Patents by Inventor Jochen Engel

Jochen Engel 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: 7484375
    Abstract: An air conditioning system is provided for motor vehicles, which are driven by an internal-combustion engine equipped with an overrun fuel cut-off, and having a compressor driven by the internal-combustion engine for setting a defined desired evaporator temperature, along with a control or automatic control influencing the operation of the air conditioning system as a function of the operating condition of the internal-combustion engine. The compressor is an externally automatically controlled compressor with an adjustable swash plate for variably adjusting the evaporator temperature. The control or automatic control is operatively configured such that, in a coasting operation of the internal-combustion engine, the swash plate is adjusted such that the evaporator temperature is lowered below the defined desired evaporator temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jochen Engel
  • Publication number: 20070277545
    Abstract: An air conditioning system is provided for motor vehicles, which are driven by an internal-combustion engine equipped with an overrun fuel cut-off, and having a compressor driven by the internal-combustion engine for setting a defined desired evaporator temperature, along with a control or automatic control influencing the operation of the air conditioning system as a function of the operating condition of the internal-combustion engine. The compressor is an externally automatically controlled compressor with an adjustable swash plate for variably adjusting the evaporator temperature. The control or automatic control is operatively configured such that, in a coasting operation of the internal-combustion engine, the swash plate is adjusted such that the evaporator temperature is lowered below the defined desired evaporator temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jochen Engel
  • Patent number: 6604372
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system with an air-conditioning compressor, an electric motor and a refrigerant circuit, in particular for motor vehicles, the electric motor being controllable by an electronic control device and an expansion member arranged in the refrigerant circuit, a further expansion member is arranged between the high-pressure side of the expansion member and the suction side of the air-conditioning compressor in the refrigerant circuit, and the electronic control device is connected thermally conductively to the low-pressure side of the further expansion member. The further expansion member is controllable as a function of the temperature of the electronic control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jochen Baumert, Jochen Engel, Klaus-Juergen Bluhm, Robert Höppler
  • Publication number: 20030041607
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system with an air-conditioning compressor, an electric motor and a refrigerant circuit, in particular for motor vehicles, the electric motor being controllable by an electronic control device and an expansion member arranged in the refrigerant circuit, a further expansion member is arranged between the high-pressure side of the expansion member and the suction side of the air-conditioning compressor in the refrigerant circuit, and the electronic control device is connected thermally conductively to the low-pressure side of the further expansion member. The further expansion member is controllable as a function of the temperature of the electronic control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Jochen Baumert, Jochen Engel, Klaus-Juergen Bluhm, Robert Hoppler