Patents by Inventor Thomas Soller

Thomas Soller 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: 12266464
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a magnetic sheet stack for an electric machine comprising: a plurality of magnetic sheets electrically insulated from one another by being spaced apart from one another predominantly with a non-vanishing clearance; a respective set of ceramic spacers distributed between each of the plurality of magnetic sheets from an adjacent sheet in the stack; and a respective gas layer filling a gap between a predominant part of a planar extent of each of the plurality of magnetic sheets allowing a cooling fluid to be circulated between the adjacent sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Buschbeck, Gotthard Rieger, Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12165804
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for producing an electrical steel sheet comprising the following steps: placing a green body comprising a first material on a substrate; structuring a surface of the green body; and thermally treating the green body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Buschbeck, Gotthard Rieger, Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12129892
    Abstract: Various teachings herein may be used to make a bearing bush for a rotating shaft, wherein a wall of the bearing bush has a wall thickness which amounts to less than 10% of the diameter of the bearing bush. In the axial direction, the bearing bush is made from a plurality of layers connected with a material bond. Each layer has a layer thickness between 10 ?m and 200 ?m and the wall has closed cavities which are filled with a powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12126230
    Abstract: In a method for producing a material layer with a recess, a first suspension containing a binder is applied through a first opening in a first template and a second suspension containing a binder and solid particles is applied through a second opening in a second template. The first opening in the first template is completely contained within the second opening in the second template such that the second suspension completely surrounds the first suspension to produce a green body. The green body containing the first and second suspensions is sintered such that the first suspension is evaporated to provide the recess and permanent cohesion of the solid particles in the second suspension is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20240243644
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for producing a planar structure including: printing a green body of the structure using a screen printing process on a surface of a carrier substrate; generating a temperature gradient on the surface underneath the green body; removing the green body from the carrier substrate; and heat treating the green body in order to convert the green body into the planar structure. The temperature gradient is at least 0.5 K/mm along a plane of the surface and has an extent in the plane of at least 10 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Soller, Carsten Schuh, Stefan Denneler
  • Publication number: 20240063696
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for manufacturing a stack of magnetic laminations for a rotor and/or stator of an electric machine. The method includes: recording a respective physical property of each respective magnetic lamination from a plurality of magnetic laminations; determining a setpoint value for a physical variable of the stack of magnetic laminations; ascertaining a stacking sequence of the individual magnetic laminations of the plurality reducing a deviation of an actual value for the physical variable of the stack with the ascertained stacking sequence from a setpoint value in relation to stacks with other stacking sequences of magnetic laminations; and stacking the plurality of the magnetic laminations in the ascertained stacking sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20240039346
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a material layer. The material layer may include: a first ply including a first material adjoined along its planar extent by a second material, and integrally bonded along a first connecting section, the first having a lower relative permeability ?? than the second; a second ply integrally bonded to the first and at least partially covering the latter on a planar side, the second ply including a third and a fourth material connected along a planar extent along a second connecting section, the region of the third material or the fourth at least partially overlapping the first connecting section; and a third ply including a fifth and a sixth material, arranged on the first ply on a planar side opposite the second ply. The fourth material and the sixth material comprise a matching substance material different in relative permeability from the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11888362
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric machine having a stack of magnetic laminations including a stack of green blanks. A first green blank of the stack is printed. A separating layer is applied to the first green blank. At least a second green blank of a magnetic lamination is printed onto the first green blank with the separating layer. The green blanks are jointly sintered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer, Carsten Schuh
  • Publication number: 20240022122
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electric machine. The electric machine may comprise a stator and/or a rotor with a stack of soft-magnetic laminations. Each lamination is close to an adjacent lamination on respective flat sides of the laminations. The laminations are electrically insulated from one another by a metal oxide formed on at least one of the flat sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20230402907
    Abstract: In a method for producing a material layer with a void, a first suspension containing a binder is applied through a first opening in a first template and a second suspension containing a binder and solid particles is applied through a second opening in a second template. The first opening in the first template is completely contained within the second opening in the second template such that the second suspension completely surrounds the first suspension to produce a green body. The green body containing the first and second suspensions is sintered such that the first suspension is evaporated to provide the void and permanent cohesion of the solid particles in the second suspension is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: CARSTEN SCHUH, THOMAS SOLLER, ROLF VOLLMER
  • Publication number: 20230378854
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electrical machine. The electrical machine may include a rotor and/or a stator with a stack of soft magnetic laminations. Each soft magnetic lamination has a first respective flat side and a second respective flat side facing away from the first one. Each soft magnetic lamination tapers from the first flat side to the second flat side. Each of the soft magnetic laminations in the stack are oriented with the respective second flat side in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20230378825
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electric machine. The machine comprises a stator and/or a rotor with a stack of soft-magnetic laminations. The soft-magnetic laminations are disposed next to one another on flat sides of the laminations. At least one of the flat sides on which two adjacent laminations are close to one another is formed with a sintering skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20230268812
    Abstract: In a method for correcting a portion, in particular a tooth, of a material layer of a dynamoelectric machine, with the material layer including a soft-magnetic material and having a layer thickness between 0.5 and 500 ?m, an actual geometry of the portion of the material layer is ascertained and compared to a target geometry. A deviation of the actual geometry from the target geometry is determined. Before the deviation is corrected by partially plastically deforming the material layer using a light source, the material layer is partially heated by a further light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20230216356
    Abstract: A material layer for a laminated core of an electric machine is made of iron-containing ferromagnetic material and includes an electrically insulating coating on at least one side of the material layer. The electrically insulating coating Includes an electrically Insulating material which Is produced through controlled oxidation of the ferromagnetic material of the material layer and contains iron monoxide and/or triiron tetraoxid. The material layer is produced from a green body, which Is sintered under a reducing atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, THOMAS SOLLER, ROLF VOLLMER
  • Publication number: 20220275830
    Abstract: Various teachings herein may be used to make a bearing bush for a rotating shaft, wherein a wall of the bearing bush has a wall thickness which amounts to less than 10% of the diameter of the bearing bush. In the axial direction, the bearing bush is made from a plurality of layers connected with a material bond. Each layer has a layer thickness between 10 ?m and 200 ?m and the wall has closed cavities which are filled with a powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20220230799
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a magnetic sheet stack for an electric machine comprising: a plurality of magnetic sheets electrically insulated from one another by being spaced apart from one another predominantly with a non-vanishing clearance; a respective set of ceramic spacers distributed between each of the plurality of magnetic sheets from an adjacent sheet in the stack; and a respective gas layer filling a gap between a predominant part of a planar extent of each of the plurality of magnetic sheets allowing a cooling fluid to be circulated between the adjacent sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Buschbeck, Gotthard Rieger, Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20220069680
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric machine having a stack of magnetic laminations including a stack of green blanks. A first green blank of the stack is printed. A separating layer is applied to the first green blank. At least a second green blank of a magnetic lamination is printed onto the first green blank with the separating layer. The green blanks are jointly sintered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer, Carsten Schuh
  • Publication number: 20220005645
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for producing an electrical steel sheet comprising the following steps: placing a green body comprising a first material on a substrate; structuring a surface of the green body; and thermally treating the green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Buschbeck, Gotthard Rieger, Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20210379656
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for sintering a multicomponent sinter product comprising: forming a first component consisting of a first material printed with one or more recesses for a second component; forming the second component consisting of a second material; inserting at least a portion of the second component into the one or more recesses of the first component; and shrinking the first component and the second component onto one another by sintering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 10211453
    Abstract: A storage structure of an electrical metal-air energy storage cell is provided having an active storage material. The storage structure has a core region and at least one shell region, wherein the material in the core region has a higher porosity than the material of the shell region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Katrin Benkert, Thomas Soller