Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Florian Huth

Hans Guenter Quix

Jan Mehring

David Van Bebber

Maziar Khosravi

Jan Linsel

Guenter Bartsch

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Anselm Hopf

Bert Hobein

Bernd Steiner

Moritz Klaus Springer

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Thomas Lorenz

Stefan Quiring

Guenter Hans Grosch

Frank Kraemer

Michael Jon Veenstra

Claudia Katharina Herudek

Jens Dunstheimer

Matthew Riley

Julio Orozco Santos Coy

Rolf Lorenz Loeffler

Andreas Schmitt

Stella Papasavva

Thomas Werner Steinkopf

Stefan Kaimer

Michael Conrad

Filling methods and systems are provided for a conformable fuel tank. In one example, a system comprises an active thermal management arrangement for the conformable fuel tank. The active thermal management arrangement comprises one or more recirculation passage for mixing hot fuel distal to an inlet port of the conformable fuel tank with cool incoming fuel flowing to the inlet port.

Methods and systems for conformable fuel tank

A heating system and method for heating the interior of a vehicle, such as a motor vehicle, which has an air-air heat exchanger having a heat storage medium, and which is configured to transfer heat between exhaust air, drawn out of the interior, and intake air, supplied to the interior from the vehicle environment, between the exhaust air and the heat storage medium, and between the intake air and the heat storage medium.

Heating system and method for heating the interior of a vehicle and motor vehicle

A pressurized gas tank for a motor vehicle includes a cylindrical axially extending housing with two end pieces axially connected thereto connected together by one or more tie rods configured for axial transmission of tensile force. The tie rods include an axially continuous through-channel configured to be connected to a vehicle cooling system including a circulating liquid coolant to cool the pressurized gas at least during refueling of the pressurized gas tank.

Pressurized gas tank for a motor vehicle

Systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of an engine. In one example, a system includes a first coolant passage and a second coolant passage arranged in a cylinder bridge between directly adjacent cylinders, wherein the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage are separated from one another.

Engine cooling arrangement

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system. In one example, a cooling system comprises a device for regulating a coolant flow, where the device is in force-fit connection to a plurality of crankshafts, each crankshaft corresponding to a single cylinder of a plurality of cylinders. The cooling system further comprises a plurality of injectors for injecting coolant onto outer surfaces of the plurality of injectors.

Cylinder specific engine cooling

The application relates to internal combustion engines, cylinder heads, exhaust passages, and shapes and configurations of the exhaust passages. The exhaust passage may have cross-sectional shapes formed by two limbs. The cross-sectional shape of the exhaust passage may change as the passage extends. The exhaust passage may also merge with other exhaust passage. The exhaust passage may be part of a cylinder head or an exhaust manifold.

Internal combustion engine with cylinder head, and method for producing a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine of said type

A method for operating an engine system is provided. The method includes during a first operating condition, flowing oil from an oil sump to a heat exchanger attached to a reductant tank and transferring heat from oil flowing through the heat exchanger to reductant stored in the reductant tank. The method further includes during a second operating condition, flowing oil from the oil sump to the heat exchanger and transferring heat from the reductant stored in the reductant tank to oil flowing through the heat exchanger.

Reductant tank as a heat storage device

Systems are provided for exhaust gas passages in integrated and conventional exhaust manifolds. In one example, a system may include an exhaust gas passage that has a cross section which features curved limb shapes. This passage may also feature other shapes of cross sections at other points along the passage.

Internal combustion engine with cylinder head

Methods and systems are provided for a network in communication with one or more vehicles. In one example, a method may include transferring energy back and forth between the one or more vehicles and the network.

Method and system for an energy storage system

Methods and systems are provided for forming an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. In one example, a system may include an adjustable intake line coupled to an inlet opening of the cylinder. The system may adjust turbulence formed in the cylinder in response to engine operating conditions by controlling a pivoting angle between a first section of the intake line and a second section of the intake line.

System and method for air-fuel mixture formation in an internal combustion engine

An auto-ignition engine system is provided. The auto-ignition engine system includes a cylinder having an intake valve and an exhaust valve coupled thereto, an opening in a cylinder head defining a portion of the boundary of the cylinder, a glow plug heating element extending through the opening into the cylinder, an insert at least partially surrounding a glow plug heating element and coupled thereto, and an adjustment mechanism configured to alter the position of the glow plug heating element and the insert in the cylinder.

Cylinder head for an auto-ignition engine with direct injection

Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a compression ratio of a combustion chamber. In one example, a method may include altering an axial position and rotational orientation of a control element comprising a spark plug and a fuel injector in response to an engine operation. The method further includes changing a distance between intake and exhaust valves of a cylinder to the control element, the spark plug, and the fuel injector.

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