Patents by Inventor Oliver Voca

Oliver Voca 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).

  • Publication number: 20260204601
    Abstract: A stack plate device for a humidifier, for example for a fuel cell system, includes stack plates being stacked one on top of another in a stacking direction, adjacent ones of the stack plates being alternately rotated around a central axis, with a top side of one stack plate facing a bottom side of an adjacent stack plate, each of the stack plates including a peripheral frame, the peripheral frame enclosing a through-opening and including an inflow region and an outflow region opposing the inflow region that are transverse to the stacking direction. The peripheral frame of each of the stack plates includes inner connecting elements and outer connecting elements configured for interconnecting the adjacent stack plates. A humidifier including a plurality of the stack plates between end plates is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2026
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Inventors: Oliver VOCA, Matthias TESCHNER, Michael FRANK, Alexander KORN, Pius TRAUTMANN
  • Publication number: 20250083108
    Abstract: A humidifier comprising a wound portion wrapped around a central axis and comprising enclosures, a first one the enclosures comprising a first pair of semipermeable membranes separated by a first spacer layer to form one among wet-gas channels, and a second one of the enclosures comprising a second pair of semipermeable membranes separated by a second spacer layer to form one among dry-gas channels. The dry-gas channels are configured to receive a dry gas through at least part of a first frontal area of the wound portion and in an axial direction along the dry-gas channels. The wet-gas channels are configured to receive a wet gas through at least part of a second frontal area of the wound portion and in the axial direction along the wet-gas channels, the second frontal area being opposite to the first frontal area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Matthias TESCHNER, Oliver VOCA, Benedikt WELLER, Pius TRAUTMANN, Mathias ASSMANN
  • Publication number: 20240282988
    Abstract: A stack plate device for a humidifier for a fuel cell system includes first stack plates and second stack plates being stacked one on top of each other alternately in a stacking direction, top sides of the first stack plates facing bottom sides of the second stack plates, top sides of the second stack plates facing bottom sides of the first stack plates, and each of the first stack plates and the second stack plates comprising a peripheral frame that encloses a through-opening and has an inflow region and an outflow region. First flow channels and second flow channels are formed in the first stack plates and the second stack plates and formed transversely to one another, the first flow channels and second flow channels being separated by moisture-permeable layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver VOCA, Matthias TESCHNER, Tom ZELTWANGER, Michael FRANK
  • Patent number: 10479546
    Abstract: A fluid housing of a fluid treatment system of a fluid system has a housing part of plastic material that is provided with a receiving chamber for accommodating a fluid treatment component; an installation opening, closable by a closure housing part, for installing the fluid treatment component in the receiving chamber; and a housing connecting section to connect the housing part to the closure housing part. A housing fastening section is provided with which the fluid housing can be fastened to a holding component of the fluid system. An insert is at least partially introduced into the plastic material of the housing part. The insert is provided with a reinforcement region extending with sections thereof in the housing connecting section and is further provided with fastening region extending with sections thereof in the housing fastening section. A fluid treatment system with such a fluid housing is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Fasold, Ulrich Dehnen, Stefan Kunze, Christopher Marc Sturgess, Alexander Woell, Heinz Dobusch, Alrun Spennemann, Oliver Voca, Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Andreas Kloz, Lars Bachmann, Pamela Gohl, Oliver Glueck, Vasilisa Chupina, Adolf Kuttesch
  • Publication number: 20180022497
    Abstract: A fluid housing of a fluid treatment system of a fluid system has a housing part of plastic material that is provided with a receiving chamber for accommodating a fluid treatment component; an installation opening, closable by a closure housing part, for installing the fluid treatment component in the receiving chamber; and a housing connecting section to connect the housing part to the closure housing part. A housing fastening section is provided with which the fluid housing can be fastened to a holding component of the fluid system. An insert is at least partially introduced into the plastic material of the housing part. The insert is provided with a reinforcement region extending with sections thereof in the housing connecting section and is further provided with fastening region extending with sections thereof in the housing fastening section. A fluid treatment system with such a fluid housing is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Fasold, Ulrich Dehnen, Stefan Kunze, Christopher Marc Sturgess, Alexander Woell, Heinz Dobusch, Alrun Spennemann, Oliver Voca, Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Andreas Kloz, Lars Bachmann, Pamela Gohl, Oliver Glueck, Vasilisa Chupina, Adolf Kuttesch