Benteler-automobiltechnik Gmbh

Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd.

Victocor Technologies N.v.

Asian Takaoka Co., Ltd.

Bodycote Warmebehandlung Gmbh

Martin Pohl

Christian Handing

Kiyohito Kondo

Markus Pellmann

Otto Buschsieweke

Stefan Adelbert

Frank Rabe

Martin Schroeter

Konstantin Tatarinov

Edvin List Clausen

Robert Stockter

Katsunori Ishiguro

Tobias Duepmeier

Michael Wibbeke

Friedrich Bohner

Wilfried Rostek

Masaki Furuhashi

Andreas Stosch

Wolfram Graf

Radovan Kout

Borek Dvorak

Frank Natrup

The disclosure relates to a battery holder for the receiving of a plurality of battery modules in an electrically driven vehicle. The battery holder may include a plurality of juxtaposed module receptacles, wherein each module receptacle is configured to receive the battery module, and a profile wall that defines the plurality of module receptacles, wherein a heat exchanger is configured to temper the battery modules is formed in the side wall, wherein the heat exchanger comprises a plurality of hollow channels that extend along the module receptacles.

Battery holder for a vehicle

The disclosure comprises a battery holder for receiving at least one electric battery in a vehicle that includes a hollow chamber profile with a hollow chamber that is defined by a base wall and a cover wall, where the electric battery is configured for placement on the cover wall. The battery holder also includes a heat exchanger structure configured for tempering the electric battery, where the heat exchanger structure is formed within a cover wall section of the cover wall and includes at least one hollow channel that intersperses the cover wall.

A method for producing a structural and/or safety-related motor vehicle component having at least one hot-formed and press-hardened part constructed from high-strength steel includes the steps of partially heat-treating a region of the motor vehicle component by heating the region to a heat-up temperature in a temperature range between 500&#xb0; C. and 900&#xb0; C.; maintaining the heat-up temperature for a duration of a holding time; and cooling down from the heat-up temperature in one or more phases. A body component constructed as a structural and/or safety-related motor vehicle component from a steel sheet blank that has been hot-formed and press-hardened includes joining flanges and/or coupling locations and/or safety-related parts, wherein the joining flanges, coupling locations and/or safety-related parts are partially heat-treated in several steps with the disclosed method.

Method for producing a motor vehicle component, and a body component

A method for making a vehicle body component includes forming a generally flat plate of unhardened, hot-formable sheet steel with a marginal shape which corresponds essentially to the developed configuration of the finished vehicle body component. The formed plate is hot-formed and hardened in a single press tool to define a sheet profile which corresponds to the configuration of the finished vehicle body component, and a surface coating is applied to the sheet profile.

Method for producing press-hardened components for motor vehicles

A heating device and a heating method which is able to quickly and accurately partition each region of a material to be heated and heat up each of the region to a required temperature, and a shape and required temperature of each region is different from each other. A heating device for heating a material to be heated by applying an electromagnetic wave to the material, wherein a plate member(s) which shields, absorbs and/or reflects the irradiated electromagnetic radiation and has a predetermined pattern contour can be placed, at least partially, close to the material to be heated.

Heating device and heating method

In a method for press-hardening a metallic formed structure made of a hardenable steel sheet, the steel sheet is heated above a transition temperature Acand then placed in a cooled press having a forming tool with at least one uncooled contour section for forming a region of reduced hardness. Marginal regions of the steel sheet are clamped with a sheet holder arrangement which has an inner sheet holder and an outer sheet holder. The inner sheet holder is hereby located closer to the forming tool than the outer sheet holder. The sheet holder arrangement is configured to slow down flow of the marginal regions into the forming tool. After closing the press tool, the steel sheet is formed in a first forming phase by holding the marginal region with the outer sheet holder and in a subsequent forming phase by holding the marginal region with the inner sheet holder.

Method and device for press-hardening a metallic formed structure

A blank cut from a strip of hardenable hot-formed steel is heated in a furnace to a temperature which is smaller than an Actransformation point in an iron carbon diagram. A first region of the blank is then heated in a conductive heating station to a temperature above the Actransformation point and subsequently hardened in a hot forming and hardening tool to produce a steel part with at least two microstructured regions of different ductility.

Method and apparatus for hot forming and hardening a blank

Provided are a quick heating equipment that is small sized, has a simple structure, consumes less energy, and is easy repairable and replaceable, and a quick heating method. The heating equipment of a plate material to be heated has a contact-heating surface configured by arranging a plurality of heating elements on heat-insulating base plates at predetermined intervals, in a planar fashion and in a predetermined pattern and the contact-heating surface(s) is/are directly contacted with the plate material to be heated for heating thereof.

Heating equipment for a plate to be heated and heating method

A thermoforming press for forming and hardening metal sheets includes an upper die and a lower die. At least one of the upper and lower dies has a mold jaw and a support jaw which are movable relative to one another between a first position in which the support jaw rests against the mold jaw to block a flow of coolant between the mold jaw and the support jaw, and a second position in which the support jaw is spaced from the mold jaw by a distance to define a cooling gap for coolant to flow between the mold jaw and the support jaw.

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