Patents by Inventor Stefan Plewnia

Stefan Plewnia 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).

  • Patent number: 11856658
    Abstract: An electric heating device comprised a housing having a partition wall, which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one PTC heating element protrudes as a heating rib in the direction toward the heating chamber. The PTC heating device comprises at least one PTC element and conductor tracks that are electrically connected in the connection chamber for energizing the PTC element with different polarities and that are connected to the PTC element in an electrically conductive manner. The heating chamber, in a top view onto the partition wall, has a substantially rectangular base area. The PTC heating devices are arranged obliquely relative to the base area for a more compact configuration of the electric heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Eberspächer catem GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Niederer, Stefan Plewnia, Ahmad Asafi, Kai-Fabian Bürkle
  • Publication number: 20230383994
    Abstract: An electric heating device comprises a housing having a partition wall, which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which PTC heating devices protrude as heating ribs in the direction toward the heating chamber. Each PTC heating device comprises at least one PTC element and conductor tracks that are electrically connected in the connection chamber for energizing the PTC element with different polarities and that are connected to the PTC element in an electrically conductive manner. The heating chamber, in a top view onto the partition wall, has a substantially rectangular base area. The PTC heating devices are arranged obliquely relative to the base area for a more compact configuration of the electric heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Niederer, Stefan Plewnia, Ahmad Asafi, Kai-Fabian Bürkle
  • Patent number: 11676745
    Abstract: A PTC heating element has two insulating layers with a metallic coating provided on one side and a PTC element arranged therebetween. The PTC element is provided on oppositely disposed main side surfaces with a respective metallization which is electrically conductively connected to the coating of one of the insulating layers The metallization provided on one of the main side surfaces is assigned only to one potential for energizing the PTC element, and the metallization provided on the other of the main side surfaces is only assigned to the other potential for energizing the PTC element, as well as an electric heating device containing such a PTC heating element. With regard to better heat decoupling, the insulating layer may be glued to the PTC element, and the coating of the insulating layers is in direct electrically conductive contact with the metallization of the PTC element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Eberspächer catem Hermsdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan-Michael Feustel, Florian Bitto-Golon, Ahmad Asafi, Stefan Plewnia, Kai-Fabian Bürkle, Michael Niederer, Marcel Lösch
  • Publication number: 20210352770
    Abstract: APTC heating assembly includes contact elements and a cuboid ceramic component on which a metallization is applied. The ceramic component comprises mutually opposing main side surfaces for heat dissipation which are larger by at least a factor of five than each of the end faces extending between the main side surfaces. The contact elements are electrically conductively connected to the metallization for introducing the power current into the ceramic component. The metallization is formed only on the main side surfaces and is in the form of elongated metallization strips. The metallization strips extend along mutually opposite edges of the cuboid ceramic component, are each assigned to one polarity, are separated by a single end face, and are connected to a power source via a common contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kurt Walz, Ahmad Asafi, Kai-Fabian BÜrkle, Stefan Plewnia
  • Publication number: 20210227633
    Abstract: An electric heating device for a motor vehicle has a first housing part which surrounds a first circulation chamber and a second housing part which surrounds a second circulation chamber. The first and second circulation chambers abut against each other. A PTC heating device is interposed between the first and second housing parts. The PTC heating device comprises a first cover element covering the first circulation chamber of the first housing part and a second cover element covering the second circulation chamber of the second housing part. At least one PTC element is provided between the first and the second cover elements. An electrode field is provided on the interior side of each of the respective cover elements and is electrically conductively contacted on the PTC element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kai-Fabian Bürkle, Stefan Plewnia
  • Publication number: 20210204365
    Abstract: A heat-generating element of an electric heating device includes a PTC element, conductor tracks abutting surfaces of the PTC element, and an adhesive which connects the conductor tracks to the PTC element. The conductor track has several contact projections which protrude from an abutment surface of the conductor tracks. The contact projections form a contact surface which abuts the surface in an electrically conductive manner with a free space between the surface and the abutment surface, in which the adhesive is accommodated. Also disclosed is a method in which the contact projections are formed from initially planar conductor track, an adhesive is applied to the abutment surface between the contact projections, a masking covering the contact surfaces is removed, and the conductor track is glued to a PTC element with the adhesive accommodated between the surface and the abutment surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Ahmad Asafi, Stefan Plewnia, Kai-Fabian Bürkle, Rüdiger Freitag, Michael Niederer, Müge Pilavtepe-Christ
  • Publication number: 20210144811
    Abstract: A PTC heating cell has a cuboid-shaped PTC element and two metallizations electrically separated from each other and provided on the surface of the PTC element for the introduction of current to the PTC element. The two metallizations are provided as strips formed over an entire longitudinal extension (L) of the PTC element on diagonally oppositely disposed surface sections of the PTC element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kurt Walz, Stefan Plewnia, Sascha Barner
  • Publication number: 20210045196
    Abstract: An electric heating device comprised a housing having a partition wall, which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one PTC heating element protrudes as a heating rib in the direction toward the heating chamber. The PTC heating device comprises at least one PTC element and conductor tracks that are electrically connected in the connection chamber for energizing the PTC element with different polarities and that are connected to the PTC element in an electrically conductive manner The heating chamber, in a top view onto the partition wall, has a substantially rectangular base area. The PTC heating devices are arranged obliquely relative to the base area for a more compact configuration of the electric heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Niederer, Stefan Plewnia, Ahmad Asafi, Kai-Fabian Bürkle
  • Publication number: 20200286653
    Abstract: A PTC heating element has two insulating layers with a metallic coating provided on one side and a PTC element arranged therebetween. The PTC element is provided on oppositely disposed main side surfaces with a respective metallization which is electrically conductively connected to the coating of one of the insulating layers The metallization provided on one of the main side surfaces is assigned only to one potential for energizing the PTC element, and the metallization provided on the other of the main side surfaces is only assigned to the other potential for energizing the PTC element, as well as an electric heating device containing such a PTC heating element. With regard to better heat decoupling, the insulating layer may be glued to the PTC element, and the coating of the insulating layers is in direct electrically conductive contact with the metallization of the PTC element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jan-Michael Feustel, Florian Bitto-Golon, Ahmad Asafi, Stefan Plewnia, Kai-Fabian Bürkle, Michael Niederer