Patents by Inventor Michael Stiller

Michael Stiller 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: 11781466
    Abstract: An exhaust system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a particulate filter where particles are filterable out from the exhaust gas by the particulate filter. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is flowable for denitrifying the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is disposed downstream of the particulate filter. The exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is heatable by a combustor at a point disposed upstream of the SCR catalytic converter and downstream of the particulate filter where the combustor provides an exhaust gas of the combustor. Particles are filterable out from the exhaust gas of the combustor by a filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Daimler Truck AG
    Inventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
  • Publication number: 20220381174
    Abstract: An exhaust system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a particulate filter where particles are filterable out from the exhaust gas by the particulate filter. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is flowable for denitrifying the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is disposed downstream of the particulate filter. The exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is heatable by a combustor at a point disposed upstream of the SCR catalytic converter and downstream of the particulate filter where the combustor provides an exhaust gas of the combustor. Particles are filterable out from the exhaust gas of the combustor by a filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
  • Patent number: 11415033
    Abstract: A method for operating a petrol engine, in which air is introduced into an exhaust tract through which exhaust gas from the petrol engine can flow, bypassing the petrol engine, includes introducing the air into the exhaust tract at a point arranged downstream of a first three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract and upstream of a second three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract downstream of the first three-way catalytic converter, while the petrol engine is operated with a sub-stoichiometric combustion air ratio, where a desulphurization of the second three-way catalytic converter is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Guenter Hay, Kai Hoffmann, Tobias Schoeffler, Michael Stiller
  • Patent number: 11008916
    Abstract: In an exhaust system for a motor vehicle having an exhaust treatment device for after-treating exhaust gas of a combustion engine of the motor vehicle, the exhaust gas treatment device includes a first SCR catalyst, which has a zeolite material containing copper, an ammonia slip catalyst, which is arranged downstream of the first SCR catalyst, and a particulate filter. A second SCR catalyst, which has an SCR catalyst material containing vanadium, is arranged upstream of the first SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
  • Publication number: 20210003057
    Abstract: A method for operating a petrol engine, in which air is introduced into an exhaust tract through which exhaust gas from the petrol engine can flow, bypassing the petrol engine, includes introducing the air into the exhaust tract at a point arranged downstream of a first three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract and upstream of a second three-way catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract downstream of the first three-way catalytic converter, while the petrol engine is operated with a sub-stoichiometric combustion air ratio, where a desulphurization of the second three-way catalytic converter is effected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Guenter HAY, Kai HOFFMANN, Tobias SCHOEFFLER, Michael STILLER
  • Publication number: 20200116063
    Abstract: In an exhaust system for a motor vehicle having an exhaust treatment device for after-treating exhaust gas of a combustion engine of the motor vehicle, the exhaust gas treatment device includes a first SCR catalyst, which has a zeolite material containing copper, an ammonia slip catalyst, which is arranged downstream of the first SCR catalyst, and a particulate filter. A second SCR catalyst, which has an SCR catalyst material containing vanadium, is arranged upstream of the first SCR catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
  • Patent number: 10502107
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment unit for an internal combustion engine, particularly for a motor vehicle, includes a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine can flow and at least one particle filter for retaining the soot particles from the exhaust gas. The particle filter, which is located downstream from the first SCR catalytic converter, is equipped with a heavy metal and precious metal free catalyzing coating which oxidizes the soot particles retained by the particle filter, where downstream from the particle filter there is a second SCR catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
  • Patent number: 10287939
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment unit includes a first catalytic converter, a particle filter arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter, and a second catalytic converter arranged downstream of the particle filter and which is a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter. The first catalytic converter is a combination catalytic converter including a first catalytic converter part which is an SCR catalytic converter, a second catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter part which is an ammonia slip catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a first noble metal content, a third catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the second catalytic converter part which is an oxidation catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a second noble metal content, and an SCR layer arranged on the noble metal layers and extending over the entire length of the second and third catalytic converter parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
  • Publication number: 20190003360
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after treatment unit includes a first catalytic converter, a particle filter arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter, and a second catalytic converter arranged downstream of the particle filter and which is a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter. The first catalytic converter is a combination catalytic converter including a first catalytic converter part which is an SCR catalytic converter, a second catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter part which is an ammonia slip catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a first noble metal content, a third catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the second catalytic converter part which is an oxidation catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a second noble metal content, and an SCR layer arranged on the noble metal layers and extending over the entire length of the second and third catalytic converter parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
  • Publication number: 20180347423
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment unit for an internal combustion engine, particularly for a motor vehicle, includes a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine can flow and at least one particle filter for retaining the soot particles from the exhaust gas, The particle filter, which is located downstream from the first SCR catalytic converter, is equipped with a heavy metal and precious metal free catalyzing coating which oxidizes the soot particles retained by the particle filter, where downstream from the particle filter there is a second SCR catalytic converter through which the exhaust gas can flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
  • Patent number: 9447723
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle having an exhaust gas turbo-charger comprising a compressor arranged in an intake tract of the internal combustion engine and a turbine arranged in an exhaust gas tract of the internal combustion engine, with a turbine wheel disposed the turbine housing, an adjustment device is provided by means of which a spiral inlet cross section of a spiral turbine inlet channel and a nozzle cross section of the spiral inlet channel to the turbine wheel are jointly adjustable by a common adjustment device. The invention further relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger, a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a method for operating an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Torsten Hirth, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
  • Patent number: 8621863
    Abstract: In a turbocharger for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a turbine housing having first and second spiral passages, each of which is connected to at least one exhaust gas line of an exhaust train of the internal combustion engine and a turbine wheel disposed within a rotor chamber of the turbine housing and connected to a compressor impeller via a drive shaft for rotation with the impeller, the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can be routed through the spiral passages for admission to the turbine wheel via the first and second spiral passages which have different wrap angles around the turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Stephan Krätschrner, Wolfram Schmid, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
  • Patent number: 8522549
    Abstract: In a radial compressor, particularly of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, having a compressor housing within which a compressor wheel is disposed for compressing air from an inflow channel of the compressor housing and directing the air to an outflow channel of the compressor housing, the compressor housing comprising a bypass channel having a first flow opening upstream of an axial compressor wheel inlet and a second flow opening downstream of the compressor wheel inlet, the compressor housing is configured at least in a flow region upstream of the second flow opening in an asymmetric manner with regard to a rotational axis of the compressor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller
  • Publication number: 20130202368
    Abstract: An apparatus for discharging bulk material from a container containing gas includes a single-shaft screw conveyor including a conveying tube having an axis of symmetry. A purge tank is disposed downstream of the screw conveyor with the conveying tube opening into the purge tank. The purge tank includes ports for a supply and discharge of a purge gas stream and an outlet opening for the bulk material. A closing cone with a cone tip and an axis of symmetry is shiftably mounted on its axis of symmetry. The closing cone is pressed with the cone tip from outside into an outlet opening of the conveying tube. The axis of symmetry of the closing cone coincides with the axis of symmetry of the conveying tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: LURGI GMBH, L' AIR LIQUIDE, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L' EXPLOITATION DES PROCÉDÉS GEORGES CLAUDE
    Inventors: Georg Ehring, Martin Mueller-Hasky, Christoph Steden, Frank Castillo-Welter, Dominic Walter, Horst Sachs, Michael Stiller
  • Patent number: 8209982
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having two exhaust gas turbochargers which are connected in series and a bypass line which bypasses the exhaust gas turbine close to the engine and extends to a collecting space of the turbine remote from the engine, and a blow-off valve is integrated into the turbine housing of the remote exhaust gas turbine for controlling a communication path between the collecting space and the turbine wheel, and includes a control sleeve supported axially movably between a closed position in which the communication path is blocked and a fully open position in which a flow path by-passing the turbine wheel of the turbine remote from the engine is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Michael Stiller, Peter Fiedersbacher
  • Publication number: 20110088392
    Abstract: In a radial compressor, particularly of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, having a compressor housing within which a compressor wheel is disposed for compressing air from an inflow channel of the compressor housing and directing the air to an outflow channel of the compressor housing, the compressor housing comprising a bypass channel having a first flow opening upstream of an axial compressor wheel inlet and a second flow opening downstream of the compressor wheel inlet, the compressor housing is configured at least in a flow region upstream of the outflow channel in a rotational asymmetric manner with regard to a rotational axis of the compressor wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller
  • Publication number: 20110079009
    Abstract: In a turbocharger for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a turbine housing having first and second spiral passages, each of which is connected to at least one exhaust gas line of an exhaust train of the internal combustion engine and a turbine wheel disposed within a rotor chamber of the turbine housing and connected to a compressor impeller via a drive shaft for rotation with the impeller, the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can be routed through the spiral passages for admission to the turbine wheel via the first and second spiral passages which have different wrap angles around the turbine wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Stephan Krätschrner, Wolfram Schmid, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
  • Publication number: 20110067397
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle having an exhaust gas turbo-charger comprising a compressor arranged in an intake tract of the internal combustion engine and a turbine arranged in an exhaust gas tract of the internal combustion engine, with a turbine wheel disposed the turbine housing, an adjustment device is provided by means of which a spiral inlet cross section of a spiral turbine inlet channel and a nozzle cross section of the spiral inlet channel to the turbine wheel are jointly adjustable by a common adjustment device. The invention further relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger, a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a method for operating an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Torsten Hirth, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
  • Publication number: 20080223039
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having two exhaust gas turbochargers which are connected in series and a bypass line which bypasses the exhaust gas turbine close to the engine and extends to a collecting space of the turbine remote from the engine, and a blow-off valve is integrated into the turbine housing of the remote exhaust gas turbine for controlling a communication path between the collecting space and the turbine wheel, and includes a control sleeve supported axially movably between a closed position in which the communication path is blocked and a fully open position in which a flow path by-passing the turbine wheel of the turbine remote from the engine is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Michael Stiller, Peter Fiedersbacher
  • Patent number: 6801941
    Abstract: A method of assigning a unique IP address to a user of a mobile communication device in an OBS network allows for the dynamic assignment of IP addresses to users entering the OBS network. The OBS network includes a plurality of interconnected OBSs where each of the OBSs includes a user database including an OBS identifier, user identifier, assigned IP address, MAC hardware address, and beam identifier for each user in the network. The OBS network also includes a master ticketing authority that maintains a database of unique IP address that may be assigned to users entering the network, a gateway, a master routing database, and at least one mobile communication device in contact with an OBS. Users in the network are also authenticated through the transmittal of encrypted random numbers between a user authentication site and a mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventors: William Edward Stephens, Harvey Waldman, Thomas Michael Stiller, Nisha Pauline Newman