Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Device for driving a fuel cell vehicle
    Patent number: 8573344
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system comprises an electrical drive motor and a fuel cell system providing the electrical power. According to the invention, the drive motor and the fuel cell are integrated into a unit and firmly joined together. The fuel cell system may comprise two fuel cells or fuel cell stacks, which are arranged relative to each other so as to form a “V”. Peripheral units for operation of the fuel cell may be arranged in an interior of the V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Gerald Hornburg, Simon Steinhuebl, Werner Englert
  • Method for recuperating energy from an exhaust gas flow and motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8572964
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine providing a hot exhaust gas flow which is used as heat source for a Clausius-Rankine cycle process, wherein a pump is provided in the cycle for pumping, pressurizing and circulating an operating fluid, the pumping operation is controlled by a controller depending on the exhaust gas mass flow through an evaporator and possibly also the exhaust gas temperature to vaporize the operating fluid and expanding the vapor under pressure in an expander while generating energy. The vapor is condensed in a condenser to form a condensate which is again returned to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Jan Gärtner, Thomas Koch, Jozsef Mercz, Piroska Merczne
  • Device for the Operation of an Electrical Load Arranged in and/or on a Movable Transparent Planar Element
    Publication number: 20130283698
    Abstract: A device for the operation of an electrical load is arranged in and/or on a movable transparent panel element. A supply and/or signal line is arranged between at least one energy source and the electrical load. The supply and/or signal line is arranged on a lever assembly, and can be guided by the lever assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Bernd Huber, Bernd Schoenhardt
  • Control device for an automated gear shift transmission
    Patent number: 8567274
    Abstract: In a control arrangement for an automated gear shift transmission, particularly a dual clutch transmission with a partial transmission having two gears which must not be simultaneously engaged, simultaneous engagement of the two gears of the partial transmission is prevented by a gear actuation system which has a first and a second gear slide wherein a second gear shift control pressure of the second gear slide counteracts the first gear shift control pressure of the first gear slide so that the first gear slide is blocked by the second gear shift control pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Markus Brandenburg
  • Air supplier, particularly for an air supply system for fuel cells
    Patent number: 8567190
    Abstract: In an air supplier particularly for air supply systems for fuel cells including a compressor having a housing with a radial diffuser and including a rotor operated by an electric motor, a diverting channel is connected to the radial diffuser providing a communication path guiding the air via an axial annular channel to an inwardly extending collecting chamber via a final diffuser formed by a curved end section of a wall delimiting the annular passage and an inwardly curved wall area of the collection chamber, the compressor housing having an outer diameter is not substantially larger than the outer diameter of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Manfred Stute, Paul Löffler
  • Battery having a plurality of single cells
    Patent number: 8568918
    Abstract: A battery is provided with a plurality of individual cells connected in series and/or in parallel to one another, and at least one cooling plate arranged on the pole side on the individual cells, with current drain tabs of electric poles of the individual cells being thermally coupled with the cooling plate and being angled such that they extend parallel to the cooling plate. Current drain tabs of adjacent individual cells are electrically interconnected in non-positive and/or in positive manner and pressed with the cooling plate in non-positive and/or in positive manner by clamping elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Dirk Schroeter, Jens Meintschel, Rainer Kaufmann, Arnold Lamm, Wolfgang Warthmann
  • Fluid flow machine
    Patent number: 8568111
    Abstract: A fluid flow machine includes a housing with a connecting piece for a working fluid on an intake side, and a pressure side. At least one impeller is mounted on a shaft, which is held in the housing by radial and axial bearings, and a cooling arrangement is provided for at least one bearing. A revolving part of the axial bearing is designed as a cooling fluid transportation device, wherein a suction connection leads to the intake side of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Andreas Knoop
  • Method for Charging a Battery of a Vehicle
    Publication number: 20130278225
    Abstract: A method for charging a vehicle battery of a vehicle connected to a charging station involves determining by the vehicle of a first charge profile as a function of a maximum power rating of the charging station, a target state of charge, and a predefined charge period, and checking by the vehicle as to whether the target state of charge can be achieved within the predefined charge period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Markus Dietze, Thomas Frisch, Holger Lochner, Volker Rabe, Patrick Wolf
  • INTERIOR COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20130279188
    Abstract: A motor vehicle interior component with a multilayer design, with at least one inhomogeneously structured decorative layer (1), which has a plurality of regions (11, 12) of different transparencies. The decorative layer (1) is a side of the interior component that is facing an observer and includes at least one region (2) for the display of an image. A light source (4) is provided on the side of the decorative layer (1) facing away from the observer. The decorative layer (1) has a masking layer (3) on the side of the light source, with masking sections (31, 32) of different transparencies. Masking sections of lower transparency (31) are arranged on regions of higher transparency (11) and masking sections of higher transparency (32) and arranged on regions of lower transparency (12) of the decorative layer (1). A method for the production of such an interior component is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Volker Entenmann, Stefan Herder, Joerg Reisinger
  • METHOD OF OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LOW NOx COMBUSTION
    Publication number: 20130276753
    Abstract: An operating mode for an internal combustion engine, in particular a directly injected internal combustion engine having a plurality of combustion chambers, in particular for a directly injected gasoline engine, e.g. for a motor vehicle, having low NOx combustion (NAV). During the NAV operating mode that is the subject matter of this invention, at an ignition point (ZZP) a largely homogeneous, lean fuel/exhaust gas/air mixture having a combustion air ratio of ??1 in the respective combustion chamber is spark ignited by an ignition device, whereby the flame front combustion initiated by the ignition device (FFV) transitions to a controlled auto-ignition (RZV). The NAV operating mode enables a controlled auto-ignition to be performed in an engine load range in which a pure RZV operating mode is no longer stable enough to be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Torsten DIELER, Dirk HAASE, Ruediger HERWEG
  • Tandem axle having two drivable axles and a drivetrain which can be partially disconnected
    Patent number: 8562479
    Abstract: A tandem axle having two drivable axles, each axle including a differential gearing with a drive input gearwheel, drivable by a shaft, as a differential gearing input and with two drive input semi-axles driving the wheels of the axle using axle shaft wheels. The wheels of the first axle are permanently positively coupled to the drive input gearwheel of the axle. An activatable distributor wheel is seated on a drive input shaft of the drive input gearwheel of the first axle. The distributor wheel meshes with a through drive shaft wheel which is arranged in a rotationally rigid fashion on a through drive shaft. The output of the through drive shaft is coupled to the input-side drive input gearwheel of the second axle by means of intermediate members. Switchable clutches are arranged in the second axle between the axle shaft wheels and their adjacent wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johann Hamperl, Michael Helfrich, Uwe Mierisch, Ferdinand Mulzer
  • Height-Adjustable Safety Steering Column Assembly
    Publication number: 20130269468
    Abstract: A height-adjustable safety steering column assembly includes a console installed securely on the vehicle and in which an outer jacket tube is pivotably mounted. The outer jacket tube comprising includes a steering spindle having a universal joint and an inner jacket tube, which surrounds a telescoping steering wheel-side section of the steering spindle. The pivotable connection of the outer jacket tube with the console installed securely on the vehicle is implemented by two riveted joints provided diametrically on a circumference of the jacket tube and which form a rotation axis corresponding to the universal joint axis of the steering spindle. For each of the connections formed by two rivets, the console installed securely on the vehicle has a passage leading into a passage of the outer jacket tube. A rivet closing head is seated on the jacket tube side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Christian Ehlers, Holger Kittler, Thomas Krueger, Marco Schwieger
  • Motor-Vehicle Internal Combustion Engine with Exhaust-Gas Recirculation
    Publication number: 20130269327
    Abstract: A motor vehicle combustion engine includes an air supply section and an exhaust gas recirculation section that includes a particle filter and an SCR exhaust gas purification component. A first exhaust gas turbocharger includes a turbine arranged upstream of the particle filter in the exhaust gas section. A first exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section upstream of the turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger, and a second exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section downstream of the particle filter are provided to recirculate the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas section into the air supply system. An SCR catalyst is arranged in the second exhaust gas recirculation line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Berthold Keppeler
  • Prediction strategy for thermal management and protection of power electronic hardware
    Patent number: 8556011
    Abstract: A hybrid powertrain system includes an engine, an electric machine, a power electronics device including a plurality of electric circuit layers, and a cooling system. A method for managing thermal energy in the power electronics device includes monitoring a plurality of temperature sensors in the power electronics device, monitoring electric power into and out of the power electronics device, predicting temperatures for the plurality of electric circuit layers, and controlling the hybrid powertrain system based upon the predicted temperatures for the plurality of electric circuit layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Daimler AG, Chrysler Group LLC, Bayerusche Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mohammad N Anwar, Prakash Haribhai Desai, Sean E Gleason, Brian A Welchko
  • Method and apparatus to control clutch pressures in an electro-mechanical transmission
    Patent number: 8560191
    Abstract: A method for reducing occurrence of clutch slip in electromechanical transmission adapted to selectively transmit mechanical power to an output member through selective application of a hydraulically actuated clutch includes monitoring operation of said clutch, identifying an indication of clutch wear based upon said monitoring said operation, and increasing a minimum clamping force applied to said clutch based upon said indication of clutch wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Daimler AG, Chrysler Group LLC, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jy-Jen F. Sah, Ali K Naqvi
  • Main shaft for a transmission or countershaft for a transmission
    Patent number: 8556739
    Abstract: A main shaft for a transmission or a countershaft for a transmission shall be constructed in an especially light-weight manner. The transmission of high torques, such as is the case for the main shaft or countershaft for a transmission, is problematic when the base body of the shaft consists of a fiber composite material. A metal element (20, 22) is now laminated into the base body, and a gearwheel (28, 30) can then be connected to this metal element (20, 22) in a force-fit manner, so that high torques can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kopf, Alexander Weidler
  • Valve clearance compensation device and method for controlling a valve clearance compensating device for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8555833
    Abstract: In a clearance compensating device for an internal combustion engine with an internal part movably arranged within a guide duct of an external part for adjusting a clearance of an associated valve of the internal combustion engine, a pressure chamber, and a storage chamber which is hydraulically connected to the pressure chamber for receiving hydraulic fluid are associated with the interior part. Between the two chambers a one-way valve is disposed for applying an actuating force to the interior part relative to the external part. A feeding device is hydraulically connected to a blocking chamber for supplying a hydraulic fluid to the blocking chamber in order to exert a blocking force to the internal part acting in a direction opposite the actuating force under the control of a timing device the blocking force being modified depending on a cycle of the timing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Josef Astner, Daniel Böhme, Marc Oliver Wagner, Harry Wolf
  • Wiper Arm Arrangement and Method for Connecting a Wiper Blade to a Wiper Arm
    Publication number: 20130263400
    Abstract: A wiper arm arrangement with a wiper arm of a windscreen wiper system of a vehicle and an attachment element having at least one line. The attachment element can be coupled to a connecting element designed for holding a wiper blade and for connecting the wiper blade to the wiper arm. Due to the coupling, at least one corresponding line of the connecting element can be joined onto the at least one line of the attachment element. The connecting element can be fitted onto the attachment element in an installation direction which coincides at least substantially with a direction of longitudinal extent of the wiper arm. The attachment element is arranged on the wiper arm so as to be movable in the direction of longitudinal extent of the wiper arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Richard Duesterhoeft, Holger Fitterer, Uwe Renz, Heiko Schmid, Andreas Zygan
  • Supply system and warning device for a fuel cell stack and method for controlling the supply system
    Patent number: 8551665
    Abstract: In a fuel cell stack, fuel, such as often hydrogen, electrochemically reacts with an oxidant, such as ambient air, and electric energy is generated from chemical energy. During the reaction, a proton exchange membrane (PEM) separates the fuel from the oxidant during the electrochemical process. A supply system for the fuel cell stack comprises an adjustable humidifying device for humidifying a supply gas which is supplied to the fuel cell stack, as a function of a control signal; and a dehumidifying device, which is configured to dehumidify an exhaust gas that is formed from the supply gas conducted through the fuel cell stack, and to discharge the same as a dehumidified exhaust gas. A controller, which generates the control signal, is configured from a programming and/or switching point of view to generate the control signal based on the gas temperature of the dehumidified exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Uwe Pasera, Simon Steinhubl
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D692816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Fan Zhang