Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Electric variable transmission for hybrid electric vehicles with four forward modes and six fixed gears
    Patent number: 8882627
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power split transmission with four Electric Variable Transmission (EVT) modes and six fixed gears for use in hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV). The present disclosure utilizes two electric motors (“E-motors”), an engine, three planetary gear sets, and five selectively engageable clutches. The clutches are engaged in different combinations to engage the different gears and EVT modes. In the six fixed gears, power is transmitted only on the mechanical path for the highest transmission efficiency. In the four EVT modes, a part of the power is transmitted electrically. The EVT modes are designed for the lowest power split ratios, allowing the use of low powered E-motors. Additionally, the present disclosure can include a front E-motor design allowing scalable E-motors and a modular transmission design, and a middle E-motor design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Daimler AG, Chrysler Group LLC
    Inventor: Klaus Kersting
  • Airbag, in particular for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8882137
    Abstract: An airbag for a motor vehicle includes a support structure moveable from a stowage position into a restraint position and a covering that surrounds a restraint volume of the airbag formed by the support structure in its restraint position. The covering is an element that is separate from the support structure and joined to the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Christian Burczyk, Andreas Hirth, Friedrich Reiter
  • Method for detecting an actuating motion for an actuator of a motor vehicle equipment element and actuator of a motor vehicle equipment element
    Patent number: 8886414
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detecting motion for the sensor controlled activation of an operating device for at least one motor vehicle equipment item having at least two capacitive sensors with overlapping detection zones, which provide signals to a control device to control the equipment item. The method comprises the determination of at least one direction of the operating motion within the overlapping detection zones as a valid motion direction for actuating the vehicle equipment item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Volker Entenmann, Tingting Zhang-Xu
  • Belt strap for a safety belt of a vehicle
    Patent number: 8882140
    Abstract: A belt strap for a safety belt of a vehicle includes a belt interior located between two belt strap layers, to which belt interior a gas can be applied. A gas passage connecting at least two sections of the belt interior is provided between the at least two belt strap layers. The gas passage is secured at a first end in the region of an end fitting of the safety belt. The gas passage, which is designed as a flexible tube, is secured within the belt interior with at least a second end, which is located opposite the secured first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Christian Burczyk, Hakan Ipek
  • Modular construction system and method for producing a roof module
    Patent number: 8882185
    Abstract: A modular construction system for producing a plurality of design variants of a roof module for a motor car includes a plurality of design-variant-specific adapter elements and a plurality of design-variant-specific planar elements. Using at least one adapter element, at least one respective planar element can be connected to a frame, forming a roof opening, in particular of a motor car shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim Demmer, Christina Nestler, Juergen Schrader, Andreas Zygan
  • Compressor and method for operating a compressor and fuel cell device with a compressor
    Patent number: 8882458
    Abstract: A compressor with a housing having an air guide section and a bearing section, and a moving part having a compressor wheel and a shaft connected to the compressor wheel in a pivot-proof manner. The shaft is pivot-supported in the bearing section, and the compressor wheel is accommodated in a first chamber of the air guide section in a pivoting manner. The shaft is driveable by an electric motor and at least one radial bearing and one axial bearing are provided for supporting the shaft in the bearing section, wherein the axial bearing has at least one magnetic bearing. The axial bearing includes at least one first bearing and a second bearing, the first bearing configured in the region of the compressor wheel and the second bearing is configured in the region of an end of the moving part facing away from the compressor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Andreas Knoop, Juergen Leitz
  • COMPRESSED GAS TANK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20140326738
    Abstract: A compressed gas tank (1) made from carbon fibre materials, which has a filling and removal neck, and a method for the production thereof, with the following steps: providing a fusible core, which forms an interior of the compressed gas tank (1), wrapping the core with at least one carbon fibre bandage and impregnating the carbon fibres with a curable polymer matrix material, thereby providing a preform of the compressed gas tank (1), consolidating the polymer matrix material of the preform and obtaining the carbon fibre composite compressed gas tank (1), and liquefying the core material by melting, and removing the liquid core material from the filling and removal neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Andreas Knoop
  • Arrangement of an Air Supply Device on a Cylinder Head for an Internal Combustion Engine
    Publication number: 20140326215
    Abstract: An arrangement of an air supply device on a cylinder head for an internal combustion engine involves the air supply device including an intake device for distributing air, which is to be supplied to combustion chambers of the engine, and a compressor for compressing the air. The compressor is fluidically connected to the intake device via an air duct element. The air supply device is mounted on the cylinder head and extends over the cylinder head from the intake device situated on an air side of the cylinder head, via the air duct element, to the compressor situated on an exhaust gas side of the cylinder head, forming an intermediate space that is delimited by the intake device, the air duct element, and the compressor. The cylinder head is at least partially situated in this intermediate space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jochen Haefner, Cecile Jecker
  • HYBRID BIPOLAR PLATE ASSEMBLY FOR FUEL CELLS
    Publication number: 20140329168
    Abstract: Hybrid bipolar plate assemblies comprising a metal subassembly and a carbonaceous flow field insert can be used to provide for greater current densities from smaller volume fuel cell stacks. In particular, such hybrid bipolar plate assemblies allow for the combination of preferred oxidant channel structures, which can be formed in carbonaceous oxidant flow field inserts, with preferred smaller bipolar plate assembly thicknesses, which are possible with the use of metal plate subassemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicants: Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Wayne Dang, Robert Wingrove, Robert Alois Esterer, Robert Henry Artibise
  • Method for producing a brake disc
    Patent number: 8877296
    Abstract: A method for producing a brake disc (BS) for a vehicle, with a main body (G) of a metal material, in particular gray cast iron, which has friction surfaces (R). The friction surfaces (R) are coated with a coating of tungsten carbide, chromium carbide, and nickel or of tungsten carbide, cobalt and nickel and after-treated by carbonizing, carbonitriding, case hardening, gas nitriding, oxide nitriding, gas nitro carburizing, plasma nitriding, plasma oxidizing, borating, plasma carborating or plasma borating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Oliver Lembach, Ralph Mayer
  • Method for Producing a Hollow Profile and Hollow Profile Component
    Publication number: 20140319879
    Abstract: A method for the production of a hollow profile, which is a cockpit cross-member for a motor vehicle, involves braiding endless fibers around a core that forms the inner contour of the hollow profile to produce a fibrous hollow structure. After the braiding, the fibrous hollow structure is, in the elastic state, removed from the core in a non-destructive manner, molded into an end contour by application of internal pressure and overmolded with a plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Eckhard Reese
  • Airbag, In Particular for a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20140319809
    Abstract: An airbag for a motor vehicle includes a support structure having a plurality of hollow body parts. The support structure is moveable from a storage position to a support position by inserting gas into the hollow body parts and by which a support volume of the airbag is at least partially covered in its support position. The airbag also includes at least one overflow opening via which the gas is able to be introduced into the support volume from at least one of the hollow body parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Christian Burczyk, Andreas Hirth, Friedrich Reiter
  • Method and Device for Operating an Internal Combustion Engine Comprising an Exhaust Gas Cleaning Unit
    Publication number: 20140318105
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having an exhaust emission control unit with at least one exhaust emission control component which acts catalytically and/or by filtration involves operating the internal combustion engine, during a cold start or warm-up of the internal combustion engine, using a cold start engine operating process with predefined values for predefined internal combustion engine operating variables. The cold start and/or the warm-up of the internal combustion engine is controlled or regulated as a function of soot loading of a particle filter of the exhaust emission control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Berthold Keppeler
  • Battery with a plurality of individual cells
    Patent number: 8871377
    Abstract: A battery comprises a plurality of individual cells whose poles are electrically interconnected with each other in series and/or in parallel and form a cell assembly. A sealing element is arranged at least in one edge region between the poles of adjacent individual cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jens Meintschel, Dirk Schroeter, Wolfgang Warthmann
  • Restraining system, in particular for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8870220
    Abstract: A restraint system for a motor vehicle includes a support structure moveable from a stowage position into a restraint position, a covering by means of which a restraint volume formed by the support structure in its restraint position is enclosed, and at least one ventilation opening via which a medium, in particular air, can flow into the covering during the transfer into the restraint position. The at least one ventilation opening is provided within a housing that at least partially accommodates the support structure and the covering in the stowage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Christian Burczyk, Andreas Hirth, Lutz Quarg, Friedrich Reiter
  • Front portion of a vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D716198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D716212
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Bildhaeuser
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D716213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D716698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D717975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Stefan Handt, Frank Pfisterer, Juergen Wiesen