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).

  • 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
  • Patent number: 11022021
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, the cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to only an upper portion of a cylinder head during a cold-start. The cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to a cylinder block, a lower portion of the cylinder-head, and the upper portion of the cylinder head outside of the cold-start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Bas van den Heuvel, Andreas Kuske, Wilbert Hemink, Christian Winge Vigild
  • Patent number: 11015505
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cooling an aftertreatment device with exhaust gas. In one example, an exhaust system comprises a recirculation passage branching from an EGR passage from downstream of an EGR cooler to a portion of an exhaust passage between the EGR passage and an aftertreatment device. In one example, the aftertreatment device is an SCR device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, David van Bebber
  • Patent number: 11007995
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for estimating a drive train temperature for a journey. In one example, a method comprises requesting a vehicle operator to input one or more travel parameters for the journey, predicting travel parameters the vehicle operator omitted to input, and displaying an estimated fuel economy for the journey, where the estimated fuel economy is based on the estimated drive train temperature, which is based on the travel parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Robert Hoenen, Christian Hans, Herbert Ernst, Antonio Farina
  • Patent number: 10941698
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a control device for adjusting coolant flow. In one example, the control device may be shaped to receive charge air, engine coolant, and charge-air cooler coolant to adjust a flow of charge-air cooler coolant to a radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring, Herbert Ernst, Antonio Farina
  • Publication number: 20210062708
    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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Guenter Grosch, Richard Fritsche, Hans Guenter Quix, Kai Kuhlbach
  • Publication number: 20200355143
    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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Christian Winge Vigild, Paul Turner, Adrian Butcher
  • Publication number: 20200355142
    Abstract: Methods and systems for an engine intake system. In one example, a system comprises 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: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Paul Nigel Turner
  • Publication number: 20200340431
    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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    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
  • Patent number: 10801437
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with coolant jackets is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head coupled to a cylinder block to form a first cylinder, an upper head-associated coolant jacket including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head, a lower head-associated coolant jacket fluidly separated from the upper cylinder head coolant jacket and including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head vertically below the upper head-associated coolant jacket, and a block-associated coolant jacket including, a first coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with a coolant pump outlet and an outlet in fluidic communication with an inlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket, and a second coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket and an outlet in fluidic communication with a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anselm Hopf, Klaus-Peter Heinig, Wilbert Hemink, Hans Guenter Quix, Bas van den Heuvel, Franz Weber
  • Patent number: 10794336
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Kuske, Hans Guenter Quix, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
  • Patent number: 10767539
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a tempering circuit. A system comprises where the tempering circuit is fluidly coupled to each of an engine cooling circuit, an EGR cooler, and an EGR valve. The tempering circuit comprising a plurality of control valves for selectively adjusting tempering medium flow to various portions of the tempering circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Christian Winge Vigild
  • Patent number: 10731609
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an EGR cooler comprising a phase-change material. In one example, exhaust gas may be conducted through the EGR cooler when an engine is deactivated to maintain an engine temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Christian Vigild
  • Publication number: 20200240304
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cooling an aftertreatment device with exhaust gas. In one example, an exhaust system comprises a recirculation passage branching from an EGR passage from downstream of an EGR cooler to a portion of an exhaust passage between the EGR passage and an aftertreatment device. In one example, the aftertreatment device is an SCR device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, David van Bebber
  • Publication number: 20200158003
    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: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber, Jan Mehring, Antonio Farina, Herbert Ernst
  • Publication number: 20200141366
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Christian Winge Vigild
  • Publication number: 20200063636
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, the cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to only an upper portion of a cylinder head during a cold-start. The cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to a cylinder block, a lower portion of the cylinder-head, and the upper portion of the cylinder head outside of the cold-start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Bas van den Heuvel, Andreas Kuske, Wilbert Hemink, Christian Winge Vigild