Patents by Inventor Tim Weiland

Tim Weiland 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: 20240291336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotor assembly for an electric machine. The rotor assembly comprises a rotating shaft, a rotor and a fluid cooling system. The rotor is fixed to the rotating shaft. The rotor comprises a rotor core, a first end plate and a second end plate. The first end plate is provided at a first axial end of the rotor core. The second end plate is provided at a second axial end of the rotor core. The fluid cooling system comprises at least one fluid cooling pathway provided internally in the rotor. The at least one fluid cooling pathway is configured to guide cooling fluid through the rotor, and comprises at least one cooling channel and a downstream end plate channel. The at least one cooling channel extends through the rotor core from the first axial end to the second axial end. The downstream end plate channel is fluidically connected to a downstream end of the at least one cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Patrik Geimer, Henning Scheel, Tim Weiland
  • Patent number: 11976572
    Abstract: High cycle fatigue (HCF) in a turbine wheel of a sector-divided dual volute turbocharger, particularly a turbocharger where the tongue-to-blade gap is as small as from 1-3% of the wheel diameter, is reduced, by locally increasing the volute cross-sectional area just upstream of the tongues. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the force function of the exhaust gas pressure onto the turbine wheel blades. Modifying how the pressure presents itself to the wheel reduces blade excitation and, ultimately, HCF of turbine wheels. In another aspect of the invention, the angle of the tongues are modified to direct the exhaust more directly onto the turbine wheel than conventional tongues. It is surprising that this approach not only accomplishes the desired result, but does this without significant loss of turbine stage efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Tanaka, Tim Weiland
  • Patent number: 11920480
    Abstract: A turbine (10) for a charging device (1) with a turbine housing (100) with a feed duct assembly (200), a turbine outlet duct (110) and a receptacle space (120). The feed duct assembly (200) includes a first feed duct (210) having a first fluid inlet portion (211) and a first fluid outlet portion (212), and a second feed duct (220) having a second fluid inlet portion (221) and a second fluid outlet portion (222). The first fluid outlet portion (212) extends across a first angular range (?1) about the guide installation (400). The second fluid outlet portion (222) extends across a second angular range (?2) about the guide installation (400). The first angular range (?1) is larger than the second angular range (?2). The first fluid inlet portion (211) and the second fluid inlet portion (221) are mutually spaced apart in the circumferential direction (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Werner, Oliver Haase, Tim Weiland
  • Patent number: 11808162
    Abstract: A turbine housing for an exhaust turbocharger is configured for receiving a turbine wheel rotatable about an axis. The housing includes an exhaust gas inlet, an exhaust gas outlet pointing in an outlet direction, and a single-flow, spiral exhaust gas routing. The routing has a volute and a volute outlet gap configured so that exhaust gas flows from the volute to the wheel. The routing is fluidically connected to the inlet and is defined by an internal wall of the housing. The volute has a portion which encircles the axis and has a convexity of the internal wall. The convexity, counter to the outlet direction, extends beyond the volute outlet gap. Further, sectional faces, through which the axis runs, each have a volute contour with a straight linear portion. The linear portion, conjointly with the axis, defines an angle facing the outlet that is less than or equal to 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Weiland, Alexander Umlauff
  • Publication number: 20230147046
    Abstract: A turbine housing for an exhaust turbocharger is configured for receiving a turbine wheel rotatable about an axis. The housing includes an exhaust gas inlet, an exhaust gas outlet pointing in an outlet direction, and a single-flow, spiral exhaust gas routing. The routing has a volute and a volute outlet gap configured so that exhaust gas flows from the volute to the wheel. The routing is fluidically connected to the inlet and is defined by an internal wall of the housing. The volute has a portion which encircles the axis and has a convexity of the internal wall. The convexity, counter to the outlet direction, extends beyond the volute outlet gap. Further, sectional faces, through which the axis runs, each have a volute contour with a straight linear portion. The linear portion, conjointly with the axis, defines an angle facing the outlet that is less than or equal to 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Tim Weiland, Alexander Umlauff
  • Publication number: 20230068498
    Abstract: High cycle fatigue (HCF) in a turbine wheel of a sector-divided dual volute turbocharger, particularly a turbocharger where the tongue-to-blade gap is as small as from 1-3% of the wheel diameter, is reduced, by locally increasing the volute cross-sectional area just upstream of the tongues. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the force function of the exhaust gas pressure onto the turbine wheel blades. Modifying how the pressure presents itself to the wheel reduces blade excitation and, ultimately, HCF of turbine wheels. In another aspect of the invention, the angle of the tongues are modified to direct the exhaust more directly onto the turbine wheel than conventional tongues. It is surprising that this approach not only accomplishes the desired result, but does this without significant loss of turbine stage efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kai Tanaka, Tim Weiland