Cooling Patents (Class 123/41.01)
  • Patent number: 11873752
    Abstract: An expansion tank system for a liquid cooling system includes a first chamber for receiving a coolant, a second chamber for pressurized gas, a first gas conveying device for conveying gas from the first to the second chamber, a second gas conveying device for conveying gas from the second to the first chamber, a first pressure sensor in fluid communication with the first chamber, and a control unit connected to the first gas conveying device, the second gas conveying device and the first pressure sensor for controlling the second conveying device to selectively convey gas from the second to the first chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is below a predefined first threshold value, and for controlling the first conveying device to convey gas from the first to the second chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is above a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ekkehard Lohse
  • Patent number: 11713663
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat radiator and a turbo fracturing unit comprising the same. The heat radiator includes: a cabin; a heat radiation core disposed at the inlet and configured to allow a gas to pass therethrough; a gas guide device disposed at the outlet and configured to suction the air within the cabin to the outlet; and noise reduction core disposed within the cabin, which is of a structure progressively converging to the outlet. The heat radiator is configured to enable the gas to enter the cabin via the inlet, then sequentially pass through the heat radiation core, a surface of the noise reduction core and the gas guide device, and finally be discharged out of the cabin. The heat radiator according to the present disclosure is a suction-type heat radiator which can regulate the speed of the gas guide device based on the temperature of the gas at the inlet, thereby avoiding energy waste and unnecessary noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weipeng Yuan, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiao Yu, Xin Qi, Tingrong Ma, Wenwen Liu, Zhaoyang Xu, Chao Lin
  • Patent number: 11576284
    Abstract: A coolant supplying module for supplying a coolant stored in a shared reservoir tank to an electrical component cooling circuit and a battery cooling circuit includes a main body connected to the shared reservoir tank, at least one water pump mounting portion formed at the main body to mount at least one water pump included in the electrical component cooling circuit and the battery cooling circuit, and a valve mounting portion formed at the main body to mount a coolant valve included in the battery cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yeon Ho Kim, Wan Je Cho, Jeawan Kim, Jae Yeon Kim, Su Whan Kim
  • Patent number: 11560826
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, an engine provided on the machine body, a radiator to cool a coolant supplied to the engine, a first fan provided on one directional surface side of the radiator, the first fan being rotatable in either one of a first direction to suck external air to an interior of the machine body and a second direction to generate an air flow for discharging air from the interior of the machine body to an exterior of the machine body, and a second fan provided on the other directional surface side of the radiator and configured to be rotated in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Hamamoto, Taketo Kimura, Satoshi Takaki
  • Patent number: 11549459
    Abstract: A cylinder liner is provided that includes a cylinder bore capable of housing a piston, a top end having an annular flange, a first cylindrical section, a second cylindrical section, and an annular ridge that separates the first cylindrical section and the second cylindrical section. When employed in an a liner bore of an engine bock, the cylinder liner provides for two channels that allow for coolant to be supplied to the cylinder liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Yao Chen, Aaron Gary Heintz, Jason Lee Van Farowe, Thomas L. Atwell, David L. Lueders, John W. Milem, Suresh Babu Chennagowni, Khairul Hassan
  • Patent number: 11519320
    Abstract: An expansion tank arrangement is for a cooling circuit. The expansion tank arrangement has: an expansion tank having a housing with an internal volume configured to receive a cooling fluid; a fluid connection configured to connect the expansion tank to the cooling circuit for supplying the cooling fluid; and a pneumatic connection configured to connect the expansion tank to a pneumatic supply device for pressurizing the expansion tank with a pneumatic medium using a pneumatic supply line. A valve that is configured to influence the pressurization of the expansion tank is in the pneumatic supply line between the expansion tank and the pneumatic supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Rapp, Daniel Eichacker, Fabian Zeyher
  • Patent number: 11454158
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a first cooling water passage to cool a first cooling target including the engine and through which first cooling water including water from outside an outboard motor body passes, a first pump to pump the first cooling water from outside the outboard motor body to the first cooling water passage, a second cooling water passage to cool a second cooling target different from the first cooling target and through which second cooling water different from the first cooling water passes, and a second pump to pump the second cooling water to the second cooling water passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kimitaka Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 11448169
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle EGR cooler for cooling down recirculation exhaust gas of a vehicle engine and, more particularly, to a vehicle EGR cooler, which is inserted into an engine block, and facilitates diameter adjustment and design change of a coolant outlet since a coolant outlet side is provided on an outer side of the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Sang Jun Lee, Tae Soo Chun, Taek-Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 11358661
    Abstract: A tapered short tunnel for use on a tracked vehicle, such as a snowmobile. The tapered short tunnel has a tapered distal end having a width less than a width of an endless track used on the snowmobile. This tapered portion reduces the snowmobile from catching or grabbing snow in a snow trench, thereby enabling the snowmobile to traverse deeper snow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse J. Laugen, Cody S. Kofstad, Lyle J. Dahlgren, Luc C. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11326505
    Abstract: A system for controlling a fan of a vehicle engine. The system comprises: i) a fan configured to selectively cool the vehicle engine; and ii) an engine control module configured to: a) turn on the fan when the engine temperature exceeds a selected temperature threshold; b) determine when the vehicle engine is operating in an engine braking mode; and c) in response to the engine operating in the engine braking mode, turn on the fan when the engine temperature is below the selected temperature threshold. The engine control module turns the fan off as a means of hardware protection of the fan clutch even during engine braking modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan, Mark R. Claywell, Paul M. Riherd, II, Bryston Hollis
  • Patent number: 11041424
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine and a gaseous fuel storage tank are presented. In one example, the gaseous fuel storage tank is cooled so that an amount of gaseous fuel that may be stored in the gaseous fuel tank may be increased to extend a vehicle's driving range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Jiang, Dominique Meroux
  • Patent number: 11022023
    Abstract: A flow control valve is provided to adjust the flow rate of coolant and a variable-separation-cooling process at the same time by adjusting the opening degree of the flow control valve. The ports are controlled simultaneously in a variable manner merely by the operation of the flow control valve and thus, a variable temperature control process for increasing the temperature of the entire engine, rapid engine warm-up, and a separated cooling process at the same time is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jea Woong Yi, Cheol Soo Park
  • Patent number: 11022025
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an engine and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes an integrated thermal management (ITM) that adjusts opening of a plurality of valves as a cam rotates and a storage that stores a table for differential pressure between a front end and a rear end of each of the plurality of valves, based on an engine revolution per minute (RPM) and an ITM angle. A controller determines a state of the ITM and adjusts opening degrees of the plurality of valves depending on the differential pressure of the valve, based on the differential pressure table based on the state of the ITM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Su Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10961898
    Abstract: A cooling device includes an inner passage, an outer passage, an engine-driven pump, an electromagnetic control valve, and a driving circuit that regulates current flowing through the electromagnetic control valve by activating and deactivating a switching element. A cooling controller for the cooling device includes a processing circuit configured to execute an operation process for operating, when the engine-driven pump is driven, the switching element by setting a duty cycle of an activation time to a switching cycle, which is a reciprocal of a switching frequency of the switching element, to be a larger value when a temperature of the internal combustion engine is low than when the temperature is high and a cycle varying process for setting a longer switching cycle when the temperature of the internal combustion engine is less than a preset temperature than when the temperature is greater than or equal to the preset temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Rihito Kaneko, Noboru Takagi, Naoto Hisaminato, Mitsuru Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Ando, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Takahiko Aoyagi, Hirotaka Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10927972
    Abstract: In a flow rate control valve CV provided with seal members S1 to S3 arranged radially between a housing 1 and a valve body 3 rotatably supported in the housing 1, seal members which hermetically seals the space radially between the housing 1 and valve body 3 by sliding against the outer peripheral surface of valve body 3, concave level difference parts N1 and N2 recessed lower than seal-sliding contact surfaces which are the outer peripheral surfaces of the seal-sliding parts D1 to D3 are provided, and parting lines P1 and P2 are provided within the level difference parts N1 and N2, and thereby it is possible to suppress damage to seal surfaces S1a to S3a of the seal members S1 to S3 caused by sliding against the parting lines P1 and P2 when the seal surfaces S1a to S3a pass through the parting lines P1 and P2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Murakami
  • Patent number: 10830498
    Abstract: An air conditioner having a cooling capacity of about 11 kW to about 16 kW, a mixed refrigerant in which R32 is contained at a content of about 50% or more is used as the refrigerant, and the refrigerant pipe is made of a ductile stainless steel material having a delta ferrite matrix structure of about 1% or less on the basis of a grain area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Seokpyo Hong
  • Patent number: 10787935
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for a WHR-system in a vehicle, includes a first cooling circuit including a first radiator in which a circulating coolant is cooled, and a second cooling circuit including a second radiator in which a coolant is cooled to a lower temperature than the coolant in the first radiator. A condenser inlet line directs coolant from one of the cooling circuits to a condenser to provide cooling for a working medium flowing therethrough. A cooling adjusting device adjusts the temperature of the coolant in the inlet line to the condenser by the coolant in the other cooling circuit based on information received about the coolant such that the coolant in the condenser inlet line provides the estimated suitable cooling of the working medium in the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SCANIA CV AB
    Inventors: Zoltan Kardos, Ola Hall
  • Patent number: 10711731
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for manufacturing a water cooling system (20) inside a casted cylinder head (10), the water cooling system (20) comprising an upper water jacket (21) and a lower water jacket (22) and wherein a transition channel (23) is located between the upper water jacket (21) and the lower water jacket (22). Further, the invention is related to a water cooling system (20) inside a casted cylinder head (10), comprising an upper water jacket (21) and a lower water jacket (22) wherein the upper water jacket (21) and the lower water jacket (22) are fluidly connected by at least one transition channel (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: FEV Europe GmbH, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: John Van Gerven, Lukas Rüttgers
  • Patent number: 10697704
    Abstract: The invention discloses a water reservoir of a liquid-cooled system. The water reservoir is integretedly interconnected to the power system. The water reservoir is partitioned into a water inflow tank and a water outflow tank in a top-bottom or left-right manner. The water inflow tank and the water outflow tank are both provided with at least two water inlets and water outlets. Also, the present invention discloses a liquid-cooled system made by using the above-mentioned water reservoir, which includes a heat dissipation device and a heat absorption device connected to the water reservoir. The heat dissipation device is integratedly connected to the water reservoir. The heat absorption device is connected to the water reservoir through pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: APALTEK CO., LTD
    Inventor: Qineng Xiao
  • Patent number: 10669924
    Abstract: A coolant pressure regulator system includes a coolant circuit, and a pressurized fluid circuit selectively fluidically connected to the coolant circuit. The pressurized fluid circuit includes a pump operably to selectively raising a pressure of coolant in the coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniele Di Martino, Giuseppe D'Aurizio
  • Patent number: 10526963
    Abstract: An axial turbine engine for an aircraft, in particular a ducted fan turbine engine. The engine comprises an oil circuit with a cooler fitted with a first heat exchange surface in contact with oil of the oil circuit, and a second heat exchange surface in contact with a secondary air flow entering the turbine engine. The cooler is of the air/oil type (ACOC) and comprises fins. To increase the capacity of the cooler, the cooler is fitted with a device for injecting a cooling liquid, e.g., water with additives. The thermal capacity of the water amplifies the cooling. Evacuation of the water increases the thrust of the turbine engine. A method is also provided for cooling the turbine engine of an aircraft by injection of a cooling liquid at the time of take-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters SA
    Inventor: Vincent Duprez
  • Patent number: 10513965
    Abstract: An engine assembly (10) for a propeller-driven aircraft is disclosed, the assembly including an engine (11), a drive shaft (13) driven by the engine (11), and a radiator (20) comprising an aperture (24) for receiving the drive shaft (13), the aperture (24) being located such that the radiator (20) substantially circumferentially surrounds the drive shaft (13). The aperture (24) may take various forms, such as a hole within the interior of the radiator (20) or a blind slit formed within the radiator (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: UAV Engines Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher John Biddulph
  • Patent number: 10443481
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for vehicle includes a cooling system, a coolant pump, and a diagnostic controller. The cooling system includes a cooling circuit in which a coolant circulates. The coolant pump causes the coolant to circulate in the cooling circuit. The diagnostic controller diagnoses an abnormality of the cooling system on a basis of a coolant temperature. The diagnostic controller performs a first mode process that increases the coolant temperature by stopping the coolant pump, and a second mode process that causes the coolant temperature to fluctuate periodically by driving the coolant pump. Upon the second mode process, the diagnostic controller diagnoses that the cooling system is normal on a condition that a cycle of the fluctuation of the coolant temperature is shorter than a reference time, and diagnoses that the cooling system is abnormal on a condition that the cycle of the fluctuation is longer than the reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Yoshida, Takuya Takashima, Yo Masuda
  • Patent number: 10253677
    Abstract: An engine assembly (10) for a propeller-driven aircraft is disclosed, the assembly including an engine (11), a drive shaft (13) driven by the engine (11), and a radiator (20) comprising an aperture (24) for receiving the drive shaft (13), the aperture (24) being located such that the radiator (20) substantially circumferentially surrounds the drive shaft (13). The aperture (24) may take various forms, such as a hole within the interior of the radiator (20) or a blind slit formed within the radiator (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: UAV Engines Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher John Biddulph
  • Patent number: 10247083
    Abstract: A straddle vehicle is capable of discharging high-temperature outdoor air having passed through a radiator with high efficiency. A motorcycle 1 includes a radiator, a fan, and a fan shroud. The radiator lowers the temperature of a coolant by heat exchange between outdoor air and the coolant. The fan suctions outdoor air, to make the outdoor air hit the radiator arranged upstream in an outdoor air flow direction. The fan shroud covers at least part of the fan, and discharges high-temperature outdoor air, which is outdoor air suctioned by the fan and having passed through the radiator, to outside. The fan shroud has a discharge opening and an air guide. The discharge opening allows the high-temperature outdoor air to be discharged outside. The air guide guides the high-temperature outdoor air such that it is discharged through the discharge opening in a direction including a laterally outward component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Morotomi, Hideaki Kawai, Tetsuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10180101
    Abstract: A fail-safe control method for a vehicle cooling system, in which an engine and a vehicle can be properly operated even when a water temperature sensor malfunctions. When only one of two water temperature sensors malfunctions, control may be performed so that an engine and a vehicle can properly operate. When both the two water temperature sensors malfunction, the fail-safe function of the flow rate control valve can be enabled to entirely prevent cooling water from being overheated, thereby improving the reliability of the operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTO COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheol Soo Park, Dong Suk Chae, Jun Sik Park, Seong Kyu Park, Jea Woong Yi
  • Patent number: 10087815
    Abstract: A system includes a temperature estimation module and a pump control module. The temperature estimation module estimates a temperature of coolant flowing through an engine. The temperature estimation module estimates a temperature of a cylinder wall in the engine based on the estimated coolant temperature and a measured coolant temperature. The pump control module controls a coolant pump to adjust an actual rate of coolant flow through the engine based on the estimated cylinder wall temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sanjeev M. Naik, Yue-Ming Chen, Irina N. Dmitrieva
  • Patent number: 9950612
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting grille shutters based on engine coolant temperature and a difference in aerodynamic drag between the grille shutter positions. In one example, the grille shutters may be adjusted into a position closer to a first smaller opening when a difference in aerodynamic drag between the first and second positions is large. In other examples, the grille shutters may be adjusted into a position closer to the second larger opening when a difference in aerodynamic drag between the first and second positions is small thus maintaining the engine at lower temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth James Miller, Douglas Raymond Martin, William Paul Perkins, Daniel Mark Schaffer, John Curtis Hickey
  • Patent number: 9920718
    Abstract: An air flow control system of a vehicle may include an engine mixing air and fuel and generating a rotation force by combusting the mixture of the air and the fuel in a combustion chamber, main ducts provided in a front side of the vehicle to transmit air to the combustion chamber of the engine, heat dissipation members provided adjacent to the main ducts to cool a fluid flowing inside thereof through heat exchange with external air, assistant ducts branched from the main ducts to transmit air flowing in the main ducts to the heat dissipation members, and control valves provided in the assistant ducts to control air supplied to the heat dissipation members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jongwoo Nam, Hanshin Chung, Joonho Lee, Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 9903260
    Abstract: The pore clogging determination apparatus tentatively determines clogging of a pore (micropore) based on the rate of increase in a coolant temperature at an engine outlet. When the presence of pore clogging has been tentatively determined, the apparatus increases a rotation speed of a coolant pump to determine whether or not the coolant pump is idling. When it has been determined that the coolant pump is idling, the apparatus finalizes the determination of the clogging of the pore (micropore). This suppresses an erroneous determination of clogging of the pore that allows the coolant to flow in an engine cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yohei Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9850863
    Abstract: An air intake duct of a motorcycle extends rearwardly from a front portion of a motorcycle body so as to pass laterally of the left side of a motorcycle frame structure, and incoming wind is supplied as an intake air through the air intake duct to a combustion engine. The air intake duct is divided in a widthwise direction of the motorcycle. An upper dividing face of the air intake duct is disposed inward of an intermediate position, in a motorcycle widthwise direction, of the air intake duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Naruoka, Hisatoyo Arima, Satoaki Ichi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kozo Arai, Yoshinobu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9771854
    Abstract: There is provided an engine water-cooling device that can increase warming-up efficiency of an engine. The engine water-cooling device includes a thermostat housing that houses a thermostat. The thermostat housing is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder head in one side portion in a width direction of the cylinder head. A cooling water pump is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder block in a central portion in a width direction of the cylinder block. A bypass passage includes an intra-head bypass passage in the cylinder head, and the intra-head bypass passage includes a width-direction passage portion extending from a position behind the thermostat housing to a position behind and above the cooling water pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Sakurai, Hideyuki Koyama, Hideyuki Goto, Kentaro Nagai, Tadashi Nakano
  • Patent number: 9770973
    Abstract: An engine compartment assembly and a vehicle include an engine compartment. The engine compartment assembly and the vehicle also include an inlet configured to allow a flow of air into the engine compartment and an outlet configured to allow at least some of the flow of air out of the engine compartment. The engine compartment assembly and the vehicle further include a wall disposed closer to the outlet than the inlet. Generally, the wall extends in a manner to create an air dam which enhances the flow of air through at least part of the engine compartment. In certain embodiments, the wall extends outwardly from the belly pan away from the engine compartment to create a pressure reduction at the outlet which in turn enhances the flow of air through at least part of the engine compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju
  • Patent number: 9719406
    Abstract: A coolant control system of a vehicle includes a coolant valve control module and a pump control module. The coolant valve control module determines a position of a coolant valve. The pump control module determines a speed of a coolant pump based on the position of the coolant valve and a desired coolant output temperature, measures a coolant output temperature, determines a difference between the desired coolant output temperature and the measured coolant output temperature, generates a correction factor based on the difference between the desired coolant output temperature and the measured coolant output temperature, and applies the correction factor to the speed of the coolant pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Eugene V. Gonze, Yue-Ming Chen, Vijay Ramappan
  • Patent number: 9701192
    Abstract: In a fuel cell vehicle, a stack case containing a fuel cell stack is mounted in a front box. Exhaust ducts are connected to openings formed in an upper panel of the stack case. A right exhaust duct connected to the exhaust ducts is opened to a right fender part, and a left exhaust duct connected to the exhaust ducts is opened to a left fender part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakagawa, Manabu Tanaka, Mitsunori Matsumoto, Shuichiro Iwatsuki, Momoka Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 9587553
    Abstract: The invention relates to a volume-controlled four-stroke reciprocating internal combustion engine comprising a first cylinder, in which a first piston that is operationally connected to a crankshaft via a first connecting rod, is arranged so as to be displaceable in a reciprocating motion, and at least one second cylinder, in which a second piston that is operationally connected to the crankshaft via a second connecting rod is arranged so as to be displaceable in a reciprocating motion. The engine further includes a fresh air tract for the second cylinder, in which an expansion/compression machine is arranged in the direction of flow of fresh air before a gas exchange inlet valve of the second cylinder, wherein the expansion/compression machine is the first cylinder. The volume-controlled internal combustion engine as per the invention has great potential for saving fuel and thereby for reducing CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hubert Fischer
  • Patent number: 9481237
    Abstract: A system for controlling an air flow in a vehicle may include a front air introduction apparatus mounted in front of an engine, a condenser provided to the front air introduction apparatus, an intercooler provided behind the condenser, a radiator provided between the intercooler and the engine, an active air flap for controlling air flow being introduced to the front air introduction apparatus, a side air introduction apparatus mounted to a side of an engine compartment for forwarding air to the engine, a connection line connected between the side air introduction apparatus and the front air introduction apparatus, a control valve for controlling air flow through the connection line, a plurality of sensors for measuring an operation state of the vehicle, and a control unit for determining an operation state of the vehicle based on a plurality of sensor signals, and controlling operation of the control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jongwoo Nam, Hyun Cho, Joonho Lee, Hanshin Chung
  • Patent number: 9434245
    Abstract: A wheel loader includes: a driver's cab; an engine; a chassis, at sides of which tires are provided; an engine room in which the engine is mounted on the chassis, the engine room being provided behind the driver's cab; front portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being located at the driver's cab side; rear portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being opposite to the surface located at the driver's cab side; and a coupling structure that couples upper portions of the front portion structures to upper portions of the rear portion structures and forms a peripheral device installation space at an upper portion of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM, HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Mori, Takatomo Ohno, Toru Sonobe, Hiroyuki Ishida, Keisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9435248
    Abstract: An engine having a coolant control valve may include a sealing ring including a sealing ring inlet and sealing ring outlets, a valve housing to rotatably house the sealing ring therein, wherein discharge outlets are formed corresponding to the sealing ring outlets, a drive portion coupled to the sealing ring to selectively rotate the sealing ring, and a blocking wall that is disposed to the one end portion of the sealing ring to block a part of the one end portion of the sealing ring to form the sealing ring inlet, wherein the blocking wall is selectively rotated about a central axis thereof in accordance with a rotation of the sealing ring, wherein the blocking wall selectively blocks a first coolant line of a cylinder head or a second coolant line of a cylinder block depending on a rotation position of the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yoonghwa Park, Jongho Lee
  • Patent number: 9297292
    Abstract: An engine cooling device including a water pump, a radiator, an exhaust heat recovery unit, and a coolant circulation circuit for circulating a coolant in these apparatuses includes a flow rate limiting means that limits the flow rate of the coolant that circulates in the exhaust heat recovery unit in the case where a temperature of a sensor element of an A/F sensor, that is disposed downstream of the exhaust heat recovery unit in an exhaust path, is below a preset activation temperature. An extent of opening of a second switching valve is made smaller in the case where the temperature of the sensor element is below the activation temperature than in the case where the temperature is equal to or higher than the activation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9188079
    Abstract: A cylinder head and internal combustion engine outfitted therewith, in which the cylinder head has a plurality of media passages, at least one of which is for conducting a corrosive medium. Each media passage has a media contact surface for conducting a medium. The cylinder head has a longer service life due to the media contact surface of the at least one media passage for conducting the corrosive medium being formed of a corrosion-resistant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventors: Ingo Henne, Frank Schiefer
  • Patent number: 9145821
    Abstract: An engine having a multi flow rate control valve may include a valve, a valve housing and a driving unit. The valve may have a hollow pipe structure and coolant holes through which a coolant supplied to a space at a center portion of the valve is to be distributed and cooled outside of the valve. The valve housing may be coupled with the valve such that an inner side of the valve housing is capable of being in close contact with an outer side of the valve, and have coolant outlets formed at positions corresponding to the coolant holes. The driving unit may rotate the valve to selectively connect the respective coolant holes to the corresponding coolant outlets or close the coolant holes by bringing them in close contact with the inner side of the valve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philgi Lee, Jae Hoon Oh, Jae Suk Park
  • Publication number: 20150144079
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a venting tank, suitable for being fitted in a cooling system of a motor vehicle and defining an inner space intended for receiving a coolant, the venting tank including at least one inlet and at least one outlet for the coolant which are arranged below a minimum liquid level when the vehicle is in service, wherein the venting tank also includes, opposite the inlet or at least some of the inlets, a member for guiding the coolant, penetrating into the inner space via the inlet, following a flow directed toward a lower wall of the venting tank opposite the flow arriving through the inlet, and forming a 180-degree arc. The invention also relates to a motor-vehicle cooling system provided with such a venting tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Serge Iafrate
  • Patent number: 9032914
    Abstract: An intake system for an engine includes an intake manifold having a surge tank room and branch passages, and a water-cooling type cooler having a first cooling unit and second cooling units. The surge tank room is disposed on a downstream side of a supercharger in a flow direction of intake air. Supercharged intake air flowing into the surge tank room is distributed among intake ports respectively through the branch passages. The first cooling unit is inserted in the surge tank room, and cools supercharged intake air which has flowed into the intake manifold through heat exchange between supercharged intake air and coolant flowing in the first cooling unit. The second cooling units are inserted respectively in the intake ports, and cool internal EGR gas, which has been recirculated into their corresponding intake ports, through heat exchange between internal EGR gas and coolant flowing in the second cooling units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Sugiura, Masao Ino, Sadayuki Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9032915
    Abstract: Various systems are provided for liquid-cooling of an internal combustion engine. In one example, an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head, a cylinder block coupled to the cylinder head, a first return line fluidically coupled to the cylinder head and to a coolant valve and including a heat exchanger configured to remove heat from coolant, a second return line fluidically coupled to the cylinder block and to the coolant valve, a bypass line branching off from the first return line and fluidically coupled to the coolant valve, and an originating supply line fluidically coupled to the cylinder head, the cylinder block, and the coolant valve, the originating supply line including a pump configured to supply coolant. The coolant valve is configured to control coolant flow through the coolant lines via rotational selection of one of a plurality of working positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Tobergte, Bert Pingen, Bernd Schumacher, Jan Mehring
  • Patent number: 9033080
    Abstract: A debris passage for a cooling box of a work vehicle. Airflow is provided into the cooling box from the exterior environment. A plurality of heat exchangers transfer heat into the airflow. The debris passage is defined between opposing heat exchangers to permit debris to pass from the airflow to the exterior of the cooling box. In one embodiment, the debris passage is underneath an air mover and is substantially vertical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: ACO Corporation
    Inventors: Rex Schertz, Stanley R. Clark, Mark D. Walton
  • Publication number: 20150128885
    Abstract: A flow restrictor 50 for use in a cooling system of an internal engine comprises a housing 29 enclosing an elongate body, a number of alternating first and second circumferentially extending passages formed in the elongate body. Each first passage is separated from a respective adjacent second passage by a respective land and at least one transfer passage extending across each land so as to connect the first and second passages on each side of the land and provide a significant loss in fluid momentum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Bill R. Hutchins
  • Publication number: 20150114323
    Abstract: A cooling system for thermal management of an electric vehicle having a range extender. The temperature of the components of the electric drive system of the electric vehicle and at least that of the internal combustion engine of an internal combustion engine/generator unit of the range extender are controlled by separate cooling circuits. The cooling circuit of the electric drive and the cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine are coupled to one another thermally by a heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Vitali Paetkau, Milos Medvecky
  • Patent number: 9004020
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for expediting warm up of an internal combustion engine cylinder block and engine oil utilizing an existing oil coolant circuit. A method for warming up an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder, a cylinder block which is formed by an upper crankcase half mounted to a lower crankcase half, said lower crankcase half containing an oil sump which is fed, via a supply line, by a coolant jacket, an inlet side of said coolant jacket supplied in turn with oil via the oil sump by an oil pump, the method comprising: releasing oil from the coolant jacket via gravity to reduce a cooling capacity of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jan Mehring, Moritz Klaus Springer, Bernd Steiner, Thomas Lorenz
  • Patent number: 8991339
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multiple zone vehicle radiator, including: a housing; a first zone included in the housing; a second zone included in the housing; a baffle between the first and second zone, located in an outlet manifold of the housing; and a zone modifier configured to regulate coolant distribution between the first zone and second zone according to predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Thomas Gooden, Scott Russo, Michael Joseph Giunta