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US 12,666,552 · App. 18/093,651 · Granted Jun 23, 2026

Housing part for attachment to a housing and electric compressor

Inventor: Helmut Hartl (Klosterneuburg, AT)
Assignee: SCHOTT AG
H05K5/0217H05K5/0247
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,666,552
App. No.
18/093,651
Filed
Jan 5, 2023
Granted
Jun 23, 2026
Kind
B2
Examiner
DINH, TUAN T
Art Unit
2847
USPC
361/807
Abstract

A housing part for attachment to a housing includes: at least one opening for at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass-ceramic material that is fed into the at least one opening providing a glass-metal seal (GTMS); an elevated area and/or a recess area configured to center the housing part within a structure of the housing and/or enhance the resilience against bending, the at least one opening being provided in the elevated area and/or the recess area, the elevated area and/or the recess area being situated in a glassing area plane; and at least two bores situated in a plane different from the glassing area plane.

Claims (27)

1 . A housing part for attachment to a housing, the housing part comprising:

at least one opening for at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass-ceramic material that is fed into the at least one opening providing a glass-metal seal (GTMS);

an elevated area and/or a recess area configured to center the housing part within a structure of the housing and/or enhance the resilience against bending, wherein the at least one opening is provided in the elevated area and/or the recess area, wherein the elevated area and/or the recess area is situated in a glassing area plane; and

at least two bores situated in a plane different from the glassing area plane, wherein an entryway of the at least one opening is situated in a first glassing area plane and an entryway of each of the at least two bores is situated in a plane different from the first glassing area plane, the respective entryways being located at a first side of the housing part, and wherein an exit of the at least one opening is situated in a second glassing area plane and an exit of each of the at least two bores is situated in a plane different from the second glassing area plane, the respective exits being located at an opposite second side of the housing part.

2 . The housing part of claim 1 , further comprising a pulled up edge.

3 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the housing part comprises a plurality of openings and/or the housing part forms an elongated structure.

4 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the housing part comprises a material that is at least one of steel, stainless steel, structural steel, micro-alloyed steel, or structural steel in the form of micro-alloyed steel.

5 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the housing part comprises the elevated area and the elevated area represents a plane which is elevated from a plane of a base of the housing part, wherein the elevated area has a side wall which extends from the base of the housing part, and wherein a transition of the base of the housing part to the side wall is rounded.

6 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the elevated area and/or the recess area has, at least at a side to be connected to the housing, a flatness according to ISO 1101 of at least 0.1.

7 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the at least one conductor and the glass or glass-ceramic material form a compression seal.

8 . The housing part of claim 1 , further comprising at least one attachment bore.

9 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the housing part comprises the elevated area and at least an area of an elevated plane of the elevated area has a structure.

10 . The housing part of claim 1 , further comprising an area with a roughness for a casting compound and/or an adhesive and/or an area which provides for a seal between the housing part and the housing.

11 . The housing part of claim 1 , further comprising tenons and/or pins and/or mushroom shaped head parts and/or a ring embossing and/or ring shaped grooves configured to connect plastic and/or rubber material to material of the housing part.

12 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein a flatness area surrounds the at least two bores.

13 . The housing part of claim 1 , further comprising a groove, wherein the groove is situated around at least the at least one opening with the conductor embedded in a glass- or glass-ceramic material.

14 . The housing part of claim 1 , wherein the at least one opening defines a single respective cross-sectional area and each of the at least two bores defines a single respective cross-sectional area.

15 . The housing part of claim 2 , wherein the elevated area and/or the recess area and/or the pulled up edge is formed by using a stamping or reforming process, wherein the elevated area and/or the recess area and/or the pulled up edge and the housing part are a one-piece part.

16 . The housing part of claim 2 , wherein the pulled up edge is a separate part that is joined with the housing part by fusing.

17 . The housing part of claim 2 , wherein the housing part is reshaped in order to provide the pulled up edge.

18 . The housing part of claim 5 , wherein the transition has a radius R that is between 0.01 mm and 0.8 mm.

19 . The housing part of claim 13 , wherein the groove is filled with a plastic or rubber or elastic material.

20 . An electric compressor, comprising:

a housing part for attachment to a housing, the housing part comprising:

at least one opening for at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass-ceramic material that is fed into the at least one opening providing a glass-metal seal (GTMS);

an elevated area and/or a recess area configured to center the housing part within a structure of the housing and/or enhance the resilience against bending, wherein the at least one opening is provided in the elevated area and/or the recess area, wherein the elevated area and/or the recess area is situated in a glassing area plane; and

at least two bores situated in a plane different from the glassing area plane, wherein an entryway of the at least one opening is situated in a first glassing area plane and an entryway of each of the at least two bores is situated in a plane different from the first glassing area plane, the respective entryways being located at a first side of the housing part, and wherein an exit of the at least one opening is situated in a second glassing area plane and an exit of each of the at least two bores is situated in a plane different from the second glassing area plane, the respective exits being located at an opposite second side of the housing part.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2023
From: HARTL, HELMUT
To: SCHOTT AG
Reel/Frame 062947/0234 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 20184235 · Jul 6, 2020 · regional
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2021068201 · Jul 1, 2021
Related Publication 20230156937A1 · May 18, 2023
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