Patents by Inventor Raphael Koch

Raphael Koch 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: 20240234870
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a vehicle, comprising a plastic container, having a plastic container base, an electrical line integrated in the plastic container base, a battery unit arranged in the plastic container, an electrical connector which is partially integrated in the plastic container base and provides an electrical connection between the electrical line and the battery unit, a plastic cover, and a temperature control unit which is arranged between the plastic container base and the battery unit, wherein the temperature control unit has a fluid channel through which a temperature control fluid can flow in order to control the temperature of the battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Raphael Koch, Maik Broda, Marcel Mathissen
  • Publication number: 20240102500
    Abstract: A structural assembly includes a fastener and an additively manufactured component. The additively manufactured component includes a base, a void defined in the base, and a support disposed across the void. The fastener is secured to the base within the void, and the support is captured within a distal end portion of the fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joy Hines Forsmark, Niamh Hosking, Raphael Koch, Michael James Freeman
  • Publication number: 20230412010
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a rotor element for a rotor of an electric machine. The method includes screen printing at least one permanent magnetic material and a non-permanent magnetic material to form the rotor element, simultaneously sintering the permanent magnetic material and the non-permanent magnetic material, and magnetizing the permanent magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Wanfeng Li
  • Publication number: 20230041608
    Abstract: An electrical sheet includes an electrical sheet main body produced by additive manufacturing (a 3D screen printing method) from at least a first and a second material. The first and second materials have magnetic properties which differ from one another, and first and second domains are formed in the electrical sheet main body from the first and second materials respectively. An electric machine is also provided. An electric machine and a method for producing an electrical sheet for use in a stator or rotor of an electric machine are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Viktor Haeuser
  • Patent number: 11498158
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method wherein an object is manufactured by powder being applied layer-by-layer by an application device onto a base along a buildup surface and being bonded in regions to form a matrix. To provide an efficient additive powder bed method, a position of the base is checked by at least one measurement with a sensor device and the position of the base is automatically corrected at least in relation to the application device based on the at least one measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar
  • Publication number: 20220255383
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a conductor structure having at least one metallic conductor element made from at least one of aluminum, copper, and silver having a monocrystalline or columnar crystal structure. The conductor structure may be formed from a plurality of individual flat conductor elements integrally bonded together by welding or soldering to form a winding. The metallic conductor element may be cut from an aluminum, copper, or silver bar having a monocrystalline or columnar crystal structure. A wafer having a plurality of conductor elements may be cut from a bar with the conductor elements separated from the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael KOCH, Viktor HAEUSER, Maik BRODA
  • Patent number: 11299794
    Abstract: A hot-forming line for producing hot-formed and press-quenched sheet-steel products includes a temperature control station for heating at least one sheet-metal blank, a hot-forming and press-quenching tool for hot forming and press quenching the heated sheet-metal blank and at least one blank gripper for gripping and transferring the sheet-metal blank before and/or after hot forming and press quenching. The at least one blank gripper forms at least one contact region with the sheet-metal blank during the gripping of the sheet-metal blank. Also, the at least one blank gripper is configured to cool the sheet-metal blank in the at least one contact region during gripping and transfer of the sheet-metal blank before hot forming and press quenching and/or heat the sheet-metal blank in the at least one contact region during gripping and transfer after hot forming and press quenching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Maik Broda, Ferat Oezkan, Ilya Popov
  • Publication number: 20220069554
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of conductor elements includes providing the plurality of conductor elements, each conductor element includes a conductor end section having an electrically insulating surface coating; securing the conductor end sections of the conductor elements with respect to each other; and simultaneously removing at least a portion of the electrically insulating surface coatings of the conductor end sections using a machining surface of a stripping tool being moved along the conductor end sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Julius Maximilian Engelke, Maira Magnani, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Marcel Mathissen
  • Publication number: 20220060075
    Abstract: A production method for manufacturing a hairpin coil includes positioning a plurality of hairpin-like conductor elements on a coil support such that conductor end portions of conductor elements to be connected, which protrude from the coil support, are arranged adjacent to one another as conductor end portion pairs, securing the relative position of the conductor end portions of a conductor end portion pair, and simultaneously welding the respective conductor end portions of a plurality of conductor end portion pairs by friction welding, by a friction surface of a welding tool being simultaneously moved in a frictional manner along the plurality of conductor end portion pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Marcel Mathissen, Maira Magnani, Julius Maximilian Engelke, Ferat Oezkan
  • Publication number: 20220016685
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tool part of a forming tool. The method includes forming a tool element of the tool part having a shape-imparting operating face and at least one first cooling duct for cooling a liquid using an additive manufacturing machine. The first cooling duct has at least one rectifier portion including a blocking direction and an opposing passing direction. The blocking direction has a higher flow resistance to cooling liquid than the passing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Maik Broda, Ferat Oezkan, Ilya Popov
  • Patent number: 11207735
    Abstract: An apparatus for the additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures from a material that is to be solidified by way of location-selective solidification thereof as a result of light-induced chemical and/or physical processes in the material includes a laser source for producing a laser beam, a focusing optical unit for focusing the laser beam so as to form a laser focus, and a beam-splitter optical unit for splitting the laser beam into at least two partial laser beams. The laser source, the focusing optical unit and the beam-splitter optical unit are arranged such that the laser beam, starting from the laser source, passes first through the focusing optical unit and then through the beam-splitter optical unit and the partial laser beams finally are each directed to different locations on the material that is to be solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar
  • Patent number: 11110516
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an additive production method of producing an object by metal powder being applied in a production region in layers by an application device. The metal powder is applied to a base member along a construction face and is partially molten by a laser beam and solidified. A continuous conveyor transports the base member with the object in a transport direction away from the construction face. The continuous conveyor further transports the base member with the completed object to a removal region where the object is removed from the continuous conveyor. Support structures are produced on the object and are connected to the base member. The support structures are removed after the removal region has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Bruno Alves
  • Patent number: 11045917
    Abstract: A production device having wear and/or manipulation identification is provided. The production device is produced at least for the most part by additive production methods and has a surface. The production device may be constructed as an assembly device, in particular workpiece coordination device, shaping tool or auxiliary technical production device. According to the present disclosure there is provided at least in a region of the surface at least one signal layer which, in an initial state of the production device, is arranged at a predetermined depth below a surface termination layer of the surface and is covered externally by the surface termination layer of the surface. In this instance, the signal layer differs in a visually perceptible manner from the surface termination layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar
  • Publication number: 20210154038
    Abstract: Orthoses are provided and methods for making orthoses. The orthosis is formed by providing a 3D printer, loading the 3D printer with a fabric layer, and loading a 3D printing material into the 3D printer. A 3D printing operation is performed wherein at least one 3D printed layer is 3D printed directly on the fabric layer. The fabric layer imprinted with the 3D printed layer is removed from the 3D printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar, Maik Broda
  • Patent number: 10987789
    Abstract: A production aid for positioning at least one component relative to a further component includes a monolithic positioning main body configured such that, given its prescriptively correct arrangement on the further component, it predefines a prescriptively correct positioning of the component relative to the further component. The positioning main body includes at least one opening, into which a spacer bushing is positively fitted. The spacer bushing has a through hole through which a positioning pin is guided, or a positioning pivot, which is configured monolithically with the spacer bushing. The positioning main body, via the positioning pin or the positioning pivot, makes contact with the further component, and a longitudinal center axis of the through hole is arranged parallelly offset from a longitudinal center axis of the positioning pin or pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar
  • Patent number: 10816023
    Abstract: A system for connecting a wheel rim to a hub flange of a motor vehicle, having a fastener such a threaded nut or bolt, and a tool which engages the fastener in a positive-locking manner in order to tighten or release the fastener. To provide improved protection against theft of wheel rims and tires, the fastener has an annular groove extending axially from an end surface of the fastener, the groove having an annular base and inner and outer sidewalls shaped to form an undercut wider than an opening of the groove, a recess extending axially below the base for receiving a projection of a complementally-shaped key on the tool to allow rotation of the fastener. The undercut prevents an unauthorized person using a mold-making material, from being able to make an imprint of the groove and producing a tool therefrom to release the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Lars Bognar
  • Patent number: 10683894
    Abstract: An air bearing for movably bearing at least two elements includes a bearing main body with a first air outflow channel and a second air outflow channel. The first air outflow channel is supplied with air via at least one first air delivery device. The second air outflow channel is supplied with air via at least one second air delivery device. A sensor detects at least one of a bearing stroke, a bearing pressure, and a bearing throughflow, and a controller adjusts the supply of the air to at least one of the first air outflow channel and the second air outflow channel in accordance with the at least one of the bearing stroke, the bearing pressure, and the bearing throughflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Malte Langmack, Steffen Strauss, Wolfgang Strauss, Raphael Koch, Christof Poglitsch, Holger Hofmann, Nikolai Zeller
  • Patent number: 10663023
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid lightweight brake disk and a method for producing the hybrid lightweight brake disk. The hybrid lightweight brake disk includes a brake chamber and a friction ring with at least one circular, outer friction surface. The method provides a brake chamber that includes a material containing an aluminum-forged alloy and a friction ring having a rapidly solidified aluminum alloy built up on an edge region of the brake chamber by using a laser deposition welding process or a 3D-printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Zandbergen, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Clemens Verpoort
  • Patent number: 10589588
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transverse link for a wheel suspension of a vehicle that includes at least one wheel-side attachment structure and at least one structure-side attachment structure. The wheel-side and structure-side structures are connected to each other by a connection structure which extends therebetween. The connection structure and/or at least one of the attachment structures is/are produced by a generative production method. At least one of the attachment structures is constructed as a generatively produced bushing which has an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve surrounding the inner sleeve. The sleeves are connected to each other by a fold-like structure. The present disclosure further provides a method for producing such a transverse link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rainer Souschek, Raphael Koch, Daniel Mainz, Theo Kueppers
  • Patent number: 10569468
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for removing industrial powder from a shaped body manufactured generatively using the industrial powder. The apparatus includes at least one container for holding the shaped body having a vertically adjustable construction platform, a vibrating screen, a tilting device for tilting the container, and at least one catching unit adjoining a transfer end of the vibrating screen for catching the shaped body. In one form, the vibrating screen, tilting device, and catching unit are arranged within a housing. In another form, the vibrating screen and catching unit are arranged within the housing and the tilting device is at least partially arranged in the housing. At least one opening in the housing is closed in an airtight manner by a glove such that a user can use the glove to grasp the shaped body caught by the catching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Bruno Alves