Sap Ag

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Franz Weber

Guenter Hans Grosch

Rainer Lach

Matthias Miltz

Soeren Balko

Anselm Hopf

Joerg Kemmerling

Hans Guenter Quix

Frank Wunderlich

Volker Wiechers

Uwe E Fischer

Richard Fritsche

Wilbert Hemink

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Sören Balko

Felix Goebel

Roman Hayer

Bernhard Brinkmoeller

Joerg Bonse

Karsten Ploesser

Joerg Mann

Thea Hillenbrand

Andreas Buchen

Methods and systems are provided for an oil heater of a hybrid electric vehicle. The oil heater comprises a metal foam comprising a plurality of pores. The oil heater is activated during a regenerative braking event where an oil temperature is less than a predefined temperature.

Methods and systems for a hybrid electric vehicle

An internal combustion engine with coolant jackets is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head coupled to a cylinder block to form a first cylinder, an upper head-associated coolant jacket including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head, a lower head-associated coolant jacket fluidly separated from the upper cylinder head coolant jacket and including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head vertically below the upper head-associated coolant jacket, and a block-associated coolant jacket including, a first coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with a coolant pump outlet and an outlet in fluidic communication with an inlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket, and a second coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket and an outlet in fluidic communication with a heat exchanger.

Liquid-cooled internal combustion engine

The invention relates to a cylinder bore and a method. The cylinder bore is configured to receive a piston for reciprocating movement therein and has a pressure side and a counter-pressure side. The cylinder bore includes a bore surface having a first roughness value in a first longitudinal region on the pressure side and a second roughness value different from the first roughness value in the first longitudinal region on the counter-pressure side.

Cylinder bore with surface characteristics for improved tribological properties, and method

Systems are provided for an exhaust gas aftertreatment device, in particular in a motor vehicle, having a catalyst accommodated in a housing which, along its length, has a first end section, a catalyst section, and a connecting section. The housing further comprising a particulate filter located downstream of the catalyst.

Methods and systems for an exhaust aftertreatment device

Methods and systems are provided for an internal combustion engine having an oil circuit. In one example, a system may include a rising oil line from a block to a cylinder head of an engine; a main oil line in the head; and an oil siphon system including a reservoir positioned between, and having at least one portion at a lower elevation than both, a section the rising line and a section of the main oil line so that oil flows into, and remains in, the reservoir when the engine is shut-off. In this way, the design of the oil circuit may be used to improve oil supply to engine components while minimizing delays in oil supply during engine startup.

Oil supply circuit of an engine

Embodiments implement data and meta data versioning in order to adapt reported data ('actuals') for planning purposes. A versioning engine receives from an operative system (e.g. ERP system), root variants. These root variants may comprise existing actual data and corresponding underlying corporate meta data. Based upon user input, the versioning engine creates from these root variants, additional variants of the data and/or meta data. A new data variant may be based upon the original corporate meta data unchanged (e.g. for projecting existing product lines). A data variant may alternatively be based upon a new meta data variant reflecting changes to the original corporate meta data (e.g. for adopting an entirely new product line). By effectively depicting relationships between actual data and plan data, and between that data and its underlying meta data, versioning allows a user to visualize evolution of actual data into plan data for forecasting purposes.

Data and meta data variants extending actual data for planning

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compiling workflows into instructions for a state correlation engine. In general, data characterizing a workflow of a process is received and a network representation of event-condition-action rules representing the workflow is generated. The workflow of the process may be modeled in accordance with a notation similar to the Business Process Modeling Notation. The network representation of event-condition-action rules may include a combination of source nodes representing events, operator nodes representing conditions, and action nodes representing transactions. Events of the source nodes may be represented types of objects of a type language, where a correlation engine is to execute an event-condition-action rule based on an existence of a combination of types of a rule.

Compiling workflows into instructions for a state correlation engine

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to stateful, continuous evaluation of event-condition-action rules by a state correlation engine. In general, one or more events may be determined to have occurred and an event-condition-action cycle may be caused to be processed for the events. The event-condition-action cycle may include evaluating condition networks based on a state of execution of the state correlation engine that includes the events, where the state of execution is based on a state of execution before the events, and enabling the actions to be executed if evaluation of the condition networks with the state of execution is to result in one or more actions being enabled.

Stateful, continuous evaluation of rules by a state correlation engine

A plurality of constraints are identified for a model of a software deployment in an integrated development environment. Each of the constraints are associated with one of a plurality of analysis levels. It is determined for each analysis level whether the corresponding associated constraints are met so that an identification indicating the same may be provided. Related techniques, apparatus, systems, and articles are described.

Integrated model checking and issue resolution framework

The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products for handing transactions. The method may include, for example, processing, at a state correlation engine, a plurality of transactions; saving the effects of at least one of the transactions to a persistence, when the at least one transaction includes a reliable interaction with an external application; saving other transactions to a buffer rather than to the persistence; and reading the at least one transaction from the persistence and continuously executing rules representing the other transactions in response to a failure causing a recovery. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.

Transient transaction execution with on-demand persistency

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mapping deep structured data structures. Statements defining a mapping of source elements formatted in accordance with a first hierarchical structure to a target formatted in accordance with a second hierarchical structure are received. The first and second hierarchical structures may be different. A mapping of the source elements to the target in accordance with the statements may be performed, where the statement may be defined in accordance with a mapping language. The mapping language may define that a single statement may represent an iterative approach to mapping elements from the source to the target. The mapping language may support selection of source elements using a format that allows for navigation through a hierarchy of the source. The mapping language may also support nested statements which may allow for nested iterations in which to perform mappings.

Mapping deep structured data structures

A message is buffered and processing statistics are associated with the message, including characterizations of whether a process instance is to process the message, a number of process instances handling the message, and a number of process instances that have processed the message. A process instance may be generated to process content of the message depending on the message. The message may be dequeued based on the processing statistics. For example, if the processing statistics indicate that no process instances are handling the message and no process instance is to process content of the message. Also, if the content of the message is to be processed by a threshold number of process instances, the message is only dequeued if the processing statistics indicate that the threshold number of process instances have processed the content of the message.

Event correlation for decentralized message processing

Methods and systems consistent with the invention manage messages transported between a first computer system and a second computer system. For instance, in one embodiment, According to another exemplary embodiment, a method obtains a business object identifier that identifies a business object associated with a first message to be transported over a network from the first computer system to the second computer system. The method may then generate a transport identifier associated with the transported message. The method may then route the first message the second computer system, such that the routing generates a second message that is transported to the second computer system. The method then obtains the second message transported to the second computer system. Finally, the method creates a data structure in memory including the transport identifier, the business object identifier, and the second message.

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Franz Weber