Patents by Inventor Holger Loof

Holger Loof 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: 11105254
    Abstract: A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of components in the form of heat sources, coolant pumps, actuator devices, and temperature sensors that are fluidically connected to one another via coolant lines, wherein a plurality of cooling circuits, each including at least one of the various components, is formed. In addition, a control device is provided that is in signal-conducting connection with at least one of the temperature sensors, with at least one of the coolant pumps, and with at least one of the actuator devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Holger Loof, Jana Hartmann, Bodo Hoffmann, Marco Kiel
  • Patent number: 10871100
    Abstract: A thermal overload of an internal combustion engine and of cooling system of a combustion machine due to a raising of the temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas line of the combustion machine, which is provided as a measure to desulfurize a NOx storage catalytic converter and/or to regenerate a particulate filter, is prevented in that before and/or during this measure, the cooling output for the coolant flowing through the cooling system is systematically increased in order to achieve a lowering of the coolant temperature to a value range that lies below what would normally—that is to say, without the simultaneous desulfurization of the NOx storage catalytic converter and/or without the regeneration of the particulate filter—have been provided for the operation of the combustion machine in a corresponding operating state of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marco Kiel, Holger Loof
  • Publication number: 20190264600
    Abstract: A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of components in the form of heat sources, coolant pumps, actuator devices, and temperature sensors that are fluidically connected to one another via coolant lines, wherein a plurality of cooling circuits, each including at least one of the various components, is formed. In addition, a control device is provided that is in signal-conducting connection with at least one of the temperature sensors, with at least one of the coolant pumps, and with at least one of the actuator devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Loof, Jana Hartmann, Bodo Hoffmann, Marco Kiel
  • Publication number: 20190107036
    Abstract: A thermal overload of an internal combustion engine and of cooling system of a combustion machine due to a raising of the temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas line of the combustion machine, which is provided as a measure to desulfurize a NOx storage catalytic converter and/or to regenerate a particulate filter, is prevented in that before and/or during this measure, the cooling output for the coolant flowing through the cooling system is systematically increased in order to achieve a lowering of the coolant temperature to a value range that lies below what would normally—that is to say, without the simultaneous desulfurization of the NOx storage catalytic converter and/or without the regeneration of the particulate filter—have been provided for the operation of the combustion machine in a corresponding operating state of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Kiel, Holger Loof
  • Patent number: 6415655
    Abstract: A method of synchronization or a cylinder coordination to a crankshaft position in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with a crankshaft which rotates twice per working cycle, comprising the steps of supplying an output signal with a crankshaft transmitter, which per revolution of the crankshaft supplies a reference signal associated with an upper dead point of a cylinder, evaluating the output signal of the crankshaft transmitter by a control device for determining a rotary speed of the crankshaft and for forming injection signals, performing a preliminary synchronization after a detection of the reference signal and releasing a probe injection for an associated cylinder, verifying the preliminary synchronization in the case of a rotary speed increase or a rotary speed acceleration, in the event of a failing rotary speed increase, performing a new preliminary synchronization which is offset by a predetermined angle to release an injection for a cylinder presumably in an upper dead point, and verifyin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Loof, Thilo Jahn, Martin Widmer
  • Publication number: 20020005063
    Abstract: A method of synchronization or a cylinder coordination to a crankshaft position in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with a crankshaft which rotates twice per working cycle, comprising the steps of supplying an output signal with a crankshaft transmitter, which per revolution of the crankshaft supplies a reference signal associated with an upper dead point of a cylinder, evaluating the output signal of the crankshaft transmitter by a control device for determining a rotary speed of the crankshaft and for forming injection signals, performing a preliminary synchronization after a detection of the reference signal and releasing a probe injection for an associated cylinder, verifying the preliminary synchronization in the case of a rotary speed increase or a rotary speed acceleration, in the event of a failing rotary speed increase, performing a new preliminary synchronization which is offset by a predetermined angle to release an injection for a cylinder presumably in an upper dead point, and verifyin
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: HOLGER LOOF, THILO JAHN