Patents by Inventor Herbert Zoeller
Herbert Zoeller 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: 12221914Abstract: A burner for an exhaust gas tract that can be flowed through by exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber in which a mixture of air and liquid fuel is to be ignited and combusted and an inner swirl chamber that can be flowed through by a first part of the air and causes a turbulent flow of the first part of the air. The swirl chamber has a first outflow opening that can be flowed through by the first part of the air flowing through the inner swirl chamber and via which the first part of the air can be removed from the inner swirl chamber. The burner further includes an introduction element that can be flowed through by the liquid fuel and via which the fuel can be introduced into the inner swirl chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AGInventor: Herbert Zoeller
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Patent number: 12092053Abstract: A piston for a reciprocating piston machine includes a piston crown, a piston recess, and an annular groove formed in the piston crown. The annular groove extends in a radial direction of the piston outwards and a cross-section of the annular groove has a half-teardrop shape. The half-teardrop shape has a first radius and a second radius where the second radius is directly contiguous with the first radius outwards in the radial direction of the piston and where the second radius is greater than the first radius.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AGInventors: Helmut Gildein, Herbert Zoeller
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Patent number: 12049841Abstract: A burner for an exhaust gas tract that can be flowed through by exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber, in which a mixture comprising air and a liquid fuel is to be ignited and thus to be combusted, and an inner swirl chamber that can be flowed through by a first part of the air. The inner swirl chamber has a first swirl generation device via which a turbulent flow of the first part of the air can be caused and a first outflow opening that can be flowed through by the first part of the air flowing through the inner swirl chamber. The first part of the air being able to be removed from the inner swirl chamber via the first outflow opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AGInventor: Herbert Zoeller
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Publication number: 20240175386Abstract: A burner for an exhaust gas tract that can be flowed through by exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber, in which a mixture comprising air and a liquid fuel is to be ignited and thus to be combusted, and an inner swirl chamber that can be flowed through by a first part of the air. The inner swirl chamber has a first swirl generation device via which a turbulent flow of the first part of the air can be caused and a first outflow opening that can be flowed through by the first part of the air flowing through the inner swirl chamber. The first part of the air being able to be removed from the inner swirl chamber via the first outflow opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventor: Herbert ZOELLER
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Publication number: 20240175385Abstract: A burner for an exhaust gas tract that can be flowed through by exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber in which a mixture of air and liquid fuel is to be ignited and combusted and an inner swirl chamber that can be flowed through by a first part of the air and causes a turbulent flow of the first part of the air. The swirl chamber has a first outflow opening that can be flowed through by the first part of the air flowing through the inner swirl chamber and via which the first part of the air can be removed from the inner swirl chamber. The burner further includes an introduction element that can be flowed through by the liquid fuel and via which the fuel can be introduced into the inner swirl chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventor: Herbert ZOELLER
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Publication number: 20240167406Abstract: A method for operating a burner where the burner includes a combustion chamber in which a mixture comprising air and a liquid fuel is to be ignited and an inner swirl chamber that can be flowed through by a first part of the air. The swirl chamber has a first outflow opening that can be flowed through by the first part of the air flowing through the inner swirl chamber. The burner includes an introduction element that has an exit opening that can be flowed through by the liquid fuel and is arranged in the inner swirl chamber where the liquid fuel is able to be introduced into the inner swirl chamber via the exit opening by the introduction element and where the first outflow opening is also able to be flowed through by the liquid fuel that has exited the introduction element via the exit opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventor: Herbert ZOELLER
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Publication number: 20220307445Abstract: A piston for a reciprocating piston machine includes a piston crown, a piston recess, and an annular groove formed in the piston crown. The annular groove extends in a radial direction of the piston outwards and a cross-section of the annular groove has a half-teardrop shape. The half-teardrop shape has a first radius and a second radius where the second radius is directly contiguous with the first radius outwards in the radial direction of the piston and where the second radius is greater than the first radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Helmut GILDEIN, Herbert ZOELLER
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Patent number: 11454191Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a cylinder, the combustion chamber of which is delimited in the radial direction by a cylinder wall and in the axial direction by a piston and by a combustion chamber roof. The piston has an annularly peripheral piston stage which is arranged axially recessed in the piston compared with an annularly peripheral piston crown and which merges via an annularly jet splitter contour into a piston hollow arranged axially recessed in the piston in relation to the piston stage. An injector is allocated to the cylinder and via the injector several injection jets are simultaneously injected directly into the combustion chamber in a star shape for a combustion process.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Joerg Bauer, Herbert Zoeller
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Publication number: 20210239072Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a cylinder, the combustion chamber of which is delimited in the radial direction by a cylinder wall and in the axial direction by a piston and by a combustion chamber roof. The piston has an annularly peripheral piston stage which is arranged axially recessed in the piston compared with an annularly peripheral piston crown and which merges via an annularly jet splitter contour into a piston hollow arranged axially recessed in the piston in relation to the piston stage. An injector is allocated to the cylinder and via the injector several injection jets are simultaneously injected directly into the combustion chamber in a star shape for a combustion process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Joerg Bauer, Herbert Zoeller
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Publication number: 20190186342Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes using a 3-front combustion method. When the fuel is injected into the combustion chamber the fuel flows through an injection element with a hydraulic flow of more than 1000 cubic centimeters per 60 seconds and under an injection pressure of 100 bar and 1 liter capacity per cylinder if the internal combustion engine is used in a truck application. The fuel flows through the injection element with a hydraulic flow of more than 1900 cubic centimeters per 60 seconds and under an injection pressure of 100 bar and 1 liter capacity per cylinder if the internal combustion engine is used in a car application.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Daimler AGInventor: Herbert ZOELLER
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Patent number: 9518486Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine involves using an injection valve to post-inject fuel into at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine in order to help regenerate a particulate filter that is arranged in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine, downstream of an oxidation catalyst. A closing moment of a discharge valve of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine is advanced when the temperature of the oxidation catalyst is in a first temperature range, and the post-injections are performed when the temperature of the oxidation catalyst is in a second temperature range, an upper limit of the first temperature range having a lower value that an upper limit of the second temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Koch, Alexander Massner, Frank Zimmermann, Herbert Zoeller
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Patent number: 9476346Abstract: A combustion process with auto-ignition for direct-injection internal combustion engines involves dividing injection jets at a jet divider contour into a first partial quantity, a second partial quantity, and third partial quantities. The first partial quantity enters into the piston cavity, the second partial quantity enters via the piston step into a region between the piston crown and the cylinder head, and the third partial quantities, starting from the respective injection jet, spread out on both sides in the peripheral direction in opposite directions along the piston step, and the respective third partial quantities collide with one another between two adjacent injection jets within the piston step and are deflected radially inwardly.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Herbert Zoeller, Naima Seddouk
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Patent number: 9429065Abstract: An internal combustion engine (1), preferably for a motor vehicle, having at least one cylinder (2) which encloses a combustion chamber (3) and in which a piston (4) is situated in such a way that it may perform a stroke movement, and having at least one injector (5) per cylinder for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber (3). The respective injector (5) has multiple injection openings (9, 10) through which the fuel exits from the injector (5) and enters into the combustion chamber (3). To be able to react more fuel, first injection openings (9) and second injection openings (10) are situated relative to one another in such a way that first injection jets (15) from the first injection openings (9) reach the piston (4) essentially without contacting second injection jets (18) from the second injection openings (10).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Herbert Zoeller, Thomas Koch, Bernd Lamparter, Christian Krauser
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Publication number: 20150275723Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine involves using an injection valve to post-inject fuel into at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine in order to help regenerate a particulate filter that is arranged in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine, downstream of an oxidation catalyst. A closing moment of a discharge valve of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine is advanced when the temperature of the oxidation catalyst is in a first temperature range, and the post-injections are performed when the temperature of the oxidation catalyst is in a second temperature range, an upper limit of the first temperature range having a lower value that an upper limit of the second temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Thomas Koch, Alexander Massner, Frank Zimmermann, Herbert Zoeller
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Publication number: 20140305402Abstract: A combustion process with auto-ignition for direct-injection internal combustion engines involves dividing injection jets at a jet divider contour into a first partial quantity, a second partial quantity, and third partial quantities. The first partial quantity enters into the piston cavity, the second partial quantity enters via the piston step into a region between the piston crown and the cylinder head, and the third partial quantities, starting from the respective injection jet, spread out on both sides in the peripheral direction in opposite directions along the piston step, and the respective third partial quantities collide with one another between two adjacent injection jets within the piston step and are deflected radially inwardly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Herbert Zoeller, Naima Seddouk
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Publication number: 20140048036Abstract: An internal combustion engine (1), preferably for a motor vehicle, having at least one cylinder (2) which encloses a combustion chamber (3) and in which a piston (4) is situated in such a way that it may perform a stroke movement, and having at least one injector (5) per cylinder for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber (3). The respective injector (5) has multiple injection openings (9, 10) through which the fuel exits from the injector (5) and enters into the combustion chamber (3). To be able to react more fuel, first injection openings (9) and second injection openings (10) are situated relative to one another in such a way that first injection jets (15) from the first injection openings (9) reach the piston (4) essentially without contacting second injection jets (18) from the second injection openings (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: DAIMLER AGInventors: Herbert Zoeller, Thomas Koch, Bernd Lamparter, Christian Krauser
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Patent number: 6244249Abstract: A fuel injection diesel internal-combustion engine, having a fuel injection nozzle and having a spring chamber for the pressure spring acting upon the nozzle needle. The spring chamber is constructed as a closed chamber without a leak oil connection and forms a space which is under a fuel pressure. The spring chamber fills with fuel, by way of a slide guide for the pressure linkage of the nozzle needle constructed as a throttling point. As the fuel pressure in the spring chamber rises above an operating pressure corresponding to the control position of the injection pump for the defined driving condition, the delivery time of the pump is prolonged for compensating the lowering of the injection quantity connected with the pressure rise in the spring chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Herbert Zoeller
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Patent number: 6205978Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with a cam-controlled high-pressure injection pump for transporting the fuel to a common fuel line (common rail), which acts as high-pressure storage and from which injection lines lead to injection nozzles and which possesses a solenoid valve control that determines the start of the feeding of the fuel, in every exposed fuel line which is an injection line between the common fuel line and an injection nozzle, a solenoid valve which controls the starting point for feeding fuel to the engine is arranged in close proximity to the common fuel line.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventor: Herbert Zoeller