Patents by Inventor Markus Thurmeier

Markus Thurmeier 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: 12573687
    Abstract: A battery cell arrangement for a motor vehicle. The battery cell arrangement has at least a first battery cell with a first cell housing that includes a first cell wall, and a second battery cell is arranged adjacent to the first battery cell in a first direction and that has a second cell housing with a second cell wall. The first cell wall and the second cell wall face each other. The battery cell arrangement has a gas reservoir which is filled with a gas, so that the gas is arranged between the first cell wall of the first battery cell and the second cell wall of the second battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Thurmeier, Christian Gert Voigt, Florian Dirisamer
  • Publication number: 20260055873
    Abstract: A cooling device is disclosed, and may include a heat sink having at least one heat-conducting surface and at least two cooling fins projecting from the heat sink on a side of the heat sink facing away from a heat-conducting surface of the at least one heat-conducting surface. The heat sink may be configured to be coupled to a heat source in a heat-conducting manner. Each cooling fin of the at least two cooling fins may include at least one first chamber and at least one second chamber positioned further away from the heat sink than the at least one first chamber. Each of the at least one first chamber and each of the at least one second chamber may be at least partially filled with a phase change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Francisco TRIGUEROS MORERA DE LA VALL, Christian LENGYEL
  • Publication number: 20250327627
    Abstract: A cooling device arrangement including a vehicle body element with a hollow profile that provides a receiving space; and a cooling device including an inner profile component on the outer surface of which a transport channel is provided through which a heat carrier fluid can flow. Dimensions of the cooling device are adapted to the hollow profile such that the cooling device can be inserted into the receiving space of the hollow profile and is held in the receiving space in a form-fitting manner and without gluing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Florian DIRISAMER
  • Publication number: 20250316824
    Abstract: A cell separating element is for arrangement at a prismatic battery cell. The cell separating element includes a first wall and a second wall opposing the first wall, between which a cavity filled or fillable with a fluid is formed to provide a pad filled or fillable with the fluid. The cell separating element divides into a pad area and a cell separating element peripheral area surrounding the pad area in closed manner in a circumferential direction, in which the first wall and the second wall are connected to each other. A first part of a first peripheral area of the first wall is formed as an attachment flap to attach the cell separating element to the battery cell and is arranged angled at an angle (a) to a second part of the first peripheral area adjoining to the pad area and situated in a pad plane of the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicants: AUDI AG, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael ERNST, Jürgen GERBRAND, Markus GRETZER, Johann HESSE, Nicole KÄSSMANN, Markus THURMEIER, Herr Gert Christian VOIGT, Jan-Philipp WEBERPALS, Stephan KOHLITZ, Özgür AKTAS
  • Publication number: 20250316817
    Abstract: A cell separating element for thermally shielding two battery cells and for arrangement between the two battery cells, of a battery, may include a first wall and a second wall opposing it, between which a cavity filled or fillable with a fluid is formed, to provide a pad filled or fillable with the fluid. In an example, the walls may be shell-shaped. At least the first wall may include an embossed, depressed structural pattern with at least one embossed, depressed structural element. The structural pattern, when the pad is compressed such that the at least one structural element has contact with an inner side of the second wall adjoining to the cavity, is elastically deformable and/or plastically deformable such that a cavity volume of the cavity increases by a plastic deformation of the structural pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicants: AUDI AG, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Gretzer, Jan-Philipp Weberpals, Johann Hesse, Markus Thurmeier, Nicole Kässmann, Christian Gert VOIGT, Jürgen Gerbrand, Michael Ernst, Özgür Aktas, Stephan Kohlitz, Thorsten Gläsner
  • Publication number: 20250254847
    Abstract: A housing for a heat source is disclosed, and may include an outer shell enclosing an interior space, a heat source arranged in the interior space, a heat storage unit, a heat transport connection, a coolant, at least one heat release unit, and a heat dissipation connection. The heat source may be connected to the heat storage unit via the heat transport connection, and the coolant may transport heat released by the heat source from the heat source to the heat storage unit via the heat transport connection. The heat dissipation connection may thermally connect the heat storage unit to the heat release unit, and the heat dissipation connection may transfer heat intermittently stored in the heat storage unit to the heat release unit with a time delay. A charger with such a housing, and a method for dissipating heat from a heat source are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventor: Markus THURMEIER
  • Publication number: 20250207653
    Abstract: An arrangement for at least partially adapting a damping property of a damping device and/or a component is disclosed, and may include at least one component and at least one damping device integrated into the at least one component or connected to the at least one component. The at least one damping device may have a wall which at least partially defines a closable cavity. At least one cavity filling may be arranged in the cavity. The cavity filling may be configured to cause a pressure change and/or a mechanical movement in the cavity as a function of a temperature change. Furthermore, a method is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Francisco TRIGUEROS MORERA DE LA VALL
  • Publication number: 20250128700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for supporting a parking process of a motor vehicle by projecting a light marking by means of a lighting device onto a wall surface visible to the person parking. At least one image of a wall surface is taken. The at least one image is analyzed to ascertain a three-dimensional structure shown in or on the wall surface. Then, a light marking is determined such that it has a marking border that is a negative of the structure border. Finally, the light marking is projected onto the wall surface, wherein the position of the marking border changes relative to the structure border depending on the distance or position of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johann BERGER, Markus THURMEIER
  • Publication number: 20250087803
    Abstract: A battery housing arrangement with a first housing unit for accommodating at least two prismatic battery cells, which has a side wall, a first outer wall with a first wall portion, and a second outer wall opposite the first outer wall with a second wall portion, which is opposite the first wall portion, the side wall connecting the first and second outer walls to one another. The first housing unit can be reversibly coupled to a second housing unit of the same design as the first housing unit, forming a cuboid receiving space, in such a way that the side wall of the first housing unit is opposite a side wall of the second housing unit, and in that the at least two prismatic battery cells can be arranged next to one another in the receiving space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Carsten LORENZ, Eduard MAIN, Peter JURIS, Dirk HOEFNER, Sebastian ENDERLE
  • Publication number: 20250038337
    Abstract: Described is a cover element for a battery housing of a battery storage device, in particular a high-voltage battery, including a plurality of battery cells, of an at least partially electrically driven motor vehicle. The cover element has a sandwich design including a first cover layer, a second cover layer, and an intermediate layer arranged between the cover layers. When the cover element is mounted on the battery housing, the first cover layer faces the battery storage device and the second cover layer faces away from the battery storage device. The first cover layer has a plurality of breaking portions which are movable relative to the first cover layer according to a pressure prevailing in a region of a relevant breaking portion, so that a break opening is formed, Also described in the context of the cover element is a battery housing and a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Martin Schüssler, Markus Thurmeier, Anja Jäschke, Thomas Wolf
  • Publication number: 20240170787
    Abstract: A battery arrangement in a vehicle including at least two body supports of the vehicle, between which there is a receiving space, at least one battery, which is arranged at least in some areas in the receiving space between the body supports. At least on one side of the battery there is a distance between a body support and a boundary surface of the battery, and at least one fixing element which bridges or fills the distance in an installed state and is transferable to a mounting state in which the fixing element does not or only partially bridges or fills the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johann BERGER, Markus THURMEIER
  • Publication number: 20240097158
    Abstract: A battery arrangement with an air supply device. The battery arrangement has a housing, at least one battery unit arranged in the housing at least one battery cell, and an air supply line as part of the air supply device. The air supply line is fluidically connected to the housing in order to supply air to the housing via the air supply line. In particular, the air supply device has a control device which is designed to control the supply of air into the housing depending on the at least one battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Oliver SCHIELER, Markus THURMEIER
  • Publication number: 20230268587
    Abstract: A battery cell arrangement for a motor vehicle. The battery cell arrangement has at least a first battery cell with a first cell housing that includes a first cell wall, and a second battery cell is arranged adjacent to the first battery cell in a first direction and that has a second cell housing with a second cell wall. The first cell wall and the second cell wall face each other. The battery cell arrangement has a gas reservoir which is filled with a gas, so that the gas is arranged between the first cell wall of the first battery cell and the second cell wall of the second battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus THURMEIER, Christian Gert VOIGT, Florian DIRISAMER
  • Patent number: 11688888
    Abstract: A warning system and a warning method for a motor vehicle having a high-voltage battery. The warning system includes a battery housing having the high-voltage battery, an underride protection device, a spatially closed cavity, at least one pressure sensor, and an evaluation device. The spatially closed cavity is arranged in a vertical direction of the warning system above the underride protection device and below the battery housing and is designed to change a volume of the cavity upon a deformation of the underride protection device under the action of a predetermined external force on the underride protection device. The at least one pressure sensor is designed to detect a pressure change value that describes a change in pressure in the pressure in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Thurmeier, Bernd Mlekusch, Markus Sandfort, Julius Rausch, Christian Smykalla, Michael Bürckert
  • Publication number: 20230181949
    Abstract: A bulkhead arrangement for flooding a space comprises at least one bulkhead element, which has sealing elements at side boundary surfaces and one boundary surface toward the floor and which can be connected at side connection sites to an infrastructure and/or another bulkhead element for sealing off the space and then flooding the space with an extinguishing agent, wherein the bulkhead element comprises a variably adjustable outflow opening in the direction of the height of the bulkhead element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Marc-Alexander NEUHAUSEN, Markus THURMEIER
  • Patent number: 11616267
    Abstract: A modular system for traction batteries of motor vehicles, having multiple battery modules includes respective battery cells, which can be electrically connected to one another in modular manner to produce different variants of traction batteries, wherein the battery modules each have a modular housing, in which the respective battery cells are arranged in fluid-tight manner; the battery modules each have a mechanical interface by means of which the battery modules can be attached to an underside of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Thurmeier, Bernd Mlekusch
  • Publication number: 20230013273
    Abstract: A module housing assembly for accommodating at least one battery cell, including a module housing with a housing base, which delimits a receiving area for accommodating the at least one battery cell with respect to a first direction, and two side plates, which delimit the receiving area on both sides with respect to a second direction. The module housing assembly additionally including a retaining element for arrangement on the at least one battery cell accommodated in the receiving area, and a clamping device, which extends at least from a first of the side plates to a second of the side plates on a side of the receiving area opposite the housing base, wherein the clamping device is designed in such a way that the clamping device can exert a force on the retaining element in the direction of the housing base, if said retaining element is arranged on the at least one battery cell arranged in the receiving area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Martin SCHUESSLER, Markus THURMEIER, Florian DIRISAMER
  • Publication number: 20220367966
    Abstract: A degassing channel for a battery in a motor vehicle designed to be arranged on a cell pack of the battery, which cell pack includes at least one battery cell, which has a releasable cell-degassing opening. The degassing channel has a first channel wall with a releasable wall opening that is assigned only to the cell-degassing opening, which wall opening can be released by a gas pressure of a gas escaping from the assigned cell-degassing opening when the degassing channel is arranged on the cell pack, so that the escaping gas can be directed through the released wall opening into an interior of the degassing channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tim HAEMMERLE, Thomas MILDE, Markus SANDFORT, Martin SCHUESSLER, Markus THURMEIER, Jan-Philipp WEBERPALS
  • Publication number: 20220271390
    Abstract: A degassing channel for a battery of a motor vehicle designed for arrangement on a battery module of the battery, which battery module includes the at least one battery cell with an at least releasable degassing opening. The degassing channel has an opening region through which, in the event that the degassing channel is arranged on the battery module, gas escaping from the degassing opening can at least be introduced somewhat into an interior of the degassing channel. In this case, the opening region has a shielding element which is designed to at least largely prevent a gas flowing through the degassing channel via the opening region from escaping from the degassing channel through the opening region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Martin SCHÜSSLER, Markus THURMEIER
  • Patent number: 11316229
    Abstract: A battery housing to hold a battery module, wherein the battery housing includes a housing bottom, wherein the housing bottom comprises at least one injection opening, through which a thermally conductive material can be injected by means of an injection device into the battery housing in a first direction through the housing bottom, wherein the battery housing includes an elastically compressible sealing element, which is arranged in the area of the at least one injection opening, and is designed to close the at least one injection opening, wherein the sealing element is designed to open up the injection opening by elastic compression of the sealing element as of a predetermined injection force (Fi) acting in the first direction during the injecting of the thermally conductive material, and to close the injection opening once more by expanding of the sealing element in absence of the injection force (Fi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Oliver Schieler, Markus Thurmeier, Martin Simon