Patents Assigned to DaimlerChrysler
  • Optical seat occupation sensor network
    Patent number: 7162111
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor arrangement for seat occupation detection, comprising a fiber-optic sensor network consisting of at least two sensors. The sensor network detest for example local damping modifications in a fiber network that are caused by microbends or modifications of the Bragg wavelength of fiber-optic Bragg grating sensors (FBGS) distributed in the fiber network that are ceased by loads. The optical sensor network is resistant to electromagnetic parasitic inductions. Due to the nature of the optical lass or polymer optical fibers it is for example possible to integrate the network into the textile cover of the seat or into a cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Richard Baur, Hans-Peter Huber, Eberhard Zeeb
  • Motor vehicle having an electric seat adjuster for a seat and method of using the same
    Patent number: 7159683
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has an electric seat adjuster for a seat and an occupant protection system with a belt assigned to the seat. In the buckled condition, the belt restrains an occupant in the event of a vehicle impact. The adjusting range of the seat adjuster changed as a function of the buckling condition of the belt. In preferred arrangements, the adjusting range is limited to a narrow adjusting range if the belt is not buckled and is limited to a wide adjusting range if the belt is buckled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Christian Reitter
  • Method and embossing die for producing a body structural part from a vault-structured sheet metal
    Publication number: 20070000298
    Abstract: A method and a tool are provided for producing structural parts from sheet metal which have a vault-structured stiffening zone and adjacent, flat connection zones. The starting point for producing these structural parts is vault-structured blanks which are smoothed in the region of the connection zones in the course of the forming, whereas the vault structure is retained unchanged in the region of the stiffening zone. These structural parts are produced by an embossing tool which has a die and a two-piece punch including of a fixing punch and a forming punch. In the process, the blank is first of all fixed relative to the fixing punch in the region of the vault-structured stiffening zone by a fixing element which is in a leading position with respect to the die. The connection zones are then shaped between the punch and the forming punch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Guenter Braun, Juergen Ehrenpfort, Daniela Frank, Martin Gruenbaum, Bernd Heim, Dieter Lange, Michael Schwabe
  • Method for checking the data integrity of software in control appliances
    Publication number: 20070005991
    Abstract: In checking the data integrity of software for transmission errors and authenticity during a download process, the flashed data is checked repeatedly. Such checking is configured in an efficient way by performing the calculation methods for checking for transmission errors and for checking for authenticity while the flashware is located in a buffer with a fast access time, so that lengthy access processes to the flash memory are avoided. It is therefore necessary to access the flash memory only once in order to buffer the flashware in a buffer with a fast access time for all the necessary checks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Heiko Kober, Jutta Schneider, Eva Weiser
  • Vehicle seat with back rest
    Patent number: 7156461
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a backrest which is mounted displaceably in the vehicle by a sliding block guide. In order to enable a vehicle seat of compact configuration to be easily fitted, the backrest has a locking mechanism which secures the backrest releasably in the sliding block guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Andreas Bolte, Jochen Diemer, Gerhard Flory, Thomas Geisel, Daniel Hippel, Thomas Weber
  • Load-bearing mounting reinforcement structure for vehicles
    Patent number: 7156449
    Abstract: A load-bearing reinforcement structure for assisting the secure mounting of a load producing element, such as a rear-view mirror assembly, to a vehicular body is advantageously fashioned from a heat and creep resistant plastic, such as glass-reinforced Polyethylene Terephthalate. The reinforcement structure features a mounting element capable of mechanically connecting the reinforcement structure to a surface of a vehicular body, such as an internal surface of a panel of a door assembly, without the need for welding, placement fixtures or use of separate fastening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Sandeep Vijaywargiya, Joseph V Rozenbaum, John A Radomski
  • Arrangement for utilizing the throttle energy of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7152393
    Abstract: In an arrangement for reducing exhaust emissions and utilizing the throttling energy of an internal combustion engine, a compressor and a generator are operatively connected to a turbine by which the intake air flow is controlled while transferring the throttling energy recuperated by the turbine to the compressor and the generator and, in the engine start-up phase, the compressor supplies fresh air to an engine air intake duct, the intake air flow volume being controlled by the energy withdrawn from the turbine via the compressor and the generator thus eliminating the need for a throttle valve in the fresh air intake line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG.
    Inventors: Thorsten Hergemöller, Armin Hürland, Andreas Juretzka, Hans-Georg Lehmann
  • Operating unit comprising at least one operating element
    Patent number: 7152414
    Abstract: The invention relates to an operator control unit having at least one operator control for setting a setpoint value, in particular a temperature, an air quantity and/or an air distribution, an automatic function being provided for the air quantity, air distribution and temperature which is activated by actuating the operator control. The invention provides that, by actuating the operator control for longer than an actuation time z, the setpoint values of functions which are controlled directly or indirectly by the air-conditioning unit are reset to the automatic state which is permanently set at the factory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Alexander Bogner, Christoph Dahm
  • Method for operating an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7152573
    Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine with exhaust gas purification system, a rich-burn mode of the internal combustion engine with a rich exhaust gas composition or a lean-burn mode of the internal combustion engine with a lean exhaust gas composition is set alternately, and the quantity of fuel which is introduced during a combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine is introduced by at least one preinjection, at least one main injection and at least one afterinjection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Oliver Abet, Gernot Hertweck, Thomas Muehleisen, Marco Stotz
  • Venting device for fuel tanks
    Patent number: 7152639
    Abstract: In a venting device for a fuel tank 1 of a motor vehicle having a filler neck and a venting valve, a circulation pipe is provided which, due to the suction jet effect when refueling circulates gas from the fuel tank back into the tank with the fuel so as to prevent an excessive inflow of fresh air, and which includes a venting pipe extending between venting valve 2 and a filter for discharging excess gases through a filter in order to prevent the escape of fuel vapors into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Barbara Aschoff, legal representative, Dorothee Aschoff, legal representative, Henning Aschoff, legal representative, Wolfgang Ludwig Winfried Aschoff, deceased
  • Lorry
    Publication number: 20060284448
    Abstract: A truck has a chassis comprises a frame and axles, and a driver's cab mounted on the vehicle chassis. The cab comprises equipment components, a cab floor and also a cab housing and operating elements connected to associated components of the vehicle chassis and serving to operate them. The driver's cab is detachably fastened to the vehicle chassis, and is designed as a removable unit. An interface arrangement is provided, by which all the operating elements of the driver's cab are connected separably to the associated components of the vehicle chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Harro Heilmann, Andreas Schwarzhaupt, Gernot Spiegelberg, Wolfgang Stahl, Armin Sulzmann
  • Porous burner having a flame barrier
    Publication number: 20060286498
    Abstract: A porous burner has a mixing space for premixing reducing agent and oxidizing agent, and an adjoining combustion space filled with a porous material. A flame barrier is arranged between the mixing space and the combustion space. The flame barrier is made from a porous material with a material porosity of less than 60%. This material has a density of at least 1300 kg/m3. The preferred use of a porous burner configured in this way lies in the combustion of hydrogen or hydrogen-rich gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Dimosthenis Trimis, Stefan Diezinger
  • Vehicle headlight
    Patent number: 7150552
    Abstract: The invention concerns a vehicle headlight, comprising a two-dimensional array (2) of a plurality of electronic light emitter elements (4), which are arranged for emitting a plurality of parallel light beams (6), a collection lens (8), which is provided one focal length away essentially parallel to the two-dimensional array and positioned for receiving the light emitted by the array, and a control electronic for the light emitter elements operatively associated for energizing the light emitter elements (4) individually or in groups. This results in a headlight with variable light emission characteristics, which is mechanically particularly simple to construct, is operationally reliable, and is rapid to react.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Edgar Weidel
  • Arrangement for handling the fuel supply in a common rail fuel injection system
    Patent number: 7150270
    Abstract: In an arrangement for handling the fuel in a common rail fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, wherein fuel is supplied from a tank via a fuel delivery line including a first fuel filter, a low-pressure pump arranged upstream from the first fuel filter and a high pressure pump arranged downstream of the first fuel filter to a high pressure fuel rail from which the fuel is distributed to the cylinder of the engine, a bypass line extends from the high pressure fuel rail to the fuel delivery line and includes a second fuel filter and a heat exchanger which is operatively connected to a cooling circuit of an air conditioning system or to a cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Michael Hoffmann, Magnus Korte, Ulrich Rieger
  • Wheel guide arrangement for a steered motor vehicle wheel
    Patent number: 7150462
    Abstract: In a wheel guide arrangement of a steered motor vehicle wheel which has control arms and a steering knuckle, and wherein the steering knuckle includes a reception structure for a wheel mount and also connecting areas for the mounting of stubs of ball joints connected to the wheel control arms, the connecting areas are disposed at different distances from the wheel axis and the ball joints are arranged between the connecting areas and the wheel axis of rotation, that is, above the connecting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Joachim Bortz, Andreas Gaupp, Wolfgang Mödinger
  • Device for improving the visibility conditions in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7151439
    Abstract: A device for improving the visibility conditions in a motor vehicle has a radiation source for infrared radiation for irradiating the surroundings of the vehicle, an infrared-sensitive camera for taking images of at least part of the irradiated surroundings, a display unit for displaying collected image data, and a control unit for controlling the device. The control unit is configured in such a way that the display is switched off after a predefined time period t has expired. This device ensures very safe operation for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Joerg Moisel, Michael Holz
  • Front face of a vehicle wheel
    Patent number: D533826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Armin Scheu
  • Automobile body
    Patent number: D534097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A Renkert, John P Sgalia, Dan M Zimmermann
  • Automobile body
    Patent number: D534458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A Renkert, John P Sgalia, Aaron D Pizzuti, Mark C Trostle
  • Surface configuration of a dashboard for a vehicle
    Patent number: D534467
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Peter Pfeiffer