Patents by Inventor Ingmar Berger

Ingmar Berger 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: 11767815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector (1) for operating with combustible gas. The fuel injector has a plurality of combustible-gas nozzle valve elements (9), and the stroke of each of the combustible-gas nozzle valve elements can be controlled by means of a paired hydraulic piston control assembly (55) of the fuel injector, wherein each piston control assembly is formed by two control chambers (59, 61) and a piston section (63) on the combustible-gas nozzle valve element paired with the piston control assembly, said piston section separating the control chambers in such a way that their volumes can be varied, and the fuel injector is designed to control the stroke of the combustible-gas nozzle valve elements in tandem using a 3/2-way valve (67), by means of which the hydraulic pressure in one of the two control chambers of the piston control assemblies is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Michael Nitsche, Heinrich Nowak, Steffen Siebert, Andre Kindsvater, Enrico Bärow
  • Patent number: 11725618
    Abstract: Arrangement comprising: a chamber that is formed between a first receptacle and a second receptacle for a rod-shaped element, wherein the receptacles open out to the chamber on opposite end-face sides thereof; a rod-shaped element that is accommodated in the receptacles via a respective section with radial play, in this regard with a receptacle radial play, the rod-shaped element passing through the chamber; and an annular body that is situated in the chamber and through which the rod-shaped element passes with radial play, in this regard an annular body radial play, wherein the annular body radial play is less than the receptacle radial play, wherein the arrangement has a first media side and a second media side that are connected to the chamber via the first receptacle and second receptacle, respectively, wherein the annular body is provided to be pressed into contact against an end-face side of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Enrico Bärow, Ingmar Berger, Michael Nitsche
  • Patent number: 11577747
    Abstract: A method for operating at least one automated vehicle, including the steps: detecting road users by sensors with the aid of the at least one automated vehicle and/or with the aid of sensor systems in an infrastructure; ascertaining predicted traffic routes for the road users with the aid of a computing device based on defined criteria; transmitting control data corresponding to the predicted traffic route to the automated vehicle; and operating the automated vehicle according to the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Jorge Sans Sangorrin
  • Publication number: 20220205418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector (1) for operating with combustible gas. The fuel injector has a plurality of combustible-gas nozzle valve elements (9), and the stroke of each of the combustible-gas nozzle valve elements can be controlled by means of a paired hydraulic piston control assembly (55) of the fuel injector, wherein each piston control assembly is formed by two control chambers (59, 61) and a piston section (63) on the combustible-gas nozzle valve element paired with the piston control assembly, said piston section separating the control chambers in such a way that their volumes can be varied, and the fuel injector is designed to control the stroke of the combustible-gas nozzle valve elements in tandem using a 3/2-way valve (67), by means of which the hydraulic pressure in one of the two control chambers of the piston control assemblies is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ingmar BERGER, Michael NITSCHE, Heinrich NOWAK, Steffen SIEBERT, Andre KINDSVATER, Enrico BÄROW
  • Publication number: 20220063601
    Abstract: A method for evaluating measurement data that are obtained by a plurality of sensors. The method includes: the measurement data originating from sensors of a first group are processed by a function evaluation module to form a function signal that, when it is supplied to a driving dynamics system of a vehicle, causes the driving dynamics system to carry out a driving task; the measurement data originating from a second group of sensors are processed by at least a first safety evaluation module to form a first safety signal that, when it is supplied to the driving dynamics system, causes the driving dynamics system to prevent a specified undesired event of the vehicle, the second group containing a proper subset of the first group; the function signal is aggregated with the first safety signal to form a control signal that is capable of being outputted to the driving dynamics system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Hering, Bernd Mueller, Ingmar Berger
  • Publication number: 20210122392
    Abstract: A method for operating at least one automated vehicle, including the steps: detecting road users by sensors with the aid of the at least one automated vehicle and/or with the aid of sensor systems in an infrastructure; ascertaining predicted traffic routes for the road users with the aid of a computing device based on defined criteria; transmitting control data corresponding to the predicted traffic route to the automated vehicle; and operating the automated vehicle according to the control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Jorge Sans Sangorrin
  • Patent number: 10989122
    Abstract: A dual-fuel fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a liquid fuel injection branch and a gas fuel injection branch, in which a gas injector assembly that is controllable via a control fluid is situated. The liquid fuel forms the control fluid of the gas injector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Hartmut Schneider
  • Publication number: 20200325815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a prechamber spark plug receiving arrangement with a prechamber spark plug, comprising a housing bush, into which a fuel channel for supplying fuel into a prechamber is introduced. A valve member of a switching valve for regulating the fuel stream through the fuel channel is arranged in or on the wall of the housing bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Willmann, Horst Ressel, Hartmut Schneider, Martin Maierhofer, Ingmar Berger
  • Publication number: 20190390639
    Abstract: Arrangement comprising: a chamber that is formed between a first receptacle and a second receptacle for a rod-shaped element, wherein the receptacles open out to the chamber on opposite end-face sides thereof; a rod-shaped element that is accommodated in the receptacles via a respective section with radial play, in this regard with a receptacle radial play, the rod-shaped element passing through the chamber; and an annular body that is situated in the chamber and through which the rod-shaped element passes with radial play, in this regard an annular body radial play, wherein the annular body radial play is less than the receptacle radial play, wherein the arrangement has a first media side and a second media side that are connected to the chamber via the first receptacle and second receptacle, respectively, wherein the annular body is provided to be pressed into contact against an end-face side of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Enrico Bärow, Ingmar Berger, Michael Nitsche
  • Patent number: 10495008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion gas injector assembly (1) comprising a combustion gas injector (3) having groups (11a,b,c) of combustion gas nozzle openings distributed around the periphery, each group having at least one combustion gas nozzle opening (13), a combustion gas nozzle valve member (9a,b,c) of the combustion gas injector (3), which member can be controlled in the open position and closed position, is associated with each group (11a,b,c) of combustion gas nozzle openings, in order to selectively discharge the combustion gas via the at least one combustion gas nozzle opening (13). The combustion gas injector assembly (1) is configured to control the combustion gas nozzle valve members (9a,b,c) successively with a predetermined time offset (T) into the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: L'Orange GMBH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Nitsche, Steffen Siebert
  • Publication number: 20190120149
    Abstract: A dual-fuel fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a liquid fuel injection branch and a gas fuel injection branch, in which a gas injector assembly that is controllable via a control fluid is situated. The liquid fuel forms the control fluid of the gas injector assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: L`Orange GMBH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Hartmut Schneider
  • Publication number: 20190010878
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion gas injector assembly (1) comprising a combustion gas injector (3) having groups (11a,b,c) of combustion gas nozzle openings distributed around the periphery, each group having at least one combustion gas nozzle opening (13), a combustion gas nozzle valve member (9a,b,c) of the combustion gas injector (3), which member can be controlled in the open position and closed position, is associated with each group (11a,b,c) of combustion gas nozzle openings, in order to selectively discharge the combustion gas via the at least one combustion gas nozzle opening (13). The combustion gas injector assembly (1) is configured to control the combustion gas nozzle valve members (9a,b,c) successively with a predetermined time offset (T) into the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: L'Orange GMBH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Nitsche, Steffen Siebert
  • Patent number: 9248394
    Abstract: An air scoop-cyclone filter assembly having an air scoop for guiding untreated air, which including an inlet opening, a deflection area for deflecting untreated air and an outlet opening, and having a cyclone filter for cleaning untreated air, which is connected downstream of the air scoop in the flow direction and is connected in an airtight manner to the air scoop A perforated plate is arranged in the cyclone filter as a filter inlet opening. The perforated plate has a first passage area having a high number of holes, a second passage area having a low number of holes at the geodetically deepest point, and a baffle plate. The baffle plate distributes the untreated air flow through the first and second passage area and, with the outer wall of the air scoop, forms a collecting chamber that stabilizes the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Dagmar Neu, Ingmar Berger, Patrick Spengler, Timo Stache, Dirk Pfuderer
  • Patent number: 9217444
    Abstract: Intake manifold element (1) having a tubular section (3) through which a first fluid (A) can flow in a proposed flow direction (A?) via a flow channel (4) from an inlet (4a) to an outlet (4b) of the same, said tubular section being provided for arrangement on a compressor inlet (11a) of a turbocharger, characterized in that the flow channel (4) has a nozzle-shaped design, wherein its cross-section which the fluid can flow through is tapered in the flow direction (A?), wherein the tubular section (3) forms a chamber (6) adjacent to the nozzle-shaped flow channel (4) which serves as flow path from an inlet (6a) to an outlet (6b) for the aspiration of a second fluid (B), the pressure level of said chamber on the inlet (6a) being dependent on the pressure level of the first fluid (A) on the outlet (4b) of the flow channel (4) via communicating outlets (6b, 4b) of the chamber (6) and the flow channel (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Tobias Männle, Kajetan Plenk
  • Publication number: 20140208701
    Abstract: An air scoop-cyclone filter assembly having an air scoop for guiding untreated air, which including an inlet opening, a deflection area for deflecting untreated air and an outlet opening, and having a cyclone filter for cleaning untreated air, which is connected downstream of the air scoop in the flow direction and is connected in an airtight manner to the air scoop A perforated plate is arranged in the cyclone filter as a filter inlet opening. The perforated plate has a first passage area having a high number of holes, a second passage area having a low number of holes at the geodetically deepest point, and a baffle plate. The baffle plate distributes the untreated air flow through the first and second passage area and, with the outer wall of the air scoop, forms a collecting chamber that stabilizes the flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Dagmar Neu, Ingmar Berger, Patrick Spengler, Timo Stache, Dirk Pfuderer
  • Publication number: 20120328424
    Abstract: Intake manifold element (1) having a tubular section (3) through which a first fluid (A) can flow in a proposed flow direction (A?) via a flow channel (4) from an inlet (4a) to an outlet (4b) of the same, said tubular section being provided for arrangement on a compressor inlet (11a) of a turbocharger, characterized in that the flow channel (4) has a nozzle-shaped design, wherein its cross-section which the fluid can flow through is tapered in the flow direction (A?), wherein the tubular section (3) forms a chamber (6) adjacent to the nozzle-shaped flow channel (4) which serves as flow path from an inlet (6a) to an outlet (6b) for the aspiration of a second fluid (B), the pressure level of said chamber on the inlet (6a) being dependent on the pressure level of the first fluid (A) on the outlet (4b) of the flow channel (4) via communicating outlets (6b, 4b) of the chamber (6) and the flow channel (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Tobias Männle, Kajetan Plenk