Patents by Inventor Ricus Müller

Ricus Müller 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: 20230253847
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine of a motor vehicle, having an annular yoke, with an inner side directed inwards in the radial direction of the yoke, wherein a plurality of pole teeth are connected by form fit to the yoke on the inner side of the yoke, a stator winding which is formed as a mat and which is arranged between the pole teeth, a first cooling channel through which a cooling medium may flow and which extends in the longitudinal direction of the stator, wherein the first cooling channel is arranged in a recess, and a second cooling channel through which a cooling medium may flow, wherein the second cooling channel is arranged between two adjacent pole teeth between an inner side of the stator winding directed inwards in the radial direction of the stator and a pole shoe of the pole tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies Germany GMBH
    Inventors: Astrid Haas, Christoph Radtke, Udo Kreißig, Uwe Scharf, Ricus Müller, Alfred Nimpsch, Andreas Lenk
  • Patent number: 10797572
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a winding of a winding carrier of an electric machine. The method includes providing a laminated core. The laminated core has an axis and a first slot for accommodating a first winding segment for producing the winding. The first slot extends in the direction of the axis. The first slot is arranged on a first circle as viewed in the direction of the axis, through the circle center point of which first circle the axis extends. The method includes: arranging the first winding segment in the first slot, where a first region of the first slot protrudes from the laminated core; and bending the first region by applying a first force acting in the direction of the axis and by applying a first force acting tangentially to the first circle onto the first region in a first direction tangentially to the first circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Beyer, Rolf Jungnickel, Michalis Mames, Ricus Müller, Christoph Radtke
  • Patent number: 10312777
    Abstract: A method for welding a plurality of wire segment pairs is disclosed. Each wire segment pair has two adjacent wire segments, and each adjacent wire segment has a contact region where the wire segment is to be welded to the respective other wire segment. The wire segment pairs are successively guided between two elements of a pressing unit, and at a weld moment in which at least one of the wire segment pairs is located between the two elements. The pressing unit exerts a pressing force onto the wire segment pair such that the contact regions of the wire segments are pressed against each other. At each weld moment, laser radiation is irradiated onto the wire segment pair to which the pressing unit is exerting the pressing force, and the laser radiation is irradiated onto a region in which the contact regions are pressed against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Ricus Müller
  • Publication number: 20170310198
    Abstract: A method for welding a plurality of wire segment pairs is disclosed. Each wire segment pair has two adjacent wire segments, and each adjacent wire segment has a contact region where the wire segment is to be welded to the respective other wire segment. The wire segment pairs are successively guided between two elements of a pressing unit, and at a weld moment in which at least one of the wire segment pairs is located between the two elements. The pressing unit exerts a pressing force onto the wire segment pair such that the contact regions of the wire segments are pressed against each other. At each weld moment, laser radiation is irradiated onto the wire segment pair to which the pressing unit is exerting the pressing force, and the laser radiation is irradiated onto a region in which the contact regions are pressed against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Ricus Muller
  • Publication number: 20170214303
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a winding of a winding carrier of an electric machine. The method includes providing a laminated core. The laminated core has an axis and a first slot for accommodating a first winding segment for producing the winding. The first slot extends in the direction of the axis. The first slot is arranged on a first circle as viewed in the direction of the axis, through the circle center point of which first circle the axis extends. The method includes: arranging the first winding segment in the first slot, where a first region of the first slot protrudes from the laminated core; and bending the first region by applying a first force acting in the direction of the axis and by applying a first force acting tangentially to the first circle onto the first region in a first direction tangentially to the first circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Detlef Beyer, Rolf Jungnickel, Michalis Mames, Ricus Müller, Christoph Radtke