Patents by Inventor MAXIMILIAN KÖHNLEIN

MAXIMILIAN KÖHNLEIN 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: 11255254
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement for an internal combustion engine, having a compressor which is arranged in a compressor housing and has a low pressure side and a high pressure side, and having a negative pressure provision unit, which has a propellant channel that is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via a propellant inlet fitting to the high pressure side of the compressor and, on the other hand, via a propellant outlet fitting to the low pressure side of the compressor and has a nozzle, and which has a negative pressure channel opening into the propellant channel fluidically between the propellant inlet fitting and the propellant outlet fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Köhnlein, Robert Solbeck
  • Patent number: 11230966
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement for an internal combustion engine, including a compressor which is located in a compressor housing and has a low pressure side and a high pressure side, and includes a vacuum supply device which has: a propellant channel which has a nozzle and is fluidically connected on one side via a propellant inlet connection to the high pressure side of the compressor and on the other side via a propellant outlet connection to the low pressure side of the compressor; and a vacuum channel opening into the propellant channel fluidically between the propellant inlet connection and the propellant outlet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Köhnlein, Robert Solbeck
  • Publication number: 20210017899
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement for an internal combustion engine, including a compressor which is located in a compressor housing and has a low pressure side and a high pressure side, and includes a vacuum supply device which has: a propellant channel which has a nozzle and is fluidically connected on one side via a propellant inlet connection to the high pressure side of the compressor and on the other side via a propellant outlet connection to the low pressure side of the compressor; and a vacuum channel opening into the propellant channel fluidically between the propellant inlet connection and the propellant outlet connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Maximilian KÖHNLEIN, Robert SOLBECK
  • Patent number: 10890107
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, includes a turbine; a bypass line fluidly arranged parallel to the turbine; and a cross section adjustment element for adjusting a flow cross section of the bypass line, wherein the cross section adjustment element being configured as a ball valve having a valve housing, two bearing shells arranged in the valve housing and a valve element. The valve element is floatingly supported in the valve housing and arranged between the two bearing shells with a tolerance in a direction which is angled with respect to a rotation axis of the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Marko Lindner, Franz Bäumel, Maximilian Köhnlein, Dominik Simon
  • Publication number: 20200347777
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement for an internal combustion engine, having a compressor which is arranged in a compressor housing and has a low pressure side and a high pressure side, and having a negative pressure provision unit, which has a propellant channel that is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via a propellant inlet fitting to the high pressure side of the compressor and, on the other hand, via a propellant outlet fitting to the low pressure side of the compressor and has a nozzle, and which has a negative pressure channel opening into the propellant channel fluidically between the propellant inlet fitting and the propellant outlet fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Maximilian KÖHNLEIN, Robert SOLBECK
  • Publication number: 20170226895
    Abstract: An exhaust turbocharger includes a turbine housing having a flange rim, and a bearing housing having a flange rim. Arranged between the flange rim of the turbine housing and the flange rim of the bearing housing is a ring which is made of sheet metal. The flange rim of the turbine housing and the flange rim of the bearing housing are connected to one another to form a flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: MAXIMILIAN KÖHNLEIN, FLORIAN EDMÜLLER