Patents by Inventor Philip Grabherr

Philip Grabherr 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: 20200295616
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, rotatable about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction, and a stator having stator windings, a coolant distribution chamber and a coolant collection chamber arranged axially at a distance thereto. The coolant distribution chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collection chamber with a cooling channel through which a coolant can flow. The cooling channel and the stator winding are embedded in a plastic mass made of a plastic for thermal coupling to the coolant. The stator has stator teeth extending along the axial direction and spaced apart from one another along a circumferential direction and carrying the stator windings. The plastic mass is arranged together with the cooling channel and the stator winding in an intermediate space formed between two stator teeth arranged adjacent in the circumferential direction and sections of cooling channel are configured as a tube body within the intermediate space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Philip Grabherr, Mirko Hoerz, Andrej Licen, Stojan Markic, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Hans-Ulrich Steurer
  • Publication number: 20200204024
    Abstract: An electric machine, for example for a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation that defines an axial direction of the electric machine, and a stator including stator windings. A coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber are provided, and arranged with an axial spacing to one another. The coolant distributor chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collector chamber for cooling the stator windings via at least one cooling channel that can be flowed through by a coolant. At least one of the stator windings is embedded into a plastics compound composed of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
  • Publication number: 20200204023
    Abstract: An electrical machine may include a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis defining an axial direction of the electrical machine, and a stator having stator windings, and a coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber arranged axially at a distance therefrom, wherein the coolant distributor chamber may communicate fluidically with the coolant collector chamber via at least one cooling channel through which a coolant may be flowable to cool the stator windings, wherein at least one stator winding may be embedded into a plastic composition composed of an electrically insulating plastic. At least one of the coolant distributor chamber and the coolant collector chamber may be arranged in a region of at least one of a first and a second axial end section of at least one stator winding, and may arranged at least partly in the plastic composition for thermal coupling to the at least one stator winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
  • Publication number: 20200185993
    Abstract: An electrical machine may include a comprise a rotor, a stator, a coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber. The rotor may be rotated about an axis of rotation that defines an axial direction of the electrical machine. The stator may comprise a plurality of stator windings. The coolant collector chamber may be axially arranged at a distance from the coolant distributor chamber. The coolant distributor chamber may communicate fluidically with the coolant collector chamber by way of least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow. The at least one cooling channel and the at least one stator winding may be embedded in a plastic mass consisting of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling to the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Markic Stojan, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
  • Publication number: 20200161947
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electrical machine includes providing the stator including a ring-shaped stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart along a circumferential direction of the stator body protrude radially to the inside. A space is thereby provided between two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. Second, a first injection molding of two stator teeth adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction with a plastic is performed. Third, a stator winding is arranged in the space. Fourth, a second injection molding of the stator winding arranged in the space with the plastic is performed such that an air gap and/or an air trap between the stator teeth injection molded in the second step and the stator winding after the arrangement of the stator winding in the space in the third step, is filled with the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200156296
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electrical machine may first include providing a stator having a ring-shaped stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart from one another along a circumferential direction of the stator body, for accommodating stator windings, protrude, wherein a space, in each case, may be embodied between two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction. The method then may include first injection molding at least two stator teeth, which are adjacent in the circumferential direction, with a plastic, arranging at least one stator winding in the space between the at least two stator teeth, and second injection molding the stator winding with the plastic, so that at least one of an air gap and an air trap formed between the at least two stator teeth first injection molded and the stator winding is filled with the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161917
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulation body (100) for an electrical machine (1). The insulation body (100) comprises outer walls (101a, 101b, 101c, 101d) composed of a plastic (K), which delimit a body interior (104). At least one winding zone (106a, 106b) for receiving a stator winding (6) and at least one channel zone (107a, 107b) for receiving a cooling channel (10) are provided in the body interior (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161918
    Abstract: An insulating body for an electric machine includes outer walls of a plastic, which delimit a body interior. In the body interior, at least one winding zone for receiving a stator winding and at least one passage zone for receiving a cooling passage are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200161916
    Abstract: An electrical machine may include a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, by way of which an axial direction of the electrical machine may be defined, a stator having electrically conductive stator windings, and at least one cooling channel through which a coolant may be flowable for cooling the stator windings. The stator may have stator teeth extending along the axial direction, arranged spaced apart from another along a circumferential direction of the rotor, and bearing the stator windings. The at least one cooling channel and at least one stator winding may be arranged in at least one intermediate space formed between two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction. A plastic for transferring heat from the at least one stator winding to the at least one cooling channel may be arranged in the at least one intermediate space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto Almeida E Silva, Bernd Blankenbach, Terry Cox, Philip Grabherr, Niklas Kull, Tim Male, Peter Pisek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20200136445
    Abstract: An electrical machine for a vehicle includes a rotor, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, by which an axial direction of the electrical machine is defined, a stator with stator windings; and a cooling channel, or a plurality of cooling channels, through which a coolant flows. The stator has stator teeth, which extend along the axial direction and are spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction and which bear the stator windings. At least one stator winding is embedded in an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling, the electrically insulating plastic is arranged, together with the at least one stator winding, in an intermediate space, which is formed between two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction, and the electrically insulating plastic is formed by a first plastic mass of a first plastic material and a second plastic mass of a second plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr