Patents Examined by John M Zaleskas
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Patent number: 11459993Abstract: In performing double drive startup for starting up an engine while cranking the engine by both a first motor and a second motor, the cranking of the engine by one of the first motor and the second motor is finished earlier than the cranking of the engine by the other of the first motor and the second motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuko Asano, Kazuhiko Sakakibara, Takeaki Suzuki, Masanori Shinohara
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Patent number: 11441510Abstract: A control apparatus for a fuel supply apparatus is used in an engine system. The engine system includes an engine including a fuel injection valve, and the fuel supply apparatus including a fuel pump configured to supply fuel in a fuel tank to a supply pipe connected to the fuel injection valve, and a relief valve provided in the supply pipe. The control apparatus for the fuel supply apparatus includes an executor configured to execute, when the fuel is supplied to the fuel tank, relief pressure control for driving the fuel pump to open the relief valve until a predetermined termination condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira Iwai
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Patent number: 11441497Abstract: During a transient period, the opening degree of a throttle valve (throttle opening degree) is varied from a steady-period target throttle opening degree in a region A1 toward a valve closing side by a predetermined amount ?P, and is thereafter controlled so as to become a steady-period target throttle opening degree in the region A1. The transient period is a transient period in which the operation state is shifted from a region B2 in which an air-fuel ratio in a supercharged state becomes a predetermined lean air-fuel ratio to a region A1 in which the air-fuel ratio in a non-supercharged state becomes a predetermined rich air-fuel ratio richer than the lean air-fuel ratio. In this transient period, by reducing the air amount in a cylinder, the combustion torque of an internal combustion engine is suppressed, and consequently; a torque overshoot can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kengo Yonekura, Hirofumi Tsuchida
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Patent number: 11433763Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment apparatus includes a main canister containing an adsorbent that is capable of adsorbing and desorbing evaporated fuel generated in a fuel tank; a sub-canister connected to the main canister, the sub-canister containing an additional adsorbent that is capable of adsorbing and desorbing evaporated fuel contained in an exhaust discharged from the main canister; and a connection pipe that connects the main canister and the sub-canister. The connection pipe includes a first portion that is located near a muffler, and a second portion which is a portion other than the first portion, the second portion being located apart from an exhaust pipe and located below the first portion in the vertical direction with respect to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akira Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 11428197Abstract: A fuel pump for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine includes a pump housing and a fastening section which is present on the pump housing for fastening the fuel pump to a base, in particular an engine block. The fastening section has a through opening for receiving a holding element for a fastening means, in particular a screw. At least one radially inwardly directed projection is present at least in an end region of the through opening, the end region facing the base in the installed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: John Seifert, Jens Leistert, Stefan Brueckl, Christian Dingfelder
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Patent number: 11421643Abstract: The present disclosure provides a revolving speed variable voltage power supply for a glow plug of a two-stroke or four-stroke gasoline engine, including: an adjust device configured for outputting different control commands according to different revolving speeds of the two-stroke or four-stroke gasoline engine; a switch device connected to the adjust device, and configured for controlling an ON/OFF of a circuit according to the different control commands; a rectify device connected to the adjust device and the switch device, and configured to provide different voltages to the glow plug according to the different control commands and/or the ON/OFF of the switch device. According to the present disclosure, the effects of automatic control of voltage, ignition temperature, etc. can be achieved, the power consumption of the battery carried by the model can be effectively reduced, and the battery life and use stability can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventor: Mengyuan Cai
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Patent number: 11401876Abstract: A control system for a vehicle is provided, which includes a driving force source configured to generate torque for driving drive wheels, a steering angle related value sensor configured to detect a steering angle related value of a steering device of the vehicle, a grille shutter configured to adjust an opening-and-closing degree of an opening formed in a front surface of a vehicle body, and a controller configured to control the torque to control a vehicle attitude based on the steering angle related value. Based on the steering angle related value, when the controller determines that a turning operation of the steering device is performed, it performs a torque decreasing control for reducing the torque to add deceleration to the vehicle, and when the grille shutter opening is large, the controller increases the torque reduction amount in the torque decreasing control more than when the opening is small.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Daisaku Ogawa, Daisuke Umetsu
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Patent number: 11396879Abstract: Disclosed is a cross-flow fan including a fan rotor and a housing. The cross-flow fan has a blow-out path defined by first and second extension wall portions and two sidewalls. The first extension wall portion continuously extends from a tongue portion of the housing to the blow-out port. The second extension wall portion faces the first extension wall portion. The two sidewalls are respectively provided at axial ends of the fan rotor. The two sidewalls are formed such that the blow-out path has a narrowed portion whose cross-sectional area decreases as its cross-sectional shape changes from a rectangular shape to a trapezoidal shape from an upstream side toward a downstream side thereof, the trapezoidal shape having a portion near the second extension wall portion smaller in width than a portion near the first extension wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kashihara, Jinfan Ryuu, Hironobu Teraoka
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Patent number: 11391230Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes moving a piston downward from a top dead center position to a bottom dead center position expanding a combustion chamber in an intake stroke, dispensing a first portion of fuel into the combustion chamber, subsequent to moving the piston downward in the intake stroke, moving the piston upward in the vertical direction compressing the combustion chamber in a compression stroke, subsequent to moving the piston upward in the compression stroke, moving the piston downward in the vertical direction in an expansion stroke, while moving the piston downward in the vertical direction in the expansion stroke, dispensing a second portion of fuel into the combustion chamber, and while moving the piston downward in the expansion stroke, igniting at least a part of the first portion of fuel and the second portion of fuel.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Vallinayagam Raman, Yoann Viollet, Junseok Chang
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Patent number: 11378054Abstract: A period and amplitude of torsional fluctuations of a drive-train to be obtained by applying a phase-lead process, which is a process of advancing a phase by a predetermined amount, to a difference between a rotation speed of a driving source and a rotation speed of the driving source, computed from a rotation speed of a drive shaft, are repeatedly computed. When the computed amplitude of the torsional fluctuations in a predetermined period becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined amplitude at least two times consecutively, predetermined control is executed. In the predetermined control, the driving source is controlled at a torque obtained by adding a correction torque opposite in phase to the torsional fluctuations to a target torque. As a result, vibrations of a driving apparatus are further properly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motoshi Asada, Hiroya Tanaka, Shigeru Itabashi
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Patent number: 11378051Abstract: An ignition control device includes an ignition coil, a main ignition circuit unit for performing a main ignition operation, and an energy input circuit unit for performing an energy input operation. A main ignition signal generation circuit generates a main ignition signal such that a point in time when a waiting time has passed from a detection start time of a first signal of an ignition control signal at which a signal level of the ignition control signal changed from a first level to a second level for the first time, and the signal level of the ignition control signal is the second level, is a start of the main ignition signal, and a detection end time of a second signal of the ignition control signal at which the signal level of the ignition control signal shifts to the first level thereafter is an end of the main ignition signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Irie
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Patent number: 11371471Abstract: A tank system (1) for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine to which fuel is supplied from a tank (2), wherein the tank (2) is assigned, in a ventilation path to the atmosphere (7), a flushable filter device (6, 6) for being loaded with hydrocarbon vapors of the fuel. The filter device (6, 6) has multiple mutually separate activated carbon filters (6). All of the activated carbon filters (6) are connected permanently in parallel. In this way, the ventilation resistance from the tank in the direction of the atmosphere can be kept low.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Inventor: Andreas Menke
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Patent number: 11365685Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating an engine with a series gap igniter. In one example, a system may include a series gap igniter coupled to a cylinder head of a cylinder, the series gap igniter including a first spark gap in an internal volume of the series gap igniter and a second spark gap of the series gap igniter external to the internal volume of the series gap igniter and within a clearance volume of the cylinder. In this way, a cylinder with a series gap igniter may be operated to efficiently and reliably initiate combustion over a range of engine operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas G. Leone, Michael Damian Czekala
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Patent number: 11365699Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of more appropriately correcting an output value of a flow rate sensor that measures a flow rate of air flowing through an intake flow path of an internal combustion engine, and further reducing an error between a corrected air flow rate and an actual air flow rate as compared to a conventional device.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Kunihiko Suzuki, Yoshihiko Akagi, Shinya Matohara
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Patent number: 11363756Abstract: A work machine determines, when a request to restart an engine is made, whether or not a reason indicated by stop information stored in a memory is a reason related to locking of the work portion. The machine sets an operation mode of the engine and a work portion to a safe mode if it determines that the reason indicated by the stop information is a reason related to locking of the work portion. The safe mode is an operation mode for lessening damage resulting from causing the engine and the work portion to work during the work portion locked or damage resulting from an object coming into contact with the work portion during the engine and the work portion working.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Kuriyagawa
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Patent number: 11359563Abstract: In a method, dynamic pressure oscillations in the intake tract or outlet tract of a respective internal combustion engine are measured during normal operation, and from these measured oscillations, a corresponding pressure oscillation signal is generated. A crankshaft phase angle signal is determined at the same time. From the pressure oscillation signal, an actual value of at least one characteristic of at least one selected signal frequency of the measured pressure oscillations in relation to the crankshaft phase angle signal is determined, and the current trimming of the intake tract is determined on the basis of the determined actual value, taking into consideration reference values of the corresponding characteristic of the respectively identical signal frequency for different trimmings of the intake tract.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Tobias Braun, Frank Maurer, Matthias Delp
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Patent number: 11352968Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for transferring hot, compressed gases from one cylinder to another cylinder while fuel injection in both cylinders is deactivated. In one example, a method may include during a fuel shut-off event, opening a first pre-chamber injector of the first cylinder undergoing late compression or early expansion and opening a second pre-chamber injector of the second cylinder undergoing a late expansion and/or exhaust stroke or undergoing an intake stroke to allow a hot, compressed gas from the first cylinder to transfer to the second cylinder through the first and second pre-chamber injectors.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rani Kiwan, Chris Glugla
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Patent number: 11352994Abstract: An outlet and pressure relief valve assembly for a fuel pump includes a housing which extends along an axis from an inner end to an outer end. The housing has a bore which extends thereinto along the axis from the inner end. A valve seat is located within the bore and has an end wall which is transverse to the axis and also has a sidewall which is annular in shape and extends away from the end wall. An outlet flow passage extends through the end wall such that the outlet flow passage is centered about the axis. A pressure relief flow passage extends through the end wall such that the pressure relief flow passage is laterally spaced from the outlet flow passage. An outlet valve member is located within the valve seat sidewall and a pressure relief valve member is located between the valve seat and the inner end.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventors: Chad E. Uckermark, Adam S. Johnson
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Patent number: 11339555Abstract: A process for determining a setpoint rotational speed of a work machine engine, having a continuously variable transmission, based on operation of power hydraulics. The setpoint rotational speed for highly productive operation is determined, without knowledge current operation of the power hydraulics, by a basic engine speed setting. With knowledge of the current operating state, the setpoint rotational speed is determined by the basic speed settings and low or high engine speed settings. The low speed setting alone determines setpoint rotational speeds that are lower than the basic speed setting or a combination of the low and basic speed settings. The high speed setting alone determines setpoint rotational speeds that are higher than the basic speed setting or a combination of the basic and high speed settings. The speed settings can comprise a setpoint rotational speed range of above a reciprocal transmission range of the variable transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Jan-Frederik Kuhn, Stefan Traub, Stephan Schinacher, Marcus Hiemer, Robert Morrison, Jürgen Legner, Sven Bieber
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Patent number: 11326547Abstract: A method of controlling an engine is provided, the method including the steps of injecting main fuel by a fuel injector during an intake stroke or a compression stroke, providing a mixture gas containing fuel and air inside a cylinder, applying by an ignition device a high voltage between electrodes of a spark plug at a timing when the mixture gas is not ignited, detecting a parameter related to a current value of an electric-discharge channel generated between the electrodes, determining whether the detected parameter is within a range between a first threshold and a second threshold to determine a flowing state of a vortex inside the cylinder, injecting supplemental fuel by the fuel injector after the main fuel injection when the parameter is determined to be outside the range, and igniting the mixture gas by the ignition device using the spark plug after the supplemental fuel injection.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Ota, Yoshihisa Nou