Patents Assigned to Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
  • Bar projecting from windshield column of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 4088366
    Abstract: A strip-like profile projecting from a windshield column of a motor vehicle which forms a water-collecting channel open in the direction toward the windshield and in which the water rising during the drive is conducted in the direction toward the vehicle roof; the strip-like profile is thereby extended at its upper end around toward the top side of the windshield while the water-collecting channel discharges into a channel extending approximately parallel to the center longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Gallitzendorfer, Peter Pfeiffer, Johann Tomforde, Hans Gotz
  • Combustion process for externally controlled reciprocating piston internal combustion engine operating with hydrogen injection
    Patent number: 4086878
    Abstract: A combustion process for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with applied ignition and operating with hydrogen injection as well as an internal combustion engine capable of carrying out the process, in which the air is supplied independently of the hydrogen and an air ring rotating about the cylinder axis is produced which has a density increasing radially outwardly; the injection of the hydrogen into the air ring thereby takes place into the central area of the air ring while ignition takes place within the transition area between the central hydrogen core and the externally rotating air ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erwin Eisele, Klaus Binder, Klaus Drexl
  • Heating unit for automotive vehicles
    Patent number: 4087047
    Abstract: A heating system for motor vehicles with a heat-exchanger that is connected to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine; at least one heat conductor adapted to be acted upon by the exhaust system terminates in the flow path of the cooling water upstream of the heat-exchanger for the heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Wulf, Wolfgang Weidemann, Albert Stolz, Wolfgang Volz
  • Strain gauge
    Patent number: 4086554
    Abstract: A strain gauge adapted to be adhesively mounted on a structural part in a place to be tested which is provided with at least one measuring grid and to the connecting ends of which are soldered measuring lines for conducting the current from the measuring grid; an extension of the carrier for the grid foil is provided along one edge of the strain gauge and is connected with the main carrier by a perforation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Wolfgang Sieder
  • Exhaust gas return system for auto-igniting internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 4085718
    Abstract: An exhaust gas return installation for auto-ignition internal combustion engines for the admixture of a part of the exhaust gases to the sucked-in air, in which a spring-loaded baffle disk acted upon by the suction air stream together with a valve acted upon by the exhaust counter-pressure control the exhaust gas admixture according to the output and the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christian Schaal
  • Method and apparatus for improving exhaust gases of a gas turbine installation
    Patent number: 4085579
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine installation and an apparatus for carrying out the method, particularly for a vehicle gas turbine installation, in which the air is compressed and heated up by utilizing the exhaust gas heat of the gas turbine installation, fuel is combusted under supply of compressed air with an excess of air, the resulting gas is thinned out and cooled off by admixture of compressed heated air, and the produced gas is then permitted to expand for producing an output; a more or less large quantity of non-preheated air is thereby admixed to the preheated primary air prior to the entry into the combustion zone at least within the lower partial load range, preferably as a function of load, in order to control the temperature in the combustion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Immanuel Holzapfel, Werner Bruder
  • Bumper constructed as an elastomeric hollow spring
    Patent number: 4085956
    Abstract: A shock-absorber constructed as elastomer hollow spring which is arranged between a vehicle bumper and a fixed vehicle part and which is supported thereat under prestress; the shock absorber at its end near the vehicle includes a frame-like enclosure whose inner area abuts at the shock absorber and whose outer area abuts at the inner sides of the sections of the bumper that are directed toward the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Weisshappel, Wolfgang Klie, Wolfgang Fischer
  • Atomization device for internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 4085717
    Abstract: An atomization system for internal combustion engines for atomizing fuel in an air stream, which includes an atomization space separate from the combustion or working space of the internal combustion engine and traversed at least in part by the combustion air; the electrically conductive fuel supply includes a large number of small capillary tubes projecting into the atomization space from the mounting support thereof while a counter-electrode is provided with a large surface facing the discharge openings of the capillary tubes; additionally, means are provided for guiding the air in such a direction and at such a velocity that the forces exerted on the atomized and electrically charged fuel droplets by the flowing air predominate the electrostatic attracting forces exerted on the droplets by the counter-electrode and thus keep the droplets from the counter-electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Willmann, Helmut Saufferer
  • Vibration damper for vehicle spring systems
    Patent number: 4084667
    Abstract: A vibration damper with a hydraulic damping mechanism for vehicle spring systems, in which damping valves operating by throttling the pressure medium displaced out of one working space into the other working space are interconnected between two working spaces of the hydraulic pressure medium; the two working spaces are short circuited by a by-pass connection by-passing the damping valves whereby a by-pass valve is also interconnected into the by-pass connection which operates as a function of oscillation velocity and whose valve adjusting member adjusts the by-pass connection to a narrower cross section with rising oscillation velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Klaus Kurrat
  • Pneumatic adjusting mechanism
    Patent number: 4083290
    Abstract: A pneumatic adjusting mechanism, especially for application in motor vehicles, which consists of a suction-air servo-motor that includes a working cylinder with a diaphragm piston whose piston rod is stressed by a spring against the action of the suction-air; to provide an adjustment to different adjusting path steps, individual control lines are connected to the working cylinder in places which correspond to the adjusting path steps; all control lines lead to a control switch connected with a suction-air reservoir line while each individual control line is adapted to be selectively connected with this suction-air reservoir line, after previous venting of all control lines, by means of the control switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rudolf Andres
  • Multi-layer sound- and vibration-absorbing cover panels for body parts and method for applying same
    Patent number: 4083595
    Abstract: A multi-layer sound- and vibration-absorbing covering for vehicle body parts which consists of a layer of a springy porous material fixed to the body which is covered off by an adherent heavy coating; the porous layer receives a viscous damping mass which wets at least the walls of the pores of the porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rolf Maier
  • Film evaporation combustion chamber
    Patent number: 4083674
    Abstract: A film-evaporating combustion chamber with an evaporator pipe whose inner wall surfaces are wetted with a fuel film from a fuel supply installation, and in which the evaporating fuel is seized by a swirling combustion air flow sweeping along the inner diameter of the evaporator pipe so as to mix the film with the combustion air; the fuel supply installation is thereby equipped with at least one feedline which extends from the inside toward the inner wall of the evaporator pipe and whose discharge opening is located substantially in front of the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Immanuel Holzapfel
  • Installation for feeding and atomizing liquid, especially combustion fuel
    Patent number: 4082070
    Abstract: Apparatus for the conveyance and atomization of a liquid including at least one nozzle directed toward an atomizing chamber, a pressure source or reservoir providing a conveying pressure for the liquid, a fluid-dynamic connection connecting the nozzle and the pressure source or reservoir, and an electrode disposed a predetermined distance in front of the nozzle. At least a portion of the nozzle is formed of an electrically conductive material and is electrically insulated at least with respect to the electrode. A difference in potential is applied between the electrically conductive portion of the nozzle and the electrode during an atomizing period, whereby liquid discharged from the nozzle is atomized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Saufferer, Karl Willmann
  • Head support for backrest, especially of motor vehicles
    Patent number: 4082354
    Abstract: A head support for seat backrests, especially of motor vehicle seats, which is adapted to be displaced from a rest or non-use position impairing as little as possible the visibility, for instance, of the driver toward the side of the vehicle or toward the rear of the vehicle, into an effective position; the movement of the head support thereby takes place automatically in dependence on the load on and removal of the load from the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Renner, Siegfried Wacker
  • Shock absorber fashioned as an elastomeric hollow spring
    Patent number: 4082338
    Abstract: A shock absorber constructed as elastomer hollow spring which is arranged between a vehicle bumper and a fixed vehicle part, and which is supported under prestress at these parts; the shock absorber includes at its end near the vehicle a socket having an inner area abutting at the shock absorber and an outer area abutting at the inner sides of sections of the bumper which are directed inwardly of the vehicle; each outer area thereby includes friction structures supported under prestress at the inner sides of the bumper sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hubert Hutai, Wolfgang Klie, Helmut Weisshappel
  • Shell-shaped children's seat for vehicles
    Patent number: 4082350
    Abstract: A shell-shaped children's seat for motor vehicles which is equipped with a headrest terminating in a backrest and with an impact member extending over the width of the shell and resting on the associated shell edge portions within the area of the seating surface; the impact member thereby extends rearwardly up to the transitional area of the backrest and the headrest, is pivotally connected thereat and can be tilted up visor-like after the disengagement of a locking device to facilitate ingress and egress of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Johann Tomforde
  • Pressure medium servo motor, especially for servo steering systems
    Patent number: 4080871
    Abstract: A pressure medium servo-motor, especially for servo-steering systems, in which a working piston operating in a working cylinder is provided with a piston pressure surface actuatable by the pressure in one working pressure chamber of the working cylinder for producing a servo-force directed in the sense of the relative movement of the working piston with respect to the working cylinder; the piston pressure surface of the working piston is thereby reduced with respect to the reference value fulfilling the equilibrium condition of the piston pressure forces in the neutral position of the working piston, by a reducing piston which includes a pressure disengaging surface actuatable by the pressure in the working pressure chamber and a relief pressure surface actuatable by the pressure in a relief pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Katz, Jaromir Bordovsky
  • Air-compressing four-cycle internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection
    Patent number: 4080937
    Abstract: An air-compressing four-cycle internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, especially for the drive of motor vehicles, in which a first injection valve is provided for injecting fuel into a combustion space which is so constructed and arranged that good outputs with favorable fuel consumption are attainable; in lieu of the first injection valve, a second injection valve can be selectively operated which is fed with fuel from a second injection pump or from a separate pump plunger and which is so constructed and arranged that low combustion noises are achieved without regard to output and consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gerhard Wolters
  • Floor tunnel structure for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 4081197
    Abstract: A tunnel structure arranged in the center of the floor of a passenger motor vehicle, which extends in the longitudinal direction and in which a hollow bearer is formed by tunnel edge reinforcements; at least one traverse extending over the open tunnel side and supporting drive unit parts is adapted to be threadably connected to the parallel flanges of the two tunnel edge reinforcements while bolt holes and insert openings coordinated to the bolt holes are provided in the reinforcing member at different longitudinal positions for movable connecting bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Sabet Ackel
  • Motor vehicles with stepped rear sections
    Patent number: 4081195
    Abstract: A motor vehicle with a stepped rear section and with a shield-like guide installation extending in continuation of the roof up to the area of the rear window, which -- matched to the outer contour of the rear window -- surrounds at least the upper half thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hans Gotz