Patents by Inventor NICO WOLF
NICO WOLF 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: 12244180Abstract: An electromagnetic pole (17) for a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The pole has a tooth (18) comprising a tooth body (19), the tooth (18) being radially oriented and the tooth (18) comprising a recess (21), a coil (16) comprising a plurality of wire turns (20) wound around the tooth (18) between a first radial end (28) and a second radial end (29), the wire turns (20) which are the most distant from the tooth body (19) between the first radial end (28) and the second radial end (29), forming an outer wire layer (22), the coil (16) comprising a bracing wire (14), the bracing wire (14) being wound on the outer wire layer (22) from the first radial end (28) to the second radial end (29) in less than one turn around the tooth (18) so as to hold in position the outer wire layer (22).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Wieczorek, Florian Volkmuth, Sebastian Beetz, Nikolas Seubert, David Förster, Christoph Englert, Carsten Siepker, Nico Wolf
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Publication number: 20250055358Abstract: A rotor assembly method includes an assembly step configured to install on a rotor shaft of a rotor and a lamination package formed of a stack of laminations. The stack of laminations includes an inner portion and an outer portion which is, compared to the inner portion, more distant to the rotor shaft. Also included is a compression step of compressing the outer portion by an axial compression force to form a compressed outer portion. A winding assembly and fixation step includes winding a field coil on the compressed outer portion, and removing the axial compression force after the field coil is wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH
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Publication number: 20250047154Abstract: Rotor for electric machine includes a rotor shaft, and a laminated core arranged on the rotor shaft and formed from stacked electrical laminations with radially outwardly protruding laminated core projections. A first end plate arranged on a first axial side of the laminated core with radially outwardly protruding end plate projections. A second end plate arranged on an opposite second axial side of the laminated core with radially outwardly protruding end plate projections. A plurality of rotor windings are respectively wound around an end plate projection of the first end plate, and an axially opposite end plate projection of the second end plate and a laminated core projection extends axially between the two end plate projections. A pot-shaped first end cap axially covers the first end plate, a pot-shaped second end cap axially covers the second end plate. A tubular cooling channel runs axially between two adjacent rotor windings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH, Regina NOACK, Carsten SIEPKER, Christoph WIECZOREK
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Publication number: 20250047153Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor shaft and a laminated core which is arranged on the rotor shaft and formed from stacked electrical laminations and which has radially outwardly projecting laminated core protrusions. Rotor windings are each wound around a laminated core protrusion. A pole separator is arranged between two adjacent laminated core protrusions and has a cooling duct, which runs in the pole separator, for a coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Nico WOLF, Regina NOACK, Alexander SCHLERETH, Christoph WIECZOREK, Carsten SIEPKER
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Publication number: 20250015682Abstract: A rotor assembly method includes an assembly step configured to install a stack of laminations on a rotor shaft of a rotor, wherein the stack of laminations includes an inner portion and an outer portion which is, compared to the inner portion, more distant to the rotor shaft. A compression step includes compressing the inner portion to provoke accordingly a fan-out of the outer portion, so as to form a compact inner portion and a fan-out outer portion. A compacting step includes compacting the fan-out outer portion to form a compact outer portion, a compact lamination package including the compact inner portion and the compact outer portion being thus formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH
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Publication number: 20240213846Abstract: A housing for an electric machine has a hollow-cylindrical housing casing and a circular bearing plate composed of a first material which is arranged at one axial end of the housing casing. A reinforcing element composed of a second material is embedded in the bearing plate. In addition, an electric machine having such a housing, a vehicle having such an electric machine and a method for producing the housing are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Alexander SCHLERETH, Nico WOLF, Thomas TROTT, Nimal-Kumar MADAN-KUMAR
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Publication number: 20230208220Abstract: An electromagnetic pole (17) for a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The pole has a tooth (18) comprising a tooth body (19), the tooth (18) being radially oriented and the tooth (18) comprising a recess (21), a coil (16) comprising a plurality of wire turns (20) wound around the tooth (18) between a first radial end (28) and a second radial end (29), the wire turns (20) which are the most distant from the tooth body (19) between the first radial end (28) and the second radial end (29), forming an outer wire layer (22), the coil (16) comprising a bracing wire (14), the bracing wire (14) being wound on the outer wire layer (22) from the first radial end (28) to the second radial end (29) in less than one turn around the tooth (18) so as to hold in position the outer wire layer (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Wieczorek, Florian Volkmuth, Sebastian Beetz, Nikolas Seubert, David Förster, Christoph Englert, Carsten Siepker, Nico Wolf
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Publication number: 20230208088Abstract: A rotor including a rotor shaft, a rotor body formed of a stack of laminations, a field coil wound around the rotor body, and at least one slip ring mounted on the rotor shaft and configured to exchange electric power with an external power supply. Each of the at least one slip ring is configured to be electrically connected to an end of the field coil through an electrical connector. The electrical connector is pre-bended such that to comprise an axial portion and a radial portion respectively located on both sides of a bend, the axial portion being configured to pass through an axial bore of the rotor shaft, the radial portion being configured to pass through a through bore of the rotor shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Michael MENZ, Christian FINGER-ALBERT, Carsten SIEPKER, Nico WOLF, Regina BACH, Steffen FÖRTSCH, Christoph WIECZOREK
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Publication number: 20230198359Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor having an axis of rotation and including a rotor shaft extending parallel to the axis of rotation, a rotor body mounted on the rotor shaft and having a plurality of teeth protruding radially, and at least one field coil wound around the plurality of teeth, the field coil forming coil ends at axial ends of the teeth. At least one cover mounted on the rotor shaft and configured to cover the coil ends. The cover includes a plurality of holes configured to each receive a solid balancing element which provides an additional mass to the rotor in order to balance said rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Alexander SCHLERETH, Nico WOLF, Christoph WIECZOREK, Carsten SIEPKER
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Publication number: 20230179051Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is disclosed. The rotor has a rotor shaft, a laminated core arranged on the rotor shaft and a plurality of stacked electrical laminations. The rotor also includes a first end plate arranged on an axial side of the laminated core and having radial protrusions arranged along its circumference, a second end plate arranged on the opposite axial side of the laminated core and having radial protrusions arranged along its circumference, a plurality of rotor windings which are each wound around a protrusion of the first end plate and around an axially opposite protrusion of the second end plate. A central cooling duct runs in the rotor shaft for supplying a coolant, and a radial cooling duct runs outwards from the central cooling duct in the laminated core. In addition, an electric machine and a vehicle having an electric machine of this type are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Carsten Siepker, Christoph Wieczorek, Regina Bach, Nico Wolf, Alexander Schlereth
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Patent number: 10090719Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance motor having a laminate stack of layers is disclosed. Each layer has at least one magnetically-conductive rotor lamination, and in each layer a plurality of flux-conducting sections are formed by the at least one rotor lamination, which flux-conducting sections are separated from one another by a nonmagnetic region. The invention addresses the problem of enabling a high torque and a high speed. For this purpose, an insert disk is arranged between at least two of the layers, connected in each case to at least two flux-conducting sections of one of the layers or both of the layers between which said insert disk is arranged and, as a result, connects said flux-conducting sections to one another beyond the nonmagnetic region located there between.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Nico Wolf
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Publication number: 20180269743Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, a rotatably mounted rotor interacting with the stator and including a shaft which has an axial borehole. A flow guiding element extends into the axial borehole such as to enable a coolant to flow out of the flow guiding element and into the axial borehole or into the flow guiding element and out of the axial borehole. A slide ring seal seals the shaft with the axial borehole with respect to an element that is rotationally stationary relative to the shaft. When the electric machine is in operation, a value for moisture in a cavity of the electric machine can be determined in a cavity of the electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, ARDIAN TROPOJA, NICO WOLF
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Patent number: 10027211Abstract: A cage rotor of a rotary asynchronous machine includes an axially laminated core having substantially axially extending grooves, at least one electrical conductor disposed in the grooves and composed of at least of two partial conductors constructed from materials having different electrical conductivities and different mechanical strengths, wherein the partial conductor made of the higher-strength material is disposed radially farther outwardly at least in sections of the groove, as viewed along the axial extent of the respective, and a short-circuit ring arranged on a respective end face side of the laminated core and electrically-conductively interconnecting the electrical conductors that are disposed in the respective grooves and protrude axially from the laminated core.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Nico Wolf
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Publication number: 20160056673Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance motor having a laminate stack of layers is disclosed. Each layer has at least one magnetically-conductive rotor lamination, and in each layer a plurality of flux-conducting sections are formed by the at least one rotor lamination, which flux-conducting sections are separated from one another by a nonmagnetic region. The invention addresses the problem of enabling a high torque and a high speed. For this purpose, an insert disk is arranged between at least two of the layers, connected in each case to at least two flux-conducting sections of one of the layers or both of the layers between which said insert disk is arranged and, as a result, connects said flux-conducting sections to one another beyond the nonmagnetic region located there between.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, MATTHIAS WARMUTH, Nico Wolf
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Publication number: 20150349616Abstract: A cage rotor of a rotary asynchronous machine includes an axially laminated core having substantially axially extending grooves, at least one electrical conductor disposed in the grooves and composed of at least of two partial conductors constructed from materials having different electrical conductivities and different mechanical strengths, wherein the partial conductor made of the higher-strength material is disposed radially farther outwardly at least in sections of the groove, as viewed along the axial extent of the respective, and a short-circuit ring arranged on a respective end face side of the laminated core and electrically-conductively interconnecting the electrical conductors that are disposed in the respective grooves and protrude axially from the laminated core.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, MATTHIAS WARMUTH, NICO WOLF