Patents Assigned to Daimler AG
  • Via designs for removing water in fuel cell stacks
    Patent number: 10770736
    Abstract: Structures and methods are disclosed for removing water, and particularly for preventing ice blockages, in solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells comprising reactant vias that fluidly connect a reactant transition region to a reactant port. Water can be removed from the reactant via by making its surface superhydrophobic while incorporating at least one additional via with a hydrophilic surface in parallel therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Alireza Roshanzamir, Yunsong Yang
  • Method for deactivating an automated driving function of a vehicle and driver assistance system for implementing the method
    Patent number: 10766497
    Abstract: A method for deactivating an automated driving function of a vehicle, in particular a highly automated or autonomous driving function, is provided. The driving function is deactivated when a driver of the vehicle carries out a steering intervention or pedal intervention with a strength exceeding a predeterminable deactivation threshold. The deactivation threshold is predetermined depending on an operation length of the driving function and/or depending on a responsiveness of the driver. In particular, the deactivation threshold is predetermined in such a manner that it is higher directly after an activation of the driving function than some time afterwards and/or it is higher with a low responsiveness of the driver than with a high responsiveness of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Christian Braunagel, Thorben Schönenberg
  • Belt tightener, safety belt device, and method for operating a safety belt device
    Patent number: 10759380
    Abstract: A belt tightener for tightening a safety belt in a vehicle includes an impulse screw drive unit to generate a greater torque than can be achieved by a mechanical coupling between a motor and the belt tightener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Till Heinrich
  • Transmission device for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10760653
    Abstract: A transmission device for a motor vehicle includes a final drive and a planetary gearset. The planetary gearset has a first transmission element formed by a first ring gear, which first transmission element has external teeth for introducing a drive torque, at least one second transmission element and at least one third transmission element, which is coupled to the final drive. The device also has a brake element for lockingly braking at least one of the transmission elements of the planetary gearset. The final drive is a planetary differential, which is arranged radially inside the planetary gearset and is arranged in a gearwheel level with the planetary gearset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Tobias Schilder, Tobias Haerter, Klaus Riedl
  • Connection Arrangement for Fixing a Lid of an Air Filter Device of a Motor Vehicle to a Filter Housing and to a Filter Element and an Associated Filter Element
    Publication number: 20200269174
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for fixing a lid to a filter housing and to a filter element, by which an insertion opening in the filter housing can be closed, includes a holding element on the filter element and a locking element on the lid. The holding element can be fixed by a contact surface for contacting the locking element in a recess of the filter housing. The holding element has a latching geometry with which it can be latched in the recess of the filter housing. The locking element is a shaft with a bolt rod and a handle part. The shaft is guided through the lid such that the lid and the filter element in the latching position can, by the bolt rod and a contact surface formed as a ramp on the holding element, which engage with one another by turning the locking element, be spanned against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Eric SCHUMACHER
  • Method for power control of a fuel cell system in a vehicle
    Patent number: 10756370
    Abstract: A method for power control of a fuel cell system in a vehicle is disclosed. The requested fuel cell system power by the vehicle is converted into a power request made of the fuel cell by an expected power of auxiliary drives of the fuel cell system at the requested fuel cell system power being added to the requested fuel cell system power. A media supply of the fuel cell which corresponds to the power request made of the fuel cell is requested. The electrical loading of the fuel cell with current is performed in accordance with a model of the cathode dynamics such that a control variable of the control operation is matched to the media dynamics, and the power release is performed such that the fuel cell is loaded only when the adequate media supply is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Peter Wiesner, Sven Schmalzriedt
  • Method for Operating an Internal Combustion Engine of a Motor Vehicle, in Particular a Motor Car
    Publication number: 20200263583
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, which has an exhaust gas system that exhaust gas from at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion chamber can flow through and includes at least one nitrogen oxide storage catalyst, at least one particulate filter, and at least one selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin BALTHES, Berthold KEPPELER, Juergen KUCKELSBERG, Siegfried MUELLER, Thorsten WOOG
  • Vehicle wheel for a vehicle
    Patent number: 10744816
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel for a vehicle has a plurality of spokes, lamellac, blades, wheel segments or similar which are arranged on an outer side of the vehicle wheel, a kinematic system, via which the contour of the outer side of the vehicle wheel can be changed, and a slide element which is adjustable between an inner position and an outer position. The spokes, lamellae, blades, wheel segments or similar are hinged on the slide element and are adjustable together with the slide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ronny Bach, Bastian Baudy, Christian Binder, Erich Jehle-Graf, Martin Konermann, Volker Meyer, Steffen Reichert, Andrej Ruckhaberle, Antonis Schley, Sylvain Wehnert
  • Feed and Ignition Device for a Gas Engine and Method for Operating a Feed and Ignition Device for a Gas Engine
    Publication number: 20200256283
    Abstract: A feed and ignition device for a gas engine has an injector for the direct blowing-in of a combustion gas into a combustion chamber of the gas engine. The device also has a pre-combustion chamberto which a fuel can be introduced and a plurality of overflow openings distributed in the peripheral direction of the injector over the periphery of the feed and ignition device via which the pre-combustion chamber can be directly connected fluidically to the combustion chamber. A spark ignition device ignites a fuel-air mixture including at least the fuel introduced into the pre-combustion chamber. The pre-combustion chamber, the overflow openings, and the spark ignition device are formed by a first structural unit and the injector is formed by a second structural unit formed separately from the first structural unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Fabian MARKO, Gerhard KOENIG
  • Driving Device for Electric Truck
    Publication number: 20200247224
    Abstract: Provided is a driving device for an electric truck which can obtain good ride quality by decreasing the unsprung weight while achieving the adequate fuel efficiency performance by improving the power transmission efficiency and which can improve the mountability of a battery. The driving device for an electric truck includes a driving unit that accommodates therein a motor. a gearbox, and a differential device. The driving unit is supported by a first support part with respect to a ladder frame. Drive shafts coupled to the differential device are accommodated in hollow members. The hollow members are elastically supported by a second support part with respect to the ladder frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Maki ITO, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO
  • Method and device for joining at least two components
    Patent number: 10730100
    Abstract: A method for joining two components is disclosed. In an embodiment of the method, a joining element is inserted into the two components, and during the joining process, at least one parameter quantifying the joining process is determined. The joining element is inserted by a robot and the at least one parameter quantifying the joining process is determined by the robot. A device for joining two components is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Daniel Kohl
  • Engine brake device for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10731526
    Abstract: An engine brake device is disclosed. The engine brake device includes at least one intake camshaft which includes at least one intake cam group having at least one firing cam and at least one braking cam, at least one intake cam follower that is assigned to the firing cam and is provided for actuating at least one intake valve in a firing mode, at least one braking intake cam follower that is assigned to the braking cam and is provided for actuating the at least one intake valve in a braking mode, and a switchover device that is assigned to the intake camshaft and is provided for the purpose of translating a torque of the intake camshaft into a force for switching between the firing mode and the braking mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Matthias Lahr
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D892371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Erkan Bilgic, Dennis Brings, Marco Cartarius, Stefan Handt, Robert Lesnik, Andreas Rommel, Frederic Seemann, Gorden Wagener
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D894450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Frederic Seemann, Felix Loisch
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Hans-Peter Bildhaeuser, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Patrick Guth, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Karen Harutyunyan, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Patrick Guth, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Julliana Cho, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel
  • Vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D895521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Karen Harutyunyan, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel