Patents by Inventor Lars LUDWIG
Lars LUDWIG 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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Publication number: 20250001832Abstract: A method for individualized setting of an air conditioner in a vehicle for a user using a control architecture is provided. Data relating to setting the air conditioner is acquired for all users and all vehicles and an average basis model is trained in an AI unit using the data acquired for all users and all vehicles. A comfort model is then created in the AI unit from at least the basis model and individualized settings for the air conditioner for a specific user are predicted based on the comfort model. A control architecture for executing the method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Marcel GÜNTER, Marco ROTH, Kristian HAASE, Lars LUDWIG
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Publication number: 20250001830Abstract: A method for individualized setting of an air conditioner in a vehicle for a user using a control structure is provided. In doing so, a modeling data packet is acquired and a comfort model is subsequently trained in an AI unit. A setting data packet is also acquired and sent to the trained comfort model. Individualized settings are predicted by the comfort model and the air conditioner is set on the basis thereof. A control architecture for executing the method is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Marcel GÜNTER, Kristian HAASE, Lars LUDWIG, Marco ROTH
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Publication number: 20250001831Abstract: A method for individualized setting of an air conditioner in a vehicle for a user using a control architecture is provided. Data for the air conditioner are acquired and an individualized comfort model is trained therewith. Settings for the air conditioner are predicted based on the comfort model. The data comprise physiological user data for the user that are acquired with an evaluation system. A control architecture for executing the method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Marcel GÜNTER, Marco ROTH, Kristian HAASE, Lars LUDWIG
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Patent number: 10619896Abstract: A sorption heat exchanger module having a housing, in which a sorption heat exchanger through which a working medium flows is disposed, in which module a housing wall is configured as a heat exchanger structure. In the case of a sorption heat exchanger module in which the presence of passive thermal surfaces is reduced, at least one pipe structure through which a coolant flows is thermally connected with an outside and/or an inside of the housing wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Roland Burk, Lars Ludwig
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Patent number: 10488094Abstract: A sorption module for a sorption temperature-control device may include a housing enclosing a working chamber. A sorption zone and a phase change zone may be arranged in the working chamber where a working medium is displaceable reversibly between the sorption zone and the phase change zone. A sorption structure may be arranged in the sorption zone, and a phase change structure may be arranged in the phase change zone. An outer wall of the housing may include a double-walled section that may provide a cavity between an outer wall part and an inner wall part of the double-walled section, and the phase change zone may be arranged on an inner side of the inner wall part.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Roland Burk, Lars Ludwig
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Patent number: 10226983Abstract: A motor vehicle may include an internal combustion engine and an air-conditioning system, which may include a heat exchanger and a compression refrigeration system. The heat exchanger and the compression refrigeration system may be incorporated into a coolant circuit configured to communicate a coolant flow and may have a pump. The compression refrigeration machine may be driven at least one of directly and indirectly via the internal combustion engine. An adsorption system may be incorporated into the coolant circuit and may be connected to the internal combustion engine in a heat-transferring manner. The adsorption system may be configured to receive a waste heat load from the internal combustion engine for operation. A valve device may be incorporated into the coolant circuit and be switchable between at least two position for distributing the coolant flow between the adsorption system and the compression refrigeration system.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lars Ludwig, Dirk Neumeister, Roland Burk
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Publication number: 20190072302Abstract: A sorption heat transfer module may include a thermally activatable housing enclosing a sorption zone through which a working medium is flowable. The thermally activatable housing may include a gas-tight inner wall composed of a corrosion-protected material, an internal surface of which is adjoined by a capillary structure. The capillary structure may include at least one corrugated fin package connected in a firmly bonded manner to the internal surface of the inner wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Roland Burk, Lars Ludwig
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Patent number: 9853296Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for a battery unit, comprising coolant-conducting tubes which end at both sides in in each case one collector, wherein each collector is connected to at least one tube and a potential equalization element for electrical potential equalization connects at least one collector to a housing of the battery. To produce potential equalization between the heat exchanger and a battery housing in as inexpensive a manner as possible, the potential equalization element and the collector are formed in one piece.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Stefan Hirsch, Joachim Treier, Lars Ludwig, Thomas Kuznia
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Publication number: 20170343262Abstract: A sorption module for a sorption temperature-control device may include a housing enclosing a working chamber. A sorption zone and a phase change zone may be arranged in the working chamber where a working medium is displaceable reversibly between the sorption zone and the phase change zone. A sorption structure may be arranged in the sorption zone, and a phase change structure may be arranged in the phase change zone. An outer wall of the housing may include a double-walled section that may provide a cavity between an outer wall part and an inner wall part of the double-walled section, and the phase change zone may be arranged on an inner side of the inner wall part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Roland Burk, Lars Ludwig
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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: 9546827Abstract: The invention relates to a device for conducting a cooling fluid for cooling an electrical component. The device comprises a fluid conducting chamber for conducting the cooling fluid, and an at least partially flexible cover, which seals the fluid conducting chamber in a fluid-tight manner and which forms a heat transmission zone for conducting heat between the cooling fluid and the electrical component.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Lars Ludwig, Michael Moser, Matthias Stripf, Hans-Georg Herrmann
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Patent number: 9316450Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided having a tube block having a plurality of essentially parallel tubes for carrying a temperature control fluid, wherein at least the ends of the tubes are connected to one another. In addition, the heat exchanger comprises at least one header box that is designed to receive a temperature control fluid from the tubes, wherein the at least one header box has an inside height that corresponds within a tolerance range to the height of the ends of the tubes and wherein the header box is placed over the ends of the tubes and is joined thereto in a material-to-material fashion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Martin Engelhardt, Stefan Hirsch, Lars Ludwig, Florin Moldovan
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Publication number: 20150273979Abstract: A motor vehicle may include an internal combustion engine and an air-conditioning system, which may include a heat exchanger and a compression refrigeration system. The heat exchanger and the compression refrigeration system may be incorporated into a coolant circuit configured to communicate a coolant flow and may have a pump. The compression refrigeration machine may be driven at least one of directly and indirectly via the internal combustion engine. An adsorption system may be incorporated into the coolant circuit and may be connected to the internal combustion engine in a heat-transferring manner. The adsorption system may be configured to receive a waste heat load from the internal combustion engine for operation. A valve device may be incorporated into the coolant circuit and be switchable between at least two position for distributing the coolant flow between the adsorption system and the compression refrigeration system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Lars Ludwig, Dirk Neumeister, Roland Burk
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Publication number: 20150128639Abstract: A sorption heat exchanger module having a housing, in which a sorption heat exchanger through which a working medium flows is disposed, in which module a housing wall is configured as a heat exchanger structure. In the case of a sorption heat exchanger module in which the presence of passive thermal surfaces is reduced, at least one pipe structure through which a coolant flows is thermally connected with an outside and/or an inside of the housing wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Roland BURK, Lars LUDWIG
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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: 20140048230Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for a battery unit, comprising coolant-conducting tubes (3b) which end at both sides in in each case one collector (3a, 3c), wherein each collector (3a, 3c) is connected to at least one tube (3b) and a potential equalization element for electrical potential equalization connects at least one collector (3a, 3c) to a housing (5) of the battery (2). To produce potential equalization between the heat exchanger and a battery housing in as inexpensive a manner as possible, the potential equalization element (14, 15, 17, 23, 24) and the collector (3a, 3c) are formed in one piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan HIRSCH, Joachim TREIER, Lars LUDWIG, Thomas KUZNIA
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Publication number: 20130309545Abstract: The invention relates to a device for pressing a cooler against a battery, said cooler having at least one cooling surface for absorbing or dissipating thermal energy, and the battery having at least one contact surface for the cooling surface of the cooler to rest on. The device comprises a pressure part having at least one spring-elastic pressure element for transmitting a contact pressure onto a section of the surface of the cooler facing away from the battery. The device further comprises at least one suspension unit for suspending the pressure part on the battery, said suspension unit being designed such as to generate a suspension force which is counter to the contact force when the cooler is arranged on the battery and the suspension unit is suspended on the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Nikolaus Daubitzer, Martin Engelhardt, Thomas Heckenberger, Thomas Himmer, Lars Ludwig, Florian Moldovan, Michael Moser, Heiko Neff, Rudolf Riedel, Caroline Schmid, Holger Schroth, Martin Steinbach
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Publication number: 20130248151Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle, comprising a hollow heat sink, an inlet for introducing a cooling fluid, an outlet for discharging a cooling fluid, a first collecting region for collecting the introduced cooling fluid, a second collecting region for collecting the cooling fluid to be discharged, and an insert part for guiding the cooling fluid from the first to the second collecting region, wherein the first and second collecting regions and the insert part are arranged within the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Hans-Georg Herrmann, Dieter Engelhardt, Lars Ludwig
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Publication number: 20130250512Abstract: The invention relates to a device for conducting a cooling fluid for cooling an electrical component. The device comprises a fluid conducting chamber for conducting the cooling fluid, and an at least partially flexible cover, which seals the fluid conducting chamber in a fluid-tight manner and which forms a heat transmission zone for conducting heat between the cooling fluid and the electrical component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lars Ludwig, Michael Moser, Matthias Stripf, Hans-Georg Herrmann
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Publication number: 20130014924Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided having a tube block having a plurality of essentially parallel tubes for carrying a temperature control fluid, wherein at least the ends of the tubes are connected to one another. In addition, the heat exchanger comprises at least one header box that is designed to receive a temperature control fluid from the tubes, wherein the at least one header box has an inside height that corresponds within a tolerance range to the height of the ends of the tubes and wherein the header box is placed over the ends of the tubes and is joined thereto in a material-to-material fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Martin ENGELHARDT, Stefan HIRSCH, Lars LUDWIG, Florin MOLDOVAN