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).
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Publication number: 20250129738Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor car has an exhaust tract which can be flowed through by exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a turbine wheel arranged in the exhaust tract and driven by the exhaust gas, and an exhaust gas recirculation device which has an exhaust gas recirculation conduit via which at least a part of the exhaust gas can be branched off from the exhaust tract at a branching point arranged upstream of the turbine wheel and can be recirculated to a suction tract which can be flowed through by air of the internal combustion engine and can be introduced into the suction tract at an introduction point. A compressor wheel which can be driven via electricity to compress the air flowing through the suction tract is arranged in the suction tract upstream or downstream of the introduction point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventor: Michael STILLER
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Publication number: 20250117410Abstract: A system is provided for processing user queries by using an automated agent and a workflow. The system comprises reusable components that include states, tools, and/or data sources. Based on analysis of a query's content and goals, the system generates a workflow comprising a sequence of states, each state optimized for a subtask and dynamically bound to a selected tool(s) for that specific query. The workflow can provide a structured high-level control, while allowing for flexible selection of the tool(s) for each state of the workflow for that given query. The system produces a result using the structured workflow and selected tools, answering a user's original query.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Viktor AGHAJANYAN, Michael STILLER, Eugenia BORNACINI
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Publication number: 20250117417Abstract: A system is provided for processing user queries by using an automated agent and a workflow. The system comprises reusable components that include states, tools, and/or data sources. Based on analysis of a query's content and goals, the system generates a workflow comprising a sequence of states, each state optimized for a subtask and dynamically bound to a selected tool(s) for that specific query. The workflow can provide a structured high-level control, while allowing for flexible selection of the tool(s) for each state of the workflow for that given query. The system produces a result using the structured workflow and selected tools, answering a user's original query.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Viktor AGHAJANYAN, Michael STILLER
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Patent number: 11781466Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Daimler Truck AGInventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
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Publication number: 20220381174Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
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Patent number: 11415033Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Guenter Hay, Kai Hoffmann, Tobias Schoeffler, Michael Stiller
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Patent number: 11008916Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
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Publication number: 20210003057Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Guenter HAY, Kai HOFFMANN, Tobias SCHOEFFLER, Michael STILLER
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Publication number: 20200116063Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
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Patent number: 10502107Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
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Patent number: 10287939Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
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Publication number: 20190003360Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
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Publication number: 20180347423Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Johannes BLECKMANN, Claudia ESSMANN, Uwe GAERTNER, Alexander MASSNER, Michael STILLER
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Patent number: 9447723Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: DAIMLER AGInventors: Torsten Hirth, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
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Patent number: 8621863Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Stephan Krätschrner, Wolfram Schmid, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser
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Patent number: 8522549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Siegfried Sumser, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller
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Publication number: 20130202368Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicants: LURGI GMBH, L' AIR LIQUIDE, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L' EXPLOITATION DES PROCÉDÉS GEORGES CLAUDEInventors: Georg Ehring, Martin Mueller-Hasky, Christoph Steden, Frank Castillo-Welter, Dominic Walter, Horst Sachs, Michael Stiller
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Patent number: 8209982Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Siegfried Sumser, Michael Stiller, Peter Fiedersbacher
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Publication number: 20110088392Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Siegfried Sumser, Stephan Krätschmer, Michael Stiller
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Publication number: 20110079009Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Stephan Krätschrner, Wolfram Schmid, Michael Stiller, Siegfried Sumser