Patents by Inventor Armin Dölker

Armin Dölker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9909518
    Abstract: A method for controlling the speed of an internal combustion engine and a speed control circuit for carrying out the method. For controlling, fuel energy is used as an output variable. The control units are calculated in accordance with a stationary proportion gain which is calculated proportionally to the fuel energy and inversely proportional to the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9890735
    Abstract: A method and an assembly for controlling the pressure in a high-pressure region of an injection system in an internal combustion engine. A set high pressure is compared to an actual high pressure in order to determine a control deviation, the control deviation representing an input variable of a controller. A high pressure pump is controlled by a solenoid valve and the angle at which the delivery of fuel by the at least one high-pressure pump is to start is used as a manipulated variable of the high-pressure closed-loop control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20180023502
    Abstract: An injection system for an internal combustion engine including at least one injector and a high-pressure accumulator, which has a fluid connection to the at least one injector on the one side and has a fluid connection to a fuel reservoir via a high-pressure pump on the other side, wherein a suction throttle is associated with the high-pressure pump as a first pressure-setting element. At least two pressure control valves are provided, via which the high-pressure accumulator can be brought into fluid connection with the fuel reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Publication number: 20180010542
    Abstract: A method for detecting continuous injection during the operation of an internal combustion engine with an injection system having a high-pressure accumulator for a fuel, wherein —a high pressure in the injection system is monitored as a function of time, wherein —in order to detect continuous injection it is checked whether the high pressure has dropped by a predetermined continuous injection differential pressure value within a predetermined continuous injection time interval, wherein —it is checked whether a reduction valve which connects the high-pressure accumulator to a fuel reservoir has been triggered, and wherein —continuous injection is detected if —a reduction valve has not been triggered in a predetermined checking time interval before the dropping of the high pressure, and if —the high pressure has dropped by the predetermined continuous injection differential value amount within the predetermined continuous injection time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Patent number: 9752528
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine. In the method, an injection start is calculated by a filter, starting from a standard injection start and at least one of the filter parameters is selected in accordance with the operating mode of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9657669
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for closed loop rail pressure control of a V-type internal combustion engine with an asymmetrical firing order, wherein an actual rail pressure is computed from the measured rail pressure; a system deviation is determined by means of the actual rail pressure and a set rail pressure; and wherein a correcting variable for actuating a pressure actuating element, in particular a suction throttle, for regulating the rail pressure is computed. The invention is characterized by the fact that the actual rail pressure is computed from the measured rail pressure by means of an averaging filter in that below a limit speed (nLi) the rail pressure is averaged over a constant time and in that above the limit speed (nLi) the rail pressure is averaged over a working cycle of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9624867
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for open-loop and closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine (1), the rail pressure (pCR) being controlled via a low pressure-side suction throttle valve (4) as the first pressure-adjusting element in a rail pressure control loop. The invention is characterized in that a rail pressure disturbance variable is generated to influence the rail pressure (pCR) via a high pressure-side pressure control valve (12) as the second pressure-adjusting element, by means of which fuel is redirected from the rail (6) into a fuel tank (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9624860
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the control and regulation of a V-type internal combustion engine (1), comprising an independent common rail system on the A side and an independent common rail system on the B-side, in which the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine (1) is regulated in a speed control loop and a nominal torque as an adjusted variable of the rotational speed governor is limited during the starting procedure to a starting torque for representing a nominal injection null set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20170067409
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having an injection system which has a high-pressure accumulator, wherein a high pressure in the high-pressure accumulator is regulated via a suction throttle on the low-pressure side as a first pressure control member in a first high-pressure control loop, wherein in a normal operation a high-pressure disturbance variable is produced via a pressure control valve on the high-pressure side as a second pressure control member, via which fuel is redirected from the high-pressure accumulator to a fuel reservoir. For this purpose, the high pressure in a safety operation is regulated by the pressure control valve via a second high pressure control loop, or, in the safety operation, a maximum fuel volume flow is continuously redirected from the high pressure accumulator to the fuel reservoir via the pressure control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Patent number: 9556840
    Abstract: The invention describes a method and an arrangement for the regulation of the rail pressure in an internal combustion engine. In the method, the rail pressure is regulated, with a target high pressure being predefined. Said target high pressure is filtered, before being input, by way of a target high pressure filter which is configured as a dynamic target high pressure filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20160312726
    Abstract: A method for controlling the speed of an internal combustion engine and a speed control circuit for carrying out the method. For controlling, fuel energy is used as an output variable. The control units are calculated in accordance with a stationary proportion gain which is calculated proportionally to the fuel energy and inversely proportional to the engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Patent number: 9458786
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for monitoring a passive pressure limiting valve (11) via which fuel is discharged from the rail (6) of a common rail system into the fuel tank (2), in which method, upon the detection of a defective rail pressure sensor (9), a switch is made from a rail pressure regulation mode into an emergency mode, wherein in the emergency mode, the rail pressure is successively increased until the pressure limiting valve (11) reacts, in which method, in the emergency mode, the pressure limiting valve (11) is set as open when the starting phase of the internal combustion engine has additionally been detected as having ended, and in which method, in addition, the opening duration of the pressure limiting valve (11) is monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9441572
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for controlling and regulating an internal combustion engine (1), in which the rail pressure (pCR) is controlled via a suction throttle (4) on the low pressure side as a first pressure-adjusting element in a rail pressure control loop. The invention is characterized in that a rail pressure disturbance variable (VDRV) is generated in order to influence the rail pressure (pCR) via a pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side as a second pressure-adjusting element, by means of which fuel is redirected in a controlled manner from the rail (6) into a fuel tank (2), the rail pressure disturbance variable (VDRV) being calculated using a corrected target volume flow (Vk(SL)) of the pressure control valve (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9347409
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for controlling and regulating an internal combustion engine (1) having a common rail system and having a passive pressure limiting valve (11) for discharging fuel out of a rail (6) into the fuel tank (2), in which method, in a first stage, the pressure limiting valve (11) is set as open when the rail pressure, proceeding from a steady-state rail pressure, exceeds a first threshold value and subsequently falls below a second threshold value within a first critical time, wherein the first threshold value characterizes a higher pressure level than the steady-state rail pressure and the second threshold value characterizes a lower pressure level than the first threshold value, and in which method the opening duration of the opened pressure limiting valve (11) is monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9328689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the open-loop control and the closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine (1), the rail pressure (pCR) being controlled in the normal operating state in a closed loop control mode via an intake throttle (4) on the lower pressure side as the first pressure control member in a rail pressure control loop and at the same time a rail pressure disturbance variable being applied to the rail pressure (pCR) via a pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side as the second pressure control member. For this purpose, a pressure control valve volume flow (VDRV) is redirected from the rail (6) to a fuel tank (2) via the pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side, and an emergency operation mode is activated once a defective rail pressure sensor (9) is detected, in which emergency operation the pressure control valve (12) on the high pressure side and the intake throttle (4) on the low pressure side are actuated depending on the same set point value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20160084191
    Abstract: A method and an assembly for controlling the pressure in a high-pressure region of an injection system in an internal combustion engine. A set high pressure is compared to an actual high pressure in order to determine a control deviation, the control deviation representing an input variable of a controller. A high pressure pump is controlled by a solenoid valve and the angle at which the delivery of fuel by the at least one high-pressure pump is to start is used as a manipulated variable of the high-pressure closed-loop control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Publication number: 20150369159
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine. In the method, an injection start is calculated by a filter, starting from a standard injection start and at least one of the filter parameters is selected in accordance with the operating mode of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin DÖLKER
  • Publication number: 20150354490
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an assembly for operating an internal combustion engine. In the method, a correction of the fuel mass is dynamically decoupled from the calculation of the charging-pressure-dependent limitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Armin DÖLKER, Johannes BALDAUF
  • Patent number: 9133786
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control and regulation method for an internal combustion engine (1) having a common rail system wherein the rail pressure (pCR) is regulated in normal operation in that an offset of the rail pressure (pCR) is calculated and a PWM signal (PWM) is determined for activating the control process via a pressure controller based on the offset, wherein a load rejection when the rail pressure (pCR) exceeds a limit and wherein upon recognition of the load rejection, the rail pressure (pCR) is controlled in that the PWM signal (PWM) is temporarily set to a PWM value that is higher compared to normal operation via a PWM parameter. The invention is characterized in that the threshold for activation of the temporary PWM parameter is calculated in dependence on the gradient of a power-determining signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Publication number: 20150211457
    Abstract: The invention describes a method and an arrangement for the regulation of the rail pressure in an internal combustion engine. In the method, the rail pressure is regulated, with a target high pressure being predefined. Said target high pressure is filtered, before being input, by way of a target high pressure filter which is configured as a dynamic target high pressure filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker