Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Guenter Hans Grosch

Rainer Lach

Andreas Kuske

Richard Fritsche

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Franz Weber

Joerg Kemmerling

Joerg Bonse

Vanco Smiljanovski

Helmut Matthias Kindl

Hans Guenter Quix

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Hanno Friederichs

Frank Wunderlich

Krystian Dylong

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Felix Goebel

Rainer Kiehn

Anselm Hopf

Rolf Lorenz Loeffler

Bert Hobein

Thomas Werner Steinkopf

Bernd Steiner

Thomas Gerhards

Carsten Weber

Frank Kraemer

Guenter Bartsch

Paul Turner

Rainer Souschek

Wilbert Hemink

Florian Huth

Claudia Katharina Herudek

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Michael Forsting

Khizer Tufail

Stephan Strahl

Philipp Wolf

Julio Orozco Santos Coy

Tobias Ricke

Stefan Kaimer

Kai-Martin Mayer

Alexandra Gatzweiler

Mauro Giroldo

Loic Wendling

Marek Behr

A hydrogen fuel tank mounting system for a vehicle comprises a first mount for mounting a first portion of the fuel tank in a fixed position and a second mount for slidably mounting a second portion of the fuel tank. In this manner, the mounting system reduces stress on fuel system components when accommodating expansion and contraction of the hydrogen fuel tank, improving durability. The fuel tank may be a dual port fuel tank, and the first and second portions may be elongated neck portions. The fixed mount may be a bracket formed in two portions with a clearance between them. A sleeve may extend through at least part of the portions of the brackets to distribute shear forces away from an interface between those portions. The provision of a slidable mounting also allows pre-assembly of the fuel tank and mounts, facilitating installation of the hydrogen fuel system.

Hydrogen fuel tank mounting system

A cutting tool for undercutting a bore in a component includes a shaft portion and at least one tangentially and axially cutting portion. The shaft portion extends in an axial direction relative to the component and has a maximum shaft radius. The cutting portion projects radially with respect to the shaft portion further than the maximum shaft radius. Each cutting portion includes a tangentially arranged lateral cutting edge configured to form a tangentially extending groove in the component. At least one cutting portion has a front cutting edge arranged axially at a front end thereof and configured to form an axially extending groove in the component.

Cutting tool

A method of additive manufacturing an object by applying metal layerwise on a base with an application device successively aligned with different processing zones in relation to the base includes locally applying liquid metal in a processing zone. The liquid metal solidifies in the processing zone and precise adjustment of local material properties of the object are controlled by influencing or controlling temperature development as a function of time of the solidified metal with at least one thermal influencing device aligned with the processing zone and fixed relative to the application device. The thermal influencing device is at least one of a heating device and a cooling device.

Additive manufacturing method

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

A manufacturing installation for the additive manufacturing of components, each provided with at least one material overhang, has at least one building platform on which the particular component can at least partially be additively manufactured. In order to reduce the material consumption and the time to produce additively manufactured components, the manufacturing installation has at least one preferably electrically controllable support device with at least one movable support arm for the at least temporary holding of at least one support element, arranged on the support arm, during the additive manufacture of the particular component above the building platform.

Manufacturing installation and method for the additive manufacturing of components with a material overhang

Methods and systems are provided for a heating device. In one example, a system comprises a heat exchanger and an air filter arranged in a common housing, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to receive coolant from a heating device. In one example, the heating device is an electric heating device.

Methods and systems for a turbocharged engine

Methods and systems are provided for an oil gallery of a piston. In one example, a system for a piston comprising an internal oil gallery. The internal oil gallery comprises one or more of a funnel shaped inlet, a funnel shaped outlet, and a plurality of tongues extending along a circumference of the internal oil gallery.

218-0266 volcano-shaped inlet of piston oil-cooling gallery

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

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement. In one example, a plurality of engine oil passages extend through a cylinder head coolant jacket. The plurality of engine oil passages is fluidly separated from the cylinder head coolant jacket.

Methods and systems for a cooling arrangement

A tailgate subassembly for a vehicle includes a tailgate and a flexible elongated pulling element. In an open position of the tailgate, the flexible elongated pulling element extends downwardly at least partially from a starting region on an inner face of the tailgate and on the end side comprises a grip portion for a user. In order to provide improved means for closing a tailgate of a vehicle, the elongated pulling element is coupled to a retraction device which is designed to pull up the grip portion in the direction of the starting region when the tailgate is moved into a closed position.

Tailgate subassembly for a vehicle

A hydrogen fuel cell vehicle system and method inhibit formation of black ice on road surfaces at low temperatures as a result of exhaust water by treating the exhaust water prior to discharge with a deicing or antifreeze substance to lower the freezing point of the water. A metering device may meter a deicing or antifreeze substance, such as sodium chloride, calcium chloride, urea, or the like to be dissolved in the exhaust water that is produced during the production of energy. The vehicle may include a bypass valve that selectively bypasses the water treatment system when ambient conditions are not conducive to ice formation. The bypass valve is operated to direct exhaust flow to a condenser and water treatment system when ambient conditions are favorable to ice formation, with the deicing or antifreeze substance metered based on current or predicted ambient or road surface conditions.

Preventing the formation of black ice as a result of exhaust water from motor vehicles

Methods and systems are provided for a flow device shaped to adjust flow to radial positions of an emission control device. In one example, a system may include where the flow device comprises a plurality of inner openings that align while a plurality of outer openings are misaligned to flow exhaust gas proximal to a central axis of an exhaust passage, and where the plurality of outer openings are aligned and the plurality of inner openings are misaligned to flow exhaust gas distal to the central axis.

Methods and systems for adjusting exhaust gas flow through an aftertreatment device

Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger comprising a compressor inlet shaped to mitigated condensate formation therein. In one example, system may include a condensate trap which runs along an inner wall of the compressor inlet and is shaped to trap condensate.

Methods and systems for a condensate trap in a compressor inlet

A description is given of a device () for pressure-charging a combustion engine (), which comprises a compressor (), a charge air cooler (), an inlet () and a charger (), which are connected to one another in terms of flow by flow ducts (). In this device, the charge air cooler () is arranged downstream of the compressor (), and the inlet () is arranged downstream of the compressor () and of the charge air cooler () in the flow direction ().

Methods and system for starting an engine

Methods and systems are provided for a compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger. In one example, a system may include where a housing of the compressor comprises two outlets, a first outlet shaped to direct compressed air to an electrically driveable compressor and a second outlet shaped to bypass compressed air around the electrically driveable compressor.

Methods and systems for a turbocharger

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Guenter Hans Grosch