Patents by Inventor Benjin Luo

Benjin Luo 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: 20200247419
    Abstract: A drive device and methods for operating a drive device of a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, and a dual-clutch transmission. The dual-clutch transmission has two clutches, by means of which the transmission can be connected to the internal combustion engine. At least the internal combustion engine is actuated in a driving operation in order to generate a target drive torque, and the clutches are actuated in opposite directions for a gear shift. During a gear shift, the electric machine, which is connected to the dual-clutch transmission without a clutch, is actuated such that the electric machine completely or partly generates the target torque at least temporarily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Michael Lehner, Rainer Gasper, Thomas Huber
  • Patent number: 10661806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a drive device (1) of a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine (2), an electric machine (3), and a dual-clutch transmission (4). The dual-clutch transmission (4) has two clutches (K1, K2), by means of which the transmission can be connected to the internal combustion engine (2). At least the internal combustion engine (2) is actuated in a driving operation in order to generate a target drive torque, and the clutches (K1, K2) are actuated in opposite directions for a gear shift. During a gear shift, the electric machine (3) which is connected to the dual-clutch transmission (4) without a clutch is actuated such that the electric machine completely or partly generates the target torque at least temporarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Michael Lehner, Rainer Gasper, Thomas Huber
  • Patent number: 10449951
    Abstract: Drive mechanism (1) for a motor vehicle (6), comprising a dual clutch transmission (10) that includes a first powertrain (13), which can be connected to a first drive unit (2) via a first clutch (21), and a second powertrain (14), which can be connected to the first drive unit (2) via a second clutch (22), the first powertrain (13) being securely coupled to a second drive unit (3); when shifting gears in the dual clutch trans-mission (10), the second drive unit (3) supplies a predefined drive torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Michael Lehner, Rainer Gasper, Thomas Huber
  • Publication number: 20190084575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a drive device (1) of a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine (2), an electric machine (3), and a dual-clutch transmission (4). The dual-clutch transmission (4) has two clutches (K1, K2), by means of which the transmission can be connected to the internal combustion engine (2). At least the internal combustion engine (2) is actuated in a driving operation in order to generate a target drive torque, and the clutches (K1, K2) are actuated in opposite directions for a gear shift. During a gear shift, the electric machine (3) which is connected to the dual-clutch transmission (4) without a clutch is actuated such that the electric machine completely or partly generates the target torque at least temporarily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Michael Lehner, Rainer Gasper, Thomas Huber
  • Publication number: 20180257639
    Abstract: Drive mechanism (1) for a motor vehicle (6), comprising a dual clutch transmission (10) that includes a first powertrain (13), which can be connected to a first drive unit (2) via a first clutch (21), and a second powertrain (14), which can be connected to the first drive unit (2) via a second clutch (22), the first powertrain (13) being securely coupled to a second drive unit (3); when shifting gears in the dual clutch transmission (10), the second drive unit (3) supplies a predefined drive torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Michael Lehner, Rainer Gasper, Thomas Huber
  • Patent number: 8752805
    Abstract: A pressure control valve includes a housing, a valve slide guided in the housing, on which at least one inflow control edge is configured, which cooperates with an inflow opening in the housing, a constriction in piston being present adjacent to inflow control edge, which lies at least approximately opposite to a control opening. It is provided that the valve slide have a circumferential annular groove, which lies on the side of the inflow control edge facing away from the constriction and approximately opposite the inflow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Pilz, Benjin Luo, Mehmet-Fatih Sen, Frank Wauro, David Jayanth
  • Patent number: 8356969
    Abstract: Pumping units are known to have an inlet channel, opening out into a pumping channel and tapering from an inlet cross section to an outlet into the pumping channel with an outlet cross-section. The flow is deflected through ninety degrees on entry to the pumping channel which induces strong swirling. The transition from the inlet channel into the pumping channel is not optimal for flow. This effect reduces the efficiency of the pumping unit. The inlet flow into the pumping channel is improved in the pumping unit according to the invention and hence efficiency is improved. According to the invention, the outlet is essentially provided in a first quadrant with relation to the inlet cross section and the tapering of the inlet channel essentially occurs in the other three quadrants. The tapering wall of the inlet channel is formed by a plane-generating shape which goes around from one side of the outlet to the other side of the outlet and is shaped to be increasingly flat relative to a plane of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Joerg Sigrist, Andreas Gutscher
  • Publication number: 20120186678
    Abstract: A pressure control valve includes a housing, a valve slide guided in the housing, on which at least one inflow control edge is configured, which cooperates with an inflow opening in the housing, a constriction in piston being present adjacent to inflow control edge, which lies at least approximately opposite to a control opening. It is provided that the valve slide have a circumferential annular groove, which lies on the side of the inflow control edge facing away from the constriction and approximately opposite the inflow opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Pilz, Benjin Luo, Mehmet-Fatih Sen, Frank Wauro, David Jayanth
  • Publication number: 20100166555
    Abstract: Pumping units are known to have an inlet channel, opening out into a pumping channel and tapering from an inlet cross section to an outlet into the pumping channel with an outlet cross-section. The flow is deflected through ninety degrees on entry to the pumping channel which induces strong swirling. The transition from the inlet channel into the pumping channel is not optimal for flow. This effect reduces the efficiency of the pumping unit. The inlet flow into the pumping channel is improved in the pumping unit according to the invention and hence efficiency is improved. According to the invention, the outlet is essentially provided in a first quadrant with relation to the inlet cross section and the tapering of the inlet channel essentially occurs in the other three quadrants. The tapering wall of the inlet channel is formed by a plane-generating shape which goes around from one side of the outlet to the other side of the outlet and is shaped to be increasingly flat relative to a plane of the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Benjin Luo, Joerg Silgrist, Andreas Gutscher
  • Publication number: 20090238680
    Abstract: In the pumping unit disclosed, the friction acting on the impeller is reduced, and the efficiency is increased by at least two adjacent indentations of at least one face end of the impeller and/or of the at least one end wall of the pump chamber communicate with one another via a respective groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Fevzi Yildirim, Ulrich Mueller, Benjin Luo
  • Publication number: 20080193297
    Abstract: A delivery unit for delivering fuel from a tank to the internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprises an impeller revolving in a pump chamber. The impeller, on at least one end face, has a ring of blades spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction. The impeller blades each have one front side leading in the direction of revolution and one rear side trailing in the direction of revolution. The blades have at least one triangular, oval, circular, or circular-sector-shaped oblique face on the radially outward front side and/or the radially inward rear side in the region of the end faces, which advantageously enlarges an inflow and outflow face formed between the blades and discharging into the chamber, thereby increasing efficiency of the delivery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Fevzi Yildirim, Ulrich Mueller, Benjin Luo