Patents Assigned to Daimler
  • Method and device for regulation or control of a restraint system in a vehicle
    Patent number: 8521369
    Abstract: A method and a device for control or regulation of a restraint system in a vehicle having a safety belt and at least one of an operation or convenience function. The operation and convenience functions of the restraint system adapt in a situation-related fashion and set the belt retraction force that acts on the safety belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Blaas, Walter Eberle, Martin Lanzerath, Jan Schroeder
  • INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIGHT METAL ALLOY ENGINE BLOCK AND CAST IRON CYLINDER LINERS
    Publication number: 20130213339
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, having a cylinder housing in the form of a light metal alloy casting with working cylinder sections including cylinder liners which consist of rough-surface iron castings and which are integrally cast into the working cylinder sections with housing webs formed between adjacent liners, the cylinder housing has cooling channels formed in the housing webs between adjacent cylinder liners and the working cylinder sections of the cylinder housing for directly cooling the cylinder liners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: DAIMLER AG
  • OPERATING METHOD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20130218444
    Abstract: In an operating method for a direct-injection gasoline internal combustion engine having a plurality of combustion chambers with at least partially low-NOx combustion (NAV) and a plurality of partial operating modes with at least one partial operating mode having controlled auto-ignition (RZV), a reduction in the reactivity of exhaust gas recirculated into the respective combustion chamber is achieved by means of an external exhaust gas recirculation using exhaust gas which has been conducted through an oxidation catalyst thereby improving the operating stability of the engine particularly in the auto-ignition partial operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: DAIMLER AG
  • COOLING DUCT PISTON AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130213218
    Abstract: A cooling duct piston (1) for combustion engines. The cooling duct piston has a piston basic body (2) that is connected to a lining part (3), which is facing an assigned combustion chamber. Here, the lining part (3) completely forms the piston surface (4) of the cooling duct piston (1) that faces the combustion chamber. An encircling depression (5) is provided in the surface of the piston basic body (2) facing the combustion chamber. The lining part (3) provides a permanent connection at least with the surface of the piston basic body (2) facing the combustion chamber, and thus bridges the encircling depression (5), such that the encircling depression (5), with the lining part (3) that bridges it, forms a cooling duct (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Timotheus Kaiser, Hermann Pfeifer, Wolfgang Rehm, Karl Weisskopf
  • Airbag, in Particular for a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20130214517
    Abstract: An airbag for a motor vehicle includes a support structure moveable from a storage position into a restraint position and a covering by means of which a restraint volume of the airbag formed by the support structure in its restraint position is surrounded. The covering is formed as an element separate from the support structure and having passage regions in which the covering is at least substantially permeable to air in at least one direction of flow, and connecting regions that are reinforced relative thereto, in which the covering is connected to the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Christian Burczyk, Andreas Hirth, Friedrich Reiter
  • Method for Selecting a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20130218368
    Abstract: A method for selecting or configuring a motor vehicle from a plurality of selectable motor vehicles involves providing a motor vehicle database containing a plurality of selectable motor vehicles, each having an associated first load collective data record describing properties of the motor vehicle which can be detected by a sensor system. Technical properties in a comparison vehicle are detected by a sensor system. A second load collective data record is formed by conditioning of the detected technical properties of the comparison vehicle and the two load collective data records are compared. The first load collective data record from the motor vehicle database having the smallest discrepancy from the second load collective data record is determined and the motor vehicle associated with the first load collective data record having the smallest discrepancy is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Kokes, Bernd Oeffinger
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8511271
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder, in which a combustion chamber is delimited between a piston and a cylinder head, a fuel injector, is arranged in the cylinder head and has an injection nozzle with a plurality of injection bores. A piston depression is arranged in the piston, and a compression projection, with a projection cone angle, is positioned opposite the injection nozzle in the piston depression. The injection bores are formed such that, during a fuel injection in a range from 20° CA before top dead center to 35° CA after top dead center, the fuel jets emerging from the injection bores with a fuel cone angle impinge on the piston depression and are guided by a piston depression surface. The injection bores and the compression projection are formed such that a generated ratio of fuel cone angle to projection cone angle is in a range between 0.95 and 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Rolf Hutmacher
  • System and method of purging fuel cell stacks
    Patent number: 8512902
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack comprising a fuel inlet and an oxidant inlet for allowing the supply of a fuel and an oxidant to the fuel cell stack, respectively, and a fuel outlet and an oxidant outlet for allowing the removal of an anode exhaust and a cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack, respectively, wherein the fuel outlet is fluidly connected to a high frequency purge valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Janusz Blaszczyk, Peter J. Bach, Michael J. Procter, Michael P. Sexsmith
  • Fuel Cell System
    Publication number: 20130209902
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell having a cathode chamber and an anode chamber. Exhaust gas from the anode chamber is conducted back to the inlet of the anode chamber in an anode circuit. A water separator is provided in the anode circuit, which is connected to a supply line to the cathode chamber by a drain line. A further water separator is arranged in the supply line upstream of the cathode chamber in the flow direction. The drain line flows into the supply line, upstream of the other water separator in the flow direction, or into the other water separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Cosimo Mazzotta
  • Vehicle occupant safety system with energy-absorbing elements, and method of operating same
    Patent number: 8505965
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system has an airbag, which provides a predetermined support force distribution in the filled (unfolded) state, and at least one energy-absorbing element that is attached to the airbag in order to unfold it or to locally increase the support force thereof. The energy-absorbing element(s) are arranged such that at least one energy absorbing element may apply itself to an occupant, and may at least partially follow the movements of the same at least to a certain extent. The energy-absorbing element has an occupant-protective function, and/or the airbag has a funnel function relative to an occupant to be supported. The occupant is guided toward the center of the airbag during an impact by means of the funnel function, and is possibly also protected laterally by means of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Andreas Hirth, Lutz Quarg, Friedrich Reiter, Clark Ruedebusch
  • Airbag for a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20130200602
    Abstract: An airbag for a motor vehicle, having a housing and at least one restraining element, which has at least one receptacle space for a gaseous medium, in particular air, and which can be moved, in the case of an accident-induced application of force to the motor vehicle, into a restraining position by the flowing of medium into the receptacle space from a storage position within the housing. At least one wall of the housing has at least one inflow opening for the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bogenrieder, Christian Burczyk, Andreas Hirth, Lutz Quarg, Friedrich Reiter
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D687749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Klaus Frenzel, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Gorden Wagener
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D687750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Frei, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Rear bumper for a vehicle
    Patent number: D687752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Klaus Frenzel, Hans-Dieter Futschik, Gorden Wagener
  • Vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D688162
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Front portion of a vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D688173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Rear portion of a vehicle, toy, and/or replicas thereof
    Patent number: D688174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D688603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Wheel or wheel cover
    Patent number: D688616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Mark Fetherston, Klaus Frenzel, Slavche Tanevski
  • Radiator grill for a vehicle
    Patent number: D687751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Robert Lesnik, Volker Leutz, Gorden Wagener