Patents by Inventor William Krein

William Krein 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: 11939903
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust burner with a secondary air system downstream of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The method includes: activating an ignition device as a function of a release condition, the ignition device being heated up to a specifiable target temperature; metering fuel at a first time point into a combustion chamber of the exhaust burner at a first injection frequency using an injection valve, and the combustion chamber not being actively supplied with air; setting a first target air-mass flow using a secondary air system at a further, second time point, wherein the air-mass flow is increased strictly monotonically; controlling the air-fuel ratio to a first target air-fuel ratio as a function of a lambda sensor starting from the second time point, and metering fuel at a second injection frequency; setting a second target air-mass flow at a further, third time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Patrick Hoff, Torsten Kunz, William Krein
  • Publication number: 20240003279
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust burner, which is situated in an exhaust system downstream from an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. Prior to and during a start phase of the exhaust burner, an air-mass flow supplied to a combustion chamber of the exhaust burner is increased, in particular in a strictly monotonical manner, between a start time in a starting air-mass flow and a further time in a further air-mass flow. Prior to the further time, fuel is supplied to the combustion chamber. A fuel-air mixture is produced in the combustion chamber from the fuel and air of the air-mass flow. The fuel-air mixture is ignited with the aid of an ignition device which is continuously hot or forms ignition sparks intermittently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Max Braunbeck, William Krein
  • Publication number: 20240003278
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust burner with a secondary air system downstream of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The method includes: activating an ignition device as a function of a release condition, the ignition device being heated up to a specifiable target temperature; metering fuel at a first time point into a combustion chamber of the exhaust burner at a first injection frequency using an injection valve, and the combustion chamber not being actively supplied with air; setting a first target air-mass flow using a secondary air system at a further, second time point, wherein the air-mass flow is increased strictly monotonically; controlling the air-fuel ratio to a first target air-fuel ratio as a function of a lambda sensor starting from the second time point, and metering fuel at a second injection frequency; setting a second target air-mass flow at a further, third time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Patrick Hoff, Torsten Kunz, William Krein
  • Patent number: 11821351
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas burner that is situated in an exhaust gas system downstream from an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle during a start phase of the exhaust gas burner, in which the internal combustion engine is not fired. The method includes an incremental increasing of the air mass flow supplied to the exhaust gas burner and an incremental varying of a fuel mass flow supplied to the exhaust gas burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Dietmar Uhlenbrock, Max Braunbeck, William Krein
  • Publication number: 20230003157
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas burner that is situated in an exhaust gas system downstream from an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle during a start phase of the exhaust gas burner, in which the internal combustion engine is not fired. The method includes an incremental increasing of the air mass flow supplied to the exhaust gas burner and an incremental varying of a fuel mass flow supplied to the exhaust gas burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Dietmar Uhlenbrock, Max Braunbeck, William Krein