Patents Issued in November 12, 2009
  • Publication number: 20090277129
    Abstract: A hollow core article of gluelam wood or engineered bamboo furniture, such as bench or table, includes a horizontal main panel (1) and a pair of vertical side panels (2) having upper ends respectively connected to opposite ends of the main panel (1) to support it. The main panel (1) includes a main framework (11), an upper plate (12) disposed on ledges (1115) on an upper surface of the mainframe work (11), and a lower plate (13) having edges disposed on ledges (1116) on a lower surface of the main framework (11). Each of the side panels (2) includes a side framework (21), an outer support plate (22) having edges disposed on ledges (2116) and (2115) on an outer surface of the side framework (21), and an inner support plate (23) having edges disposed on ledges (2116) and (2115) on an inner surface of the side framework (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Maria Yee, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Yee, Hua Xie
  • Publication number: 20090277130
    Abstract: The packing installation comprises a handling head (10) in which tulip-like gripping tools (11) are connected to said head (10) by means of couplers (13) which can be deactivated to allow them to be changed and replaced with tools suitable for different designs of bottles (2). The installation comprises a magazine (15) in which may be housed at least two separate groups of tools (11), which magazine (15) comprises a multitude of presentation units (23) suited to the shapes and dimensions of said tools, which presentation units (23) consist of a spindle (25) to accommodate said tools (11), which spindle (25) is of the floating type to give some flexibility and more importantly to engage with said tools (11) not only during the depositing operation but also during the operation of gripping them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Eric Devaux
  • Publication number: 20090277131
    Abstract: A clamp device clamps together two panels having aligned receiving holes, and includes a tubular wall adapted to be inserted into the aligned receiving holes and having a through hole, first and second abutment plates connected hingedly and oppositely to the tubular wall within the through hole, first and second clamping plates projecting transversely and respectively from the first and second abutment plates, two resilient arms projecting from the second abutment plate and respectively having engaging ends, and a locker having two groove sidewalls formed on the first abutment plate and confining a groove therebetween. The clamping plates move away from each other to a clamping position when the abutment plates abut against the tubular wall. The groove receives and locks the engaging ends when the abutment plates abut against the tubular wall, thereby locking the clamping plates in the clamping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Hua HUNG, Kai-Ting CHUANG, Chih-Hung LIU, Yea-Jye HOU
  • Publication number: 20090277132
    Abstract: A combination weighing device is configured and arranged to efficiently perform processes from combination weighing to discharging. The combination weighing device includes a control unit configured to control a container arrangement mechanism so as to tilt the orientation of a container storing weighed articles selected based on the results of weighing to discharge a portion or all of the articles in the container into its adjacent container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nakajima, Shuji Murata, Fumitaka Tokuda, Ken Shimizu, Takashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20090277133
    Abstract: A conveying device is adapted to receive a plurality of articles, to accumulate the articles so as to form a batch of the articles, and to convey the batch of the articles. The conveying device includes a delivery unit, a placing unit and a control unit. The delivery unit is configured and arranged to turn the articles to orient the articles in a standing position after receiving the articles while delivering the articles to a downstream side at a delivery position. The placing unit is configured and arranged to accumulate the articles sequentially delivered from the delivery unit to form the batch of the articles in a prescribed accumulation form. The control unit is configured to change a delivery interval in which each of the articles is sequentially delivered to the placing unit according to the prescribed accumulation form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yokota, Motoki Takayama, Seisaku Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20090277134
    Abstract: A packaging apparatus in an automated packaging process, for sealing a carton having minor flaps and a bottom end flap, comprising: means for holding the minor flaps in a closed position; and a cycle stop compression plate for, upon the occurrence of a cycle stop operation, folding the bottom end flap over the minor flaps and holding the bottom end flap in place until the carton is sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Jacob, John W. Cash, III, Michael F. Flagg
  • Publication number: 20090277135
    Abstract: An apparatus for sterile filling of beverage containers has a first module and a second module. The first module rinses and sterilizes empty containers and delivers the sterilized containers to the second module. The second module fills and caps the containers with beverage product at ambient temperature in an active sterilization zone utilizing an e-beam sterilization unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: STOKELY-VAN CAMP, INC
    Inventors: Michael J. Mastio, Rei-Young Amos Wu, Michael F. McGowan, Subodh K. Raniwala, Gregory Schimmel, James D. Schuman, Steven Havlik
  • Publication number: 20090277136
    Abstract: A method of applying stretch film wrapping to an agricultural bale (10) which is of rectangular cross section and using a bale wrapper apparatus which comprises: a table which supports the bale (10) and which operates to rotate the bale generally about its longitudinal axis (11) during a wrapping cycle; a dispenser reel arrangement (12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25) from which stretch film wrapping is withdrawn so as to form successive overlapping windings of film which cover the bale; and means which applies relative rotation between the table and the dispenser reel arrangement about a second axis (14) which extends substantially perpendicular to said first axis during the wrapping cycle; in which: each winding of film includes a longitudinal edge strip portion and an adjoining longitudinal strip portion; and the longitudinal edge portion has different deformation properties from the deformation properties of said adjoining portion so as to be more readily extensible under a given load than said adjoining port
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Kvernaland ASA
    Inventors: Leonardus Hendrikus Maria Van Amstel, Jacobus Izaak Van de Walle
  • Publication number: 20090277137
    Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products automatically package an object, such as, for example, whole muscle meat pieces, in a covering material, such as, for example, netting, by: (a) automatically pushing at least one object through first and second axially aligned product chutes; (b) pulling covering material from an exterior surface of a covering material chute residing about the second product chute to automatically enclose the object in the material as the object exits the second product chute; (c) applying at least one clip to the material to secure the object in the material; and (d) pivoting the covering material chute and second product chute together to load a sleeve of material onto the covering material chute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Dennis J. May, Samuel D. Griggs, Matthew Lowder, William M. Poteat, Derek L. Brown
  • Publication number: 20090277138
    Abstract: A clothing packing apparatus for folding a clothing article, such as a suit, comprising a spacing material to separate parts of the folded clothing article comprises a parts that partial overlay a fold line in the aligned sleeves and the body of an article of clothing; a slit for folding the sleeves independently; gripping surfaces to engage the clothing article; rounded/tapered edges to eliminate pressure compressions; pre-formed bands to improve folding performance; and a casing for storage and transit. The spacing material is preferably formed of foam capable of forming a continuous U-shaped curve along the fold lines and an anti-collapsible structure when folded with the clothing article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Paul Smith, Wai Kwon Tang
  • Publication number: 20090277139
    Abstract: A method of automating a packaging system comprises receiving from a customer an order to be shipped to the customer, determining a volume of the order, selecting a box having a volume sufficient to contain the order and a desired quantity of cushioning product, determining a difference in the volumes of the box and the order, generating a signal based on the difference in the volumes, and causing, with the signal, a cushioning product producing and/or dispensing machine to produce and/or dispense the desired quantity of cushioning product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Storopack, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas George Eckel
  • Publication number: 20090277140
    Abstract: ABSTRACT There is provided a packaging apparatus including a mechanism for joining a film from a film roll and a film from another film roll to each other. The packaging apparatus is capable of preventing a joint of the films from suffering a thermal sealing failure thereby increasing production efficiency. Package apparatus (10) includes film supply mechanism (10A) for joining and supplying films (1A, 1B) and packaging mechanism (10C) for producing package bags from the film. Film accumulator (10B) for guiding and holding the film in a meandering fashion is disposed between film supply mechanism (10A) and packaging mechanism (10C). Some of accumulating rollers (21) of film accumulator (10B) are movable to a predetermined position depending on the size of package bags to be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: ORIHIRO ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Orihiro Tsuruta, Katsumi Nagai, Kazumi Nakazato
  • Publication number: 20090277141
    Abstract: First, a mixture of a polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder and a liquid lubricant into a sheet-form body extending in a first direction. Next, the liquid lubricant is removed from the sheet-form body. Then, the sheet-form body is stretched by a factor of 40 to 250 in the longitudinal direction at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of polytetrafluoroethylene, and the stretched sheet-form body is further stretched by a factor of 3 to 40 in the width direction. Thus, a highly air-permeable porous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuichi ABE, Masaaki MORI, Kousei TAKIISHI
  • Publication number: 20090277142
    Abstract: A damped guiding unit for a portable implement includes a connection element arranged at one end of a guide rod element, for connection of a tool element for the sawing, cutting and/or scything of undergrowth or of grass. A damping element is arranged on the connection element for the damping of oscillations or vibrations caused by the tool element. A holding element is arranged on the guide rod element for holding the portable implement. The holding element and the connection element are structural elements which are respectively separated from each other in that the holding element is associated with a first assembly and the connection element is associated with a further assembly separated from the first assembly. The holding element is further arranged at a distance from the connection element between the one end and the other end of the guide rod element, so that both a direct guiding of the portable implement and also an intensive vibration damping of the holding element is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: DOLMAR GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Wenckel
  • Publication number: 20090277143
    Abstract: A riding mower carries a grass collector at the rear of the mower frame. A mounting system for the grass collector comprises a mount that pivotally couples the lower portion of the grass collector to the mower frame. The pivotal mount comprises a pair of hooks each of which is inserted onto a pivot rod. In addition, the mounting system comprises a quick connect fastening system that includes a pair of spring biased retaining pins that can be latched in a retracted, non-operative position or unlatched so that the spring bias on the pins is able to move the pins into an extended, operative position. In the extended, operative position of the retaining pins, the pins fasten or secure the grass collector to the mower frame in a substantially upright, operative position of the grass collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Kermit A. Wolff
  • Publication number: 20090277144
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a center draper that delivers crop material to a feeder house of the harvesting machine and oppositely spaced side drapers that deliver crop material to the center draper. The harvesting header is operable to flex and thereby follow an uneven terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Honas, Christopher T. Sauerwein, Randy Lohrentz
  • Publication number: 20090277145
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a center draper that delivers crop material to a feeder house of the harvesting machine and oppositely spaced side drapers that deliver crop material to the center draper. The harvesting header is operable to flex and thereby follow an uneven terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christopher T. Sauerwein
  • Publication number: 20090277146
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a center draper that delivers crop material to a feeder house of the harvesting machine and oppositely spaced side drapers that deliver crop material to the center draper. The harvesting header is operable to flex and thereby follow an uneven terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher T. Sauerwein, Randy Lohrentz, Gagan Sethi, James R. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20090277147
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a center draper that delivers crop material to a feeder house of the harvesting machine and oppositely spaced side drapers that deliver crop material to the center draper. The harvesting header is operable to flex and thereby follow an uneven terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Honas, Christopher T. Sauerwein
  • Publication number: 20090277148
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame along the length thereof and configured to cut a crop, and a draper assembly positioned behind the cutterbar assembly and operable to receive severed crop material from the cutterbar assembly. The draper assembly includes a center draper that delivers crop material to a feeder house of the harvesting machine and oppositely spaced side drapers that deliver crop material to the center draper. The harvesting header is operable to flex and thereby follow an uneven terrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gagan Sethi
  • Publication number: 20090277149
    Abstract: A high-lift mower is disclosed. The mower includes a frame, at least two wheels disposed along opposite sides of the frame and having a space between them, and a blade rotation mechanism, mounted to the frame, for providing a rotational force relative to the frame. A blade assembly is coupled to the blade rotation means. The blade assembly comprises a plurality of cutting blades. Each of the plurality of blades includes a front face having a cutting blade and a rear face disposed away from the front face. The rear face has a lift portion. A roller assembly is adjustably coupled to the frame for, upon engagement with a surface located in the space between the pair of wheels, maintaining the blade assembly a predetermined distance above the surface. A blade assembly and a roller assembly for use with the high-lift mower are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: University of Delaware
    Inventor: James R. Adkins
  • Publication number: 20090277150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a haymaking machine hitched to a tractor, comprising a frame carrying a cutting mechanism having cutting tools and a carrying structure intended to support a protective device, said protective device including one central protector articulated on said carrying structure by means of one connecting rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: KUHN S.A.
    Inventor: Martin WALCH
  • Publication number: 20090277151
    Abstract: Line routing arrangement (10) having a mount (12) for holding at least one line which is designed to be flexible or articulated and can be folded such that a first section (24) can be placed over a second section (26), which is connected to it by a curved section (28), with at least one row (32) of magnets (34) which extends with its longitudinal direction running from a first mount end (14) to a second mount end (16) being arranged on a side (30) of the mount (12) which forms the lower face of the first section (24) and the upper face of the second section (26), such that, when the mount (12) is folded, magnet poles on the first section (24) are opposite magnet poles with the same name on the second section (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Helmut Jostmeier, Rainer Ruehle, Clemens Moess
  • Publication number: 20090277152
    Abstract: One embodiment of a heat engine machine enabling a user to convert heat sources into mechanical work or compressed air. The heat engine requires solar radiation and air. The thermodynamic cycle is quasi-isobaric, and comprise positive displacement compressors 16A & 16B, nozzle 30A, and turbine 18. Working fluid pressure lines 20, and storage fluid pressure lines 21 connect compressors 16A & 16B, air storage 21A, heat exchangers 20A & 21A, and nozzle 30A. The nozzle is De Laval shaped and has a valve that moves to throttle the rate of fluid expansion driving the turbine 18. The compressors 16A & 16B have directional control outlet valves, as well as intake control valves 31A and 31B. The heat sources include the following: recuperated waste heat 20A, regenerated heat of compression 21A, external heat absorber 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20090277153
    Abstract: A composite component such as a fan casing liner panel for a gas turbine engine comprises an abradable layer and a layer. The layer is provided with a septum layer, to which the abradable layer is bonded. The septum layer is perforated by holes, which enable air to be extracted from the region between the septum layer and the abradable layer during the process of bonding the components together, for example by a vacuum bonding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Cedric B. Harper, Neil Humphries
  • Publication number: 20090277154
    Abstract: A recuperator for use in transferring heat from gas turbine exhaust gases to compressed air inlet gases before combustion. The recuperator utilizes a plurality (e.g., thousands) of microtubes or microchannels to form a heat exchanger having high effectiveness and low pressure drop while maintaining a low weight. Accordingly, the recuperator presented herein may be incorporated into light aircraft and helicopters without significantly compromising the performance thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: RYAN S. WOOD
  • Publication number: 20090277155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nacelle, for an aircraft jet engine (10) having a high bypass ratio, in which a jet engine having a longitudinal axis (X) is mounted, the nacelle (12) including a wall (24) concentrically and at least partially surrounding the jet engine and defining with the latter an annular duct (26) for a fluid internal flow having, at the downstream end of the nacelle wall, a flow outlet passage section, characterised in that the nacelle includes displacement means (40) for controllably displacing a portion (24b) of the nacelle wall in order to modify the section of the flow outlet passage, wherein said displacement generates in the nacelle wall at least one longitudinally extending opening (28), the nacelle including a device (30) for forming a fluid barrier (fi) extending along a portion at least of the longitudinal extent of said at least one opening (28) in order to counteract the natural exhaust through said at least one opening of a portion of the so-called trailing flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Airbus France
    Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle, Thierry Surply
  • Publication number: 20090277156
    Abstract: A tank for a reducing agent which forms ammonia or which includes ammonia, has a planar first tank volume and at least one elongate second tank volume. A motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine, an exhaust system with an SCR catalytic converter and a reducing agent metering device and a body with a roof. A tank with a planar first tank volume for the reducing agent is provided on the roof. A method for operating an SCR system of a motor vehicle which has at least two tank volumes, a reducing agent metering device and an SCR catalytic converter, is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: EMITEC GESELLSCHAFT FUR EMISSIONSTECHNOLOGIE MBH
    Inventors: Jan Hodgson, Rolf Bruck
  • Publication number: 20090277157
    Abstract: A system for realizing improved fuel efficiency and reduced fuel emissions in an internal combustion engine. The system comprises a nano-jet filter includes a fuel channeling chamber having a set of aligned magnetic members such that the flow of fuel passes through a magnetic field created by the set of aligned magnetic members. The system further comprises a nano-jet saver, having a chamber equipped with additional sets of magnets in order to magnetize larger fuel molecules and traverse hyper magnet gradients. The purpose of using a hyper magnetic field is to change conventional fuel into “nano” fuel. Having fuel particles with a smaller diameter, both better fuel efficiency and reduced emissions are achieved as the fuel burns more completely and more cleanly. With any fossil-fuel internal-combustion engine, an operator can expect to see a reduction in emissions to the environment, fuel savings, and better performance while using an apparatus that consumes no external energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: HITOR GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Ken Martin, Lin Xiao
  • Publication number: 20090277158
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a method of operating an internal combustion engine system comprising an engine, an oxidation catalyst, and a particulate filter, the method comprising: determining if the outlet temperature of exhaust gas from the oxidation catalyst is below a first temperature, measuring the time that the outlet temperature of exhaust gas from the oxidation catalyst is below the first temperature, determining if the measured time has exceeded a first time period, and if so, elevating the temperature of the exhaust gas exiting the oxidation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Detroit Diesel Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew T. Baird, Amr M. Radwan, Kevin D. Sisken, Bryant C. Pham, Mark A. Zurawski, Heather A. Staley
  • Publication number: 20090277159
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment control system includes a controller configured to determine a value representative of a NO2 concentration associated with an exhaust gas upstream of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, and determine a value representative of a NO concentration associated with the exhaust gas upstream of the SCR catalyst. The controller can also be configured to transmit a signal to at least partially control an injection of a hydrocarbon into the exhaust gas, wherein the hydrocarbon injection can occur upstream of an oxidation catalyst to at least partially decrease the NO2 concentration of the exhaust gas downstream of the oxidation catalyst, and wherein the oxidation catalyst can be located upstream of the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: James Joshua Driscoll, Wade J. Robel, Praveen S. Chavannavar
  • Publication number: 20090277160
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including a three-way catalyst, a NOX storage-reduction catalyst, a rich controlling mechanism performing control to make an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas rich to reduce NOX stored in the NOX storage-reduction catalyst, and a control performing control to ensure that a NOX purifying component is present in the NOX storage-reduction catalyst when reducing the NOx.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Katoh, Kei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090277161
    Abstract: A device for supplying reducing agent solution into an exhaust system, includes a reservoir for reducing agent solution and a delivery device for delivering reducing agent solution from the reservoir to a reducing agent infeed configuration. A delivery height to be overcome between the reservoir and the reducing agent infeed configuration is less than 1.5 meters and the delivery device includes a diaphragm pump. The device permits the dosed metering of reducing agent solution into an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine regardless of prevailing boundary conditions, in particular regardless of the position of the device, which is for example influenced by a position of a corresponding automobile. In particular, it is thus also possible to ensure reliable metering of reducing agent solution into the exhaust system even when the automobile or motor vehicle is traveling over grades. A corresponding exhaust system, method and utility vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: EMITEC GESELLSCHAFT FUR EMISSIONSTECHNOLOGIE MBH
    Inventors: Jan Hodgson, Rolf Bruck
  • Publication number: 20090277162
    Abstract: An injection method and device for injecting a reducing liquid additive into an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine; the injection device in provided with: a tank containing the reducing liquid additive; a reversible pump connected to the tank; an injector which is connected to the pump by means of a feeding pipe and is adapted to inject the reducing additive into the exhaust pipe; and a vent valve which is arranged along the feeding pipe upstream of the injector to put the feeding pipe into communication with the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: MAGNETI MARELLI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Cominetti, Giovanni Osbat
  • Publication number: 20090277163
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device includes an exhaust pipe defining an exhaust passage, a first SOX adsorption portion having a first SOX adsorption material provided in the exhaust passage, a second SOX adsorption portion having a second SOX adsorption material provided in the exhaust passage, and a NOX catalyst provided downstream of the first SOX adsorption portion and the second SOX adsorption portion in the exhaust passage. The first SOX adsorption material is configured to adsorb SOX in the combustion gas at a temperature lower than a first set temperature. The second SOX adsorption material is configured to store SOX in the combustion gas at a temperature equal to or higher than a second set temperature, and the stored SOX can be kept at a temperature lower than the second set temperature. Therefore, the exhaust gas purification device can adsorb SOX in the exhaust gas with high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto Takeda, Akihiro Matsuyama, Noriyuki Kobayashi, Yugo Osaka
  • Publication number: 20090277164
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment system is provided. The system may include a particulate trap configured to remove one or more types of particulate matter from an exhaust flow, the exhaust flow including at least a portion of a totality of exhaust gases produced by an engine. The system may further include a burner assembly configured to increase a temperature of gases in the exhaust flow at a location upstream from the particulate trap. The burner assembly may include an exhaust inlet oriented in a direction along a first axis and configured to direct the exhaust flow into the burner assembly and an exhaust outlet oriented in a direction along a second axis at an angle relative to the first axis, the exhaust outlet being configured to direct the exhaust flow out of the burner assembly toward the particulate trap. The burner assembly may also include a fuel injector having a longitudinal axis in substantial alignment with the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Leonel Arellano, Vu Phi, Anthony Fahme, Alan Kubasco, Kenneth Smith
  • Publication number: 20090277165
    Abstract: A device for cooling a gas flow of an internal combustion engine comprises a housing, an inlet and an outlet for a gas of the internal combustion engine which is to be cooled, an inlet and an outlet for a liquid coolant, an exchanger means for heat transfer between the gas and the coolant, a first wall section of the housing, wherein the first wall section is arranged between the coolant and the gas flow, and a second wall section of the housing, wherein the second wall section is arranged between the coolant and the atmosphere, wherein the first wall section and the second wall section are integrally formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Geskes, Bernd Gruenenwald, Wolfgang Knoedler
  • Publication number: 20090277166
    Abstract: Exhaust gas check valve with a movable valve element held by a plurality of return springs, an exhaust gas through-opening closable by the valve element, and a stop element delimiting the stroke of the valve element; in order to improve the service life of the check valve, damping means are provided in the check valve for bringing about a comparatively gentle breaking of the valve element when at the end of its stroke it approaches that position in which the check valve is fully open, the damping means comprising spring elements holding the stop element, and/or a gas space which, when the check valve is open, is defined and at least almost closed by the valve element and the stop element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Timo Walz
  • Publication number: 20090277167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regulating the maximum speed of a working machine (12), in particular an air compressor in a vehicle. Said working machine is driven by means of a motor (10), using a hydrodynamic coupling (11), which comprises a working chamber (3) that is partially or fully filled with a working medium for transmitting a torque from a drive side (11.1) equipped with an impeller (1) to a driven side (11.2) equipped with a turbine wheel (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: VOITH TURBO GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Kley, Kurt Adleff, Reinhold Pittius
  • Publication number: 20090277168
    Abstract: A hybrid system for a machine is disclosed. The system has a pump configured to generate fluid flow within a hydraulic system and a first actuator actuated by fluid pressurized by the pump. The system also has a first motor configured to be selectively actuated by pressurized fluid directed from the first actuator by an external load and directed to the first motor by a first control valve. The system further has a first generator configured to be actuated by the first motor and a power source configured to actuate the pump. The system also has a powertrain including a first driveshaft and at least one traction device, the powertrain configured to transfer kinetic energy from the traction device to the first driveshaft during deceleration of the machine. The system further has a second generator configured to be selectively actuated by the kinetic energy transferred by the powertrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Jeffrey Edward Jensen
  • Publication number: 20090277169
    Abstract: An overheating protection system adapted for use with a shape memory alloy actuator element, includes at least one switching shape memory alloy element presenting a slower activation period than that of the actuator element, and configured to selectively prevent activation of the actuator element, when the actuator element is actually or predicted to be experiencing overheating; and a circuit comprising the system, wherein the switching element and/or a circuit implement functions to modify activation of the actuator element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick B. Usoro, Xiujie Gao, Richard J. Skurkis, Paul W. Alexander, Alan L. Browne, Guillermo A. Herrera, Geoffrey P. Mc Knight, Nancy L. Johnson, Nicholas William Pinto, Kenneth A. Strom
  • Publication number: 20090277170
    Abstract: An actuator includes a thermally activated active material member, and an external element configured to selectively engage the member and presenting a predetermined rate of thermal conductivity configured to transfer heat energy to and/or from the member, so as to reduce the actuation period or rate of cooling after actuation, when engaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiujie Gao, Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson, Nilesh D. Mankame, Guillermo A. Herrera, Geoffrey P. McKnight, Patrick B. Usoro, Nicholas William Pinto, Richard J. Skurkis, Paul W. Alexander
  • Publication number: 20090277171
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger turbine for an internal combustion engine having a housing including a turbine wheel rotatably supported in the housing, wherein the housing has an exhaust gas flow guide section including an exhaust gas flow control arrangement with a guide vane structure for directing exhaust gas onto the turbine rotor, an adjustment mechanism with an axially movable control slide is provided which is movable by an operating fork which is slidably supported on a guide element and engages the control slide at opposite sides so as to prevent cogging of the movable control slide during movement into, and out of, the exhaust gas flow guide section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Fledersbacher, Torsten Hirth
  • Publication number: 20090277172
    Abstract: A turbo assembly may include a coupling member, a heat shield, and a turbo mechanism. The coupling member may include first and second ends and an annular body extending between the first and second ends. The first end may fix the coupling member to an exhaust manifold of an engine and the annular body may define an exhaust gas channel that receives exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold. The annular body may include a coolant passage that receives a coolant fluid. The heat shield may extend axially within the exhaust gas channel and radially between the annular body and an exhaust gas flow within the exhaust gas channel to limit an amount of heat transferred from the exhaust gas to the annular body. The turbo mechanism may include a housing fixed to the second end of the coupling member and in communication with the exhaust gas channel to receive the exhaust gas therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric A. Nordling
  • Publication number: 20090277173
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system for use with an engine. The waste heat recovery system receives heat input from both an exhaust gas recovery system and exhaust gas streams. The system includes a first loop and a second loop. The first loop is configured to receive heat from both the exhaust gas recovery system and the exhaust system as necessary. The second loop receives heat from the first loop and the exhaust gas recovery system. The second loop converts the heat energy into electrical energy through the use of a turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Timothy C. Ernst, Christopher R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20090277174
    Abstract: A generator is disclosed. The generator comprising at least one layer, the at least one layer defining a cavity and at least one aperture, at least a portion of the at least one layer including a reflective medium, or coatings, the cavity configured to hold a fluid, a fluid inlet coupled to the at least one layer, the fluid inlet in fluid communication with the cavity, and a fluid outlet coupled to the at least one layer, the fluid outlet in fluid communication with the cavity, the fluid configured to absorb radiation, the fluid outlet configured to release the fluid to perform work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: James Nolan Hannah
  • Publication number: 20090277175
    Abstract: A novel, more sophisticated steam turbine design is proposed with reaction stages that have full admission, compounded by counter rotating axial blades, with impulse ignition utilizing sodium injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Gary Nin Austin
  • Publication number: 20090277176
    Abstract: An air blast fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes an elongate feed arm having an inlet fitting for receiving fuel and for distributing the fuel to first and second fuel delivery conduits extending through the feed arm. A nozzle body is operatively connected to the feed arm. The nozzle body includes an on-axis inner air circuit and fuel circuitry radially outboard of the inner air circuit for delivering fuel to a fuel swirler outboard of the inner air circuit. The fuel circuitry includes a first fuel circuit configured and adapted to deliver fuel to the fuel swirler from the first fuel conduit of the feed arm and a second fuel circuit configured and adapted to deliver fuel to the fuel swirler from the second fuel conduit of the feed arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Delavan Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Caples
  • Publication number: 20090277177
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a fuel nozzle assembly includes providing a nozzle portion including a fuel passageway defined about a center axis of the fuel nozzle assembly. A longitudinal axis of a first peg is oriented to intersect the fuel nozzle assembly center axis such that a first plane is defined. The first peg defines a first opening having a centerline intersecting the first peg longitudinal axis and obliquely oriented with respect to the first plane. The first peg is coupled in flow communication with the fuel passageway such that the first peg extends radially outward from the nozzle portion and such that the first opening is configured to direct a flow of fuel in an oblique direction with respect to the fuel nozzle assembly center axis to facilitate fuel mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: William Kirk Hessler
  • Publication number: 20090277178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a burner for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine plant, with an injection device for introducing gaseous fuel into the burner. The injection device has a body which is arranged in the burner and which has at least one nozzle for introducing gaseous fuel into the burner. The body is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile and which extends with a longitudinal direction transversely with respect to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. The at least one nozzle has its outlet orifice at an trailing edge of the streamlined body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Richard CARRONI, Madhavan Narasimhan POYYAPAKKAM, Michal BIALKOWSKI, Mark Andrew WILLETTS