Patents by Inventor Joachim Doerr

Joachim Doerr 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: 9004021
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder crankcase and a cylinder head that includes an integrated exhaust manifold, wherein the cylinder crankcase, the cylinder head and the integrated exhaust manifold have a continuous water jacket that forms part of a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine. To ensure during shut-down cooling and/or warm-up cooling of the exhaust manifold that a majority of the coolant that is fed into the water jacket reaches the exhaust manifold, while only a small portion of the coolant flows around the cylinder through the cylinder crankcase, the coolant circuit includes a collector that communicates via passage openings having reduced opening cross-sections with the water jacket, and coolant channels arranged in extension of a flow direction through the passage-openings lead to the exhaust manifold, while coolant channels branching off laterally behind the passage-openings lead to the cylinder crankcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Stephan Adam, Joachim Doerr, Axel Pohlmann
  • Publication number: 20130206085
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder crankcase and a cylinder head that includes an integrated exhaust manifold, wherein the cylinder crankcase, the cylinder head and the integrated exhaust manifold have a continuous water jacket that forms part of a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine. To ensure during shut-down cooling and/or warm-up cooling of the exhaust manifold that a majority of the coolant that is fed into the water jacket reaches the exhaust manifold, while only a small portion of the coolant flows around the cylinder through the cylinder crankcase, the coolant circuit includes a collector that communicates via passage openings having reduced opening cross-sections with the water jacket, and coolant channels arranged in extension of a flow direction through the passage-openings lead to the exhaust manifold, while coolant channels branching off laterally behind the passage-openings lead to the cylinder crankcase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Stephan Adam, Joachim Doerr, Axel Pohlmann
  • Publication number: 20060171788
    Abstract: Process and device for detecting a lubricant stream in a minimal amount cooling lubricant system (MMKS). Known processes conduct the measurement in the MMKS-supply channel relatively far from the actual working location. They require an incorporation of sensors in the rotating tool container, which is very complex and associated with high costs. These disadvantages are overcome in that the measurement at the lubricant outlet occurs in a separate measurement container, wherein the aerosol component is measured optically and the lubricant film component is measured gravimetrically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Joachim Doerr, Michael Lahres, Albert Loichinger, Klaus Weinert, Waldemar Zielasko