Patents by Inventor Ortwin Balthes

Ortwin Balthes 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: 11053832
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust system, where the exhaust system has a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter close to the engine and a second SCR catalytic converter arranged downstream of the first. A respective quantity of reducing agent to be introduced into the exhaust gas by a respective dosing element is set depending on a first temperature of the first SCR catalytic converter, where during a period of time during which the first temperature exceeds a predeterminable first threshold value and a second temperature of the second SCR catalytic converter exceeds a predeterminable second threshold value, which is lower than the first threshold value, the introduction of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas with regard to the dosing elements takes place exclusively via the second dosing element such that during the period of time, no introduction of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller, Thorsten Woog
  • Patent number: 11015504
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, which has an exhaust gas system that exhaust gas from at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion chamber can flow through and includes at least one nitrogen oxide storage catalyst, at least one particulate filter, and at least one selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Juergen Kuckelsberg, Siegfried Mueller, Thorsten Woog
  • Publication number: 20200378287
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust system, where the exhaust system has a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter close to the engine and a second SCR catalytic converter arranged downstream of the first. A respective quantity of reducing agent to be introduced into the exhaust gas by a respective dosing element is set depending on a first temperature of the first SCR catalytic converter, where during a period of time during which the first temperature exceeds a predeterminable first threshold value and a second temperature of the second SCR catalytic converter exceeds a predeterminable second threshold value, which is lower than the first threshold value, the introduction of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas with regard to the dosing elements takes place exclusively via the second dosing element such that during the period of time, no introduction of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas takes place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin BALTHES, Berthold KEPPELER, Siegfried MUELLER, Thorsten WOOG
  • Publication number: 20200263583
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, which has an exhaust gas system that exhaust gas from at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion chamber can flow through and includes at least one nitrogen oxide storage catalyst, at least one particulate filter, and at least one selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin BALTHES, Berthold KEPPELER, Juergen KUCKELSBERG, Siegfried MUELLER, Thorsten WOOG
  • Patent number: 10113460
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the temperature of an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is disclosed. A first characteristic temperature value for an oxidative carbon monoxide conversion and a second characteristic temperature value for an oxidative hydrocarbon conversion are assigned to an oxidation catalytic converter, and a third characteristic temperature value for a reductive NOx conversion is assigned to an SCR catalytic converter. Different respective values for injection parameters of injection processes for fuel injections into combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine and/or the heating output of an electric heating element are set upon reaching the first and the second characteristic temperature values for the temperature of the oxidation catalytic converter and upon reaching the third characteristic temperature value for the temperature of the SCR catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller, Thorsten Woog
  • Publication number: 20170167342
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the temperature of an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is disclosed. A first characteristic temperature value for an oxidative carbon monoxide conversion and a second characteristic temperature value for an oxidative hydrocarbon conversion are assigned to an oxidation catalytic converter, and a third characteristic temperature value for a reductive NOx conversion is assigned to an SCR catalytic converter. Different respective values for injection parameters of injection processes for fuel injections into combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine and/or the heating output of an electric heating element are set upon reaching the first and the second characteristic temperature values for the temperature of the oxidation catalytic converter and upon reaching the third characteristic temperature value for the temperature of the SCR catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Ortwin BALTHES
  • Patent number: 9482126
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle involves performing regeneration of the particle filter as a function of at least one aging value characterizing an aging condition of the oxidation catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Thorsten Woog
  • Patent number: 9458799
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle internal combustion engine that has an exhaust tract with an exhaust gas purification unit acting catalytically and/or by filtration with which combustion air supplemented by exhaust gas diverging from the exhaust tract is fed to the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine by exhaust gas branching off from the exhaust tract at a total exhaust gas recirculation rate. The total exhaust gas recirculation rate has a low-pressure proportion diverging downstream from the exhaust gas purification unit and a high-pressure proportion diverging upstream from an exhaust gas turbocharger turbine arranged in the exhaust tract. An essentially decreasing low pressure proportion is set with at least approximately the same operating points of the internal combustion engine with an increasing operating period of the exhaust gas purification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150316004
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle internal combustion engine that has an exhaust tract with an exhaust gas purification unit acting catalytically and/or by filtration with which combustion air supplemented by exhaust gas diverging from the exhaust tract is fed to the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine by exhaust gas branching off from the exhaust tract at a total exhaust gas recirculation rate. The total exhaust gas recirculation rate has a low-pressure proportion diverging downstream from the exhaust gas purification unit and a high-pressure proportion diverging upstream from an exhaust gas turbocharger turbine arranged in the exhaust tract. An essentially decreasing low pressure proportion is set with at least approximately the same operating points of the internal combustion engine with an increasing operating period of the exhaust gas purification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Ortwin BALTHES
  • Patent number: 9157356
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system is provided. The emission control system includes an oxidation catalytic converter, a particle filter, and an SCR catalytic converter, in which the exhaust gas that is discharged from the diesel engine is passed through the oxidation catalytic converter before passing through the particle filter and the SCR catalytic converter. A regeneration of the particle filter with thermal soot burn-off is occasionally carried out, during which the diesel engine is operated at an air-fuel ratio having a lambda value (?) of at least approximately 1.0, and air is added to the exhaust gas after it exits the oxidation catalytic converter and before it enters the particle filter air, so that soot deposited on the particle filter is burnt-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Thomas Beckmann, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150176450
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle involves performing regeneration of the particle filter as a function of at least one aging value characterizing an aging condition of the oxidation catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Thorsten Woog
  • Publication number: 20140109554
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system is provided. The emission control system includes an oxidation catalytic converter, a particle filter, and an SCR catalytic converter, in which the exhaust gas that is discharged from the diesel engine is passed through the oxidation catalytic converter before passing through the particle filter and the SCR catalytic converter. A regeneration of the particle filter with thermal soot burn-off is occasionally carried out, during which the diesel engine is operated at an air-fuel ratio having a lambda value (?) of at least approximately 1.0, and air is added to the exhaust gas after it exits the oxidation catalytic converter and before it enters the particle filter air, so that soot deposited on the particle filter is burnt-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Thomas Beckmann, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
  • Publication number: 20140041367
    Abstract: An operating method is provided for a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system that includes a three-way catalytic converter and an SCR catalytic converter situated one behind the other in the flow direction of the exhaust gas. The diesel engine is operated, at least intermittently, with an air-fuel ratio of approximately ?=1.0 in a first operating range in which the SCR catalytic converter falls below a predefinable minimum temperature and with excess air that is typical for normal diesel engine operation in a second operating range in which the SCR catalytic converter exceeds the predefinable minimum temperature. An output signal of an exhaust gas sensor situated downstream from the three-way catalytic converter and which is correlated with a NOx concentration of the exhaust gas is used to set the air-fuel ratio in the first operating range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller