Patents by Inventor Maximilian Barkow
Maximilian Barkow 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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Patent number: 12324133Abstract: A pulse inverter for operating an electric machine of a motor vehicle from a motor vehicle battery, including a housing for delimiting an interior, a power electronics system, provided in the interior of the housing, for converting direct current to alternating current, a first cooling circuit configured to dissipate heat from an outer side of the housing facing away from the power electronics system, and a second cooling circuit, which is separated from the first cooling circuit and communicates with the interior of the housing, configured to directly liquid-cool the power electronics system with an electrically insulating fluid. (FIG.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Pascal Heusler, Patrick Fuchs, Karl Dums, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic
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Patent number: 12315676Abstract: A capacitor is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrically conductive capacitor layers wound around a winding center and a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel is disposed between the capacitor layers, and wherein the cooling channel is electrically conductive. A system and a motor vehicle that includes the capacitors is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
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Patent number: 12278549Abstract: An electric machine including a pulse inverter having a region with an oil space and busbars, wherein the electric machine is electrically connected to the pulse inverter by the busbars such that the busbars are electrically connected to a connection of the pulse inverter, wherein the busbars and the electric machine are cooled by oil, and wherein the oil for supplying and cooling the busbars is stored within the oil space in the region of the pulse inverter.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Sebastian Wachter, Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
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Patent number: 12257908Abstract: A drive unit for an electric vehicle, including an electric machine, a gear mechanism, a housing, wherein the electric machine and the gear mechanism are arranged in an interior of the housing, and a receiving apparatus for a pulse inverter module, wherein the housing has an opening and the receiving apparatus is arranged in the interior of the housing directly behind the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Timijan Velic, Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow
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Patent number: 12200916Abstract: A liquid-cooled power electronics unit includes a planar circuit board body having conductor tracks, a wet side with a wet space for carrying a dielectric cooling liquid, and a fluidically, separated dry side, wherein at least two high-voltage power semiconductors are arranged on the circuit board body on the wet side within the wet space, the high-voltage power semiconductors being cooled by the cooling liquid, and an electronic low-voltage circuit is arranged on the dry side of the circuit board body.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DEN ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V.Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic, Bernd Eckardt, Maximilian Hofmann, Hubert Rauh, Andre Mueller, Benjamin Bayer, Jordan Sorge
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Patent number: 12097769Abstract: An apparatus and a method for influencing electromagnetic forces of an electric traction motor, a higher-order harmonic (336) being superimposed on an actuating variable (udq) for the electric traction motor in a manner which is dependent on a rotational speed of the electric traction motor, a torque of the electric traction motor, a temperature at the electric traction motor, or a three-phase current or a three-phase voltage of the electric traction motor for the generation of a resulting actuating variable (uabc), the electric traction motor being actuated in a manner which is dependent on the resulting actuating variable (uabc), and the actuating variable (udq), the harmonic (336) and the resulting actuating variable (uabc) characterizing an actuating current or an actuating voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AGInventors: Maximilian Barkow, Robert Nelles, Hugo Kock, Jan Naegelkraemer
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Patent number: 12072355Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a flow of current through at least one electrical conductor of an electrotechnical device which is disposed in a cooling channel, wherein a non-conductive cooling medium flows through the cooling channel during operation of the electrotechnical apparatus, the apparatus including a flux conductor which is disposed around the at least one electrical conductor, and an evaluation circuit which is coupled to the flux conductor and is configured to determine the flow of current through the at least one electrical conductor by evaluating an electrical parameter of the flux conductor, wherein at least a part of the flux conductor is disposed in the cooling channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
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Patent number: 11996349Abstract: An inverter (1) for operating an electrical machine (10) has at least one power semiconductor (2) and a drain contact (5) arranged on an underside of the power semiconductor (2). The drain contact (5) is arranged in a coolant channel (6) for impingement by a coolant. Also proposed are a drivetrain (20) and a motor vehicle (100).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AGInventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Sebastian Wachter
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Patent number: 11946952Abstract: A measurement arrangement, including a current line, a first measurement location provided on the current line, a second measurement location provided on the current line, and a coolant, wherein the second measurement location is provided at a distance from the first measurement location in order to make it possible to measure a voltage in a measurement section of the current line arising due to a current flowing through the current line, wherein the measurement section is defined between the first measurement location and the second measurement location, and wherein the coolant is of fluid form and at least in areas is in direct contact with the current line in an area between the first measurement location and the second measurement location.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
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Publication number: 20230422434Abstract: An apparatus including a first housing and a pulse inverter, wherein the pulse inverter is arranged in the first housing, and includes first high-voltage components. The first housing includes a first coolant chamber and a second coolant chamber. The second coolant chamber is fluidically isolated from the first coolant chamber. The first coolant chamber includes a first coolant. The first coolant is a dielectric coolant. The first high-voltage components are arranged in the first coolant chamber. The first housing includes a first coolant port and a second coolant port. The first coolant port is in fluid communication with the second coolant port via the second coolant chamber in order to allow a fluid flow of a second coolant from the first coolant port via the second coolant chamber to the second coolant port.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Maximilian BARKOW, Daniel KNOBLAUCH, Timijan VELIC, Jonas OTTOLIN
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Publication number: 20230363122Abstract: A pulse inverter includes a pulse inverter housing, in which at least one power electronics is provided, wherein at least the pulse inverter housing is configured to be cooled by a flowing coolant through housing means. The power electronics includes at least one controller, a gate driver, and a semiconductor element. For switching a semiconductor element, the gate driver provides a turn-on voltage UGS and a turn-off voltage U0 and is actuatable by the controller for this purpose. The controller includes control means, via which a withstand voltage UR<UGS is adjustable, whereby a power dissipation PV can be generated, causing the power electronics and/or the coolant to heat up.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Timijan VELIC, Maximilian BARKOW, Pascal HEUSLER, Stefan GATZEMANN, Jannik MAIER
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Publication number: 20230343688Abstract: A power semiconductor module includes a first and second insulating substrate, which is arranged parallel to and at a distance from the first insulating substrate. The first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate each include an insulating layer, an inner metallization layer, and an outer metallization layer. The power semiconductor module also includes a first cooling device, which is arranged thermally conductively on the outer metallization layer of the first insulating substrate, a second cooling device, which is arranged thermally conductively on the outer metallization layer of the second insulating substrate. The power semiconductor module also includes a power semiconductor, arranged between the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Maximilian BARKOW, Patrick FUCHS, Timijan VELIC, Bernd ECKARDT, Maximilian HOFMANN, Hubert RAUH, Andre MUELLER, Benjamin BAYER, Jordan SORGE
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Publication number: 20230326683Abstract: A film capacitor including a core, a plurality of film layers wrapped around the core, and at least one first spacer arranged between two first film layers of the plurality of film layers, wherein an interstice configured outside of a spacer cross-section is provided between the two first film layers by the at least one first spacer. (FIG.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Maximilian BARKOW, Timijan VELIC, Karl DUMS
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Patent number: 11757389Abstract: A method for noise reduction of a three-phase-driven electrical machine includes recording an angular state of a rotor of the electrical machine, calculating a reference frequency on the basis of the recorded angular state, forming a sine and cosine value of the calculated reference frequency, and filtering the sine and cosine value. The method may also include recording a sound-related feedback variable, forming a weighting vector, forming a superposition signal, and applying the superposition signal to a manipulated variable of the electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Jan Naegelkraemer, Maximilian Barkow
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Publication number: 20230191927Abstract: A switching arrangement for a motor vehicle powered at least partially electrically, including at least one inverter for converting a DC voltage of a high-voltage battery into a multi-phase AC voltage for a travel drive, at least one intermediate circuit capacitor connected to the inverter, and at least one pre-charge resistor, wherein, in a pre-charge mode, the pre-charge resistor serves to prevent current spikes during charging of the at least one intermediate circuit capacitor and, in a heating mode, serves for heating a coolant, wherein electrical current flows through the inverter in both the pre-charge mode as well as in the heating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Maximilian BARKOW, Timijan VELIC, Jannik MAIER
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Publication number: 20230057989Abstract: A pulse inverter for operating an electric machine of a motor vehicle from a motor vehicle battery, including a housing for delimiting an interior, a power electronics system, provided in the interior of the housing, for converting direct current to alternating current, a first cooling circuit configured to dissipate heat from an outer side of the housing facing away from the power electronics system, and a second cooling circuit, which is separated from the first cooling circuit and communicates with the interior of the housing, configured to directly liquid-cool the power electronics system with an electrically insulating fluid. (FIG.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Pascal Heusler, Patrick Fuchs, Karl Dums, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic
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Publication number: 20230059583Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a flow of current through at least one electrical conductor of an electrotechnical device which is disposed in a cooling channel, wherein a non-conductive cooling medium flows through the cooling channel during operation of the electrotechnical apparatus, the apparatus including a flux conductor which is disposed around the at least one electrical conductor, and an evaluation circuit which is coupled to the flux conductor and is configured to determine the flow of current through the at least one electrical conductor by evaluating an electrical parameter of the flux conductor, wherein at least a part of the flux conductor is disposed in the cooling channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
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Publication number: 20230031138Abstract: An electric machine including a pulse inverter having a region with an oil space and busbars, wherein the electric machine is electrically connected to the pulse inverter by the busbars such that the busbars are electrically connected to a connection of the pulse inverter, wherein the busbars and the electric machine are cooled by oil, and wherein the oil for supplying and cooling the busbars is stored within the oil space in the region of the pulse inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Sebastian Wachter, Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
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Publication number: 20230030764Abstract: A drive unit for an electric vehicle, including an electric machine, a gear mechanism, a housing, wherein the electric machine and the gear mechanism are arranged in an interior of the housing, and a receiving apparatus for a pulse inverter module, wherein the housing has an opening and the receiving apparatus is arranged in the interior of the housing directly behind the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Timijan Velic, Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow
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Publication number: 20230024031Abstract: A capacitor is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrically conductive capacitor layers wound around a winding center and a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel is disposed between the capacitor layers, and wherein the cooling channel is electrically conductive. A system and a motor vehicle that includes the capacitors is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic