Patents by Inventor Holger Hummel

Holger Hummel 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: 11411238
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel cell system of a motor vehicle includes the steps of: i) detecting whether a washing process of the motor vehicle in a wash facility for cleaning the exterior of the motor vehicle is taking place or is imminent and ii) reducing the supply of an oxidizing agent to a fuel cell stack of the fuel cell system when it has been detected that a washing process is taking place or is imminent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Binder, Holger Hummel, Markus Koban, Martin Scherrer, Danilo Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20200411887
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel cell system of a motor vehicle includes the steps of: i) detecting whether a washing process of the motor vehicle in a wash facility for cleaning the exterior of the motor vehicle is taking place or is imminent and ii) reducing the supply of an oxidizing agent to a fuel cell stack of the fuel cell system when it has been detected that a washing process is taking place or is imminent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen BINDER, Holger HUMMEL, Markus KOBAN, Martin SCHERRER, Danilo ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 8589009
    Abstract: For controlling the charge state of a battery in a hybrid vehicle having an internal-combustion engine and an electric machine, the battery is operated in a working state-of-charge range falling within a theoretically possible state-of-charge range. In a first sub-range, the battery is charged by the electric machine, the electric machine working as a generator and being engine driven. In a second sub-range, the battery is neither charged nor discharged, the electric machine working as a generator and being driven by the engine and, in the process, supplying only an on-board power supply system of the hybrid vehicle with current. In a third sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies the on-board power supply system with current, the electric machine running along passively. In a fourth sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies current to the electric machine operating as an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Bayerisch Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ronny Hirsch, Holger Hummel, Georg Mumelter
  • Publication number: 20120316719
    Abstract: For controlling the charge state of a battery in a hybrid vehicle having an internal-combustion engine and an electric machine, the battery is operated in a working state-of-charge range falling within a theoretically possible state-of-charge range. In a first sub-range, the battery is charged by the electric machine, the electric machine working as a generator and being engine driven. In a second sub-range, the battery is neither charged nor discharged, the electric machine working as a generator and being driven by the engine and, in the process, supplying only an on-board power supply system of the hybrid vehicle with current. In a third sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies the on-board power supply system with current, the electric machine running along passively. In a fourth sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies current to the electric machine operating as an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Bayeriche Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ronny Hirsch, Holger Hummel, Georg Mumelter
  • Patent number: 8256548
    Abstract: A method controls or regulates the charge state of an electrical energy accumulator of a hybrid vehicle, where, in some operating states, the energy accumulator is charged from a low to a higher charge state level by way of an electric machine driven by an internal-combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle and operating as a generator. The level of the charge state to which the energy accumulator is charged by the internal-combustion engine is selected as a function of a parameter representing the load of the electrical system or correlating thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Holger Hummel
  • Publication number: 20110163727
    Abstract: A method controls or regulates the charge state of an electrical energy accumulator of a hybrid vehicle, where, in some operating states, the energy accumulator is charged from a low to a higher charge state level by way of an electric machine driven by an internal-combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle and operating as a generator. The level of the charge state to which the energy accumulator is charged by the internal-combustion engine is selected as a function of a parameter representing the load of the electrical system or correlating thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Holger HUMMEL