Patents by Inventor Joachim SCHWARTE

Joachim SCHWARTE 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: 11187140
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine including a step of concurrently introducing at least two combustible fuel jets into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. A first combustible fuel jet of the at least two combustible fuel jets is ignited at an ignition time point. In a first operating mode of the internal combustion engine a second combustible fuel jet which is different from the first combustible fuel jet of the at least two combustible fuel jets is ignited after the ignition time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Schwarte, Samuel Vogel
  • Publication number: 20200240320
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine including a step of concurrently introducing at least two combustible fuel jets into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. A first combustible fuel jet of the at least two combustible fuel jets is ignited at an ignition time point. In a first operating mode of the internal combustion engine a second combustible fuel jet which is different from the first combustible fuel jet of the at least two combustible fuel jets is ignited after the ignition time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Schwarte, Samuel Vogel
  • Patent number: 10570861
    Abstract: In a multi-fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, including a housing with a nozzle needle movably disposed therein between a closed position in which the nozzle needle blocks a discharge of fuel from a collection chamber, to which a first fuel is supplied, above the nozzle needle, a control chamber is arranged to which a high pressure second fuel is supplied which acts on the nozzle needle to bias it into a closed position, and a control valve is provided in a pressure release line extending from the control chamber for a controlled release of the second fuel from the control chamber by opening the control valve so as to relief the closing pressure on the nozzle needle in order to permit lifting of the nozzle needle from the closed position for discharging the fuel from the collection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Schwarte, Samuel Vogel, Robby Gerbeth
  • Patent number: 10287969
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including at least one combustion chamber having a main chamber and a prechamber, wherein the prechamber is in fluid connection with the main chamber via at least one bore. The at least one combustion chamber is connected to a charging path for the supply of a combustion air-fuel mixture into the combustion chamber via the charging path. A fuel intermixing region is arranged in a section of the charging path separately assigned to the combustion chamber, which fuel intermixing region is in fluid connection with the charging path on one side and with a fuel line on the other side for the supply of fuel into the fuel intermixing region via a controllable fuel valve. The internal combustion engine wherein the prechamber and the fuel intermixing region are in fluid connection with one another via a check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Boyde, Philippe Gorse, Jan Gerrit Prunnbauer, Joachim Schwarte
  • Publication number: 20180209315
    Abstract: A method for metering a reactant into an exhaust gas path of an internal combustion engine, wherein the reactant is introduced into an area of the exhaust gas path in which pressure surges in the exhaust gas stream, generated by a charge exchange of the internal combustion engine, contribute to breakdown of droplets of the reactant, wherein a metering device for metering the reactant is activated at a variable metering frequency, depending on an operating point of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Joachim SCHWARTE, Samuel VOGEL, Alexander KOVACEVIC, Marc HEHLE
  • Publication number: 20180066571
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including at least one combustion chamber having a main chamber and a prechamber, wherein the prechamber is in fluid connection with the main chamber via at least one bore. The at least one combustion chamber is connected to a charging path for the supply of a combustion air-fuel mixture into the combustion chamber via the charging path. A fuel intermixing region is arranged in a section of the charging path separately assigned to the combustion chamber, which fuel intermixing region is in fluid connection with the charging path on one side and with a fuel line on the other side for the supply of fuel into the fuel intermixing region via a controllable fuel valve. The internal combustion engine wherein the prechamber and the fuel intermixing region are in fluid connection with one another via a check valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jan BOYDE, Philippe GORSE, Jan Gerrit PRUNNBAUER, Joachim SCHWARTE
  • Publication number: 20170218898
    Abstract: In a multi-fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, including a housing with a nozzle needle movably disposed therein between a closed position in which the nozzle needle blocks a discharge of fuel from a collection chamber, to which a first fuel is supplied, above the nozzle needle, a control chamber is arranged to which a high pressure second fuel is supplied which acts on the nozzle needle to bias it into a closed position, and a control valve is provided in a pressure release line extending from the control chamber for a controlled release of the second fuel from the control chamber by opening the control valve so as to relief the closing pressure on the nozzle needle in order to permit lifting of the nozzle needle from the closed position for discharging the fuel from the collection chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim SCHWARTE, Samuel VOGEL, Robby GERBETH