Patents by Inventor Thomas Dreesen

Thomas Dreesen 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: 12467474
    Abstract: A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecting the blades at the blade tip ends. A circumferential ring gap is formed between the outer ring and the shroud ring. A rib structure in the ring gap reduces swirl in a gap flow orientated against the conveying direction. A shroud ring section of the shroud ring extends axially beyond the outer ring on the shroud underside. The shroud ring section is orientated parallel or at an angle of inclination and radially inwards relative to the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Christian Froh, Bernd Maurer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Patent number: 12311749
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling an electrically driven or driveable motor vehicle, having a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, having an air-guiding channel which connects the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and which has two diametrically oppositely situated passage openings which are reversibly closable by means of a first air guide and by means of a second air guide, and having a cooler fan which is arranged downstream of the second heat exchanger in terms of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nils Springer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Patent number: 12247579
    Abstract: A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecting the blades at the blade tip ends. A circumferential ring gap is formed between the outer ring and the shroud ring. A rib structure in the ring gap reduces swirl in a gap flow orientated against the conveying direction. A shroud ring section of the shroud ring extends axially beyond the outer ring on the shroud underside. The shroud ring section is orientated parallel or at an angle of inclination and radially inwards relative to the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Christian Froh, Bernd Maurer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20240392805
    Abstract: A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecting the blades at the blade tip ends. A circumferential ring gap is formed between the outer ring and the shroud ring. A rib structure in the ring gap reduces swirl in a gap flow orientated against the conveying direction. A shroud ring section of the shroud ring extends axially beyond the outer ring on the shroud underside. The shroud ring section is orientated parallel or at an angle of inclination and radially inwards relative to the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Froh, Bernd Maurer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20220316496
    Abstract: A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecting the blades at the blade tip ends. A circumferential ring gap is formed between the outer ring and the shroud ring. A rib structure in the ring gap reduces swirl in a gap flow orientated against the conveying direction. A shroud ring section of the shroud ring extends axially beyond the outer ring on the shroud underside. The shroud ring section is orientated parallel or at an angle of inclination and radially inwards relative to the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Christian Froh, Bernd Maurer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20220194215
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling an electrically driven or driveable motor vehicle, having a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, having an air-guiding channel which connects the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and which has two diametrically oppositely situated passage openings which are reversibly closable by means of a first air guide and by means of a second air guide, and having a cooler fan which is arranged downstream of the second heat exchanger in terms of flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Nils SPRINGER, Thomas DREESEN
  • Patent number: 11339707
    Abstract: A fan assembly including a first cooling fan arranged with respect to an air flow direction downstream of a heat exchanger and a second cooling fan. The first cooling fan is a radial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air radially and the second cooling fan is an axial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air axially. The axial fan is arranged downstream of the heat exchanger and laterally adjacent to the radial fan in a plane parallel to the rear side of the heat exchanger in a plane parallel to the front side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Marco Wichers, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20220003144
    Abstract: A fan assembly including a first cooling fan arranged with respect to an air flow direction downstream of a heat exchanger and a second cooling fan. The first cooling fan is a radial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air radially and the second cooling fan is an axial fan that draws cooling air axially and expels the cooling air axially. The axial fan is arranged downstream of the heat exchanger and laterally adjacent to the radial fan in a plane parallel to the rear side of the heat exchanger in a plane parallel to the front side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Marco WICHERS, Thomas DREESEN
  • Patent number: 10539152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan frame for a plurality of fan modules, particularly for a radiator of a motor vehicle, comprising a first fan holder having a first outflow region, at least one further fan holder having a further outflow region, and an intermediate region that connects adjoining edge regions of the first and the further fan holders to each other. The fan frame is characterised in that a shielding device, which separates the first and a further outflow region from each other, is provided in the intermediate region. The present invention further relates to a fan module, particularly having such a fan frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WUERZBERG
    Inventors: Nils Springer, Thomas Dreesen, Antje Findeisen
  • Patent number: 9850914
    Abstract: A ventilation device has a holder, in particular a ventilation frame, with a substantially circular continuous opening for receiving a ventilation wheel rotating about the central axis, thereof. The opening is bordered by an edge face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about the central axis. As the edge face in two separate, diametrically opposed peripheral sections the radius is at least partly enlarged in comparison to the cylinder-symmetrical form in the remaining peripheral sections, and/or a circular projection of she edge face, which projection projects radially inwards, is axially offset away from a space provided for the ventilation wheel. Because of she corresponding shaping of the edge face of the opening, contact and/or development of noise between the ventilation wheel and the edge of the opening is prevented in the ventilation frame in the event of a yawing of the ventilation wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommandtigesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventor: Thomas Dreesen
  • Patent number: 9714666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling fan module for a motor vehicle, having a fan impeller which has a multiplicity of fan impeller blades which are connected to one another via a fan impeller outer ring, having a frame, on which the fan impeller is mounted, having an annular reverse flow guide device, which has an inner ring and an outer ring and which is designed to de-spin a reverse flow between the inner ring and the outer ring and to mix said reverse flow with the slot flow between inner ring and fan impeller outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Tilman Schafer, Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20160017893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan frame for a plurality of fan modules, particularly for a radiator of a motor vehicle, comprising a first fan holder having a first outflow region, at least one further fan holder having a further outflow region, and an intermediate region that connects adjoining edge regions of the first and the further fan holders to each other. The fan frame is characterised in that a shielding device, which separates the first and a further outflow region from each other, is provided in the intermediate region. The present invention further relates to a fan module, particularly having such a fan frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Nils Springer, Thomas Dreesen, Antje Findeisen
  • Publication number: 20150260200
    Abstract: A ventilation device has a holder, in particular a ventilation frame, with a substantially circular continuous opening for receiving a ventilation wheel rotating about the central axis thereof. The opening is bordered by an edge face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about the central axis. At the edge face in two separate, diametrically opposed peripheral sections the radius is at least partly enlarged in comparison to the cylinder-symmetrical form in the remaining peripheral sections, and/or a circular projection of the edge face, which projection projects radially inwards, is axially offset away from a space provided for the ventilation wheel. Because of the corresponding shaping of the edge face of the opening contact and/or development of noise between the ventilation wheel and the edge of the opening is prevented in the ventilation frame in the event of a yawing of a ventilation wheel used when pivoting the ventilation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas Dreesen
  • Publication number: 20140186172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling fan module for a motor vehicle, having a fan impeller which has a multiplicity of fan impeller blades which are connected to one another via a fan impeller outer ring, having a frame, on which the fan impeller is mounted, having an annular reverse flow guide device, which has an inner ring and an outer ring and which is designed to de-spin a reverse flow between the inner ring and the outer ring and to mix said reverse flow with the slot flow between inner ring and fan impeller outer ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Tilman Schafer, Thomas Dreesen