Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Composite proton conducting electrolyte with improved additives for fuel cells
    Patent number: 9172107
    Abstract: Additives can be used to prepare polymer electrolyte for membrane electrode assemblies in polymer electrolyte fuel cells in order to improve both durability and performance. The additives are chemical complexes comprising certain metal and organic ligand components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Keping Wang, Yunsong Yang, Jing Li
  • Front end module
    Patent number: 9162714
    Abstract: A front end module for a motor vehicle includes a tubular cross-member and injection molded components made from plastic, which are injected onto the cross-member. At least two of the injection molded components are connected to each other via the cross-member and separately connected to the cross-member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Maier, Stefan Kehres, Jochen Roesch
  • Body component
    Patent number: 9162707
    Abstract: A motor vehicle column includes an inner shell and an outer shell made from a metal, which are connected to each other in respective flange regions and which enclose a hollow space between them. In the hollow space a reinforcement element having a basic body made from a fiber composite plastic is arranged to strengthen the body component. The reinforcement element includes a metallic insert, which connects the reinforcement element to the inner and/or outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Konrad Eipper, Peter Feuser, Dietmar Kallfass, Uwe Lobenwein, Patrick Schuster, Thomas Schweiker, Kai Von Strzemie
  • Method for operating a motor vehicle diesel engine
    Patent number: 9157356
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system is provided. The emission control system includes an oxidation catalytic converter, a particle filter, and an SCR catalytic converter, in which the exhaust gas that is discharged from the diesel engine is passed through the oxidation catalytic converter before passing through the particle filter and the SCR catalytic converter. A regeneration of the particle filter with thermal soot burn-off is occasionally carried out, during which the diesel engine is operated at an air-fuel ratio having a lambda value (?) of at least approximately 1.0, and air is added to the exhaust gas after it exits the oxidation catalytic converter and before it enters the particle filter air, so that soot deposited on the particle filter is burnt-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Thomas Beckmann, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
  • Exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, and method for preparing a reducing agent which is introduced into the internal combustion engine exhaust gas
    Patent number: 9157358
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system includes a reducing agent preparation section having a first cylindrical exhaust gas line pipe section opening approximately perpendicularly into a second exhaust gas line pipe section via an opening in a cylinder lateral surface of the second exhaust gas line pipe section. An injector unit for introducing the reducing agent into the exhaust gas is situated at the first exhaust gas line pipe section, upstream from the opening. The opening in the cylinder lateral surface of the second exhaust gas line pipe section has a larger extension in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the second exhaust gas line pipe section than transversely thereto. In a method using the reducing agent preparation section a rotating exhaust gas flow is formed within the second exhaust gas line pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Beckmann, Tillmann Braun, Frank Duvinage, Helmut Herwig, Bernhard Kobiela, Peter Lueckert, Antonio Pepe, Peter Raitschev, Joachim Schommers
  • Sliding sleeve blank and motor vehicle steering spindle assembly having a sliding sleeve made from the blank
    Patent number: 9156489
    Abstract: A sliding sleeve blank for producing a sliding sleeve for a steering spindle shaft of a motor vehicle steering spindle and the motor vehicle steering spindle assembly are provided. The sliding sleeve blank has a cylindrical form and has a section on one end, which has a collar, from which winged webs extending away radially extend in the direction of the second end. The sliding sleeve blank is a cold impact extrusion component, which, at the section has a preliminary toothing system extending over one part of the length of the section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Axel Hebenstreit, Marco Schwieger
  • Modular production device for integral fiber semifinished products and method for producing endless-fiber composite components made from integral fiber composite semifinished products having a hollow body structure
    Patent number: 9156235
    Abstract: A modular production device for integral fiber semi-finished products and a method for the creation of endless fiber composite components having a hollow body structure after the production of such integral fiber semi-finished products. The modular production device has at least one moveably guided fiber guide tube (100), at least one base element (2, 2?) and a plurality of hollow bodies (7) that are separated from one another in a row by a gap (8) and that can be fastened to an inner wall of the base element (2, 2?). Each hollow body (7) has at least one base (6) at least on one side, wherein the gap (8) has a width that provides a passage for the fiber guide tube (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Daniel Roth
  • FASTENING DEVICE FOR FASTENING A VENTILATION ARRAY TO A SEAT
    Publication number: 20150285266
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus (30) for mounting a fan arrangement (40) on a seat (100), for example a vehicle seat, features a cylindrical sleeve or installation element (10) which secures within the seat, and a fan housing (50) for the fan arrangement or module (40), which slides into, and latches within, the cylindrical sleeve (10). The fan housing (50) has a tubular housing part (54) having a first housing part end (51) and a second housing part end (52) located axially opposite it. The fan module (40) includes a centrally located fan (80,81) supported by a plurality of radial struts (86), at least one of which serves as a channel (89) for power supply connecting wires (92). Wire pass-through openings (26, 64, 64?) are configured to permit a partial rotation of the fan module (40) during installation into the cylindrical sleeve (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: EBM-PAPST ST. GEORGEN GmbH & Co. KG, DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kienzler, Sven Friderich
  • Crossmember Arrangement and Method for Production
    Publication number: 20150284035
    Abstract: A method for the production of a crossmember arrangement for a motor vehicle involves providing the crossmember from a thermoplastic fiber-reinforced plastic tube. The fiber-reinforced plastic tube is heated at at least one joint for the attachment structure. The fiber-reinforced plastic tube is inserted, together with the attachment structure arranged on the joint, into an injection molding tool. A support pressure is applied in the interior of the fiber-reinforced plastic tube. The fiber-reinforced plastic tube is pressed in with the attachment structure. The joint is insert molded with a plastic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Eckhard Reese
  • METHOD FOR MONITORING THE FORMATION OF NITROGEN DIOXIDE AT AN OXIDATION CATALYTIC CONVERTER, AND EXHAUST SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150275737
    Abstract: A method and device for monitoring the formation of nitrogen dioxide at an oxidation catalytic converter is disclosed. The conversion of the nitrogen oxides, corresponding to a first exhaust gas volume flowrate through the oxidation catalytic converter, is detected. The exhaust gas volume flowrate is then changed and the conversion of the nitrogen oxides which changes with the change in the exhaust gas volume flowrate is also detected. By reference to the respective conversion of the nitrogen oxides at the different exhaust gas flowrates through the oxidation catalytic converter, it is concluded, on the basis of a predetermined relationship between the conversion of the nitrogen oxides and a proportion of nitrogen dioxide in the nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas, that nitrogen dioxide is being formed at the oxidation catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Berthold Keppeler
  • Method for Processing Measured Values from a Nitrogen Oxide Sensor
    Publication number: 20150276694
    Abstract: A method for processing measured values two nitrogen oxide sensors, one of which is arranged upstream of a nitrogen oxide reduction catalytic converter in the exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle and the other of which is arranged downstream of the nitrogen oxide reduction catalytic converter, involves recording and comparing measured values from the two nitrogen oxide sensors at least approximately at the same time. A sensitivity of the first nitrogen oxide sensor and/or of the second nitrogen oxide sensor is changed depending on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Jochen Lahr
  • Internal combustion engine valve drive device for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 9145835
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine valve drive device having at least one switch gate for valve lift switching by converting a rotation of at least a first and a second cam element into an axial movement by first and second actuators provided for axially displacing the first cam element and the second cam element in a first switching direction via an operative connection of the first actuator with the switch gate and the second actuator provided for axially displacing the second cam element in the same switching direction via an operative connection with the switch gate, the device including a control unit controlling the axial displacement of the first and second cam elements in the same switching direction under the control unit by actuating the first and second actuators at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Thomas Stolk, Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg
  • Device for connecting a line element to a component
    Patent number: 9147988
    Abstract: A device for connection of a line element to a component is provided. The line element ends in a connection housing or is connected to such a connection housing. A releasable fixing arrangement is configured between the connection housing and the component. A line section extending in the connection housing is heated by an electric heating wire. The heating wire externally surrounds the line section. The heated line section projects in the direction of the component so far over the region for releasable fixing of the connection housing on the component that it ends in the inner space of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Baur, Boris Stein, Simon Steinhuebl
  • Cooling device for a functional system
    Patent number: 9142843
    Abstract: A cooling device (10) for a functional system, in particular a fuel cell system (12) for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The cooling device (10) includes a conduit system (14, 22) for a cooling fluid flow connected to the functional system (12) for cooling. A container (20) of the cooling device (10) for the cooling fluid is fluidically connected to the conduit system (14, 22). A treatment unit, in particular an ion exchanger (24), for treating the cooling fluid is fluidically connected to the conduit system (14, 22). The container (20) includes a receptacle chamber to receive the treatment unit (24) and/or an ion exchanger (24) disposed so as to stand upright in the container (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH, DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Markus Beylich, Michael Fasold, Peter Teuschel, Wolfgang Schwienbacher, Christoph Koch
  • Method for model based clutch control and torque estimation
    Patent number: 9140337
    Abstract: A method for operating a powertrain through selective application of a hydraulically actuated clutch includes monitoring a state of a pressure control switch operatively coupled the clutch, monitoring a hydraulic line pressure utilized by the pressure control switch to fill the clutch, determining a hydraulic flow rate flowing to the clutch based upon the state of the pressure control switch and the hydraulic line pressure, tracking a clutch fill volume of the clutch based upon the hydraulic flow rate, and controlling operation of the clutch based upon the clutch fill volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Daimler AG, Chrysler Group LLC, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jy-Jen F. Sah, Bryan R. Snyder, Ali K Naqvi
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D739327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Gorden Wagener
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D740724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Emiel Burki, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Michael Gebhardt, Gorden Wagener
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D741239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Gorden Wagener
  • Chassis fairing for a highway truck
    Patent number: D741768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: John Brzustowicz, Ryan Dickman, Michael Gatza, Dieter Rohkohl, Justin Yee
  • Headlight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D742045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Stefan Handt, Frank Pfisterer, Juergen Wiesen