US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Aug. 12 for "Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,424, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car" was invented by Dietmar Schroeer (Weissach im Tal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine with an exhaust tract and with a secondary air system which has a secondary air conduit through which secondary air can flow in an injection direction. The secondary air can be introduced into the exhaust tract. A valve element is arranged in the secondary air conduit and has a first flow resistance along the injection direction and a greater second flow resis...