Patents by Inventor Volker Gniesmer

Volker Gniesmer 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: 11320007
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for monitoring the functions of a friction clutch which is arranged in a vehicle between a drive motor and a compressor of a compressed air supply system and which can be disengaged and engaged pneumatically. In a delivery mode of the compressor, at least one operating parameter is detected by sensor and evaluated in an electronic control unit. When a slipping condition of the friction clutch is identified, a value for a cut-off pressure of the compressor stored in the electronic control unit is reduced. When a slipping condition has been identified, the delivery mode of the compressor is ended by disengagement of the friction clutch, and a warning signal and/or warning information is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS HANNOVER GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Brinkmann, Dirk Hillbring, Konrad Feyerabend, Volker Gniesmer, Ralf Stoffels
  • Publication number: 20210381560
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for monitoring the functions of a friction clutch which is arranged in a vehicle between a drive motor and a compressor of a compressed air supply system and which can be disengaged and engaged pneumatically. In a delivery mode of the compressor, at least one operating parameter is detected by sensor and evaluated in an electronic control unit. When a slipping condition of the friction clutch is identified, a value for a cut-off pressure of the compressor stored in the electronic control unit is reduced. When a slipping condition has been identified, the delivery mode of the compressor is ended by disengagement of the friction clutch, and a warning signal and/or warning information is outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan BRINKMANN, Dirk HILLBRING, Konrad FEYERABEND, Volker GNIESMER, Ralf STOFFELS
  • Patent number: 10359000
    Abstract: A cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in which cylinder liner an oscillating piston is guided on a running surface wherein the cylinder line is fixed vertically by means of a collar between a cylinder housing and a cylinder head. The wet cylinder includes an outer side which deviates from a circular shape and/or a rotationally asymmetrical outer contour of the collar. The cylinder liner is fitted in a positionally oriented manner in a corresponding receptable of the cylinder housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Patent number: 10066579
    Abstract: A cooling channel piston for an internal combustion engine which includes a piston bottom and a piston shaft that are joined thereto of a friction welding process. The piston bottom and the piston shaft jointly form a cooling channel. An annular wall which radially delimits the cooling channel towards the outside is formed by the piston bottom and/or the piston shaft. The annular wall can be sealed by a welding process once the piston bottom and the piston shaft have been joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Gerhard Luz, Jochem Müller, Christian Schaller
  • Publication number: 20180010549
    Abstract: A cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in which cylinder liner an oscillating piston is guided on a running surface wherein the cylinder line is fixed vertically by means of a collar between a cylinder housing and a cylinder head. The wet cylinder includes an outer side which deviates from a circular shape and/or a rotationally asymmetrical outer contour of the collar. The cylinder liner is fitted in a positionally oriented manner in a corresponding receptable of the cylinder housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20170173665
    Abstract: A method for producing a cooling channel system for an internal combustion engine, which has a cooling channel in the piston crown. The piston crown is adjoined by a lower piston part having a piston boss, pin bores and piston skirts. Firstly, a piston blank having a peripheral collar projecting radially in the region of the piston crown is produced, wherein the collar, forming a subsequent ring zone wall is then reshaped and, in a transition area between the piston crown and the lower piston part, a contact area for the collar is formed, and the collar is reshaped in such a way until the outer radially peripheral edge comes very close to or completely into contact with the contact area in order to form a closed cooling channel. Following the reshaping, the end region of the ring zone wall forms a defined gap (X) with respect to the upper edge of the piston skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Patent number: 9605758
    Abstract: A stroke piston for a stroke piston compressor for generating compressed air for a vehicle, such as a commercial vehicle, includes a piston body with a piston floor, a piston skirt with piston skirt walls and pin hubs for receiving a piston pin, and at least two piston rings, which can be inserted into circumferential ring grooves of the piston body. Ridges of the piston body are provided between each two ring grooves and between the piston floor and the first ring groove arranged closest to the piston floor and the ring groove arranged closest to the piston skirt facing away from the other ring groove or grooves. At least one of the ridges is recessed at least over a partial section of its ridge height, which is measured parallel to the axis of the piston body, with at least one recess relative to the diameter of the piston body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Folkhard Holzel, Christian Schwarze, Christoph Wilken
  • Patent number: 9518531
    Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine, includes a piston upper part and a piston lower part which are supported via corresponding joining webs, in each case forming a joining zone connected in a material-to-material manner by means of a multi-orbital rotary friction weld. The joining webs and which are in each case directly connected have a wall thickness S1, S2 which is identical as far as possible. The piston encloses a combustion-chamber recess and at least one cooling duct which are made centrally or eccentrically in the piston. The combustion chamber recess and the cooling duct form a circular contour or a contour which deviates from a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Emmerich Ottliczky, Gunter Bayer
  • Publication number: 20160326980
    Abstract: A method for producing a piston of an internal combustion engine and to a piston produced according to the method having a piston crown with annular grooves, a combustion-chamber bowl, and piston shaft having a pin bore for receiving a pin, wherein both a combustion-chamber rim and a combustion-chamber bowl base are melted and thereafter solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20160222909
    Abstract: A cooling channel piston for an internal combustion engine which includes a piston bottom and a piston shaft that are joined thereto of a friction welding process. The piston bottom and the piston shaft jointly form a cooling channel. An annular wall which radially delimits the cooling channel towards the outside is formed by the piston bottom and/or the piston shaft. The annular wall can be sealed by a welding process once the piston bottom and the piston shaft have been joined together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Gerhard Luz, Jochem Muller, Christian Schaller
  • Patent number: 9238283
    Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine includes a top part produced from steel and a bottom part, which are integrally bonded in the region of a contact geometry via joining webs by a friction weld to form a structural unit. At least one cooling duct permeated by a coolant is integrated in the piston, wherein a lubricating oil of the internal combustion engine passes as the coolant into an inlet opening via a free jet of an injection nozzle, flows through the cooling duct and leaves the cooling duct via an outlet opening. For the introduction of the coolant into the cooling duct, the inlet opening is assigned a flow pipe which is inserted in the bottom part and protrudes from a cooling duct base, the opening of the flow pipe being arranged above the weld beads of the friction weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20150345421
    Abstract: A method for producing a piston of an internal combustion engine and to a piston produced according to the method having a piston crown with annular grooves, a combustion-chamber bowl, and piston shaft having a pin bore for receiving a pin, wherein both a combustion-chamber rim and a combustion-chamber bowl base are melted and thereafter solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20150233321
    Abstract: A method for producing a cooling channel system for an internal combustion engine, which has a cooling channel in the piston crown. The piston crown is adjoined by a lower piston part having a piston boss, pin bores and piston skirts. Firstly, a piston blank having a peripheral collar projecting radially in the region of the piston crown is produced, wherein the collar, forming a subsequent ring zone wall is then reshaped and, in a transition area between the piston crown and the lower piston part, a contact area for the collar is formed, and the collar is reshaped in such a way until the outer radially peripheral edge comes very close to or completely into contact with the contact area in order to form a closed cooling channel. Following the reshaping, the end region of the ring zone wall forms a defined gap (X) with respect to the upper edge of the piston skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20150176522
    Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine, includes a piston upper part and a piston lower part which are supported via corresponding joining webs, in each case forming a joining zone connected in a material-to-material manner by means of a multi-orbital rotary friction weld. The joining webs and which are in each case directly connected have a wall thickness S1, S2 which is identical as far as possible. The piston encloses a combustion-chamber recess and at least one cooling duct which are made centrally or eccentrically in the piston. The combustion chamber recess and the cooling duct form a circular contour or a contour which deviates from a circular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Emmerich Ottliczky, Gunter Bayer
  • Publication number: 20150047597
    Abstract: In order to machine at least one workpiece on a lathe, where the workpiece rotates in the lathe and the at least one region to be machined of the workpiece is machined with the aid of at least one tool of the lathe, where the tool is moved at least parallel to the rotation axis of the workpiece, where the tool is moved parallel to the rotation axis of the workpiece such that the machined region of the workpiece is formed in a rotationally asymmetrical manner with respect to the rotation axis of the workpiece after machining. Furthermore, the invention disclosure relates to a cooling duct to a piston wall, and to a combustion-chamber hollow of a piston and also to a lathe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20150027401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston (1) of an internal combustion engine, which piston (1) has a piston head (2) with a ring field (3) and a skirt part which is arranged on the piston head (2), wherein the skirt part has at least two load-bearing skirt-wall sections (4a, 4b), and the load-bearing skirt-wall sections (4a, 4b) are connected to one another via at least two obliquely positioned box walls (5) which are set back with respect to the piston external diameter. In each case one pin boss (9) for receiving a piston pin is arranged in the box wall (5) and one skirt-wall section (4a) forms the pressure side and the other skirt-wall section (4b) forms the counter-pressure side. According to the invention that the inner surface of the pin boss (9), in relation to the piston centre, runs flushly with respect to the surface of the associated box wall (5), and the box wall (5) has a concave profile in the transverse extent with respect to the direction of the pin boss (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Publication number: 20150020681
    Abstract: A stroke piston for a stroke piston compressor for generating compressed air for a vehicle, such as a commercial vehicle, includes a piston body with a piston floor, a piston skirt with piston skirt walls and pin hubs for receiving a piston pin, and at least two piston rings, which can be inserted into circumferential ring grooves of the piston body. Ridges of the piston body are provided between each two ring grooves and between the piston floor and the first ring groove arranged closest to the piston floor and the ring groove arranged closest to the piston skirt facing away from the other ring groove or grooves. At least one of the ridges is recessed at least over a partial section of its ridge height, which is measured parallel to the axis of the piston body, with at least one recess relative to the diameter of the piston body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Gniesmer, Folkhard Hölzel, Christian Schwarze, Christoph Wilken
  • Publication number: 20140326130
    Abstract: A cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in which cylinder liner an oscillating piston is guided on a running surface wherein the cylinder line is fixed vertically by means of a collar between a cylinder housing and a cylinder head. The wet cylinder includes an outer side which deviates from a circular shape and/or a rotationally asymmetrical outer contour of the collar. The cylinder liner is fitted in a positionally oriented manner in a corresponding receptable of the cylinder housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Patent number: 8789273
    Abstract: A method for producing a piston of an internal combustion engine, designed as a one-piece cooling channel piston. The piston includes an upper part and a lower part supported by corresponding circumferential joining bosses together forming a joining zone. In order to produce a bonded joint of the upper part and the lower part, the joining bosses are connected by means of multiorbital friction welding in the region of a rotationally symmetrical or rotationally asymmetrical joining zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Albert Janssen, Gerhard Luz, Volker Gniesmer, Steffen Stork, Martin Weissert
  • Publication number: 20130263814
    Abstract: produced according to the method having a piston crown with annular grooves, a combustion-chamber bowl, and piston shaft having a pin bore for receiving a pin, wherein both a combustion-chamber rim and a combustion-chamber bowl base are melted and thereafter solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer