Patents by Inventor Gerhard Frankle

Gerhard Frankle 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).

  • Publication number: 20080028757
    Abstract: The invention relates to an system, especially a turbo-compressor system pertaining to a motor vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine with exhaust gas recirculation. Said system comprises an exhaust gas cooler (2) and a charge air cooler (1) for cooling recirculate exhaust gases and/or charge air, a compressor (V) for compressing the charge air, and at least on condenser (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Eitel, Gerhard Frankle, Peter Geskes, Rainer Lutz, Rolf Muller, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 6398836
    Abstract: A device serves for filtering a fluid contaminated with particles, in particular an exhaust gas transporting particulate matter from an engine. The device is provided with an outer container and at least one filter device of a porous material. The porous material of each of the at least one filter devices has a number of folds extending in the direction of flow. Furthermore, the porous material has in its cross section a closed geometrical form with at least one inner opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Fränkle
  • Patent number: 6273066
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine with a reservoir for pressurised fuel and at least one fuel injector which has a solenoid activated valve to control fuel pressure therein, and including a control piston linked to the injector's valving member and defining a control space communicated with the injector's fuel, and further including a pressure regulating valve assembly with another solenoid activated valve operated independently of the injector's solenoid valve and which is located between the reservoir and the fuel injector for selectively creating different flow control configurations to regulate fuel pressure delivered to the injector. The two solenoid activated devices providing an injector control for providing flexible opening operation of the injector at more than one fuel pressure level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Fränkle, Volker Schwarz
  • Patent number: 6050239
    Abstract: In a control arrangement for an internal combustion engine having a cylinderhead with a compressed air discharge valve and a compressed air system with a compressed air tank to which compressed air can be supplied from the engine cylinder by way of a connecting line, pressurized control fluid can be supplied to the compressed air discharge valve for opening the compressed air discharge valve for motor braking operation of the engine, and a bypass line including a control valve is provided by way of which the compressed air discharge valve can be directly controlled for supplying compressed air to the compressed air tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Michael Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 5651247
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, particularly a Diesel engine, which includes an electronic control device for timing the fuel injection into the engine and means for adding a reducing agent stored in a tank to the exhaust gas of the engine for reducing the nitric oxide content of the exhaust gas, means are provided for detecting the fill level of the reducing agent tank and means for retarding the injection timing when the fill level detecting means indicates that the reducing agent tank is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Frankle
  • Patent number: 5636611
    Abstract: In an arrangement for controlling the flow of compressed air from a cylinder of a Diesel engine which includes a decompression valve mounted on a cylinder to permit the discharge of compressed air from the cylinder into a discharge passage, the decompression valve is operable by high pressure fuel admitted to an operating cylinder of the decompression valve via a control line including a magnetic control valve for the admission of fuel from a high pressure fuel distribution duct from which fuel is also supplied to the engine fuel injectors via an injection pipe which also includes a magnetic control valve, and both control valves are operable by a control unit which independently energizes the magnetic control valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Magnus Korte, Thomas Schmitz
  • Patent number: 5404852
    Abstract: In an arrangement for handling air compressed in a Diesel engine wherein a control valve is disposed in the cylinder head controlled by an electronic control unit so as to open during given periods in the compression strokes of the particular pistons and an air reservoir is in communication with the valve via a compressed air conduit, a two-way valve is arranged in the compressed air conduit and connected to the exhaust gas conduit of the engine and the two-way valve is switchable to open the compressed air conduit between the control valve and the air reservoir or to provide communication between the control valve and the exhaust gas conduit, the electronic control unit being capable of opening the control valve for charging the reservoir when the compression pressure in a cylinder reaches the operating pressure of the air in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Frankle
  • Patent number: 5372485
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas turbocharger for an internal-combustion engine, the exhaust-gas turbine of which comprises a rotor with an at leash partially diagonal throughflow direction and a spiral guide channel surrounding this and having a mouth region in the form of an angular nozzle, and a variable guide blade cascade with guide blades being arranged in the mouth region. In order to design guide blade cascades with a simpler construction than that of known versions, at the same time with an increase in their operational reliability, according to the invention the guide blades are divided in such a way that they form a divided guide blade cascade with a stationary guide-blade cascade part and with a guide-blade cascade part assigned to this and rotatable concentrically relative to the axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Erwin Schmidt, Wolfgang Erdmann, Gerhard Frankle
  • Patent number: 5267829
    Abstract: In a flow control apparatus of an exhaust gas turbocharger turbine for an internal combustion engine including a rotor disposed in a turbine casing having a spiral guide channel arranged around the rotor with a mouth area defining an inlet opening for directing the exhaust gas to the turbine rotor, a control sleeve including a flow guide section with flow guide passage is axially movably supported between the spiral guide channel and the rotor. The flow guide passages have guide characteristics which vary depending on the axial location on the sleeve so that the characteristics of the exhaust gas flow admitted to the rotor can be changed by axial movement of the control sleeve. Adjacent the flow guide passages the control sleeve has an integral annular end section for blocking the exhaust gas flow so as to form a flow-throttling cross-section at the mouth area for engine brake operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Mercedes Benz A.G.
    Inventors: Erwin Schmidt, Wolfgang Treutlein, Gerhard Frankle, Thomas Schmitt
  • Patent number: 5086739
    Abstract: An electronic speed governor for an air-compression internal-combustion engine that has an electronic control unit which detects numerous operating values of the automobile. The speed governor forms a control signal from these operating values as well as from stored limit values, and shifts smoke-limit curves as a function of altitude so that the fuel mass is corrected in accordance with keeping the smoke emissions constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Frankle
  • Patent number: 4522164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cold-start assisting device for motor vehicles with which under extreme cold conditions, in addition to the normal fuel, auxiliary fluid is also injected into the intake of the vehicle combustion engine by means of a control switch. With this operating or control switch it is also possible after a successful start to support the running of the combustion engine with auxiliary injection. In order to prevent intentional or inadvertent operation of the auxiliary injection with a stalled engine, the control switch exhibits an auxiliary working contact which is connected with a terminal of a motor driven generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Peter Joppig
  • Patent number: 4413606
    Abstract: A heating arrangement for preheating combustion air flowing through an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, the heating arrangement including a pot-shaped housing forming a combustion chamber into which an ignition device and a fuel injection nozzle project. A shut off valve controls an inflow of fuel and a shield sheet serves to shield the combustion flame. The pot-shaped housing is located in a flow path of the combustion air and is covered on its open side by a holder. The holder is fastened to the intake manifold and supports the ignition device, fuel injection nozzle, and shut off valve. The housing includes openings in an upstream wall portion from which the shield sheet projects into the housing in a vicinity of the opening in such a way that the shield sheet separates the combustion chamber from the fuel injection nozzle chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Klak, Gerhard Frankle, Dieter Woschee
  • Patent number: 4389987
    Abstract: A control member for regulating a flow of fuel to fuel injection devices of an air-compressing internal combustion engine. The control member is adapted to be arranged in one of a zone of the injection valve or within the injection valve. The control member includes a flow-controlling axially movable control piston having an axial bore with the control piston being urged, by a compression spring, into an end position for preventing a full flow of fuel through the control member. A spring chamber is provided for accommodating the compression spring with a throttle being arranged in an end face of the control piston, which throttle communicates the inlet line means with the spring chamber through the axial bore in the control piston. An arrangement is provided for minimizing an open volume of the spring chamber and at least one first bore is provided in the control piston for selectively communicating the axial bore with the outlet duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Friedrich-Wilhelm Hase
  • Patent number: 4231346
    Abstract: A control arrangement for a supercharged diesel engine, which is equipped with an injection pump and with a governor at the injection pump, as well as with a full-load abutment movable as a function of the engine rotational speed for the limitation or release of the injection quantity. The full-load abutment is thereby constructed as three-dimensional cam which is dependent in the direction of its second dimension on a magnitude changing analogously to the supercharging degree or on the supercharging pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Dieter Woschee
  • Patent number: 3961611
    Abstract: An installation for preheating the combustion air for the multi-fuel operation of air-compressing and auto-igniting injection-type internal combustion engines with poorly ignitable fuels, for example, gasoline, during idling and partial loads, which essentially consists of an injection nozzle for fuel and of a spark plug arranged in the suction pipe. The spark plug and injection nozzle are thereby combined into a structural unit as an insert body which includes a cover structure partially covering the spark plug and the injection nozzle while a protective plate member is provided in the path of the combustion air within the suction pipe for shielding the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Frankle, Roland Klak