Patents by Inventor Andreas Doring

Andreas Doring 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).

  • Publication number: 20160160769
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a vehicle, in particular a watercraft, with at least one combustion engine that emits pollutants contained in an exhaust gas or wastewater. The current position of the vehicle is determined by a location determination. A closed-loop and/or open-loop control device is provided which sets or adjusts the quantity of at least one pollutant emitted by the combustion engine in a self-acting manner or automatically, in accordance with the determined position of the vehicle and with information on local pollutant regulations, in particular exhaust and/or water regulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Publication number: 20160160774
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a motor and an exhaust gas aftertreatment system having an exhaust gas aftertreatment component, wherein exhaust gas formed in the motor during combustion of fuel is guided via the exhaust gas aftertreatment system for cleaning, includes: determining an exhaust gas actual value that depends upon an actual value of a nitrogen dioxide fraction in the exhaust gas upstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment component; and changing at least one operating parameter for the motor such that the actual value of the nitrogen dioxide fraction is brought closer to a corresponding reference value for the nitrogen dioxide fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas DÖRING, Markus BAUER
  • Publication number: 20150285114
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment system for an internal combustion engine, with a particle filter arranged downstream of an internal combustion engine for filtering soot out of the exhaust gas, and with an oxidation catalytic converter arranged upstream of the particle filter and downstream of the internal combustion engine for the oxidation of SO2 into SO3. The SO3 and/or precipitated H2SO4 serves for the oxidation of soot in the particle filter and thus for the regeneration of the particle filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventor: Andreas DÖRING
  • Publication number: 20150068195
    Abstract: An exhaust gas retreatment system of an internal combustion engine includes a particle filter; and a sensor positioned, in a flow direction of the exhaust gas, downstream of the particle filter. The sensor is configured to measure the oxygen content and/or the NOx content in the exhaust gas downstream of the particle filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Peter LAUER, Andreas DÖRING
  • Patent number: 8756927
    Abstract: A method and to a device for the regeneration of a particle filter arranged in the exhaust gas tract of an internal combustion engine with at least one NO oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of NO, especially to NO2, which is arranged upstream of the particle filter and through which an exhaust gas stream flows. At least one heater, especially a heating catalyst, through which another gas stream, i.e., a second exhaust gas stream, flows and which heats the additional gas steam, is provided upstream of the particle filter. The heated additional gas stream is mixed upstream of the particle filter with the exhaust gas stream coming from the NO oxidation catalyst, i.e., the gas stream loaded in particular with NO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8726640
    Abstract: A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases in an exhaust gas system of internal combustion engines, having at least one reductant decomposition catalyst. Arranged in the exhaust gas flow, and a metering device arranged upstream of the latter in an exhaust gas line for supplying reductant. Preferably at least one other catalyst device is provided downstream of the reductant decomposition catalyst. An inlet section for the exhaust gas having at least one flow deflection area is arranged upstream of the reductant decomposition catalyst and constructed for the exhaust gas to be fed into a housing radially outside an inlet pipe adjoining the reductant decomposition catalyst that encloses the inlet pipe, and is guided in counterflow through a front inlet opening of the inlet pipe to the reductant decomposition catalyst. The reductant is fed into the flow deflection area associated with the inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Marco Tilinski, Andreas Klingsporn, Andreas Döring, Andreas Kistner, Petra Seidel
  • Patent number: 8481442
    Abstract: An arrangement for aftertreatment of exhaust gas for lean-burn internal combustion engines such as diesel engines and Otto engines with direct injection has a NOx storage catalyzer installed in the exhaust gas train for reducing nitrogen oxides and at which nitrogen oxides are stored in lean operating phases and these stored nitrogen oxides are reduced in rich operating phases. At least one molecular sieve which keeps sulfur dioxide away from the at least one NOx storage catalyzer is arranged upstream of the NOx storage catalyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8409517
    Abstract: An arrangement for aftertreatment of exhaust gas for lean-burn internal combustion engines such as diesel engines and Otto engines with direct injection includes a catalyzer for oxidation of nitrogen monoxide and a molecular sieve which keeps sulfur dioxide away from the catalyzer arranged upstream of the catalyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8404011
    Abstract: A method and to a device for the regeneration of a particle arranged in the exhaust gas train of an internal combustion engine. An exhaust gas stream to be cleaned is supplied to the at least one particle filter. At least in a regeneration mode, a predetermined amount of an exhaust gas stream to be heated is branched off from the exhaust gas stream upstream of an exhaust gas turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger which branched-off stream, after it has been heated by a heater is mixed in the form of a heated exhaust gas stream at a point upstream of the at least one particle filter back into the residual gas stream which is coming from the exhaust gas turbine and which is at a lower temperature than that of the other stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Man Nutzfahrzeuge AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8398943
    Abstract: An arrangement and method for reducing the nitrogen oxide content in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine with the aid of ammonia and/or ammonia-releasing reduction agents, whereby ammonia and/or ammonia-containing reduction agent is added to the exhaust gas stream upstream of a catalyst combination composed of an SCR catalyst and a subsequent NH3-oxidation catalyst in such a way that a homogeneous mixture of exhaust gas and ammonia is present upstream of the SCR catalyst. To optimize the reaction or conversion of nitrogen oxides, disposed downstream of the combination of a first SCR catalyst and a first NH3-oxidation catalyst is at least one second catalyst having SCR activity in order in this way to reduce the nitrogen oxides formed at the first NH3-oxidation catalyst due to insufficient selectivity of the catalyst to nitrogen with not yet oxidized NH3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Florian Wälde
  • Patent number: 8341944
    Abstract: A method for application in conjunction with an exhaust gas post-treatment system for metering an ammonia-releasing reducing agent into the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine installed in a motor vehicle and operated with excess air. A control unit meters the quantity of reducing agent as a function of a stored model and during the operation of the internal combustion engine varies the metered quantity during certain operating phases and compares the change in the measured value of at least one NOx sensor installed downstream of the SCR catalyst with an expected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: MAN Nutzfahzeuge AG
    Inventors: Florian Walde, Andreas Döring
  • Publication number: 20120302432
    Abstract: An arrangement for aftertreatment of exhaust gas for lean-burn internal combustion engines such as diesel engines and Otto engines with direct injection has a NOx storage catalyzer installed in the exhaust gas train for reducing nitrogen oxides and at which nitrogen oxides are stored in lean operating phases and these stored nitrogen oxides are reduced in rich operating phases. At least one molecular sieve which keeps sulfur dioxide away from the at least one NOx storage catalyzer is arranged upstream of the NOx storage catalyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8268273
    Abstract: A method and a device for the regeneration of a particle filter, especially a diesel particle filter, arranged in the exhaust gas train of an internal combustion engine, wherein an exhaust gas stream to be cleaned is supplied to the at least one particle filter. The exhaust gas stream supplied to the at least one particle filter is a raw exhaust gas stream of the internal combustion engine, into which, during regeneration mode, a heated exhaust gas stream at a higher temperature than the raw exhaust gas stream is mixed at a point upstream of the particle filter under the control of at least one open-loop and/or closed-loop control device, which actuates a throttle device and/or shut-off device in accordance with predetermined regeneration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8261538
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for converting exhaust gas constituents of an internal combustion engine by means of at least one catalyzer and/or particle filter and/or particle separator and for compensating relative movements between the internal combustion engine and the exhaust gas train and/or relative movements between different parts of the exhaust gas train by means of at least one compensator permitting relative movements. The at least one catalyzer for converting exhaust gas constituents and/or the at least one particle filter and/or the at least one particle separator are/is arranged inside the compensator and or inside the part of the exhaust gas train that is permanently connected to the compensator. The outer diameter of the catalyzer and/or of the particle filter and/or of the particle separator is less than or equal to the inner diameter of the compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kistner, Andreas Döring
  • Publication number: 20120206888
    Abstract: An electronic chip, including at least one electronic circuit and two or more contact-making pins, wherein the chip additionally has at least one fixing pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Jakob Schillinger, Stephan Risch, Dietmar Huber, Günther Romhart, Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8236249
    Abstract: A particle separator and method for removing particles from an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine. A prescribed number of flow cells are formed in the particle separator. The exhaust gas stream flows into and/or out of the flow cells via, as viewed in a main direction of flow of the exhaust gas stream, side wall regions of the flow cells. At least one storage space is formed in the flow cells for storing particles removed from the exhaust gas stream, which flows through at least portions of the particle separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Marco Tilinski
  • Patent number: 8236248
    Abstract: An arrangement for aftertreatment of exhaust gas for lean-burn internal combustion engines such as diesel engines and Otto engines with direct injection has a NOx storage catalyzer installed in the exhaust gas train for reducing nitrogen oxides and at which nitrogen oxides are stored in lean operating phases and these stored nitrogen oxides are reduced in rich operating phases. At least one molecular sieve which keeps sulfur dioxide away from the at least one NOx storage catalyzer is arranged upstream of the NOx storage catalyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8220254
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for improving hydrolysis of a reduction agent in an exhaust gas post treatment system for selective catalytic reduction of NOx in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine operated with excess air. A partial exhaust gas stream is branched off from an exhaust gas stream upstream of an SCR catalytic converter. A hydrolysis catalytic converter is disposed in the partial exhaust gas stream downstream of a metering arrangement for supplying reduction agent thereto. The partial stream is conveyed back to the main stream downstream of the hydrolysis catalytic converter and upstream of the SCR catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8201399
    Abstract: Apparatus for reducing emissions of PCDD and PCDF in exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a transition metal-containing catalyzer for the selective catalytic reduction of nitric oxides, and a molecular sieve upstream of the catalyzer, either as a layer on the catalyzer or on a separate structure. The molecular sieve blocks hydrocarbons from reaching the transition metal-containing catalyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 8191357
    Abstract: A method for use in conjunction with an exhaust gas post-treatment system for metering an ammonia-releasing reducing agent into the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine installed in a motor vehicle and operating with excess air. A control unit meters the quantity of reducing agent as a function of a stored model and, during the operation of the internal combustion engine, determines, by comparison of a value proportional to the nominal emission or the nominal conversion stored in the control unit of the internal combustion engine for the associated operating point of the internal combustion engine and/or of the exhaust gas post-treatment system with a value proportional to the actual emission or the actual conversion metrologically determined by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Man Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Florian Walde, Jochen Philipp, Henry Munitzk, Ralf Steinert