Patents by Inventor Lukas SCHAEFER

Lukas SCHAEFER 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: 20240144696
    Abstract: A method of determining information related to a road user in an environment of a vehicle includes receiving, from vehicle sensors, a digital image and a Lidar point cloud. The digital image and the Lidar point cloud represent a scene in the environment of the vehicle. The method includes detecting a road user in the scene based on the received digital image and Lidar point cloud. The method includes generating a combined digital representation of the detected road user by combining corresponding image data and Lidar data associated with the detected road user. The method includes determining information related to the detected road user by processing the combined digital representation of the detected road user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Lukas Hahn, André Paus, Maximilian Schäfer
  • Patent number: 11125181
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle has at least one cylinder, a cylinder head, and a piston which is movably mounted in the cylinder and has a combustion chamber side which delimits a combustion chamber with the cylinder head and the cylinder. The cylinder head has a combustion chamber roof, in which at least two valve seats for at least one inlet valve and at least one outlet valve are provided. The combustion chamber roof has at least one arched cylinder head section which is arranged between the at least two valve seats and points away from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brack, Alexander Hiereth, Timo Klees, Lukas Schaefer, Florian Schwarzmueller, Dominik Suckart
  • Publication number: 20200173392
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle has at least one cylinder, a cylinder head, and a piston which is movably mounted in the cylinder and has a combustion chamber side which delimits a combustion chamber with the cylinder head and the cylinder. The cylinder head has a combustion chamber roof, in which at least two valve seats for at least one inlet valve and at least one outlet valve are provided. The combustion chamber roof has at least one arched cylinder head section which is arranged between the at least two valve seats and points away from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang BRACK, Alexander HIERETH, Timo KLEES, Lukas SCHAEFER, Florian SCHWARZMUELLER, Dominik SUCKART
  • Publication number: 20200088091
    Abstract: An intake system for an internal combustion engine has at least one inlet channel through which air can flow and by which the air flowing through the inlet channel is to be conducted into at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The inlet channel is, on the bottom side thereof, of flat form at least in one length region, wherein the flat bottom side extends as far as a tumble edge by which a tumbling flow of the air flowing into the combustion chamber can be effected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang BRACK, Konstantin KORDVEE, Lukas SCHAEFER, Florian SCHWARZMUELLER
  • Patent number: 9909522
    Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an engine of a vehicle, includes determining a target pressure curve for a cylinder of the engine for a first combustion cycle, determining a heat release model for the cylinder for the first combustion cycle, determining a mass flow of fuel from the heat release model to achieve the target pressure curve during the first combustion cycle, and automatically controlling opening of an injector of the cylinder of the engine during the first combustion cycle to provide the determined mass flow of fuel to the cylinder. The method includes determining a real pressure curve during the first combustion cycle and automatically adjusting at least one of the heat release model or the mass flow for a second, subsequent combustion cycle based on a difference between the target pressure curve and the real pressure curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Christian Jörg, Thorsten Schnorbus, Ben Neaves, Lukas Schaefers, Daniel Neumann, Kiran Bandila, Simon Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20170298857
    Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an engine of a vehicle, includes determining a target pressure curve for a cylinder of the engine for a first combustion cycle, determining a heat release model for the cylinder for the first combustion cycle, determining a mass flow of fuel from the heat release model to achieve the target pressure curve during the first combustion cycle, and automatically controlling opening of an injector of the cylinder of the engine during the first combustion cycle to provide the determined mass flow of fuel to the cylinder. The method includes determining a real pressure curve during the first combustion cycle and automatically adjusting at least one of the heat release model or the mass flow for a second, subsequent combustion cycle based on a difference between the target pressure curve and the real pressure curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Christian Jörg, Thorsten Schnorbus, Ben Neaves, Lukas Schaefers