Elringklinger Ag

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v.

Armin Diez

Wolfgang Fritz

Jan Groshert

Michael Kohnle

Tobias Michael Gruhler

Peter Schenk

Axelle Hauck

Hubertus Goesmann

Hans-Rainer Zerfass

Philipp Petz

Ulrich Werz

Mark Laderer

Hermann Randecker

Christoph Tamegger

Matthias Müller

Peter Lamp

Joachim Tachtler

Thomas Anhorn

Manfred Wier

Peter Wolfer

Claudio Cavalloni

Stefan Dwenger

Klaus Bendl

Christoph Born

Christian Zachar

Frank Schmucker

Joachim Buck

Matthias Baur

Thomas Schumacher

Karl Schmauder

Harry Hinderer

Tobias Schmidt

Jochen Hantschel

Eberhard Griesinger

Siegfried Maschmann

Kurt Schwenkel

Ulrich Staib

Peter Schweizer

Martin Biedermann

Victor Winkovic

Michael Bleidt

Michael Lang

Michael Schnepf

Gerald Eifler

Bernd Weis

Thomas Tiefenbach

Hubertus Goeshann

Michael Grotz

Stefan Herter

Christian Honeck

Florian Schwarz

Heinrich Rot

André Wiechert

Moritz Bertsch

Hans-Rainer Zerfaß

In order to enable a connection between measuring points of an electro-chemical device and a monitoring unit of the electro-chemical device to be easily and rapidly established, there is proposed a conduit system for connecting a plurality of voltage tapping points and/or temperature measuring points of an electro-chemical device to a monitoring unit of the electro-chemical device which comprises a plurality of voltage tapping lines and/or temperature measuring lines and a stiffening structure in which and/or on which the plurality of voltage tapping lines and/or temperature measuring lines are arranged at least in sections thereof.

Conduit system for connecting a plurality

Conduit system for connecting a plurality of voltage tapping points and/or temperature measuring points of an electro-chemical device to a monitoring unit

In order to provide a sealing assembly for a fuel cell stack comprising a plurality of fuel cell units, which are arranged consecutively in a stacking direction, wherein each of the fuel cell units comprises a housing with at least one housing part made of a metallic material, which also has an adequate electrical insulation effect and an adequate mechanical strength at a high operating temperature of the fuel cell stack, it is proposed that the sealing assembly comprises at least one intermediate element made of a metallic material, wherein the intermediate element is soldered to a housing part of a first fuel cell unit at at least one location by means of a metal solder and is secured to a housing part of a second fuel cell unit at at least another location, wherein the intermediate element and/or the housing part of the first fuel cell unit is provided with a coating made of a ceramic material.

Sealing assembly for a fuel cell stack having a coated metallic sheet intermediate element

To provide a cell connector for the electrically conductive connection of a first cell terminal of a first electrochemical cell and a second cell terminal of a second electrochemical cell of an electrochemical device, which allows a reliable and fail-safe connection of the cell terminals, it is proposed that the cell connector comprises a first contact section for connection to the first cell terminal, a second contact section for connection to the second cell terminal and an elastically and/or plastically deformable compensation region, which connects the first contact section and the second contact section to one another and allows a movement of these contact sections relative to one another.

Cell connector

In order to provide a cell connector for the electrically conductive connection of a first cell terminal of a first electrochemical cell and a second cell terminal of a second electrochemical cell of an electrochemical device comprising a base body and a contact body, which is connected to the base body and is connected to one of the cell terminals in the assembled state of the cell connector, at which an electric potential is detectable in a particularly simple manner, it is proposed that the contact body comprises a voltage tap.

A cell connector for the electrically conductive connection of a first cell terminal of a first electrochemical cell and a second cell terminal of a second electrochemical cell of an electrochemical device is provided, the cell connector including a first contact region for connection to the first cell terminal and a second contact region for connection to the second cell terminal, where the cell connector allows a large relative displacement between the first contact region and the second contact region even under the influence of only small deformation forces. The cell connector can include a base body made of two or more material layers, at least two material layers being connected to one another in one piece along a fold line.

In order to enable the temperature in the region of at least one of the cell terminals that are connected to one another in an electrically conductive manner by a cell connector to be determined in a simple and reliable manner, there is proposed a cell connector for connecting a first cell terminal of a first electro-chemical cell and a second cell terminal of a second electro-chemical cell of an electro-chemical device in an electrically conductive manner which comprises a base body and a temperature sensing element that is fixed to the base body.

In a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cell units, which are arranged consecutively in a stacking direction, wherein each of the fuel cell units comprises a housing with at least one housing part made of a metallic material, which has an adequate electrical insulation effect and an adequate mechanical strength at a high operating temperature of the fuel cell stack, a sealing assembly is provided and comprises at least one intermediate element made of a metallic material, wherein the intermediate element is soldered to a housing part of a first fuel cell unit at at least one location by a metal solder and is secured to a housing part of a second fuel cell unit at at least another location, wherein the intermediate element and/or the housing part of the first fuel cell unit is provided with a coating made of a ceramic material.

Sealing assembly for a fuel cell stack

In order to produce a connecting device for the electrically conductive connection of a plurality of cell terminals of electro-chemical cells of an electro-chemical device which enables the cell connector to be mounted on the electro-chemical cells in a simple and rapid manner wherein the device comprises two or more cell connectors for respectively connecting two cell terminals of different electro-chemical cells to one another in electrically conductive manner, it is proposed that, in an assembly state of the connecting device, at least two cell connectors be integrally connected together after separating out the cell connectors from a starting material.

Connecting device

Cylinder head gasket whose gasket plate comprises a single sheet metal layer, combustion chamber openings, and for each combustion chamber opening a ring-shaped combustion chamber sealing element, which is a sheet metal ring that is arranged on the sheet metal layer and is joined to the latter by welding; to avoid the risk of damage to a combustion chamber sealing element as a result of sliding movements occurring between a cylinder head sealing surface and the cylinder head gasket while the engine is in operation, all sheet metal rings are arranged on that side of the sheet metal layer which is to face an engine block.

Cylinder head gasket

The invention relates to a metallic cylinder head gasket for an internal combustion engine having a cylinder block with adjacent combustion chambers and a cylinder head connected to the said block by bolts, having at least one sheet metal layer of resilient metal, which is provided with a plurality of combustion chamber openings corresponding to the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine, and also fluid and bolt passage openings, where, around each combustion chamber opening, at a distance from the latter, leaving a straight sheet metal section in the opening edge area, a bead is provided, whose spring travel is limited by a stopper extending concentrically with respect to the bead the stopper being profiled in terms of height and/or width in accordance with reductions in compression pressure to be expected in specific areas on account of reduced component stiffness of cylinder block and cylinder head in the clamped state of the cylinder head gasket, where, when profiling the stopper height and/or width, the increase in the compression pressure as a result of thermal expansions to be expected because of the operating temperature of the internal combustion engine is additionally taken into account in such a way that the profiling is designed substantially in accordance with a mid-range between an increase in compression pressure resulting from thermal expansions and a decrease in compression pressure resulting from component stiffnesses.

In order to create a fuel cell unit, comprising a cathode-anode-electrolyte unit and a contact plate which is in electrically conductive contact with the cathode-anode-electrolyte unit, which requires only small production resources and is thus suitable for large-scale production it is suggested that the fuel cell unit comprise a fluid guiding element which is connected to the contact plate in a fluid-tight manner, forms a boundary of a fluid chamber having fluid flowing through it during operation of the fuel cell unit and is designed as a shaped sheet metal part.

Composite block of fuel cells

In order to provide a cylinder head gasket, comprising at least one gasket sheet, with at least one combustion chamber opening and a combustion chamber bead, the height of which may be elastically deformed and surrounds the combustion chamber opening, and at least one deformation limiting means limiting the deformation of the combustion chamber bead, wherein the deformation limiting means assures adequate protection of the combustion chamber bead and adequate sealing surface pressure over a wide range of operating conditions of the engine, it is proposed that the cylinder head gasket comprises a compensation means which comprises at least one compensation element, the height of which varies essentially reversibly when the operating status of the engine changes, and which at least partially supports both the combustion chamber bead and the deformation limiting means.

Cylinder head gasket with a ring-shaped combustion chamber sealing element comprising a metallic sealing strand, the sealing element being shaped and held in the cylinder head gasket so that when the gasket is clamped between engine component sealing surfaces and sealing surfaces thereof become relatively displaced parallel to the gasket plane during engine operation, sealing element sections are tiltable about the longitudinal center axis of the sealing strand. The gasket is shaped so that the combustion chamber sealing element is uncovered at the two main surfaces of the gasket and, in cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal center axis of the sealing strand, is of such spherical shape there as to result in surfaces of the sealing element, which are of convex cross section, and the radius of curvature of which is greater than half the thickness of the sealing element perpendicular to the gasket plane.

Cylinder head gasket with a ring-shaped metallic sealing element extending around a through-opening of the gasket, wherein, for automatic adaptation to changes in the width of the sealing gap to be sealed by the cylinder head gasket, the sealing element is of such spherical shape in cross section at its sides facing the two main surfaces of the gasket as to result in convex surfaces of the sealing element that face the main surfaces of the gasket and each have a crest, and, in the unpressed state of the gasket, these crests, in cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal center axis of a metallic sealing strand forming the sealing element, are laterally offset from one another in the direction of a gasket plane defined by the gasket so that the spacing of planes running parallel to the gasket plane and tangentially to the convex surfaces of the sealing element varies when these convex surfaces tilt about the longitudinal center axis of the sealing strand.

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Lenningen, Germany

Armin Diez