Patents by Inventor Dietmar ACKERMANN

Dietmar ACKERMANN 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 for operating an internal combustion engine, control device, and internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11441480
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine with a motor, having a moving machine part and at least one machine element which retains the moving machine part and is subject to wear, such as, for example, a supporting, sealing, guiding or the like retaining machine element that is subject to wear during operation relative to the moving machine part, which machine element, because of the wear, is service-life-limiting for the operation of the internal combustion engine, wherein—for the operation of the internal combustion engine, a service-life-limiting time interval until the next maintenance of the internal combustion engine is specified, and—the internal combustion engine has a number of service-life-limiting machine elements, wherein for the at least one service-life-limiting machine element a remaining service life is forecast and the service-life-limiting time interval is determined therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Rolf Pfeifer, Ion Madan, Vadzim Khakholka, Dietmar Ackermann, Patrick Stoeckle
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20210003071
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine with a motor, having a moving machine part and at least one machine element which retains the moving machine part and is subject to wear, such as, for example, a supporting, sealing, guiding or the like retaining machine element that is subject to wear during operation relative to the moving machine part, which machine element, because of the wear, is service-life-limiting for the operation of the internal combustion engine, wherein—for the operation of the internal combustion engine, a service-life-limiting time interval until the next maintenance of the internal combustion engine is specified, and—the internal combustion engine has a number of service-life-limiting machine elements, wherein for the at least one service-life-limiting machine element a remaining service life is forecast and the service-life-limiting time interval is determined therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Rolf PFEIFER, Ion MADAN, Vadzim KHAKHOLKA, Dietmar ACKERMANN, Patrick STOECKLE