Patents by Inventor Florian Mehringer

Florian Mehringer 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: 9624861
    Abstract: A mixture pilot control for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular a gasoline engine of a motor vehicle, is provided. The mixture pilot control determines at least one composition of an air-fuel mixture required for a predetermined target air-fuel mixture ratio. The internal combustion engine is also provided with a lambda control with at least one lambda probe arranged in the exhaust gas flow of the internal combustion engine for determining a deviation of the actual air-fuel ratio from the predetermined target air-fuel ratio. Operating-parameter-dependent correction factors for the composition of the air-fuel mixture by the mixture pilot control are determined in dependence on the lambda control deviation, at least one of the load and/or the rotational speed and/or the temperature of the internal combustion engine, and further operating parameters of the vehicle other than the load, rotation speed or temperature of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Weber, Winfried Weuste, Stephan Wenzel, Johannes Rieger, Florian Mehringer
  • Publication number: 20150219031
    Abstract: A mixture pilot control for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular a gasoline engine of a motor vehicle, is provided. The mixture pilot control determines at least one composition of an air-fuel mixture required for a predetermined target air-fuel mixture ratio. The internal combustion engine is also provided with a lambda control with at least one lambda probe arranged in the exhaust gas flow of the internal combustion engine for determining a deviation of the actual air-fuel ratio from the predetermined target air-fuel ratio. Operating-parameter-dependent correction factors for the composition of the air-fuel mixture by the mixture pilot control are determined in dependence on the lambda control deviation, at least one of the load and/or the rotational speed and/or the temperature of the internal combustion engine, and further operating parameters of the vehicle other than the load, rotation speed or temperature of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Wolfgang WEBER, Winfried WEUSTE, Stephan WENZEL, Johannes REIGER, Florian MEHRINGER
  • Patent number: 8535935
    Abstract: A cell culture measuring system and to a method for comparative investigations on cell cultures. In a cell culture measuring system, cell cultures are cultivated on a cell culture carrier within a flow passage. An inflow and an outflow for a liquid culture medium and at least two sensors are present. At least one further inflow for a test liquid is arranged in the flow direction of the culture medium between the inflow for the culture medium and the outflow of the flow passage so that the test liquid flowing through the flow passage by displacement of the culture medium only flows around and/or over some of the cells present on the cell culture carrier. At least one sensor is arranged in the region of the cells not influenced by test liquid and at least one sensor is arranged in the region of cells influenced by test liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Frank Sonntag, Florian Mehringer, Niels Schilling, Martin Jaeger
  • Publication number: 20100261222
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cell culture measuring system and to a method for comparative investigations on cell cultures. It is the object of the invention to propose possibilities with which comparative investigations can be carried out on cell cultures under the same conditions on cells which are influenced by a test liquid and on cells which are not influenced by test liquid. In a cell culture measuring system in accordance with the invention, cell cultures are cultivated on a cell culture carrier within a flow passage. An inflow and an outflow for a liquid culture medium and at least two sensors are present. In addition, at least one further inflow for a test liquid is arranged in the flow direction of the culture medium between the inflow for the culture medium and the outflow of the flow passage so that the test liquid flowing through the flow passage by displacement of the culture medium only flows around and/or over some of the cells present on the cell culture carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Frank Sonntag, Florian Mehringer, Niels Schilling, Martin Jaeger