Patents by Inventor Gunnar-Marcel Klein

Gunnar-Marcel Klein 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: 11634011
    Abstract: A road vehicle with a vehicle frame and a rear axle connected to the vehicle frame is provided with an ambient air purification device with filter elements for removing dust, particulate matter, and gases from ambient air. The ambient air purification device is arranged transverse to a longitudinal vehicle axis in an exterior region of the road vehicle at a vehicle rear of the road vehicle in an underfloor region such that at least the filter elements are arranged behind the rear axle of the road vehicle in a travel direction of the road vehicle. The ambient air purification device is received in an installation space of the vehicle frame. The ambient air purification device is flowed through in longitudinal vehicle direction. A free outflow zone of the ambient air purification device is arranged, in travel direction of the road vehicle, behind the ambient air purification device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Keller, Andreas Pelz, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thomas Loehl, Thilo Mueller, Christoph Schulz, Jens Gusek
  • Patent number: 11065942
    Abstract: An environmental air cleaning device for a road vehicle removes dust, particulate matter, and/or gases from environmental air. The environmental air cleaning device has one or more filter elements. The environmental air cleaning device is provided with a mounting device that rigidly couples to a vehicle-side mounting device for roof loads. A road vehicle with such an environmental air cleaning device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Keller, Andreas Pelz, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thomas Loehl, Thilo Mueller, Christoph Schulz
  • Publication number: 20200031204
    Abstract: A road vehicle with a vehicle frame and a rear axle connected to the vehicle frame is provided with an ambient air purification device with filter elements for removing dust, particulate matter, and gases from ambient air. The ambient air purification device is arranged transverse to a longitudinal vehicle axis in an exterior region of the road vehicle at a vehicle rear of the road vehicle in an underfloor region such that at least the filter elements are arranged behind the rear axle of the road vehicle in a travel direction of the road vehicle. The ambient air purification device is received in an installation space of the vehicle frame. The ambient air purification device is flowed through in longitudinal vehicle direction. A free outflow zone of the ambient air purification device is arranged, in travel direction of the road vehicle, behind the ambient air purification device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Florian Keller, Andreas Pelz, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thomas Loehl, Thilo Mueller, Christoph Schulz, Jens Gusek
  • Publication number: 20190336899
    Abstract: An environmental air cleaning device for a road vehicle removes dust, particulate matter, and/or gases from environmental air. The environmental air cleaning device has one or more filter elements. The environmental air cleaning device is provided with a mounting device that rigidly couples to a vehicle-side mounting device for roof loads. A road vehicle with such an environmental air cleaning device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Florian Keller, Andreas Pelz, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thomas Loehl, Thilo Mueller, Christoph Schulz
  • Publication number: 20190337360
    Abstract: An ambient air purification device for a road vehicle for removing dust, particulate matter, and/or gases from ambient air has one or more filter elements. The ambient air purification device is attachable in an external region to a vehicle rear of the road vehicle by a releasable coupling. The ambient air purification device has at least one mating coupling of the releasable coupling, wherein the at least one mating coupling is coupled to a vehicle-side coupling component of the releasable coupling. A road vehicle provided with such an ambient air purification device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Florian Keller, Andreas Pelz, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thomas Loehl, Thilo Mueller, Christoph Schulz
  • Patent number: 10252207
    Abstract: A filter element for filtering media with a pleated filter medium is described. Each pleat (6) is formed by two pleated sheets which form a pleat tip (7) with one another on the crude side (3) exposed to oncoming flow. Two neighboring pleats (6) form a pleat base (8) with one another, wherein the crude side (3) and/or the clean side (4) of the filter medium has a plurality of elongated adhesive sections along at least two adhesive traces (14), each having at least one adhesive section and each having at least one adhesive interruption (15). The mutual spacing of the two pleated sheets in the region of the pleat tip (7) is between zero and two mm or the two pleated sheets are in contact with one another in the region of the pleat tip (7), wherein the pleat spacing (9) between the two pleated sheets of a pleat pocket (11) amounts to at least twice the pleat spacing in the region of the pleat tip 7 in the region of the pleat base (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Gelase Mbadinga Mouanda, Michael Heim, Gunnar-Marcel Klein
  • Patent number: 9579595
    Abstract: A transmission oil filter has a filtration layer of fiberglass medium and, downstream of the filtration layer, a melt blown layer applied to the filtration layer for preventing or reducing introduction of fiberglass into the liquid to be filtered. The filtration layer of fiber glass medium has two faces and a spunbond layer is attached for improved handling of the filtration layer of fiberglass medium to at least one of the two faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Claudia Hüppchen, Harald Banzhaf, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thorsten Schmid
  • Publication number: 20160016100
    Abstract: A filter element for filtering media with a pleated filter medium is described. Each pleat (6) is formed by two pleated sheets which form a pleat tip (7) with one another on the crude side (3) exposed to oncoming flow. Two neighboring pleats (6) form a pleat base (8) with one another, wherein the crude side (3) and/or the clean side (4) of the filter medium has a plurality of elongated adhesive sections along at least two adhesive traces (14), each having at least one adhesive section and each having at least one adhesive interruption (15). The mutual spacing of the two pleated sheets in the region of the pleat tip (7) is between zero and two mm or the two pleated sheets are in contact with one another in the region of the pleat tip (7), wherein the pleat spacing (9) between the two pleated sheets of a pleat pocket (11) amounts to at least twice the pleat spacing in the region of the pleat tip 7 in the region of the pleat base (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Gelase Mbadinga Mouanda, Michael Heim, Gunnar-Marcel Klein
  • Patent number: 8501002
    Abstract: The invention concerns a filter insert (1) that is provided as an exchangeable insert in a filter, in particular an oil filter, fuel filter or the like of an internal combustion engine. The filter comprises a filter housing (3) that can be separated along a separating plane (2) and the exchangeable filter insert (1) extending in an axial direction (18). Two housing parts (4, 5) of the filter housing (3) are sealed relative to one another along the separating plane (2) by means of a seal (6). The seal (6) is secured slidably and captively in the axial direction (18) on the filter insert (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Knickmann, Ralf Blum, Wolfgang Cedzich, Andreas Franz, Roland Hartmann, Herbert Jainek, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Markus Kolczyk, Thomas Petschl, Steffen Ritter, Mathias Schuster, Birgit Herbst, Ralf Kaiser, Uwe Kaiser, Joachim Kegel, Hans-Günter Wächter
  • Patent number: 7938963
    Abstract: A fuel filter system, particularly a diesel filter, including a housing, a particle filter arranged in the housing, and a coalescer element mounted on the particle filter. Fuel passes successively through the serially connected coalescer and particle filter. The coalescer element improves the separation of any water contained in the fuel to be filtered, while exhibiting no or no significant fuel-filtering properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Uwe Weipprecht, Steffi Kiedaisch
  • Publication number: 20100170842
    Abstract: The invention concerns a filter insert (1) that is provided as an exchangeable insert in a filter, in particular an oil filter, fuel filter or the like of an internal combustion engine. The filter comprises a filter housing (3) that can be separated along a separating plane (2) and the exchangeable filter insert (1) extending in an axial direction (18). Two housing parts (4, 5) of the filter housing (3) are sealed relative to one another along the separating plane (2) by means of a seal (6). The seal (6) is secured slidably and captively in the axial direction (18) on the filter insert (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Kai Knickmann, Ralf Blum, Wolfgang Cedzich, Andreas Franz, Roland Hartmann, Herbert Jainek, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Markus Kolczyk, Thomas Petschl, Steffen Ritter, Mathias Schuster, Birgit Herbst, Ralf Kaiser, Uwe Kaiser, Joachim Kegel, Hans-Guenter Waechter
  • Publication number: 20090120868
    Abstract: A transmission oil filter has a filtration layer of fiberglass medium and, downstream of the filtration layer, a melt blown layer applied to the filtration layer for preventing or reducing introduction of fiberglass into the liquid to be filtered. The filtration layer of fiber glass medium has two faces and a spunbond layer is attached for improved handling of the filtration layer of fiberglass medium to at least one of the two faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Claudia Huppchen, Harald Banzhaf, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Thorsten Schmid
  • Publication number: 20080035537
    Abstract: A fuel filter system characterized by a simple design provided with a coalescer element (20) disposed in the immediate fuel inlet region for improving the elimination of water droplets. The coalescer element includes an upper end plate (26) that extends to the inner wall of the housing (10), thereby sealing the coalescer element as well as the inlet region and the outer unfiltered fluid region. The coalescer element (20) and the particle filter (19) are arranged on a common separating element (25), which rests against the discharge tube (17) located in the center of the fuel filter via a profiled seal. The end plate of the coalescer element can be produced with the profiled elastomeric seal molded thereon by two-component injection molding or by overmolding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Guenter Jokschas, Martin Klein
  • Patent number: 7323102
    Abstract: An apparatus for filtering a liquid, with a housing, a liquid inlet arranged in the housing, a liquid outlet arranged in the housing, a filter for removing particles from a liquid stream arranged between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet, and at least one additive for functionally altering the liquid properties arranged in the apparatus, in which the additive is arranged in the interior volume of the apparatus and is shaped in a colloidally disperse, dimensionally stable, elastic form corresponding to at least one geometric space defined by an interior structure of the apparatus or of the filter for removing the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Markus Kolczyk, Guenter Jokschas, Michael Harenbrock, Joerg Kramer
  • Patent number: 7137510
    Abstract: A filter element in which several layers (2, 3, 5, 7, 8) made of a filtering medium are joined contiguously in the direction of flow with at least one layer (2, 7) made of a filtering medium with a high storage capacity and a low degree of separation being arranged on the in-flow side and at least one layer (3, 8) made of a filtering medium with a low storage capacity and a high degree of separation being arranged on the out-flow side. Preferably the in-flow filtering medium is made of a filter paper containing cellulose or of a melt-blown material, and the out-flow side filtering medium is produced from a filter paper containing cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Nikolaus Moser
  • Publication number: 20060006109
    Abstract: A fuel filter system, particularly a diesel filter, including a housing, a particle filter arranged in the housing, and a coalescer element mounted on the particle filter. Fuel passes successively through the serially connected coalescer and particle filter. The coalescer element improves the separation of any water contained in the fuel to be filtered, while exhibiting no or no significant fuel-filtering properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: MANN & HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Uwe Weipprecht, Steffi Kiedaisch
  • Publication number: 20050194309
    Abstract: A liquid filter, particularly an oil filter for an internal combustion engine, having a housing with an inlet and an outlet and a filter element sealingly arranged between the inlet and the outlet, in which the filter element includes multiple layers at least one of which serves to separate particles from a liquid stream passing through the filter, and another of which is infused with active substances immobilized therein which chemically decompose and/or physically bind contaminants present in the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Harenbrock, Gunnar-Marcel Klein
  • Publication number: 20050173325
    Abstract: An apparatus for filtering a liquid, with a housing, a liquid inlet arranged in the housing, a liquid outlet arranged in the housing, a filter for removing particles from a liquid stream arranged between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet, and at least one additive for functionally altering the liquid properties arranged in the apparatus, in which the additive is arranged in the interior volume of the apparatus and is shaped in a colloidally disperse, dimensionally stable, elastic form corresponding to at least one geometric space defined by an interior structure of the apparatus or of the filter for removing the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Markus Kolczyk, Guenter Jokschas, Michael Harenbrock, Joerg Kramer
  • Publication number: 20030226792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer filter element. The invention provides a main filter layer which preferably consists of a melt-blown fleece and has an absolute filtration capability. A paper layer (2) on the clean side supports the filter element and does not contribute to the filtering of the fluid to be filtered. Said layer can therefore have a macropore structure, thereby allowing a low flow resistance. A layer (3)on the clean side which preferably also consists of paper serves to pre-filter the fluid and to protect and support the main filter layer. The inventive design of the multi-layer filter material provides a means for economically producing filter elements, especially filter cartridges which are folded in the shape of a star, since no trellis protective layers are necessary. The invention also facilitates an improved thermal disposability of the proposed filter cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Tumbrink, Joachim-Paul Krieger, Gunnar-Marcel Klein
  • Publication number: 20020056684
    Abstract: A multi-layer filter element for filtering fluids, in which a plurality of layers of filter media follow each other in succession in the direction of flow through the filter. All of the individual filter layers are preferably made of synthetic fibers, especially polyester fibers. The successive filter layers exhibit an increasing degree of filter fineness in the direction of flow through the filter, and the filter material contains at least one filter layer arranged on the inflow side of the filter which is composed of a meltblown fiber nonwoven web, especially a polyester fiber web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventor: Gunnar-Marcel Klein