Patents by Inventor Werner Freise

Werner Freise 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: 6211596
    Abstract: A claw-pole machine has a stator and a rotor, and an exciter coil that is wound on a solid core in the rotor. The solid core extends in the radial direction into two claw magnet wheels that end in a plurality of claw-pole fingers, having a plurality of solid, radially-outward-oriented parts, and has a plurality of tangential side surfaces, which alternate axially, starting from two sides, wherein a plurality of U-shaped metal sheets are attached to the solid, radially-outward-oriented parts of the claw-pole fingers. The U-shaped metal sheets are layered one on top of the other in the axial direction to prevent eddy currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Freise
  • Patent number: 5927452
    Abstract: An arrangement for compensating for alternating torques and reducing vibrations in the drive train of a motor vehicle includes three flywheel masses and two clutches in a common housing and integrates an electromechanical converter capable of being operated as an electric motor and as an generator. The first two flywheel masses are arranged in the manner of a dual-mass flywheel for the purpose of reducing the vibrations capable of being transmitted into the transmission by the crankshaft and the third flywheel mass is driven from the first flywheel mass through planet wheels so that it rotates in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the crankshaft. The third flywheel mass is formed, on its radially outer circumference as a rotor for an electromechanical converter and can be disconnected from the crankshaft by a clutch positioned between the planet wheels and the second flywheel mass while the other clutch serves as driving clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Werner Freise, Andreas Rundkowski, Rainer Miersch, Stefan Herzig
  • Patent number: 5280211
    Abstract: In a stator-excited synchronous machine with laminated sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2), which are arranged one behind another at an axial distance and are winding-excited by in each case one excitation winding part (EW1 or EW2) of opposite polarity, the operating efficiency can be increased with low outlay when a permanent magnet arrangement (M) having a magnetization opposing the winding excitation in the sector stator elements is provided in the axial spacing chamber between the sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2); in order to lock the position of the magnet arrangement (M), the facing laminations of the magnet arrangement (M) have bent-away tongues (Z) gripping radially from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Freise, Helmut Schmidt, Wolfgang Weinhold, Udo Winter, Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 5051640
    Abstract: A stator-excited synchronous machine with an unwound, toothed rotor has a stator which is subdivided into sectors each of which is wound with an excitation winding. Permanent magnets are disposed between the stator sectors tangentially. The permanent magnets' magnetic fields in the stator sector yokes are directed in the circumferential direction, opposite to those of the adjoining excitation windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Freise
  • Patent number: 4584513
    Abstract: For an internal combustion engine, such as a motor vehicle engine, operating on the principle of "flywheel utilization" an electromagnetic unit can be used both as a starter motor and as a generator. In addition, this unit is easily adaptable to the given flywheel dimensions and it involves as low a cost as possible for the controlling semiconductor components and for the exciter power. The invention proposes, among other things: (a) a stator with several independent sector stators arranged at tangential distance from each other, with pairs of toothed sector stator elements arranged at an axial distance a one behind the other and each having a radially projecting pole shank connected together by a flux return yoke; (b) a rotor with two rows of teeth mutually offset "tooth on gap" on the circumference of the clutch flywheel; and (c) use of MOS transistors for the electrical commutating of motor operation, the inverse diodes of which are utilized as rectifier elements in generator operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Freise, Herbert Fischer
  • Patent number: 4550280
    Abstract: For an internal combustion engine, such as a motor vehicle engine, operating on the principle of "flywheel utilization" an electromagnetic unit can be used both as a starter motor and as a generator. In addition, this unit is easily adaptable to the given flywheel dimensions and it involves as low a cost as possible for the controlling semiconductor components and for the exciter power. The invention proposes, among other things: (a) a stator with several independent sector stators arranged at tangential distance from each other, with pairs of toothed sector stator elements arranged at an axial distance a one behind the other and each having a radially projecting pole shank connected together by a flux return yoke; (b) a rotor with two rows of teeth mutually offset "tooth on gap" on the circumference of the clutch flywheel; and (c) use of MOS transistors for the electrical commutating of motor operation, the inverse diodes of which are utilized as rectifier elements in generator operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Freise