Patents Assigned to Daimler AG
  • Auxiliary range transmission
    Patent number: 7987741
    Abstract: In an auxiliary range transmission comprising a main group having a main transmission shaft and two main countershafts capable of rotating in relation to two auxiliary countershafts of a range or an auxiliary transmission group, a gearshift element is provided, which, in a first position, rotationally engages a loose gear of the main group and, in a second position, rotationally locks a loose gear of the range or auxiliary group with the main shaft. In an alternative embodiment, a splitter group may also be arranged in front of the main group in place of the range or auxiliary transmission group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Carsten Gitt
  • Method and system for analyzing interlinked production processes for manufacturing a product
    Patent number: 7991581
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing interlinked production processes for manufacturing a product are provided. Static and dynamic input data for at least one product parameter or process parameter are acquired. At least one degree of freedom of the at least one product parameter or process parameter is determined. At least one target parameter is acquired. The acquired static and dynamic input data are processed on the basis of at least one degree of freedom and, the at least one product parameter or process parameter is automatically adjusted. At least some of the data determined and acquired are stored or output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bihlmaier, Markus Friese, Holger Stephan
  • Motor Vehicle Having a System for Feeding Fluid into Another Medium, Particularly for Feeding a Reducing Agent into the Exhaust Gas of an Internal Combustion Engine
    Publication number: 20110179772
    Abstract: In a system for feeding fluid into an exhaust gas after-treatment system, during operation fluid is fed via a feed line of the dispensing unit from a main container and is partially returned via a return line to the main container. A diaphragm pressure container is provided on the feed line downstream of a pump and a non-return valve toward the dispensing unit. During operation of the pump, the diaphragm pressure container is filled with fluid. The diaphragm pressure container is emptied as soon as the pump stops operating. In this way, the dispensing unit is cooled even after the operation of the system has ended, thereby protecting electronic components of the same from overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Siegfried Vieth
  • FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE HAVING FUEL CELL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110183230
    Abstract: A fuel cell system 1 has at least one fuel cell stack 2, which comprises a plurality of plate-shaped fuel cells 10. A retaining device 3 is provided for installing the fuel cell stack in a vehicle 6. When the fuel cell stack 2 is installed in the vehicle 6, the plate-shaped fuel cells 10 are arranged inclined relative to the vertical 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Gerald Hornburg
  • Exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7984612
    Abstract: In an exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust-gas turbine arranged in an exhaust strand of the internal combustion engine and a compressor arranged in an intake tract and connected to the exhaust gas turbine so as to be driven thereby, the compressor including a compressor wheel and a compressor housing surrounding the compressor wheel and having an inlet duct, a dynamic pressure probe is provided upstream of the compressor wheel in the inlet duct for measuring at least the total pressure in the air flow into the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Hardy Weymann
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CYLINDER CRANKCASE
    Publication number: 20110174246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a light metal or plastic cylinder crankcase (2) of an internal combustion engine having a closed-deck design, comprising the steps of —casting a cylinder liner (4) using salt cores (6) corresponding at least to the cavities of the water jackets, —encapsulating the pre-cast cylinder liner in a pressure die-casting process in a light metal melt in order to achieve the cylinder crankcase (2) having a closed-deck design, wherein the cylinder liner (4) still contains the salt cores (6) at least in the water jackets during encapsulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Erik Graf, Guido Soell
  • Motor vehicle comprising an occupant restraint device
    Patent number: 7983819
    Abstract: A motor vehicle with an occupant restraint device, including a control device which produces a triggering signal when a predefined hazard signal is generated as a function of signals of a safety sensor system, and, accordingly, the occupant restraint vehicle acts on a vehicle occupant by at least one impact cushion. The control device generates the hazard signal at least as a function of vehicle acceleration signals and a belt state signal representing the activation or deactivation of a seat belt, deactivating the occupant restraint device at least for a certain period of time and/or activating the occupant restraint device at reduced power if the seat belt is identified as having been deactivated and vehicle acceleration signals are assigned to a critical forward displacement of the occupant if the seat belt is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Baumann, Michael Fehring, Rainer Justen, Rodolfo Schoeneburg
  • Power device for a vehicle
    Patent number: 7982332
    Abstract: A power device for use in a vehicle includes a housing, a voltage converter, and a charge-storing device. The housing carries the voltage converter and the charge-storing device. The voltage converter includes a circuit that converts a power signal having a first voltage level to a second voltage level. The charge-storing device electrically couples with the voltage converter and stores the power signal having the second voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignees: Chrysler Group LLC, Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jody J. Nelson, Franz Nietfeld
  • Hardtop folding roof for an open motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7980620
    Abstract: A hardtop folding roof for an open motor vehicle includes an upper roof part and a rear roof part having a rear window. The roof parts can be transferred from a closed position into a storage position via respective lateral link mechanisms. Each link mechanism includes two main links. A first main link is assigned to an associated roof pillar of the rear roof part, and a second main link is coupled at least indirectly to the upper roof part at a distance in front of the associated first main link. A rear window holder of the rear window can be moved relative to the roof pillars during the transfer of the folding roof, and the second main links of each link mechanism are assigned to the rear window holder of the rear window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Michael Koch
  • Method for Operating an Exhaust Emission Control System Having a SCR-Catalyst and an Upstream Oxidation Catalyst Exhaust Emission Control Component
    Publication number: 20110167801
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust emission control system of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine, in the exhaust gas line of which an oxidation-catalytically active exhaust emission control component is arranged upstream of a SCR-catalyst is provided. An ageing state of the oxidation-catalytically active exhaust emission control component is determined by correlating a hydrocarbon fraction present in the exhaust emission upstream of the oxidation-catalytically active exhaust emission component with a simultaneous nitrogen oxide conversion of the SCR-catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Alexander Massner
  • Water insoluble additive for improving conductivity of an ion exchange membrane
    Patent number: 7977392
    Abstract: A water insoluble additive for improving the performance of an ion-exchange membrane, such as in the context of the high temperature operation of electrochemical fuel cells. The insoluble additive comprises a metal oxide cross-linked matrix having proton conducting groups covalently attached to the matrix through linkers. In one embodiment, the metal is silicon and the cross-linked matrix is a siloxane cross-linked matrix containing silicon atoms cross-linked by multiple disiloxy bonds and having proton conducting groups covalently attached to the silicon atoms through alkanediyl linkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Sean M. MacKinnon, Scott J. McDermid, Lukas M. Bonorand, Timothy J. Peckham, Keping Wang, Jing Li
  • Method and device for recognizing tiredness
    Patent number: 7978086
    Abstract: In a method and in a device for detecting when the driver of a motor vehicle becomes tired, the tiredness is determined as a function of a detected steering inactivity phase and a subsequent steering action. In this context, the steering inactivity phase is logically combined with the steering action, and the logic combination is stored at various times. The logic combination is stored with an assigned weighting factor, and the weighting factor is determined as a function of a classification of a steering situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Lars Galley, Elisabeth Hendrika Hentschel, Klaus-Peter Kuhn, Wolfgang Stolzmann
  • BRAKE DISK HAVING A BRAKE DISK POT
    Publication number: 20110162926
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake disc having a brake disc pot (42) and a friction ring (10) which is positively connected to the brake disc pot via toothing (50). The friction ring (10) comprises two friction ring halves (12, 14), wherein the toothing extends across only one of the friction ring halves. In this manner it is possible to mount through-passages (30) axially adjacent to the toothing running around the friction ring half on the interior circumference of the friction ring, said passages connecting the interior circumference of the friction ring to an interior ventilation arrangement of the friction ring. In this manner both a good force transmission and a stable positive connection is ensured between the friction ring and the brake disc pot, as is an efficient cooling by means of an interior ventilation of the friction ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Botsch, Klaus Jaeckel, Martin Lesch, Christian Quinger, Thomas Steinhauer, David Wilke
  • Compressor and Method for Operating a Compressor and Fuel Cell Device with a Compressor
    Publication number: 20110164974
    Abstract: A compressor with a housing having an air guide section and a bearing section, and a moving part having a compressor wheel and a shaft connected to the compressor wheel in a pivot-proof manner. The shaft is pivot-supported in the bearing section, and the compressor wheel is accommodated in a first chamber of the air guide section in a pivoting manner. The shaft is driveable by an electric motor and at least one radial bearing and one axial bearing are provided for supporting the shaft in the bearing section, wherein the axial bearing has at least one magnetic bearing. The axial bearing includes at least one first bearing and a second bearing, the first bearing configured in the region of the compressor wheel and the second bearing is configured in the region of an end of the moving part facing away from the compressor wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicants: Daimler AG, Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Knoop, Juergen Leitz
  • Gear Control Device and Method for a Gear Control Device
    Publication number: 20110166759
    Abstract: The invention starts from a transmission control device with a control unit (10) which, to eliminate a tooth-on-tooth position in a transmission shifting unit (11, 12), is designed to adjust a transmission clutch (13) to a nominal clutch value (KKick). It is proposed that in at least one operating mode the control unit (10) is designed to specify a prescribed clutch value (KDes) which is independent of any intermediate clutch value setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Bartels, Manfred Guggolz, Werner Hillenbrand, Dieter Scheurer, Carsten Schewe, David Ulmer
  • ILLUMINATION CHAMBER FOR HARDENING RADIATION-CUREABLE COATINGS
    Publication number: 20110162226
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exposure chamber (10) for hardening radiation-curable coatings on components (14) having surfaces which are oriented in different directions. The invention also relates to an exposure chamber (10) for hardening motor vehicle bodies coated with UV-paints by means of UV-lamps. According to the invention, at least one reflector (20) is arranged in an inner chamber (18) of the exposure chamber (10). Said type of reflector (20) is preferably spherical or alternatively can be pivoted about three spatial axes in a cardanic manner such that, owing to this reflector (20), shadow zones of the vehicle body which are normally exposed inadequately can be uniformly illuminated. The invention further relates to a hardening system (42, 42?) for motor vehicle bodies which comprises said type of exposure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Claudia Witt
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D641301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Kai Hilpert
  • Front light assembly for a vehicle
    Patent number: D641505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Stefan Handt, Steffen Koehl, Frank Pfisterer
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D641680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Marcus Laengerer
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D642106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Apostolos Antoniadis, Mark Fetherston, Klaus Frenzel, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Gorden Wagener