Patents Assigned to Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 9863327
    Abstract: An intake device is provide for drawing in fresh gas and feeding the same to an internal combustion engine with internal combustion, wherein the intake device is suited for the formation of a fresh gas vortex in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The intake device includes a first manifold section, from which all first parts of fresh gas line groups branch off to a fresh gas outlet end, and a second manifold section, from which all second parts of the fresh gas line groups branch off to the fresh gas outlet end, which are fluidically separated from each other from the separation point to the fresh gas outlet end. A vortex throttle assembly is provided in a first manifold section and the amount throttle device is provided in the second manifold section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Claudio Fauni
  • Patent number: 9810138
    Abstract: An air control system with an integrated diagnostic device for a motor vehicle includes: a carrier structure, an air output opening, a closing element arrangement with one or several closing elements adjustably placed on the carrier structure, a power unit which is constructed to adjust the closing element arrangement in an adjustment movement, a diagnostic device to acquire information about the condition of the closing element arrangement, an interface to convey data at least from the diagnostic device to another device, wherein for at least one closing element of the closing element arrangement the air control system also includes a resistance element associated with said closing element which is constructed to temporarily change the torque or force required in a predetermined phase of the adjustment movement for the adjustment of the closing element arrangement, wherein the diagnostic device acquires at least one operating parameter of the power unit as information about the status of the closing element
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Domenico Solazzo
  • Publication number: 20170254246
    Abstract: A heating device (10) for a motor vehicle operating fluid tank, in particular for storing aqueous urea solution, wherein the heating device (10) has two electrical conductors (12, 14), an element (16) made from PTC plastic, which is electrically arranged between the two electrical conductors (12, 14) and is in electrical contact with the two electrical conductors (12, 14), and a shell (18, 20), which protects the electrical conductors and the PTC plastic element (16) from the outside environment (22) at least in some sections, which is characterized in that at least one electrical conductor (12, 14) is made at least in some sections from a metal foil (12, 14), in particular aluminum foil, and that the shell (18, 20) is an insulating surface, in particular a plastic film (18, 20) that is preferably bonded to the metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170254594
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) for arrangement inside a service-liquid tank (12), in particular inside a motor-vehicle service-liquid tank (12), comprising: a heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) for receiving a supply of liquid (22), an electric heating device (20) which is constructed and arranged for the transfer of heat into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14), and a heat-exchanger line (24) which originates at least from the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) and which is designed for the transfer of heat from the liquid flowing in the heat-exchanger line (24) to an area (26) outside the heat-exchanger line (24), characterized in that the heat-exchanger line (24), as a circulation line, discharges into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170257911
    Abstract: An electrical heating device (14) for an operating fluid tank (10) of a motor vehicle, in particular for a tank (10) for storing aqueous urea solution, having at least one PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44), that is disposed connecting two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), characterized in that the electrical heating device (14) comprises a multitude of PTC elements (34, 36, 28, 40, 42, 44), of which each is connectively arranged to two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), wherein at least one of the electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29) is configured as a laminar conductor component and forms a heat conductor for transferring the heat produced in the PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44) to a volume portion of the outside environment (18) of the electrical heating device (14), which is adjacent to the electrical heating device (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170254247
    Abstract: Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170234190
    Abstract: SCR tank (10) for motor vehicles for storing and dispensing aqueous urea solution, comprising a tank shell (16) enclosing a tank volume (18) having fluid delivery opening (20) and a fluid removal opening (in 28), wherein the SCR tank (10) further has a ventilation line (30), through which a gas exchange is made possible between a gas-filled region of the tank volume (18) during operation of the tank and the outer atmosphere of the SCR tank (10), wherein the tank shell (16) toward this end has a gas opening (38), at which the ventilation line (30) terminates or which is penetrated by the ventilation line (30), which is characterized in that in a joint section (52) a ventilation line component (32) contributing to formation of the ventilation line (30) is joined in a materially-bonded manner to a joint surface section (36) of the tank shell (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter KERSCHBAUMER, Veit GUFLER
  • Publication number: 20170191403
    Abstract: A device for convective cooling of a functional assembly for a motor vehicle includes a fan, which in operation, is designed to move air along a flow axis defined by the design and placement of the fan. A flapper valve device is provided having an air transit opening and a flapper valve assembly disposed therein, with at least one flapper valve provided to change the open-flow cross section of the air transit opening and being adjustable between a closed position and an open position. A control unit is provided. The fan and the flapper valve device are arranged at a distance from each other such that air moved due to operation of the fan then flows through the air transit opening at least when the flapper valve device is in the open position. The control unit is designed to detect at least one operating parameter of the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Domenico SOLAZZO
  • Publication number: 20170163186
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor, a pump motor for pumping an operating fluid, for example, an aqueous urea solution, in a vehicle. The method includes applying an electric drive voltage to the electric motor according to a prescribed drive voltage curve in order to drive a rotor of the electric motor to rotate through a prescribed angle of rotation, detecting a response behavior of the electric motor, and determining the state of the electric motor based on the results determined in step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca MARINI, Stefano Dalpez
  • Publication number: 20170151985
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel air gap for a motor vehicle of which according to the invention at least one section of the wheel air gap open air comprises a sound-absorbing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Pfaffelhuber
  • Patent number: 9662963
    Abstract: An air damper device for a motor vehicle, comprising a device mount which defines a passage opening and on which at least one air damper extending along an air damper longitudinal axis is displaceably mounted in the region of at least one of its longitudinal ends as a mounting longitudinal end relative to the device mount, an opening cross-sectional area of the passage opening being alterable by displacement of the at least one air damper relative to the device mount, the mounting of the mounting longitudinal end of the air damper comprising a mounting component that has a mounting portion mounted on the device mount so as to be movable relative thereto in the fully assembled state of the air damper device and has a connection portion provided at an axial spacing thereto and connects the mounting portion to the air damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Juergen Schneider
  • Patent number: 9662855
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-layered structural component (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, preferably a floor component for a motor vehicle, comprising at least two fiber layers (14) which each include a fiber material and a thermoplastic binder and are arranged one above the other in a stacking direction (S), and at least one metal layer (12) having a thickness (d) of at most 1 mm which is arranged between the two fiber layers (14), wherein the fiber layers (14) each have, at least in certain regions, a porosity of at least 75%, and wherein the structural component (10) comprises at least three metal layers (12) which are arranged one above the other in a stacking direction (S) and each have a thickness (d) of at most 1 mm, with each of the two fiber layers (14) being arranged between two metal layers (12) that are adjacent to one another in the stacking direction (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Pfaffelhuber, Christian Arlt
  • Publication number: 20170137073
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a front spoiler with at least one spoiler lip made available in a front area of the vehicle and a spoiler lip drive by means of which the at least one spoiler lip may be displaced such that the aerodynamic properties of the vehicle can be changed in the front area by displacement of the at least one spoiler lip, wherein the spoiler lip drive of the at least one spoiler lip is electro-mechanical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ludwig Huber, Andreas Schmitt, Peter Dill
  • Publication number: 20170106742
    Abstract: A tank filler tube includes a fill tube line which features, in the tank assembled state, an inlet end further from the tank, which is designed for temporary insertion of the fill nozzle into a closer-to-the-tank insertion region of the fill tube line, and with a closer-to-the-tank transit line end in the tank assembled state, which is designed for transit of liquid in a direction of the liquid transit line leading away from the inlet end, wherein the fill tube line is of multi-part design. At least one part of the ventilation line is for venting the gas displaced during a filling of a tank into the atmosphere. The fill tube line section featuring the transit line end extends into the insertion region further from the tank and is designed to accommodate at least one outlet end of a fill nozzle during a filling of a tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matteo D'AMATO, Andi RADU IONUT
  • Patent number: 9625077
    Abstract: A fluid line assembly, preferably for charge air to be supplied to an internal combustion engine, comprising a fluid conduit extending along a longitudinal axis which defines an axial direction for the passage of a fluid and comprising a sound attenuation assembly received in an axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit which comprises at least two piping components, said sound attenuation assembly at least contributing to an attenuation of sound propagated in the fluid. The invention provides that the connection of the at least two piping components of the axial receiving portion with one another, and the connection of the sound attenuation assembly with the axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit is free of adhesive and melted connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marco Barbolini, Dieter Kerschbaumer, Christian Platzgummer
  • Publication number: 20170088064
    Abstract: A vehicle floor arrangement comprises a vehicle floor as well as a sound insulating arrangement covering at least in part, preferentially entirely, the vehicle floor, wherein the sound insulating arrangement at least in sections, preferentially entirely, comprises a sound insulating component formed at least in sections, preferentially entirely, of a thermoplastically bonded fiber structure that is in part, preferentially entirely porous, as well as a second sound insulating component configured separately from the first sound insulating component, which second insulating component is arranged between the first sound insulating component and the vehicle floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus PFAFFELHUBER
  • Publication number: 20170074257
    Abstract: A tank for motor vehicle includes a tank wall, a fill opening, an outlet opening, a plurality of functional components, and a plurality of attachment formations. The tank wall forms an outermost casing of the tank. The fill opening passes through the tank wall for inlet of operating fluid into the tank. The outlet opening passes through the tank wall for outlet of the operating fluid. The plurality of functional components are designed for pumping and/or for cleaning and/or for detecting a property and/or for changing a property of the operating fluid. The plurality of attachment formations are designed as being integral with the tank wall for positioning of a plurality of functional components on the tank wall. The functional components are disposed on segments of the tank wall, which are arranged at an incline to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Mirco BRUSCO
  • Patent number: 9539776
    Abstract: A filling connector (10) for filling a liquid container comprises a liquid pipeline (12), for conveying liquid from a liquid inlet end (16) portion having a liquid inlet opening (14) to a liquid outlet end portion (20) having a liquid outlet opening (18), and further comprises a gas pipeline (22), for conveying gas in the opposite flow direction while liquid is conveyed through the liquid pipeline (12), from a gas inlet end portion (26) having a gas inlet opening (24) to a gas outlet end portion (30) having a gas outlet opening (28), the liquid pipeline (12) and the gas pipeline (22) being formed integrally with one another and the filling connector (10) being formed as an injection-molded part, the gas pipeline (22) being manufactured using injection technology, such as fluid injection technology, in particular water injection technology, particularly preferably gas injection technology or projectile injection technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Mirco Brusco
  • Publication number: 20160368539
    Abstract: A multilayered structural component includes a structural component-base arrangement with at least one fiber layer made from a fiber layer material having a fiber reinforcement structure bonded with a thermoplastic binder, as well as at least one barrier film layer made from a plastic-based barrier film material. The at least one fiber layer and the at least one barrier film layer are arranged in a stacking direction, one above the other. The barrier film layer material comprises combustibility-reducing means such that the structural component with the barrier film layer has combustibility not greater than the structural component without the barrier film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Alexander SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20160361996
    Abstract: On a liquid tank (10) for motor vehicles a relief structure (40) facing the tank volume (32) is at least sectionally provided on an inner side (30a) facing the tank volume (32). The relief structure (40) is inventively as configured one-piece with the tank wall (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph GANTHALER, Walter KRAL