Voestalpine Stahl Gmbh

Voestalpine Metal Forming Gmbh

Michael Haslmayr

Siegfried Kolnberger

Thomas Kurz

Reiner Kelsch

Andreas Sommer

Jochen Lanksweirt

Christian Rouet

Stefan Schuster

Claudio Canalini

Marcus Wiemann

Leopold Stegfellner

Matthias Stumvoll

Benedikt Tutewohl

Friedrich Füreder-kitzmüller

Markus Borz

A battery carrier having a trough formed from shaped sheet metal, which has at least one trough side wall and a trough bottom connected to the trough side wall, a plurality of support profiles provided in the trough and affixed to the trough, at least one battery pack, which is affixed to at least two support profiles extending adjacent to the battery pack, a lid, which is detachably connected to said trough, and a heat exchanger, which is thermally connected to the battery pack and has at least one flow channel for a liquid. In order to enable a simple design and simple assembly and maintenance, it is proposed for the lid to form the heat exchanger, wherein the battery pack is arranged at a distance from the trough bottom and the trough bottom is permanently connected to the trough side wall or embodied of one piece with it.

Battery carrier and vehicle having said battery carrier

A method for heating a blank or a preformed steel sheet component for hot forming and/or quench hardening purposes. In at least some regions, the heating is carried out to a temperature above AC3; the heating of the blank is embodied as a rapid heating and to this end, the blank is heated in a first zone at an average heating rate of &#x3e;25 K/s up to about 600&#xb0; C. and above this temperature, is heated at an average heating rate of &#x3e;10 K/s up to a maximum of the AC3 temperature and then is transferred to a second zone in which the blank that has been preheated in the first zone is heated in at least some regions to temperatures greater than AC3, in particular &#x3e;850&#xb0; C., with the heating rate in the second zone being &#x3e;10 K/s. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method.

Method for heating steel sheets and device for carrying out the method

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Michael Haslmayr