Patents by Inventor Martin Dilzer
Martin Dilzer 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).
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Patent number: 9933039Abstract: A drivetrain having an active torsional vibration damping and a method for carrying out the active torsional vibration damping, having an internal combustion engine being affected by torsional vibrations and having a crankshaft, a torsional vibration damper that is operatively connected to the crankshaft and has at least one operating point of low vibration isolation of the torsional vibrations and has a primary inertial mass associated with the crankshaft and an inertial mass associated with a gear input shaft of a gearbox, the inertial mass being rotatable relatively and limitedly with respect to the primary inertial mass against the action of a spring device. The drivetrain also includes an electric motor having a rotating mass operatively connected to the gearbox input shaft, and a control unit, the spring device being formed by linear springs, the rotating mass of the electric motor being designed as a secondary inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Olaf Werner, Michael Huber, Carsten Angrick, Matthias Gramann, Martin Dilzer
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Patent number: 9920797Abstract: The invention relates to a method for avoiding safety-critical activation of a clutch in a hybrid module of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, wherein the hybrid module is effective between the internal combustion engine and the transmission and has an electric drive, the clutch and a freewheel, and the clutch is used to start the internal combustion engine by transmitting a torque, supplied by the electric drive or the drivetrain, by a frictionally locking connection to the electric drive or the drivetrain, or for disconnecting the internal combustion engine from the drivetrain for purely electric driving. In a method for avoiding safety-critical activation of a clutch in a hybrid module in which safety-critical driving situations are reliably prevented, a critical interference torque of the clutch is set as a function of ambient conditions of the motor vehicle and/or peripheral conditions of the vehicle, in order to set a safety distance to be maintained by the open clutch.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Volker Kuss, Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20160215832Abstract: The invention relates to a method for avoiding safety-critical activation of a clutch in a hybrid module of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, wherein the hybrid module is effective between the internal combustion engine and the transmission and has an electric drive, the clutch and a freewheel, and the clutch is used to start the internal combustion engine by transmitting a torque, supplied by the electric drive or the drivetrain, by a frictionally locking connection to the electric drive or the drivetrain, or for disconnecting the internal combustion engine from the drivetrain for purely electric driving. In a method for avoiding safety-critical activation of a clutch in a hybrid module in which safety-critical driving situations are reliably prevented, a critical interference torque of the clutch is set as a function of ambient conditions of the motor vehicle and/or peripheral conditions of the vehicle, in order to set a safety distance to be maintained by the open clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Volker Kuss, Martin Dilzer
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Patent number: 9108637Abstract: A hybrid drivetrain and method for controlling a friction clutch of a hybrid drivetrain of a motor vehicle having a combustion engine which is coupled by means of a freewheel to a transmission input shaft of a transmission to transmit the engine torque, and having an electric machine which starts the combustion engine and/or propels the motor vehicle, which friction clutch transmits to the combustion engine a summed torque formed of a starting torque for starting the combustion engine by means of the electric machine and a drag torque which acts on the combustion engine when the drivetrain is in drag mode. To be able to operate the friction clutch reliably and to avoid over-dimensioning of the friction clutch as a result of high summed torques, a torque present at the friction clutch is limited to a predefined transmission torque which can be transmitted via the friction clutch.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Willi Ruder, Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20140128218Abstract: A hybrid drivetrain and method for controlling a friction clutch of a hybrid drivetrain of a motor vehicle having a combustion engine which is coupled by means of a freewheel to a transmission input shaft of a transmission to transmit the engine torque, and having an electric machine which starts the combustion engine and/or propels the motor vehicle, which friction clutch transmits to the combustion engine a summed torque formed of a starting torque for starting the combustion engine by means of the electric machine and a drag torque which acts on the combustion engine when the drivetrain is in drag mode. To be able to operate the friction clutch reliably and to avoid over-dimensioning of the friction clutch as a result of high summed torques, a torque present at the friction clutch is limited to a predefined transmission torque which can be transmitted via the friction clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Willi Ruder, Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20140109720Abstract: A drivetrain having an active torsional vibration damping and a method for carrying out the active torsional vibration damping, having an internal combustion engine being affected by torsional vibrations and having a crankshaft, a torsional vibration damper that is operatively connected to the crankshaft and has at least one operating point of low vibration isolation of the torsional vibrations and has a primary inertial mass associated with the crankshaft and an inertial mass associated with a gear input shaft of a gearbox, the inertial mass being rotatable relatively and limitedly with respect to the primary inertial mass against the action of a spring device. The drivetrain also includes an electric motor having a rotating mass operatively connected to the gearbox input shaft, and a control unit, the spring device being formed by linear springs, the rotating mass of the electric motor being designed as a secondary inertial mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Olaf Werner, Michael Huber, Carsten Angrick, Matthias Gramann, Martin Dilzer
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Patent number: 8702557Abstract: A method and device for controlling a shiftable planetary gear set in a belt drive of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle having a sun gear which is fixedly connected to a belt pulley, a ring gear which can be connected fixedly with respect to the housing by means of a brake which is activated by an electrically operated actuator which is effective along a distance which is monitored by a relative distance sensor, as well as a web which is connected to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and rotatably accommodates planetary gears, wherein situated between the sun gear and the web is a free wheeling mechanism which can be switched and rolled over in both directions and is switched by the same actuator along the travel distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Lukas Holzer, Martin Dilzer, Mathias Goeckler
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Patent number: 8690723Abstract: A method for controlling a belt drive of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, with a planetary gear set which shifts a transmission ratio between a starter-generator and a combustion engine, the planetary gear set having a ring gear which can be connected fixedly with respect to a housing by a brake, a web which is connectible to a crankshaft of the combustion engine of the drivetrain, having planet gears arranged around the circumference, and a sun gear which is connected in a rotationally fixed connection to a rotor of the starter-generator and to at least one ancillary unit, as well as having a first switchable free-wheeling mechanism which blocks in the direction of torque from the rotor to the crankshaft and having a second switchable free-wheeling mechanism which blocks in the direction of torque from the crankshaft to the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Martin Dilzer, Dierk Reitz
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Publication number: 20130303329Abstract: A method and device for controlling a shiftable planetary gear set in a belt drive of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle having a sun gear which is fixedly connected to a belt pulley, a ring gear which can be connected fixedly with respect to the housing by means of a brake which is activated by an electrically operated actuator which is effective along a distance which is monitored by a relative distance sensor, as well as a web which is connected to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and rotatably accommodates planetary gears, wherein situated between the sun gear and the web is a free wheeling mechanism which can be switched and rolled over in both directions and is switched by the same actuator along the travel distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Lukas Holzer, Martin Dilzer, Mathias Goeckler
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Publication number: 20130281254Abstract: A method for controlling a belt drive of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, with a planetary gear set which shifts a transmission ratio between a starter-generator and a combustion engine, the planetary gear set having a ring gear which can be connected fixedly with respect to a housing by a brake, a web which is connectible to a crankshaft of the combustion engine of the drivetrain, having planet gears arranged around the circumference, and a sun gear which is connected in a rotationally fixed connection to a rotor of the starter-generator and to at least one ancillary unit, as well as having a first switchable free wheeling mechanism which blocks in the direction of torque from the rotor to the crankshaft and having a second switchable free wheeling mechanism which blocks in the direction of torque from the crankshaft to the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Martin Dilzer, Dierk Reitz
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Patent number: 8459425Abstract: A torque transmission unit which has a first centrifugal mass that can be non-rotatably associated with an internal combustion engine and a second centrifugal mass that is connected downstream of the first mass and can be associated with a transmission. The second centrifugal mass has a rotor of an electric machine for transmitting a torque that can be electrically generated to the second centrifugal mass and a centrifugal force pendulum for reducing torsional vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Willi Ruder, Stefan Mackowiak, Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20110162480Abstract: A torque transmission unit which has a first centrifugal mass that can be non-rotatably associated with an internal combustion engine and a second centrifugal mass that is connected downstream of the first mass and can be associated with a transmission. The second centrifugal mass has a rotor of an electric machine for transmitting a torque that can be electrically generated to the second centrifugal mass and a centrifugal force pendulum for reducing torsional vibrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: LuK Vermoegensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbHInventors: Willi RUDER, Stefan MACKOWIAK, Martin DILZER
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Patent number: 7938209Abstract: A method for adapting torque characteristic in a disengaging clutch arranged in a vehicle hybrid drive train between an internal combustion engine and an electrical machine connected to a driven wheel, include the following steps: deciding the engine can be disconnected; switching the engine off and opening the clutch; detecting the time gradient of rotational speed of the engine with it switched off and the clutch opened; partially closing the clutch when rotational speed of the engine falls below a predetermined value, and detecting the time gradient of rotational speed of the engine with the clutch partially closed; determining the clutch torque transmitted by the partially closed clutch by evaluating detected time gradients of rotational speed of the engine; and adapting the characteristic of the clutch with the aid of the determined clutch torque transmitted by the partially closed clutch.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Martin Dilzer, Michael Reuschel, Thomas Eggert
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Patent number: 7625311Abstract: The hybrid drive train has an internal combustion engine connected to a first input shaft via a first clutch and connected to a second input shaft via a second clutch. An electric machine is connected to the second input shaft. The first input shaft is coupled to an output shaft via a first gear, and the second input shaft is coupled to the output shaft via two second gears. In the method for operating the hybrid, the first gear is engaged and torque is applied by the engine. To change, one of the second gears is engaged, engine torque is reduced by slipping the clutch while electric machine torque is increased. To change again, electric machine torque is reduced to zero, the other second gear is engaged while engine torque transmitted via the first clutch is increased by reducing slipping of the first clutch.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Luk Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteilgungs KGInventor: Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20090255743Abstract: A method for adapting torque characteristic in a disengaging clutch arranged in a vehicle hybrid drive train between an internal combustion engine and an electrical machine connected to a driven wheel, include the following steps: deciding the engine can be disconnected; switching the engine off and opening the clutch; detecting the time gradient of rotational speed of the engine with it switched off and the clutch opened; partially closing the clutch when rotational speed of the engine falls below a predetermined value, and detecting the time gradient of rotational speed of the engine with the clutch partially closed; determining the clutch torque transmitted by the partially closed clutch by evaluating detected time gradients of rotational speed of the engine; and adapting the characteristic of the clutch with the aid of the determined clutch torque transmitted by the partially closed clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KGInventors: Martin DILZER, Michael REUSCHEL, Thomas EGGERT
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Publication number: 20090176617Abstract: The hybrid drive train has an internal combustion engine connected to a first input shaft via a first clutch and connected to a second input shaft via a second clutch. An electric machine is connected to the second input shaft. The first input shaft is coupled to an output shaft via a first gear, and the second input shaft is coupled to the output shaft via two second gears. In the method for operating the hybrid, the first gear is engaged and torque is applied by the engine. To change, one of the second gears is engaged, engine torque is reduced by slipping the clutch while electric machine torque is increased. To change again, electric machine torque is reduced to zero, the other second gear is engaged while engine torque transmitted via the first clutch is increased by reducing slipping of the first clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KGInventor: Martin DILZER
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Patent number: 6887180Abstract: The power train of a motor vehicle employs a hybrid drive including a combustion engine and an electrical machine. The transmission of the power train is shiftable into different gears in dependency upon the operating conditions of the vehicle. Such conditions include a traction condition when the vehicle is propelled by the engine and/or by the electrical machine, a coasting condition when the vehicle is being decelerated with attendant conversion of kinetic energy into electrical and/or rotational energy and storage of converted energy, a cold starting condition when the cold engine is started by the electrical machine, and a warm starting condition when the hot engine is started by the electrical machine and/or by at least one flywheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Thomas Pels, Dierk Reitz, Martin Dilzer
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Publication number: 20020177504Abstract: The power train of a motor vehicle employs a hybrid drive including a combustion engine and an electrical machine. The transmission of the power train is shiftable into different gears in dependency upon the operating conditions of the vehicle. Such conditions include a traction condition when the vehicle is propelled by the engine and/or by the electrical machine, a coasting condition when the vehicle is being decelerated with attendant conversion of kinetic energy into electrical and/or rotational energy and storage of converted energy, a cold starting condition when the cold engine is started by the electrical machine, and a warm starting condition when the hot engine is started by the electrical machine and/or by at least one flywheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2002Publication date: November 28, 2002Applicant: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Thomas Pels, Dierk Reitz, Martin Dilzer