Patents by Inventor Eduard Gerum

Eduard Gerum 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: 9708967
    Abstract: A fresh gas supply device for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger includes a charge air inlet for taking in a compressed charge air flow from the exhaust gas turbocharger; an outlet which is connected to the charge air inlet via a valve section, said valve section being closed in a closed position by at least one flap valve which can be pivoted, preferably, about a flap rotational axis; an adjusting device which is coupled to the at least one flap valve for adjusting the same in the closing direction; and a compressed air inlet for taking in compressed air into the outlet. The compressed air inlet is arranged such that the compressed air is directed into a compressed air flow in the direction of the valve section to the at least one flap valve. A corresponding method for operating the fresh gas supply device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 9238997
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion machine, in particular a diesel engine, having an unburnt mixture supply device, includes at least one compressor; at least one exhaust gas turbine; a turbocharger shaft by which the compressor and the exhaust gas turbine are rotationally fixedly coupled; and an energy store for increasing a mass moment of inertia. The energy store is rotationally fixedly coupled to the at least one compressor and the at least one exhaust gas turbine by the turbocharger shaft. An arrangement for supplying unburnt gas to an internal combustion machine includes such an exhaust gas turbocharger and an unburnt gas supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Gerum, Manuel Marx
  • Patent number: 8793995
    Abstract: A system and method for recovering the unused energy of exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is provided. A charge device for generating compressed intake air for the internal combustion engine is driven by exhaust gas, and an air compressor having at least one compression stage is connected to the charge device to withdraw at least a partial quantity of the compressed intake air, the partial quantity of the compressed intake air of the charge device that can be withdrawn by the air compressor is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 8739529
    Abstract: A compressor system for a vehicle includes a compressor driven by a drive motor of the vehicle and a suction air conduit for supplying air that has already been precompressed by a turbocharger of the drive motor to the compressor. A mechanism is disposed in the suction air guide for reducing the flow cross-section. The mechanism is able to limit the charging pressure of the already precompressed air supplied to the compressor. A method for controlling a compressor system having a turbocharged compressor limits a charging pressure of the already precompressed air to an adjustable maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 8602742
    Abstract: A method is provided for regulating a charge air pressure of an engine having an exhaust gas supercharger, a fresh gas supply device, an air system having an air treatment system and a compressor chargeable by the supercharger, and an engine controller. The method detects an engine torque requirement; determines a current charge air pressure and a current pressure of the air system; compares the current charge air pressure to a target charge air pressure corresponding to the torque requirement, compares the current air system pressure to a target operating air system pressure, and regulates the charge air pressure by suppressing supply of compressed air from the supercharger to the compressor when the current charge air pressure is less than the corresponding target charge air pressure and the current pressure of the air system is greater than or equal to the target operating pressure of the air system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Marx, Eduard Gerum, Huba Nemeth
  • Patent number: 8371275
    Abstract: A compressed-air system for supplying a compress-air injection module of a turbocharged internal combustion engine and the pneumatic systems of the vehicle comprises a compressor is provided. The compressor is connected via a line to a pressure accumulator for the supply of a compressed-air injection module and to a device for compressed-air preparation having an air dryer and a pressure regulator for supplying pressure circuits for compressed-air-actuated consumers. The line for supplying the compressed-air injection module branches off upstream of the device for compressed-air preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Gerum, Mathias Mayr, Huba Németh, Michael Herges
  • Patent number: 8337169
    Abstract: A system has a compressor and a consumer which are coupled to a drivetrain and extract energy through the drivetrain. The consumer is suitable for varying an absorption of power, which is made available to it by the drivetrain, as a function of a power which is required for compressor operation and which is supplied from the drivetrain to the compressor. A pump has at least one pump chamber which generates a pumping power during pumping operation. The pump additionally has at least one pump chamber which generates no pumping power or a reduced pumping power during pumping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20120317976
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion machine, in particular a diesel engine, having an unburnt mixture supply device, includes at least one compressor; at least one exhaust gas turbine; a turbocharger shaft by which the compressor and the exhaust gas turbine are rotationally fixedly coupled; and an energy store for increasing a mass moment of inertia. The energy store is rotationally fixedly coupled to the at least one compressor and the at least one exhaust gas turbine by the turbocharger shaft. An arrangement for supplying unburnt gas to an internal combustion machine includes such an exhaust gas turbocharger and an unburnt gas supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard GERUM, Manuel MARX
  • Publication number: 20120297769
    Abstract: A fresh gas supply device for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger includes a charge air inlet for taking in a compressed charge air flow from the exhaust gas turbocharger; an outlet which is connected to the charge air inlet via a valve section, said valve section being closed in a closed position by at least one flap valve which can be pivoted, preferably, about a flap rotational axis; an adjusting device which is coupled to the at least one flap valve for adjusting the same in the closing direction; and a compressed air inlet for taking in compressed air into the outlet. The compressed air inlet is arranged such that the compressed air is directed into a compressed air flow in the direction of the valve section to the at least one flap valve. A corresponding method for operating the fresh gas supply device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard GERUM
  • Publication number: 20120067044
    Abstract: A method is provided for regulating a charge air pressure of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle having an exhaust gas supercharger, a fresh gas supply device, a vehicle air system having an air treatment system and a compressor chargeable by the exhaust gas supercharger, and an engine controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Marx, Eduard Gerum, Huba Nemeth
  • Patent number: 8037866
    Abstract: A method device for controlling a suction pressure of an internal combustion engine, particularly a diesel engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger. The compressor is connected to a suction line of the internal combustion engine via an actuating section having an actuating element for changing a cross-section of the actuating section. In the first step, the current suction pressure in the suction line of the internal combustion engine is determined. A compressor pressure of the compressor is determined by pressure sensors and compared to the suction pressure. Values corresponding to current operating data of the internal combustion engine are identified and an actuation signal is generated using a controller, based on the comparison; and changing the cross-section of the actuating section is adjusted by adjusting the actuating element using the actuating signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20110146273
    Abstract: A compressor system for a vehicle includes a compressor driven by a drive motor of the vehicle and a suction air conduit for supplying air that has already been precompressed by a turbocharger of the drive motor to the compressor. A mechanism is disposed in the suction air guide for reducing the flow cross-section. The mechanism is able to limit the charging pressure of the already precompressed air supplied to the compressor. A method for controlling a compressor system having a turbocharged compressor limits a charging pressure of the already precompressed air to an adjustable maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard GERUM
  • Patent number: 7946269
    Abstract: A method for increasing an engine brake power of an internal combustion engine, particularly of a diesel engine, having at least one cylinder with a reciprocating piston, at least one inlet valve and one outlet valve, and a turbocharger, in which air is compressed by an air compressor and stored in the at least one storage device, and air is injected in a clocked manner into the at least one cylinder in order to increase the compression work performed by the piston and thereby enhance the engine brake power during an engine braking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Gerum, Hubert Hitziger
  • Patent number: 7934492
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving recirculation of exhaust gas in an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger, in particular in a diesel engine, determines operation parameters of the engine in order to determine exhaust gas pressures, supplies compressed air in a controlled manner based on the exhaust gas pressures in order to generate a vacuum in a supply section of a gas supply device, thereby inducting a partial quantity of exhaust gas from the engine into the supply section using the vacuum, and recirculates the partial quantity of exhaust gas into the engine via an induction line connected to the gas supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 7866761
    Abstract: A braking system for vehicles, including at least one first brake circuit, and at least one second brake circuit, in which the at least one first brake circuit and the at least one second brake circuit each have an electrical control circuit, which respectively has an electronic control unit and its own power supply device, and brake actuating devices which are activatable by the electronic control units, at least one of the brake actuating devices being activatable by more than one of the electronic control units, in which the brake circuits are electrically activatable via a foot brake valve, and the foot brake valve has two electrical braking transmitter devices which are each connected to the electronic control units so that they are DC-isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Gerum, Walter Broch, Bence Csák, László Gianone
  • Patent number: 7866156
    Abstract: A device for fresh-gas supply for a turbocharged, compression-ignition, reciprocating-piston internal-combustion engine is provided. The engine has fresh-gas supply pipe and exhaust gas manifold pipe, between which an EGR device is installed. A tubular inside space section of the fresh-gas supply pipe located downstream of a turbocharger has a compressed-air connection with a volume control device, and a butterfly valve for controlling throughflow. Operation of the butterfly valve is controlled by an electronic control unit of the engine which processes sensor signals. A control valve of the EGR device, which is electronically controlled and controls the exhaust gas throughflow volume, is connected to the electronic control unit for synchronized operation of the butterfly valve with the volume control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Huba Nemeth, Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20100266425
    Abstract: A compressed air generator system for a vehicle includes at least one drive motor having a compressed air generator for generating compressed air, an electrical motor coupled to the compressed air generator for driving the compressed air generator; a controllable coupling for coupling the compressed air generator to the at least one drive motor, a control device for controlling the compressed air generator unit, and a synchronization device for synchronizing a compressed air generator rotational speed of the compressed air generator and an output rotational speed of the at least one drive motor. The controllable coupling is switchable with a synchronized compressed air generator rotational speed and output rotational speed. A corresponding method controls the compressed air generator system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard GERUM
  • Publication number: 20100228464
    Abstract: A method device for controlling a suction pressure of an internal combustion engine, particularly a diesel engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger. The compressor is connected to a suction line of the internal combustion engine via an actuating section having an actuating element for changing a cross-section of the actuating section. In the first step, the current suction pressure in the suction line of the internal combustion engine is determined. A compressor pressure of the compressor is determined by pressure sensors and compared to the suction pressure. Values corresponding to current operating data of the internal combustion engine are identified and an actuation signal is generated using a controller, based on the comparison; and changing the cross-section of the actuating section is adjusted by adjusting the actuating element using the actuating signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard GERUM
  • Patent number: 7762069
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for increasing the torque of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, is described. The method and device includes compressing air from a charge air line or from a second air inlet by using the charge air compressor, storing the air compressed by the charge air compressor in a storage device, and blowing, in a timed manner, blow air which is stored as compressed air in a storage device into the cylinder through an inlet valve of the cylinder, thereby increasing the torque of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20100175671
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving recirculation of exhaust gas in an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger, in particular in a diesel engine, determines operation parameters of the engine in order to determine exhaust gas pressures, supplies compressed air in a controlled manner based on the exhaust gas pressures in order to generate a vacuum in a supply section of a gas supply device, thereby inducting a partial quantity of exhaust gas from the engine into the supply section using the vacuum, and recirculates the partial quantity of exhaust gas into the engine via an induction line connected to the gas supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Gerum