Cooling Of Combustible Mixture Patents (Class 123/540)
  • Patent number: 10323548
    Abstract: A device for recovery of waste heat generated during operation of an internal combustion engine includes a thermodynamic engine, which includes a working fluid circulation circuit and is configured for recovery of the waste heat a first arrangement for providing a first coolant from a first source for heat exchange with the working fluid in the working fluid circulation circuit, and at least one further arrangement for providing a further coolant from a further source for heat exchange with the working fluid in the working fluid circulation circuit, wherein the further source is at different heat level than the first source during operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Lennart Andersson, Arne Andersson
  • Patent number: 10247149
    Abstract: An engine assembly with an air intake system and a turbocharger device in fluid communication with the air intake system includes an electronic control unit in communication with the air intake system and turbocharger device. A CAC system is in downstream fluid communication with the turbocharger device and in upstream fluid communication with the air intake system and includes at least one flow adjustment mechanism in communication with the electronic control unit and selectively positionable between a first position and one or more second positions to adjust velocity of air from the turbocharger device flowing through the CAC system and to manage condensation buildup in the CAC system and/or to open a bypass duct in order for some or all of the turbo airflow to bypass the CAC system to reduce or eliminate condensation buildup in the CAC system at warm ambient conditions and ice buildup at cold ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Nemesh, Werner Filsinger, Kai Becker
  • Patent number: 10131205
    Abstract: A climate control system having a coolant subsystem, a heat pump subsystem, and an intermediate heat exchanger. The intermediate heat exchanger may transfer thermal energy from the heat pump subsystem to the coolant to increase the temperature of the coolant when the climate control system is in a heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark G. Smith, James George Gebbie, Franco Ragazzi, Clay Wesley Maranville
  • Patent number: 10012135
    Abstract: An air-guiding component for a charged internal combustion engine has an intercooler provided with coolant connectors that is disposed in a housing of the air-guiding component. The housing has at least two housing parts including a basic housing part. The housing is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and is further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler. The intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air. The housing has housing walls and at least one of the housing walls has at least one corrugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gerrit-Tobias Speidel, Adrien Retter, Herbert Pietrowski, Vladimír Príborský
  • Patent number: 10006338
    Abstract: Embodiments for a charge air cooler are provided. In one example, an engine method comprises during a first mode, decreasing a volume of a charge air cooler in response to a compressor operation upstream of the charge air cooler. In this way, compressor surge may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Julia Helen Buckland, Chris Paul Glugla, Robert Andrew Wade, Jason Eugene Devries, Charles A. Cockerill, Gregory Patrick McConville
  • Patent number: 9982589
    Abstract: An intake manifold for a charged internal combustion engine has an intercooler provided with coolant connectors that is disposed in an intake manifold housing. The intake manifold housing has at least two housing parts including a basic housing part. The intake manifold housing is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and is further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler. The intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air. The intercooler is fastened in the basic housing part by a fastening device such that the intercooler separates at least on one side of the basic housing part the at least one inlet seal-tightly from the at least one outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Gerrit-Tobias Speidel, Alexander Korn, Heinz Buehl, Karl-Ernst Hummel, Ulrich Dehnen, Klaus Kalbacher, Rebecca Weiss
  • Patent number: 9822716
    Abstract: A system for controlling condensation associated with a vehicle engine air supply includes a shutter assembly configured to selectively allow airflow through the shutter assembly. An air supply cooler is configured to provide intake air to an engine. The air supply cooler is situated near the shutter assembly such that air flowing through the shutter assembly is incident on an exterior of the air supply cooler. A controller determines when at least one condition exists that is conducive to condensation within the air supply cooler and controls the shutter assembly to alter an amount of air incident on the exterior of the air supply cooler for controlling condensation in the air supply cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventor: Rob Bird
  • Patent number: 9482195
    Abstract: A number of variations of the invention may include a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine and/or method, wherein heat is exchanged from gaseous fuel in a gaseous fuel line and at least one of a liquid fuel in a liquid fuel feed line or a liquid fuel return line which are connected to an injection fuel rail of an internal combustion engine. In a number of variations, a regulator or throttling valve is provided in the gaseous fuel line to expand gas flowing therein and reduce the temperature of the gas to further cool the liquid fuel flowing in the liquid fuel feed line or the liquid fuel return line. Another variation may include a method comprising exchanging heat from gaseous fuel in a gaseous fuel line and a liquid fuel in a liquid fuel feed line or a liquid fuel return line which are connected to an injection fuel rail of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Archer, Nicholas Carter, Richard W. Hurley, Jon D. Edsell
  • Patent number: 9186953
    Abstract: An intake enhancement system for a vehicle includes a chiller bath, a delivery line operatively extended from the chiller bath for tapping at a heat exchanging line of a HVAC system to guide a heat exchanging agent flowing between the chiller bath and the HVAC system, and a cooling line operatively extended from the chiller bath for guiding a cooling agent to flow from the chiller bath toward the internal combustion engine. The chiller bath provides a heat-exchanging place for cooling the cooling agent by the heat exchanging agent. Therefore, the cooling agent is guide to cool the combustion element before the combustion element enters into the internal combustion engine for enhancing an efficiency of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Frederico Burke
  • Patent number: 9038607
    Abstract: An air cooler line is provided. The air cooler lines includes a first air cooler having a plurality of air flow conduits, each of the air flow conduits including an inlet, and a first air flow deflector extending across peripheral portions of the inlets and fixedly coupled to the air flow conduits and a second air cooler having a plurality of air flow conduits, each of the air flow conduits including an inlet, and a second air flow deflector extending across peripheral portions of the inlets and fixedly coupled to the air flow conduits, the second air flow deflector differing in at least one of size and geometry than the first air flow deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kristofor Robert Norman, Shuya Shark Yamada, Jim Raymond Palm, John R. Ladd, Michael Thomas Kramer, Jim Tyler
  • Patent number: 9032939
    Abstract: Embodiments for a charge air cooler are provided. In one example, an engine method comprises increasing intake air flow velocity through a charge air cooler in response to an estimated condensation formation value within the charge air cooler. In this way, condensation accumulation within the charge air cooler may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, Charles A. Cockerill, Shuya Shark Yamada, Phil Andrew Fabien
  • Publication number: 20150040848
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine including a combustion chamber and configured to perform at least a compression stroke and a power stroke. The method comprises direct injecting a first substance having a positive Joule-Thompson coefficient into the combustion chamber during a compression stroke, thereby reducing an amount of work otherwise may be used to perform the compression stroke and direct injecting a second substance having a negative Joule-Thompson coefficient into the combustion chamber during a power stroke, thereby increasing an amount of work otherwise produced from the power stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: McAlister Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Patent number: 8925526
    Abstract: A method of operating a combustion engine including causing an intake stroke in a first cylinder, causing a compression stroke in the first cylinder thereby creating pressurized fluid and releasing pressurized fluid from the first cylinder. The method further includes cooling the released fluid, directing the cooled fluid into a second cylinder over a first period of time and injecting fuel into the second cylinder over a second period of time whereby the first and second periods of time at least partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan W. Anders, Scott B. Fiveland, Carl-Anders Hergart
  • Patent number: 8905008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas supply module (20) for an engine, comprising a heat exchanger (22) capable of cooling gases for the intake thereof in an intake space of a cylinder head of the engine, and a gas supply valve (24) capable of directing said gases toward the intake space of said cylinder head and/or through said heat exchanger (22), said module (20) further comprising an interface element (26) closing said intake space of said cylinder head. According to the invention, said interface element (26) and said valve (24) are shaped such that said valve (24) can be attached to said cylinder head via at least a first attachment means extending through at least the interface element (26). The invention also relates to an assembly of an engine cylinder head and such a module, and to a motor vehicle engine comprising such an assembly. The invention can particularly be used in the field of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Systems Thermiques
    Inventor: Samuel Leroux
  • Publication number: 20140245998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module (100) for supplying gas to an engine (6) of a motor vehicle, comprising a single dispenser (108), a gas cooler (107) provided with means (120, 146) for fixing to the cylinder head of said engine (6), and an intake box (109) connecting said single dispenser (108) to said cooler (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventor: Samuel Leroux
  • Publication number: 20140216367
    Abstract: An air cooler line is provided. The air cooler lines includes a first air cooler having a plurality of air flow conduits, each of the air flow conduits including an inlet, and a first air flow deflector extending across peripheral portions of the inlets and fixedly coupled to the air flow conduits and a second air cooler having a plurality of air flow conduits, each of the air flow conduits including an inlet, and a second air flow deflector extending across peripheral portions of the inlets and fixedly coupled to the air flow conduits, the second air flow deflector differing in at least one of size and geometry than the first air flow deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kristofor Robert Norman, Shuya Shark Yamada, Jim Raymond Palm, John R. Ladd, Michael Thomas Kramer, Jim Tyler
  • Patent number: 8794216
    Abstract: A charge-air cooler includes a reticulated foam element configured to provide a plurality of nonlinear flow paths for a relatively high-temperature first fluid. The charge-air cooler also includes a cooling passage element disposed one of proximate to and in direct contact with the reticulated foam element and configured to accept a relatively low-temperature second fluid. The charge-air cooler additionally includes a header element having a first connection configured to accept inflow of the second fluid to the cooling passage element and a second connection configured to facilitate outflow of the second fluid from the cooling passage element. Furthermore, the charge-air cooler includes a casing configured to house the reticulated foam element, the cooling passage element, and the header element. An internal combustion engine employing such a charge-air cooler is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Shawn Michael Owen
  • Patent number: 8783232
    Abstract: Various embodiments include two-stroke stratified engines and dual passage carburetors for use with gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, liquid petroleum gas, pure propane, and butane. A stratified air-head engine and low pressure fuel injected engines with fuel only tube is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Inventors: Jay S. Veerathappa, Nagesh S. Mavinahally
  • Publication number: 20140182561
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a mobile refueling solution to vehicles that run on natural gas (CNG) or other gaseous fuels (CFG) through an integrated system of onboard compression, storage, interface modules and a central control architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Eghosa Gregory Ibizugbe, JR.
  • Patent number: 8726889
    Abstract: A charge air cooler arrangement, a charge air cooler tank, and method are disclosed. The charge air cooler arrangement includes a charge air cooler having an operable thermal transfer area configured to transfer heat from inside the charge air cooler to outside of the charge air cooler. The charge air cooler arrangement may also include a valve configured to change the operable thermal transfer area from a relatively large area to a relatively small area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Charles A. Cockerill, Shuya Shark Yamada, Chris Paul Glugla, Phil Andrew Fabien
  • Patent number: 8695574
    Abstract: An intake manifold is provided that includes an integrated charge air cooler and a housing having a first housing part and a second housing part connected thereto. The charge air flows into the housing via an inlet and flows out of the housing via an outlet. The charge air cooler is disposed in the housing and is permeated by the charge air on the path from the inlet to the outlet. Also, the charge air cooler is completely enclosed by the housing, except for passages for passing a cooling fluid, and the charge air cooler is elastically supported relative to the housing by at least one elastic bearing element in particular disposed on a collector of the charge air cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Chi-Duc Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20140090609
    Abstract: A method of cooling for an injection engine and cooling device thereof are provided. The cooling device includes a casing, a by-pass, and a second evaporator. The casing has an air-intake and an interior part defining a receiving space. The air-intake and the by-pass are separately in communication with the receiving space of the casing. The by-pass has one end connected to the air-intake passage of the injection engine. The second evaporator is disposed in the receiving space of the casing and has two refrigerant pipes connected to the first evaporator of the automobile cooling system in parallel. Cold air is conveyed into the air-intake passage of the injection engine via the by-pass such that the temperature at the intake of the engine is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Chi Hsu Tsai
  • Patent number: 8677730
    Abstract: Low-temperature, continuous “cold” combustion, constant pressure, active chamber motor-compressor unit operating with working compressed air and using a piston travel control device as well as an active chamber, with a cold chamber (29) able to reduce to very low temperatures the atmospheric air that supplies the input (28) of an air compression device (28,25,26,33), which then forces this working compressed air, still at low temperature, in an external combustion chamber (19) fitted with a heating device (19A) at constant pressure where it increases in volume, before its quasi-isothermal transfer in the active chamber (13) producing work, before being expanded in an engine cylinder (2) to produce work again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: MDI Motor Development International S.A.
    Inventors: Guy Negre, Cyril Negre
  • Patent number: 8656894
    Abstract: A gas intake device for letting gases into an inlet volume of a cylinder head of a motor vehicle combustion engine includes a valve (10) for supplying the cylinder head with gas, this valve communicating with the inlet volume of the cylinder head directly and indirectly via a heat exchanger (14). The valve (10) and the heat exchanger (14) are mounted on a plate (21) intended to be mounted directly on the cylinder head. The device is compact and relatively insensitive to vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: Valeo Systemes de Controle Moteur, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Samuel Leroux, Mathieu Lallemant, Arnold Rimpau, Christian Westphal
  • Patent number: 8646671
    Abstract: A new and improved combustion chamber and cooling system for a fastener-driving tool wherein a new and improved tangentially oriented, vortex induced fuel-injection system is operatively associated with the tool's combustion chamber. In addition, a new and improved trigger-controlled valve actuating system, such as, for example, a switch-operated, solenoid-actuated valve-controlling system, is incorporated within the tool so as to ensure the rapid operation of the intake and outlet valve structures. Still further, a sealed, liquid evaporative or liquid recirculating cooling system is integrally incorporated within the tool housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph S. Adams
  • Patent number: 8580111
    Abstract: A device for separating fuel components comprising a separating membrane for separating high-octane fuel components from un-separated fuel and a heat exchanger between first liquid passing through the heat exchanger and second liquid passing through the heat exchanger, is provided. The first liquid is un-separated fuel passing through the heat exchanger before being supplied to the separating membrane. The second liquid is low-octane fuel remaining when the high-octane fuel components are separated from the un-separated fuel, passing through the heat exchanger after changing to an almost liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Randall D. Partridge, George Walchuk, Kouseki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20130263828
    Abstract: A charge air cooler arrangement, a charge air cooler tank, and method are disclosed. The charge air cooler arrangement includes a charge air cooler having an operable thermal transfer area configured to transfer heat from inside the charge air cooler to outside of the charge air cooler. The charge air cooler arrangement may also include a valve configured to change the operable thermal transfer area from a relatively large area to a relatively small area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Charles A. Cockerill, Shuya Shark Yamada, Chris Paul Glugla, Phil Andrew Fabien
  • Publication number: 20130180478
    Abstract: An engine oil system for an internal combustion engine comprises an electronic control module, an oil viscosity sensor, am engine oil cooler, and an oil cooler flow control valve. The oil viscosity sensor is disposed in communication with the electronic control module. The electronic control module determines a viscosity of oil within the engine oil system based upon an output of the oil viscosity sensor. The oil cooler flow control valve is disposed in communication with the electronic control module. The oil cooler flow control valve is positionable between an open and closed position to regulate coolant flow to the engine oil cooler based upon an output of the electronic control module. The electronic control module moves the oil cooler flow control valve based upon the determined viscosity of the oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Ceynow, Frank J. Karlovsky
  • Publication number: 20120325181
    Abstract: An intake enhancement system is arranged for incorporating with a vehicle which includes a combustion engine and a heat exchanger for generating a cooling effect. The intake enhancement system includes an intake cooling unit for delivering a combustion element to the combustion engine, wherein the intake cooling unit is thermally conducted with the heat exchanger for heat-exchanging the combustion element with heat exchanging agent of the heat exchanger so as to substantially cool down the combustion element along the intake cooling unit before the combustion element delivers to the combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Frederico Burke
  • Publication number: 20120247437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas supply module (20) for an engine, comprising a heat exchanger (22) capable of cooling gases for the intake thereof in an intake space of a cylinder head of the engine, and a gas supply valve (24) capable of directing said gases toward the intake space of said cylinder head and/or through said heat exchanger (22), said module (20) further comprising an interface element (26) closing said intake space of said cylinder head. According to the invention, said interface element (26) and said valve (24) are shaped such that said valve (24) can be attached to said cylinder head via at least a first attachment means extending through at least the interface element (26). The invention also relates to an assembly of an engine cylinder head and such a module, and to a motor vehicle engine comprising such an assembly. The invention can particularly be used in the field of motor vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventor: Samuel Leroux
  • Patent number: 8146542
    Abstract: A first loop contains engine coolant passageways (28, 30) and a first radiator (34). A second loop contains a first EGR cooler (48). A third loop contains a second EGR cooler (50), a second radiator (36), a charge air cooler (26LP), a first valve (66), and a second valve (64). Valve (64) apportions coolant flow entering an inlet (64A) to parallel flow paths, one including second radiator (36) and the other being a bypass around radiator (36). The apportioned flows merge into confluent flow to both an inlet of charge air cooler (26LP) and a first inlet (66B) of valve (66). Valve (66) has an outlet (66C) communicated to an inlet of second EGR cooler (50). The first condition of valve (66) closes a second inlet (66A) to coolant flowing toward both the second inlet (66A) and inlet (64A) while opening inlet (66B) to outlet (66C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company LLC
    Inventors: Luis Carlos Cattani, Peter Popadiuc, Bashar Y. Melhem, Martin R. Zielke
  • Patent number: 8141356
    Abstract: Methods and systems for separating fuel and supplying the separated fuel to an engine are disclosed. In one example, alcohol is separated from a blend of alcohol and gasoline. The methods and systems may improve fuel separator operation by adjusting separator operation in response to engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Robert A. Stein
  • Publication number: 20120067330
    Abstract: An intake system for an internal combustion engine comprises an exhaust driven turbocharger configured to deliver compressed intake charge, comprising exhaust gas from the exhaust system and ambient air, through an intake charge conduit and to cylinders of the internal combustion engine. An intake charge cooler is in fluid communication with the intake charge conduit. A cooling system, independent of the cooling system for the internal combustion engine, is in fluid communication with the intake charge cooler through a cooling system conduit. A coolant pump delivers a low temperature cooling medium from the cooling system to and through the intake charge cooler for the transfer of heat from the compressed intake charge thereto. A low temperature cooler receives the heated cooling medium through the cooling system conduit for the transfer of heat therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Ko-Jen Wu
  • Patent number: 8087239
    Abstract: A reductant delivery unit (16) is provided unit for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) after-treatment for vehicles. The unit includes a solenoid fluid injector (18) associated with an exhaust gas flow path (13). The injector has a fluid inlet (28) and a fluid outlet (30) with the fluid inlet receiving a source of urea solution and the fluid outlet communicating directly with the exhaust flow path so as to control injection of urea solution into the exhaust gas flow path. Supply structure (32) defines the fluid inlet and includes a cup (37) coupled to a body (18) of the injector and a supply tube (29) integral with the cup to define a single member. The supply tube is coupled with the source (27) of urea solution to deliver urea solution to the fluid inlet. The supply tube is heated by a heat source (33) so that an entire volume of the urea solution delivered to the fluid inlet is heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Bugos, Willem Nicolaas van Vuuren
  • Publication number: 20110297129
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine with a motor block and a charge fluid cooler mounted thereon wherein the motor block comprises a cylinder block with a cylinder head mounted thereon, the charge fluid cooler is attached to the cylinder head via an outlet manifold flange and a cylinder head flange which are joined by at least one first screw connection via a spacer member arranged at a side of a charge fluid inlet passage extending through the flanges and at least one second screw connection is provided for attaching the charge fluid cooler to the cylinder block via a second screw connection providing for a partially rigid and a partially elastic support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Hartmann
  • Patent number: 7946277
    Abstract: A fuel vapor storage and recovery system of an internal combustion engine includes a fuel tank and a filter device arranged in a tank venting line. A heat exchanger is disposed in the tank venting line. The heat exchanger cools the fuel vapors flowing from the fuel tank to the filter device and heats air that is aspirated for scavenging the filter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventor: Ulrich Essig
  • Publication number: 20110030653
    Abstract: Fuel management system for efficient operation of a spark ignition gasoline engine. Injectors inject an anti-knock agent such as ethanol directly into a cylinder of the engine. A fuel management microprocessor system controls injection of the anti-knock agent so as to control knock and minimize that amount of the anti-knock agent that is used in a drive cycle. It is preferred that the anti-knock agent is ethanol. The use of ethanol can be further minimized by injection in a non-uniform manner within a cylinder. The ethanol injection suppresses knock so that higher compression ratio and/or engine downsizing from increased turbocharging or supercharging can be used to increase the efficiency of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Daniel R. Cohn, Leslie Bromberg, John B. Heywood
  • Patent number: 7870848
    Abstract: A system for managing fuel-vapor emission from a fuel tank of a vehicle using a vortex-effect flow separator coupled in the fuel-vapor purging system of the vehicle. The warmer-flow outlet of the separator is coupled to the engine intake, and the cooler-flow outlet is coupled to the fuel tank. In this way, less fuel vapor is delivered to the engine intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Elwart, Michael Igor Kluzner, James Michael Kerns
  • Patent number: 7866304
    Abstract: An engine assembly may include a crankcase ventilation assembly having a fuel separator assembly. The fuel separator assembly may include a condensing unit and a vaporizing unit. The condensing unit may include a gas region and a liquid retaining region. A gas inlet may be in fluid communication with the gas region and a gas flow from the engine block including fuel vapor. The condensing unit may convert the fuel vapor to liquid fuel. The first gas outlet may be in fluid communication with an engine air inlet and provide a remainder of the gas flow thereto. The fluid region may store and provide the liquid fuel to the vaporizing unit through a liquid inlet. The vaporizing unit may convert the liquid fuel to fuel vapor and a second gas outlet may provide the fuel vapor to the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Paulo A. Riedel, Thomas A. Spix, Leandro D. Nadai, Claudio Engler Pinto
  • Publication number: 20100288243
    Abstract: A hydrogen storage material includes: a first storage material body (1) which stores hydrogen; and a second storage material body (2) which stores hydrogen, and coats a surface of the first storage material body (1). A hydrogen equilibrium pressure (HP) of the second storage material body (2) is lower than that of the first storage material body (1) at the hydrogen generation temperature of the first storage material body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaburagi, Masashi Ito
  • Patent number: 7827970
    Abstract: A vapor separator includes a fuel pump, and a container at least partially defining a fuel reservoir to hold fuel and a pump chamber to hold the fuel pump. A closure is carried by the container to close the fuel reservoir and at least partially defines a vapor chamber above a level of fuel in the fuel reservoir and in fluid communication with the pump chamber. A vapor vent device is carried by the closure to allow fuel vapor to vent out of the vapor separator from the vapor chamber and prevent liquid fuel from flowing therethrough when the vapor separator is declined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Walbro Engine Management, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Roger N. Smith, David L. Speirs, Scott F. Stedry
  • Publication number: 20100218750
    Abstract: Low-temperature, continuous “cold” combustion, constant pressure, active chamber motor-compressor unit operating with working compressed air and using a piston travel control device as well as an active chamber, with a cold chamber (29) able to reduce to very low temperatures the atmospheric air that supplies the input (28) of an air compression device (28,25,26,33), which then forces this working compressed air, still at low temperature, in an external combustion chamber (19) fitted with a heating device (19A) at constant pressure where it increases in volume, before its quasi-isothermal transfer in the active chamber (13) producing work, before being expanded in an engine cylinder (2) to produce work again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MDI MOTOR DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL S.A.
    Inventors: Guy Negre, Cyril Negre
  • Publication number: 20100139626
    Abstract: A cooling circuit and an independent heat recovery circuit are associated with an internal combustion engine. A coolant is circulated a pump in a first and a second cooling sub-circuit. An increase in pressure in a work medium is achieved within the heat recovery circuit by a pump. This work medium is changed from liquid aggregate state to vaporous aggregate state and back to the liquid aggregate state in heat exchangers. This work medium is divided after the pump into two parallel partial flows and is changed into vaporous state in a first parallel branch in an EGR heat exchanger through which recycle exhaust gas flows and in a second parallel branch in an exhaust gas heat exchanger through flow exhaust gas downstream of the low-pressure turbine flows. This vaporous work medium is then fed to an expander and is then conducted through a cooled condenser and, liquefied again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Oesterreich AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Raab, Markus Raup, Josef Klammer
  • Patent number: 7685819
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbocharged internal combustion engine (ICE) system having fast response to increased power demand and reduced response time lag. The system includes a vortex tube for delivering cold air into the turbocharger compressor where it may be used to cool the impeller, and/or accelerate the impeller rotational speed, and/or favorably shift the compressor surge line at low speeds and high loads. Cold air from the vortex tube may be also used to operate an ejector pump in the intake duct which further compresses intake air and increases engine charge weight during periods of high power demand. In addition to increasing engine output power, delivery of cold air into engine intake also reduces engine pre-ignition (knocking) thereby reducing emissions. The invention also relates to a method for operating a turbocharged internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Aqwest LLC
    Inventor: Jan Vetrovec
  • Publication number: 20100071667
    Abstract: A fuel injector and turbine engine incorporating the fuel injector are provided. The fuel injector includes an active cooling system that insulates fuel flowing through the fuel injector from heat energy within the turbine engine. The cooling system includes a cooling air passage that includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and outlet are in fluid communication with the interior of an engine case of the turbine engine. The inlet is at a higher air pressure location than the outlet such that air is siphoned through the cooling air passage. A portion of the cooling air passage includes a heat exchanger for extracting heat energy from the cooling air. The cooling air passes through the fuel injector after it has passed through the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is positioned external to the engine case and in thermal communication with the ambient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: WOODWARD GOVERNOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul G. Hicks, Fei Philip Lee
  • Publication number: 20100065024
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for a vehicle engine including at least one cooling element which has flowing through it a gaseous medium operable to being cooled by an external air flow which flows in a specified direction through the cooling element during operation of the combustion engine. A heat-supplying element is fitted at a location upstream from the cooling element with respect to the direction of the cooling air flow so that at least part of the air flowing through the heat-supplying element also flows through the cooling element. A control device is operable to activate the heat-supplying element so that the air flowing through the heat-supplying element is warmed during situations where there is risk of the gaseous medium in the cooling element being cooled to below a lowest acceptable temperature. The heat-supplying element and the cooling element have a connection so that they constitute a composite unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Zoltan Kardos, Rickard Pettersson, Tomas Alsterda, Henrik Nyrén
  • Patent number: 7658183
    Abstract: A combustion engine intake air cooler system is disclosed that utilizes the vehicle air conditioning system to chill the engine intake air supply by conducting latent heat from the intake air passing through the intake air ducts using an external tubular induction coil in contact with and surrounding the air intake duct and connected to the vehicle air conditioning refrigeration system. Other embodiments include a refrigeration conduction coil located within a sealed and insulated, carburetor air breather and a refrigeration conduction coil in contact with the engine fuel line. An on board refrigerator using dry ice is also disclosed as a refrigeration system for the conduction coils when no vehicle air conditioning system is available. An intake air temperature sensing and control system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Supercooler, LLC
    Inventor: Tommy Johnson
  • Publication number: 20090178654
    Abstract: In an apparatus comprising a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and a separator positioned fluidically between the fuel tank and the internal combustion engine, a method of operating the apparatus is disclosed, wherein the method comprises inputting a mixed fuel containing a hydrocarbon component and an oxygenated component into the separator, separating the fuel in the separator into a hydrocarbon-enriched fuel fraction and an oxygenated fuel component-enriched fuel fraction, and controlling an amount of the hydrocarbon-enriched fuel fraction and an amount of the oxygenated fuel component-enriched fuel fraction provided to the engine based upon an engine operating condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Robert A. Stein
  • Patent number: 7451748
    Abstract: An EGR cooler system according to the invention includes an EGR cooler cooling device that is provided in a coolant path which is separate from the path provided with an engine cooling system which cools coolant. The EGR cooler cooling devices cools the coolant to be supplied to a water-cooled EGR cooler. The EGR cooler system also includes a water pump that circulates the coolant within the coolant path; a bypass passage through which the coolant may bypass the EGR cooler cooling device or the water-cooled EGR cooler; and a flow control valve that regulates the amount of coolant flowing into the bypass based on the temperature of the coolant flowing through the coolant path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Nigoro, Tatsuhisa Yokoi, Akiyuki Iemura, Tetsuo Ide, Seiji Sasaki, Ryouhei Kusunoki, Toshio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080127939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion air supply arrangement, including an air intake duct of an internal combustion engine, and a compressor arranged in the air intake duct, and a first throttle located downstream the compressor and upstream the internal combustion engine and arranged to change the flow area of the air intake duct between the compressor and the internal combustion engine, the same furthermore including a second throttle, which is located upstream the compressor and which is arranged to change the flow area of the air intake duct upstream the compressor. Furthermore, the compressor is a centrifugal compressor, the rotational speed of which is directly dependent on the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine, and that the combustion air supply arrangement is arranged in such a way that the sucked-in air is compressed once between the second throttle and the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: KOENIGSEGG AUTOMOTIVE AB
    Inventor: Christian V. Koenigsegg