Patents by Inventor RAINER HELMER

RAINER HELMER 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: 20210288542
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine having slots for receiving conductors used for generating a magnetic field; in the slots, at least two mutually parallel, adjoining conductors being provided, which are electrically insulated from one another by insulation means; the insulations means being formed at least partially by a partition inserted between the conductors. It is an object of the present invention to provide a stator, respectively a method for manufacturing such a stator, which, on the one hand, will make it possible to achieve a high fill factor and, on the other hand, to reliably prevent partial discharges. The objective is achieved by the use and/or characteristics of the partitions being a function of the particular maximum voltage potential between the mutually parallel, adjoining conductors in the slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Hauke EINFELD, Jan WINTER, Rainer HELMER, Marco BRÜGGEMANN
  • Patent number: 10224771
    Abstract: Circulating currents are suppressed and thermal losses are reduced in a three-phase permanent-magnet-excited synchronous machine in a delta circuit. The machine has a stator in which, during operation, a voltage is induced by way of a magnetic field generated by magnetic poles of a rotor. A field strength of the magnetic field has, along a circumferential coordinate of the rotor, a profile formed from superimposition of a sinusoidal basic function and of sinusoidal harmonics of the basic function. Groove recesses and/or cavities are located in and/or under a circumferential face of the rotor that face the stator and follow an axial extent of the pole pitch of the rotor in their longitudinal extent and extend transversely with respect to the longitudinal extent along the circumferential coordinate in the region of the maximum values of at least the third harmonic and outside the maximum values of the basic function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hauke Einfeld, Rainer Helmer
  • Publication number: 20170324287
    Abstract: Circulating currents are suppressed and thermal losses are reduced in a three-phase permanent-magnet-excited synchronous machine in a delta circuit. The machine has a stator in which, during operation, a voltage is induced by way of a magnetic field generated by magnetic poles of a rotor. A field strength of the magnetic field has, along a circumferential coordinate of the rotor, a profile formed from superimposition of a sinusoidal basic function and of sinusoidal harmonics of the basic function. Groove recesses and/or cavities are located in and/or under a circumferential face of the rotor that face the stator and follow an axial extent of the pole pitch of the rotor in their longitudinal extent and extend transversely with respect to the longitudinal extent along the circumferential coordinate in the region of the maximum values of at least the third harmonic and outside the maximum values of the basic function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: HAUKE EINFELD, RAINER HELMER