Patents Assigned to Daimler AG
  • Patent number: 7611756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating particles of a plastic, metal and/or ceramic powder material for producing an adhesive-containing coating material, in particular for producing appropriate particles by compressing a 3D binder. Said coating is applied to fluidized particles in a gaseous phase by means of a coating solution, at least the particles and/or coated particles being exposed to ionized particles. A method for producing bodies or sintered bodies from organic liquid binders by compressing the 3D binder and the use thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Rolf Pfeifer, Jialin Shen
  • Patent number: 7612576
    Abstract: In a method for detecting an inverter hardware failure in an electric power train comprising high voltage cables, at least one electric machine and at least two inverter legs with two power electronic switches respectively for pulse-width-modulating a DC voltage from a high voltage battery for energizing the at least one electric machine, and including at least one mid-pack voltage sensor for detecting isolation faults, wherein all power electronic switches are demanded to open; at least one of the power electronic switches of one of the inverter legs is opened and closed at a time at a given duty cycle and a given frequency; a mid-pack voltage is measured using the mid-pack voltage sensor; the closed switch is identified as functional in case a common mode voltage is detected by the mid-pack voltage sensor or otherwise the closed switch is identified as non-functional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Marcus Heller, Jody Nelson
  • Publication number: 20090269632
    Abstract: An apparatus or a method serves for humidifying a gas flow flowing to a fuel cell. A humidifier and a bypass line passed around the humidifier are thereby present. The gas flow is partially passed around the humidifier and partially through the bypass line, so that an appropriate humidity level adjusts itself in the gas flow when it has been mixed again. In order to realize this, at least one valve is arranged either in the bypass line and/or in the area of the humidifier. This valve can be switched in a clock form between two positions, specifically an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Stefan M. Senft
  • Patent number: 7600561
    Abstract: A method for air conditioning a motor vehicle, in which, in a heating mode, the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle is heated via a passenger compartment heat exchanger (5) through heat pump operation of a refrigerating circuit (1). To prevent fogging of the windows of the motor vehicle from the outset, the temperature and humidity in the passenger compartment are recorded by measurement technology, and when the temperature is in a predefined range and the atmospheric humidity reaches a defined threshold, the mass flow of refrigerant in the circuit is throttled upstream of the passenger compartment heat exchanger (5), in such a manner that the moisture contained in the air stream passing the passenger compartment heat exchanger (5) is at least substantially condensed at the passenger compartment heat exchanger (5), and the moisture which has already condensed at the heat exchanger (5) remains at the heat exchanger (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Roland Caesar, Jan Gaertner, Juergen Wertenbach
  • Patent number: 7600379
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbine in the exhaust line and a compressor in the intake tract of the internal combustion engine, and the exhaust gas turbine includes a gas inlet passage with a variable guide vane structure supported on one side of a support ring arranged in the inlet flow passage to the turbine wheel, the support ring is mounted in a floating manner such that the side thereof, which faces away form the guide vanes is exposed to the gas pressure in the inlet flow passage in order to bias the support ring toward the opposite inlet flow passage wall and spacer sleeves with expansion properties similar to those of the guide vanes are provided between the support ring and the opposite flow passage wall for delimiting the clearance between the guide vanes and the opposite flow passage wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Peter Fledersbacher, Paul Löffler, Michael Scherrieble, Siegfried Sumser, Siegfried Weber
  • Patent number: 7601190
    Abstract: In an air filter system for an internal combustion engine having a fresh air line with an air inlet, a filter housing with an upper housing half and lower housing half, a filter element disposed in the filter housing, a clean air outlet opening with an adjoining clean air line opening into the intake system of the internal combustion engine, and means for damping intake noise, the means for damping the intake noise is a sheet configured and arranged adjacent, and clamped to, the upper housing half opposite the clean air outlet whereby the intake noise vibration energy is absorbed by frictional relative movement between the sheet and the upper housing half, the intake noise being damped by a change in impedance, in particular by a jump in impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Howe, Wolfgang Lewerenz, Berndt Schütz
  • Patent number: 7597170
    Abstract: In a method for controlling the operation of a reversible belt retractor to release a belt extraction lock of a restraint belt in a motor vehicle, the lock can be activated by an acceleration sensor. After the belt retractor has been triggered as a consequence of a hazardous situation having been detected and after the hazardous situation has been recognized as being over, the operation of the belt retractor is controlled by a release signal at a release time in order to bring about the release of the belt extraction lock to shift it from a blocking state into a comfort-providing state. The release time is determined by a sensor model algorithm based on a model of the acceleration sensor from at least one variable characterizing the running dynamics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Walter Eberle, Rainer Justen, Hans Roehm, Guido Villino, Alfred Wagner, Markus Woldrich
  • Publication number: 20090248201
    Abstract: The processing system (10) serves for processing a moving workpiece (12) by means of an industrial robot (16) that can be rigidly coupled, intermittently, to the workpiece (12) and/or to a movable workpiece carrier unit (14), the industrial robot (16), when in a decoupled operating position (42), being carried by a carrier device (18) that is movable, independently of a workpiece, by means of a drive unit (20) acting with active drive, and, when in a coupled operating position (44), being floatingly mounted relative to the carrier device (18) by means of a floating bearing system (22), characterized in that a control unit (36) of the industrial robot (16) and/or at least one production unit (40) are additionally arranged on the carrier device (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Uwe Habisreitinger
  • Publication number: 20090226292
    Abstract: The processing system (10) serves for processing a moving workpiece (12) by means of an industrial robot (16) that can be rigidly coupled, intermittently, to the workpiece (12) and/or to a movable workpiece carrier unit (14), the industrial robot (16), when in a decoupled operating position (42), being carried by a carrier device (18) that is movable, independently of a workpiece, by means of a drive unit (20) acting with active drive, and, when in a coupled operating position (44), being floatingly mounted relative to the carrier device (18) by means of a floating bearing system (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Uwe Habisreitinger
  • Patent number: 7585250
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine which has an automatic start/stop device, and a controllable brake device at the start of and during an automatic stop phase, the effect of a braking torque which is greater than a threshold value is ensured. For this purpose, the brake device can increase the braking torque. The threshold value is previously calculated in such a way that the motor vehicle is reliably prevented from rolling away. As a result, the internal combustion engine can be stopped frequently, and at the same time unintentional rolling away of the motor vehicle during the stop phase can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Harald Braun, Norbert Ebner, Michael Fischer, Deborah Mowll, Torsten Scholt, Michael Schopper
  • Patent number: D599704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Frenzel, Thomas Stopka, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D599922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: D600171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Frenzel, Thomas Stopka, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D600172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Frenzel, Thomas Stopka, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D601455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Peter Pfeiffer, Gorden Wagener, Karlheinz Bauer, Juergen Bollmann
  • Patent number: D601924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bauer, Juergen Bollmann, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D601935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bauer, Juergen Bollmann, Peter Pfeiffer, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D602410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bauer, Juergen Bollmann, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D602834
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Cengiz Dilber
  • Patent number: D603320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Bauer, Juergen Bollmann, Peter Pfeiffer, Gorden Wagener