Engine Patents (Class 165/51)
  • Patent number: 11898495
    Abstract: A fuel system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine including an exhaust assembly. The exhaust assembly including a tail cone and defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial direction, a working gas flow path, and an outer bypass flow path, the fuel system including: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel; a heat exchanger configured to be coupled to or integrated into the tail cone of the exhaust assembly, the heat exchanger including: a first axial flow path in flow communication with the hydrogen fuel tank; a second axial flow path in flow communication with a combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and a radial flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11888139
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment circuit includes a first temperature adjustment circuit and a second temperature adjustment circuit in which a switching part that is configured to switch between a circulation state where a heat-transfer medium is circulated through a connection circuit in which the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit are connected to each other and a non-circulation state where the heat-transfer medium is not circulated through the connection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Tetsu Miyamoto, Ayumu Uno, Takeshi Otani, Daisuke Komazawa
  • Patent number: 11859603
    Abstract: A 3D-printed oil separation assembly for use in a reciprocating compressor is provided. The compressor includes a suction chamber, a crankcase chamber, and at least one partition member at least partially separating the suction chamber and the crankcase chamber. The at least one partition member further includes at least one opening. The 3D-printed oil separation assembly comprises a coalescing structure positioned within the crankcase chamber adjacent the at least one partition member at the at least one opening; and at least one securing structure secured in operable relation with the at least one demisting structure so as to secure the coalescing structure relative to the opening. The coalescing structure comprises at least one structure selected from the group consisting of a baffled structure, a demisting structure, and combinations thereof. At least a portion of the coalescing structure is 3D-printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Copeland Industrial LP
    Inventors: Steven Fels, Steven Cihlar, Pruthviraj Nagnath Pawar, Jean-Louis Picouet
  • Patent number: 11808210
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a plurality of rotating components housed within a compressor section and a turbine section. A tap connects to the compressor section. A heat exchanger connects downstream of the tap. A cooling compressor connects downstream of the heat exchanger, and the cooling compressor connects to deliver air to at least one of the rotating components. A core housing has an outer peripheral surface and a fan housing defines an inner peripheral surface. At least one bifurcation duct extends between the outer peripheral surface to the inner peripheral surface. The heat exchanger is disposed within the at least one bifurcation duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Jesse M. Chandler, Brian D. Merry, Nathan Snape
  • Patent number: 11749851
    Abstract: A battery thermal management system for an air vehicle includes a first heat exchange circuit, a battery in thermal communication with the first heat exchange circuit, and a heat exchanger positioned on the first heat exchange circuit. The heat exchanger is operatively connected to a second heat exchange circuit. The system includes a controller operatively connected to the second heat exchange circuit. The controller is configured to variably select whether heat will be rejected to the second heat exchange circuit. A method for controlling a thermal management system for an air vehicle includes determining an expected fluid temperature of fluid in a fluid heat exchange circuit. The method includes commanding a flow restrictor at least partially closed or commanding the flow restrictor at least partially open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm Macdonald, Charles E. Lents
  • Patent number: 11713680
    Abstract: A blade fabrication method is provided and includes additively manufacturing a core, securing the core to a mandrel, electroforming a leading edge sheath directly onto the core and the mandrel and removing the mandrel from the core and the leading edge sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: David A. Welch
  • Patent number: 11692479
    Abstract: Heat exchangers, heat exchanger systems, and hypersonic vehicles are provided. For example, a heat exchanger is provided that comprises a first chamber for receipt of a flow of cool fluid and a second chamber for receipt of a flow of hot fluid. The heat exchanger further comprises a buffer fluid flowpath for circulation of a buffer fluid therethrough. The buffer fluid circulates within the buffer fluid flowpath disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber to transfer heat from the hot fluid to the cool fluid. In certain embodiments, a hypersonic vehicle comprises such a heat exchanger, and the cool fluid is cryogenic or near-cryogenic fuel of the hypersonic vehicle and the hot fluid is engine bleed air from a hypersonic propulsion engine of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Thomas Kupiszewski
  • Patent number: 11584217
    Abstract: A vehicle body front structure (10) includes: a shutter mechanism (19), an under cover (20), and a cooling duct (21). The shutter mechanism includes an upper shutter (54) and a lower shutter (55). The under cover covers a power device, a cooling device, and a peripheral component from below. Air is sent from the lower shutter to the cooling duct, and the cooling duct includes: an intake port portion (75), a first discharge port portion (91), and a second discharge port portion (98). Air is sent from the lower shutter to the intake port portion. The first discharge port portion and the second discharge port portion are positioned at the back of a vehicle body of the power device, and send air toward the peripheral component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakai
  • Patent number: 11365741
    Abstract: An axial fan for use with a wall ring plate includes a housing having an inlet region and a rotor. The rotor has an increased rotor diameter compared to a standardised rotor diameter. On the inlet side, the inlet region has a tapered section that narrows in an arched manner in a cross-sectional view from an inlet diameter to a wall ring diameter. The axial width and radial length of the tapered section are formed in a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Gebert, Thorsten Pissarczyk, Angelika Klostermann, Katrin Bohl, Markus Engert, Oliver Haaf, Marc Schneider
  • Patent number: 11299082
    Abstract: A dump body includes: a side plate; a flow path which is provided in the side plate and through which an exhaust gas of an engine flows; an exhaust port of the exhaust gas which is provided in an outer surface of the side plate; and a guide surface which has a first inner end portion and a first outer end portion and is inclined downward toward the first outer end portion, the first inner end portion being connected to an outer surface of the side plate below the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yushi Tanaka, Kengo Aoki
  • Patent number: 11207947
    Abstract: A cooling system for a motor vehicle has an electrical energy storage device for driving the motor vehicle; a chiller through which a refrigeration circuit and, fluidically separated therefrom, a main cooling circuit can flow; one or more control elements; at least one heat source, and one or more ambient air coolers. In a first mode, the control elements form the main cooling circuit such that the main cooling circuit can flow through the chiller, the energy storage device and none of the ambient air coolers. In a second mode, the control elements form the main cooling circuit such that the main cooling circuit can flow through the chiller, the energy storage device and at least one of the ambient air coolers. In a third mode, the control elements form the main cooling circuit such that the main cooling circuit can flow through the chiller, at least one of the ambient air coolers and the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Allgaeuer, Marion Mack, Markus Moser
  • Patent number: 11199364
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a heat exchanger, which may for example be utilised in a gas turbine engine or in other applications. Example embodiments include a heat exchanger comprising: an external surface for exchanging heat with an external fluid flow passing over the external surface; a first fluid passage extending through the heat exchanger from a first fluid inlet to a first fluid outlet, a first portion of the first fluid passage extending along the heat exchanger adjacent to the external surface for a first cooling fluid passing through the first fluid passage to exchange heat with the external fluid flow; and a second fluid passage extending through the heat exchanger from a second fluid inlet to a second fluid outlet located at the external surface for a second cooling fluid to pass from the second fluid inlet into the external fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Chloe J. Palmer
  • Patent number: 11156118
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided for an aircraft comprising an engine core and a core flow path, a fan, a front drum cavity arranged radially inward of the core flow path, and a front bearing chamber. The front drum cavity comprises a front drum inlet, for providing air to the front drum cavity from the core air flow, located downstream of a stage of the compressor, and a front drum outlet, for ejecting air from the front drum cavity to the fan air flow, located axially between the fan and the compressor. The front drum inlet is through a seal, and the front drum outlet is through a spaced gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Guy D. Snowsill, Robert J. Irving
  • Patent number: 11125139
    Abstract: An engine cooling system comprises an engine cooling circuit, comprising a first pump structured to circulate engine coolant fluid therethrough. A remote coolant radiator positioned along the engine cooling circuit downstream of the engine and outside of a vehicle cooling package area is structured to transfer heat from the engine coolant fluid to air. A coolant heat exchanger is positioned along the engine cooling circuit in parallel to the remote coolant radiator. A waste heat recovery system comprises a working fluid circuit comprising a second pump. The coolant heat exchanger is positioned along the working fluid circuit and is structured to transfer heat from the engine coolant fluid to the working fluid. An expander is structured to convert energy from the heat transferred to the working fluid from the engine cooling fluid to mechanical energy. A condenser positioned downstream of the expander is structured to cool the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy C. Ernst, Christopher R. Nelson, Jared Carpenter Delahanty
  • Patent number: 11064631
    Abstract: A liquid immersion cooling device for information processing apparatuses. The liquid immersion cooling device includes an immersion tank, a refrigerant liquid that is retained in the immersion tank, and a plurality of fillers that are filled in the immersion tank and that float on a surface of the refrigerant liquid to cover the surface of the refrigerant liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Masayuki Watanabe, Shinnosuke Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11059474
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a hybrid powertrain having a high-voltage power bus. The vehicle further includes an electrical outlet having at least one socket configured to receive a power cord of an electrical load. A vehicle controller is programmed to receive a user-specified current limit for the socket, and, responsive to current of the socket exceeding the user-specified limit, de-energize the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shlomo Revach, Duane M. Grider
  • Patent number: 11029103
    Abstract: A heat exchanger circuit can include a heat exchanger having a body with a plurality of cooling fins for the heat exchanger, a plurality of core cooling channels within the body, a plurality of de-congealing channels in fluid communication with the plurality of core cooling channels, and a by-pass valve in fluid communication with the plurality of core cooling channels and the plurality of de-congealing channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ralph Storage, Dennis Alan McQueen
  • Patent number: 10837318
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a buffer system for a gas turbine engine. An exemplary gas turbine engine includes, among other features, a buffer manifold in an intershaft region. The buffer manifold is configured to direct a flow of air between a first air seal and a first oil seal, and to direct another flow of air between a second air seal and a second oil seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jorn Axel Glahn, Taryn Narrow, Anthony Spagnoletti, Francis Parnin, Justin W. Heiss
  • Patent number: 10830448
    Abstract: A liner panel for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine, including a multiple of heat transfer augmentors located in at least one discrete area of the liner panel. A wall assembly within a gas turbine engine including a support shell, a liner panel mounted to the support shell via a multiple of studs and a multiple of heat transfer augmentors located in at least one discrete area on a cold side of the liner panel, each of the multiple of heat transfer augmentors define a height that extends about half the distance between a cold surface of the liner panel and the support shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Monica Pacheco-Tougas, Kevin Zacchera, Jonathan Jeffery Eastwood
  • Patent number: 10773569
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for vehicle includes a radiator, a coolant pump, a cooling fan, first and second mode controllers, and an abnormality diagnosing controller. The radiator cools a coolant that circulates through a circulation flow channel of a cooling system. The coolant pump causes the coolant to circulate through the circulation flow channel. The cooling fan faces the radiator. The first mode controller initiates a first operation mode process upon diagnosing an abnormality of the cooling system. The first operation mode process stops the coolant pump and drives the cooling fan. The second mode controller initiates a second operation mode process after completion of the first operation mode process. The second operation mode process stops the cooling fan and drives the coolant pump. The abnormality diagnosing controller diagnoses, based on a temperature of the radiator, the abnormality of the cooling system after the initiation of the second operation mode process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yo Masuda, Takuya Takashima
  • Patent number: 10710199
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tube, and a tube, the method comprising the steps of: coupling in position a first tube body and a second tube body by inserting a first insert portion of a connecting pin into an end portion of a first hole of the first tube body and inserting a second insert portion into an end portion of a first hole of the second tube body; welding all around an outer circumferential portion of the coupled portion of the first tube body and the second tube body and all around an inner circumferential portion of the first holes in which the connecting pin is inserted; and removing the connecting pin remaining inside the first hole of the first tube body and the first hole of the second tube body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadakazu Sakaguchi, Hirokazu Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10691084
    Abstract: A spray rig monitoring system having a plurality of sensors that detect and transmit operational parameters to a computer. The operational parameters are processed to determine if a spray rig and its crew are operating within preset parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: Aaron Auberg, Matthew R. Hugg
  • Patent number: 10683832
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler includes: a housing having an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet, a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet, and a plurality of grooves protruding inward from upper and lower surfaces of the housing; a plurality of tubes spaced apart from each other so that exhaust gas flows in the housing; and a plurality of supporters supporting the plurality of tubes in the housing, wherein the plurality of supporters are disposed between an upper surface of the housing and a tube adjacent the upper surface of the housing among the plurality of tubes, between an lower surface of the housing and a tube adjacent the lower surface of the housing among the plurality of tubes, and between the plurality of tubes so that the plurality of supporters are disposed in a space in which the coolant flows inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Il Yoon, Dong Young Lee, Do Jun Park, Seogjin Yoon, In Sung Yun
  • Patent number: 10683640
    Abstract: A hydraulic cooling system for a heavy-equipment machine, with the heavy-equipment machine including a frame supported on the ground by a ground-drive assembly, a cab extending upward from the frame, and an attachment tool for performing work. The hydraulic cooling system comprises a main housing and a cooling assembly housed at least partly within the main housing, with the cooling assembly being configured to reduce a temperature of hydraulic oil flowing through the hydraulic cooling system. The hydraulic cooling system further comprises an attachment assembly for attaching the main housing to the cab of the heavy-equipment machine. The main housing is configured to extend rearward from the cab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Carlson, Toshihiko Takemura
  • Patent number: 10669937
    Abstract: A heat exchange system for a power gear box mechanically coupling at least low pressure compressor stage with at least one turbine stage in a turbo engine, in particular an aircraft turbo engine, is provided. At least one heat transfer device is enclosed, embedded and/or attached with the casing of the power gear box, wherein at least one airflow is directed to the at least one heat transfer device for thermally controlling the power gear box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Thierry Sibilli, Bjorn Ulrichsohn, Jonas Schwengler
  • Patent number: 10654335
    Abstract: A thermal energy storage system for a vehicle. The system includes a tank that is external to the vehicle. The tank is configured to receive liquid from the vehicle, and store the liquid at or above a predetermined temperature prior to the liquid being returned to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Alec Bergweiler, Bradley Brodie, Robert Brinker
  • Patent number: 10591366
    Abstract: Generally described, embodiments are directed to a temperature calibration system that includes a closed fluidic system and a cooling assembly configured to remove heat from the closed fluidic system. The cooling assembly is configured to move between a coupled position, in which the cooling assembly is thermally coupled to (e.g., abutting) a condenser of the closed fluidic system, and a decoupled position, in which the cooling assembly is thermally decoupled (e.g., spaced apart) from the condenser of the closed fluidic system. In at least one embodiment, while in the decoupled position, components of the cooling assembly may be protected from damage that may occur at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventor: David W. Farley
  • Patent number: 10570824
    Abstract: A system is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine system includes a rotating assembly, a bearing and a lubrication system. The bearing is configured with the rotating assembly. The lubrication system is configured to lubricate the bearing. The lubrication system includes a lubricant pump and a lubricant reservoir. The lubricant pump is mechanically coupled with and driven by the rotating assembly. The lubricant pump is configured with the lubricant reservoir so as to be at least partially submersed in lubricant contained within the lubricant reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Michael E. McCune
  • Patent number: 10570806
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a drain assembly having a housing and a drain plug. The drain plug is movably disposed within the housing to extend along the same direction as a drain passage formed in the housing. The drain plug is movable along that same direction to selectively open or close the drain passage. Accordingly, the heat exchanger may be drained with a controllable directional flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventor: LaDonna Floyd
  • Patent number: 10550722
    Abstract: A heat exchange system for a power gear box mechanically coupling at least one low pressure compressor stage with at least one turbine stage in a turbo engine, in particular an aircraft turbo engine, is provided. At least one heat transfer device is enclosed, embedded and/or attached with the casing of the power gear box and the casing and/or the heat transfer device comprise at least one heat transfer and/or fluid flow guiding structure, in particular a ribbed surface, a finned surface and/or a studded surface, wherein at least one airflow is directed to the at least one heat transfer device for thermally controlling the power gear box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Thierry Sibilli, Bjorn Ulrichsohn, Jonas Schwengler
  • Patent number: 10502081
    Abstract: A turbomachine bearing housing comprising a fixed wall, a rotating shaft, first and second seals between the wall and the shaft, and a chamber between the fixed wall and a stator element supplied with air via an opening close to the shaft. An air guide is arranged along the surface of the wall of the housing, outside same, such that at least a portion of the air exiting the guide passes between the first seal and the shaft, the air guide being supplied with air by an air intake separated radially from the shaft, the air from the air intake being at a higher pressure than at the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérémy Lucien Jacques Bioud, Sébastien Bourget, Gaël Evain, Eddy Stéphane Joël Fontanel, Florence Irène Noëlle Leutard, Christophe Lima, Giuliana Elisa Rossi
  • Patent number: 10400718
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intake distributor for an internal combustion engine that includes an integrated heat exchanger. This exchanger includes a support plate that ensures its rigid mounting in the distributor and peripheral seal that form an essentially continuous circumferential airtight barrier between the exchanger and the distributor, peripherally dividing the interstitial volume into two. The subdivision plane of the interstitial volume is perpendicular in relation to the plane of the support plate, and the peripheral seal consist of two complementary components that are connected to one another and made integral with the exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SOGEFI AIR & COOLING
    Inventors: Francois Burckel, Nicolas Becker, Benoit Ancel, Michel Andres
  • Patent number: 10345057
    Abstract: A dual seated by-pass valve is provided for a surface heat exchanger. The valve provides a power element and at least two seats and two poppets which are spring biased and responsive to movement of the power element to open and close pathways to core cooling channels and de-congealing channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ralph Storage, Dennis Alan McQueen
  • Patent number: 10196932
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine hybrid outer guide vane heat exchanger includes a circular row of fan outlet guide vanes, at least some of the fan outlet guide vanes being networked guide vane heat exchangers including heat exchangers within fan outlet guide vanes and guide vane heat exchangers fluidly interconnected both in series and in parallel. Group may include three or more of the guide vane heat exchangers fluidly connected both in series and in parallel. Two or more serial sets of the networked guide vane heat exchangers in the hybrid group may each include two or more of guide vane heat exchangers connected in series and two or more serial sets connected in parallel. First and second groups of the networked guide vane heat exchangers may include first and second groups for cooling engine lubrication system and/or integrated drive generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun
  • Patent number: 10138829
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention is applied to an internal combustion engine in which EGR gas and condensed water generated by an EGR cooler are supplied into a cylinder. The control apparatus calculates an equivalence ratio of the internal combustion engine, and controls an EGR valve and a condensed water supply valve such that, when the equivalence ratio is high, a supply rate of the condensed water increases and a supply rate of the EGR gas decreases relative to when the equivalence ratio is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Katayama, Takeshi Hashizume
  • Patent number: 10131977
    Abstract: One aspect of this ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.03% or less, N: 0.05% or less, Si: 1% or less, Mn: 1.2% or less, Cr: 14% or more and 28% or less, Nb: 8(C +N) or more and 0.8% or less, and Al: 0.1% or less, with a balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a film satisfying Expression 1 is formed in a surface thereof. Expression 1 is df×Crf+5(Sif+3Alf)?2.0. In Expression 1, df represents a thickness (nm) of the film, Crf represents a Cr cationic fraction in the film, Sif represents a Si cationic fraction in the film, and Alf represents an Al cationic fraction in the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Hiraide, Tooru Matsuhashi, Noriyo Morihiro, Naoto Ono
  • Patent number: 10124662
    Abstract: A radiator for the motorcycle includes a core through which a cooling medium flows, a cooling fan which is disposed on a downstream side of the core and ventilates the core, a downwardly opened fan covering for enclosing areas above, on opposite lateral sides and on a downstream side of the cooling fan, and a partition wall for partitioning between an lower portion of the core and a lower portion of the cooling fan so as to suppress the backward flow of the discharge air from the opening towards the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Jyouzaki, Naoki Arino, Takayuki Haraguchi, Masataka Muroi, Masafumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 10094338
    Abstract: A combination structure of an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) cooler may include a housing open at both sides thereof, a plurality of headers inserted in both of the sides of the housing and having a circumference forming a layer with the housing, and a plurality of diffusers each including a coupling portion, which is inserted in the headers to form a layer with the housing and the headers, at a first side and having a hole for receiving and discharging exhaust gas at a second side, in which sides of the housing and the headers may be welded, and the housing, the circumference of the headers, and coupling portions of the diffusers may be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Seung Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10036508
    Abstract: A flow vortex spoiler including an oil sump wherein pressurization air flow moves about the oil sump through a sump pressurization cavity, the cavity having an inlet, a circumferential plate disposed across a portion of the pressurization cavity near the inlet. The circumferential plate is disposed at said inlet to said sump pressurization cavity. The circumferential plate has a plurality of closely spaced apertures. The pressurization air has a radial component and a tangential component wherein the circumferential plate and the plurality of closely spaced apertures substantially reduce the tangential component of the pressurization air and further wherein the vortex spoiler inhibits excessive pressure change within the pressurization cavity and inhibits oil leakage at seals adjacent to the oil sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Bordne, James Luz, Thomas Charles McCarthy, Andrew Courtenay Fenn
  • Patent number: 10035406
    Abstract: A transport vessel and method specifically adapted for safely transporting liquid containing unstabilized drill cuttings. Typically drilling waste is stabilized using binding agents like fly-ash, liquids absorbing pellets or sawdust. In many jurisdictions binding agents are required to stabilize the drilling waste prior to transport. A sealed transport vessel is described herein which is specifically sized and positioned over a set of axels so as to provide for safe, non-spilling transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: RECOVER ENERGY SERVICES INC.
    Inventors: Stan Ross, Gregory Steger
  • Patent number: 9951659
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with an expander, a condenser, a pump, and a heater in sequential fluid communication in a thermodynamic cycle containing a working fluid. The thermodynamic cycle is provided for waste heat recovery in the vehicle. A heat pipe contains a phase change material and has a condenser region and an evaporative region. The evaporative region is in thermal contact with a recirculating fluid of a vehicle system. The heater provides thermal contact between the working fluid and the condenser region of the heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Shiguang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9840938
    Abstract: A housing for a bearing cavity in a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The housing comprise features that mitigate heat transfer from a heat source in the gas turbine engine to the nearby bearing cavity to prevent exposing the oil in the bearing cavity to excessively high temperatures. The housing comprises an annular flange that defines one or more barriers to heat transfer from the heat source to the bearing cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Johnny Vinski
  • Patent number: 9810183
    Abstract: The internal combustion engines (M) of the invention are provided with a cooling water circuit, associated with a water radiator and with a lubricant oil circuit. The heat exchanger (HE) comprises an inlet and an outlet of water connected, in series, to an outlet of the water radiator, by means of a cooled water conduit and of the cooling water circuit, and to an inlet of the water radiator, by means of a return conduit and a hot water conduit; a fuel inlet nozzle and a fuel outlet nozzle, selectively connected to the fuel supply to the engine (M); and an inlet and an outlet of lubricant oil, connected to the lubricant oil circuit by means of respective oil conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE METAL LEVE S.A.
    Inventors: Tadeu Miguel Malagó Amaral, Ricardo Roveri Bueno, Edson Valdomiro de Azevedo Júnior, Fernando Jun Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9790954
    Abstract: A propeller (1) includes a hub (2), blades (3), and a shell (4) having two flanks (41, 42) connected by an elbow, the blades (3) extending from the hub (2) to the shell (4). The thickness (e1, e2) of at least one part of at least one of the flanks (41, 42) of the shell (4) is reduced towards the free end of the flank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventor: Sylvain Turcas
  • Patent number: 9718345
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dump truck or to a truck, comprising a diesel electric traction drive and a cooling system, wherein two radiator fans and/or cooler blowers of the cooling system are hydraulically driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Liebherr-Mining Equipment Colmar SAS
    Inventors: Sebastien Nicolas Hoffmann, Kai Kugelstadt, Burkhard Richthammer, Klaus Graner
  • Patent number: 9677781
    Abstract: A cooling unit for an agricultural vehicle has a grid for allowing air to enter the unit while limiting debris and a heat exchanger for transferring heat from a coolant to air passing across the heat exchanger. The cooling unit further has a duct with motor driven fan, and a controller to monitor fan current and operate the fan in alternating directions. The controller generates a heat exchanger blockage warning when desirable fan current thresholds are not achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Breu, Stefan Hammerle
  • Patent number: 9618001
    Abstract: A turbocharger 1 includes a compressor housing 2 and a bearing housing 3. The compressor housing 2 has a shroud surface 221 and a diffuser surface 222. The bearing housing 3 has an opposite surface 311 facing the diffuser surface 222. An adhesion preventing part 4 is provided on at least one of the diffuser surface 222 and the opposite surface 311. The turbocharger 1 is configured so that compressed air spouts out from the adhesion preventing part 4 to the diffuser passage 15 by an ejector effect caused when compressed air passes through the diffuser passage 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OTICS Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Isogai, Tetsuya Niwa
  • Patent number: 9599008
    Abstract: A thermal isolation disc for an exhaust silencer includes a first ring configured for attachment to an exhaust pipe defining a center axis, a second ring configured for attachment to a composite outer housing of a silencer, and a gasket sandwiched between the first and second rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph E. Callahan
  • Patent number: 9518373
    Abstract: Provided is a construction machine including exhaust ducts and favorably discharging air from an engine room through an air outlet. The construction machine includes an engine room with an upper wall portion and a cooling fan, the upper wall portion formed with first and second exhaust ducts. The first exhaust duct includes an upstream portion extending in a first horizontal direction and a downstream portion extending upward from a terminal end of the upstream portion to a first air outlet. The second exhaust duct includes a cross portion crossing the upstream portion in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction above the upstream portion. The cross portion allows air to flow from a second air inlet opened downward and sideward of the upstream portion to a second air outlet opposite to the second air inlet, through an upper side of the upstream portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ueda, Seiichi Onishi
  • Patent number: 9512773
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cooling apparatus comprising a plural number of (e.g., first to third) heat exchangers arranged in widthwise side-by-side relation to each other, and designed to optimize an air-volume distribution of cooling air passing through cores of the heat exchangers to thereby improve cooling efficiency. Each of the cores 41, 51 of the second and third heat exchangers 40, 50 disposed at widthwise opposite ends of the first to third heat exchangers 30, 40, 50 is formed to have a height lower than that of the core 31 of the first heat exchanger 30 disposed at a center of the first to third heat exchangers 30, 40, 50, whereby a combination of the cores 31, 41, 51 of the first to third heat exchangers 30, 40, 50 is formed in a shape corresponding to a projection of a cooling fan 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hajime Nakashima