Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kriegler

Wolfgang Kriegler 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: 9186974
    Abstract: A drive train of a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine, an electric motor and a coupling device. The coupling device includes a first coupling unit allocated to the internal combustion engine and a second coupling unit allocated to the electric motor. By way of the coupling device, the internal combustion engine and/or the electric motor can be connected for drive purposes with a common drive shaft to drive at least one wheel of the motor vehicle. The first coupling unit and the second coupling unit are separate components which can be coupled together automatically by a clutch depending on a difference between a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine and a rotation speed of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Konstantin Erjawetz, Wolfgang Kriegler, Gerald Teuschl
  • Publication number: 20150060166
    Abstract: A drive train of a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine, an electric motor and a coupling device. The coupling device includes a first coupling unit allocated to the internal combustion engine and a second coupling unit allocated to the electric motor. By way of the coupling device, the internal combustion engine and/or the electric motor can be connected for drive purposes with a common drive shaft to drive at least one wheel of the motor vehicle. The first coupling unit and the second coupling unit are separate components which can be coupled together automatically by a clutch depending on a difference between a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine and a rotation speed of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Konstantin Erjawetz, Wolfgang Kriegler, Gerald Teuschl
  • Publication number: 20120116625
    Abstract: A method for operating a hybrid drive in a vehicle with an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine connected thereto which is in connection with at least one energy storage device including operating the internal combustion engine is operated in overload mode in at least one preferably exceptional operating situation of the hybrid drive in order to avoid power losses at low loading state of the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Pels, Paul Kapus, Peter Ebner, Robert Fischer, Günter Fraidl, Wolfgang Kriegler, Carsten Kaup
  • Patent number: 8136615
    Abstract: A method for operating a hybrid drive in a vehicle with an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine connected thereto which is in connection with at least one energy storage device including operating the internal combustion engine is operated in overload mode in at least one preferably exceptional operating situation of the hybrid drive in order to avoid power losses at low loading state of the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Pels, Paul Kapus, Peter Ebner, Robert Fischer, Günter Fraidl, Wolfgang Kriegler, Carsten Kaup
  • Publication number: 20090133946
    Abstract: A method for operating a hybrid drive in a vehicle with an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine connected thereto which is in connection with at least one energy storage device including operating the internal combustion engine is operated in overload mode in at least one preferably exceptional operating situation of the hybrid drive in order to avoid power losses at low loading state of the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Pels, Paul Kapus, Peter Ebner, Robert Fischer, Gunter Fraidl, Wolfgang Kriegler, Carsten Kaup
  • Patent number: 7373917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a hybrid vehicle with a drive train which comprises an internal combustion engine driven by diesel fuel and at least one electric driving machine. In order to reduce the nitrogen oxide and exhaust particulate emissions it is provided that the internal combustion engine is operated with an alternative diesel combustion method in at least one operating range of the vehicle and the electric driving machine is switched in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Raimund Ellinger, Wolfgang Kriegler, Michael Weissbäck, Peter Ebner
  • Publication number: 20060042587
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a hybrid vehicle with a drive train which comprises an internal combustion engine driven by diesel fuel and at least one electric driving machine. In order to reduce the nitrogen oxide and exhaust particulate emissions it is provided that the internal combustion engine is operated with an alternative diesel combustion method in at least one operating range of the vehicle and the electric driving machine is switched in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Raimund Ellinger, Wolfgang Kriegler, Michael Weissback, Peter Ebner
  • Patent number: 6062027
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas turbocharger comprising a charge-air pipe and an exhaust gas recirculation pipe for a partial stream of the exhaust gas, a nozzle-diffuser unit is provided in the charge-air pipe, into which unit the recirculation pipe opens in a passage of restricted cross-section. In order to achieve high turbine efficiency as well as high exhaust quality, it is provided in the invention that the exhaust gas turbocharger be configured at least as a twin-entry unit, and that at least two exhaust gas flow paths be conducted separately to the entrance into the exhaust gas turbocharger, and that an exhaust gas recirculation branch depart from each exhaust gas flow path, and further that a control valve be positioned in each recirculation branch for regulation of the exhaust gas recirculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Landfahrer, Walter Reczek, Wolfgang Cartellieri, Hans Aufinger, Gabor Hrauda, Wolfgang Kriegler
  • Patent number: 5492189
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes an internal combustion engine predominantly operating in a steady-state mode and a driving engine operating in a transient mode, which act on the output shaft of a planetary gear train by first and second drive shafts. To obtain independent speed and torque values at the driven shaft, an additional transiently operating engine is provided which has a fixed r.p.m. ratio with the first drive shaft or the driven shaft of the planetary gear train. The two transient engines are configured as hydraulic engines or electric engines connected to a control device, a unit being provided for hydraulic or electric power flow between the two transient engines, which in turn is provided with an energy storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: AVL Gesellschaft fur Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Messtechnik m.b.H. Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Hans List
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kriegler, Michael Rasser, Erwin Reisinger
  • Patent number: 5131229
    Abstract: In order to utilize recycling of exhaust gases at high engine loads in an internal-combustion engine with an exhaust gas turbocharger, optionally with a charge cooler, as well as an exhaust gas recycling valve which is arranged within a connecting pipe through which a partial exhaust gas stream flows, the connecting pipe, in the direction of the flow, branching from the exhaust pipe upstream of the exhaust gas turbine and connecting into the charge pipe downstream of the exhaust gas turbine, an apparatus is employed which injects water into the partial exhaust gas stream flowing the connecting pipe at operating temperature and at high load operation of the internal-combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: AVL Gesellschaft fur Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Messtechnik m.b.H. Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Hans List
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kriegler, Hans Aufinger, Franz Schweinzer