Patents by Inventor Carsten Rickert

Carsten Rickert 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: 11187118
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a charge changing control device for a reciprocating engine, comprising at least one cam follower configured for being pivotably actuated around a pivot axis (P) upon rotational movement of a camshaft, and an adjustment unit configured for setting at least three different charge-changing modes of the device by translationally displacing the pivot axis relative (P) to a rotational axis (R) of the camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Carsten Rickert, Eike Sixel, Pay Brodersen, Heiner Otte
  • Publication number: 20200355098
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a charge changing control device for a reciprocating engine, comprising at least one cam follower configured for being pivotably actuated around a pivot axis (P) upon rotational movement of a camshaft, and an adjustment unit configured for setting at least three different charge-changing modes of the device by translationally displacing the pivot axis relative (P) to a rotational axis (R) of the camshaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Carsten RICKERT, Eike SIXEL, Pay BRODERSEN, Heiner OTTE
  • Patent number: 10337460
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine is disclosed. The method may include supplying air from a primary air supply unit to an intake conduit. The method may also include supplying air to the engine from the intake conduit. The method may further include selectively supplying air from a secondary air supply unit to the intake conduit. In addition, the method may include maintaining an air fuel ratio between a first threshold value and a second threshold value during an increase in engine load increase by controlling a supply of air from the secondary supply unit to the intake conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eike Joachim Sixel, Andreas Banck, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert
  • Patent number: 9903244
    Abstract: Directing exhaust gas around a catalyst may pre-heat the catalyst and may thereby bring the catalyst quickly in its operating temperature range. An exhaust gas treatment system for treating the exhaust gas may include a first flow path, a second flow path, and a control system. The first flow path may include a catalyst. The second flow path may be coaxially arranged in heat exchange relation with respect to the first flow path. The control system may be configured to control the flow of exhaust gas through the first flow path or the second flow path dependent upon the catalyst temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Dreves, Carsten Rickert, Thomas Obenaus
  • Publication number: 20170159612
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine is disclosed. The method may include supplying air from a primary air supply unit to an intake conduit. The method may also include supplying air to the engine from the intake conduit. The method may further include selectively supplying air from a secondary air supply unit to the intake conduit. In addition, the method may include maintaining an air fuel ratio between a first threshold value and a second threshold value during an increase in engine load increase by controlling a supply of air from the secondary supply unit to the intake conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eike Joachim SIXEL, Andreas BANCK, Michael STURM, Carsten RICKERT
  • Patent number: 9188037
    Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: HX HOLDING GMBH, CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Krauss, Jan Dreves, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20150176454
    Abstract: Directing exhaust gas around a catalyst may pre-heat the catalyst and may thereby bring the catalyst quickly in its operating temperature range. An exhaust gas treatment system for treating the exhaust gas may include a first flow path, a second flow path, and a control system. The first flow path may include a catalyst. The second flow path may be coaxially arranged in heat exchange relation with respect to the first flow path. The control system may be configured to control the flow of exhaust gas through the first flow path or the second flow path dependent upon the catalyst temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Dreves, Carsten Rickert, Thomas Obenaus
  • Publication number: 20150059712
    Abstract: A charge air guide element and a water ring element for an internal combustion engine are configured to supply cooling water to the water ring element via the charge air guide element. A cooling water channel system may be integrated into a wall structure of the charge air guide element and may include at least one opening at the cylinder unit side of the charge air guide element, which opens towards the top side of the charge air guide element, and at least one opening at an access side of the charge air guide element, the access side being opposite to the cylinder unit side. An arrangement of screw guiding holes at the charge air guide element may allow using the charge air guide element for in-line and V-configuration internal combustion engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bilal Bakindi, Werner Rebelein, Carsten Rickert, Frank Seidel
  • Publication number: 20150033710
    Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Dietmar Krauss, Jan Dreves, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling