Patents by Inventor Frank Schuerg

Frank Schuerg 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: 11492986
    Abstract: A method for operating a supercharged internal combustion engine. Before a cold start of the engine, an electric drive device of an electrically assisted exhaust-gas turbocharger of the engine is activated such that fresh air is compressed by a compressor of the turbocharger and, in the process, is heated and is conveyed via an open overrun air recirculation valve arranged downstream of the compressor, through a short circuit back to a suction side of the compressor of the turbocharger. A proportion of the air that is heated by way of the short-circuit operation of the compressor is, downstream of the compressor and upstream of a closed throttle flap of the engine, conducted via a secondary air system into an exhaust manifold and from there via a wastegate of the turbocharger into the catalytic converters of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment device of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Schürg, Peter Rothenberger, Andreas Weißhaar, Lukas Engin, Michael Wessels
  • Patent number: 11136912
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas purification apparatus (10) of a vehicle includes monitoring close-coupled lambda value (Ln) of a close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20), operating the close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20) with an excess of fuel, monitoring a non-close-coupled lambda value (Lf) of a non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30), and operating the non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30) in a stoichiometric method of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Schuerg, Sebastian Hemminger
  • Publication number: 20200271041
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas purification apparatus (10) of a vehicle includes monitoring close-coupled lambda value (Ln) of a close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20), operating the close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20) with an excess of fuel, monitoring a non-close-coupled lambda value (Lf) of a non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30), and operating the non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30) in a stoichiometric method of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Frank Schuerg, Sebastian Hemminger