Patents Examined by Phutthiwat Wongwian
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Patent number: 11578625Abstract: A combined exhaust and engine brake rocker arm assembly configured to selectively open first and second exhaust valves, includes a rocker arm body, an exhaust rocker arm assembly formed in the rocker arm body, and an engine brake rocker arm assembly formed in the rocker arm body and configured to operate in a collapse mode and a rigid mode. The exhaust rocker arm assembly is configured to selectively engage a valve bridge to open the first and second exhaust valves, and the engine brake rocker arm assembly is configured to selectively engage the valve bridge to open only the first exhaust valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: James E. McCarthy, Jr., Douglas J. Nielsen, Kshamta Bishnoi
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Patent number: 11578688Abstract: In at least some implementations, a fuel metering valve, includes a bobbin defining a passage and having one or more voids in the surface of the bobbin that defines the passage, aa wire coil around the bobbin and an armature. The armature is received within the passage in the bobbin and movable relative to the bobbin from a first position to a second position when electricity is supplied to the wire coil.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Walbro LLCInventors: Takashi Abei, Katsuaki Hamataka, Takashi Horikawa, Tomoya Kawada, Dairoku Suzuki, Jun Takano
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Patent number: 11572847Abstract: An internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber, at least one fuel delivery line for the delivery of fuel to at least one combustion chamber, and at least one differential pressure control valve for controlling the pressure in the at least one fuel delivery line. The at least one differential pressure control valve is configured to perform a valve opening or valve closing movement based on a pressure difference between the at least one fuel delivery line and a reference volume having a reference pressure. The internal combustion engine further includes at least one pressure relief valve, separate from the at least one differential pressure control valve, and configured to open to cause a pressure relief in the reference volume and a decrease in the reference pressure if a drop occurs in the power to be performed by the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OGInventors: Alexander Mairhofer, Johannes Huber, Josef Thalhauser, Matthias Grotz, Michael Franz Litzlfellner, Alexander Gasteiger, Michael Perktold
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Patent number: 11566548Abstract: The invention relates to a wall-flow filter as a particle filter with catalytically active coatings in the channels which are closed in a gas-tight manner at the opposing closed ends of the channels A at the first end, wherein the inlet region of the filter is additionally supplied with a dry powder-gas aerosol which contains metal compounds with a high melting point (such as the metal oxides Al2O3, SiO2, FeO2, TiO2, ZnO2, etc. for example) and which is to simultaneously improve the catalytic activity and the degree of filtration efficiency with respect to the exhaust gas back-pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Martin Foerster, Juergen Koch, Manuel Gensch, Naina Deibel, Antje Oltersdorf, Jan Schoenhaber
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Patent number: 11566573Abstract: When a performance flag of a temperature raising process becomes “1”, a CPU increases an injection amount for first, third and fourth cylinders from a base injection amount for making an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture equal to a theoretical air-fuel ratio, by an increase amount, and stops combustion control in a second cylinder. The CPU gradually increases a ratio of the increase amount to the base injection amount, at the start of the temperature raising process.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuto Ikeda, Yuki Nose, Takanobu Gotoh
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Patent number: 11569028Abstract: An internal combustion engine ignition coil includes: a center core; a primary coil provided on an outer side of the center core; a secondary coil provided on an outer side of the primary coil; and a side core provided on an outer side of the primary coil and the secondary coil and formed by stacked electromagnetic steel sheets, the side core having one contact portion in contact with one end surface of the center core and another contact portion in contact with another end surface of the center core with a magnet therebetween. The side core is composed of a plurality of side core portions fitted to each other to be movable relative to each other in a longitudinal direction of the center core.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Chikara Hashida, Shuji Yamada
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Patent number: 11566561Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine having a crankshaft, an electric machine having a shaft, and a front end accessory drive (FEAD). The FEAD includes a multi-speed pulley assembly mounted to one of the crankshaft and the shaft, a pulley mounted to the other of the crankshaft and the shaft, and a tension member trained around the multi-speed pulley assembly and the pulley. The multi-speed pulley assembly is configured to establish a low speed ratio between the shaft and the crankshaft and a high speed ratio between the shaft and the crankshaft. A vehicle controller is programmed to, in switch between the high speed ratio and the low speed ratio to optimize operating conditions of the FEAD.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: George Aristidis Papaioannou, Timothy Vaughn, Nicholas Dahlin, John Edward Brevick
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Patent number: 11569700Abstract: To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of downsizing the rotating electric machine in an axial direction and in a radial direction. A first inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a first conductor-exposed portion and a second inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a second conductor-exposed portion opposed to the first conductor-exposed portion. An opposing portion being a portion, at which the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion are opposed to each other, extends in a radial direction, and at least a part of the opposing portion of the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion is arranged on an inner side in the radial direction compared to the first outer-peripheral-side terminal and the second outer-peripheral-side terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Shinya Matsunaga, Yasuhiro Hayasaka, Norihiro Murata, Kazuya Hasegawa, Katsuya Ito
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Patent number: 11560819Abstract: Provided is a combustion system using a catalyst having better denitration efficiency at low temperatures, during a selective catalytic reduction reaction in which ammonia is used as a reducing agent. This combustion system comprises: a combustion device that combusts fuel; an exhaust path through which flows exhaust gas generated from the combustion of fuel in the combustion device; a dust collection device that is arranged on the exhaust path and collects ash dust/dust in the exhaust gas; and a denitration device that is arranged on the exhaust path and removes nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas by means of a denitration catalyst, wherein the denitration device is arranged downstream of the dust collection device on the exhaust path, and the denitration catalyst contains vanadium oxide including vanadium pentoxide and has a defect site in which an oxygen atom is deficient in a crystal structure of the vanadium pentoxide.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., TOKYO METROPOLITAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Kiyonaga, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Morita, Toru Murayama, Masatake Haruta, Shinichi Hata, Yusuke Inomata
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Patent number: 11562855Abstract: In at least some implementations, a lamination stack includes a plurality of plates coupled together, each plate including at least one leg that collectively define a leg of the stack, with the leg of the stack arranged so that a wire coil may be arranged on the leg of the stack, and wherein the leg of the stack includes a location feature arranged to facilitate location of the stack relative to an adjacent component. In at least some implementations, the location feature may be integrally formed with at least one of the plates, and may be defined by a projection extending from a free end of at least one leg of the stack.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Walbro LLCInventors: Martin N. Andersson, Cyrus M. Healy, Gerald J. LaMarr, Jr.
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Patent number: 11549429Abstract: A fuel and gas mixing structure for an engine is provided. This mixing structure includes a body configured to be positioned between a fuel injector and a cylinder of an engine. The body defines an interior volume that is configured to receive gas (e.g., air) from outside the body and to receive one or more streams of fuel from the fuel injector in the interior volume. The body also includes one or more upper channels and one or more lower channels that are configured to provide a substantially similar amount of flow relative to each other to the interior volume The body also defines one or more mixture conduits configured to conduct plumes of the fuel and gas, while mixing, from the interior volume to one or more exit ports and therethrough to the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Sreenivasa Rao Gubba, Bhaskar Tamma, Victor Manuel Salazar, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Thomas Michael Lavertu, Roy James Primus, John Dowell, Kevin Bailey, Kevin McElhaney
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Patent number: 11549468Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for diagnosing a breach of an evaporative emissions system. The methods and systems include repurposing a resonator as a vacuum reservoir to reduce a pressure of an evaporative emissions system so that it may be determined if there is or is not a breach of the evaporative emissions system.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Aed Dudar
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Patent number: 11549467Abstract: A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a controller configured to detect an abnormality in at least one of a first check valve, a second check valve, a second purge passage, a charging passage, and an ejector based on pressure detected by a pressure detector.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tatsuhiko Akita
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Patent number: 11549455Abstract: An internal combustion engine operates so that it delivers zero or negative torque. The engine operates in either a deceleration cylinder cut off (DCCO) mode or skip cylinder compression braking mode. In the skip cylinder compression braking mode, selected working cycles of selected working chambers are operated in a compression release braking mode. Accordingly, individual working chambers are sometimes not fired and sometimes operated in the compression release braking mode while the engine is operating in the skip cylinder compression braking mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: Tula Technology, Inc., Cummins Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Carlson, Louis J. Serrano, Mark A. Wilcutts, Vijay Srinivasan
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Patent number: 11541753Abstract: A vehicular pedal device includes a stroke characteristic control unit that controls a stroke characteristic of the vehicular pedal with respect to a pedaling force of a driver. the stroke characteristic control unit changes the stroke characteristic of the vehicular pedal to a stepped stroke characteristic when the vehicle is under automatic speed control, and the stepped stroke characteristic has a stepping force step corresponding to an override stroke position at which override of automatic speed control is started by operation of the vehicular pedal by the driver.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Fuwamoto, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11541762Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for controlling torque produced by a propulsion system in a vehicle. A torque request is received for the propulsion system with the propulsion system having a motor speed of substantially zero. A first torque that meets the torque request is produced using a first motor system of the propulsion system. A first thermal condition of the first motor system is identified. Torque production is switched from the first motor system to a second motor system of the propulsion system in response to a determination that the first thermal condition meets a first set of criteria.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Arlo Eitzer
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Patent number: 11542906Abstract: A starter system for an internal combustion engine in a vehicle includes a starter (12), a voltage source (14) for supplying the starter (12) with electrical energy in a start operating state and a down converter (22). The down converter (22) provides a start operating voltage for the starter (12) in the start operating state by down-converting a supply voltage provided by the voltage source (14).Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: EBERSPÄCHER CONTROLS LANDAU GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Steffen Wandres, Mark-Arno Weimann
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Patent number: 11542903Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent generation of wear at a rod collision portion in an electromagnetic intake valve of a high-pressure fuel supply pump by reducing inclinations of the intake valve and a rod. A structure of the electromagnetic intake valve of the high-pressure fuel supply pump is configured as follows. A seat portion of an intake valve and a guide portion of a rod are configured as an integral part, and further, a rod guide is made to have a sufficiently long length so that it is possible to perform guide at one portion. Further, the intake valve seat portion and a surface where the rod collides with the intake valve are formed on the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Kawano, Kenichiro Tokuo, Satoshi Usui, Masamichi Yagai, Kazuaki Tokumaru
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Patent number: 11542899Abstract: An evaporative emissions (EVAP) system for an engine of a vehicle includes an ion sensing system configured to measure a fuel/air ratio (FAR) within cylinders of the engine and a controller configured to, during an engine cold start period, perform open-loop lambda control of the engine including obtaining, from the ion sensing system, the measured FAR within the cylinders of the engine, comparing the measured FAR within the cylinders of the engine to a target FAR within cylinders of the engine, and based on the comparing, adjusting operation of at least one of the EVAP system and fuel injectors of the engine to maintain a stoichiometric operation of the engine, wherein the use of the ion sensing system for open-loop lambda control of the engine eliminates the need for a hydrocarbon (HC) sensor in the EVAP system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventors: Matthew M Delleree, James J Daley, Roger C Sager, Joseph M Dekar
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Patent number: 11535382Abstract: An overhead flow distribution assembly for an aircraft cabin, including a conduit defining a plenum having an inlet, upper outlets and lower outlets, the upper outlets spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the aircraft, the lower outlets spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction, the inlet being located between the upper outlets and the lower outlets, and a baffle extending within the plenum along the longitudinal direction, the baffle being located between the upper outlets and at least part of the inlet along a transverse direction normal to the longitudinal direction, the baffle having openings defined therethrough, the baffle configured to restrict airflow from the at least part of the inlet toward the upper outlets. A method of balancing a flow in an overhead flow distribution assembly for an aircraft cabin is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MHI RJ Aviation ULCInventor: Hongzhi Wang