Patents by Inventor MIKE FIPPL

MIKE FIPPL 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: 10348142
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine has an annular stator body with a multiplicity of winding slots. The winding slots protrude into the stator body in the manner of a pocket from a ring interior. Respective windings are disposed in the winding slots and the slots are sealed toward the ring interior with slot-liner elements. The slot-liner elements of all the winding slots are combined to form a slot-liner cage. The slot-liner cage is formed with circumferential cage rings at the ends of the slot-liner elements. The cage rings have an interruption at a circumferential point. The circumferential point has a self-retaining lock geometry which prevents an autonomous opening of two intermeshing ring ends of the cage rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mike Fippl, Uwe Riemenschneider, Michael Schnier
  • Patent number: 10256703
    Abstract: An electric motor, particularly an engine of a motor vehicle, has a temperature sensor for monitoring the operating temperatures of a winding. The temperature sensor is inserted through a radial through-hole at the periphery of the insulation element into a recess which is delimited between a shaped-out portion on the corresponding projection of the insulation element and the winding. The shaped-out portion has a slope so that a translational displacement of the temperature sensor at the same time leads to an increase in the biasing force of the temperature sensor with respect to the winding. It is thus possible to ensure the desired pre-tension force, and therefore a reliable contact surface between the temperature sensor and the winding, as a result of the connecting force and, at the same time, secure the temperature sensor with force fit in the shaped-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Alex Wist, Mike Fippl
  • Publication number: 20170373565
    Abstract: An electric motor, particularly an engine of a motor vehicle, has a temperature sensor for monitoring the operating temperatures of a winding. The temperature sensor is inserted through a radial through-hole at the periphery of the insulation element into a recess which is delimited between a shaped-out portion on the corresponding projection of the insulation element and the winding. The shaped-out portion has a slope so that a translational displacement of the temperature sensor at the same time leads to an increase in the biasing force of the temperature sensor with respect to the winding. It is thus possible to ensure the desired pre-tension force, and therefore a reliable contact surface between the temperature sensor and the winding, as a result of the connecting force and, at the same time, secure the temperature sensor with force fit in the shaped-out portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: ALEX WIST, MIKE FIPPL
  • Publication number: 20170256998
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine has an annular stator body with a multiplicity of winding slots. The winding slots protrude into the stator body in the manner of a pocket from a ring interior. Respective windings are disposed in the winding slots and the slots are sealed toward the ring interior with slot-liner elements. The slot-liner elements of all the winding slots are combined to form a slot-liner cage. The slot-liner cage is formed with circumferential cage rings at the ends of the slot-liner elements. The cage rings have an interruption at a circumferential point. The circumferential point has a self-retaining lock geometry which prevents an autonomous opening of two intermeshing ring ends of the cage rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: MIKE FIPPL, UWE RIEMENSCHNEIDER, MICHAEL SCHNIER