Patents Assigned to Ford-Werke GmbH
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Patent number: 11840412Abstract: A handling system includes a gravity feed rack, a pick-up rack, a front retaining element, and a rear retaining element. The gravity feed rack includes a retaining mechanism having an axially rotatably mounted shaft. The front retaining element is connected to the shaft. The front retaining element is moveable to a first retaining position to inhibit movement of a first load carrier. The rear retaining element is connected to the shaft and moveable to a second retaining position to inhibit movement of a second load carrier. When the gravity feed rack and the pick-up rack are brought together, at least one contact surface of a deflection element is configured to cooperate with the engagement element in order to rotate the shaft counter to a restoring force causing the front retaining element to move from the first retaining position and the rear retaining element to move to the second retaining position.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Ford-Werke GmbHInventors: Andre Dederichs, Andreas Hartwig
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Publication number: 20220089387Abstract: A handling system includes a gravity feed rack, a pick-up rack, a front retaining element, and a rear retaining element. The gravity feed rack includes a retaining mechanism having an axially rotatably mounted shaft. The front retaining element is connected to the shaft. The front retaining element is moveable to a first retaining position to inhibit movement of a first load carrier. The rear retaining element is connected to the shaft and moveable to a second retaining position to inhibit movement of a second load carrier. When the gravity feed rack and the pick-up rack are brought together, at least one contact surface of a deflection element is configured to cooperate with the engagement element in order to rotate the shaft counter to a restoring force causing the front retaining element to move from the first retaining position and the rear retaining element to move to the second retaining position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Ford-Werke GmbHInventors: Andre Dederichs, Andreas Hartwig
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Patent number: 10871111Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel with an inlet and an outlet, a control element, an exhaust gas recirculation channel with an opening, a recirculation channel, and a shaft having the control element eccentrically mounted thereon. The exhaust gas recirculation channel enters the intake channel. The opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel is a valve seat for the control element. The shaft acts as an axis of rotation for the control element. A rotation of the shaft moves the control element between a first end position where the control element throttles the intake channel and a second end position where the control element contacts the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel. The axis of rotation is arranged in a plane which passes through the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Patrick Sutty, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
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Patent number: 10851739Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel, an exhaust gas recirculation channel which enters into the intake channel, a control element, a mixing housing which forms the intake channel, a connection element, a compressor, and a shaft. The mixing housing has a mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in a lower area, an outlet, a mixing housing section, and a bowl-shaped recess. The cross-sectional extension is formed via the mixing housing to provide an axial stop face. The connection element abuts against the axial stop face and is radially limited by an axially opposite inner wall surface on the stop face. The mixing housing section has a recess arranged at the lowest point of the mixing housing section and below the axially opposite inner wall surface. The recess enters into the bowl-shaped recess of the mixing housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Christian Vigild
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Patent number: 10808654Abstract: An intake system for an internal combustion engine includes a suction duct with a lateral bulge, an exhaust gas recirculation duct with a port into the suction duct, and a crankcase breather duct which extends into the lateral bulge in the suction duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske
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Patent number: 10767570Abstract: A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes a housing in which is formed an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the second surface so that an exhaust gas flow flows into the intake pipe when the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is opened. In a first end position of the regulating element, where the intake pipe is at throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, where the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs
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Publication number: 20200141365Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel, an exhaust gas recirculation channel which enters into the intake channel, a control element, a mixing housing which forms the intake channel, a connection element, a compressor, and a shaft. The mixing housing has a mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in a lower area, an outlet, a mixing housing section, and a bowl-shaped recess. The cross-sectional extension is formed via the mixing housing to provide an axial stop face. The connection element abuts against the axial stop face and is radially limited by an axially opposite inner wall surface on the stop face. The mixing housing section has a recess arranged at the lowest point of the mixing housing section and below the axially opposite inner wall surface. The recess enters into the bowl-shaped recess of the mixing housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicants: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: DIRK VIERKOTTEN, MAXIMILIAN FLENDER, ANDREAS KUSKE, FRANZ ARND SOMMERHOFF, JOERG KEMMERLING, VANCO SMILJANOVSKI, HELMUT KINDL, HANNO FRIEDERICHS, CHRISTIAN VIGILD
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Publication number: 20200131998Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel with an inlet and an outlet, a control element, an exhaust gas recirculation channel with an opening, a recirculation channel, and a shaft having the control element eccentrically mounted thereon. The exhaust gas recirculation channel enters the intake channel. The opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel is a valve seat for the control element. The shaft acts as an axis of rotation for the control element. A rotation of the shaft moves the control element between a first end position where the control element throttles the intake channel and a second end position where the control element contacts the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel. The axis of rotation is arranged in a plane which passes through the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: DIRK VIERKOTTEN, PATRICK SUTTY, CHRISTIAN VIGILD, ANDREAS KUSKE, FRANZ ARND SOMMERHOFF, JOERG KEMMERLING, VANCO SMILJANOVSKI, HELMUT KINDL, HANNO FRIEDERICHS
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Patent number: 10618145Abstract: A pressing device for pressing a first component, such as a roof panel, onto an additional component, such as one or more a vehicle side bodywork components or vehicle side bodywork supports. A hose is arranged in a housing and is filled with a fluid to selectively press the first component onto the additional component to facilitate a laser brazing operation by closing a gap between the first component and the additional component. A T-shaped pressure element is arranged in the housing and is moved relative to the housing by controlling the pressure of the fluid supplied to the hose.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: FORD-WERKE GmbHInventor: Michael Waters
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Patent number: 10605323Abstract: An elastomer bearing has an inner part, an outer sleeve that surrounds the inner part, and an elastomer body that is arranged between the inner part and the outer sleeve. The elastomer body extends from the inner part as far as the outer sleeve. The elastomer body comprises two liquid chambers, which are filled with a liquid and arranged one on top of the other in an axial direction, and a duct carrier arranged radially between the elastomer body and the outer sleeve. The duct carrier surrounds the elastomer body in a region of the liquid chambers and bounds the chambers. The elastomer body is vulcanized to the inner part. To reinforce the elastomer body, two, annular reinforcement inlays are embedded in the elastomer body, and form parts, separate from one another, of a cage that is embedded in the elastomer body.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignees: Ford-Werke GmbH, Boge Elastmetall GmbHInventors: Frank Wittbracht, Josef Burwinkel, Stefan Loheide, Achim Lordick, Thomas Schmitz, Marc Mendel
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Patent number: 10590863Abstract: A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe which are both formed in a housing, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The shaft is arranged perpendicular to a center line of the intake pipe and the exhaust gas recirculation pipe. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the first surface. In a first end position of the regulating element, in which the intake pipe is at least throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, in which the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Kindl, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs
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Publication number: 20190040928Abstract: An elastomer bearing has an inner part, an outer sleeve that surrounds the inner part, and an elastomer body that is arranged between the inner part and the outer sleeve. The elastomer body extends from the inner part as far as the outer sleeve. The elastomer body comprises two liquid chambers, which are filled with a liquid and arranged one on top of the other in an axial direction, and a duct carrier arranged radially between the elastomer body and the outer sleeve. The duct carrier surrounds the elastomer body in a region of the liquid chambers and bounds the chambers. The elastomer body is vulcanized to the inner part. To reinforce the elastomer body, two, annular reinforcement inlays are embedded in the elastomer body, and form parts, separate from one another, of a cage that is embedded in the elastomer body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicants: BOGE ELASTMETALL GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Frank WITTBRACHT, Josef BURWINKEL, Stefan LOHEIDE, Achim LORDICK, Thomas SCHMITZ, Marc MENDEL
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Publication number: 20190003401Abstract: A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes a housing in which is formed an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the second surface so that an exhaust gas flow flows into the intake pipe when the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is opened. In a first end position of the regulating element, where the intake pipe is at throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, where the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicants: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: DIRK VIERKOTTEN, MAXIMILIAN FLENDER, CHRISTIAN VIGILD, ANDREAS KUSKE, FRANZ ARND SOMMERHOFF, JOERG KEMMERLING, HELMUT KINDL, VANCO SMILJANOVSKI, HANNO FRIEDERICHS
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Publication number: 20190003402Abstract: A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe which are both formed in a housing, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The shaft is arranged perpendicular to a center line of the intake pipe and the exhaust gas recirculation pipe. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the first surface. In a first end position of the regulating element, in which the intake pipe is at least throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, in which the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicants: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: DIRK VIERKOTTEN, MAXIMILIAN FLENDER, CHRISTIAN VIGILD, ANDREAS KUSKE, FRANZ ARND SOMMERHOFF, HELMUT KINDL, JOERG KEMMERLING, VANCO SMILJANOVSKI, HANNO FRIEDERICHS
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Publication number: 20180347519Abstract: An intake system for an internal combustion engine includes a suction duct with a lateral bulge, an exhaust gas recirculation duct with a port into the suction duct, and a crankcase breather duct which extends into the lateral bulge in the suction duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: DIRK VIERKOTTEN, MAXIMILIAN FLENDER, CHRISTIAN VIGILD, ANDREAS KUSKE
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Publication number: 20180117739Abstract: A pressing device for pressing a first component, such as a roof panel, onto an additional component, such as one or more a vehicle side bodywork components or vehicle side bodywork supports. A hose is arranged in a housing and is filled with a fluid to selectively press the first component onto the additional component to facilitate a laser brazing operation by closing a gap between the first component and the additional component. A T-shaped pressure element is arranged in the housing and is moved relative to the housing by controlling the pressure of the fluid supplied to the hose.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: FORD-WERKE GmbHInventor: Michael WATERS
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Patent number: 9919728Abstract: A shaft comprises two parts. One of these two parts is tube-shaped, and the other is pushed into the tube-shaped part along a main axis. The two parts are fixed to each other for rotation about the main axis and connected to each other in a gliding way along the main axis, by a spline provided between the two parts. One of the two parts comprises a plurality of elongated teeth which are parallel to the main axis and whose cross-sections decrease from the first part towards the second part. Intermediate spaces between neighboring teeth are at least as broad as the teeth. The other of the two parts, at its circumference facing the first part, is made of plastically deformable plastic material, and a counter-profile into which the teeth engage is pressed in the plastic material by intrusion of the teeth during assembly of the two parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Markus Braun, Joachim Heidel
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Patent number: 9783875Abstract: The invention relates to a cast iron material with lamellar graphite formation. It further relates to a motor vehicle part made of the cast iron material. In order to create a ferritic cast iron material having a higher thermal conductivity, it is proposed according to the invention that, in addition to Fe, the cast iron material contains 3.9 to 4.2 wt. % C, 0.3 to 0.9 wt. % Si and 2.0 to 7 wt. % Al. It has been demonstrated within the scope of the invention that not only the thermal conductivity but also the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the material are increased in comparison to known cast iron materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: Ford-Werke GmbH, Neue Halberg-Guss GmbHInventors: Uemit Ursavas, Matthias Warkentin, Maik Broda, Dirk Radebach, Frank Ungerbuehler, Christoph Michels
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Publication number: 20140377122Abstract: The invention relates to a cast iron material with lamellar graphite formation. It further relates to a motor vehicle part made of the cast iron material. In order to create a ferritic cast iron material having a higher thermal conductivity, it is proposed according to the invention that, in addition to Fe, the cast iron material contains 3.9 to 4.2 wt. % C, 0.3 to 0.9 wt. % Si and 2.0 to 7 wt. % Al. It has been demonstrated within the scope of the invention that not only the thermal conductivity but also the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the material are increased in comparison to known cast iron materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicants: FORD-WERKE GMBH, Neue Halberg-Guss GmbHInventors: Uemit Ursavas, Matthias Warkentin, Maik Broda, Dirk Radebach, Frank Ungerbuehler, Christoph Michels
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Patent number: 8733485Abstract: A front module for a motor vehicle includes two longitudinal members arranged one on either side, a bumper sitting in front of the two longitudinal members and connected to front ends of the longitudinal members with the interconnection of a respective deformation element, and a radiator frame arranged between the longitudinal members and supporting the cooling assembly. In a collision, the bumper, after the deformation of the deformation element, comes to bear against the radiator frame, wherein the radiator frame can then be displaced for a limited distance to the rear in the direction of the passenger compartment. After displacement or deformation of the radiator frame, the bumper (1) comes to bear against at least one point of the cooling assembly (5) in order to displace the latter to the rear in the direction of the passenger compartment.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Ford-Werke GmbHInventors: Joergen Hilmann, Bert Niessen, Bernd Linden