Interrelated Coolant Flow And Throttle Control Patents (Class 123/41.13)
  • Patent number: 10316761
    Abstract: A vehicle propulsion system includes a controller configured to generate a control signal that dictates operation of a propulsion system of a vehicle having an engine and an electrically driven superturbocharger or a turbo-compounding turbine. Responsive to determining that the vehicle is one or more of entering into or traveling within an airflow restricting area, the controller is configured to change the operation of the propulsion system of the vehicle by reducing a power output by the engine. The controller is configured to reduce the power output by the engine to increase a power output of the electrically driven superturbocharger or the turbo-compounding turbine to propel the vehicle through the airflow restricting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Michael Lavertu
  • Patent number: 10207301
    Abstract: A thermostat assembly for a marine engine, having a housing with a first bore and a second bore in communication with the first bore. A thermostat mounts within the first bore for movement between an open and a closed position. A plunger removably mounts within the second bore for movement between an extended position for engagement with the thermostat, and a retracted position for disengagement with the thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventors: Greg Bohrer, Tina Bohrer
  • Patent number: 9097172
    Abstract: An engine control system for a vehicle comprises a pump control module and a heating request determination module. The pump control module disengages a switchable water pump from an engine upon startup of the engine. The heating request determination module generates a heat request signal that indicates whether heating of a passenger cabin of the vehicle has been requested based on ambient air temperature, humidity of ambient air, and a status of an air conditioner clutch. The pump control module selectively engages the switchable water pump after the heat request signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: George T. Washburn
  • Patent number: 8555826
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooler arrangement for a drive train (21) in a motor vehicle (23). Said cooler arrangement comprises a first coolant circuit (3) with a first coolant cooler (7) as well as a second coolant circuit (5) with a second coolant cooler (9). The invention is characterized in that there is a connection between the first coolant circuit (3) and the second coolant circuit (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Feldhaus, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 8474417
    Abstract: An air-cooled general-purpose engine includes: a cooling fan fixed to one end portion, protruding outward from one end wall of an engine main body, of a crankshaft; and a shroud which is mounted to the engine main body, and which defines a cooling-air path between the shroud and the one end wall, the cooling-air path guiding a cooling air blown under pressure from the cooling fan. The air-cooled general-purpose engine includes: an oil pump which pumps up an oil from an oil reservoir; and an oil-supply path which is formed in the one end wall, facing the cooling-air path, of the engine main body, and configured to guide the oil discharged from the oil pump to a valve operating chamber in a head portion of the engine main body, and a jet for jetting the oil is provided in an opening of the oil-supply path, the opening being open to the valve operating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ogawa, Hiroaki Hasebe
  • Patent number: 8443766
    Abstract: A method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine, where, during normal operation in a first controller mode, a charge air temperature controller is set as dominant for a map-controlled thermostatic valve for automatically controlling the charge air temperature (TLL), or, during normal operation in a second controller mode, a coolant temperature limit controller is set as dominant for the map-controlled thermostatic valve for automatically controlling the coolant temperature (TKM). If a charge air temperature sensor fails, the second controller mode is set with the coolant temperature limit controller dominant, and if a coolant temperature sensor fails, the first controller mode is set with the charge air temperature controller dominant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 8342141
    Abstract: An engine cooling system in which a coolant flows through a coolant circuit includes: a pump for circulating coolant under pressure through the coolant circuit; a radiator provided in the coolant circuit, wherein the radiator cools coolant passing through the coolant circuit; a by-pass conduit, wherein the by-pass conduit allows coolant to by-pass the radiator, a flow control valve, which regulates the flow rate of coolant flowing through the radiator and the by-pass conduit; and a controller, wherein the controller controls the flow control valve in response to input signals from at least one pressure sensor and at least one temperature sensor in the coolant circuit. The flow control valve includes a first controllable valve located upstream of the radiator and downstream of the by-pass conduit, and a second controllable valve located in the by-pass conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnar AB
    Inventors: Erik Dahl, Steven Adelman
  • Patent number: 8303465
    Abstract: A method for controlling engine temperature of an engine with a wide dynamic range is disclosed. In one example, the derivative of an engine temperature is assessed by a controller. The controller may adjust engine actuators to limit engine temperature in response to the derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Carl Mukkala, Nathanael David Shaw, Jason Eugene Devries, Brian Michael O'Neil, Michael Joseph Guinta
  • Patent number: 7845167
    Abstract: In an exhaust heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine, a heat pipe includes an evaporation portion in which a working fluid is heated and evaporated by heat exchange with exhaust heat from the internal combustion engine, a plurality of condensing portions in which the working fluid from the evaporation portion is cooled and condensed by heat exchange with respective subjects to be heated, and connection piping through which the condensing portions are connected to the evaporation portion in parallel with respect to the evaporation portion so as to form a closed circuit. Furthermore, a switching portion is located to switch a flow of the working fluid from the evaporation portion to any one between the condensing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Miyagawa, Yasutoshi Yamanaka, Takahisa Suzuki, Koichi Ban
  • Publication number: 20090211542
    Abstract: The inventive system comprises a high-temperature circuit (12) through which a high-temperature heat carrier fluid runs and which integrates a cooling radiator (22) in which a cooling fluid (46) flows, a low-temperature circuit (14) through which a low-temperature heat carrier fluid runs and which integrates a cooling radiator (30) in which the cooling fluid (46) flows, the pumps (16, 28) of the high-and low-temperature circuit forming first actuators for running the heat carrier fluid though the circuits (12, 14) and second actuators for (48) for flowing the cooling fluids (46) in the high- and low-temperature radiators (22, 30), sensors (56, 58, 66, 68) for detecting representative parameters of the cooling requirements of the high- and low-temperature circuits and for transmitting said parameters to a control unit (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Valeo Thermique Moteur
    Inventors: Pascal Guerrero, Philippe Jouanny, Ngy Srun Ap
  • Patent number: 7082901
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device comprising an adjusting component which is associated in its operation with a means for actuating the movable element of said component, a means for sensing the actual position of the movable element and a control means, characterised in that it comprises, at the beginning of any operating cycle, initialising the adjusting device by determining the “fully clsoed” and “open to the maximum” positions of the movable element (1?), and indexing the control means (5) and setting its parameters accordingly then, during the consecutive running of the operating cycle, continously or at regular intervals putting the open/closed state of the adjusting component (1?) under the control of the reference signal (SIGN), by adjusting the control signal (IN) which is applied according to the result of comparing the indicated positions of the movable element (1?), obtained firstly from the reference signal (SIGN) and secondly from the (OUT) signal delivered by the sensing means (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Mark IV Systemes Moteurs
    Inventors: Sergio Lolli, Richard Komurian, Luc Schwab
  • Patent number: 6880495
    Abstract: A method for cooling a motor vehicle engine consists in regulating the volume and the flow rate of a coolant fluid in a hydraulic circuit provided with a branch equipped with an electronically controlled actuator and means forming radiator. The method comprises a step of determining the temperature of the cooling liquid, a step of comparing the temperature of the cooling liquid with a specified threshold temperature from which the engine is said to be hot, and, when the temperature of the fluid is higher than the threshold temperature, the flow rate in the radiator branch is regulated so as to maintain the temperature of the cooling fluid around a specified setpoint value. The curve representing the opening of the thermostat valve based on the temperature of the cooling fluid exhibits an hysteresis around the setpoint temperature. The invention also concerns a device for cooling a motor vehicle engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Peugeot Citroen Automobiles SA
    Inventors: Armel Le Lievre, Ludovic Tomasseli
  • Patent number: 6549838
    Abstract: A control strategy and method for controlling friction element engagement and disengagement time for an automatic transmission when the transmission is operating at cold ambient temperatures. During drive-to-reverse or reverse-to-drive friction element engagements with power on, the strategy compensates for a tendency of an oncoming friction element to gain capacity before an off-going clutch loses capacity, thereby avoiding a potential friction element tie-up condition when the transmission is operated with intermediate or high levels of engine torque as the friction elements are sequentially engaged and disengaged during cold rock cycling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Michael O'Neil, John Paul Gorys, John Mathew Pogorzelski, Jacob Martin Povirk, Joseph Scott Slayton, Steven DeWayne Dunn
  • Patent number: 6286311
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a turbocharged compression-ignition engine having an intercooling system that uses a predetermined coolant fluid is provided. The engine is configured to receive a predetermined combustion-supporting fluid into a plurality of cylinders through a respective intake manifold. The method allows for detecting a full or high load engine condition using the amount of fuel injected into a cylinder per cylinder cycle and/or throttle notch position. The method also allows for sensing a predetermined parameter indicative of a respective ambient condition. The method further allows for selecting a desired value of a predetermined operational parameter that influences peak pressures developed within the cylinders. The desired value being selected based on the value of the parameter indicative of the ambient condition. A comparing step allows for comparing an actual value of the operational parameter against the desired value of that operational parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gong Chen