Patents by Inventor Wolfgang SAUCKE

Wolfgang SAUCKE 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: 10052967
    Abstract: An electrical power supply network for a motor vehicle, including at least one high-voltage battery and one low-voltage battery, wherein at least one DC/DC converter is arranged between the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery, which is designed such that the high-voltage battery charges the low-voltage battery, and at least one solar module, which is connected to the low-voltage battery via a DC/DC converter, wherein at least one control device is associated with the low-voltage battery which is designed such that an SOC value of the low-voltage battery is ascertained, wherein during a vehicle standstill, the high-voltage battery is charged from the low-voltage battery via a DC/DC converter until the SOC value of the low-voltage battery reaches a first threshold value. Also disclosed is a method for distributing electrical energy in such a power supply network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Saucke, Florian Kühnlenz, Daniel Urbschat
  • Publication number: 20170166079
    Abstract: An electrical power supply network for a motor vehicle, including at least one high-voltage battery and one low-voltage battery, wherein at least one DC/DC converter is arranged between the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery, which is designed such that the high-voltage battery charges the low-voltage battery, and at least one solar module, which is connected to the low-voltage battery via a DC/DC converter, wherein at least one control device is associated with the low-voltage battery which is designed such that an SOC value of the low-voltage battery is ascertained, wherein during a vehicle standstill, the high-voltage battery is charged from the low-voltage battery via a DC/DC converter until the SOC value of the low-voltage battery reaches a first threshold value. Also disclosed is a method for distributing electrical energy in such a power supply network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang SAUCKE, Florian KÜHNLENZ, Daniel URBSCHAT
  • Publication number: 20170163082
    Abstract: A high-voltage electrical system having at least one high-voltage battery and one solar module, wherein the high-voltage battery may be galvanically isolated from a voltage connection via at least one switch between a terminal of the high-voltage battery and the voltage connection, wherein at least one control device is associated with the high-voltage battery, which is designed such that the at least one control device generates at least control commands for the switch, wherein at least one DC/DC converter is arranged between the solar module and the high-voltage battery, which is designed such that the high-voltage battery is charged by the solar module, wherein the at least one DC/DC converter is designed as a galvanically isolated DC/DC converter, wherein the outputs of the DC/DC converter are directly connected to the high-voltage battery. Also disclosed is a method for charging a high-voltage battery by a solar module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang SAUCKE, Florian KÜHNLENZ, Daniel URBSCHAT