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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2024
Schunk Carbon Technology Gmbh, Bad Goisern, AT;
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Ludwig Kain, Bad Goisern, AT;
Steffen Triebe, Manching, DE;
SCHUNK CARBON TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Bad Goisern, AT;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A discharge device for discharging electrical currents from a rotor having a shaft, the discharge device including a movable contact element at least partially accommodated in a guide having a guide wall and an outer wall, the contact element being configured to form an electrically conductive sliding contact between a sliding-contact surface of the contact element and a shaft contact surface of the shaft, the sliding-contact surface being intended to form the sliding contact, the contact element being connected to the guide and/or a support element in an electrically conductive manner, preloaded in the direction of the shaft contact surface by a spring element, and at least partially wetted with an oily fluid. At least one conduit for the oily fluid is provided in the guide, the conduit ending in the outer wall or being disposed in the outer wall of the guide.