Patents by Inventor Tobias Isermeyer
Tobias Isermeyer 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).
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Patent number: 10371465Abstract: A heat exchanger may include input-side and output-side tube plates and tubes supported therein, forming a first flow duct for a first medium. A housing may surround the tube plates and the tubes, forming a second flow duct for a second medium running between the tubes in the housing. The heat exchanger may further include at least one turbulence-generating insert arranged in the second flow duct between the tubes, the insert having ducts with permeable side walls for the second medium, and at least one dividing wall duct having closed side walls and being spaced apart at least at one longitudinal end from the housing. The at least one dividing wall duct may be designed to be open at both longitudinal ends, may be produced by a compression process, and may have a rising first flank and a second flank engaging below the second flank.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Jens Richter, Bjoern Haller, Johannes Kaelber, Thomas Merten, Tobias Isermeyer
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Patent number: 10254055Abstract: An intercooler assembly may include a housing and a cooler arranged therein through which charge air may be flowable. The housing may include an insertion opening through which the cooler may be insertable into the housing in an insertion direction transverse to the flow direction of the charge air. The cooler may include a pipe structure through which a coolant may be flowable, first and second end parts opposite each other transverse to the insertion direction, and third and fourth end parts opposite each other transverse to the first and second end parts and parallel to the flow direction, the end parts laterally delimiting and mechanically connected to the pipe structure. The cooler may be mechanically connected to the housing by the first end part, and at least one of the other end parts may be movably attached to the housing. The cooler may be pre-stressed against the housing by the third and/or fourth end part in a direction opposite a deformation of the cooler resulting from cooling of the charge air.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Boris Bangert, Andreas Eilemann, Karsten Emrich, Tobias Isermeyer, Hubert Pomin, Timm Roeschmann, Juergen Stehlig
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Patent number: 10180291Abstract: A charge-air cooler for a fresh-air system of an internal combustion engine may include a cooler box and an upper shell such as a flange plate. The cooler box may include a cooler box passage opening, and the flange plate may include a flange plate passage opening arranged complementary with the cooler box passage opening. An adapter element may have a first end section and a second end section. The adapter element may be connected to a rim of the cooler box that borders the cooler box passage opening. A pipe element may be detachably secured to the adapter element and have a first end section and a second end section. The first end section of the adapter element and the first end section of the pipe element may define a clip-type connection when the adapter element and the pipe element are secured to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Ellen Hohmann, Tobias Isermeyer, Timm Roeschmann
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Publication number: 20180087847Abstract: An intercooler assembly may include a housing and a cooler arranged therein through which charge air may be flowable. The housing may include an insertion opening through which the cooler may be insertable into the housing in an insertion direction transverse to the flow direction of the charge air. The cooler may include a pipe structure through which a coolant may be flowable, first and second end parts opposite each other transverse to the insertion direction, and third and fourth end parts opposite each other transverse to the first and second end parts and parallel to the flow direction, the end parts laterally delimiting and mechanically connected to the pipe structure. The cooler may be mechanically connected to the housing by the first end part, and at least one of the other end parts may be movably attached to the housing. The cooler may be pre-stressed against the housing by the third and/or fourth end part in a direction opposite a deformation of the cooler resulting from cooling of the charge air.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2015Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Boris Bangert, Andreas Eilemann, Karsten Emrich, Tobias Isermeyer, Hubert Pomin, Timm Roeschmann, Juergen Stehlig
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Publication number: 20170016685Abstract: A charge-air cooler for a fresh-air system of an internal combustion engine may include a cooler box and an upper shell such as a flange plate. The cooler box may include a cooler box passage opening, and the flange plate may include a flange plate passage opening arranged complementary with the cooler box passage opening. An adapter element may have a first end section and a second end section. The adapter element may be connected to a rim of the cooler box that borders the cooler box passage opening. A pipe element may be detachably secured to the adapter element and have a first end section and a second end section. The first end section of the adapter element and the first end section of the pipe element may define a clip-type connection when the adapter element and the pipe element are secured to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Ellen Hohmann, Tobias Isermeyer, Timm Roeschmann
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Patent number: 9506395Abstract: A cooling system for a supercharged internal combustion engine may include a charge air cooling circuit, in which a low-temperature coolant circulates and which may have a low-temperature charge air cooler for cooling charge air and a low-temperature coolant cooler for cooling the low-temperature coolant. The system may include a refrigerant circuit, in which a refrigerant circulates and which has a vaporizer for vaporizing the refrigerant and a condenser for condensing the refrigerant. The system may include a coupling heat exchanger for a fluidically separated, heat-transmitting coupling of the charge air cooling circuit with the refrigerant circuit. The coupling heat exchanger may be arranged in a vaporizer bypass of the refrigerant circuit thereby bypassing the vaporizer and be arranged in a coupling branch of the charge air cooling circuit. The coupling branch may branch off via a branching-off point from a feed of the charge air cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Tobias Isermeyer, Peter Wieske, Rene Dingelstadt
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Patent number: 9457645Abstract: A device for thermal connection of an energy store to a cooling plate and/or a contact element, and a cooling plate on a contact element and/or a fluid is provided. The device for thermal connection has a first region having a first heat transfer property and at least one other region having another heat transfer property, wherein the first region and the at least one other region are arranged next to one another in relation to the heat transfer surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Stefan Hirsch, Achim Wiebelt, Caroline Schmid, Tobias Isermeyer, Marc-Thomas Eisele
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Publication number: 20160169599Abstract: A heat exchanger may include input-side and output-side tube plates and tubes supported therein, forming a first flow duct for a first medium. A housing may surround the tube plates and the tubes, forming a second flow duct for a second medium running between the tubes in the housing. The heat exchanger may further include at least one turbulence-generating insert arranged in the second flow duct between the tubes, the insert having ducts with permeable side walls for the second medium, and at least one dividing wall duct having closed side walls and being spaced apart at least at one longitudinal end from the housing. The at least one dividing wall duct may be designed to be open at both longitudinal ends, may be produced by a compression process, and may have a rising first flank and a second flank engaging below the second flank.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Jens Richter, Bjoern Haller, Johannes Kaelber, Thomas Merten, Tobias Isermeyer
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Patent number: 9283826Abstract: A device for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle, including a cooling body (7) which is in thermal contact with the heat source, a first fluid stream for the discharge of heat being capable of flowing to the cooling body (7), wherein at least one second fluid stream for the discharge of heat can flow selectably to the cooling body (7).Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Thomas Heckenberger, Conrad Pfender, Dirk Neumeister, Guenther Feuerecker, Manuel Wehowski, Roland Burk, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Tobias Isermeyer, Florian Moldovan, Martin Steinbach
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Patent number: 9083009Abstract: A method comprising a step of providing a cooling plate having at least one exposed cooling channel designed for guiding a cooling fluid. The method further comprises a step of providing a mounting unit designed for receiving and fixing at least one energy storage unit. The method finally comprises a step of connecting the cooling plate to the mounting unit, whereby the at least one cooling channel is closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Heckenberger, Tobias Isermeyer, Markus Kohlberger, Thomas Schiehlen, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Christoph Fehrenbacher
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Publication number: 20150040874Abstract: A cooling system for a supercharged internal combustion engine may include a charge air cooling circuit, in which a low-temperature coolant circulates and which may have a low-temperature charge air cooler for cooling charge air and a low-temperature coolant cooler for cooling the low-temperature coolant. The system may include a refrigerant circuit, in which a refrigerant circulates and which has a vaporiser for vaporising the refrigerant and a condenser for condensing the refrigerant. The system may include a coupling heat exchanger for a fluidically separated, heat-transmitting coupling of the charge air cooling circuit with the refrigerant circuit. The coupling heat exchanger may be arranged in a vaporiser bypass of the refrigerant circuit thereby bypassing the vaporiser and be arranged in a coupling branch of the charge air cooling circuit. The coupling branch may branch off via a branching-off point from a feed of the charge air cooling circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Tobias Isermeyer, Peter Wieske, Rene Dingelstadt
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Patent number: 8863542Abstract: Apparatus for cooling electrical elements, comprising a heat sink (1, 101, 201) through which a coolant can flow, a plurality of electrical elements (2, 102, 202) which each have a bottom surface and a side surface, with the bottom surfaces being aligned essentially on one plane, with the heat sink (1, 101, 201) having at least one channel (4, 5, 104, 105, 204, 205) through which a coolant can flow and making thermal contact with the electrical elements (2, 102, 202), characterized in that the heat sink (1, 101, 202) extends essentially parallel to the plane of the bottom surfaces, with the channel (4, 5, 104, 105, 204, 205) in the heat sink having a profile which is matched to edges of the electrical elements (2, 102, 202).Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Herbert Damsohn, Ronald Gneiting, Tobias Isermeyer, Klaus Luz, Conrad Pfender
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Patent number: 8863543Abstract: A device for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle is provided that includes a cooling body which has a plurality of feed flow channels and a plurality of return flow channels. At least a multiplicity of the feed flow channels and return flow channels are arranged adjacent to one another in an alternating fashion in the cooling body.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Heckenberger, Stefan Hirsch, Heiko Neff, Tobias Isermeyer, Caroline Schmid, Jalal Mohamed-Ali, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Achim Wiebelt
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Patent number: 8790808Abstract: A device for cooling a vehicle battery is provided that includes a plurality of electrical storage elements, and a cooling element having ducts for a fluid to flow through, wherein the electrical storage elements are in thermal contact with the cooling elements and heat can be transmitted from the storage elements to the fluid, and wherein the cooling element which comprises the ducts is embodied as at least one extruded profile.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hans-Georg Herrmann, Florian Moldovan, Caroline Schmid, Thomas Schiehlen, Tobias Isermeyer, Martin Steinbach, Juergen Eckstein, Christoph Fehren-Bacher, Achim Wiebelt, Markus Kohlberger, Conrad Pfender, Thomas Heckenberger
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Patent number: 8616012Abstract: A vaporizer for a cooling circuit, particularly for a motor vehicle, is provided that includes a vaporization region, wherein a coolant flowing through the vaporization region takes up heat from an outside region, wherein the vaporization region is downstream of a first expansion element on the inlet side in the direction of flow of the coolant, wherein an exchanger member is provided between the vaporization region and the first expansion element, and wherein heat can be transferred from the coolant upstream of the vaporization region to the coolant downstream of the vaporization region.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gottfried Duerr, Guenther Feuerecker, Stefan Hirsch, Tobias Isermeyer, Caroline Schmid, Christoph Walter, Achim Wiebelt
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Patent number: 8597820Abstract: A device for restraining an energy store is provided that includes one or more cells disposed between a first side of the energy store and a second side of the energy store vertically opposite to the first side. The device has at least one first mounting device designed for transferring a first clamping force acting in the direction of the second side to the first side of the energy store, and at least one second mounting device designed for transferring a second clamping force acting in the direction of the first side to the second side o the energy store, and at least one elastic clamping device designed for providing the first and second clamping forces and further designed for adapting a distance between the at least one first mounting device and the at least one second mounting device to a permissible distance between the first and the second side.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Hirsch, Tobias Isermeyer, Markus Kohlberger, Florin Moldovan, Michael Moser, Heiko Neff, Thomas Schiehlen, Caroline Schmid, Achim Wiebelt
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Patent number: 8435665Abstract: A device for cooling a vehicle battery is provided that includes a plurality of electric storage elements, and a cooling body being flowed through by a coolant fluid, wherein at least one of the electric storage elements is fixed at least on one cooling plate in thermal contact, and wherein the cooling plate is connected to the cooling body so that heat may be transferred from the storage element to the fluid, wherein the cooling plate has a planar mechanical connection to the cooling body.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Caroline Schmid, Tobias Isermeyer, Markus Kohlberger, Florian Moldovan, Thomas Schiehlen, Herbert Damsohn, Martin Steinbach, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Juergen Eckstein
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Publication number: 20120301771Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy store device, comprising a plurality of cooling channels, which are disposed in a plane spaced apart from each other substantially parallel to each other and designed for a cooling fluid to flow through them, at least one collection box, which is disposed in the plane with and substantially perpendicular to the plurality of cooling channels and is connected thereto to take up the cooling fluid therefrom or release it therein, and with a stack composed of a plurality of electrochemical energy store units, which are disposed such that between two adjacent cooling channels of the plurality of cooling channels at least one energy store unit from the plurality of electrochemical energy store units is disposed, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Michael Moser, Tobias Isermeyer, Christoph Fehrenbacher, Thomas Heckenberger, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Dirk Neumeister, Rudolf Riedel, Christian Zahn
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Publication number: 20120251865Abstract: A heat sink for an electrochemical cell, the heat sink comprises a cell region which is designed to be coupled to the electrochemical cell, a connecting region which is designed to be connected mechanically and thermally to a cooling plate, and a fold region which is arranged between the cell region and the connecting region and comprises a flexible fold of the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Inventors: Thomas HECKENBERGER, Hans-Georg HERRMANN, Tobias ISERMEYER, Roman LORENZ, Michael MOSER
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Publication number: 20120227931Abstract: A method comprising a step of providing a cooling plate having at least one exposed cooling channel designed for guiding a cooling fluid. The method further comprises a step of providing a mounting unit designed for receiving and fixing at least one energy storage unit. The method finally comprises a step of connecting the cooling plate to the mounting unit, whereby the at least one cooling channel is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Thomas HECKENBERGER, Tobias ISERMEYER, Markus KOHLBERGER, Thomas SCHIEHLEN, Hans-Georg HERRMANN, Christoph FEHRENBACHER