Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Air filter system
    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
  • Method for controlling the operation of a reversible belt retractor in a motor vehicle
    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
  • PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A MOVING WORKPIECE
    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
  • PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR A MOVING WORKPIECE AND METHOD OF POSITIONING THE PROCESSING SYSTEM
    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
  • Process for the chip-forming machining of thermally sprayed cylinder barrels
    Patent number: 7584735
    Abstract: In a process for chip-forming machining of thermally sprayed cylinder barrels of a cylinder crankcase, a cylinder crankcase is cast, those surfaces of the subsequent cylinder barrels which are to be thermally coated are roughened, the cylinder barrels are coated by a thermal spraying process, and the cylinder barrels are remachined to final dimensions. Machining of an insertion bevel and/or an end bevel and/or the cylinder head sealing surface and/or the crankshaft space and/or a cylinder bore is carried out in a chip-forming manner, and a respective chip-forming tool is guided so that the respective cutting edges penetrate into the material which is to be removed from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jens Boehm, Dieter Brackenhammer, Stefan Diessner, Axel Heuberger, Patrick Izquierdo, Herald Pfeffinger, Dezsoe Schilling, Juergen Traber, Nazario Vocino, Walter Zwink
  • Internal combustion engine with exhaust-gas purification system, and method for purifying the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7584605
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas purification system and method are provided for an internal combustion engine having an NOx storage catalytic converter and a downstream SCR catalytic converter. The NOx storage catalytic converter can be supplied in a first operating mode with an oxidizing exhaust gas and in a second operating mode with a reducing exhaust gas. A third operating mode is provided between the first operating mode and the second operating mode, in which an exhaust gas which has a lower content of oxidizing constituents than the first operating mode and a lower content of reducing constituents than the second operating mode can be supplied to the NOx storage catalytic converter to improve NH3 production at the start of converter regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Beckmann, Alexander Massner
  • Process and device for avoiding collision while opening vehicle doors
    Patent number: 7586402
    Abstract: The opening of vehicle doors often leads to collisions with stationary obstacles that are not visible to the occupants or with moving obstacles that approach the vehicle without being noticed. Thus to avoid collisions when vehicle doors are opened, the aim of the invention is to take any modifications to the environmental situation of the vehicle as a result of a movement of the vehicle and the detected objects into consideration. This allows a collision of the vehicle doors with the objects to be reliably avoided. To achieve this, in a first step the probable trajectory of a vehicle is determined. In an additional step, the objects in the vicinity of the vehicle are detected and probable trajectories of said detected objects are determined. Respective probability ranges are then defined both for the vehicle and the pivoting zone of the vehicle doors and for the detected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Edgar Bihler, Ingo Dudeck, Uwe Franke, Axel Gern, Reinhard Janssen, Carsten Knoeppel, Frank-Werner Mohn, Rainer Moebus, Volker Oltmann, Uwe Regensburger, Helmut Schittenhelm, Reinhold Schoeb, Avshalom Suissa, Bernd Woltermann, Zoltan Zomotor
  • Seatbelt lock
    Patent number: 7584997
    Abstract: A seatbelt lock includes a preventive tensioning device which moves a seatbelt lock from an operating position into a lowered safety position with respect to the operating position, an energy accumulator, and a drive unit. The seatbelt lock is maintained preloaded in an operating position by means of the energy accumulator, and the drive unit transfers the seatbelt lock from the safety position back into the operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Roland Bachmann, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Michael Fehring, Rainer Justen, Nadja Nilgen, Rodolfo Schoeneburg
  • Method for operating a motor vehicle
    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
  • Planar Heating Element for a Motor Vehicle Seat
    Publication number: 20090218854
    Abstract: A planar heating element for a motor vehicle seat includes a plurality of heating conductors connected to at least one electrical contact conductor strip, which is to be joined to a power source. The contact conductor strip itself comprises an electrically conductive, nonwoven textile fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Karl Pfahler, Ina Von Szczepanski
  • INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION FOR A DOUBLE-WISHBONE HIGH LINK AXLE
    Publication number: 20090218780
    Abstract: A vehicle independent suspension for a double-wishbone high link axle has on each wheel side, a wheel carrier which is mounted by at least one lower link and at least one upper link in the form of a transverse or diagonal link, on an assembly frame that is fastened to the vehicle frame. The assembly frame comprises two longitudinal members and two cross members that are fixedly connected in a force-fitting or materially joined fashion to the longitudinal members. The rear cross member is extended upward forming a link carrier for the upper link or mounting the link carrier in a dimensionally rigid manner by a support element. For each longitudinal member, a further link carrier for the upper link is arranged between the cross members; and said further link carrier engages in each case around the closest longitudinal member in a form-fitting or force-fitting or materially joined fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Uwe Mauz
  • 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
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: 7581785
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a backrest with a vertically adjustable headrest, and a device for warming the nape and head area of a seat occupant with warm air. The device comprises an electric heating unit and an air vent which is arranged in an intermediate space between the backrest and head cushion of the headrest. In order to obtain a warm air heating device which i) is of low overall volume, ii) can be integrated satisfactorily into the seat, iii) is efficient and iv) does not disrupt the esthetics of the vehicle seat and/or of the passenger cell, the electric heating unit, and preferably also a blower, are integrated in the air vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Heckmann, Karl Pfahler
  • Moisture exchange module having bundle of moisture permeable hollow fibre membranes
    Patent number: 7582143
    Abstract: A moisture exchange module includes a bundle of moisture-permeable hollow fiber membranes. It is provided with a feedline for supplying a gas stream that flows through the hollow fiber membranes in an inner flow. According to the present invention, a separating device for separating out liquid particles from the gas flow are provided in the region between the feedline and the bundle of hollow fiber membranes. The separating device may have the form of a groove and are arranged in such a way that the gas flow is guided in such a manner that the centrifugal force assists movement of the liquid particles towards the separating device. The moisture exchange module preferably forms part of a fuel cell system to humidify feed air for the fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Berger, Gert Hinsenkamp, Jens Intorp, Patrick Mangold, Jochen Schaefer, Sven Schnetzler, Wolfgang Weger, Norbert Wiesheu
  • Vehicle, toy, and/or other replicas
    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
  • Surface configuration of a headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D599922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer
  • Rear portion of a vehicle, toy, and/or other replicas
    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
  • Front portion of a vehicle, toy, and/or other replicas
    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
  • Vehicle, toy, and/or other replicas
    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
  • Side mirror for a vehicle
    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