Patents Examined by Jessica L Kebea
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Patent number: 10450948Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for a drive device, having a compressor that is capable of being electrically supported or driven by a media gap motor, the media gap motor having a rotor that is operatively connected to a bearing shaft of a compressor impeller of the compressor, and having a stator that surrounds the rotor at least in some regions in the circumferential direction relative to an axis of rotation of the bearing shaft. A power electronics for controlling at least one electrical winding of the stator surrounds the axis of rotation at least in some regions in the circumferential direction, a cooling jacket that stands in touch contact with the stator and/or with the power electronics being provided for cooling the stator and/or the power electronics.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Baeuerle, Michael Nau
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Patent number: 10443487Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes an engine having an air intake system and an exhaust system. A turbocharger includes a turbine section connected to the exhaust system and a compressor section connected to the air intake system. A wastegate is disposed in the exhaust system and movable between an open and a closed position by an actuator system. The actuator system includes a gear mechanism for moving the waste gate from a closed to an open position and including a pair of noncircular gears.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Mark R. Claywell, Dale A. Frank, Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan
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Patent number: 10436105Abstract: An exhaust structure is provided with an exhaust manifold, and a supercharger having a turbine housing. The turbine housing is provided with an inflow port interconnected with the exhaust manifold, a housing member in which a space for housing turbine blades is formed, and an inflow port in which an inflow passage communicating from the inflow port through the housing space is formed. A sensor mounting part is formed in the inflow port, and a throttle member is formed such that the width thereof in an aligning direction of cylinders gradually decreases from the inflow port toward the sensor mounting part. With this configuration, the accuracy of detecting the combustion state of the cylinders can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Ishii, Noritaka Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10436106Abstract: A required opening correction amount is calculated based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, a target opening is calculated based on a required opening and the required opening correction amount, an actual operating position of a wastegate valve is determined to correspond to a fully closed position when the wastegate valve is in a fully closed condition, an actual opening of the wastegate valve is calculated based on the fully closed position and the actual operating position, an operation amount of an actuator for aligning the target opening with the actual opening is calculated based on the target opening and the actual opening, and when the target opening corresponds to the fully closed condition and the actual operating position is not decreased at or above a prescribed rate, the fully closed position is updated to the actual operating position.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiko Ono, Takafumi Nishio
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Patent number: 10428726Abstract: A control apparatus 1 for the engine includes an ECU. When the operating region of the engine is in the EGR execution region B, the ECU performs the EGR control (step 2), and performs first coolant temperature control for controlling an IC coolant temperature TWic such that the temperature of intake air passing through an intercooler exceeds a dew-point temperature (step 14). Further, in a case where the operating region of the engine is in the EGR stop region C, the ECU performs second coolant temperature control for controlling the IC coolant temperature TWic such that the temperature of intake air having passed through the intercooler exceeds the dew-point temperature, assuming that the operating region of the engine has shifted to the EGR execution region B (step 17).Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Uto, Yosuke Yamada, Noritaka Kimura, Takayoshi Nakamura, Kosuke Ihara, Yoshinori Matsuo
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Patent number: 10422248Abstract: A method is provided for preventing oil escape into an exhaust gas during operation of a turbocharged engine. The method includes providing pressurized fluid to an area sealing off a bearing housing of an axial turbine unit from an adjacent exhaust conduit downstream of the axial turbine unit, and detecting a malfunction in the provision of pressurized fluid. Further to this, the method includes the step of, in response to such malfunction detection, controlling an exhaust pressure increasing device arranged downstream of the axial turbine unit for increasing the pressure inside the exhaust conduit upstream of the exhaust pressure increasing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Magnus Ekstrand
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Patent number: 10415458Abstract: A vehicle with a turbocharged engine, including an engine body, an intake passage, an exhaust passage, a turbocharger, and a radiator. The radiator is provided with a cooling unit for cooling an engine coolant, and an upper tank into which the coolant is introduced after cooling the engine body. The turbocharger is provided with a turbine provided to the exhaust passage, a compressor provided to the intake passage, a coupling shaft coupling the turbine to the compressor, and bearings supporting the coupling shaft. The turbine is provided with an impeller for being rotated by introduced exhaust gas, and a turbine casing. The turbocharger is oil-cooled, and cooled by a lubricant. The turbine casing is formed from a sheet metal. The coupling shaft extends horizontally, and a height of an axial center of the shaft is above a height of an upper end of the upper tank of the radiator.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yasushi Niwa, Mitsuhiro Nakajima
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Patent number: 10415513Abstract: An emissions control system for a gasoline engine having an exhaust gas conduit which can be connected to an exhaust manifold of the gasoline engine, having an inlet conduit which can be connected to an inlet manifold of the gasoline engine and having a turbine arranged in the exhaust gas conduit.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TENNECO GMBHInventor: Michael Fischer
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Patent number: 10408092Abstract: A heat exchanger is for use in an energy recovery system to be mounted on a vessel including an engine, a supercharger and an economizer, the heat exchanger including: a first heat section for heating a working medium by supercharged air from the supercharger; a second heat section for heating the supercharged air by steam generated by the economizer before the supercharged air flows into the first heat section; and a third heat section for heating the working medium having been heated in the first section by the supercharged air which is to be heated in the second section.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING CO., LTD., MIURA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeto Adachi, Kazuo Takahashi, Tetsuro Fujii, Kazuya Arahira, Masakazu Yamamoto, Yutaka Kobayashi, Toshio Sageshima
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Patent number: 10400686Abstract: A method to diagnose post air charger compressor icing obstructions without the addition of a post compressor pressure sensor. The method detects when conditions exists for icing to occur and performs at least one icing mitigation strategy when the icing conditions exceed a predetermined icing condition threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Steven G Dickson, Jordan D Weaver
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Patent number: 10385810Abstract: An intake system of an internal combustion engine with a supercharger includes: a negative pressure control valve which is disposed in the upstream side than an intake side supercharger in an intake passage; a first external gas introduction passage which introduces a single external gas made of blow-by gas, at a part of the intake passage which is on the upstream side of the intake side supercharger and on the downstream side of the negative pressure control valve; and a fresh air introduction passage which introduces fresh air to an internal combustion engine main body from the upstream side of the negative pressure control valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Matsushima, Yoichi Oyamada, Daigo USA, Yoshiyuki Kawai, Kohei Hotta
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Patent number: 10385794Abstract: A method for diagnosing a waste gate valve malfunction in a power generation system is presented. The method includes determining an actual pressure differential across a throttle valve. The method further includes determining an estimated pressure differential across the throttle valve based on one or more first operating parameters of the power generation system. Furthermore, the method includes determining an absolute difference between the actual pressure differential and the estimated pressure differential. Moreover, the method also includes comparing the absolute difference with a threshold value and if the absolute difference is greater than the threshold value, determining an operating condition of the throttle valve. Additionally, the method includes determining whether the waste gate valve has malfunctioned based on the determined operating condition of the throttle valve. An engine controller and a power generation system employing the method are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: AI Alpine US Bidco Inc.Inventors: Dipankar Deb, Sharath Sridhar Aramanekoppa, Prashant Srinivasan, Maruthi Narasinga Rao Devarakonda
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Patent number: 10378551Abstract: A compressor is described which includes a non-axial first rotor, and a second rotor disposed immediately downstream from the first rotor and being co-axial therewith about a longitudinal axis of rotation. The second rotor rotates in a direction opposite the non-axial first rotor to discharge fluid flow into an uninterrupted passage between an outlet of the second rotor and one of a downstream combustor or a further compression stage. The uninterrupted passage is free of a diffusing passage. A gas turbine engine including such a compressor and a method of compressing fluid flow is also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Huu Duc Vo
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Patent number: 10378549Abstract: A dual compressor turbocharger includes two compressors. One compressor supplies fuel pressure, and one compressor supplies air pressure. The dual compressor turbocharger includes a turbine driven by exhaust of an engine and a shaft coupled to the turbine. The first compressor is mounted on the shaft and includes a first inlet coupled to an air supply and a first outlet coupled to an air intake of the engine. The second compressor is mounted on the shaft and includes a second inlet coupled to a fuel supply and a second outlet coupled to a fuel supply rail of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: Isaac S. Frampton, Robert J. Danforth, III, Paul Honkanen
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Patent number: 10364737Abstract: A cooling system (10) for a vehicle has a high temperature cooling circuit (11) for cooling a drive assembly (13) and an exhaust gas turbocharger (14) and has a low temperature cooling circuit (12) for cooling a charge air cooler (19). The high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12) are coupled via a coupling line (25), into which a nonreturn valve (26) is connected. The nonreturn valve (26) is opened or closed depending on the pressure ratio between the high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12). The high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12) can be vented via a common cooling water compensation tank (21) only in defined operating states when the nonreturn valve (26) of the coupling line (25) is open.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heiko Roehm, Miroslaw Oslislok
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Patent number: 10364761Abstract: A turbocharger (1) includes a turbine wheel (3) driven by exhaust gas, first and second compressor wheels (4, 5) coaxially coupled to the turbine wheel (3) via a shaft member (6), a compressor housing (8) accommodating the first and second compressor wheels (4, 5) and having defined therein a communication passage (17) through which air compressed by the first compressor wheel (4) flows to the second compressor wheel (5), and an electric motor (11) arranged in the communication passage (17) and using the shaft member (6) as a rotation shaft thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Vijayakumar Sivaraman, Masamoto Hayashi
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Patent number: 10364757Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to control exhaust energy delivered to a turbine of a turbine-generator coupled to a split exhaust engine system in order to limit turbine over-speed conditions and/or reduce generator vibration or reduce component over-heating conditions. In one example, a method may comprise in response to turbine speed greater than a threshold speed, selectively deactivating a first exhaust valve of one or more cylinders of a first and second cylinder group.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas G. Leone, Joseph Norman Ulrey
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Patent number: 10352190Abstract: A turbomachine or a turbojet engine or a turboprop engine of an aircraft, including at least one oil circuit and a cooling mechanism including a refrigerant circuit including a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and air and forming a condenser, a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and the oil of the oil circuit and forming an evaporator, an expander mounted downstream from the first exchanger and upstream from the second exchanger, in a direction in which the refrigerant circulates, and a compressor mounted downstream from the second exchanger and upstream from the first exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Alain Pierre Garassino, Olivier Robert Michel Delepierre-Massue, Marc Missout, Mathieu Jean Pierre Trohel
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Patent number: 10323563Abstract: A configuration for a uniflow-scavenged, opposed-piston engine reduces exhaust cross-talk caused by mass flow between cylinders resulting from one cylinder having an open exhaust port during scavenging and/or charging while an adjacent cylinder is undergoing blowdown. Some configurations include a wall or other barrier feature between cylinders that are adjacent to each other and fire one after the other. Additionally, or alternatively, some engine configurations include cylinders with intake and exhaust ports sized so that there is an overlap in crank angle of two or more cylinders having open exhaust ports of about 65 crank angle degrees or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: ACHATES POWER, INC.Inventors: Rodrigo ZermeƱo Benitez, Brian J. Callahan, Kevin B. Fuqua, Christopher J. Kalebjian
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Patent number: 10309308Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a mid-turbine frame that includes an inner frame case. At least one spoke is connected to the inner frame case. At least one spoke includes a fluid passage that is in fluid communication with a channel on a radially inner end of the fluid passage. The channel is directed in a radially inward and circumferential direction. A cavity is located radially inward from the mid-turbine frame and is in fluid communication with the channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony P. Cherolis, Jeffrey J. Lienau, Robert Newman, Cheng-Zhang Wang