Patents by Inventor Jan Mehring

Jan Mehring 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).

  • Publication number: 20240270043
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a temperature control system of a vehicle In one example, a system includes an evaporator directly upstream of a heat exchanger and a plurality of valves configured to adjust flow of air passing through one or more of the evaporator and the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Konieczny, Fabian Kueppers, Jan Mehring, Hans Guenter Quix, Tobias Emig
  • Publication number: 20240140166
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a thermal management system for a battery-powered electric vehicle, which system comprises a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, which has at least a first partial circuit having a cooling device, at least a second partial circuit having a heating device, at least a third partial circuit supplying a battery and at least a fourth partial circuit supplying components of the power electronics and passing through a heat exchanger, and the thermal management system further comprises a controller, wherein the primary circuit has at least one indirect evaporator and at least one indirect condenser, a number of pumps are arranged in the system for driving a fluid flow in the partial circuits, and a maximum number of five control valves is controlled in the system for controlling the fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11846473
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Antonio Farina, Jan Mehring, Stefan Quiring
  • Patent number: 11719183
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, a system comprises a separator arranged in a block coolant jacket. The separator fluidly separates an upper portion of the block coolant jacket from a lower portion of the block coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Ravi Gopal, Ronald Semel, Jody Michael Slike, Jan Mehring
  • Publication number: 20230142862
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, a system comprises a separator arranged in a block coolant jacket. The separator fluidly separates an upper portion of the block coolant jacket from a lower portion of the block coolant jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Ravi Gopal, Ronald Semel, Jody Michael Slike, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11549428
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid medium in a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine. The valve is configured to react to the temperature of the coolant via an expansion element and to the charge pressure in the intake tract via a pressure-sensitive actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11454159
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a coolant circuit. In one example, the coolant circuit comprises high and low-temperature radiators, where only one pump is configured to conduct coolant through the entire coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber, Jan Mehring, Antonio Farina, Herbert Ernst
  • Patent number: 11408334
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franz J. Brinkmann, Ludwig Stump, Carsten Weber, Stefan Quiring, Kai Kuhlbach, Jan Mehring
  • Publication number: 20220120521
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Antonio Farina, Jan Mehring, Stefan Quiring
  • Patent number: 11255291
    Abstract: Systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, a system includes a first coolant passage and a second coolant passage arranged in a cylinder bridge between directly adjacent cylinders, wherein the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage are separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Jan Mehring, Florian Huth, Klaus-Peter Heinig
  • Publication number: 20220034254
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid medium in a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine. The valve is configured to react to the temperature of the coolant via an expansion element and to the charge pressure in the intake tract via a pressure-sensitive actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11105300
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system. In one example, a cooling system comprises a device for regulating a coolant flow, where the device is in force-fit connection to a plurality of crankshafts, each crankshaft corresponding to a single cylinder of a plurality of cylinders. The cooling system further comprises a plurality of injectors for injecting coolant onto outer surfaces of the plurality of injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jan Mehring, Florian Huth, Jan Linsel, Maziar Khosravi, Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach
  • Publication number: 20210164385
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Franz J. Brinkmann, Ludwig Stump, Carsten Weber, Stefan Quiring, Kai Kuhlbach, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11015516
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of a hybrid vehicle. In one example, a system comprises a high-temperature coolant circuit with a pressure line shaped to actuate an actuator of a pressure-actuated valve arranged in a low-temperature coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 11008891
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbine is provided. The exhaust gas turbine includes a first turbine housing part having insulating material extending along an interior surface and a second turbine housing part having insulating material extending along an interior surface, the second turbine housing part coupled to the first turbine housing part to form a volute directing exhaust gas to a turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Kraemer, Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach, Ludwig Stump, Jan Mehring, Stefan Quiring
  • Patent number: 10962129
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system valve comprising a fusible insert and a heating element coupled to the insert. In one example, in response to an increase in coolant temperature to above a first threshold temperature, a movable element of the cooling system valve may be actuated to a fully open position and in response to an increase in coolant temperature to above a second threshold temperature with the movable element in a fully open position, electric current may be routed through the heating element to heat and melt the fusible insert. By melting the fusible portion, coolant may flow through an opening created in the movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Gregory, Bernd Steiner, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 10941698
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a control device for adjusting coolant flow. In one example, the control device may be shaped to receive charge air, engine coolant, and charge-air cooler coolant to adjust a flow of charge-air cooler coolant to a radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring, Herbert Ernst, Antonio Farina
  • Patent number: 10934926
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a coolant, a liquid/gas heat exchanger, a coolant-temperature-dependent control element, an equalizing tank, fluidic connections between the components, and a coolant pump. At least one direct or at least one activation-dependent fluidic connection or at least one force-transmitting connection is set up between a medium in the equalizing tank and a medium of at least one other media path or media circuit of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Jan Mehring, Helmut Hans Ruhland, Bernd Brinkmann
  • Publication number: 20210010441
    Abstract: Systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, a system includes a first coolant passage and a second coolant passage arranged in a cylinder bridge between directly adjacent cylinders, wherein the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage are separated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Jan Mehring, Florian Huth, Klaus-Peter Heinig
  • Publication number: 20200355141
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system. In one example, a cooling system comprises a device for regulating a coolant flow, where the device is in force-fit connection to a plurality of crankshafts, each crankshaft corresponding to a single cylinder of a plurality of cylinders. The cooling system further comprises a plurality of injectors for injecting coolant onto outer surfaces of the plurality of injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jan Mehring, Florian Huth, Jan Linsel, Maziar Khosravi, Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach