Friedrich Boysen Gmbh & Co. Kg

Basf Se Corporation

Al-ko Kober Corporation

Karl Stockinger

Georg Degen

Martin Gärtner

Jürgen Moors

Roland Gauss

Volker Roller

Juergen Moors

Hayri Winter

Henry Bosch

Stefan Hoffmann

Michael Edler

Friedrich Wellner

Wolfgang Sailer

Martin Gaertner

Christoph Kainzner

A flap device for a motor vehicle comprises a flap housing that can be flowed through by a gas flow; and a flap shaft that is rotatably supported about an axis of rotation in the flap housing by means of at least a first and a second bearing element, which are held at the flap housing, and that carries a flap for selectively blocking or throttling the gas flow. The flap shaft is supported at the first bearing element in a first axial direction via a fixed abutment element that is axially fixedly arranged with respect to the flap shaft. The flap shaft is supported at the second bearing element in a second axial direction, which is oriented opposite the first axial direction, via a movable abutment element that is axially displaceably seated on the flap shaft, with the movable abutment element being preloaded in a direction toward the second bearing element by means of a spring device, and with the spring device in this respect being supported at a support surface fixed to the shaft and thus pressing the fixed abutment element against the first bearing element.

Flap device

The invention relates to a flap device for controlling a gas flow through a pipe, in particular to an exhaust gas flap device for an exhaust train of a motor vehicle, comprising at least one flap which is arranged in a flap housing, in particular in a tubular flap housing, rotatable, in particular rotatable by a drive unit, about an axis of rotation of a flap shaft between an open position and a closed position, with a spring means being provided which, on a rotation of the flap from the open position into the closed position, tangentially and/or radially elastically loads the flap shaft at the latest in the closed position of the flap, and with at least one section of the spring means being directly or indirectly rotationally fixedly connected to the flap housing with respect to a rotation about the axis of rotation.

The invention relates to a device for converting thermal energy to electrical energy, comprising at least one thermoelectric module () which has an outer surface having a hot side () for contacting a heat source and having a cold side () for contacting a heat sink, wherein the hot side of the thermoelectric module is thermally conductively connected to a heat source, in particular an exhaust channel () of a combustion engine. The device further comprises a cooling channel () through which a cooling fluid can flow and which is thermally conductively connected to the cold side of the thermoelectric module. The cooling channel has at least one opening to the cold side of the thermoelectric module and is sealed in a fluid-tight manner around the opening with respect to the hot side of the thermoelectric module.

Device for converting thermal energy to electrical energy

In an exhaust train for an internal combustion engine having an integrated thermoelectric generator, the exhaust train has at least one duct, through which exhaust gas flows and in which at least one thermoelectric module is arranged in such a way that the hot side of the thermoelectric module is in direct contact with the exhaust gas, while the cold side of the thermoelectric module is cooled by means of a heat transfer medium.

Exhaust train having an integrated thermoelectric generator

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