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Hans Guenter Quix

Jan Mehring

Andreas Kuske

David Van Bebber

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Christian Winge Vigild

Vanco Smiljanovski

Joerg Kemmerling

Helmut Matthias Kindl

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Andreas Schmitt

Antonio Farina

Bernd Steiner

Florian Huth

Herbert Ernst

Moritz Klaus Springer

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Hanno Friederichs

Stefan Quiring

Bernd Brinkmann

Wilbert Hemink

Claudia Katharina Herudek

Michael Tobergte

Guenter Hans Grosch

Paul Turner

Richard Fritsche

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Anselm Hopf

Robert Hoenen

Thomas Lorenz

Brendan Patrick Carberry

Franz J Brinkmann

Carsten Weber

Jan Linsel

Kay Hohenboeken

Mario Balenovic

Frank Wunderlich

Thomas Zenner

Rainer Lach

Maziar Khosravi

Werner Willems

Dietmar Fischer

Franz Weber

Christoph Boerensen

Norbert Andreas Schorn

Monika Angst

Michael Forsting

Markus Markowitz

Bert Pingen

Tobias Emig

Volker Haupts

Ger Anthony Cronin

Lars Kaufmann

Mehmet Toeremis

Christian Hans

Denis Pendovski

Adrian Butcher

Sebastiaan Lambertus Van Den Heuvel

David Mondrzyk

Sandra Trachte

Heinrich Czech

Klaus Gollek

Peter Guenther

Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.

Thermostat valve for a coolant circuit

Methods and systems are provided for a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid medium in a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine. The valve is configured to react to the temperature of the coolant via an expansion element and to the charge pressure in the intake tract via a pressure-sensitive actuator.

Advanced thermostat system for an internal combustion engine with boost pressure depending control function

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

Methods and systems are provided for a coolant circuit. In one example, the coolant circuit comprises high and low-temperature radiators, where only one pump is configured to conduct coolant through the entire coolant circuit.

Methods and system for a coolant circuit valve

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 for an engine intake system are provided. In one example, a system includes a first charge air cooler arranged upstream of a second charge air cooler. The first charge air cooler is configured to provide thermal transfer between a compressed charge air and a fresh intake air.

Methods and systems for an engine

Methods and systems are provided for a piston. In one example, system may comprise a piston comprising a chamber in which a piston bowl may actuated independent of an oscillation of the piston. The chamber may receive a hydraulic fluid in order to adjust a position of the piston bowl within the chamber, thereby adjusting a compression ratio of a combustion chamber in which the piston may oscillate.

Methods and systems for a piston

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 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

Methods and systems are provided for controlling an air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. In one example, a cabin of the vehicle may be heated firstly to a first temperature by flowing coolant to a heat exchanger, coolant may be diverted away from the heat exchanger and toward the engine in order to increase a temperature of the engine, and the coolant may then flow again to the heat exchanger in order to heat the cabin to a second temperature. An amount of fuel savings resulting from heating the engine by diverting coolant away from the heat exchanger may be displayed to an operator of the vehicle via a display device.

Consumption-optimization system for motor vehicles by adapting the passenger compartment air conditioning

Methods and systems are provided for an oil supply unit with a collecting vessel for collecting oil. In one example, a method may include maintaining a pressure of the collecting vessel during an engine off, wherein maintaining the pressure may further include maintain a temperature of the oil in the collecting vessel.

Oil supply unit and motor vehicle

An example cooling system for an electric includes an electric motor having a supply opening for receiving coolant and a discharge opening for expelling coolant. The discharge opening is connected to the supply opening via a coolant circuit including a first return line in which a heat exchanger is arranged, a bypass line, and a second return line. The discharge opening is connected to the supply opening by both the first return line and the bypass line, and the bypass line bypasses the heat exchanger arranged in the first return line. A battery is arranged in the second return line, and the second return line is selectively connected to a short-circuit line which causes coolant to flow from a point downstream of the battery and return to the second return line upstream of the battery. Further, a heat accumulator is arranged in the short-circuit line.

Electric motor with cooling system and corresponding method

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 are provided for an exhaust gas aftertreatment device. In one example, a method may include adjusting one or more engine operating parameters to produce ammonia in an ammonia generating device in response to an ammonia demand.

Methods and systems for an exhaust gas aftertreatment device

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