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).

  • Patent number: 12244180
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Wieczorek, Florian Volkmuth, Sebastian Beetz, Nikolas Seubert, David Förster, Christoph Englert, Carsten Siepker, Nico Wolf
  • Publication number: 20250055358
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH
  • Publication number: 20250047154
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH, Regina NOACK, Carsten SIEPKER, Christoph WIECZOREK
  • Publication number: 20250047153
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nico WOLF, Regina NOACK, Alexander SCHLERETH, Christoph WIECZOREK, Carsten SIEPKER
  • Publication number: 20250015682
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nico WOLF, Alexander SCHLERETH
  • Publication number: 20240213846
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander SCHLERETH, Nico WOLF, Thomas TROTT, Nimal-Kumar MADAN-KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20230208220
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Wieczorek, Florian Volkmuth, Sebastian Beetz, Nikolas Seubert, David Förster, Christoph Englert, Carsten Siepker, Nico Wolf
  • Publication number: 20230208088
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Michael MENZ, Christian FINGER-ALBERT, Carsten SIEPKER, Nico WOLF, Regina BACH, Steffen FÖRTSCH, Christoph WIECZOREK
  • Publication number: 20230198359
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander SCHLERETH, Nico WOLF, Christoph WIECZOREK, Carsten SIEPKER
  • Publication number: 20230179051
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Siepker, Christoph Wieczorek, Regina Bach, Nico Wolf, Alexander Schlereth
  • Patent number: 10090719
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Nico Wolf
  • Publication number: 20180269743
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, ARDIAN TROPOJA, NICO WOLF
  • Patent number: 10027211
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth, Nico Wolf
  • Publication number: 20160056673
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, MATTHIAS WARMUTH, Nico Wolf
  • Publication number: 20150349616
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: KLAUS BÜTTNER, KLAUS KIRCHNER, MATTHIAS WARMUTH, NICO WOLF