Patents by Inventor Johannes BUNKUS

Johannes BUNKUS 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: 11549453
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, which comprises a combustion unit, a generator coupled with the combustion unit, a fresh gas tract, an exhaust tract, an exhaust gas recirculation line, which branches off of the exhaust tract and opens into the fresh gas tract, and at least one electrical heating device, which is integrated into the exhaust tract or into the exhaust gas recirculation line, characterized in that, during an overrun mode of the combustion unit, the heating device is operated with energy provided by the generator, and exhaust gas heated with the aid of the heating device is partially or completely guided via the exhaust gas recirculation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo Blei, Johannes Bunkus, Stephan Kraus
  • Publication number: 20220298991
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, which comprises a combustion unit, a generator coupled with the combustion unit, a fresh gas tract, an exhaust tract, an exhaust gas recirculation line, which branches off of the exhaust tract and opens into the fresh gas tract, and at least one electrical heating device, which is integrated into the exhaust tract or into the exhaust gas recirculation line, characterized in that, during an overrun mode of the combustion unit, the heating device is operated with energy provided by the generator, and exhaust gas heated with the aid of the heating device is partially or completely guided via the exhaust gas recirculation line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo BLEI, Johannes BUNKUS, Stephan KRAUS
  • Patent number: 11396851
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, whereby an electrically heated component of an exhaust aftertreatment system being supplied with electrical power via an electric machine driven by the internal combustion engine, a load point shift of the internal combustion engine being carried out by an activation or a deactivation of the component or by a temporary storage of the necessary electrical energy for operating the component in a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sergej Jakovlev, Johannes Bunkus
  • Patent number: 11143075
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine comprises an exhaust gas system with an exhaust gas channel in which at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment components for the selective, catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides are arranged. Downstream from the first exhaust gas aftertreatment component and upstream from the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component is a burner with which the exhaust gas can be heated up before it enters the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component. Downstream from the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component is an oxidation catalytic converter that converts unburned hydrocarbons. In a method for exhaust gas aftertreatment in an internal combustion engine having such an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is heated up by the burner in order to heat up the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component for the selective, catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKIIHNGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Johannes Bunkus, Stephan Kellner
  • Publication number: 20210087987
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, whereby an electrically heated component of an exhaust aftertreatment system being supplied with electrical power via an electric machine driven by the internal combustion engine, a load point shift of the internal combustion engine being carried out by an activation or a deactivation of the component or by a temporary storage of the necessary electrical energy for operating the component in a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sergej JAKOVLEV, Johannes BUNKUS
  • Publication number: 20200173331
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine comprises an exhaust gas system with an exhaust gas channel in which at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment components for the selective, catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides are arranged. Downstream from the first exhaust gas aftertreatment component and upstream from the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component is a burner with which the exhaust gas can be heated up before it enters the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component. Downstream from the second exhaust gas aftertreatment component for the selective, catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides is an oxidation catalytic converter that converts unburned hydrocarbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Johannes BUNKUS, Stephan KELLNER