Patents by Inventor Matthias Gramann
Matthias Gramann 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: 20230094571Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electrical axial flux machine (2) that can be operated as a motor and/or generator. The rotor includes a support (3), a plurality of magnet elements (4) arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and running radially from the interior outwards, the magnet elements (4) being magnetized in a circumferential direction and being arranged individually or in groups in series around the circumference with alternating opposing magnetization directions, and a plurality of flux conduction elements (5) which conduct the magnetic flux and are arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and around the circumference, between the magnet elements (4). A flux distributing element (6) which distributes the magnetic flux is arranged between at least one of the magnet elements (4) and a flux conduction element (5) that is arranged adjacently thereto in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Holger WITT, Matthias GRAMANN
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Publication number: 20230051582Abstract: A rotor for an electrical axial flux machine that can be operated as a motor and/or generator includes a support, a plurality of magnet elements arranged against, on, or in the support and running radially from the interior outward. The magnet elements are magnetized in a circumferential direction and arranged individually or in groups in series around the circumference with alternating opposing magnetization directions. A plurality of flux conduction elements which conduct the magnetic flux are arranged against, on, or in the support and around the circumference, between the magnet elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Holger Witt, Matthias Gramann
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Patent number: 11532962Abstract: An electrical motor includes a housing, a stator seated in the housing, wherein the stator includes a plurality of stator teeth which extend in the radial direction toward the rotor, a yoke that connects the stator teeth is arranged in such a way that a plurality of first clearances are formed between the housing and the yoke and a plurality of second clearances are formed between the yoke and a free end of the stator teeth, and a coolant guide in contact with at least one axial lateral surface of the yoke, wherein the stator is in interlocking contact with the inner side of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Peter Schwanemann, Matthias Gramann, Carsten Angrick, Wolfgang Reik
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Publication number: 20220225529Abstract: A power electronics system for an electric motor of a motor vehicle drive includes a first busbar, a second busbar which is electrically insulated relative to the first busbar, and at least one capacitor. The at least one capacitor, by way of its first electrode, makes contact with a plate-like receiving region of the first busbar and, by way of its second electrode, makes contact with a plate-like receiving region of the second busbar. At least one of the two busbars is of hollow design, with direct formation of a cooling duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Nicolai Gramann, Christian Nolte, Matthias Gramann, Johannes Herrmann, Eduard Enderle
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Publication number: 20220094223Abstract: An electrical motor includes a housing, a stator seated in the housing, wherein the stator includes a plurality of stator teeth which extend in the radial direction toward the rotor, a yoke that connects the stator teeth is arranged in such a way that a plurality of first clearances are formed between the housing and the yoke and a plurality of second clearances are formed between the yoke and a free end of the stator teeth, and a coolant guide in contact with at least one axial lateral surface of the yoke, wherein the stator is in interlocking contact with the inner side of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Peter SCHWANEMANN, Matthias GRAMANN, Carsten ANGRICK, Wolfgang REIK
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Publication number: 20220029489Abstract: An electric machine having a stator and a rotor is divided into sub-machine systems by winding sections of the stator or rotor that can be switched separately for each phase. A winding section of each phase is assigned to each sub-machine system. Each sub-machine system acts as an electric machine. The sub-machine systems can be operated individually or in combination, depending on the requirements placed on the electric machine; the winding sections are correspondingly switched for this purpose. The switching between the winding sections is advantageously carried out mechanically with a contact disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthias GRAMANN, Christian NOLTE
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Patent number: 11233429Abstract: The electrical motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to be rotated about an axis wherein the rotor includes at least three rotor subsegments, wherein a first and second rotor subsegment can be turned relative to one another about the axis in response to a rotation speed range being above a predetermined threshold value of a rotation speed of the electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & CO. KGInventors: Miriam Engler, Peter Schwanemann, Matthias Gramann, Wolfgang Reik, Carsten Angrick
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Patent number: 11223251Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor body and an axis of revolution which extends in an axial direction and about which the rotor body is rotatable. The rotor further includes an outer casing surface which delimits the rotor body, at least one pole arrangement, and a movement mechanism for the at least one pole arrangement. The movement mechanism is designed such that the at least one pole arrangement is movable about a rotation axis which is oriented substantially parallel to the axis of revolution of the rotor. The at least one pole arrangement is also movable about the rotation axis in addition to rotation about the axis of revolution of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Carsten Angrick, Wolfgang Reik, Matthias Gramann, Peter Schwanemann, Miriam Engler
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Patent number: 11218039Abstract: An internal rotor for an electric machine includes a rotational axis, an outer circumferential face which delimits the internal rotor, a pole arrangement comprising a centroid, and an actuating mechanism for moving the pole arrangement towards the rotational axis or away from the rotational axis to set a first spacing between the outer circumferential face and the centroid. In an example embodiment, the actuating mechanism has an actuator for moving the pole arrangement. The actuator has a hydraulically operable piston, a pneumatically operable piston, an electric motor actuator, or converts an axial force to a radial force. In an example embodiment, the actuating mechanism is operatively connected to the pole arrangement. The actuating mechanism is arranged between the rotational axis and the pole arrangement, or the actuating mechanism is arranged between the outer circumferential face and the pole arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Gramann, Wolfgang Reik, Miriam Engler, Peter Schwanemann, Carsten Angrick
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Patent number: 11186164Abstract: A thermal management system for an electric drive system, preferably for a vehicle, includes an electric drive including an electric motor and power electronics. The electric motor and the power electronics are integrated in a cooling circuit and are cooled by a coolant circulating in the cooling circuit. The coolant is circulated by a coolant pump. In the case of a variable thermal management system, the electric motor and the power electronics are in spatial contact with respective cooling units. The cooling units of the electric motor and of the power electronics are arranged parallel to each other and an electrically controlled coolant distributor is positioned between the coolant pump and the cooling units which coolant distributor has two outlets. One outlet leads to the cooling unit of the electric motor and one outlet leads to the cooling unit of the power electronics and the outlets of the cooling units are merged into a channel and led back to the coolant pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Gramann, Jochen Reith, Juergen Faber, Nicolai Gramann
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Publication number: 20210021170Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interconnection of cylindrical windings of an electric motor with ānā conductor rails for producing switching connections between the individual windings. The conductor rails are geometrically arranged in a few planes, wherein a plane is defined as a concentric layer relative to the winding and follows a constant radius, wherein conductor rails on the same plane cross that conductor rail on the other plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Matthias Gramann
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Publication number: 20200303978Abstract: The electrical motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to be rotated about an axis wherein the rotor includes at least three rotor subsegments, wherein a first and second rotor subsegment can be turned relative to one another about the axis in response to a rotation speed range being above a predetermined threshold value of a rotation speed of the electrical machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Miriam ENGLER, Peter SCHWANEMANN, Matthias GRAMANN, Wolfgang REIK, Carsten ANGRICK
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Publication number: 20200276899Abstract: A thermal management system for an electric drive system, preferably for a vehicle, includes an electric drive including an electric motor and power electronics. The electric motor and the power electronics are integrated in a cooling circuit and are cooled by a coolant circulating in the cooling circuit. The coolant is circulated by a coolant pump. In the case of a variable thermal management system, the electric motor and the power electronics are in spatial contact with respective cooling units. The cooling units of the electric motor and of the power electronics are arranged parallel to each other and an electrically controlled coolant distributor is positioned between the coolant pump and the cooling units which coolant distributor has two outlets. One outlet leads to the cooling unit of the electric motor and one outlet leads to the cooling unit of the power electronics and the outlets of the cooling units are merged into a channel and led back to the coolant pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthias GRAMANN, Jochen REITH, Juergen FABER, Nicolai GRAMANN
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Publication number: 20200127510Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor body and an axis of revolution which extends in an axial direction and about which the rotor body is rotatable. The rotor further includes an outer casing surface which delimits the rotor body, at least one pole arrangement, and a movement mechanism for the at least one pole arrangement. The movement mechanism is designed such that the at least one pole arrangement is movable about a rotation axis which is oriented substantially parallel to the axis of revolution of the rotor. The at least one pole arrangement is also movable about the rotation axis in addition to rotation about the axis of revolution of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Carsten Angrick, Wolfgang Reik, Matthias Gramann, Peter Schwanemann, Miriam Engler
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Publication number: 20200076253Abstract: An internal rotor for an electric machine includes a rotational axis, an outer circumferential face which delimits the internal rotor, a pole arrangement comprising a centroid, and an actuating mechanism for moving the pole arrangement towards the rotational axis or away from the rotational axis to set a first spacing between the outer circumferential face and the centroid. In an example embodiment, the actuating mechanism has an actuator for moving the pole arrangement. The actuator has a hydraulically operable piston, a pneumatically operable piston, an electric motor actuator, or converts an axial force to a radial force. In an example embodiment, the actuating mechanism is operatively connected to the pole arrangement. The actuating mechanism is arranged between the rotational axis and the pole arrangement, or the actuating mechanism is arranged between the outer circumferential face and the pole arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Gramann, Wolfgang Reik, Miriam Engler, Peter Schwanemann, Carsten Angrick
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Patent number: 10343550Abstract: A circuit for controlling a hybrid drivetrain, including an alternating current electric machine, a first battery, a second battery, a first pair of complementary transistor switches arranged to complete a first direct current circuit to charge the first battery or to complete a second direct current circuit to discharge the first battery, a second pair of complementary transistor switches arranged in parallel and arranged to complete a third direct current circuit to charge the second battery or to complete a fourth direct current circuit to discharge the second battery, an inverter arranged to convert direct current electrical energy from the first and second batteries into alternating current electrical energy, arranged to supply the alternating current electrical energy to the electric machine, and also arranged to transmit voltage modulations caused by damping vibrations within the drivetrain, and a control unit operatively arranged to control the first and second pair of switches.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Carsten Angrick, Matthias Gramann
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Patent number: 9933039Abstract: A drivetrain having an active torsional vibration damping and a method for carrying out the active torsional vibration damping, having an internal combustion engine being affected by torsional vibrations and having a crankshaft, a torsional vibration damper that is operatively connected to the crankshaft and has at least one operating point of low vibration isolation of the torsional vibrations and has a primary inertial mass associated with the crankshaft and an inertial mass associated with a gear input shaft of a gearbox, the inertial mass being rotatable relatively and limitedly with respect to the primary inertial mass against the action of a spring device. The drivetrain also includes an electric motor having a rotating mass operatively connected to the gearbox input shaft, and a control unit, the spring device being formed by linear springs, the rotating mass of the electric motor being designed as a secondary inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Olaf Werner, Michael Huber, Carsten Angrick, Matthias Gramann, Martin Dilzer
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Patent number: 9784256Abstract: A hydrostatic actuator and an arrangement for attaching it to a receiving component are provided. The hydrostatic actuator has a master cylinder containing a housing and a piston movable axially within the housing which acts on a pressure chamber filled with a pressurizing agent. The piston is driven by a rotary-driven electric motor having a stator and a rotor, by a rolling planetary transmission that converts the rotary drive to an axial motion. In order to be able to produce such a hydrostatic actuator with little need for construction space, cost-effectively and with better quality, a supporting of the rolling planetary transmission is simplified, and the cooling and shielding of an electronic controller and the pressure behavior of the hydrostatic actuator is improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Viktor Franz, Matthias Ehrlich, Norbert Esly, Matthias Gramann, Juergen Gerhart, Julian Botiov
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Patent number: 9520719Abstract: A reluctance motor having a rotor and a stator that has a wound core, around which a stator coil is wound and which is open on one side and has legs, said legs being arranged around the periphery and forming spaced-apart pairs of legs. Multiple rotor teeth which are distributed around the periphery and periodically establish a magnetic flux between the legs radially engage between the legs. In order to positively change the characteristic curve of the magnetic flux of the legs and teeth, the teeth continuously form an area overlap with the legs in the direction of rotation of the rotor in accordance with the angle of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventor: Matthias Gramann
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Publication number: 20160339796Abstract: A circuit for controlling a hybrid drivetrain, including an alternating current electric machine, a first battery, a second battery, a first pair of complementary transistor switches arranged to complete a first direct current circuit to charge the first battery or to complete a second direct current circuit to discharge the first battery, a second pair of complementary transistor switches arranged in parallel and arranged to complete a third direct current circuit to charge the second battery or to complete a fourth direct current circuit to discharge the second battery, an inverter arranged to convert direct current electrical energy from the first and second batteries into alternating current electrical energy, arranged to supply the alternating current electrical energy to the electric machine, and also arranged to transmit voltage modulations caused by damping vibrations within the drivetrain, and a control unit operatively arranged to control the first and second pair of switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Carsten Angrick, Matthias Gramann