Patents by Inventor Matthias Centner

Matthias Centner 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: 12046964
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a laminated core, and an electrically conductive winding including a winding top layer with electrically conductive top bars, and a winding bottom layer with electrically conductive bottom bars. Each groove of a stator segment of the laminated core has arranged therein a top bar and a bottom bar in adjacent relationship. The top and bottom bars protrude out of the grooves. A connecting element connects a free end of a top bar to a free end of a bottom bar of an adjacent stator segment and includes an inclined section to connect two ends of the connecting element. The ends are angled relative to the inclined section. One end of the connecting element is connected to the free end of the bottom bar and the other end of the connecting element is connected to the free end of the top bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Innomotics GmbH
    Inventors: Ilja Sabelfeld, Matthias Centner
  • Patent number: 11289975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid-cooled active part (1) for an electric machine (38), wherein the active part (1) is substantially cylindrical or hollow cylindrical, having axially extending grooves (2), at least one electrical conductor (3), which is arranged in the associated groove (2) at least in some sections and which is composed of a plurality of partial conductors (4), one or more main insulators (5), each arranged between the associated conductor (3) and the associated groove (2), and partial-conductor insulators (6), each surrounding the associated partial conductor (4). The invention further relates to an electric machine (38), having such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a stator (39) and/or such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a rotatably mounted rotor (40), wherein the electric machine (38) can be operated with a voltage in the range of at least a few kilovolts, preferably a few tens of kilovolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Bethge, Matthias Johannes Burghard, Matthias Centner, Marco Festa, Ilja Sabelfeld
  • Patent number: 10541575
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine, in particular a synchronous machine includes a shaft that can rotate about an axis of rotation, and at least one pole shoe. In order to improve vibration properties, the pole shoe includes a pole shoe body and a pole shoe sheet metal which rests on a radially outer surface of the pole shoe body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Festa, Matthias Centner, Ilja Sabelfeld
  • Publication number: 20190319502
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine, in particular a synchronous machine includes a shaft that can rotate about an axis of rotation, and at least one pole shoe. In order to improve vibration properties, the pole shoe includes a pole shoe body and a pole shoe sheet metal which rests on a radially outer surface of the pole shoe body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco FESTA, Matthias CENTNER
  • Publication number: 20190109513
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid-cooled active part (1) for an electric machine (38), wherein the active part (1) is substantially cylindrical or hollow cylindrical, having axially extending grooves (2), at least one electrical conductor (3), which is arranged in the associated groove (2) at least in some sections and which is composed of a plurality of partial conductors (4), one or more main insulators (5), each arranged between the associated conductor (3) and the associated groove (2), and partial-conductor insulators (6), each surrounding the associated partial conductor (4). The invention further relates to an electric machine (38), having such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a stator (39) and/or such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a rotatably mounted rotor (40), wherein the electric machine (38) can be operated with a voltage in the range of at least a few kilovolts, preferably a few tens of kilovolts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Bethge, Matthias Johannes Burghard, Matthias Centner, Marco Festa, Ilja Sabelfeld
  • Patent number: 10236748
    Abstract: An active part of an electric machine includes at least two teeth, each having a magnetically permeable material and protruding from a lateral surface of the active part in a radial direction. Each tooth has an open recess in a plane spanned by a substantially radial direction and a direction substantially along an axis of rotation. A winding groove is arranged between the two teeth substantially along an axis of rotation of the active part for receiving an electrical winding. Arranged at least partially in the open recess is a thermally conductive element having a thermally conductive material with a thermal conductivity which is greater than a thermal conductivity of the magnetically permeable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Festa, Matthias Centner, Ilja Sabelfeld
  • Publication number: 20180175705
    Abstract: An active part of an electric machine includes at least two teeth, each having a magnetically permeable material and protruding from a lateral surface of the active part in a radial direction. Each tooth has an open recess in a plane spanned by a substantially radial direction and a direction substantially along an axis of rotation. A winding groove is arranged between the two teeth substantially along an axis of rotation of the active part for receiving an electrical winding. Arranged at least partially in the open recess is a thermally conductive element having a thermally conductive material with a thermal conductivity which is greater than a thermal conductivity of the magnetically permeable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco FESTA, Matthias CENTNER, Ilja SABELFELD
  • Patent number: 9917485
    Abstract: An electric machine has grooves and windings, divided into strands, of electrical conductors. At least one strand has a number s of coils connected in series and arranged in the grooves. Each coil has sub-conductors connected in parallel and arranged in bundles. Each bundle is arranged in a groove at a bundle position relative to a deepest possible bundle position in the groove. The positions of all bundles in all coils define a number b of possible bundle positions of the strand. The bundles are interchanged between the coils such that each bundle is arranged in the grooves at least n times and at most n? times at each possible bundle position, wherein n is the integer quotient in regard to the quotient of the number s and the number b, wherein n?=n if s is divisible by b and n?=n+1 if s is not divisible by b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Centner, Patrick Gels, Rüdiger Schäfer, Jörg Waschek
  • Publication number: 20150200574
    Abstract: An electric machine has grooves and windings, divided into strands, of electrical conductors. At least one strand has a number s of coils connected in series and arranged in the grooves. Each coil has sub-conductors connected in parallel and arranged in bundles. Each bundle is arranged in a groove at a bundle position relative to a deepest possible bundle position in the groove. The positions of all bundles in all coils define a number b of possible bundle positions of the strand. The bundles are interchanged between the coils such that each bundle is arranged in the grooves at least n times and at most n? times at each possible bundle position, wherein n is the integer quotient in regard to the quotient of the number s and the number b, wherein n?=n if s is divisible by b and n?=n+1 if s is not divisible by b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Centner, Patrick Gels, Rüdiger Schäfer, Jörg Waschek