Patents by Inventor Hanno Friederichs
Hanno Friederichs 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).
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Patent number: 11428131Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a resonator of an exhaust system. In one example, the resonator is a quarter wave resonator with a diaphragm configured to provide pulsations during low-end engine torque conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Frank Wunderlich, Michael Forsting, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Andreas Kuske, Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 11333109Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a heating device. In one example, a system comprises a heat exchanger and an air filter arranged in a common housing, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to receive coolant from a heating device. In one example, the heating device is an electric heating device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Andreas Kuske, Hanno Friederichs, Guenter Hans Grosch, Michael Forsting, Frank Wunderlich, Hans Guenter Quix, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 11220941Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an aftertreatment system. In one example, a method comprises regenerating a NOx trap during an engine shut-down event. The method further comprises reversing a direction of flow of a gas through a HP-EGR passage during the regenerating.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Christoph Boerensen, Frank Wunderlich, Michael Forsting, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Vanco Smiljanovski, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 11208971Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a condensation mitigation device. In one example, a system may include a vortex generator arranged in a flow channel of a compressor along with a condensate collection device configured to direct condensate away from compressor blades of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andreas Kuske, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Frank Wunderlich, Frank Kraemer, Lutz Henkelmann
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Patent number: 11111834Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a mixing chamber in a turbine. In one example, a system comprises a mixing chamber integrally formed within a turbine with an injector positioned to inject reductant directly into the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Andreas Kuske, Frank Wunderlich
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Patent number: 11060435Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas system. In one example, a system comprises a conical passage fluidly coupling a turbine outlet to an aftertreatment device. The conical passage may further comprise a scavenge valve to adjust exhaust gas flow therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Andreas Kuske, Frank Wunderlich, Frank Kraemer, Franz J. Brinkmann, Lutz Henkelmann, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
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Publication number: 20210199033Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a resonator of an exhaust system. In one example, the resonator is a quarter wave resonator with a diaphragm configured to provide pulsations during low-end engine torque conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Frank Wunderlich, Michael Forsting, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Andreas Kuske, Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 11047348Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust-gas arrangement. In one example, a system may include a barrier dividing an intake passage into first and second portions to mitigate exhaust-gas recirculate mixing with charge air upstream of a compressor.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Andreas Kuske, Hanno Friederichs, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Frank Kraemer, Frank Wunderlich
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Internal combustion engine with compressor, exhaust-gas recirculation arrangement and pivotable flap
Patent number: 10934945Abstract: Methods and system are provided for a flap valve having a sealing element. In one example, a system include a front side of the flap valve having a first sealing element and a back side of the flap valve having a second sealing element, where the first sealing element and the second sealing element are located along a circumferential edge of the flap valve and spaced away from its geometric center.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andreas Kuske, Christian Winge Vigild, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs -
Patent number: 10871111Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel with an inlet and an outlet, a control element, an exhaust gas recirculation channel with an opening, a recirculation channel, and a shaft having the control element eccentrically mounted thereon. The exhaust gas recirculation channel enters the intake channel. The opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel is a valve seat for the control element. The shaft acts as an axis of rotation for the control element. A rotation of the shaft moves the control element between a first end position where the control element throttles the intake channel and a second end position where the control element contacts the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel. The axis of rotation is arranged in a plane which passes through the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Patrick Sutty, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
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Patent number: 10851740Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger comprising a compressor inlet shaped to mitigated condensate formation therein. In one example, system may include a condensate trap which runs along an inner wall of the compressor inlet and is shaped to trap condensate.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Kindl, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Andreas Kuske, Hanno Friederichs, Guenter Grosch, Claudia Herudek
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Patent number: 10851739Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel, an exhaust gas recirculation channel which enters into the intake channel, a control element, a mixing housing which forms the intake channel, a connection element, a compressor, and a shaft. The mixing housing has a mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in a lower area, an outlet, a mixing housing section, and a bowl-shaped recess. The cross-sectional extension is formed via the mixing housing to provide an axial stop face. The connection element abuts against the axial stop face and is radially limited by an axially opposite inner wall surface on the stop face. The mixing housing section has a recess arranged at the lowest point of the mixing housing section and below the axially opposite inner wall surface. The recess enters into the bowl-shaped recess of the mixing housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Christian Vigild
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Publication number: 20200340431Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a heating device. In one example, a system comprises a heat exchanger and an air filter arranged in a common housing, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to receive coolant from a heating device. In one example, the heating device is an electric heating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Andreas Kuske, Hanno Friederichs, Guenter Hans Grosch, Michael Forsting, Frank Wunderlich, Hans Guenter Quix, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 10815873Abstract: The disclosure relates to a supercharged, direct-injection internal combustion engine having an intake system for the supply of charge air and having an exhaust-gas discharge system for the discharge of exhaust gas and having at least two series-connected exhaust-gas turbochargers which each comprise a turbine arranged in the exhaust-gas discharge system and a compressor arranged in the intake system and of which a first exhaust-gas turbocharger serves as a low-pressure stage and a second exhaust-gas turbocharger serves as a high-pressure stage, a first bypass line being provided which branches off from the exhaust-gas discharge system between the first turbine and the second turbine so as to form a first junction point.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Michael Forsting, Hanno Friederichs, Vanco Smiljanovski, Andreas Kuske
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Patent number: 10794336Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an EGR cooler having first and second coolant jackets fluidly coupled to first and second coolant systems, respectively. In one example, the first and second coolant jackets are hermetically sealed from one another. Furthermore, the second coolant jacket protrudes into a portion of an exhaust gas passage directly downstream of an exhaust aftertreatment device.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
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Publication number: 20200284176Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an aftertreatment system. In one example, a method comprises regenerating a NOx trap during an engine shut-down event. The method further comprises reversing a direction of flow of a gas through a HP-EGR passage during the regenerating.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Christoph Boerensen, Frank Wunderlich, Michael Forsting, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Vanco Smiljanovski, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
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Patent number: 10767570Abstract: A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes a housing in which is formed an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the second surface so that an exhaust gas flow flows into the intake pipe when the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is opened. In a first end position of the regulating element, where the intake pipe is at throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, where the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Maximilian Flender, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs
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Publication number: 20200224613Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a condensation mitigation device. In one example, a system may include a vortex generator arranged in a flow channel of a compressor along with a condensate collection device configured to direct condensate away from compressor blades of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Frank Wunderlich, Frank Kraemer, Lutz Henkelmann
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Patent number: 10697362Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a boosted internal combustion engine. In one example, a system may include an intake system for supplying charge air, a compressor arranged in the intake system, a first shut-off element arranged in the intake system upstream of an impeller of the compressor, a bypass line that branches off from the intake system upstream of the first shut-off element and that rejoins the intake system upstream of the impeller, a second shut-off element arranged in the bypass line, a compressed air line that opens into the bypass line downstream of the second shut-off element, and a third shut-off element arranged in the compressed air line. A map width of the compressor may be increased by providing airflow to the impeller via the bypass line during low mass flow conditions, and impeller acceleration may be expedited by providing compressed air via the compressed air line.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Frank Kraemer, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Kindl, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Andreas Kuske, Jens Groeger, Hanno Friederichs, Franz Brinkmann
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Publication number: 20200149456Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas system. In one example, a system comprises a conical passage fluidly coupling a turbine outlet to an aftertreatment device. The conical passage may further comprise a scavenge valve to adjust exhaust gas flow therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Andreas Kuske, Frank Wunderlich, Frank Kraemer, Franz J. Brinkmann, Lutz Henkelmann, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff