Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford-Werke Gmbh

Pierburg Gmbh

Mahle International Gmbh

Christian Winge Vigild

Andreas Kuske

Daniel Roettger

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Joerg Kemmerling

Vanco Smiljanovski

Helmut Matthias Kindl

Hanno Friederichs

Frederik De Smet

Hans Guenter Quix

Wilbert Hemink

Dirk Vierkotten

Evangelos Karvounis

Maximilian Flender

Yasser Mohamed Sayed Yacoub

Simon Petrovic

Michiel Jacques Van Nieuwstadt

Eric Matthew Kurtz

Diana D Brehob

Matthew Allen Schneider

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Monika Angst

Leonhard Bartsch

Thomas Alan Brewbaker

David Joseph Dronzkowski

Juergen Stief

Charles Tumelaire

Julia Helen Buckland

Michael Hopka

Jon Dixon

Jan Harmsen

Mario Balenovic

James Eric Anderson

Frank Wunderlich

Paul Turner

Werner Willems

Alain Marie Roger Chevalier

Claudia Katharina Herudek

Robert Ukropec

Frank Linzen

Sven Alexander Kaiser

Felix Goebel

Kim Ford

Dirk Roemer

Guohui Chen

Andres Arevalo

Johannes Kuenstler

Evgeny Smirnov

Javier Castellano

Thomas Pröttel

Thomas Proettel

Eduardo Perez Guzman

Torsten Tietze

Laurence Hatfield

Hans-Guenter Grosch

Adrian Butcher

Jonathan James Pilbeam

Eduardo Pérez Guzmán

Laurence Paul Hatfield

Patrick Sutty

Jörg Kemmerling

Daniel RÖTTGER

A method for predicting travel of a vehicle includes determining a prediction starting location and a plurality of prediction destinations including a plurality of possible intersections within a boundary at a predefined distance from the starting location. The method also includes determining, for each destination, at least one route to the destination, resulting in a plurality of routes at least one of which corresponds to each destination, including determining a statistical likelihood of the vehicle remaining on an intersection-exit that is along a potential route and selecting at least one route to each destination with the highest statistical likelihood. Responsive to the vehicle no longer being on a selected route, selecting at least one new route to the at least one destination.

Methods and apparatus for ascertaining a driving route for a motor vehicle

The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring emissions from a vehicle fleet consisting of a plurality of vehicles of a certain classification group. The method comprises the steps indicated in claimwith a) to e), as well as the further features listed there. With the method according to the disclosure, the emission emitted from a vehicle fleet can be reduced. Furthermore, by means of such an emission monitoring method more environmentally friendly and lower-emission vehicles can be developed.

Method for monitoring emissions from a vehicle fleet

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, the coolant arrangement comprises a heat store configured to store and release heat in response to a temperature of coolant flowing therethrough. The cooling arrangement further comprises an intake air heat exchanger for heating intake air prior to mixing with exhaust gas to decrease condensate formation, in one example.

Methods and systems for an engine with exhaust gas recirculation

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, a method comprises flowing coolant from a high temperature coolant circuit or a low temperature coolant circuit to a fresh air heat exchanger in response to a condensate likelihood.

Methods and system for an engine system

Methods and systems are provided for a comprex charger. In one example, a comprex charger is integrally arranged with an electric machine and shares a cooling arrangement therewith.

Methods and systems for a comprex charger

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, the cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to only an upper portion of a cylinder head during a cold-start. The cooling arrangement comprises flowing coolant to a cylinder block, a lower portion of the cylinder-head, and the upper portion of the cylinder head outside of the cold-start.

Methods and systems for a cooling arrangement

Methods and system are provided for a flap valve having a sealing element. In one example, a system include a front side of the flap valve having a first sealing element and a back side of the flap valve having a second sealing element, where the first sealing element and the second sealing element are located along a circumferential edge of the flap valve and spaced away from its geometric center.

Internal combustion engine with compressor, exhaust-gas recirculation arrangement and pivotable flap

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel with an inlet and an outlet, a control element, an exhaust gas recirculation channel with an opening, a recirculation channel, and a shaft having the control element eccentrically mounted thereon. The exhaust gas recirculation channel enters the intake channel. The opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel is a valve seat for the control element. The shaft acts as an axis of rotation for the control element. A rotation of the shaft moves the control element between a first end position where the control element throttles the intake channel and a second end position where the control element contacts the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel. The axis of rotation is arranged in a plane which passes through the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel.

Control device for an internal combustion engine

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel, an exhaust gas recirculation channel which enters into the intake channel, a control element, a mixing housing which forms the intake channel, a connection element, a compressor, and a shaft. The mixing housing has a mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in a lower area, an outlet, a mixing housing section, and a bowl-shaped recess. The cross-sectional extension is formed via the mixing housing to provide an axial stop face. The connection element abuts against the axial stop face and is radially limited by an axially opposite inner wall surface on the stop face. The mixing housing section has a recess arranged at the lowest point of the mixing housing section and below the axially opposite inner wall surface. The recess enters into the bowl-shaped recess of the mixing housing.

An intake system for an internal combustion engine includes a suction duct with a lateral bulge, an exhaust gas recirculation duct with a port into the suction duct, and a crankcase breather duct which extends into the lateral bulge in the suction duct.

Intake system for an internal combustion engine

Methods and systems are provided for a tempering circuit. A system comprises where the tempering circuit is fluidly coupled to each of an engine cooling circuit, an EGR cooler, and an EGR valve. The tempering circuit comprising a plurality of control valves for selectively adjusting tempering medium flow to various portions of the tempering circuit.

Arrangement and method for tempering exhaust gas recirculation devices, and motor vehicle

A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes a housing in which is formed an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the second surface so that an exhaust gas flow flows into the intake pipe when the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is opened. In a first end position of the regulating element, where the intake pipe is at throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, where the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.

Regulating device for an internal combustion engine

Methods and systems are provided for an EGR cooler comprising a phase-change material. In one example, exhaust gas may be conducted through the EGR cooler when an engine is deactivated to maintain an engine temperature.

Methods and systems for energy recovery via an EGR cooler

An engine system is provided that includes a compressor including an inlet upstream of an impeller and a compressor housing, a flow-guiding device including a first partition extending across a valve housing, where the valve housing defines a boundary of an airflow duct, and a valve unit including an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve coupled to a junction point between an EGR conduit and a compressor inlet and including and a flap having a recess mating with the first partition and pivoting about a mounting interface adjacent to a leading edge of the flap, a valve housing coupled to the compressor housing, where during actuation of the EGR valve a relative position between the recess in the flap and the first partition is varied.

Boosted internal combustion engine with low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation arrangement and pivotable flap

A regulating device for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation pipe which opens into an intake pipe which are both formed in a housing, and a regulating element eccentrically mounted on a shaft. The shaft is arranged perpendicular to a center line of the intake pipe and the exhaust gas recirculation pipe. The regulating element includes a first surface, a second surface, and guide ribs arranged on the first surface. In a first end position of the regulating element, in which the intake pipe is at least throttled upstream of an opening of the exhaust gas recirculation pipe, a normal vector of the first surface points to an upstream side of the intake pipe. In a second end position of the regulating element, in which the exhaust gas recirculation pipe is closed, a normal vector of the second surface points to the exhaust gas recirculation pipe.

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Christian Winge Vigild