Patents by Inventor LARS WETTERAU

LARS WETTERAU 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: 20240128822
    Abstract: A pole cover is provided for receiving and guiding a winding on a rotor of an electric motor, comprising multiple segments which extend in a radial direction to a center axis of the pole cover, wherein the segments receive a partial region of the winding of the electric motor, and wherein each of the segments includes a winding region to receive the winding and a segment connection region for connecting to other segments, wherein the winding region and the segment connection region border on each other and the segment connection region is situated closer to the center axis than the winding region. The segment connection regions extend at least partially in the circumferential direction about the center axis and each segment connection region protrudes, in the circumferential direction about the center axis, beyond the adjoining winding region. Multiple decoupling regions are also provided, each being situated between two segment connection regions in the circumferential direction about the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Malte LOEPRECHT, Philipp UHLMANN, Lars WETTERAU
  • Patent number: 11916443
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, comprising a rotor shaft and a laminated core arranged on it, comprising multiple metal plates arranged in axial succession and lying against each other, as well as at least one coolant duct running through the laminated core, wherein the laminated core is axially clamped by at least one clamping means, wherein the clamping means shoved onto the rotor shaft comprises at least one axially braced spring element and at least one tolerance compensation disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Moritz Lux, Peter Suess, Lars Wetterau
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20230063773
    Abstract: A star disc has integrated current busbars for the interconnecting of rotor windings. A rotor may comprise the star disc, and a method may comprise producing the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Martin GERNGROß, Lars WETTERAU
  • Publication number: 20210351648
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, comprising a rotor shaft and a laminated core arranged on it, comprising multiple metal plates arranged in axial succession and lying against each other, as well as at least one coolant duct running through the laminated core, wherein the laminated core is axially clamped by at least one clamping means, wherein the clamping means shoved onto the rotor shaft comprises at least one axially braced spring element and at least one tolerance compensation disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Mortiz LUX, Peter SUESS, Lars WETTERAU
  • 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
  • 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: 20200280225
    Abstract: An electric drive machine has a lamellar stack containing a plurality of lamellae, stacked one atop the other, and having a plurality of recesses, in each of which a magnet is fixed. Each magnet is interlockingly and frictionally fixed in the recess, and the individual layered lamellae have a respective protrusion, which has an elastically deformable retaining section, formed by a turn. The retaining section limits the available cross-sectional area such that the magnet can be inserted into the recess against the elastic reset force of the retaining section. To prevent damage to the magnet, the retaining section has a shape projecting in the direction of the recess, which is formed by an embossing contour. Therefore, a contact surface between the retaining section and the magnet has a distance from a plane, defined by an edge region of the retaining section, being greater than the typical extension of stamping burrs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: LARS WETTERAU