axial end face of a respective one of the support teeth and mechanically contact at least parts of the conductor sections guided through the grooves adjacent to the respective support tooth, wherein the respective support section contacts the axial end face of the respective support tooth in a contact region, which
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Korbinian WEBER, Max POSSEN
  • Patent number: 10892660
    Abstract: An electrical machine with a rotor and a stator. The rotor or the stator has at least one coil with a coil core and a coil winding, which surrounds the coil core. The coil winding has at least one turn that is formed from a flat conductor, which is bent a around a plurality of bending axes, which are spaced apart from one another and are parallel, and, as viewed in section, is S-shaped and/or has a meandering shape. The flat conductor has a plurality of layers that are insulated from one another, at least in regions, and/or a plurality of slot-shaped recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Peter Juris, Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 10886825
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine. A laminated core with a plurality of short-circuit bars that pass through it and are joined at both ends by way of a respective short-circuit ring. A support disc, which is made of a material that has a higher strength than the material of the short-circuit ring, is axially arranged at each short-circuit ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Jörg Rücker, Peter Suess
  • Publication number: 20200321817
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, having a laminated core, which is arranged on a shaft and provided with magnets. Multiple individual adjoining plates pushed onto a shaft or of partial laminated cores having multiple plates have a central borehole accommodating the shaft. At least a part of the plates or partial laminated cores are pushed onto the shaft pivoted by a predetermined pivot angle (?). Every plate or partial laminated core includes multiple coolant passages arranged distributed around the center (Z) of the borehole. The angle offset of two adjacent coolant passages corresponds to the pivot angle (?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian WEBER, Lars WETTERAU
  • Publication number: 20200313516
    Abstract: A method for producing a component for an electric machine from a laminated core, which includes multiple grooves and a central axis, and a plurality of wire elements. Each wire element includes two legs made of wire, which are or will be connected to one another via a bend made of wire. At least the legs of the wire elements are arranged in parallel to the axis in the grooves. A temperature sensor is fastened at a bend of at least one wire element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian WEBER, Thomas BREUER
  • Patent number: 10770957
    Abstract: A method for producing a short circuit rotor, by providing a laminated rotor core with through openings for shorting bars of a squirrel cage as well as providing the shorting bars; inserting of the shorting bars into the through openings such that an axial overhang remains on both sides; placing a main disk with through openings on both sides for the shorting bars, whose axial length corresponds to the overhang, as well as an edge disk immediately adjacent to the main disk and the ends of the shorting bars. The main disk and the edge disk form a shorting ring of the squirrel cage, and the main disk and the edge disk are welded by radially encircling electron beam welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Jörg Rücker
  • Patent number: 10700572
    Abstract: An electric machine having a stator arranged in a machine housing and a rotor mounted rotatably relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, wherein the machine housing includes at least one coolant inlet port for supplying coolant to the machine housing and at least one coolant outlet port for draining coolant from the machine housing. It is provided that the coolant inlet port empties into a distribution annulus and several housing coolant ducts emerge from the distribution annulus and extend beyond the stator, when viewed in the axial direction, and are connected fluidically, on their side facing away from the distribution annulus, to stator cooling duct inlets of stator cooling ducts formed in the stator, which pass entirely through the stator in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Peter Juris, Florian Stadler