Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Fev Motorentechnik Gmbh

Rainer Lach

Guenter Hans Grosch

Joerg Bonse

Andreas Kuske

Richard Fritsche

Franz Weber

Joerg Kemmerling

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Frank Wunderlich

Felix Goebel

Vanco Smiljanovski

Hans Guenter Quix

Jan Mehring

Wilbert Hemink

Markus Duesmann

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Stephan Strahl

Anselm Hopf

Bert Hobein

Rolf Lorenz Loeffler

Lukas Wagener

Thomas Werner Steinkopf

J&uuml;rgen Buck

Rolf Lorenz Löffler

Thomas W Steinkopf

Hans Günter Grosch

Jörg Bonse

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 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 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

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

A crank drive device for an internal combustion engine which comprises a crankshaft configured to be eccentrically connected to a connecting rod of a piston and to drive the drive shaft. The crankshaft is eccentrically connected to the camshaft and is rotatably supported with respect to the camshaft. An auxiliary motor which is configured to rotate the rotatable eccentric system.

Crank drive device for an internal combustion engine, drive train and vehicle

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

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

Methods and systems are provided for a valve lift control device. In one example, a method may include rotating an adjusting camshaft of the valve lift control device in order to adjust a valve lift of one or more cylinders.

Valve lift control device with cylinder deactivation

A method for operating a liquid coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine is described in which the coolant circuit contains an integrated EGR cooler such that the cooling system has a single circuit with two operational modes. The method includes a controller that can switch between operational modes to enable delivery of coolant to the EGR cooler when the flow of coolant through the block cooling circuit is blocked. In the second operational mode, the method also includes using an auxiliary pump to pass coolant to the EGR cooler while bypassing the main coolant pump, which can occur by adjusting the flow of coolant through the circuit so the flow through a bypass line is reversed relative to the inherent forward direction of flow in the bypass line during the first operational mode.

Method for operating a coolant circuit

The invention concerns an internal combustion engine and a method of producing the engine in which the engine has at least one cylinder and with a crank drive comprising a crankshaft, in which the crankshaft mounted in the crankcase has an associated crankshaft throw, the crankshaft throws being arranged spaced apart along the longitudinal axis of the crankshaft, and at least one compensation weight serving as imbalance is arranged on the crankshaft on the side opposite at least one crankshaft throw. The compensation weight has an arcuate form on the outward-facing side, the outside of which running in the peripheral direction has a constant distance S from a reference axis which runs parallel to and spaced by a distance &#x394; from the longitudinal axis of the crankshaft, wherein the reference axis is arranged on the side facing away from the compensation weight, starting from the longitudinal axis of the crankshaft.

Internal combustion engine with compensation weight arranged on the crankshaft and serving as an imbalance, and method for production of the crankshaft

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