Patents by Inventor Hermann Hiereth

Hermann Hiereth 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: 8495877
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine having a turbocompound system. The turbocompound system encompasses an exhaust-gas turbocharger, a turbo intercooler, and a power turbine. The power turbine is connectable, via a transmission with clutch, to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. A connectable compressor, which is couplable either to the power turbine or to the internal combustion engine, is received in a multiple-flow intake pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Weyer, Manfred Dürnholz, Friedrich Wirbeleit, Hermann Hiereth
  • Publication number: 20110100339
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine having a turbocompound system. The turbocompound system encompasses an exhaust-gas turbocharger, a turbo intercooler, and a power turbine. The power turbine is connectable, via a transmission with clutch, to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. A connectable compressor, which is couplable either to the power turbine or to the internal combustion engine, is received in a multiple-flow intake pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Klaus Weyer, Manfred Dürnholz, Friedrich Wirbeleit, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 6543226
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry can be adjusted in the fired engine operation by an automatic turbine controller to a definable desired supercharging pressure in the intake port. In the braking operation, the turbocharger can be adjusted by an engine braking system with an automatic braking controller as a function of operating parameters of the internal-combustion engine into a ram position which increases the pressure in the exhaust gas system. A change-over element is provided for the change-over between the engine braking system and the automatic turbine controller. To make the exhaust gas turbocharger variable, the automatic turbine controller and the engine braking system each have a modular design and a separate construction. A manual braking signal to the engine braking system, can be generated in a manually adjustable brake operating device. A change-over element is provided for changing over between the automatic braking controller and the brake operating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Roland Bischoff, Helmut Daudel, Guenter Fleckenstein, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 6089018
    Abstract: A method for controlling a variable turbine geometry of an exhaust gas turbocharger which supercharges an internal combustion engine for driving a motor vehicle. The turbine geometry is set as a function of the operating load of the internal combustion engine between the opening position in idling and the closed position in full load operation. The turbine geometry is brought into an operating position predetermined for the prevailing load point. To improve the non-steady-state operating performance of the exhaust gas turbocharger and the internal combustion engine, in particular during long acceleration phases of the motor vehicle, the turbine geometry is guided during a switching pause for changing gear levels of the motor vehicle into a switching pause position which is independent of the operating load. In the switching pause position a reduced flow cross section of the turbine for the exhaust gas stream is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Bischoff, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 5577892
    Abstract: In a method of injection fuel for Diesel engine comprising a high pressure injection pump with a fuel supply line for supplying high pressure fuel to fuel injection nozzles wherein a fuel control line extends between the pump and a low pressure fuel supply line for discharge in excess fuel thereto under the control of a magnetic valve which is closed to end the discharge of excess fuel and initiate pumping of fuel, the magnetic valve is opened at the end of fuel pumping at a point corresponding to a piston stroke length h after the upper dead center of the piston such that, when communication between the pump and the low pressure fuel line is established, pressure pulses in the low pressure fuel line are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Mercedes Benz AG
    Inventors: Michael Schittler, Ulrich Augustin, Volker Schwarz, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 5529042
    Abstract: In a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine with solenoid valve controlled fuel injection nozzles receiving fuel from a common high pressure fuel supply line to which fuel is supplied via a high-pressure line including a check valve by a mechanically operated high pressure piston pump which has a piston disposed in a cylinder to which fuel is fed by a low pressure fuel supply line, a control line extends between the high-pressure line upstream of the check valve and the fuel supply line and includes a solenoid valve to permit fuel discharge from the pump back to the fuel supply line and a bypass line extends between the high-pressure line downstream of the check valve and the cylinder to provide communication with the fuel supply line through passages in the piston and the working space of the piston when the piston is in its inserted position and the solenoid is open to permit the release of pressurized fuel from the common high-pressure fuel supply line to the low pressure fuel supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz A.G.
    Inventors: Ulrich Augustin, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 5526790
    Abstract: In a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine having a high-pressure pump supplying fuel from a low pressure fuel supply conduit connected to the pump to a common high pressure fuel supply conduit for the injectors of the internal combustion engine via a high-pressure conduit extending between the high pressure pump and the common fuel supply conduit, the high-pressure conduit includes a non-return valve which, at the same time, is operable electromagnetically so as to be capable of maintaining the non-return valve open beyond the high-pressure pump delivery stroke for the release of fuel from the common fuel supply conduit under the control of the pump plunger and for rapid pressure relief by keeping the non-return valve open beyond a point at which the plunger opens the low-pressure fuel supply conduit connected to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Augustin, Volker Schwarz, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 5433182
    Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder Diesel engine which is provided with magnetic valve-controlled fuel injection nozzles, and which has two fuel supply conduits (common rails) for two different groups of fuel injection nozzles and at least one high-pressure pump connected to the fuel supply conduits for delivering high-pressure fuel thereto, each fuel supply conduit includes a pressure sensor which is connected to means for shutting off the fuel supply to a fuel supply conduit when the sensor senses a pressure loss in that conduit so that the pressure can be maintained in the other fuel supply conduit and the engine can be operated on a limited basis by the cylinders supplied by the groups of injection nozzles supplied with fuel by the other fuel supply conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz A.G.
    Inventors: Ulrich Augustin, Volker Schwarz, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 5406796
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for a supercharged internal combustion engine, in which the exhaust gas turbocharger includes at least one turbine and at least one compressor and the turbine has a turbine casing with a spiral-shaped flow guide duct, a turbine wheel, an inlet end and an outlet end and the compressor includes a compressor casing with a diffuser duct, an impeller, a pressure side and a suction side and the turbine wheel and the compressor impeller are mounted on a common shaft and the turbine casing and the compressor casing, together with a bearing housing, an exhaust gas turbocharger casing and define a gas conduit connection between the inlet end of the turbine and the pressure side of the compressor with at least one control valve and a gas delivery device arranged in the gas conduit connection for controlling the flow of gas between the inlet end of the turbine and the pressure side of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Hermann Hiereth, Wolfgang Erdmann, Siegfried Sumser
  • Patent number: 4959961
    Abstract: The invention concerns a supercharged internal combustion engine in which two inlet ducts, which can be closed by inlet valves and whose flows are separated from one another, and two exhaust ducts which can be closed by exhaust valves enter the combustion space of a cylinder, one inlet duct and one exhaust duct being associated with one exhaust gas turbocharger. In order to achieve both a rapid build-up of supercharge pressure in the case of positive load changes and also an optimum homogenization of the mixture in the combustion space, the two exhaust ducts are also arranged so that their flows are separated and the inlet and exhaust side connected to the same exhaust gas turbocharger can be closed by one shut-off element each.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 4803969
    Abstract: A process for the load-dependent control of a hydraulic drive for a compressor arranged at an internal-combustion engine, the compressor being driven by a hydraulic motor that, in turn, is acted upon by pressure from a hydraulic pump, the internal-combustion engine itself driving the hydraulic pump. In order to ensure a relatively high compressor speed as early as during the idling operation of the internal-combustion engine, and have available an optimal torque for a positive load change, while keeping minimal the additional fuel consumption required for the hydraulic drive, during the idling operation of the internal-combustion engine, the hydraulic pump is adjusted into the full-delivery position and the hydraulic motor is adjusted into the minimum intake position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Hiereth, Dieter Messerschmidt
  • Patent number: 4590889
    Abstract: An arrangement for influencing a cooling air flow passing through a cooling air system of an internal-combustion engine of a vehicle includes a heat exchanger and a blower arranged in an air guiding housing, a cooling air outlet opening being arranged in the air guiding housing between the blower and a wall of an internal-combustion engine capsule in the area of the bottom side of the vehicle. In order to achieve a better efficiency of the blower and in order to prevent the emission of sounds from the ventilated capsule, pivotable guide blades are arranged in flow direction in front of and/or behind the running blades of the blower which, as a function of thir position, closes the cooling air inlet opening to the capsule and opens the cooling air outlet opening arranged in the air guiding space between the heat exchanger and the blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 4271672
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with an exhaust-gas turbocharger, particularly a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine, in which a bleeder valve is provided which during the operation of the internal combustion engine in the partial load range conducts the exhaust gases in bypassing relationship to the turbine of the exhaust gas turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gert Withalm, Hermann Hiereth
  • Patent number: 4224902
    Abstract: An air-compressing injection internal combustion engine with a main combustion space arranged in the piston and with an auxiliary chamber equipped with an injection nozzle and with a glow plug, which is in continuous communication with the main combustion space by way of a channel-shaped constriction. The pressure chamber of the auxiliary chamber is thereby disposed eccentrically in relation to the injection nozzle and the constriction while the injection nozzle injects with a first jet into the constriction and with a second jet in the direction or into the area near the glow plug which is located in the eccentrically offset part of the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Binder, Peter Charzinski, Hermann Hiereth, Harald Polz