Patents by Inventor Udo Schlemmer-Kelling

Udo Schlemmer-Kelling 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: 9188037
    Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: HX HOLDING GMBH, CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Krauss, Jan Dreves, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Patent number: 8978359
    Abstract: A turbocharged internal combustion engine disclosed that may comprise an engine block with a first end side opposing a second end side and a two-stage turbocharged system. The two-stage turbocharged system may comprise a low-pressure turbocharger with a first turbine and a first compressor and a high-pressure turbocharger with a second turbine and a second compressor. A turbine connection may fluidly connect the first turbine and the second turbine and a compressor connection fluidly connects the first compressor and the second compressor. The low-pressure turbocharger is mounted at the first end side of the engine block and the high-pressure turbocharger is mounted at a second end side of the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20150033710
    Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Dietmar Krauss, Jan Dreves, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20150027424
    Abstract: A method for operating a self ignition internal combustion engine (ICE) with a low cetane fuel such as alternative fuels, for example pyrolysis oil, as well as an ICE are disclosed. To reach self ignition conditions one may provide the internal combustion engine to have a compression ratio of at least 17:1, for example, 18:1 (step 100). Moreover, one may load a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine with charge air having a minimal temperature in the range of 340 degrees K to 360 degrees K (step 200) and inject the low cetane fuel at an injection angle of a piston of the internal combustion engine within the range of 20° to 10°, for example between 17.5° to 11° before top dead center into the charge air (step 300), thereby forming a low cetane fuel-charge air mixture. Compressing the low cetane fuel-charge air mixture further during the combustion cycle may result in a compression end temperature of at least 1000 K, allowing self ignition of the low cetane fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Von Der Osten-Sack, Jens-Uwe Reeh, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Patent number: 8919121
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a turbocharged internal combustion engine with exhaust gas recycling, comprising an intake manifold, an exhaust manifold, a fresh air turbocharger and an exhaust supercharger, wherein the intake manifold is divided by a separating wall into a fresh air passage and an exhaust passage, one of the passages being connected to inlet openings of cylinders of the engine, the fresh air passage being connected to the outlet of the compressor of the fresh air turbocharger, the exhaust passage being connected to the outlet of the compressor of the exhaust supercharger and the separating wall being formed with orifices connecting the two passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20130199162
    Abstract: A turbocharged internal combustion engine disclosed that may comprise an engine block with a first end side opposing a second end side and a two-stage turbocharged system. The two-stage turbocharged system may comprise a low-pressure turbocharger with a first turbine and a first compressor and a high-pressure turbocharger with a second turbine and a second compressor. A turbine connection may fluidly connect the first turbine and the second turbine and a compressor connection fluidly connects the first compressor and the second compressor. The low-pressure turbocharger is mounted at the first end side of the engine block and the high-pressure turbocharger is mounted at a second end side of the engine block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Patent number: 8430072
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling valve displacement of an internal combustion engine comprises a rocker arm having a first arm portion and a second arm portion, said rocker arm being pivotable about a pivot interposed between said first and second arm portions. The apparatus further comprises an actuation arrangement adapted to actuate said first arm portion of said rocker arm and a valve arrangement adapted to be actuated by said second arm portion of said rocker arm. A damper arrangement is pivotably connected to said first arm portion and adapted for damping movement of said rocker arm around said pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sascha Burkhard, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling, Jurgen Nagel
  • Publication number: 20120304970
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a mixing pipe for mixing recirculated exhaust gas and air, preferably supplied by a high pressure compressor, and supplying a mixture of the exhaust gas and the air to a plurality of combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine. The mixing pipe may comprise a first mixing pipe section having a mixing pipe inlet and a mixing pipe outlet. The distance between the mixing pipe inlet and the mixing pipe outlet may have a predetermined length, wherein the predetermined length of the first mixing pipe section is configured to achieve a defined mixing ratio of the exhaust gas and the air at the mixing pipe outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20120234001
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a method and apparatus for recirculating an exhaust gas flow of a large internal combustion engine having an air inlet and an exhaust gas outlet. The method may comprise the steps of diverting a first partial exhaust gas flow at the exhaust gas outlet of the large internal combustion engine; cooling the exhaust gas of the first partial exhaust gas flow; compressing the cooled first partial exhaust gas flow; cooling the compressed exhaust gas of the first partial exhaust gas flow; and supplying the cooled and compressed first partial exhaust gas flow to the air inlet of the large internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Anke Neumann, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20110302919
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a turbocharged internal combustion engine with exhaust gas recycling, comprising an intake manifold, an exhaust manifold, a fresh air turbocharger and an exhaust supercharger, wherein the intake manifold is divided by a separating wall into a fresh air passage and an exhaust passage, one of the passages being connected to inlet openings of cylinders of the engine, the fresh air passage being connected to the outlet of the compressor of the fresh air turbocharger, the exhaust passage being connected to the outlet of the compressor of the exhaust supercharger and the separating wall being formed with orifices connecting the two passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20100263612
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling valve displacement of an internal combustion engine comprises a rocker arm having a first arm portion and a second arm portion, said rocker arm being pivotable about a pivot interposed between said first and second arm portions. The apparatus further comprises an actuation arrangement adapted to actuate said first arm portion of said rocker arm and a valve arrangement adapted to be actuated by said second arm portion of said rocker arm. A damper arrangement is pivotably connected to said first arm portion and adapted for damping movement of said rocker arm around said pivot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR MOTOREN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sascha Burkhard, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling, Jurgen Nagel
  • Patent number: 7428893
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided that includes a high pressure feed line, and a plurality of fuel injectors fluidly connected to the high pressure feed line, each being operable to inject a fuel into the engine. The engine further includes an electronically controlled flow disabler disposed between the high pressure feed line and each one of the fuel injectors. Each of the flow disablers includes an actuator operable to move a valve member toward a closed position at which the flow disabler blocks a fuel flow to the respective fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Ronald D. Shinogle, William J. Rodier, James D. Peltier, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling, Juergen Nagel
  • Publication number: 20060102152
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided that includes a high pressure feed line, and a plurality of fuel injectors fluidly connected to the high pressure feed line, each being operable to inject a fuel into the engine. The engine further includes an electronically controlled flow disabler disposed between the high pressure feed line and each one of the fuel injectors. Each of the flow disablers includes an actuator operable to move a valve member toward a closed position at which the flow disabler blocks a fuel flow to the respective fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Ronald Shinogle, William Rodier, James Peltier, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling, Jurgen Nagel