Patents by Inventor Charles R. Koch

Charles R. Koch 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).

  • Patent number: 6536411
    Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, as a function of a desired load, wherein a desired pressure in the intake pipe of the internal combustion engine is determined and set by means of an air supply device, the ignition timing, the beginning of fuel injection and the duration of fuel injection values are determined in accordance with a predetermined relationship as a function of the desired load and the values are supplied as actuating signals to actuating elements by which the ignition and the fuel injection are adjusted to improve the engine response behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Ganser, Thomas Kaiser, Charles R. Koch, Michael Kühn, Kurt Maute, Martin Spanninger
  • Patent number: 6532935
    Abstract: In a method of operating an internal combustion engine which has at least two cylinder banks that can be controlled separately as a function of a desired load, wherein a desired pressure in the intake pipe of the internal combustion engine is determined and set by means of an air supply device for supplying combustion air to the cylinders of the internal combustion engine, at least one engine-related characteristic value which affects the behavior of the internal combustion engine is determined for each cylinder bank, and, in the event of a difference between the characteristic values of the cylinder banks, at least one cylinder bank is manipulated in such a way that the average value of the considered characteristic quantity corresponds to a desired average value in order to reduce the thermodynamic and mechanical loading of the internal combustion engine with bank-selective operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignees: DaimlerChrysler AG, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ganser, Thomas Kaiser, Charles R. Koch, Kurt Maute, Christoph Schmitz, Martin Spanninger
  • Publication number: 20020179052
    Abstract: In a method of operating an internal combustion engine which has at least two cylinder banks that can be controlled separately as a function of a desired load, wherein a desired pressure in the intake pipe of the internal combustion engine is determined and set by means of an air supply device for supplying combustion air to the cylinders of the internal combustion engine, at least one engine-related characteristic value which affects the behavior of the internal combustion engine is determined for each cylinder bank, and, in the event of a difference between the characteristic values of the cylinder banks, at least one cylinder bank is manipulated in such a way that the average value of the considered characteristic quantity corresponds to a desired average value in order to reduce the thermodynamic and mechanical loading of the internal combustion engine with bank-selective operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Ganser, Thomas Kaiser, Charles R. Koch, Kurt Maute, Christoph Schmitz, Martin Spanninger
  • Publication number: 20020179055
    Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, as a function of a desired load, wherein a desired pressure in the intake pipe of the internal combustion engine is determined and set by means of an air supply device, the ignition timing, the beginning of fuel injection and the duration of fuel injection values are determined in accordance with a predetermined relationship as a function of the desired load and the values are supplied as actuating signals to actuating elements by which the ignition and the fuel injection are adjusted to improve the engine response behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Ganser, Thomas Kaiser, Charles R. Koch, Michael Kuhn, Kurt Maute, Martin Spanninger