Patents Assigned to Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
  • Patent number: 11920545
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has an intake manifold injection, at least two combustion chambers, at least one central rail for supplying fuel for the intake manifold injection, and at least one air distributor for supplying air to the individual combustion chambers. The central rail is attached to the air distributor, or the central rail and the air distributor are formed as an integral component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Bouzid Seba, Bakir Puran, Olivier Fragnière
  • Patent number: 11885284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine comprising at least one central rail which is in fluid communication with at least one primary fuel tank, characterized in that at least one auxiliary fuel pressure accumulator is provided, the internal volume of which is in communication with the central rail via at least one control valve in order to temporarily provide a simultaneous fuel supply to the central rail from the auxiliary fuel pressure accumulator and the primary fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Bouzid Seba, Bakir Puran
  • Patent number: 11828276
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjusting device for adjusting the swash plate of an axial piston machine comprising an adjusting piston, which is connected to the swash plate of the axial piston machine via an adjusting lever, and a regulator for adjusting the adjusting pressure acting on the adjusting piston in dependence on a control force acting on a control piston of the regulator, wherein the adjusting piston is connected to the control piston via a feedback spring. In accordance with the present disclosure the feedback spring is at least partly received in a pot-shaped recess of the control piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventor: Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Patent number: 11788494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for supplying a gaseous fuel that comprises a low temperature tank for receiving the fuel in its liquid aggregate state achieved by cooling and comprises a rail that is fluidically connected to at least one injector device for discharging gaseous fuel into a combustion space. The system is characterized in that it has a pressure store that is configured to receive gaseous fuel and that is fluidically connectable to both the low temperature tank and the rail to buffer fuel coming from the low temperature tank and to supply it to the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventors: Bouzid Seba, Ulrich Weiss
  • Patent number: 11717779
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol separator for separating aerosols in a blow-by gas, which comprises at least one feed opening for feeding a blow-by gas provided with aerosols, an outlet opening for discharging a blow-by gas cleaned of aerosols, at least one outflow opening for releasing aerosols removed from the blow-by gas, and which is arranged between a flow path of the at least one feed opening and the outlet opening, and a plurality of projections for configuring the flow path running from the at least one feed opening to the outflow opening in a meandering manner, in order to decelerate the blow-by gas which enters the feed opening and which is provided with aerosols, in terms of its flow rate. The separator is characterized in that the projections in their end region, around which blow-by gas flows, have a portion with increasing projection width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA, Deere & Company
    Inventors: Zhi Li, Domenico Palmisani, Kyle D. Redfern
  • Patent number: 11698021
    Abstract: The invention relates to an engine having prechamber ignition, in particular a gas engine, that comprises a main combustion space in a cylinder of the engine for combusting an air-fuel mixture and a prechamber having an ignition device arranged therein and a fuel injector arranged therein, wherein the prechamber has at least one transfer port that fluidically connects the prechamber to the main combustion space. The engine is characterized in that the fuel injector arranged in the prechamber is the only fuel injector via which fuel can be introduced into the associated main combustion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Bouzid Seba, Ulrich Weiss, Bakir Puran, Roberto Andreutti
  • Patent number: 11639691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supplying a gaseous fuel to an engine that comprises a gas accumulator for receiving highly pressurized gaseous fuel, a gas buffer for receiving medium pressurized gaseous fuel, a gas supply device for delivering a gaseous fuel into an engine combustion space, a first gas line that connects the gas accumulator to the gas buffer and whose gas flow can be regulated via a first valve, a second gas line that connects the gas accumulator to the gas buffer and whose gas flow can be regulated via a second valve, and a third gas line that connects the gas buffer to the gas supply device. The device is further characterized in that a compressor is arranged in the second gas line to increase a pressure of a gaseous fuel flowing from the gas accumulator to the gas buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Bakir Puran, Bouzid Seba, Ulrich Weiss
  • Patent number: 11428103
    Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston machine comprising a drive shaft, a driving gear non-rotatably connected thereto with one or more driving gear pistons accommodated therein, whose piston stroke is adjustable by a swash plate, wherein at least one return spring acts on the swash plate and at least one adjusting piston is supported on the swash plate via an adjusting lever, a first and/or second stop is provided for the adjusting piston to limit the swivel angle of the swash plate, wherein a first stop is formed by the bottom of the blind hole within the connecting plate and/or a second stop is formed by a flat protrusion of the housing in the vicinity of the blind hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventors: Didier Angeloz, Marko Del Aguila
  • Patent number: 11300038
    Abstract: The invention relates to an engine having prechamber ignition, in particular a gas engine, that comprises a main combustion space in a cylinder of the engine for combusting an air-fuel mixture and a prechamber having an ignition device arranged therein and a fuel injector arranged therein, wherein the prechamber has at least one transfer port that fluidically connects the prechamber to the main combustion space. The engine is characterized in that the fuel injector arranged in the prechamber is the only fuel injector via which fuel can be introduced into the associated main combustion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Bouzid Seba, Ulrich Weiss, Bakir Puran, Roberto Andreutti
  • Patent number: 11248514
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine comprising an engine block, which includes a plurality of cylinders, and cylinder heads closing the cylinders, wherein each cylinder is surrounded by a respective cooling liner and each cylinder head has provided therein at least one separate cooling chamber connected to the cooling liner of the associated cylinder via at least one transition channel, wherein the transition channels of at least two cylinders are interconnected via a pressure compensation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA, Deere & Company
    Inventors: Domenico Palmisani, Raghavendra Hedge, Zhi Li, Michael Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10988837
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for producing at least one component for a hydraulic displacement unit, wherein the method is characterized by the steps: prefabrication of a blank component for the at least one component, wherein at least one defined surface region of the blank component is fabricated intentionally with oversize, surface-hardening of the blank component, and final forming of the component from the hardened blank component by removal of the excessive material at the at least one defined surface region fabricated with oversize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Jose Bapst, Carsten Kollmeyer, Erwin Feusi, Gabriel Meckl
  • Patent number: 10960459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a drum of an axial piston machine by machining a cylindrical round metal, with the machining comprising a forging and with at least one structural element of the drum being produced or prefabricated by the forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventor: Lennard Geissler
  • Patent number: 10837467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic apparatus, in particular to a hydraulic valve or to a hydraulic regulator, having a housing, at least one piston axially displaceably supported in a housing bore, and a respective at least one compression spring acting on the at least one piston, wherein at least one externally accessible regulating screw is adjustable within the housing bore to set the preload of the compression spring in the axial direction, wherein the adjustment distance of the at least one regulating screw is divided into at least two adjustment ranges and the torque to be applied for the adjustment of the regulating screw is larger in a second adjustment range than in a first adjustment range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventors: Lennard Geissler, Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Patent number: 10662857
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine comprising an engine block, which includes a plurality of cylinders, and cylinder heads closing the cylinders, wherein each cylinder is surrounded by a respective cooling liner and each cylinder head has provided therein at least one separate cooling chamber connected to the cooling liner of the associated cylinder via at least one transition channel, wherein the transition channels of at least two cylinders are interconnected via a pressure compensation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA, Deere & Company
    Inventors: Domenico Palmisani, Raghavendra Hedge, Zhi Li, Michael Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10260412
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a four-stroke reciprocating piston engine in a V configuration having 20 cylinders, having a counter-clockwise direction of rotation, having an ignition timing control which fires the cylinders A1 to A10 and B1 to B10 in at least one of the following firing sequences, wherein the direction of rotation and the cylinder numbering are defined in accordance with DIN ISO 1204: a) A1-B3-A4-B9-A8-B5-A2-B1-A5-B4-A10-B8-A7-B2-A3-B6-A9-B10-A6-B7 b) A1-B3-A4-B9-A8-B6-A2-B1-A5-B4-A10-B8-A7-B2-A3-B5-A9-B10-A6-B7 c) A1-B2-A5-B8-A9-B4-A3-B1-A7-B6-A10-B9-A6-B3-A2-B7-A8-B10-A4-B5 d) A1-B2-A5-B8-A9-B4-A3-B1-A7-B5-A10-B9-A6-B3-A2-B7-A8-B10-A4-B6 e) A1-B2-A6-B8-A9-B4-A3-B1-A7-B6-A10-B9-A5-B3-A2-B7-A8-B10-A4-B5 f) A1-B2-A6-B8-A9-B4-A3-B1-A7-B5-A10-B9-A5-B3-A2-B7-A8-B10-A4-B6 g) A1-B3-A4-B9-A8-B5-A2-B1-A6-B4-A10-B8-A7-B2-A3-B6-A9-B10-A5-B7 h) A1-B3-A4-B9-A8-B6-A2-B1-A6-B4-A10-B8-A7-B2-A3-B5-A9-B10-A5-B7 i) A1-B2-A4-B8-A2-B6-A8-B10-A6-B7-A10-B9-A7-B3-A9-B5-A3-B1-A5-B4 j) A1-B4-A3-B9-A7-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventor: Christoph Henninger
  • Patent number: 10227912
    Abstract: A gas engine includes a mixing unit for mixing two gas components, which are fed to one or more combustion chambers of the gas engine, in particular for mixing fuel gas and charge air, as well as two compressors. By way of the compressors, the two gas components are separately compressed before the two gas components are fed to the mixing unit. Both compressors are driven by a turbine arranged in the exhaust gas system of the gas engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Machines Bulle SA
    Inventor: Thomas Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 10082074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a four-stroke reciprocating piston engine in a V configuration having 16 cylinders, having a counter-clockwise direction of rotation, having an ignition timing control which fires the cylinders A1 to A8 and B1 to B8 in one of the following firing sequences, wherein the direction of rotation and the cylinder numbering are defined in accordance with DIN ISO 1204: a) A1-B2-A5-B4-A7-B8-A3-A8-B5-A6-B7-A2-B3-A4-B1-B6 b) A1-B2-A5-A2-B3-A4-B1-A8-B5-A6-B7-B4-A7-B8-A3-B6 c) A1-B4-A3-B2-A7-B6-A5-B8-B3-A8-B7-A4-B5-A2-B1-A6 d) A1-B4-A3-B2-B5-A2-B1-A6-B3-A8-B7-A4-A7-B6-A5-B8 e) A1-B2-A6-B4-A8-A4-B1-A7-B6-A5-B8-A2-B3-B7-A3-B5 f) A1-B2-A6-B4-A8-B7-A3-A7-B6-A5-B8-A2-B3-A4-B1-B5 g) A1-B2-A6-A2-B3-A4-B1-A7-B6-A5-B8-B4-A8-B7-A3-B5 h) A1-B4-A3-B2-A8-B5-A6-B7-B3-A7-B8-A4-B6-A2-B1-A5 i) A1-B4-B8-A4-B6-A2-B1-A5-B3-A7-A3-B2-A8-B5-A6-B7 j) A1-B4-A3-B2-B6-A2-B1-A5-B3-A7-B8-A4-A8-B5-A6-B7 k) A1-B2-A6-B5-A8-A5-B1-A7-B6-A4-B8-A2-B3-B7-A3-B4 l) A1-B2-A6-B5-A8-B7-A3-A7-B6-A4-B8-A2-B3-A5-B1-B4
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Christoph Henninger, Iulian Vasile, Simon Heintz, Martin Stadelmann
  • Patent number: 9850842
    Abstract: A controller for a common-rail injection system includes a plurality of fuel injectors, a common fuel supply line for the fuel injectors, a high-pressure pump for supplying the common fuel supply line with fuel, and a pressure sensor for determining the pressure in the common fuel supply line. A determination unit evaluates data of the pressure sensor and, from the pressure drop caused by an injection in the common fuel supply line, determines the fuel quantity actually injected during this injection or a value derived therefrom. An adaption unit uses the results of the determination unit in order to adapt the actuation of the fuel injectors. The determination unit carries out at least one test injection, and the actually injected fuel quantity or a value derived therefrom is effected by way of the test injection or injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Konrad Christ, Francois Masson, Richard Pirkl
  • Patent number: D914061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Liebherr Machines Bulle SA
    Inventors: Marko Del Aguila, Didier Angeloz, Jonas Lorenz
  • Patent number: D923571
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventors: Marko Del Aguila, Didier Angeloz, Jonas Lorenz