Patents by Inventor Gotz Finkbeiner

Gotz Finkbeiner 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).

  • Exhaust system
    Patent number: 8418459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, more preferably of a motor vehicle, with an exhaust gas turbine, with an exhaust pipe, whose inlet is fluidically connected with an outlet of the exhaust gas turbine, with a flange connection for connecting the exhaust gas turbine with the exhaust pipe which comprises a flange fastened to the exhaust pipe and attached to the exhaust gas turbine, and with a shielding apron which is so arranged and/or incorporated in the flange connection that in the operation of the exhaust system it protects a transition region between the flange and the exhaust pipe from direct admission of exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gotz Finkbeiner, Jorg-Uwe Muller, Georg Wirth
  • Exhaust System
    Publication number: 20100005798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, more preferably of a motor vehicle, with an exhaust gas turbine, with an exhaust pipe, whose inlet is fluidically connected with an outlet of the exhaust gas turbine, with a flange connection for connecting the exhaust gas turbine with the exhaust pipe which comprises a flange fastened to the exhaust pipe and attached to the exhaust gas turbine, and with a shielding apron which is so arranged and/or incorporated in the flange connection that in the operation of the exhaust system it protects a transition region between the flange and the exhaust pipe from direct admission of exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gotz Finkbeiner, Jorg-Uwe Muller, Georg Wirth