Patents by Inventor Patrick Fuchs

Patrick Fuchs 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: 12278549
    Abstract: An electric machine including a pulse inverter having a region with an oil space and busbars, wherein the electric machine is electrically connected to the pulse inverter by the busbars such that the busbars are electrically connected to a connection of the pulse inverter, wherein the busbars and the electric machine are cooled by oil, and wherein the oil for supplying and cooling the busbars is stored within the oil space in the region of the pulse inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sebastian Wachter, Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
  • Patent number: 12257908
    Abstract: A drive unit for an electric vehicle, including an electric machine, a gear mechanism, a housing, wherein the electric machine and the gear mechanism are arranged in an interior of the housing, and a receiving apparatus for a pulse inverter module, wherein the housing has an opening and the receiving apparatus is arranged in the interior of the housing directly behind the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Timijan Velic, Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow
  • Patent number: 12262494
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus, including a first housing having a fluid-filled or fluid-perfused wet space and a dry space that are separated from one another by a wall, wherein the wall includes an opening, one or more power-conducting and/or power-switching elements arranged in the wet space, and a control electronics for the one or more power-switching elements arranged in the dry space. The electrical apparatus includes a second housing extending from the opening into the wet space, wherein the second housing reaches up to or encloses a power-conducting element, and a sensor arranged in the second housing, the sensor being configured to measure a variable that depends on an electrical power flowing through the power-conducting element. The second housing seals the opening in the wall in a fluid-tight manner. Measured values or signals of the sensor conducted by lines are passed through the opening into the dry space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sebastian Wachter, Patrick Fuchs
  • Patent number: 12200916
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled power electronics unit includes a planar circuit board body having conductor tracks, a wet side with a wet space for carrying a dielectric cooling liquid, and a fluidically, separated dry side, wherein at least two high-voltage power semiconductors are arranged on the circuit board body on the wet side within the wet space, the high-voltage power semiconductors being cooled by the cooling liquid, and an electronic low-voltage circuit is arranged on the dry side of the circuit board body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DEN ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V.
    Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic, Bernd Eckardt, Maximilian Hofmann, Hubert Rauh, Andre Mueller, Benjamin Bayer, Jordan Sorge
  • Patent number: 12072355
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a flow of current through at least one electrical conductor of an electrotechnical device which is disposed in a cooling channel, wherein a non-conductive cooling medium flows through the cooling channel during operation of the electrotechnical apparatus, the apparatus including a flux conductor which is disposed around the at least one electrical conductor, and an evaluation circuit which is coupled to the flux conductor and is configured to determine the flow of current through the at least one electrical conductor by evaluating an electrical parameter of the flux conductor, wherein at least a part of the flux conductor is disposed in the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
  • Patent number: 11996349
    Abstract: An inverter (1) for operating an electrical machine (10) has at least one power semiconductor (2) and a drain contact (5) arranged on an underside of the power semiconductor (2). The drain contact (5) is arranged in a coolant channel (6) for impingement by a coolant. Also proposed are a drivetrain (20) and a motor vehicle (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Sebastian Wachter
  • Patent number: 11946952
    Abstract: A measurement arrangement, including a current line, a first measurement location provided on the current line, a second measurement location provided on the current line, and a coolant, wherein the second measurement location is provided at a distance from the first measurement location in order to make it possible to measure a voltage in a measurement section of the current line arising due to a current flowing through the current line, wherein the measurement section is defined between the first measurement location and the second measurement location, and wherein the coolant is of fluid form and at least in areas is in direct contact with the current line in an area between the first measurement location and the second measurement location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
  • Publication number: 20230059583
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a flow of current through at least one electrical conductor of an electrotechnical device which is disposed in a cooling channel, wherein a non-conductive cooling medium flows through the cooling channel during operation of the electrotechnical apparatus, the apparatus including a flux conductor which is disposed around the at least one electrical conductor, and an evaluation circuit which is coupled to the flux conductor and is configured to determine the flow of current through the at least one electrical conductor by evaluating an electrical parameter of the flux conductor, wherein at least a part of the flux conductor is disposed in the cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
  • Publication number: 20230057989
    Abstract: A pulse inverter for operating an electric machine of a motor vehicle from a motor vehicle battery, including a housing for delimiting an interior, a power electronics system, provided in the interior of the housing, for converting direct current to alternating current, a first cooling circuit configured to dissipate heat from an outer side of the housing facing away from the power electronics system, and a second cooling circuit, which is separated from the first cooling circuit and communicates with the interior of the housing, configured to directly liquid-cool the power electronics system with an electrically insulating fluid. (FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Pascal Heusler, Patrick Fuchs, Karl Dums, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic
  • Publication number: 20230030764
    Abstract: A drive unit for an electric vehicle, including an electric machine, a gear mechanism, a housing, wherein the electric machine and the gear mechanism are arranged in an interior of the housing, and a receiving apparatus for a pulse inverter module, wherein the housing has an opening and the receiving apparatus is arranged in the interior of the housing directly behind the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Timijan Velic, Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow
  • Publication number: 20230031138
    Abstract: An electric machine including a pulse inverter having a region with an oil space and busbars, wherein the electric machine is electrically connected to the pulse inverter by the busbars such that the busbars are electrically connected to a connection of the pulse inverter, wherein the busbars and the electric machine are cooled by oil, and wherein the oil for supplying and cooling the busbars is stored within the oil space in the region of the pulse inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sebastian Wachter, Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
  • Publication number: 20230028938
    Abstract: A high-voltage component for a high-voltage on-board electrical system of an at least partly electrically operated motor vehicle, including at least one housing device for at least one power electronics device of the high-voltage on-board electrical system, wherein the housing device at least partly provides at least one shielding device for reducing effects of electromagnetic interference, and wherein the shielding device includes at least one electrically non-conductive housing body of the housing device and at least one electrical discharge path arranged at least partly on and/or in the housing body and configured to connect to a vehicle reference potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Timijan Velic, Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20230024031
    Abstract: A capacitor is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrically conductive capacitor layers wound around a winding center and a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel is disposed between the capacitor layers, and wherein the cooling channel is electrically conductive. A system and a motor vehicle that includes the capacitors is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Timijan Velic
  • Publication number: 20220404397
    Abstract: A measurement arrangement, including a current line, a first measurement location provided on the current line, a second measurement location provided on the current line, and a coolant, wherein the second measurement location is provided at a distance from the first measurement location in order to make it possible to measure a voltage in a measurement section of the current line arising due to a current flowing through the current line, wherein the measurement section is defined between the first measurement location and the second measurement location, and wherein the coolant is of fluid form and at least in areas is in direct contact with the current line in an area between the first measurement location and the second measurement location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Maximilian Barkow, Timijan Velic, Sebastian Wachter
  • Publication number: 20220352788
    Abstract: A drive system for an electric vehicle includes: drive components, including: a traction battery; an inverter; and an electric machine. The traction battery is electrically connected to the electric machine by the inverter. The traction battery is electrically connected to the inverter and the inverter is electrically connected to the electric machine in each case by high-voltage connecting elements. The drive system has a cooling circuit cools the drive components by a cooling medium. The drive components and the high-voltage connecting elements are each formed so as to convey cooling medium and form a part of the cooling circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Sebastian Wachter, Daniel Knoblauch
  • Publication number: 20210351107
    Abstract: An inverter (1) for operating an electrical machine (10) has at least one power semiconductor (2) and a drain contact (5) arranged on an underside of the power semiconductor (2). The drain contact (5) is arranged in a coolant channel (6) for impingement by a coolant. Also proposed are a drivetrain (20) and a motor vehicle (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Maximilian Barkow, Patrick Fuchs, Sebastian Wachter
  • Patent number: 10870330
    Abstract: In a method for protecting vehicle occupants in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle. It is provided as essential to the invention that at least one structure-borne sound signal is captured by at least one structure-borne sound sensor, the captured structure-borne sound signal is evaluated by at least one evaluation device, the structure-borne sound signal can be produced by at least one person located in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and after the capture and evaluation of the structure-borne sound signal at least one control signal is sent to a triggering device of an air supply device to introduce air into the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Christian Jurgens, Patrick Fuchs, Hauke Baumgartel
  • Patent number: 10665092
    Abstract: In a method for wireless communication between a vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle, and an external service facility, wherein at least one communication signal is sent to the vehicle by the service facility, it is provided as essential for the purposes of the invention that the communication signal is a sound signal, and that the communication signal is captured by at least one structure-borne sound sensor installed in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Christian Jurgens, Patrick Fuchs, Hauke Baumgartel
  • Patent number: 10604096
    Abstract: With a method for detecting a contact event on the outer shell of a vehicle, wherein at least one structure-borne sound signal is detected by means of a structure-borne sound sensor, the detected structure-borne sound signal is evaluated by an evaluation device, and wherein the vehicle comprises a number of structure-borne sound sensors, it is provided as essential to the invention that each of the structure-borne sound sensors is associated with an area of the vehicle outer shell via a structure-borne sound conducting link, that an evaluation device is used to ascertain, by which of the structure-borne sound sensors respectively, a structure-borne sound signal has been detected, that conclusions are drawn from the association of the structure-borne sound sensors as to the area of the vehicle outer shell which has been touched, and that conclusions are drawn from the area of the vehicle shell which has been touched, as to the kind of underlying contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Christian Jurgens, Patrick Fuchs, Hauke Baumgartel
  • Patent number: 10283990
    Abstract: A charger for a motor vehicle and to a method for charging an energy store of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Patrick Fuchs, Christian Jürgens