Patents by Inventor Tim Pfizenmaier

Tim Pfizenmaier 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: 11190003
    Abstract: A method for controlling a charging apparatus of a vehicle, in particular an electric or hybrid vehicle, wherein the charging apparatus has a charging device including a protection and monitoring device. The vehicle includes a high-voltage on-board power system and an electrical energy storage apparatus connected to the high-voltage on-board power system. The method includes electrically connecting the high-voltage on-board power system to charging connections of an energy supply system by the charging apparatus. The charging connections include a neutral conductor, a protective conductor and at least one phase conductor. A protective conductor resistance is detected between the neutral conductor and the protective conductor by feeding in a test current by the protection and monitoring device. A frequency of the test current is filtered out of the compensation frequency range on a narrowband basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Tim Pfizenmaier, Daniel Spesser, Michael Kammer, Florian Habel, Eckhard Broeckmann, Frank Mehling, Michael Guenther Zeyen, Wolfgang Hofheinz, Guenter Uhl, Dietmar Bytzek, Juergen Hetzler, Stefan Zeltner, Stefan Endres, Christoph Sessler
  • Patent number: 11173800
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle-external charging device for charging a vehicle. The charging device has an AC current grid having a neutral conductor, a protective conductor and at least one phase conductor, a protection and monitoring apparatus, and a DC current charging terminal. The vehicle includes a high-voltage on-board power system and an electrical energy storage element connected to the on-board power system. The method includes electrically connecting the on-board power system to the DC current charging terminal of the charging device, and detecting a protective conductor resistance between the neutral conductor and the protective conductor by feeding in a test current by way of the protection and monitoring apparatus. A frequency of the test current is either outside of a compensation frequency range of the protection and monitoring apparatus or within the compensation frequency range and is filtered out of the compensation frequency range on a narrowband basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20210257848
    Abstract: A compensation device (20) for compensating for a discharge current has a compensation current generation device (28), a potential generation device (150), active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) and a PE conductor terminal (65), which active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) have a first active conductor terminal (61) and a second active conductor terminal (62; 64), which potential generation device (150) is interconnected with the first active conductor terminal (61) and has a potential generation device terminal (155), which potential generation device (150) is designed to provide a potential at the potential generation device terminal (155) which at least temporarily differs from the potential at the first active conductor terminal (61), and which compensation current generation device (28) is designed to effect a compensation current (I_COMP) between the potential generation device terminal (155) and the PE conductor terminal (65).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier, Florian Mayer, Stefan Endres, Christoph Sessler
  • Publication number: 20210152144
    Abstract: A device for filtering at least one signal has a first magnet core and at least one first coil. The first coil has a first coil connection, a second coil connection, a first coil element, a second coil element and a connecting section. The first coil connection is electrically connected to the second coil connection via the first coil element, the connecting section and the second coil element. The first coil element has a first coil axis and the second coil element has a second coil axis. The first coil axis and second coil axis are arranged parallel to and at a distance from one another. The first magnet core extends both through the first coil element and also through the second coil element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier, Florian Mayer
  • Publication number: 20210129674
    Abstract: A compensation apparatus compensates for leakage currents on conductors that include active conductors. The apparats (20) has a differential current measuring apparatus (22), a power supply unit (60), a first signal generator (33), an output stage (28) and a supply apparatus (39). The differential current measuring apparatus (22) captures a first signal at a first location of the active conductors and supplies it to the first signal generator (33). The first signal characterizes differential current on the active conductors. The first signal generator (33) generates a second signal to compensate for the differential current from the first signal and supplies this second signal to the output stage (28). The output stage (28) injects a compensation current into at least one of the active conductors via the supply apparatus (39) on the basis of the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Florian Mayer, Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20210107367
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring leakage currents at active conductors has a differential current measurement device, a signal generation device and a control device, which differential current measurement device is designed to record a first signal (I_DIFF) characterizing the differential current of the active conductors and to feed the first signal to the control device. The signal generation device is designed to generate at least one second signal (V_GRID) and to feed the second signal to the control device, which at least one second signal (V_GRID) includes information about the phase angle of a signal occurring at one of the active conductors. The control device is designed to generate a third signal (I_LC_RES) on the basis of the first signal (I_DIFF) and of the at least one second signal (V_GRID), which third signal characterizes the resistive leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20210099005
    Abstract: A compensation device for compensating leakage currents has a differential current measurement device, a first signal generation device, an amplifier and a feeder device. The first signal generation device is designed to generate a first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1) suitable for the compensation from the first signal (I_DIFF) from the differential current measurement device by way of analog signal processing and to feed this first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1) to the amplifier in analog or digitized form. The amplifier is designed to generate a compensation current (I_COMP) on the basis of the first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1), and the feeder device is designed to allow the compensation current to be fed in at at least one of the active conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20210048484
    Abstract: A compensation device (20) for compensating for leakage currents has a differential current measuring device (22), a supply network detection device (42; 45), a control device (26), an amplifier (27), a compensation current selection device (36) and a feed-in device (39, 41). The supply network detection device (42; 45) generates a second signal (V_GRID; V_ES) characterizing the supply network (L1, L2, L3, N) connected to the active conductors (51, 52, 53, 54) and to supply it to the control device (26). The compensation current selection device (36) feeds in the compensation current (I_COMP) on the basis of a third signal (V_SEL) on at least one of the at least two different active conductors (51, 54), and the third signal (V_SEL) is dependent on the second signal (V_GRID; V_ES) to select at least one active conductor (51, 54) suitable for the connected supply network for the feed-in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tim Pfizenmaier, Daniel Spesser, Florian Mayer
  • Publication number: 20210031641
    Abstract: An electric vehicle (100) has an on-board charger (1) for charging a high-voltage battery (2) of the electric vehicle (100) and a heating element (4). The on-board charger (1) has an intermediate circuit capacitor (3) in an intermediate circuit (3?), and the heating element (4) is connected electrically to the intermediate circuit (3?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tim Pfizenmaier, Florian Mayer
  • Publication number: 20200295669
    Abstract: A rectifier arrangement (20) for rectifying an AC voltage into a DC voltage has a first connection (21), a second connection (22), a third connection (23) and a fourth connection (24), which rectifier arrangement (20) has an intermediate circuit (50) with a first line (51), a second line (52) and a node point (53), which node point (53) is connected to the first line (51) via at least one first capacitor (61) and to the second line (52) via at least one second capacitor (62), which first connection (21), second connection (22) and third connection (23) are each connected to a star point (40) via an associated circuit arrangement (31, 32, 33), which fourth connection (24) is likewise connected to the star point (40), and which star point (40) is connected to the node point (53) via a controllable switch (45).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20200295670
    Abstract: A rectifier assembly (20) for rectifying an AC voltage into a DC voltage has at least one first terminal (21, 22, 23), a second terminal (24) and an intermediate circuit (50). The first terminal (21, 22, 23) is connected via a circuit (31, 32, 33) to a neutral point (40), and the second terminal (24) is connected to the neutral point (40). The circuit arrangement (31, 32, 33) has a first branch (81) and a second branch (82) connected in parallel with the first branch (81). Both branches (81, 82) comprise a changeover arrangement (92, 93) and a coil (91, 94) connected in series with the changeover arrangement. The coil (91) in the first branch (81) is on the side of the changeover arrangement (92) averted from the neutral point (40), and the coil (94) in the second branch (82) is on the side facing the neutral point (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier, Stefan Endres, Christoph Sessler
  • Publication number: 20200070677
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle-external charging device for charging a vehicle. The charging device has an AC current grid having a neutral conductor, a protective conductor and at least one phase conductor, a protection and monitoring apparatus, and a DC current charging terminal. The vehicle includes a high-voltage on-board power system and an electrical energy storage element connected to the on-board power system. The method includes electrically connecting the on-board power system to the DC current charging terminal of the charging device, and detecting a protective conductor resistance between the neutral conductor and the protective conductor by feeding in a test current by way of the protection and monitoring apparatus. A frequency of the test current is either outside of a compensation frequency range of the protection and monitoring apparatus or within the compensation frequency range and is filtered out of the compensation frequency range on a narrowband basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20200036180
    Abstract: A method for reducing leakage currents in a protective conductor of an electricity network including a neutral conductor and a phase conductor in addition to the protective conductor. A differential current is determined depending on a phase conductor current in the phase conductor and a neutral conductor current in the neutral conductor. A compensation current is fed into the phase conductor and/or into the neutral conductor. The compensation current compensates for a leakage current caused by the differential current. Also described is a device for carrying out such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Spesser, Tim Pfizenmaier
  • Publication number: 20190270382
    Abstract: A method for controlling a charging apparatus of a vehicle, in particular an electric or hybrid vehicle, wherein the charging apparatus has a charging device including a protection and monitoring device. The vehicle includes a high-voltage on-board power system and an electrical energy storage apparatus connected to the high-voltage on-board power system. The method includes electrically connecting the high-voltage on-board power system to charging connections of an energy supply system by the charging apparatus. The charging connections include a neutral conductor, a protective conductor and at least one phase conductor. A protective conductor resistance is detected between the neutral conductor and the protective conductor by feeding in a test current by the protection and monitoring device. A frequency of the test current is filtered out of the compensation frequency range on a narrowband basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tim Pfizenmaier, Daniel Spesser, Michael Kammer, Florian Habel, Eckhard Broeckmann, Frank Mehling, Michael Guenther Zeyen, Wolfgang Hofheinz, Guenter Uhl, Dietmar Bytzek, Juergen Hetzler, Stefan Zeltner, Stefan Endres, Christoph Sessler