Patents by Inventor Richard Bernauer

Richard Bernauer 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: 20260180379
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine, such as for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle is provided. The stator includes a hollow-cylindrical stator body formed by a plurality of bundled stator laminations and a plurality of stator slots. The stator slots have a cross section with a U-shaped contour with two substantially parallel side walls, a slot base, and a slot opening lying radially opposite the slot base. A plurality of electrical conductors have a substantially rectangular conductor cross section and are arranged radially above one another in each stator slot forming a stator winding. The slot opening has a circumferential width smaller than a circumferential width of the electrical conductor radially closest to the slot opening. The electrical conductor radially closest to the slot opening is plastically deformed in the circumferential direction by being press-fit in the radial direction towards the slot base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Florian Sell-Le Blanc, Richard Bernauer
  • Publication number: 20260066748
    Abstract: A contactless energy transmission device for a rotor of an electric machine is disclosed. The device includes a housing part, which can be coupled in a rotationally rigid manner to a housing of the electric machine, and an inductive transformer which has an energizable primary coil and a secondary coil that is arranged at a distance thereto and can be electrically coupled to a winding of the rotor a roller bearing, by means of which a rotor shaft is rotatably mounted relative to the housing part, wherein the primary coil is positioned on the housing part in a rotationally rigid manner relative thereto, and the roller bearing is arranged within the housing part such that the primary coil and the roller bearing are arranged coaxially, and the secondary coil is arranged within a transformer housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Martin Kunkemoeller, Thomas Hurle, Jan Michel Wassermann, Bao Ngoc An, Richard Bernauer, Christian Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20250047151
    Abstract: At least two pole shoe segments are associated with a stator tooth in the stator of an axial flux machine; the pole shoe segments are spaced apart from each other. In particular, each pole shoe segment can cover both a part of a stator tooth and a part of a groove for stator windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Henrik Mengelkamp, Michael Menhart, Richard Bernauer
  • Patent number: 12046967
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine, comprising a stator core and a stator winding, wherein the stator core has a plurality of slots, which are spaced apart in a circumferential direction and have a depth running in the radial direction, and allows the arrangement of slot sections of the stator winding in a plurality of radially spaced-apart radial positions, wherein the stator has a strip-like winding unit comprising a first and a second winding conductor, wherein the two winding conductors run in a first and a second layer of the winding unit and each comprises: a plurality of straight slot sections which run in a transverse direction of the winding unit and are arranged in parallel, a plurality of first bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a first longitudinal side of the winding unit, a plurality of second bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a second l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Bernauer, Stefan Rieß, Johann Oswald, Michael Menhart
  • Publication number: 20220216758
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine, comprising a stator core and a stator winding, wherein the stator core has a plurality of slots, which are spaced apart in a circumferential direction and have a depth running in the radial direction, and allows the arrangement of slot sections of the stator winding in a plurality of radially spaced-apart radial positions, wherein the stator has a strip-like winding unit comprising a first and a second winding conductor, wherein the two winding conductors run in a first and a second layer of the winding unit and each comprises: a plurality of straight slot sections which run in a transverse direction of the winding unit and are arranged in parallel, a plurality of first bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a first longitudinal side of the winding unit, a plurality of second bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a second l
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Richard Bernauer, Stefan Rieß, Johann Oswald, Michael Menhart
  • Publication number: 20200287431
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine comprising either a circular-ring-cylindrical stator and a circular-cylindrical rotor which is arranged rotatably inside the stator, or a circular-cylindrical stator and a circular-ring-cylindrical rotor, which is arranged rotatably outside the stator, there being an air gap formed between the stator and the rotor. The rotor comprises a magnetically conductive rotor body and at least one pair of magnets arranged adjacently within the rotor body, wherein magnet axes leaving identical poles of the magnets of the magnet pair intersect one another on the side of the magnets of the magnet pair facing the stator. The rotor body has at least one recess in a region extending in the circumferential direction and radial direction of the rotor and defined by the magnet pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Bernauer, Stefan Riess