Patents by Inventor Matthias Brendel

Matthias Brendel 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: 11577621
    Abstract: A robot apparatus for establishing a charging connection between a charging device and an energy storage unit of a motor vehicle, having a movement unit, by which the robot apparatus is movable in relation to the charging device and the motor vehicle, having a receptacle device, by which a charging element of the charging device can be received, can be coupled to a coupling element of the energy storage unit and subsequently released, and having a detection unit, by which a position of the coupling element on the motor vehicle is ascertainable, wherein the robot apparatus is connectable by a support device to the motor vehicle, whereby a force is transmittable from the robot apparatus to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Dietrich Engelhart
  • Publication number: 20210101496
    Abstract: A robot apparatus for establishing a charging connection between a charging device and an energy storage unit of a motor vehicle, having a movement unit, by which the robot apparatus is movable in relation to the charging device and the motor vehicle, having a receptacle device, by which a charging element of the charging device can be received, can be coupled to a coupling element of the energy storage unit and subsequently released, and having a detection unit, by which a position of the coupling element on the motor vehicle is ascertainable, wherein the robot apparatus is connectable by a support device to the motor vehicle, whereby a force is transmittable from the robot apparatus to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias BRENDEL, Dietrich ENGELHART
  • Patent number: 10184395
    Abstract: A multi-joint crank drive of an internal combustion engine includes at least one coupling member rotataby supported on a crankpin of a crankshaft for rotation about a coupling member rotation axis; and at least one connecting rod supported on a crankpin of an eccentric shaft for rotation about an eccentric rotation axis, wherein the coupling member is connected with a piston rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine for pivoting about a piston rod rotation axis and with the connecting rod for rotation about a connecting rod rotation axis, said coupling member having a bearing eye receiving the crankpin of the crankshaft, wherein a coupling angle between an imagined straight line though the coupling member rotation axis and the connecting rod rotation axis and an imagined straight line through the coupling member ration axis and the piston rod rotation axis is at least 140° and at most 180°, wherein a center point of the coupling member is arranged outside the bearing eye, and on a side of a first plan
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Meyer
  • Patent number: 9995335
    Abstract: A coupling element for a multi-joint crank drive of an internal combustion engine includes a coupling lever having a first eye for a piston connecting rod, and a second eye for an articulation connecting rod. A bearing cover forms with the coupling lever a third eye for a crank pin. The coupling lever and the bearing cover are connected to each other by bolts which defined parallel longitudinal central axes. The coupling lever and the bearing cover abut each other at an outer periphery of the third eye at adjacent contact surfaces on both sides of the third eye to define a separating plane which extends through a center of the third eye at an acute angle with respect to a further plane which passes through the center of the third eye and extends perpendicular to the longitudinal central axes of the bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Wild
  • Patent number: 9982596
    Abstract: A multi-joint crank drive of an internal combustion engine includes at least one coupling member supported on a crankpin of a crankshaft for rotation about a coupling member rotation axis; and at least one articulated connecting rod supported on a crankpin of an eccentric shaft for rotation about an eccentric rotation axis, wherein the at least one coupling member is connected with a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine for pivoting about a piston connecting rod rotation axis, and with the at least one articulated connecting rod for pivoting about an articulated connecting rod rotation axis, and wherein a rotation axis of the eccentric shaft is situated above a plane which receives a rotation axis of the crankshaft and is perpendicular to at least one cylinder longitudinal center axis, and wherein, respectively in relation to a total travel of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Wild
  • Patent number: 9915181
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-link crankshaft drive with a plurality of coupling elements rotatably mounted on crankpins of a crankshaft and a plurality of articulated connecting rods rotatably mounted on crankpins of an eccentric shaft, wherein each of the coupling elements is pivotally connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and to one of the articulated connecting rods. A balance shaft, which is driven by a crankshaft via a phase adjuster, is provided in order to at least partially attenuate second-order inertia forces occurring in the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Matthias Brendel
  • Patent number: 9790851
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-joint crank drive wherein the multi-joint crank driver includes a plurality of coupling members which are rotatably supported on crank pins of a crank shaft and a plurality of hinged connecting rods which are rotatably supported on crank pins of an eccentric shaft wherein each of the coupling members is pivotally connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and one of the articulation connecting rods. In order to enable to largely or completely compensate inertia forces, it is proposed according to the invention to equip the internal combustion engine with a single balance which serves for neutralizing second order inertia forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Meyer, Karl-Heinz Hartwig, Roger Budde
  • Patent number: 9556803
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a piston axially displaced in a cylinder over a maximal stroke and a connecting rod device for adjusting the compression of the internal combustion engine and having a transverse lever with one end connected by a first joint with a connecting rod articulately arranged in the piston and another end connected by a second joint with an actuatable control lever pivotal about a third joint. The transverse lever is connected between the first joint and the second joint by a fourth joint with a crankpin of the crankshaft which is spaced apart from a rotation axis of the crankshaft, wherein a lateral distance between the rotation axis of the crankshaft and the third joint in relation to the maximal stroke of the piston is at least ?1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Meyer
  • Patent number: 8978616
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-joint crank drive which includes a plurality of coupling members rotatably mounted on a crankshaft and a plurality of articulated connecting rods rotatably mounted on an eccentric shaft, wherein each of the coupling members is pivotably connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and to one of the articulated connecting rods. In order that the second-order mass forces can be better compensated without a considerable increase in the friction losses, the required packaging space, the weight of the multi-joint crank drive, or the bearing forces in the bearings of the crankshaft, the articulated connecting rods are provided with additional masses and have a center of mass that lies outside the longitudinal center planes of the articulated connecting rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Matthias Brendel
  • Publication number: 20140137825
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-link crankshaft drive with a plurality of coupling elements rotatably mounted on crankpins of a crankshaft and a plurality of articulated connecting rods rotatably mounted on crankpins of an eccentric shaft, wherein each of the coupling elements is pivotally connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and to one of the articulated connecting rods. A balance shaft, which is driven by a crankshaft via a phase adjuster, is provided in order to at least partially attenuate second-order inertia forces occurring in the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Matthias Brendel
  • Publication number: 20130118442
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-joint crank drive which includes a plurality of coupling members rotatably mounted on a crankshaft and a plurality of articulated connecting rods rotatably mounted on an eccentric shaft, wherein each of the coupling members is pivotably connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and to one of the articulated connecting rods. In order that the second-order mass forces can be better compensated without a considerable increase in the friction losses, the required packaging space, the weight of the multi-joint crank drive, or the bearing forces in the bearings of the crankshaft, the articulated connecting rods are provided with additional masses and have a center of mass that lies outside the longitudinal center planes of the articulated connecting rods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Matthias Brendel
  • Publication number: 20120285412
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a multi-joint crank drive wherein the multi-joint crank driver includes a plurality of coupling members which are rotatably supported on crank pins of a crank shaft and a plurality of hinged connecting rods which are rotatably supported on crank pins of an eccentric shaft wherein each of the coupling members is pivotally connected to a piston connecting rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine and one of the articulation connecting rods. In order to enable to largely or completely compensate inertia forces, it is proposed according to the invention to equip the internal combustion engine with a single balance which serves for neutralizing second order inertia forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Matthias Brendel, Markus Meyer, Karl-Heinz Hartwig, Roger Budde