Patents by Inventor Timo Dirnberger

Timo Dirnberger 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).

  • Publication number: 20240033670
    Abstract: A gaseous fluid filter has a filter element insertable into the filter housing through a service opening. A clamping wedge is insertable in a joining direction for clamping the filter element in clamping direction against the filter housing. The filter element rests against the filter housing with a seal surface facing away from the clamping wedge. The clamping wedge has a housing wedge side facing a housing stop and a filter element wedge side facing a filter element stop. These wedge sides each have first and second bearing surfaces separated by a step. The joining direction extends in or parallel to a contact plane between housing wedge side and housing stop. The first and/or second bearing surface of the filter element wedge side is positioned at a wedge base angle of 1° to 20° to the joining direction. The steps of the wedge sides are offset in joining direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Timo DIRNBERGER, Bernd JOOS
  • Publication number: 20240033667
    Abstract: An air filter has a filter housing with inlet opening, outlet opening, and service opening. A first filter element and a second filter element are arranged inside the filter housing between inlet opening and outlet opening. The first filter element is arranged in a mounting frame. The first and second filter elements can be flowed through serially in one or more operating states of the air filter. The mounting frame is insertable through the service opening into the filter housing in a joining direction and removable from the filter housing opposite to the joining direction. The second filter element has a wedge stop. A clamping wedge arranged at the mounting frame, upon insertion of the mounting frame into the filter housing, contacts the wedge stop of the second filter element and clamps the second filter element at the filter housing in a clamping direction transversely to the joining direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Timo DIRNBERGER, Macario Francisco DOS SANTOS ASCENSAO
  • Patent number: 11752463
    Abstract: An adsorber element for a filter system is provided with a frame that has a base plate and one or more rigid support elements that project away from the base plate. An adsorber medium is disposed at the frame and arranged at least in sections of the base plate and at least in sections of the one or more rigid support elements. The filter system has a housing with an inlet and an outlet. The filter system is flowed through by a gaseous fluid from the inlet to the outlet. A filter element is arranged in the housing between inlet and outlet. The adsorber element is arranged in the housing preferably downstream of the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos, Christopher Listl, Mathias Hoesl
  • Publication number: 20230201754
    Abstract: A filter element for filtering a fluid has a frame and at least one filter bellows arranged in the frame and provided with a first areal inflow surface for a first fluid flow and at least one second inflow surface for a second fluid flow separate from the first fluid flow. The second inflow surface is separate from the first areal inflow surface. A flow channel is provided to guide the second fluid flow and has a raw-side flow channel section arranged within the frame. A filter system provided with a filter housing is provided with such a filter element arranged exchangeably in the filter housing between a raw side and a clean side. The filter housing has a first inlet for the first fluid flow communicating with the first inflow surface and at least a second inlet for the second fluid flow communicating with the second inflow surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd JOOS, Timo DIRNBERGER
  • Publication number: 20230149842
    Abstract: A filter element for filtering a fluid has a filter body with a filter medium folded in a zigzag shape with folds extending in a fold direction. The filter body has an end edge bonding which seals fold ends of the folds. The filter body has an outer contour with recesses. The end edge bonding, in a region of the recesses of the outer contour of the filter body, is embodied discontinuously. The end edge bonding has at least one outwardly positioned first bonding segment and an inwardly positioned second bonding segment, viewed in the fold direction. The inwardly positioned second bonding segment, in a transverse direction relative to the fold direction, is arranged at a spacing to the at least one outwardly positioned first bonding segment. The at least one outwardly positioned first bonding segment and the inwardly positioned second bonding segment bond at least one common fold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel SCHMID, Timo DIRNBERGER, Andreas WEBER, Markus SCHMIDL, Christoph GOLDBRUNNER, Nadine DONAUER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Martin LEHMANN, Markus WAGNER
  • Patent number: 11471804
    Abstract: A method for producing a filter element provided with a sealing part in which the sealing material is introduced into a casting chamber between two tundish parts when in the non-cured state, and a compensation space connected to the casting chamber for the expansion of the sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Sudermann, Fabian Wagner, Thomas Sieber, Guenter Goerg, Michael Metzger, Markus Roehrig, Thomas Jessberger, Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos
  • Patent number: 11125371
    Abstract: A coupling device for connecting media-conducting lines has a one-part or multi-part first coupling section and a one-part or multi-part second coupling section. At least one locking element is fastened with at least one connecting section to the first coupling section and is provided with one or more locking arc sections extending in a circumferential direction between the first and second coupling sections. The second coupling section has a locking section extending circumferentially at least partially about a circumference of the second coupling section. At least one of the one or more locking arc sections interacts with the locking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Zbiral, Thomas Jessberger, Andreas Weber, Timo Dirnberger
  • Publication number: 20210283542
    Abstract: A method for producing a filter element provided with a sealing part in which the sealing material is introduced into a casting chamber between two tundish parts when in the non-cured state, and a compensation space connected to the casting chamber for the expansion of the sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Arthur Sudermann, Fabian Wagner, Thomas Sieber, Guenter Goerg, Michael Metzger, Markus Roehrig, Thomas Jessberger, Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos
  • Publication number: 20210178305
    Abstract: An adsorber element for a filter system is provided with a frame that has a base plate and one or more rigid support elements that project away from the base plate. An adsorber medium is disposed at the frame and arranged at least in sections of the base plate and at least in sections of the one or more rigid support elements. The filter system has a housing with an inlet and an outlet. The filter system is flowed through by a gaseous fluid from the inlet to the outlet. A filter element is arranged in the housing between inlet and outlet. The adsorber element is arranged in the housing preferably downstream of the filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos, Christopher Listl, Mathias Hoesl
  • Patent number: 11020701
    Abstract: A filter element for an air filter has a filter bellows with a filter medium folded multiple times. A recess is disposed in the filter bellows and is designed to receive a guiding rib of the air filter. The recess is curved at least in sections thereof along a length extension of the recess. The air filter has a housing and a guiding rib, wherein the filter element is arranged at least partially in the housing and the guiding rib is immersed at least partially in the recess of the filter element. In a method for producing the filter element, the recess in the filter bellows is formed with a computer-assisted separation method that forms the recess to be curved at least in sections thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Schmid, Timo Dirnberger, Andreas Weber, Markus Schmidl, Christoph Goldbrunner, Markus Hanselmann, Guenter Goerg
  • Patent number: 10960333
    Abstract: A method for producing a filter element provided with a sealing part in which the sealing material is introduced into a casting chamber between two tundish parts when in the non-cured state, and a compensation space connected to the casting chamber for the expansion of the sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Sudermann, Fabian Wagner, Thomas Sieber, Guenter Goerg, Michael Metzger, Markus Roehrig, Thomas Jessberger, Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos
  • Patent number: 10688427
    Abstract: A filter element has a filter bellows with circumferential seal having a seal region and a fastening region with radial and axial fastening sections. The radial fastening section has a holding surface facing away from the filter bellows and engaging a radially inner pressure-exerting section of a housing. The axial fastening section provides a radially inner boundary of a circumferential groove of the seal region that receives a radially outer pressure-exerting section of the housing. A seal projection forms a radially outer boundary of the groove. The seal region has an axially acting sealing surface opposite the groove axially spaced farther from an axial filter bellows end face than the holding surface. Axial spacing between groove base and axially acting sealing surface is greater than a spacing between a transition of the groove base into the axial fastening section and a transition of the holding surface into the seal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Daniel Schmid, Bernd Joos
  • Patent number: 10662905
    Abstract: A flat air filter element for an air filter has a filter medium of cellulose material and a sealing element extending circumferentially about the filter medium. Sealing element and filter medium have at least one recess at an outer contour of the flat air filter element. The sealing element has a circumferentially extending holding groove to be engaged by a housing part of a filter housing. The filter housing has a housing pot, a housing cover to cover the housing pot, and a closure element for closing the filter housing. The flat air filter element is secured in the closed state of the filter housing by circumferentially clamping the sealing element between housing pot and housing cover. The circumferentially extending holding groove of the sealing element is engaged by housing pot or housing cover. The closure element of the filter housing is arranged in the region of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Daniel Schmid, Andreas Weber
  • Patent number: 10662907
    Abstract: A fluid conducting system for transport of a fluid has a housing with an inlet for the fluid and an outlet for the fluid. A sensor is arranged in the housing or protrudes from an exterior into the housing and measures a mass flow or a volume flow of a fluid flow that is flowing through the housing from the inlet to the outlet. A filter element is arranged upstream of the sensor in the housing. A fluid channel section has an inlet cross section and an outlet cross section, wherein the fluid channel section is arranged upstream of and in front of the sensor and the outlet cross section adjoins the sensor. The fluid channel section has a tapering cross section tapering from the inlet cross section toward the sensor and accelerating at least a portion of the fluid flow and conducting the fluid flow to the sensor. The tapering cross section of the fluid channel section tapers constantly at least in an area of the outlet cross section in front of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Michael Frank
  • Patent number: 10556200
    Abstract: In a method for producing two or more filter bellows, a bellows with a filter medium with fold edges is provided, wherein the filter medium is running in a running direction. A cutting path is carried out in the bellows with the filter medium in a direction that, at least in some regions, is transverse relative to the fold edges such that the filter bellows are produced in parallel and the cutting path creates end edge faces and/or side faces of the filter bellows and the filter bellows are embodied lying adjacent to each other and symmetrical or point-symmetrical relative to each other in the running direction and/or transverse to the running direction. A filter element with such a filter bellows and a filter system with such a filter element and filter bellows arranged in a filter housing are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Markus Roehrig, Daniel Schmid, Sven Epli, Markus Schmidl
  • Publication number: 20190358571
    Abstract: A method for producing a filter element provided with a sealing part in which the sealing material is introduced into a casting chamber between two tundish parts when in the non-cured state, and a compensation space connected to the casting chamber for the expansion of the sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Sudermann, Fabian Wagner, Thomas Sieber, Guenter Goerg, Michael Metzger, Markus Roehrig, Thomas Jessberger, Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos
  • Publication number: 20190351361
    Abstract: A filter element for an air filter has a filter bellows with a filter medium folded multiple times. A recess is disposed in the filter bellows and is designed to receive a guiding rib of the air filter. The recess is curved at least in sections thereof along a length extension of the recess. The air filter has a housing and a guiding rib, wherein the filter element is arranged at least partially in the housing and the guiding rib is immersed at least partially in the recess of the filter element. In a method for producing the filter element, the recess in the filter bellows is formed with a computer-assisted separation method that forms the recess to be curved at least in sections thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Schmid, Timo Dirnberger, Andreas Weber, Markus Schmidl, Christoph Goldbrunner, Markus Hanselmann, Guenter Goerg
  • Patent number: 10384158
    Abstract: A filter element for filtering a fluid, including: a filter bellows made of a filter medium folded into zig-zag-shaped pleats along fold edges, each pleat extending between opposing end edges of the filter bel-lows, and being laterally sealed at the end edges by means of at least one sealant track or a sideband; wherein the filter bellows includes a first element section; and a second element section, which include each on opposing end faces end edge surfaces and that substantially run parallel to one another, wherein, from one element section to another element section, at least one of the end edge surfaces changes direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Pflueger, Fabian Wagner, Christian Thalmann, André Roesgen, Robert Hasenfratz, Daniel Schmid, Timo Dirnberger
  • Patent number: 10315143
    Abstract: A method for producing a filter element provided with a sealing part in which the sealing material is introduced into a casting chamber between two tundish parts when in the non-cured state, and a compensation space connected to the casting chamber for the expansion of the sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Sudermann, Fabian Wagner, Thomas Sieber, Guenter Goerg, Michael Metzger, Markus Roehrig, Thomas Jessberger, Timo Dirnberger, Bernd Joos
  • Publication number: 20190168148
    Abstract: A filter element has a filter bellows with circumferential seal having a seal region and a fastening region with radial and axial fastening sections. The radial fastening section has a holding surface facing away from the filter bellows and engaging a radially inner pressure-exerting section of a housing. The axial fastening section provides a radially inner boundary of a circumferential groove of the seal region that receives a radially outer pressure-exerting section of the housing. A seal projection forms a radially outer boundary of the groove. The seal region has an axially acting sealing surface opposite the groove axially spaced farther from an axial filter bellows end face than the holding surface. Axial spacing between groove base and axially acting sealing surface is greater than a spacing between a transition of the groove base into the axial fastening section and a transition of the holding surface into the seal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Daniel Schmid, Bernd Joos