Patents by Inventor Carsten Scholten

Carsten Scholten 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).

  • Method and device for detecting a replacement of pencil glow plugs in an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8826729
    Abstract: In a method for detecting a replacement of sheathed-element glow plugs in an internal combustion engine, an electrical parameter of the sheathed-element glow plug is determined during a driving cycle and is compared with a stored value of the same electrical parameter of the sheathed-element glow plug that was determined in a preceding driving cycle. In the driving cycle, the same electrical parameter is determined for all sheathed-element glow plugs installed in the internal combustion engine, and the determined pattern of the electrical parameter is compared with a pattern that was ascertained in a preceding driving cycle, a replacement of a sheathed-element glow plug being detected if the pattern of the driving cycle deviates from a pattern of the preceding driving cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Moritz, Dirk Stockmann, Carsten Scholten, Peter Kappelmann
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A REPLACEMENT OF PENCIL GLOW PLUGS IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20130228007
    Abstract: In a method for detecting a replacement of sheathed-element glow plugs in an internal combustion engine, an electrical parameter of the sheathed-element glow plug is determined during a driving cycle and is compared with a stored value of the same electrical parameter of the sheathed-element glow plug that was determined in a preceding driving cycle. In the driving cycle, the same electrical parameter is determined for all sheathed-element glow plugs installed in the internal combustion engine, and the determined pattern of the electrical parameter is compared with a pattern that was ascertained in a preceding driving cycle, a replacement of a sheathed-element glow plug being detected if the pattern of the driving cycle deviates from a pattern of the preceding driving cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Rainer Moritz, Dirk Stockmann, Carsten Scholten, Peter Kappelmann
  • Method for controlling at least one sheathed-element glow plug in an internal combustion engine and engine controller
    Patent number: 7900599
    Abstract: A method for controlling at least one sheathed-element glow plug in an internal combustion engine, the temperature of the sheathed-element glow plug being controlled as a function of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine in such a way that optimal combustion properties of the internal combustion engine prevail at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Dittus, Carsten Scholten, Rainer Moritz, Herbert Schumacher, Thilo Schedler
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE SHEATHED-ELEMENT GLOW PLUG IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND ENGINE CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20090194070
    Abstract: A method for controlling at least one sheathed-element glow plug in an internal combustion engine, the temperature of the sheathed-element glow plug being controlled as a function of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine in such a way that optimal combustion properties of the internal combustion engine prevail at all times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Bernd DITTUS, Carsten Scholten, Rainer Moritz, Herbert Schumacher, Thilo Schedler