Patents by Inventor Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl 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: 20180310365Abstract: The invention relates to an electric heating device with at least one electrically heatable heating element or with a plurality of electrically heatable heating elements, wherein at least one radiator element is thermally connected to the at least one heating element in order to heat a fluid flow, which flows against and/or around and/or through the at least one radiator element, wherein each heating element has at least one heater which heats up when electric current flows through the heater, wherein electrode elements are provided for electrically contacting the heater, wherein the electrode elements contacting a heater are arranged spaced from one another and accommodate at least one of the heater between them, wherein at least two heater are electrically interconnected in series.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Michael KOHL, Falk VIEHRIG
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Publication number: 20180151911Abstract: According to the invention, an electrolyte is provided for an alkali-sulfur battery. An alkali-sulfur battery is also provided, which contains the electrolyte according to the invention. The electrolyte according to the invention contains a mixture of a sulfone and a fluorine-containing ether in a volume ratio of #1:4 (v:v). Through the use of said electrolyte, the shuttling of polysulfide species from the cathode to the anode can be effectively suppressed, without the use of LiNO3. Through the electrolyte in alkalisulfur batteries, a high coulombic efficiency, long-term stability (low self-discharge) and cycle durability can be achieved even without the use of LiNO3. Coloumbic efficiency, long-term stability and cycle durability can be further improved through the use of a cathode which contains an additive for uniform distribution of polysulfide inside the cathode. In addition, uses of components of the alkali-sulfur battery according to the invention are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Sören THIEME, Holger ALTHUES, Stefan KASKEL, Michael KOHL
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Patent number: 9924565Abstract: A device for electrically heating a fluid, in particular for use in an electrically operated motor vehicle, comprising an induction coil, which is integrated in an oscillating circuit and produces an alternating magnetic field, and at least one first inductor, which is positioned within the alternating magnetic field. The inductor can be arranged inside a module, through which a fluid to be heated can flow, and the induction coil is arranged outside the module.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbHInventors: Michael Kohl, Harri Pankratz, Ralph Trapp
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Patent number: 9915441Abstract: A heat exchanger having at least one electrical resistance heating element, two conductors connected electrically to the electrical resistance heating element to conduct electric current through the electrical resistance heating element and thereby to heat the electrical resistance heating element, a heat-conducting element for transferring heat from the electrical resistance heating element to a fluid to be heated, an electrical insulating element insulating electrically the two conductors and the at least one electrical resistance heating element, and at least one tube. The two conductors, the electrical insulating element, and the electrical resistance heating element are arranged within a cavity bounded by the tube. The heat exchanger has an adapter plate and a tube opening, each being arranged at an opening of the adapter plate, and the at least one tube being connected fluid-tight to the adapter plate, which is connected fluid-tight to an electronics housing and/or an HVAC system housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Michael Kohl, Thomas Spranger, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thierry Clauss
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Publication number: 20180065447Abstract: An electric heating device having a housing with a fluid inlet and with a fluid outlet, wherein the housing can be flowed through by a fluid, and wherein a number of heating elements protrude into the interior of the housing, wherein the heating elements have a heating element housing, and wherein a heating element has at least one heater in the heating element housing and the at least one heater has contacting contact elements and an electrical insulation for insulating the contact elements from the heating element housing, wherein the heating elements are sealingly connected with their heating element housing to the housing, wherein the heater of the heating elements are arranged in a geometrical configuration between the contact elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Alain CMELIK, Michael KOHL, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Wolfgang SEEWALD
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Patent number: 9863663Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat exchanger, comprising at least one electric resistance heating element, at least two conductors which are connected to the at least one electric resistance heating element in an electrically conductive manner in order to conduct electric current through the at least one electric resistance heating element and thereby heat the electric resistance heating element, at least one thermally conductive element for transferring heat from the at least one electric resistance heating element to a fluid to be heated, at least one electrically insulating element, which electrically insulates the at least two conductors, and at least one pipe, wherein the at least two conductors and the at least one electric resistance heating element are arranged within a cavity bounded by the pipe and the pipe lies on the at least one electrically insulating element under a compressive force at at least one contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thomas Spranger, Frank-Heiner Schenk
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Patent number: 9848464Abstract: The application relates to an induction heating device having a housing and a fluid duct. The fluid duct is arranged in the housing and has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. Inside the housing is an induction element which generates an alternating magnetic field and which is separated from the fluid duct in a sealed manner by at least one wall. The device also includes at least one metallic areal heating element arranged in the fluid duct which can be heated by the alternating magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH, BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBHInventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Karl Lochmahr, Wolfgang Seewald, Olivier Schunck, Dirk Nagel, Lars Heeper, Matthias Stallein, Michael Steinkamp, Karsten Marquas, Volker Dicke
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Publication number: 20170356697Abstract: A fin element for a heat exchanger, in particular for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system of a motor vehicle, with a plurality of connecting sections and of longitudinal sections, whereby in each case two adjacent longitudinal sections are connected to one another by a connecting section, whereby at least one of the longitudinal sections has gills formed by webs and slots, whereby at least one of the webs has a flared web surface, whereby the web surface is flared out from the at least one longitudinal section, whereby the web surface forms at least two surface sections arranged angled to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Falk VIEHRIG, Johannes KAELBER, Elke DETTLING, Michael KOHL, Karl Gerd KRUMBACH, Wolfgang SEEWALD
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Patent number: 9743464Abstract: A heat exchanger device for a heater a motor vehicle, having a housing with at least one fluid channel disposed therein, with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, an element generating an alternating magnetic field, and at least one, preferably metallic, flat heating element around which a fluid can flow on one or both sides, whereby at least one further flat heating element is provided, which is configured to divide the at least one fluid channel into subchannels. A heater with a heat exchanger device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Seewald, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Michael Kohl
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Patent number: 9655171Abstract: A heater with a housing with a fluid channel, disposed therein, with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, whereby a coil, which generates an alternating magnetic field and is separated sealed from the fluid channel by a coil housing, is provided in the housing, whereby furthermore at least one metallic flat heating element is provided, which can be heated by the alternating magnetic field. The at least one flat heating element is disposed in the fluid channel, whereby the fluid channel is divided at least into a first channel and a second channel. Walls bounding the channels are formed by the coil housing and/or by a flat heating element.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Seewald, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Michael Kohl, Matthias Stallein, Lars Heeper, Karsten Marquas
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Patent number: 9506698Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operable heating device through which liquid flows, comprising a housing. The heating device comprises an electrically operable heating apparatus and a liquid chamber for accommodating a heat-transferring liquid. The liquid chamber has a plurality of plate pairs comprising plates connected to each other at specified distances from each other, whereby liquid flow channels can be created between the plate pairs. The electrically operable heating apparatus is designed as a heating combination having a plurality of heating elements, wherein the heating combination can be arranged between the liquid chambers by inserting the heating units into the accommodating spaces produced between the plate pairs.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thomas Spranger
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Patent number: 9345071Abstract: An electrically operated heating device, in particular for a heating or air conditioning system of a vehicle, is provided, comprising a heating register with a layered heating element, for converting electrical energy into heat, and two electrically insulating and heat-conducting insulating layers, which respectively make contact, at least in certain regions, with one side of the layered heating element. The insulating layers and the layered heating element are braced with one another, an abrasion-counteracting sliding layer being arranged between at least one of the insulating layers and the layered heating element. Alternatively or in addition, at least one of the insulating layers and the layered heating element have, at least in the region of their mutual contact surfaces, a material pairing with which the abrasion of the contact surfaces goes below a predetermined limit value.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Christoph Kästle, Michael Kohl, Peter Englert, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Michel Brun, Jerome Stoeckel
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Publication number: 20150131979Abstract: A heating device is provided with plates stacked one on top of another. At least one first fluid channel is formed in a fluid-tight manner between a first plate package with a first and a second plate. An electrical heating element is arranged between a first plate of the first plate package and an additional plate. The electrical heating element is accommodated between the two plates in a sealed manner and is electrically insulated, wherein an inlet-side and an outlet side fluid connection of the first fluid channel is arranged on the second plate of the first plate package. The electrical heating element has a connection device for electrical contacting, which is connected to the electrical heating element and protrudes through a window in the second plate of the first plate package, wherein the fluid connections and the window are arranged adjacent to opposing lateral edges of the second plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Michael KOHL, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Karl LOCHMAHR, Wolfgang SEEWALD, Olivier SCHUNCK, Dirk NAGEL, Lars HEEPER, Matthias STALLEIN, Michael STEINKAMP, Karsten MARQUAS, Volker DICKE
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Publication number: 20150117846Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operable heating device through which liquid flows, comprising a housing. The heating device comprises an electrically operable heating apparatus and a liquid chamber for accommodating a heat-transferring liquid. The liquid chamber has a plurality of plate pairs comprising plates connected to each other at specified distances from each other, whereby liquid flow channels can be created between the plate pairs. The electrically operable heating apparatus is designed as a heating combination having a plurality of heating elements, wherein the heating combination can be arranged between the liquid chambers by inserting the heating units into the accommodating spaces produced between the plate pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thomas Spranger
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Publication number: 20150034631Abstract: A device for electrically heating a fluid, in particular for use in an electrically operated motor vehicle, comprising an induction coil, which is integrated in an oscillating circuit and produces an alternating magnetic field, and at least one first inductor, which is positioned within the alternating magnetic field. The inductor can be arranged inside a module, through which a fluid to be heated can flow, and the induction coil is arranged outside the module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Michael KOHL, Harri PANKRATZ, Ralph TRAPP
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Publication number: 20140374409Abstract: A heater with a housing with a fluid channel, disposed therein, with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, whereby a coil, which generates an alternating magnetic field and is separated sealed from the fluid channel by a coil housing, is provided in the housing, whereby furthermore at least one metallic flat heating element is provided, which can be heated by the alternating magnetic field. The at least one flat heating element is disposed in the fluid channel, whereby the fluid channel is divided at least into a first channel and a second channel. Walls bounding the channels are formed by the coil housing and/or by a flat heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Wolfgang SEEWALD, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Michael KOHL, Matthias STALLEIN, Lars HEEPER, Karsten MARQUAS
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Publication number: 20140374408Abstract: A heat exchanger device for a heater a motor vehicle, having a housing with at least one fluid channel disposed therein, with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, an element generating an alternating magnetic field, and at least one, preferably metallic, flat heating element around which a fluid can flow on one or both sides, whereby at least one further flat heating element is provided, which is configured to divide the at least one fluid channel into subchannels. A heater with a heat exchanger device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Wolfgang SEEWALD, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Michael KOHL
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Publication number: 20140169776Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat exchanger, comprising at least one electric resistance heating element, at least two conductors which are connected to the at least one electric resistance heating element in an electrically conductive manner in order to conduct electric current through the at least one electric resistance heating element and thereby heat the electric resistance heating element, at least one thermally conductive element for transferring heat from the at least one electric resistance heating element to a fluid to be heated, at least one electrically insulating element, which electrically insulates the at least two conductors, and at least one pipe, wherein the at least two conductors and the at least one electric resistance heating element are arranged within a cavity bounded by the pipe and the pipe lies on the at least one electrically insulating element under a compressive force at at least one contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thomas Spranger, Frank-Heiner Schenk
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Patent number: 8695689Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that comprises at least two rows of low channels through which a liquid medium can flow, and secondary surfaces arranged between the flow channels and over which air flows, the liquid medium and the air being circulated in the cross-counterflow and the first row being arranged on the air outlet side and the second row on the air inlet side. According to the invention, the liquid medium enters a first region of the first row, is deflected into a second region inside the first row, and from the second region of the first row into the second row.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Kohl, Miriam Lozano-Aviles, Thomas Strauss
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Publication number: 20140027444Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device having a housing and having a fluid duct which is arranged in said housing and which has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, wherein, in the housing, there is provided an element which generates an alternating magnetic field and which is separated from the fluid duct in a sealed manner by at least one wall, wherein furthermore, at least one metallic areal heating element is provided which can be heated by the alternating magnetic field, wherein the at least one areal heating element is arranged in the fluid duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicants: Behr GmbH & Co., KG, Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH, Behr France Rouffach SASInventors: Michael KOHL, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Karl LOCHMAHR, Wolfgang SEEWALD, Olivier SCHUNCK, Dirk NAGEL, Lars HEEPER, Matthias STALLEIN, Michael STEINKAMP, Karsten MARQUAS, Volker DICKE