Patents by Inventor Michael Frauenhofer

Michael Frauenhofer 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: 11784373
    Abstract: A method for supporting a battery housing when a battery module is inserted. A support device includes a support for supporting the battery housing. Here, the support has several mutually movable pin elements for setting down the battery housing. A negative shape corresponding to a shape of a base bottom side of a housing base of the battery housing by the pin elements is set on the basis of a selective displacement of the support along a predetermined translational direction of movement in that each pin element is displaced from a respective starting position to a respective end position when it reaches the base bottom side and locked at the respective end position by a locking unit. After the negative shape has been set, the support is displaced by a defined offset distance opposite to the direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Michael Frauenhofer, Marc Gormanns, Ruben Heid, Oliver Schieler
  • Patent number: 11705598
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receiving compartment for receiving a cell module. It is thus provided that the receiving compartment is delimited by a bottom and walls adjoining said bottom, A topography of the bottom is recorded by measuring technology, a thermal-conductor amount determined by the topography is applied locally to the bottom, whereupon the cell module is inserted into the receiving compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Andreas Buer
  • Patent number: 11631882
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receptacle for receiving a cell module. It is provided that support surfaces for supporting the cell module spaced apart from a bottom of the battery housing are formed on walls of the battery housing delimiting the receptacle compartment, and that a distance between the support surfaces and the base is measured, an amount of heat conducting calculated from the distance is applied to the bottom, and then the cell module is inserted into the receptacle compartment supported on the support surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Andreas Buer
  • Patent number: 11532861
    Abstract: A battery device and a method for producing a battery device for a motor vehicle. In said method, a cooling base element and a battery module are provided, and the battery module is mounted on the cooling base element, forming at least one gap between a battery module region and a cooling base region. A filling device is then coupled to at least one filling opening of at least one filling tube, with the at least one filling tube extending into the at least one gap, and a heat conducting medium is introduced from the filling device through the filling tube into the at least one gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc Gormanns, Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Michael Schüßler
  • Publication number: 20220269308
    Abstract: A method for determining a quality status of at least one component which is used during a setting process, in which a battery module is provided, which is place in a receptacle region of a battery housing having a housing base on a heat conducting compound located on the housing base and is pressed in the direction of the housing base so that the heat conducting compound located between the battery module and the housing base is at least partially distributed. The predefinable force (F) and the distance (z) covered by the battery module during the setting process in the first direction over the time (t) during the setting process are acquired as monitoring variables and the quality status is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Michael FRAUENHOFER, Matthias WIMMI
  • Publication number: 20220094007
    Abstract: A method for supporting a battery housing when a battery module is inserted. A support device includes a support for supporting the battery housing. Here, the support has several mutually movable pin elements for setting down the battery housing. A negative shape corresponding to a shape of a base bottom side of a housing base of the battery housing by the pin elements is set on the basis of a selective displacement of the support along a predetermined translational direction of movement in that each pin element is displaced from a respective starting position to a respective end position when it reaches the base bottom side and locked at the respective end position by a locking unit. After the negative shape has been set, the support is displaced by a defined offset distance opposite to the direction of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Michael FRAUENHOFER, Marc GORMANNS, Ruben HEID, Oliver SCHIELER
  • Publication number: 20210194036
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receptacle for receiving a cell module. It is provided that support surfaces for supporting the cell module spaced apart from a bottom of the battery housing are formed on walls of the battery housing delimiting the receptacle compartment, and that a distance between the support surfaces and the base is measured, an amount of heat conducting calculated from the distance is applied to the bottom, and then the cell module is inserted into the receptacle compartment supported on the support surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Andreas BUER
  • Publication number: 20210193980
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receiving compartment for receiving a cell module. It is thus provided that the receiving compartment is delimited by a bottom and walls adjoining said bottom, A topography of the bottom is recorded by measuring technology, a thermal-conductor amount determined by the topography is applied locally to the bottom, whereupon the cell module is inserted into the receiving compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Andreas BUER
  • Publication number: 20210028435
    Abstract: A battery device and a method for producing a battery device for a motor vehicle. In said method, a cooling base element and a battery module are provided, and the battery module is mounted on the cooling base element, forming at least one gap between a battery module region and a cooling base region. A filling device is then coupled to at least one filling opening of at least one filling tube, with the at least one filling tube extending into the at least one gap, and a heat conducting medium is introduced from the filling device through the filling tube into the at least one gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc GORMANNS, Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Michael SCHÜßLER
  • Publication number: 20180062227
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus for a motor vehicle. A carrier element, a plurality of energy storage devices attached on one side of the carrier element and a temperature control device arranged on the other side of the carrier element that is thermally coupled with the energy storage devices. The temperature control device is provided with one or multiple temperature control sections, wherein each respective temperature section is a pipe or a hose having at least on fluid channel built for conducting a temperature control fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christian OEDBAUER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Thomas WEISS
  • Patent number: 8343410
    Abstract: A production method for producing molded articles from fiber composites, superparamagnetic particles are selected which become coupled to an external alternating magnetic field. These superparamagnetic particles are added to a resin portion of a strip-shaped starting material further comprising reinforcing fibers. The strip-shaped starting material is then continuously advanced, and, while being advanced, heated by coupling-in an external alternating magnetic field to which the superparamagnetic particles in the resin portion become coupled. Next, the heated starting material is continuously molded into a molded article; and the resin portion in the molded particle is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Herbeck, Thorsten Mahrholz, Tobias Stroehlein, Juergen Mosch, Michael Frauenhofer, Stefan Boehm, Klaus Dilger, Harald Haeger, Christian Baron, Markus Pridoehl
  • Publication number: 20090311506
    Abstract: In a production method for producing molded articles from fiber composites, superparamatic particles are selected which become coupled to an external alternating magnetic field. These superparamagnatic particles are added to a resin portion of a strip-shaped starting material further comprising reinforcing fibers. The strip-shaped starting material is then continuously advanced, and, while being advanced, heated by coupling-in an external alternating magnetic field to which the superparamagnatic particles in the resin portion become coupled. Next, the heated starting material is continuously molded into a molded article; and the resin portion in the molded particle is cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GmbH
    Inventors: Lars HERBECK, Thorsten MAHRHOLZ, Tobias STROEHLEIN, Juergen MOSCH, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Stefan BOEHM, Klaus DILGER, Harald HAEGER, Christian BARON, Markus PRIDOEHL