Patents by Inventor Hans Guenter Quix

Hans Guenter Quix 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: 20240140166
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a thermal management system for a battery-powered electric vehicle, which system comprises a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, which has at least a first partial circuit having a cooling device, at least a second partial circuit having a heating device, at least a third partial circuit supplying a battery and at least a fourth partial circuit supplying components of the power electronics and passing through a heat exchanger, and the thermal management system further comprises a controller, wherein the primary circuit has at least one indirect evaporator and at least one indirect condenser, a number of pumps are arranged in the system for driving a fluid flow in the partial circuits, and a maximum number of five control valves is controlled in the system for controlling the fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Publication number: 20240008221
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle and cooling system for an electrified vehicle include fuel cells and at least one first and one second coolant circuit, wherein the first coolant circuit is configured for cooling the fuel cells and the second coolant circuit is configured for cooling electronic components for controlling the fuel cells and for cooling electronic components of an electric drive system, wherein the second coolant circuit has a first partial coolant circuit and a second partial coolant circuit, wherein the first partial coolant circuit is arranged in the region of the electronic components for controlling the fuel cells and the second partial coolant circuit is arranged in the region of the electronic components of the electric drive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter QUIX, Jan MEHRING
  • Publication number: 20230420712
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a cooling system fluidly coupled to the fuel cell and having a heat exchanger, a coolant pump, and a coolant reservoir fluidly coupled to the heat exchanger and the coolant pump, a supply system configured to supply a gas containing oxygen to the fuel cell, and a valve positioned in a connecting line between the cooling system and the supply system, the valve operable to limit a pressure difference between pressure of the gas supplied to the fuel cell and pressure within the cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jan MEHRING, Stefan KAIMER, Hans Guenter QUIX, Monika DERFLINGER, Julio OROZCO SANTOS COY
  • Patent number: 11846473
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Antonio Farina, Jan Mehring, Stefan Quiring
  • Publication number: 20230090996
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system for a vehicle having a fuel cell system. The cooling system comprises a first cooling circuit configured to cool a first set of vehicle components and a second cooling circuit configured to cool a second set of vehicle components. The fuel cell system is distributed between the first set of vehicle components and the second set of vehicle components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mauro GIROLDO, Jan MEHRING, Christopher BANCROFT, Martin EGAN, Khizer TUFAIL, Hans Guenter QUIX
  • Patent number: 11549428
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid medium in a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine. The valve is configured to react to the temperature of the coolant via an expansion element and to the charge pressure in the intake tract via a pressure-sensitive actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11541722
    Abstract: A heating system and method for heating the interior of a vehicle, such as a motor vehicle, which has an air-air heat exchanger having a heat storage medium, and which is configured to transfer heat between exhaust air, drawn out of the interior, and intake air, supplied to the interior from the vehicle environment, between the exhaust air and the heat storage medium, and between the intake air and the heat storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Claudia Katharina Herudek, Florian Huth, Andreas Schmitt, David van Bebber
  • Patent number: 11454159
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a coolant circuit. In one example, the coolant circuit comprises high and low-temperature radiators, where only one pump is configured to conduct coolant through the entire coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber, Jan Mehring, Antonio Farina, Herbert Ernst
  • Patent number: 11333109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Andreas Kuske, Hanno Friederichs, Guenter Hans Grosch, Michael Forsting, Frank Wunderlich, Hans Guenter Quix, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
  • Publication number: 20220120521
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Antonio Farina, Jan Mehring, Stefan Quiring
  • Patent number: 11255298
    Abstract: Methods and systems for an engine intake system are provided. In one example, a system includes a first charge air cooler arranged upstream of a second charge air cooler. The first charge air cooler is configured to provide thermal transfer between a compressed charge air and a fresh intake air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Paul Nigel Turner
  • Publication number: 20220034254
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid medium in a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine. The valve is configured to react to the temperature of the coolant via an expansion element and to the charge pressure in the intake tract via a pressure-sensitive actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11193416
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a piston. In one example, system may comprise a piston comprising a chamber in which a piston bowl may actuated independent of an oscillation of the piston. The chamber may receive a hydraulic fluid in order to adjust a position of the piston bowl within the chamber, thereby adjusting a compression ratio of a combustion chamber in which the piston may oscillate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber, Antonio Farina, Herbert Ernst, Richard Fritsche
  • Patent number: 11162460
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, the coolant arrangement comprises a heat store configured to store and release heat in response to a temperature of coolant flowing therethrough. The cooling arrangement further comprises an intake air heat exchanger for heating intake air prior to mixing with exhaust gas to decrease condensate formation, in one example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Christian Winge Vigild
  • Patent number: 11125190
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, a method comprises flowing coolant from a high temperature coolant circuit or a low temperature coolant circuit to a fresh air heat exchanger in response to a condensate likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Christian Winge Vigild, Paul Turner, Adrian Butcher
  • Patent number: 11125143
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, a plurality of engine oil passages extend through a cylinder head coolant jacket. The plurality of engine oil passages is fluidly separated from the cylinder head coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guenter Grosch, Richard Fritsche, Hans Guenter Quix, Kai Kuhlbach
  • Patent number: 11097597
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling an air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. In one example, a cabin of the vehicle may be heated firstly to a first temperature by flowing coolant to a heat exchanger, coolant may be diverted away from the heat exchanger and toward the engine in order to increase a temperature of the engine, and the coolant may then flow again to the heat exchanger in order to heat the cabin to a second temperature. An amount of fuel savings resulting from heating the engine by diverting coolant away from the heat exchanger may be displayed to an operator of the vehicle via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Robert Hoenen
  • Patent number: 11092047
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an oil supply unit with a collecting vessel for collecting oil. In one example, a method may include maintaining a pressure of the collecting vessel during an engine off, wherein maintaining the pressure may further include maintain a temperature of the oil in the collecting vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber
  • Patent number: 11027589
    Abstract: An example cooling system for an electric includes an electric motor having a supply opening for receiving coolant and a discharge opening for expelling coolant. The discharge opening is connected to the supply opening via a coolant circuit including a first return line in which a heat exchanger is arranged, a bypass line, and a second return line. The discharge opening is connected to the supply opening by both the first return line and the bypass line, and the bypass line bypasses the heat exchanger arranged in the first return line. A battery is arranged in the second return line, and the second return line is selectively connected to a short-circuit line which causes coolant to flow from a point downstream of the battery and return to the second return line upstream of the battery. Further, a heat accumulator is arranged in the short-circuit line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Lars Kaufmann, Thomas Zenner, Mehmet Toeremis
  • Patent number: 11022015
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas aftertreatment device. In one example, a method may include adjusting one or more engine operating parameters to produce ammonia in an ammonia generating device in response to an ammonia demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David van Bebber, Hans Guenter Quix, Claudia Katharina Herudek, Andreas Schmitt