Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Klaus J. Bach
  • Method for increasing the throughput of packages in rotary tubular kiln apparatus
    Patent number: 7600997
    Abstract: In a method for increasing the throughput of packages of waste material of a high caloric value of rotary kiln plants which include a rotary tube with a combustion chamber and a post combustion chamber to which the combustion gases from the rotary tube are supplied and which includes at least one burner supplied by gas from a gas supply, the waste packages are supplied to the rotary tube and burned therein with oxygen containing gas and the combustion gas flows to the post combustion chamber for post combustion, the combustion process being continuously monitored in the kiln and the post combustion chamber and controlled by adjustment of the combustion conditions in the kiln and the post combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Nolte, Bernhard Oser, Mark Eberhard, Thomas Kolb, Helmut Seifert, Rolf Kerbe, Hubert Gramling
  • Vane-type camshaft adjuster
    Patent number: 7581316
    Abstract: In a camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine including a housing, with two side cover sections and a middle jacket section arranged between the side cover sections and a rotor disposed in the housing, the jacket section is formed by a cross-cut profile section drawn from a tube in the form of a semi-finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Lutz Grunow
  • Adjusting apparatus particularly for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7578269
    Abstract: In an adjusting apparatus, particularly for an internal combustion engine having cylinders arranged in an engine block, with a crankshaft and with pistons movably disposed in the cylinders, the adjusting apparatus includes a pick-up which causes an adjustment of an adjustable device, and an adjusting element which is operatively connected to the pick-up, the adjusting element being arranged movably on an adjusting shaft (9) which can be moved by an actuator translationally with a cone as adjusting element or rotationally with an eccentric (8) as adjusting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jens Meintschel, Tilmann Römheld, Thomas Stolk, Alexander von Gaisberg-Helfenberg
  • Device for adjusting the phase angle between two rotating, drive-connected element
    Patent number: 7578273
    Abstract: In a device for adjusting the phase angle between two rotating, drive-connected elements, which are interconnected by means of an adjustment device, a control arrangement is provided for the energy-saving adjustment of the phase angle based on an alternating torque of one element which is also used in the event of a fault, to provide for an emergency operation in which the relative angular phase position between the two elements is kept essentially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jens Meintschel, Thomas Stolk, Alexander Von-Gaisberg-Helfenberg
  • Method and device for controlling an electrodynamic brake of an electric camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7568455
    Abstract: In a method and device for adjusting an electro-dynamic brake of an electric camshaft adjuster for a phase angle adjustment of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine with respect to the crankshaft thereof, the phase angle is controlled by means of a position controller and the adjustment speed of the phase angle of the camshaft with respect to the crankshaft is controlled by means of an adjustment speed controller by controlling the current through the electro-dynamic brake by means of a further adjustment device and the use of Pilot controls to improve the control behavior of the cascade controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Lorenzo Giovanardi, Matthias Gregor, Jens Meintschel, Reinhard Orthmann, Bernd-Heinrich Schmitfranz, Markus Stalitza
  • Dental ceramics and method for the manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 7566674
    Abstract: In dental ceramics containing zirconium dioxide and silicon-dioxide with a Zr/Si ratio of between 0.5 and 1.0, 1 to 12 wt % of aluminum oxide and up to 2 wt % of an alkali- or earth alkali metal oxide, those materials are selectively mixed with yttrium-stabilized zirconium dioxide with a Zr/Si ratio of the mixture being between 0.5 and 1 wt % and also a silicon organic compound as well as a compression aid, and a green body is formed from the mixture by milling, which green body is then sintered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Binder, Jürgen Hausselt, Hans-Joachim Ritzhaupt-Kleissl, Nadja Schlechtriemen, Stefan Stolz
  • Device for the injection of medical preparations with CT/MRI monitoring
    Patent number: 7566321
    Abstract: In a device for the injection of medical preparations, into a patients body during an examination in a Computer Tomograph (CT) or in a Magnetic Resonance Tomograph (MRT) or endoscopically, including an injection needle supported by an injection-needle advancing arrangement for insertion of the injection needle into the patients body and the concurrent injection of medications with a separate dosing apparatus, a hose with a check valve for the one-way transport of the medical preparations from the dosing apparatus into the injection needle, as well as a pressure sensor for monitoring the infusion, the injection needle advancing arrangement comprises a needle holder and a linear drive for the movement of the needle holder in parallel with the injection needle and the dosing apparatus has geometric dimensions and consists of materials permitting its insertion into the CT or MRT together with the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Gumb, Henri Hannula, Swen Köhn, Andreas Melzer, Aribert Schäf, Georg Prokott
  • Internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger and an exhaust gas recirculation system
    Patent number: 7562529
    Abstract: In a supercharged internal combustion engine having an intake duct and an exhaust gas recirculation system and comprising an exhaust gas turbine with two separate flow passages of different flow cross-sections arranged upstream of a turbine rotor of the exhaust gas turbine, each flow passage being in communication with a respective engine exhaust line for supplying it with exhaust gas and an exhaust gas recirculation line extending from one of the engine exhaust lines to the engine intake duct, a bypass line bypassing the exhaust gas turbine is provided and a common control element is arranged in the recirculation line of the exhaust gas recirculation system and in the bypass line for controlling the exhaust gas flow from the recirculation line selectively to none or any of the intake duct and the turbine bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Alfred Küspert, Wolfram Schmid, Siegfried Sumser
  • Aerosol separator
    Patent number: 7563312
    Abstract: In an aerosol separator for removing dust particle and droplet aerosols from a flow of contaminated gases, comprising an essentially vertical channel section through which the contaminated gas (exhaust gas) is conducted upwardly, and into which an easily vaporizable liquid is sprayed, in finely divided droplets, a densely packed tube bundle of essentially identical straight tubes consisting of a process-suitable inert material is arranged supported on a perforated conical support structure such that moisture contained in the gas flow is deposited on the inner and outer tube surfaces and flows downwardly counter to the gas flow through the tube bundle and is collected in a gutter mounted to the inner wall of the tube bundle at the bottom end thereof for conducting the condensed liquid together with the contamination of the gas out of the aerosol separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wäscher, Ralf Arheidt, Werner Baumann, Adrei Bologa, Hanns-Rudolf Paur
  • Arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7543569
    Abstract: In an arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine comprising an electronic engine control unit, a fuel injector, electronic connecting lines extending between the electronic engine control unit and the injector and an intelligent electronic block forming with the injector a component unit, the intelligent electronic block comprises an electronic data storage device, a computing unit, an energy storage device for storing energy and supplying energy to the intelligent electronic block and also a measuring unit for detecting the movement of an injector needle as an indication of fuel injection begin and fuel injection end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: J{hacek over (o)}rg Remele, Uwe Rödl, Andreas Schneider, Albrecht Debelak
  • Toroidal gearing
    Patent number: 7540822
    Abstract: In a toroidal transmission with a continuously variable power transmission ratio, which is adjustable by displacement of a power transmission roller arranged between toric disks along an axis X-X under the control of an adjusting unit including a hydraulic piston, the adjusting unit has a bush which serves on the one hand to seal off the working space and, at the same time, forms two slide surfaces one for the piston and another for the guide bush, all in a small support space pivotally supporting a support member for the power transmission roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Bassler, Steffen Henzler
  • Internal combustion engine having two exhaust gas turbocharger
    Patent number: 7540150
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine provided with two exhaust gas turbochargers which each comprise a turbine in an exhaust line and one compressor in an intake section of the engine, two exhaust lines are provided which are each assigned to at least one of the exhaust gas turbines, an exhaust gas recirculation device being arranged between an exhaust line upstream of an exhaust gas turbine and the intake section downstream of a compressor and the two exhaust lines including bypass lines with a control valve for selectively permitting the exhaust gas to bypass the turbine closer to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Wolfram Schmid, Siegfried Sumser
  • Wheel carrier unit comprising an integrated brake application unit
    Patent number: 7540512
    Abstract: In a wheel carrier unit comprising a basic wheel carrier member, a support member connecting the basic wheel carrier member to a vehicle body by way of axle links, and a brake cylinder arranged thereon, the brake cylinder is disposed on the side of the wheel carrier unit remote from the wheel location and a housing for a brake application unit serving as mechanical force transmission unit is formed on the opposite side of the wheel carrier unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Martin Lesch, Uwe Mauz, Christian Quinger
  • Turbocharger compressor with an auxiliary rotor wheel and magnetic clutch
    Patent number: 7540149
    Abstract: In a compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine including a compressor wheel with an auxiliary rotor wheel which is rotatably supported adjacent to, and upstream of, the compressor wheel and which is movable axially between a coupled position with the compressor wheel and a decoupled position, wherein, in the coupled position, the auxiliary rotor wheel is rotationally connected to the compressor wheel, without contacting the compressor wheel, by means of a magnetic clutch for transferring a torque from the auxiliary rotor wheel to the compressor wheel in a low engine power operating range in order to maintain the compressor wheel at an increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Peter Fledersbacher
  • Method for limiting the power output of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7536995
    Abstract: In a method for limiting the power output of an internal combustion engine, an air mass flow deviation of an actual air mass flow (mL(IST)) from a reference air mass flow (ML(REF)) is determined and, depending on the air mass flow deviation, a power output reduction is determined by which the maximum power output limit of the internal combustion engine is to be reduced in order to prevent overheating of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Baldauf, Michael Walder, Ingo Wintruff
  • Apparatus support device holder
    Patent number: D593103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Inventor: Harald Richter
  • Support device for supporting an apparatus holder
    Patent number: D593566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Inventor: Harald Richter
  • GPS apparatus holder
    Patent number: D599230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Inventor: Harald Richter
  • Apparatus support device holder
    Patent number: D599355
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Inventor: Harald Richter
  • Operating/display panel
    Patent number: D601052
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Tobias Friedli