Patents by Inventor Alfred Elsaesser
Alfred Elsaesser has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10300416Abstract: A liquid mist separation device for separating liquid from a gas flow may include a nozzle plate including at least one nozzle which is open at least in part and at least one baffle plate. The device may also include at least one valve element which, together with the nozzle plate, forms at least one variable nozzle. The at least one variable nozzle may be arranged fluidically parallel to the at least one nozzle. The nozzle plate and the at least one valve element may be arranged axially displaceable relative to each other. The nozzle plate and the at least one baffle plate may be disposed at a fixed distance with respect to one another. Opposite the at least one nozzle and the at least one variable nozzle a baffle plate may be arranged, which deflects the gas flow emerging from the respective nozzle and on which liquid droplets precipitate.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Armando Coelho, Alfred Elsaesser, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Patent number: 10280905Abstract: A pumping device may include a pump housing partially delimiting a working chamber, and a piston arranged therein, axially movable between first and second positions in which the working chamber has maximum and minimum volumes, respectively. The pumping device may include first and second fluid lines for introducing and discharging fluid to/from the working chamber, respectively. The first fluid line may be fluidically connected to the working chamber via a breakthrough formed in the pump housing at an end face of the working chamber opposite the piston, running transversely to the axial direction at least in the area of the breakthrough. The second fluid line may open obliquely into the working chamber in an area of the second position, relative to the axial direction in an end face delimiting the working chamber towards the first fluid line.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Helge Ladisch, Christian Maisch, Sascha Senjic
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Patent number: 10253662Abstract: A pump device may include a side channel compressor that may include a housing having a conveying chamber and a fluid inlet and outlet. The compressor may include an impeller having blades radially on an outside and which may be mounted rotatably in the housing, the blades lying in the conveying chamber, and a shaft mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation and on which the impeller may be fastened. The conveying chamber may have at least one side channel running in a region of the blades and connecting the fluid inlet and outlet to one another in a circumferential direction. An intermediate region may be formed in the circumferential direction between the fluid inlet and outlet and in which a distance of the blades in an axial direction to the nearest wall may be such that no more than a predetermined amount of fluid flows in the intermediate region.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Publication number: 20190070543Abstract: A liquid mist separation device for separating liquid from a gas flow may include a nozzle plate including at least one nozzle which is open at least in part and at least one baffle plate. The device may also include at least one valve element which, together with the nozzle plate, forms at least one variable nozzle. The at least one variable nozzle may be arranged fluidically parallel to the at least one nozzle. The nozzle plate and the at least one valve element may be arranged axially displaceable relative to each other. The nozzle plate and the at least one baffle plate may be disposed at a fixed distance with respect to one another. Opposite the at least one nozzle and the at least one variable nozzle a baffle plate may be arranged, which deflects the gas flow emerging from the respective nozzle and on which liquid droplets precipitate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Armando Coelho, Alfred Elsaesser, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Publication number: 20180128239Abstract: A pumping device may include a pump housing partially delimiting a working chamber, and a piston arranged therein, axially movable between first and second positions in which the working chamber has maximum and minimum volumes, respectively. The pumping device may include first and second fluid lines for introducing and discharging fluid to/from the working chamber, respectively. The first fluid line may be an annular fluid channel, fluidically connected to the working chamber via a breakthrough formed in the pump housing at an end face of the working chamber opposite the piston, running transversely to the axial direction at least in the area of the breakthrough. The second fluid line may open obliquely into the working chamber in an area of the second position, relative to the axial direction in an end face delimiting the working chamber towards the first fluid line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Ladisch Helge, Christian Maisch, Sascha Senjic
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Patent number: 9932869Abstract: A vehicle may include an internal combustion engine having a crankcase and a supercharging apparatus, and a crankcase ventilation apparatus having at least one oil-separating apparatus including at least one oil separator. An oil return line may communicate separated oil from the crankcase ventilation apparatus to the crankcase. An ejector pump may be driven via a compressed air flow of the supercharging apparatus and may be configured to generate an underpressure for driving a blow-by gas. The crankcase ventilation apparatus may include a pump control valve configured to at least one of regulate and control the compressed air flow through the ejector pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Dimitri An, Steve Beez, Armando Coelho, Alfred Elsaesser, Thomas Fallscheer, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Publication number: 20180030868Abstract: A pump device may include a side channel compressor that may include a housing having a conveying chamber and a fluid inlet and outlet. The compressor may include an impeller having blades radially on an outside and which may be mounted rotatably in the housing, the blades lying in the conveying chamber, and a shaft mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation and on which the impeller may be fastened. The conveying chamber may have at least one side channel running in a region of the blades and connecting the fluid inlet and outlet to one another in a circumferential direction. An intermediate region may be formed in the circumferential direction between the fluid inlet and outlet and in which a distance of the blades in an axial direction to the nearest wall may be such that no more than a predetermined amount of fluid flows in the intermediate region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Publication number: 20170298911Abstract: A pumping device may include a pump housing partially delimiting a working chamber, and a piston arranged therein, axially movable between first and second positions in which the working chamber has maximum and minimum volumes, respectively. The pumping device may include first and second fluid lines for introducing and discharging fluid to/from the working chamber, respectively. The first fluid line may be fluidically connected to the working chamber via a breakthrough formed in the pump housing at an end face of the working chamber opposite the piston, running transversely to the axial direction at least in the area of the breakthrough. The second fluid line may open obliquely into the working chamber in an area of the second position, relative to the axial direction in an end face delimiting the working chamber towards the first fluid line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Helge Ladisch, Christian Maisch, Sascha Senjic
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Patent number: 9771937Abstract: A spiral compressor may include a stationary first spiral member and an orbiting second spiral member intermeshing with the first spiral member. The spiral compressor may include a pendulum slide mechanism that may have an inner ring and a stationary outer ring connected to the inner ring via a plurality of pendulums. The pendulum slide mechanism may include an eccentric member disposed on a radial inside of the inner ring with respect to a central access of the inner ring. The inner ring on an inner circumferential side may be drivingly connected to the eccentric member and on an outer circumferential side may be rigidly connected to the second spiral member. The second spiral member may transmit an orbiting motion in relation to the first spiral member via the pendulum slide mechanism when the eccentric member is driven.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Steve Beez, Marius Dusik, Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Sebastian Ewert, Achim Gommel, Karl-Heinz Hanslik, Ian Jago, Volker Kirschner, Ottokar Kunberger, Ian Reynolds, Thomas Schmidt, Sascha Senjic, Hans C. Uibeleisen, Cihan Yilmaz
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Patent number: 9666913Abstract: A heat transfer device for a motor vehicle may include a pump and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have a first inlet and a first outlet for a refrigerant, and a second inlet and a second outlet for a coolant. The pump and the heat exchanger may be mounted to each other forming a common assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: Mahle International GmbH, Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Achim Gommel, Martin Helmis, Michael Krappel, Bernd Schaefer, Markus Wesner
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Patent number: 9528395Abstract: A heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine may include a heat exchanger, through which a fluid heat-transfer medium flows, for transferring heat from an exhaust gas system to the heat-transfer medium. A heat engine, through which the heat-transfer medium flows, may be included for converting the heat transferred to the heat-transfer medium into mechanical output work. A cyclically closed line system may be included for connecting the heat exchanger to the heat engine. The system may include a positive displacement pump for conveying the heat-transfer medium through the line system in a predefined flow direction via mechanical drive work. The system may include a drive, which is hermetically sealed off from the heat-transfer medium, for feeding the drive work to the positive displacement pump, and an output, which is hermetically sealed off from the heat-transfer medium, for discharging the output work from the heat engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Christian Maisch, Rolf Mueller, Peter Wieske
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Patent number: 9447704Abstract: A heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine may include a heat transfer device flowed through by a fluidic heat carrier for transferring the heat from a combustion exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine to the heat carrier, a heat power machine flowed through by the heat carrier for converting the heat transferred to the heat carrier into mechanical work, a substantially cyclically closed duct system for connecting the heat transfer device with the heat power machine, at least one displacement pump for conveying the heat carrier through the duct system in a predetermined flow direction, and a pump drive for driving the displacement pump. A reduced wear may result when the heat recovery system is supplemented by an impermeable separating membrane for the fluid-tight separation of the heat carrier from the pump drive.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Christian Maisch, Sascha Senjic
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Patent number: 9366259Abstract: An electric fluid pump may include a wet section having a pump wheel and a permanently excited rotor of an electric motor arranged therein. The electric fluid pump may include a dry section having a stator of the electric motor arranged therein. A containment shell may be included configured to separate the wet section from the dry section. The dry section may include control electronics for controlling the fluid pump. The control electronics may connect in a heat-transferring manner to the containment shell and the wet section via the containment shell.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Tobias Binder, Markus Cramme, Alfred Elsaesser, Oliver Fritz, Achim Gommel, Michael Krappel, Stephan Weber
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Publication number: 20160138442Abstract: A vehicle may include an internal combustion engine having a crankcase and a supercharging apparatus, and a crankcase ventilation apparatus having at least one oil-separating apparatus including at least one oil separator. An oil return line may communicate separated oil from the crankcase ventilation apparatus to the crankcase. An ejector pump may be driven via a compressed air flow of the supercharging apparatus and may be configured to generate an underpressure for driving a blow-by gas. The crankcase ventilation apparatus may include a pump control valve configured to at least one of regulate and control the compressed air flow through the ejector pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Dimitri An, Steve Beez, Armando Coelho, Alfred Elsaesser, Thomas Fallscheer, Volker Kirschner, Thomas Riemay, Stefan Ruppel
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Publication number: 20150369243Abstract: A spiral compressor may include a stationary first spiral member and an orbiting second spiral member intermeshing with the first spiral member. The spiral compressor may include a pendulum slide mechanism that may have an inner ring and a stationary outer ring connected to the inner ring via a plurality of pendulums. The pendulum slide mechanism may include an eccentric member disposed on a radial inside of the inner ring with respect to a central access of the inner ring. The inner ring on an inner circumferential side may be drivingly connected to the eccentric member and on an outer circumferential side may be rigidly connected to the second spiral member. The second spiral member may transmit an orbiting motion in relation to the first spiral member via the pendulum slide mechanism when the eccentric member is driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Steve Beez, Marius Dusik, Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Sebastian Ewert, Achim Gommel, Karl-Heinz Hanslik, Ian Jago, Volker Kirschner, Ottokar Kunberger, Ian Reynolds, Thomas Schmidt, Sascha Senjic, Hans C. Uibeleisen, Cihan Yilmaz
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Publication number: 20150013334Abstract: A heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine may include a heat exchanger, through which a fluid heat-transfer medium flows, for transferring heat from an exhaust gas system to the heat-transfer medium. A heat engine, through which the heat-transfer medium flows, may be included for converting the heat transferred to the heat-transfer medium into mechanical output work. A cyclically closed line system may be included for connecting the heat exchanger to the heat engine. The system may include a positive displacement pump for conveying the heat-transfer medium through the line system in a predefined flow direction via mechanical drive work. The system may include a drive, which is hermetically sealed off from the heat-transfer medium, for feeding the drive work to the positive displacement pump, and an output, which is hermetically sealed off from the heat-transfer medium, for discharging the output work from the heat engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Christian Maisch, Rolf Mueller, Peter Wieske
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Publication number: 20150013333Abstract: A heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine may include a heat transfer device flowed through by a fluidic heat carrier for transferring the heat from a combustion exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine to the heat carrier, a heat power machine flowed through by the heat carrier for converting the heat transferred to the heat carrier into mechanical work, a substantially cyclically closed duct system for connecting the heat transfer device with the heat power machine, at least one displacement pump for conveying the heat carrier through the duct system in a predetermined flow direction, and a pump drive for driving the displacement pump. A reduced wear may result when the heat recovery system is supplemented by an impermeable separating membrane for the fluid-tight separation of the heat carrier from the pump drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Jochen Eggler, Alfred Elsaesser, Christian Maisch, Sascha Senjic
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Publication number: 20140205881Abstract: A heat transfer device for a motor vehicle may include a pump and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have a first inlet and a first outlet for a refrigerant, and a second inlet and a second outlet for a coolant. The pump and the heat exchanger may be mounted to each other forming a common assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: Behr GmbH & Co., KG, Mahle International GmbHInventors: Alfred Elsaesser, Achim Gommel, Martin Helmis, Michael Krappel, Bernd Schaefer, Markus Wesner
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Publication number: 20140161630Abstract: An electric fluid pump may include a wet section having a pump wheel and a permanently excited rotor of an electric motor arranged therein. The electric fluid pump may include a dry section having a stator of the electric motor arranged therein. A containment shell may be included configured to separate the wet section from the dry section. The dry section may include control electronics for controlling the fluid pump. The control electronics may connect in a heat-transferring manner to the containment shell and the wet section via the containment shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Tobias Binder, Markus Cramme, Alfred Elsaesser, Oliver Fritz, Achim Gommel, Michael Krappel, Stephan Weber