Patents by Inventor Guido Schaeffner

Guido Schaeffner 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: 10513962
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, including a housing which has at least two equivalently formed receiving elements for arranging the AGN modules, and at least one exhaust gas guide module which is inserted into one of receiving elements, and an exhaust gas guide module for an exhaust gas treatment device of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Wehler, Guido Schäffner
  • Patent number: 10060318
    Abstract: A method for operating a driving system having an internal combustion engine and an exhaust gas purifying device through which exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flows in order to be purified. The exhaust gas purifying device has at least one catalyst element for catalytic conversion of nitrogen monoxide into nitrogen dioxide at a determined conversion rate. In order to compensate for an age related decrease in the conversion rate of the catalyst element the nitrogen monoxide emission from the internal combustion engine and/or the exhaust gas temperature before the catalyst element are adjusted as a function of the current conversion rate and/or the age of the catalyst element so that the nitrogen dioxide concentration after the catalyst element is greater than or equal to a minimum concentration and/or that the molar ratio between nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide after the catalyst element corresponds to a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Guido Schäffner, Andrea Prospero, Günter Zitzler, Tim Späder
  • Publication number: 20180187588
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, having the following steps: determining a permissible energy input into at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment element of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system; ascertaining a current energy input into the at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment element by ascertaining at least one energy input variable which characterizes the current energy input; and actuating an adjusting device which varies a distribution of an exhaust gas mass flow to the at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment element and a bypass path that runs about the at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment element depending on the permissible energy input and the current energy input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel CHATTERJEE, Klaus RUSCH, Guido SCHÄFFNER, Klaus WEHLER
  • Patent number: 9779218
    Abstract: In a method for a model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust gas post-treatment unit, a differentiation is made between steady operating states and non-steady operating states by taking into account the axial and the radial temperature distribution, and, on the basis of virtual segmentation of the post-treatment unit, in particular the radial heat transfer to the surroundings is taken into account in the model-based determination for steady operating states, and for non-steady operating states the heat transfer from the exhaust gas which flows axially through the post-treatment unit to the segments is taken into account by a heat transfer coefficient k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hehle, Ralf Müller, Jens Niemeyer, Jörg Remele, Guido Schäffner, Holger Sinzenich, Tim Späder
  • Publication number: 20170037761
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, including a housing which has at least two equivalently formed receiving elements for arranging the AGN modules, and at least one exhaust gas guide module which is inserted into one of receiving elements, and an exhaust gas guide module for an exhaust gas treatment device or this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Klaus WEHLER, Guido SCHÄFFNER
  • Publication number: 20160123205
    Abstract: A method for operating a driving system having an internal combustion engine and an exhaust gas purifying device through which exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flows in order to be purified. The exhaust gas purifying device has at least one catalyst element for catalytic conversion of nitrogen monoxide into nitrogen dioxide at a determined conversion rate. In order to compensate for an agerelated decrease in the conversion rate of the catalyst element the nitrogen monoxide emission from the internal combustion engine and/or the exhaust gas temperature before the catalyst element are adjusted as a function of the current conversion rate and/or the age of the catalyst element so that the nitrogen dioxide concentration after the catalyst element is greater than or equal to a minimum concentration and/or that the molar ratio between nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide after the catalyst element corresponds to a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Guido SCHÄFFNER, Andrea PROSPERO, Günter ZITZLER, Tim SPÄDER
  • Publication number: 20160123259
    Abstract: A method for an exhaust-gas treatment system having a diesel particle filter, in particular for the operation of an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas treatment system, in particular an internal combustion engine including a motor. The method includes the steps of: operating the diesel particle filter, in particular with regular regeneration; and determining a present soot loading of the diesel particle filter. Provision is made for a comparison of the present soot loading with a predetermined soot loading reference value to be performed and, if the soot loading reference value is undershot, for the soot particle loading in the diesel particle filter to be increased in order to adhere to the demanded emission limit value for the number of soot particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Guido SCHÄFFNER, Tim SPÄDER
  • Patent number: 8945475
    Abstract: An exhaust post-treatment device is designed in a layered fashion and comprises an exhaust cleaning arrangement lying between a supply chamber and a transition chamber with soot filters lying at both sides of a denitrification-catalytic converter unit, with the transition chamber comprising a mixing chamber open towards the denitrification-catalytic converter unit, in which starting at the soot filters via separate guide channels, the exhaust is injected in the opposite direction of flow and which mixing chamber is limited by guide panels, which form walls of the guide channels extending encompassing along the housing towards the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Guido Schäffner, Hans Sudmanns, Claudia Riedel
  • Publication number: 20140032189
    Abstract: In a method for a model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust gas post-treatment unit, a differentiation is made between steady operating states and non-steady operating states by taking into account the axial and the radial temperature distribution, and, on the basis of virtual segmentation of the post-treatment unit, in particular the radial heat transfer to the surroundings is taken into account in the model-based determination for steady operating states, and for non-steady operating states the heat transfer from the exhaust gas which flows axially through the post-treatment unit to the segments is taken into account by a heat transfer coefficient k.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hehle, Ralf Müller, Jens Niemeyer, Jörg Remele, Guido Schäffner, Holger Sinzenich, Tim Späder
  • Publication number: 20130209319
    Abstract: An exhaust post-treatment device is designed in a layered fashion and comprises an exhaust cleaning arrangement lying between a supply chamber and a transition chamber with soot filters lying at both sides of a denitrification-catalytic converter unit, with the transition chamber comprising a mixing chamber open towards the denitrification-catalytic converter unit, in which starting at the soot filters via separate guide channels, the exhaust is injected in the opposite direction of flow and which mixing chamber is limited by guide panels, which form walls of the guide channels extending encompassing along the housing towards the mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Guido Schäffner, Hans Sudmanns, Claudia Riedel
  • Publication number: 20030044330
    Abstract: A solid material for adsorption of nitrogen oxides in an oxidizing atmosphere and desorption of nitrogen oxides in a reducing atmosphere in gases, such as internal combustion engine exhaust gases, can comprise a porous support, at least one metal component, and at least one transition metal component. A process for adsorption and desorption of nitrogen oxides in gases, such as internal combustion engine exhaust gases, can comprise the use of at least one solid material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Renato Andorf, Josef Guenther, Brigitte Konrad, Bernd Krutzsch, Werner Maunz, Carsten Plog, Guido Schaeffner, Dirk Voigtlaender, Wolfgang Wagner, Michel Weibel
  • Patent number: 6309617
    Abstract: An Ag-containing solid, such as Ag2O, Ag2CO3, and AgOH, is used for storing/releasing nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas from an engine during controlled cycling of the &lgr;-value of the exhaust gas. The nitrogen oxides are stored at &lgr;-values of the gas greater than 1 in the Ag-containing solid and the nitrogen oxides are released at &lgr;-values of the gas less than or equal to 1 from the Ag-containing solid. The Ag-containing solid may include a precious metal or a microporous carrier, for example, ZrO2, SiO2, TiO2, Si—Al mixed oxide, and zeolites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Dornier GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Andorf, Carsten Plog, Guido Schaeffner