Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, a Subsidary of Ford Motor Company

Jan Mehring

Hans Guenter Quix

Bernd Steiner

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Moritz Klaus Springer

Stefan Quiring

Carsten Weber

Thomas Lorenz

Bernd Brinkmann

Oliver Berkemeier

Jan Linsel

Ludwig Stump

Helmut Ruhland

Kay Hohenboeken

Frank Kraemer

Florian Huth

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Klemens Grieser

Clemens Maria Verpoort

Franz J Brinkmann

David Van Bebber

Martin Wirth

Vanco Smiljanovski

Uwe Gussen

Leonhard Bartsch

Michael Tobergte

Bert Pingen

Martin Lutz

Antonio Farina

Richard Fritsche

Bernd Schumacher

Joachim Hansen

Herbert Ernst

Maik Broda

Ravi Gopal

Jody Michael Slike

Albert Breuer

Rainer Lach

Maziar Khosravi

Krystian Dylong

Wilbert Hemink

Ingo Lenz

Ronald Richard Semel

Jens Dunstheimer

Urban Morawitz

Anselm Hopf

Jonathan Gregory

Tobias Emig

Jens Groeger

Ralf Hecke

Harald Kaufeld

Sebastiaan Lambertus Van Den Heuvel

Heinrich Czech

Klaus Gollek

Hans Guenter

Peter Guenther

Christoph Holbach

Markus Hermanns

Hans Günther Quix

Guenther Bartsch

Hans Günter Quix

Markus Hermann

Bernd Harbolla

Guido Bingen

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 cooling arrangement. In one example, a system comprises a separator arranged in a block coolant jacket. The separator fluidly separates an upper portion of the block coolant jacket from a lower portion of the block coolant jacket.

Methods and systems for cooling arrangement

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

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 turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.

Controlling the position of turbine guide vanes and of a coolant flow

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

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling arrangement of a hybrid vehicle. In one example, a system comprises a high-temperature coolant circuit with a pressure line shaped to actuate an actuator of a pressure-actuated valve arranged in a low-temperature coolant circuit.

Methods and systems for high and low temperature coolant circuits

An exhaust gas turbine is provided. The exhaust gas turbine includes a first turbine housing part having insulating material extending along an interior surface and a second turbine housing part having insulating material extending along an interior surface, the second turbine housing part coupled to the first turbine housing part to form a volute directing exhaust gas to a turbine wheel.

Assembled turbine housing

Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system valve comprising a fusible insert and a heating element coupled to the insert. In one example, in response to an increase in coolant temperature to above a first threshold temperature, a movable element of the cooling system valve may be actuated to a fully open position and in response to an increase in coolant temperature to above a second threshold temperature with the movable element in a fully open position, electric current may be routed through the heating element to heat and melt the fusible insert. By melting the fusible portion, coolant may flow through an opening created in the movable element.

Methods and systems for a cooling system valve

Methods and systems are provided for a control device for adjusting coolant flow. In one example, the control device may be shaped to receive charge air, engine coolant, and charge-air cooler coolant to adjust a flow of charge-air cooler coolant to a radiator.

Methods and systems for a control valve of a circuit

An internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a coolant, a liquid/gas heat exchanger, a coolant-temperature-dependent control element, an equalizing tank, fluidic connections between the components, and a coolant pump. At least one direct or at least one activation-dependent fluidic connection or at least one force-transmitting connection is set up between a medium in the equalizing tank and a medium of at least one other media path or media circuit of the motor vehicle.

Cooling system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle

A direct-injection, supercharged internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder, in which each cylinder is equipped with a direct injection apparatus, a fuel supply system comprising a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side, and a high-pressure piston pump comprising a piston displaceable in translational fashion between a bottom dead center and a top dead center of a pressure chamber of variable volume. The displaceable piston jointly delimits the pressure chamber with variable volume in such a way that a displacement of the piston causes a change in the volume of the pressure chamber via actuation of least one movable actuation element.

Direct-injection, supercharged internal combustion engine with high-pressure fuel pump, and method for operating an internal combustion engine of said type

Methods and systems are provided for a close-coupled aftertreatment device. In one arrangement, a system may include an engine comprising separate first and second overall exhaust lines, where a blow-off line branches off of the second overall exhaust line, and where the close-coupled aftertreatment device is arranged in the blow-off line and configured to receive exhaust gases during at least a cold-start of the engine.

Methods and systems for a blow-off line

Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger may include one or more cooling devices for cooling a compressor. The cooling devices may include a ventilation system arranged in a compressor impeller and shaft, the ventilation system configured to allow ambient air to flow into the shaft without being compressed.

Supercharged internal combustion engine with compressor

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