Patents by Inventor Tobias BENKER

Tobias BENKER 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: 11705598
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receiving compartment for receiving a cell module. It is thus provided that the receiving compartment is delimited by a bottom and walls adjoining said bottom, A topography of the bottom is recorded by measuring technology, a thermal-conductor amount determined by the topography is applied locally to the bottom, whereupon the cell module is inserted into the receiving compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Andreas Buer
  • Publication number: 20230187767
    Abstract: A battery arrangement having a housing base arrangement and at least one battery unit which is arranged on the housing base arrangement and is arranged above the housing base arrangement with respect to a first direction and which comprises at least one battery cell. The at least one battery cell has a first side having a releasable degassing opening which is releasable for discharging a gas from the at least one battery cell. The housing base arrangement has at least one predetermined breaking point, which is designed, in dependence on a gas escape of a gas from the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell, to release an opening penetrating the housing base arrangement with respect to the first direction, in order to discharge the gas escaping from the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell through the released opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BENKER, Lukas DÖBBELIN, Marc GORMANNS, Ruben HEID, Victor SCHMADALLA, Martin SIMON, Matthias WIMMI, Michael SCHUESSLER
  • Patent number: 11631882
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receptacle for receiving a cell module. It is provided that support surfaces for supporting the cell module spaced apart from a bottom of the battery housing are formed on walls of the battery housing delimiting the receptacle compartment, and that a distance between the support surfaces and the base is measured, an amount of heat conducting calculated from the distance is applied to the bottom, and then the cell module is inserted into the receptacle compartment supported on the support surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Andreas Buer
  • Patent number: 11532861
    Abstract: A battery device and a method for producing a battery device for a motor vehicle. In said method, a cooling base element and a battery module are provided, and the battery module is mounted on the cooling base element, forming at least one gap between a battery module region and a cooling base region. A filling device is then coupled to at least one filling opening of at least one filling tube, with the at least one filling tube extending into the at least one gap, and a heat conducting medium is introduced from the filling device through the filling tube into the at least one gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc Gormanns, Tobias Benker, Michael Frauenhofer, Oliver Schieler, Michael Schüßler
  • Publication number: 20210194036
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receptacle for receiving a cell module. It is provided that support surfaces for supporting the cell module spaced apart from a bottom of the battery housing are formed on walls of the battery housing delimiting the receptacle compartment, and that a distance between the support surfaces and the base is measured, an amount of heat conducting calculated from the distance is applied to the bottom, and then the cell module is inserted into the receptacle compartment supported on the support surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Andreas BUER
  • Publication number: 20210193980
    Abstract: A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receiving compartment for receiving a cell module. It is thus provided that the receiving compartment is delimited by a bottom and walls adjoining said bottom, A topography of the bottom is recorded by measuring technology, a thermal-conductor amount determined by the topography is applied locally to the bottom, whereupon the cell module is inserted into the receiving compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Andreas BUER
  • Publication number: 20210028435
    Abstract: A battery device and a method for producing a battery device for a motor vehicle. In said method, a cooling base element and a battery module are provided, and the battery module is mounted on the cooling base element, forming at least one gap between a battery module region and a cooling base region. A filling device is then coupled to at least one filling opening of at least one filling tube, with the at least one filling tube extending into the at least one gap, and a heat conducting medium is introduced from the filling device through the filling tube into the at least one gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc GORMANNS, Tobias BENKER, Michael FRAUENHOFER, Oliver SCHIELER, Michael SCHÜßLER
  • Publication number: 20200373635
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for introducing a heat-conducting medium between a battery module and a cooling base, wherein the battery module is positioned in relation to the cooling base such that a lower side of the battery module faces toward the cooling base and an upper side of the battery module faces away from the cooling base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc GORMANNS, Tobias BENKER, MichaeI FRAUENHOFER, Pedro DE SOUSA SCHMIECH, Michael SCHUESSLER
  • Publication number: 20200373532
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a module housing for accommodating a cell stack having multiple individual battery cells for a high-voltage battery of a motor vehicle, wherein the module housing has at least one first side wall confining the cell stack in its longitudinal direction z when said cell stack is accommodated in the module housing. Herein, the at least one first side wall has a passage opening extending from a top to a bottom of the first side wall, in which a mixing element is arranged to mix a gap filler or, in general, a heat transfer medium and to convey the same underneath the battery module formed by the cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marc GORMANNS, Tobias BENKER, MichaeI FRAUENHOFER, Pedro DE SOUSA SCHMIECH, Michael SCHUESSLER