Patents by Inventor Norman Schaake

Norman Schaake 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: 11738621
    Abstract: A ventilating tube may include a body through which air is flowable in an air flow direction and a sound attenuating mechanism for attenuating airborne noise. The sound attenuating mechanism may be a wavelength resonator, which may include at least one resonance chamber. On one side, the at least one resonance chamber may have an opening which opens the at least one resonance chamber into the body transversely to the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Ralf Berndt, Norman Schaake
  • Patent number: 11597253
    Abstract: A blower having a motor mount, in particular for a blower of an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, the blower having a blower housing, in which an electric motor is held with the aid of the motor mount, an impeller being furthermore drivably disposed in the blower housing on a shaft of the electric motor, the impeller having a side oriented toward the electric motor, and the motor mount having a first surface oriented toward the impeller, a gap being formed between the impeller and the first surface, the first surface having a plurality of first projecting elements, which protect on the outer circumference of the surface in the direction of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventor: Norman Schaake
  • Patent number: 11351839
    Abstract: A sound insulation arrangement for an air-conditioning system may include a gas-tight housing and a sound insulation element. The housing may include an air inlet and an air outlet. The sound insulation element may be composed of an insulation material and may be fixed in the housing. The sound insulation element may have an inlet side disposed about the air inlet and an outlet side disposed about the air outlet such that the sound insulation element defines an air conduit in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Paul, Erik Person, Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20200094649
    Abstract: A ventilating tube may include a body through which air is flowable in an air flow direction and a sound attenuating mechanism for attenuating airborne noise. The sound attenuating mechanism may be a wavelength resonator, which may include at least one resonance chamber. On one side, the at least one resonance chamber may have an opening which opens the at least one resonance chamber into the body transversely to the air flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Ralf Berndt, Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20200094648
    Abstract: A blower having a motor mount, in particular for a blower of an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, the blower having a blower housing, in which an electric motor is held with the aid of the motor mount, an impeller being furthermore drivably disposed in the blower housing on a shaft of the electric motor, the impeller having a side oriented toward the electric motor, and the motor mount having a first surface oriented toward the impeller, a gap being formed between the impeller and the first surface, the first surface having a plurality of first projecting elements, which protect on the outer circumference of the surface in the direction of the impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventor: Norman SCHAAKE
  • Patent number: 10486501
    Abstract: An exemplary flap arrangement may include a housing and a flap arranged in the housing for regulating an air flow in the housing. The flap may have a flap main body with a front side arranged on an air inflow side in an operating state. The flap arrangement may also include an elastic sealing lip with a sealing surface provided on the flap main body. The flap arrangement may further include a rib arranged in the region of the sealing lip and outside the sealing surface. The rib may project substantially vertically from the front side of the flap main body, and may serve for air flow rate reduction during opening of the flap. The sealing lip and the rib may be formed in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20180370325
    Abstract: A sound insulation arrangement for an air-conditioning system may include a gas-tight housing and a sound insulation element. The housing may include an air inlet and an air outlet. The sound insulation element may be composed of an insulation material and may be fixed in the housing. The sound insulation element may have an inlet side disposed about the air inlet and an outlet side disposed about the air outlet such that the sound insulation element defines an air conduit in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Paul, Erik Person, Norman Schaake
  • Patent number: 10137753
    Abstract: An air guide housing, in particular for a ventilation, heating or air conditioning system of a vehicle, with at least one first air inlet opening, wherein the at least one first air inlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged substantially vertical to a first axis, and with at least one second air inlet opening, wherein the at least one second air inlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged substantially vertical to a second axis, and having at least one air outlet opening, wherein the at least one air outlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged essentially vertical to a third axis, and with a fan impeller for suctioning air into the air guide housing. The second axis and the third axis are arranged substantially parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Norman Schaake, Andreas Pfander
  • Patent number: 10125787
    Abstract: A housing of a centrifugal blower for use in an air conditioner is provided that includes a rotatably supported fan wheel, an inlet opening disposed in the axial direction of the fan wheel and an outlet opening disposed in the radial direction of the fan wheel. A widening diffuser is disposed downstream from the outlet opening in the flow direction, and the fan wheel is disposed in an inner volume of the housing. A crossover area formed from multiple openings is provided on at least one housing wall which delimits the inner volume. At least one chamber is disposed on the outside of the housing, the chamber completely covering the crossover area and being fluidically connected to the inner volume of the housing via the crossover area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Rendel, Norman Schaake, Joerg Kilian
  • Publication number: 20170210198
    Abstract: An air conditioning unit for a motor vehicle may include a housing having a fan arranged within the housing for generating an air flow and at least one housing region through which the air flow can flow. The housing may also include an outer wall separating a surrounding region of the housing from an interior of the respective housing region, the air flow being flowable through the interior. The outer wall may have at least wall section, the outer wall having a wall thickness in the wall section that is smaller than a wall thickness of the outer wall outside the wall section. An airborne sound absorber may be arranged on an outer side of the outer wall in a region of the wall section, the outer side of the outer wall facing away from the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Erik Person, Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20170066302
    Abstract: An air guide housing, in particular for a ventilation, heating or air conditioning system of a vehicle, with at least one first air inlet opening, wherein the at least one first air inlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged substantially vertical to a first axis, and with at least one second air inlet opening, wherein the at least one second air inlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged substantially vertical to a second axis, and having at least one air outlet opening, wherein the at least one air outlet opening has a cross sectional area which is arranged essentially vertical to a third axis, and with a fan impeller for suctioning air into the air guide housing. The second axis and the third axis are arranged substantially parallel to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Norman SCHAAKE, Andreas PFANDER
  • Publication number: 20170030610
    Abstract: A flow channel, in particular for a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system, whereby the flow channel has a flow channel inner wall with at least one recess and at least one sound-permeable cover, whereby the at least one sound-permeable cover covers the at least one recess in order to conduct a fluid stream, flowing through the flow channel, away from the at least one recess, and with at least one acoustic dampening chamber, which surrounds the at least one recess on a side, facing away from the flow channel, of the at least one sound-permeable cover, whereby the at least one acoustic dampening chamber has at least one partition wall that divides the at least one acoustic dampening chamber into at least two compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Norman SCHAAKE, Lars KIEKE
  • Publication number: 20160263967
    Abstract: An exemplary flap arrangement may include a housing and a flap arranged in the housing for regulating an air flow in the housing. The flap may have a flap main body with a front side arranged on an air inflow side in an operating state. The flap arrangement may also include an elastic sealing lip with a sealing surface provided on the flap main body. The flap arrangement may further include a rib arranged in the region of the sealing lip and outside the sealing surface. The rib may project substantially vertically from the front side of the flap main body, and may serve for air flow rate reduction during opening of the flap. The sealing lip and the rib may be formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20160207373
    Abstract: A climate control system with an air guiding element is provided, whereby the air guiding element is partially permeable to air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Norman Schaake, Stefan Weichenthal
  • Publication number: 20150275915
    Abstract: A housing of a centrifugal blower for use in an air conditioner is provided that includes a rotatably supported fan wheel, an inlet opening disposed in the axial direction of the fan wheel and an outlet opening disposed in the radial direction of the fan wheel. A widening diffuser is disposed downstream from the outlet opening in the flow direction, and the fan wheel is disposed in an inner volume of the housing. A crossover area formed from multiple openings is provided on at least one housing wall which delimits the inner volume. At least one chamber is disposed on the outside of the housing, the chamber completely covering the crossover area and being fluidically connected to the inner volume of the housing via the crossover area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael RENDEL, Norman SCHAAKE, Joerg KILIAN
  • Publication number: 20120270491
    Abstract: A sealing lip for an edge region of a flap body of a ventilation flap of a vehicle HVAC system is provided. The sealing lip includes a first main side and a second main side opposite to the first main side, whereby the first main side has a plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Norman SCHAAKE, Alexander Bopp, Claude Gietzke
  • Publication number: 20070207719
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heater or air conditioner comprising a mixing zone (M1) in which cold and hot air discharged from a cold air duct (K) and a hot air duct (W), respectively, are mixed. At least one second mixing zone (M2) is provided which is disposed downstream of the first mixing zone (M1) in the direction of air flow and to which cold and/or hot air can be delivered directly via a duct (K3; K3?; K3?) while the first mixing zone (M1) is bypassed. Also disclosed is a method for mixing air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Rainer Blasi, Alexander Bopp, Wolfgang Dieksander, Alexander Schaudt, Markus Wawzyniak, Norman Schaake
  • Patent number: 6607432
    Abstract: An air duct, in particular for a motor vehicle heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning system, which is acoustically optimized by virtue of the fact that at least one cross-sectional discontinuity is constructed by making use of a phenomena which occur as acoustic scattering processes at the cross-sectional discontinuity. The cross-sectional discontinuity should extend substantially perpendicular to the flow direction in the air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Valeo Klimasysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Norman Schaake
  • Publication number: 20020129863
    Abstract: An air duct, in particular for a motor vehicle heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning system, which is acoustically optimized by virtue of the fact that at least one cross-sectional discontinuity is constructed by making use of a phenomena which occur as acoustic scattering processes at the cross-sectional discontinuity. The cross-sectional discontinuity should extend substantially perpendicular to the flow direction in the air duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Norman Schaake, Siegfried Derx