Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Andreas Kerschbaummayr

Martin Ranzmaier

Daniel Alberer

Bernhard Ramsebner

Andreas Leyrer

Leopold Eisterlehner

Harald Daxberger

Dietmar Schroeder

A vehicle drive has an internal combustion engine, an air conduit system, an exhaust system and a diagnostic unit for identifying a leak in the air conduit system of the internal combustion engine. The diagnostic unit is designed to carry out a method for diagnosing a leak in an internal combustion engine, including by determining mass flows in the air conduit system, and identifying a leakage mass flow.

Leak diagnosis for an intake system

A controller for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, and a device for detecting a fire in a fluid conduit, the device having a fluid state sensor for detecting a state variable of a fluid that is conducted in the fluid conduit, are provided. The determination of a fire situation is performed in a manner dependent on a signal of the fluid state sensor.

Sensor-based fire detection in a fluid conduit

An exhaust turbocharger includes an exhaust control device provided with an exhaust flap for adjusting an exhaust gas flow flowing through a turbine stage of the exhaust turbocharger during the operation thereof, a control gear coupled to the exhaust flap, and a servomotor via which the exhaust flap can be moved in a regulated and/or controlled manner by operation of the control gear at least between a closing position, in which the exhaust flap closes an exhaust gas opening in a turbocharger housing of the turbocharger, through which exhaust gas flows during the operation of the exhaust turbocharger, and at least one other position in which the exhaust flap allows exhaust gas to flow through the exhaust gas opening. The control gear is a self-locking gear via which the exhaust flap can be prestressed in the closing position thereof in relation to the turbocharger housing.

Exhaust turbocharger with an exhaust control device, exhaust control device for an exhaust turbocharger, and method for operating an exhaust turbocharger

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Garsten, Austria

Andreas Kerschbaummayr