Patents by Inventor Edward Jobson

Edward Jobson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230271529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an energy storage system (200) of a vehicle (201), the energy storage system comprising at least one battery pack (202). The method comprises the steps of: —obtaining route planning information relating to an expected travelling route of the vehicle, —determining at least one set operational mode of the energy storage system, —based on at least the obtained route planning information and the at least one set operational mode of the energy storage system, setting a control profile for controlling the energy storage system, —controlling the energy storage system according to the control profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hanna BRYNGELSSON, Edward JOBSON
  • Publication number: 20230011751
    Abstract: A method performed by a control unit for controlling flooding of at least part of an energy storage space. The energy storage space comprises at least one Energy Storage System, ESS. The control unit detects that a critical condition associated with the at least one ESS is present. When the critical condition has been detected, the control unit initiates flooding of at least part of the energy storage space with a fluid from a reservoir. The control unit controls the flooding of the energy storage space such that the at least one ESS is submersed to a submersion level where the critical condition is no longer present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sondre LANDVIK, Edward JOBSON
  • Publication number: 20220334190
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method performed by a device for determining an action to be taken based on forecasted EoL parameters for an electric ESS and for an at least partly electric vehicle in which the electric ESS is comprised. The device obtains at least one ESS parameter impacted by utilization of the at least one electric vehicle and obtains at least one vehicle parameter impacted by utilization of the at least one electric vehicle. The device determines a forecasted EoL vehicle parameter based on the at least one vehicle parameter and a forecasted EoL ESS parameter based on the at least one ESS parameter. The device compares the forecasted EoL ESS parameter and the forecasted EoL vehicle parameter and determines the action to be taken based on a result of the comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Edward JOBSON
  • Publication number: 20220263179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery unit (14) comprising six battery unit faces (30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40). The battery unit (14) has a shape that can be inscribed in an imaginary cube having six cube faces such that each battery unit face (30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40) forms part of a corresponding imaginary cube face, wherein a first battery unit face pair of the battery unit (14) comprises a first battery unit face (30) and a second battery unit face (32). The first battery unit face (30) comprises a first set of anode terminals (42) and a first set of cathode terminals (44), the second battery unit face (32) comprising a second set of anode terminals (46) and a second set of cathode terminals (48).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward JOBSON, Hanna BRYNGELSSON
  • Publication number: 20220234469
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of managing an energy storage system (ESS) of a vehicle, wherein the energy storage system has a beginning of life (BOL). The vehicle has at least a first application and a second application, and the energy storage system has a first end of life (EOL1) for the first application and a second end of life (EOL2) for the second application. Further, the ESS has a first lifetime between the BOL and the EOL and a second lifetime between the BOL and the EOL2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward JOBSON, Hanna BRYNGELSSON
  • Patent number: 11104324
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for adapting a vehicle control strategy of an on-road vehicle following a reoccurring fixed route to a predetermined destination, which fixed route extends through at least one geographical zone associated with at least one environmental restriction. When it is determined that the vehicle is approaching the geographical zone, historical data collected from previous passages of one or several vehicles through the zone is accessed, and the vehicle control strategy inside the geographical zone is adapted based on the historical data and the environmental restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Ulf Gustafsson, Martin Sanne, Roger Andersson
  • Publication number: 20200047742
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for adapting a vehicle control strategy of an on-road vehicle following a reoccurring fixed route to a predetermined destination, which fixed route extends through at least one geographical zone associated with at least one environmental restriction. When it is determined that the vehicle is approaching the geographical zone, historical data collected from previous passages of one or several vehicles through the zone is accessed, and the vehicle control strategy inside the geographical zone is adapted based on the historical data and the environmental restriction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: VOLVO BUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Ulf Gustafsson, Martin Sanne, Roger Andersson
  • Patent number: 10486682
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for adapting a vehicle control strategy of an on-road vehicle following a reoccurring fixed route to a predetermined destination, which fixed route extends through at least one geographical zone associated with at least one environmental restriction. When it is determined that the vehicle is approaching the geographical zone, historical data collected from previous passages of one or several vehicles through the zone is accessed, and the vehicle control strategy inside the geographical zone is adapted based on the historical data and the environmental restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: VOLVO BUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Ulf Gustafsson, Martin Sanne, Roger Andersson
  • Publication number: 20180170349
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for adapting a vehicle control strategy of an on-road vehicle following a reoccurring fixed route to a predetermined destination, which fixed route extends through at least one geographical zone associated with at least one environmental restriction. When it is determined that the vehicle is approaching the geographical zone, historical data collected from previous passages of one or several vehicles through the zone is accessed, and the vehicle control strategy inside the geographical zone is adapted based on the historical data and the environmental restriction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: VOLVO BUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward JOBSON, Ulf GUSTAFSSON, Martin SANNE, Roger ANDERSSON
  • Patent number: 8387363
    Abstract: An arrangement for removal of particulates in a gas flow includes at least one gas passage that is at least partly surrounded by a porous material. An arrangement for exposing the gas passage to sound that induces gas movements in a direction towards the porous material is provided. A method for removal of particulates in a gas flow is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Volvo Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Heije Westberg, Staffan Lundgren, Jakob Heydorn Lagerlöf, Cecilia Dahlin
  • Patent number: 8337761
    Abstract: A particulate filtration device includes a filter with a feed inlet side for a feed gas and an filtrate outlet for a filtrate, feed gas channels and filtrate channels, and one or more diaphragms between the feed inlet side and the filtrate outlet. Opposite to the feed inlet side a particulate outlet is arranged with a collector compartment attached to the particulate outlet for collecting particulates retained in the feed gas channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Volvo Technology Corp., Höganäs AB
    Inventors: Lennart Andersson, Jonas Edvardsson, Edward Jobson, Heije Westberg, Per-Olof Larsson, Owe Mars, Jörgen Knuth-Nielsen
  • Patent number: 8065870
    Abstract: Method and device for reduction of a gas component in an exhaust gas flow of a combustion engine (1) that is adapted for operation by a lean air/fuel mixture. An exhaust pipe (21) is included for transport of the exhaust gas flow from the engine (1). A separation unit (22) is also included that is arranged along the exhaust pipe (21), which separation unit (22) has a wall structure (32) of a material which provides separation of the gas component from the exhaust gas flow by means of a selective passage of the gas component before other gas components in the exhaust gas flow. The method provides for a reduction and a separation unit that is intended to be utilized during such a reduction. An improved reduction of in particular NOx compounds from a so-called “lean-burn” engine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Volvo Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Lennart Cider, Goran Wirmark
  • Patent number: 8017086
    Abstract: A catalyst unit (1; 1?) configured for the reduction of NOx compounds in a gas stream and which includes a catalytically active material of the silver/alumina type. The catalyst unit (1; 1?) has at least one first reaction zone (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e) containing the catalytically active material and at least one second reaction zone (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e; 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e) which is arranged to permit breakdown of a gas species which is formed in the first reaction zone (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e), with N2 being formed, and in that the gas stream is conducted through the first reaction zone (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e) and the second reaction zone (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e; 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e). The invention results in an improved catalyst unit which in particular provides high-grade reduction of NOx compounds in an exhaust gas stream from a combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Volvo Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kari Eränen, Edward Jobson, Lennart Cider, Lars-Eric Lindfors
  • Patent number: 7976970
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for establishing a fuel cell unit (10) in the form of an extruded monolith having channels (14), of which every second constitutes a fuel channel (14a) and every other second an oxygen channel (14b). The channels (14) are designed in such a manner that the fuel channels (14a) are displaced laterally in relation to the oxygen channels (14b), in such a way that all the fuel channels (14a) protrude a certain distance from the end points of all the oxygen channels 14b) and all the oxygen channels (14b) protrude a certain distance from the end points of all the fuel channels (14a). The distance is less than the length of respective channels. The invention also relates to a fuel cell device that includes several of the fuel cell units (10) that together establish an enhanced system of fuel cell units that lend themselves to compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Staffan Lundgren
  • Patent number: 7921647
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust gas system includes an EGR arrangement adapted to lead a first flow of exhaust gas, the EGR flow, from an outlet side of the engine to an inlet side of the engine, an exhaust gas conduit adapted to lead away a second flow of exhaust gas, the exhaust flow, from the outlet side of the engine, and an energy recovering unit, such as a turbo, associated with the exhaust gas conduit. The unit is adapted to recover exhaust gas energy from the exhaust flow. The system includes a heat exchanger adapted to allow heat exchange between at least a part of the EGR flow and at least a part of the exhaust flow, the heat exchanger being associated with the exhaust gas conduit at a position downstream the energy recovering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Volvo Technology Corp
    Inventors: Daniel Grunditz, Mikael Larsson, Arne Andersson, Lennart Cider, Edward Jobson, Martin Lunden, Peter Josza
  • Publication number: 20110027136
    Abstract: A particulate filtration device includes a filter with a feed inlet side for a feed gas and an filtrate outlet for a filtrate, feed gas channels and filtrate channels, and one or more diaphragms between the feed inlet side and the filtrate outlet. Opposite to the feed inlet side a particulate outlet is arranged with a collector compartment attached to the particulate outlet for collecting particulates retained in the feed gas channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Lennart Andersson, Jonas Edvardsson, Edward Jobson, Heije Westberg, Per-Olof Larsson, Owe Mars, Jörgen Knuth-Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20090217651
    Abstract: An arrangement for removal of particulates in a gas flow includes at least one gas passage that is at least partly surrounded by a porous material. An arrangement for exposing the gas passage to sound that induces gas movements in a direction towards the porous material is provided. A method for removal of particulates in a gas flow is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: VOLVO TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Heije Westberg, Staffan Lundgren, Jakob Heydorn Lagerlof, Cecilia Dahlin
  • Publication number: 20090113876
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust gas system includes an EGR arrangement adapted to lead a first flow of exhaust gas, the EGR flow, from an outlet side of the engine to an inlet side of the engine, an exhaust gas conduit adapted to lead away a second flow of exhaust gas, the exhaust flow, from the outlet side of the engine, and an energy recovering unit, such as a turbo, associated with the exhaust gas conduit. The unit is adapted to recover exhaust gas energy from the exhaust flow. The system includes a heat exchanger adapted to allow heat exchange between at least a part of the EGR flow and at least a part of the exhaust flow, the heat exchanger being associated with the exhaust gas conduit at a position downstream the energy recovering unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: VOLVO TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Grunditz, Mikael Larsson, Arne Andersson, Lennart Cider, Edward Jobson, Martin Lunden, Peter Jozsa
  • Patent number: 7473403
    Abstract: Device for treatment of a gas flow including at least one body (3), at least one first opening (4, 4?) for entrance of an incoming gas flow to the body (3) and at least one second opening (5, 5?) for the exit of an outgoing gas flow from the body (3). The body (3) is provided with a plurality of gas flow passages (11a, 11b) arranged to permit heat exchange between the gas flows in adjacent passages. The device has at least one distribution section (26, 26?) in communication with the first opening (4, 4?) and with the gas flow passages (11a, 11b) to distribute the incoming gas flow to the gas flow passages (11a, 11b), and at least one gas flow passage section (27, 27?) including the gas flow passages (11a, 11b), which passage section (27, 27?) primarily is adapted to permit heat exchange and to cause a conversion in the composition of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignees: Volvo Technology Corporation, Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Jobson, Anna Holmgren Hägg
  • Patent number: 7448207
    Abstract: In a system and method for reduction of nitrogen oxides from exhaust gases generated by a lean-burn internal combustion engine, a lean NOx catalyst is arranged to be connected to an exhaust conduit of the lean-burn internal combustion engine, an injector is arranged for injecting a reduction agent to be used by the lean NOx catalyst in a reduction process, and a fuel tank contains the reduction agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnar AB
    Inventors: Peter Jozsa, Edward Jobson