Having Retainer Or Flow Director For Exhaust Gas Condensate Patents (Class 60/309)
  • Patent number: 11879402
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided to reduce combustion time and/or combustion temperature in an internal combustion engine. In an exemplary embodiment, intake air and oxygen-rich gas are introduced upstream of a turbofan, wherein the amount of oxygen rich gas is controlled in proportion to the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HyTech Power, LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Jonson, Peter Riesselman, Ron Bingel, Jay Morrow, Fred Hess, Robb Robel
  • Patent number: 11828215
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to a prime mover system. More specifically, this disclosure relates to a prime mover exhaust system that can prevent the accumulation of debris (e.g., soot or unburned fuel) in the prime mover system. In accordance with at least one embodiment described and recited herein, a self-cleaning prime mover exhaust system is provided. The prime mover exhaust system includes an exhaust tip, an exhaust pipe, and a cleaning tube. The exhaust tip is configured to eject exhaust out of the prime mover exhaust system, the exhaust pipe is configured to direct the exhaust away from a prime mover, and the cleaning tube is configured to accumulate debris exiting from the exhaust pipe and configured to vacuum the debris out of the self-cleaning prime mover exhaust system through the exhaust tip using the Venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: THERMO KING LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey G. Harkness
  • Patent number: 11802502
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes a light-off catalyst, an exhaust system component, and at least one H2O trap. The exhaust system component is upstream from the light-off catalyst and includes catalyst material, the catalyst material configured to store hydrocarbons during a period when the light-off catalyst is warming up to a light-off temperature. The at least one H2O trap is at or upstream from the exhaust system component and is configured to perform H2O adsorption and desorption to increase a length of time for the exhaust system component to reach a hydrocarbon release temperature and prevent the exhaust system component from reaching the hydrocarbon release temperature prior to the light-off catalyst reaching the light-off temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Patrick G. Szymkowicz, Mingjie Tu, Yuntao Gu, Calvin Thomas
  • Patent number: 11614009
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system includes a tubular component having an inner surface and an outer surface such that the inner surface defines a primary exhaust gas flow path and wherein the tubular component extends along a central axis from an inlet end to an outlet end. The tubular component comprises at least one ridge along the central axis. The at least one ridge extends at least partly along a circumference of the tubular component. Each ridge includes a first portion angularly devoid of apertures and extending inwardly from the tubular component and a second portion disposed downstream of the first portion. The second portion is angularly devoid of apertures and extends inwardly from the tubular component. The tubular component also includes a plurality of spaced apertures positioned along a portion of the circumference of the tubular component and downstream of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick Michael Baumgartner, Garrick Robert Zuver
  • Patent number: 11306643
    Abstract: A plant for the absorption of individual components, such as pollutants or recyclable materials, in gases, in which an absorption solution is brought into contact with the gas in an absorption chamber, where the absorption solution is fed into the absorption chamber through spray nozzles and the gas can be fed into the absorption chamber from below through a vertical inlet duct, where the inlet duct is covered by a roof structure. The roof structure is made up of a large number of lamellae placed one on top of one another and with spaces in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Andritz AG
    Inventors: Martin Koller, Thomas Gurker, Bernhard Dunkl
  • Patent number: 10989097
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust system for a vehicle having an exhaust passageway through which products of combustion from the engine pass through and out to atmosphere, which exhaust system has a bead portion formed in the exhaust passageway with one more holes in the lower portion thereof through which at least a portion of the rain which has entered the interior of the exhaust passageway may flow out from the interior of the exhaust passageway prior to flowing downward to a lower portion of the exhaust passageway at which the rain is undesirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas L. Cumbey
  • Patent number: 10927457
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in this embodiment includes a reactor, a pump, an exhaust pipe and a mesh member. The reactor houses a semiconductor substrate to treat the semiconductor substrate. The pump exhausts a gas inside the reactor. The exhaust pipe connects between the reactor and the pump. The mesh member is located at a flow inlet of the pump for the gas or in the exhaust pipe and has a main plane having a plurality of meshes arranged thereon. The mesh member has a protrusion and/or protruding shape projecting upstream of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakahara, Kazuhiro Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10895224
    Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine includes an EGR cooler having a heat exchange surface exposed to a flow of exhaust, and a second heat exchange surface. A coolant heat exchanger is fluidly connected to a coolant outlet of the EGR cooler and a coolant pump is fluidly connected to a coolant inlet of the EGR cooler. A condensate collector collects condensate from exhaust, and a condensate pump pumps condensate from the condensate collector to a sprayer to spray condensate onto the second heat exchange surface to vaporize the condensate for discharging out through an outgoing exhaust conduit of the exhaust system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaswinder Singh, Michael Bardell, David Ginter, Paul Wang, Patrick Seiler
  • Patent number: 10883419
    Abstract: A method and system for improving the fuel economy and lowering the emissions of internal combustion engines by injecting predetermined amounts and ratios of on-board or locally generated hydrogen and oxygen to the engine's air intake and varying the gas addition volume and hydrogen/oxygen ratio as a function of the operating conditions, e.g., in line with the instant engine load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: dynaCERT Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alexander, Geoffrey Sheerin, Klaus Tomantschger
  • Patent number: 10494993
    Abstract: A method and system for improving the fuel economy and lowering the emissions of internal combustion engines by injecting predetermined amounts and ratios of on-board or locally generated hydrogen and oxygen to the engine's air intake and varying the gas addition volume and hydrogen/oxygen ratio as a function of the operating conditions, e.g., in line with the instant engine load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: dynaCERT Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alexander, Geoffrey Sheerin, Klaus Tomantschger
  • Patent number: 9822684
    Abstract: An exhaust gas duct system for an internal combustion engine includes an upstream, first exhaust gas pipe area (30), a downstream, second exhaust gas pipe area (34) adjoining the first exhaust gas pipe area (30) in a transition area (38) in an exhaust gas flow direction (G), and a liquid drain channel area (60) in the transition area. The drain channel area is open from the exhaust gas flow volume (78) in the first exhaust gas pipe area (30) or/and in the second exhaust gas pipe area (34) to a liquid collection volume (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Remus Boriga, Michael Marquardt-Stammberger
  • Patent number: 9675919
    Abstract: A method of treating a particulate filter includes introducing a work fluid, such as water, into one or more channels of the filter and then removing the work fluid in a vaporized state. The channels contain an amount of ash and the density of the ash is greater subsequent to the removal of the work fluid than prior to the introduction of the work fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thorsten Rolf Boger, Yunfeng Gu, Suhao He
  • Patent number: 9453452
    Abstract: A muffler comprises an outer shell, an outlet pipe, and a restraining mechanism. A restraining mechanism restrains a height of spout of a liquid that flows inside the outlet pipe through a designated vent hole, the designated vent hole is at least one vent hole facing against a bottom surface of the outer shell among the at least one vent hole that the outlet pipe comprises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Kondo, Masahiro Kajikawa, Masayuki Sudoh
  • Patent number: 9416717
    Abstract: A muffler comprises an outer shell, an outlet pipe, and a restraining mechanism. A restraining mechanism restrains a height of spout of a liquid that flows inside the outlet pipe through a designated vent hole, the designated vent hole is at least one vent hole facing against a bottom surface of the outer shell among the at least one vent hole that the outlet pipe comprises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Kondo, Masahiro Kajikawa, Masayuki Sudoh
  • Patent number: 9074037
    Abstract: An iron-containing polymer is provided for use as a fuel additive for promoting trap regeneration. The polymer shows a beneficial balance of physical properties, and is prepared from iron salts by a polymerization process involving base addition, and subsequent co-ordination of branched-chain polycarboxylate ligands. The polymer can be stored in highly concentrate form, and shows particular suitability for on board dosing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Colin Morton, Russell M. Thompson
  • Patent number: 8950175
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas aftertreatment device for an internal combustion engine includes a catalytic converter having a tubular member which defines a volume housing a catalytic converter substrate. The volume housing the catalytic converter substrate communicates with an inlet portion for receiving exhaust gas from the engine and with an outlet portion for discharging the exhaust gas after catalytic conversion thereof in the volume. The device further has a pipe member within the tubular member which connects the inlet portion with the volume in the tubular member and guides the exhaust gas from the inlet portion in a first direction of flow. The pipe member opens downstream into a deflector which deflects the exhaust gas into the volume of the tubular member in a second direction of flow other than the first direction of flow. Unburned liquid fuel contained in the exhaust gas is deposited on the deflector for later evaporation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Mats Laurell, Jan Dahlgren, Staffan Ovesson
  • Patent number: 8938952
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to suppress a decrease in insulation resistance between electrodes and a case in an electric heating catalyst (EHC). An EHC (1) according to the present invention is provided with a heat generation element (3) that is energized to generate heat thereby to heat a catalyst, a case (4) that receives the heat generation element therein, an insulating member (5) that is arranged between the heat generation element (3) and the case (4) for insulating electricity, electrodes (7) that are connected to the heat generation element (3) through an electrode chamber (9) which is a space located between an inner wall surface of the case (4) and an outer peripheral surface of the heat generation element (3), and a ventilation passage (10) that ventilates the electrode chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Kumagai, Mamoru Yoshioka, Naoya Takagi
  • Patent number: 8910469
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to suppress a decrease in insulation resistance between electrodes and a case in an electric heating catalyst (EHC). An EHC (1) according to the present invention is provided with a heat generation element (3) that is energized to generate heat thereby to heat a catalyst, a case (4) that receives the heat generation element therein, an insulating member (5) that is arranged between the heat generation element (3) and the case (4) for insulating electricity, electrodes (7) that are connected to the heat generation element (3) through an electrode chamber (9) which is a space located between an inner wall surface of the case (4) and an outer peripheral surface of the heat generation element (3), and a ventilation passage (10) that ventilates the electrode chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Kumagai, Mamoru Yoshioka, Naoya Takagi
  • Patent number: 8910747
    Abstract: A tail pipe assembly for a vehicle includes a tail pipe mounted to a muffler of the vehicle and discharging exhaust gas and condensation water to an outside, and at least one main collecting element that is mounted within the tail pipe, suppresses flow of the condensation water and temporarily stores the condensation water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Sang Il Lee, Dea Gil Hwang, Jay-Yon Jo, Jongho Seon
  • Patent number: 8863498
    Abstract: The present invention has for its subject to avoid a situation that condensed water stays around electrode terminals, in an electric heating type exhaust gas purification apparatus which is arranged in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Noriaki Kumagai, Naoya Takagi
  • Patent number: 8733086
    Abstract: A tail trim assembly for an exhaust pipe in a vehicle which may be mounted at a rear portion of the exhaust pipe that may be formed at an end of a vehicle muffler and discharges exhaust gas and condensed water from the muffler to the outside, may include a main body fitted around the rear portion of the exhaust pipe, at least a welding part formed at an end of the main body and welded to the exhaust pipe, and a collecting part formed at a rear end of the main body, wherein the rear end of the main body and a rear end of the rear portion in the exhaust pipe may be spaced with a predetermined gap to collect the condensed water discharged from the exhaust pipe therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hak Son Han, Je Hui Jun
  • Patent number: 8733329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an exhaust gas system, which comprises an exhaust gas line by means of which the exhaust gas can be removed from the internal combustion engine, as well as an exhaust gas recirculation line by means of which the exhaust gas can be recirculated into the internal combustion engine from the exhaust gas line. The exhaust gas recirculation line has an exhaust gas cooler and a condensate line for removing the condensate from the recirculated exhaust gas, wherein the condensate line is connected with a first end to the exhaust gas recirculation line downstream of the exhaust gas cooler in the direction of flow of the exhaust gas and with a second end to the exhaust gas line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Uwe Sailer, Hubert Vollmer
  • Patent number: 8733087
    Abstract: A drain system and method for draining a first liquid, including a collection vessel having a first chamber arranged to receive the first liquid, a second chamber, and higher and lower valves positioned between the first and second chambers. When the valves are open, liquids can pass between the chambers. When the pressure in the second chamber exceeds that in the first chamber by more than a first predetermined amount, the valves are closed. A first outlet to the second chamber allows liquids to flow from the second chamber. In a first mode, the first inlet supplies a second liquid at a pressure higher than that of the first liquid in the first chamber such that the valves are closed. In a second mode, the first inlet stops supplying the second liquid such that the pressure in the second chamber reduces relative to the first chamber allowing the valves open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin (UK) Ltd.
    Inventor: Phillip R. Core
  • Patent number: 8615991
    Abstract: A device for reducing corrosive constituents in an exhaust gas condensate of an internal combustion engine is provided, in which the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is recirculated to the internal combustion engine via an exhaust gas recirculation system having an exhaust gas cooler and at least one exhaust gas recirculation line. To protect the exhaust gas recirculation system along with intake air components and the internal combustion engine from the corrosive effects of the exhaust gas condensate, the exhaust gas recirculation system has at least one neutralization unit for neutralizing the corrosive constituents of the exhaust gas condensate, which is connected to at least one component arranged downstream, through which the exhaust gas, which has been freed of nearly all corrosive constituents, flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Ruckwied, Wolfgang Knoedler, Klaus Irmler, Joerg Werner
  • Patent number: 8607545
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device is provided for controlling the air-fuel ratio of an engine. The device includes an exhaust passage having a main catalytic converter and a bypass passage having a bypass catalytic converter, the bypass passage diverging from the exhaust passage at an upstream junction and rejoining the exhaust passage at a downstream junction. A valve mechanism disposed in the exhaust passage between the upstream junction and the downstream junction moves between a closed state and an open state. During a predetermined period of time after the valve mechanism opens to permit flow in the exhaust passage, the air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled based on a signal from a first air-fuel ratio sensor in the bypass passage using a low response correction value that is less than a normal response correction value that would be used when the valve mechanism is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ootake, Yasuji Ishizuka, Masaki Koga
  • Patent number: 8601800
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive exhaust system that removes harmful contaminants from engine exhaust and thus reduces air pollution, presents a number of distinct and significant benefits and advantages. Foremost, the Green Muffler subjects engine exhaust gases to a two-stage cleansing and purification process, first scrubbing the gases in a recirculating air-and-water bath; and then combining the remnant gases with an air-freshening chemical before release to the atmosphere. The Green Muffler, then, serves to lower a vehicle's carbon-dioxide and carbon-monoxide emissions and thereby reduces the level of air pollution and atmospheric warming due to car exhaust. Further, the Green Muffler reduces the temperature of vehicle exhaust, another plus for the planet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Akinobu Ojima
  • Patent number: 8572949
    Abstract: A flow guide (8) is provided for an exhaust system (3) of an internal combustion engine (1), especially in a motor vehicle. The flow guide (8) has at least one U-shaped guide plate body (13), which can be mounted with its U-base (14) on a pipe section (4?) of the exhaust system (3) and whose U-legs (15) form in the mounted state a flow guide plate (15) each. The flow guide plate cooperates with an exhaust gas stream (19) being guided in the pipe section (4?) during the operation of the exhaust system (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Georg Wirth
  • Patent number: 8561390
    Abstract: An energy production and pressurized exhaust gas storage system including two combustion chambers aligned in opposition to each other, each of the two combustion chambers having a reciprocating power piston. A compression chamber is situated between the two combustion chambers and it includes a reciprocating compression piston. A shaft connects all of the pistons together. A solvent tank is connected to the two combustion chambers to receive the exhaust gas carbon dioxide. The solvent is preferably water maintained at about 32 degrees Fahrenheit and with a pressure above the water surface of about 100 pounds per square inch. Upon combustion, a pressurized carbon dioxide storage chamber receives compressed carbon dioxide from the compression chamber. Check valves are used to enable inflow of carbon dioxide to the compression chamber from the solvent tank and outflow of pressurized carbon dioxide in the compression chamber to storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Inventors: Rodney L. Nelson, Margaret A. Nelson, Durwood D. Woodall
  • Patent number: 8540793
    Abstract: An exhaust processing device includes a main body tube portion and a closing tube portion. The main body tube portion includes an opening in an axial end thereof, houses a main body exhaust path in an inside thereof, which allows an exhaust gas to pass therethrough. The closing tube portion includes a plate portion and a tubular portion. The plate portion covers the opening of the axial end of the main body tube portion. The tubular portion radially outwardly protrudes from an outer peripheral surface of the main body tube portion, and is integrated with the plate portion. The tubular portion houses an exhaust path in an inside thereof, which communicates with the main body exhaust path. The tubular portion of the closing tube portion includes a first split half portion integrally molded with the plate portion, and a second split half portion joined to the first split half portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Kasaoka, Tatsushi Itou, Shouhei Nagasaka, Hirofumi Takanuki
  • Patent number: 8511072
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating a liquid from a mixed gas stream can include a wall, a mixed gas stream passageway, and a liquid collection assembly. The wall can include a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of capillary condensation pores. The capillary condensation pores extend through the wall, and have a first opening on the first surface of the wall, and a second opening on the second surface of the wall. The pore size of the pores can be between about 2 nm to about 100 nm. The mixed gas stream passageway can be in fluid communication with the first opening. The liquid collection assembly can collect liquid from the plurality of pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Roddie R. Judkins, Brian L. Bischoff, Melanie Moses Debusk, Chaitanya Narula
  • Patent number: 8464524
    Abstract: A system for trapping liquid exhaust during a cold start of an internal combustion engine is provided. As one example, a system includes, an exhaust inlet, an exchange area fluidly coupled downstream of said exhaust inlet, a trap coupled to said exchange area having a liquid exhaust chamber for collection of liquid exhaust, and a catalytic converter fluidly coupled downstream to said exchange area. In another example, a method includes condensing, at least partly, exhaust from the engine in an exchange area in an exhaust system into liquid exhaust, collecting liquid exhaust into a trap disposed in the exchange area, and evaporating the liquid exhaust into the exchange area after an evaporation temperature is reached in the trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Karl Bidner, John M. Roth, Ken O. Jahr, Gopichandra Surnilla, James Michael Kerns, Timothy Joseph Clark
  • Patent number: 8459015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal combustion engine and, more particularly, an internal combustion engine having a new and novel system for improving the efficiency of the engine. In a preferred embodiment the system comprises an expander effective for receiving condensed engine exhaust and placing said exhaust in contact with copper or a copper alloy and for transforming the exhaust into vapor for transfer into the combustion chamber of the engine. In a preferred embodiment the system further comprises a condenser means for cooling the exhaust exiting the engine sufficiently to condense any water vapor and/or fuel vapor to form a liquid mixture or water and fuel, collecting and storing the liquid mixture, and directing the stored liquid mixture to the expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Inventor: Timothy C. Coletta
  • Publication number: 20130098341
    Abstract: An intercooler for a vehicle that cools a mixture of EGR gas and exhaust gas may include a cooler main body with an inlet portion through which the mixture flows in formed at one side thereof and an outlet portion through which the mixture flows out formed at the other end side thereof, connection tubes that connect the inlet portion with the outlet portion and are arranged from an upper side to a lower side of the cooler main body to cool the mixture, and a condensate storage unit that connects a lower end portion of the inlet portion with a lower end portion of the outlet portion and stores the condensate that is formed in the connection tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: SUNG IL YOON, HWAN MOOK LIM
  • Publication number: 20130025267
    Abstract: An electrically-heated catalytic converter comprises a catalyst support which produces heat when electric current is applied, a holding mat made of an electrical insulating material, the holding mat being provided so as to cover an outer circumference of the catalyst support, and a case which houses the catalyst support and holds the catalyst support via the holding mat. The catalytic converter treats gas flowing in the case by a catalyst supported on the catalyst support. The holding mat has a water-absorbing property. An insulation layer made of an electrical insulating material is provided between the case and the holding mat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Noriaki Kumagai, Naoya Takagi, Tatsuo Iida, Yasuo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8360035
    Abstract: During starting of an engine that has a circulation path through which argon, used as working gas, is circulated back to a combustion chamber and that uses hydrogen as fuel during operation, oxygen is supplied in such a manner that the oxygen supply ratio is higher than that used during normal operation. Thus, the entirety of hydrogen supplied into the combustion chamber reacts with oxygen and is burned. When the engine is being started, because gas is not turbulent enough, hydrogen and oxygen are likely to be mixed poorly. Therefore, when oxygen is supplied in such a manner that the ratio of oxygen supply amount to the hydrogen supply amount is higher than the theoretical ratio, even if oxygen and hydrogen are not mixed so well, the chance that hydrogen contacts oxygen is increased. As a result, combustion takes place in a more appropriate manner, which improves the engine startability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rentaro Kuroki, Daisaku Sawada
  • Patent number: 8327633
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe for a vehicle-mounted engine. An inner pipe inserted in an outer pipe contacts, at its outer end, with the inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe at a first position, the outer pipe contacts the inner pipe at a second position different from the first position, and thus an expansion chamber is formed between the inner pipe the outer pipe. The inner pipe includes a plurality of communication holes for communicating the inside of the inner pipe and the expansion chamber, thereby forming a muffler. An exhaust gas purification catalyst is provided within the outer pipe adjacent to the expansion chamber. On the inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe, a weir for stopping condensed water is provided between the outer end of the inner pipe and the exhaust gas purification catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8312961
    Abstract: A soot preventing type tail trim may include a tail pipe discharging exhaust gas, and a body enclosing an outer circumference of the tail pipe with a predetermined space therebetween, such that wind may be allowed to flow into the predetermined space and to be discharged therefrom to generate a separation layer in the exhaust gas passing the tail pipe by the wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jongseung Won, Hoejo Jeong
  • Patent number: 8307647
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine arrangement includes an EGR circuit connecting a exhaust circuit to an intake circuit to incorporate a portion of exhaust gases in the intake gases, at least one turbine located, and a dedicated drain conduit which connects the EGR circuit to the exhaust circuit. The EGR circuit includes at least one low position point and the dedicated drain conduit permanently connects the low position point of the EGR circuit to the exhaust circuit upstream of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Renault Trucks
    Inventors: Loïc Le Flem, Benoit Lombard
  • Patent number: 8307643
    Abstract: An engine air intake system for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine may include a turbocharger; a CAC heat exchanger having an inlet end for receiving compressed intake air from the turbocharger and an outlet end; a remote condensate reservoir spaced from the CAC heat exchanger, for storing condensate therein; a condensate drain tube extending from the outlet end to the remote condensate reservoir to allow condensate produced in the CAC heat exchanger to flow into the remote condensate reservoir; an air duct connecting the outlet end to the engine to direct air flow from the outlet end to the engine; and a reservoir outlet hose connected to the remote condensate reservoir at a first end and connected to the air duct at a second end to allow condensate evaporating from the remote condensate reservoir to flow through the reservoir outlet hose into the air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Quinn, Brandon S. Helton, Kenneth J. Murphy, Tuan A Tran, Lawrence E. Walla
  • Publication number: 20120279200
    Abstract: An exhaust gas condensate control method includes selecting modeling objects from the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, acquiring control factors from the modeling objects, such as mass, temperature, pressure, absolute humidity, relative humidity, partial water vapor pressure of the exhaust gas and a gas mixture, calculating an estimated relative humidity value, a desired relative humidity value from estimated relative humidity value, and an allowable relative humidity limit and a current relative humidity value of the EGR system, and precluding production of condensate in the EGR system by feedback-controlling the intake air flow rate of a mixing pipe line, the opening amount of an LP-EGR (low pressure) valve, and boost pressure by using an applied control value compensating the desired relative humidity value. An EGR system may be an LP-EGR type or an HP-EGR (high pressure)+LP-EGR type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kihoon Nam, Jinsuk Kang
  • Patent number: 8302388
    Abstract: After adjusting an exhaust gas temperature at an exit of a heat recovery unit (11) of an exhaust gas treating apparatus to not more than a dew point temperature of sulfur trioxide (SO3), a heavy metal adsorbent is supplied from a heavy metal adsorbent supply unit (16) disposed in an exhaust gas at an entrance of a precipitator (4) or an intermediate position within the precipitator (4), and the exhaust gas containing the heavy metal adsorbent is supplied into the precipitator (4). Preferably at this stage, the heavy metal adsorbent is supplied into the exhaust gas at the entrance of the precipitator (4) 0.1 seconds after the exhaust gas temperature at the exit of the heat recovery unit (11) has been adjusted to not more than the dew point temperature of SO3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Kobayashi, Hirofumi Kikkawa, Hiroshi Ishizaka, Hiroshi Takezaki, Hiroyuki Nosaka
  • Patent number: 8250856
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, an NOX selective reducing catalyst (15) is arranged in an engine exhaust passage. Aqueous urea is fed from an aqueous urea feed valve (17) into the NOX selective reducing catalyst (15) to selectively reduce the NOX contained in the exhaust gas with the ammonia generated from the aqueous urea. The moisture contained in the exhaust gas is recovered and stored in a water tank (21). It is provided with a high concentration aqueous urea tank (22) storing high concentration aqueous urea having a higher urea concentration than the urea concentration of the aqueous urea fed to the NOX selective reducing catalyst (15), and the high concentration aqueous urea is diluted with the recovered moisture thereby generating aqueous urea fed to the NOX selective reducing catalyst (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobumoto Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8205602
    Abstract: A condensation collection system for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas recirculation system comprises a condensation collection line, a condensation accumulator, and a condensation expulsion line. The condensation collection line is disposed in fluid communication with an air intake system of an internal combustion engine. The condensation accumulator is in fluid communication with the condensation collection line. The condensation collection line being disposed between the air intake system and the condensation accumulator. The condensation expulsion line is in fluid communication with the condensation accumulator. A portion of the condensation expulsion line is disposed in contact with an engine exhaust pipe. The condensation expulsion line has an opening to vent condensation to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Pellico
  • Patent number: 8176728
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device is provided for controlling the air-fuel ratio of an engine. The device includes an exhaust passage having a main catalytic converter and a bypass passage having a bypass catalytic converter, the bypass passage diverging from the exhaust passage at an upstream junction and rejoining the exhaust passage at a downstream junction. A valve mechanism disposed in the exhaust passage between the upstream junction and the downstream junction moves between a closed state and an open state. During a predetermined period of time after the valve mechanism opens to permit flow in the exhaust passage, the air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled based on a signal from a first air-fuel ratio sensor in the bypass passage using a low response correction value that is less than a normal response correction value that would be used when the valve mechanism is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ootake, Yasuji Ishizuka, Masaki Koga
  • Patent number: 8151553
    Abstract: An internal-combustion engine receives no air from outside atmosphere and it discharges no gas into outside atmosphere. The engine receives fuel, oxygen and recycled combustion gas and its exhaust consists mostly of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Most of the gas exhausted from the engine is recycled back into the engine intake, and the remaining gas is cooled and condensed into liquid carbon dioxide and water. Discharge of greenhouse gas into environment and emission of other harmful air pollutants are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Moses Schechter
  • Publication number: 20120073275
    Abstract: A tail trim assembly for an exhaust pipe in a vehicle which may be mounted at a rear portion of the exhaust pipe that may be formed at an end of a vehicle muffler and discharges exhaust gas and condensed water from the muffler to the outside, may include a main body fitted around the rear portion of the exhaust pipe, at least a welding part formed at an end of the main body and welded to the exhaust pipe, and a collecting part formed at a rear end of the main body, wherein the rear end of the main body and a rear end of the rear portion in the exhaust pipe may be spaced with a predetermined gap to collect the condensed water discharged from the exhaust pipe therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hak Son Han, Je Hui Jun
  • Publication number: 20120067033
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank, a membrane dividing the fuel tank into at least a first and second portion, the membrane preferentially diffusing a substance from a mixture, the substance having an increased knock suppression relative to the mixture, and a controller adjusting delivery of condensed water to the tank responsive to an operating condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Mark Allen Dearth
  • Patent number: 8104456
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing exhaust-gas recirculation in an internal combustion engine that has an exhaust-gas turbocharger. The exhaust gas to be recirculated is collected from the exhaust line downstream of a turbine of the turbocharger, passed through a condensate separator, and supplied into the intake line upstream of the compressor. The condensate is filtered, collected in a reservoir, and pumped to an injection device coupled to the engine intake at a location downstream of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yasser Mohamed sayed Yacoub
  • Patent number: 8091354
    Abstract: An exhaust assembly includes a water trap blocking upstream water flow at a plurality of angular positions enabling universal application and flexibility of orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris M. Cremeens, David M. Grimm, Ashish S. Waknis, Michael J. Lamps
  • Publication number: 20120000181
    Abstract: An aftertreatment module for use with an engine is disclosed. The aftertreatment module may have a first chamber with an inlet, and at least one catalyst substrate disposed in the first chamber in a flow path through the inlet and having a flow direction from an inlet face to an outlet face in general alignment with the flow path. The aftertreatment module may also have a second chamber with at least one outlet in general alignment with the flow direction through the inlet. The aftertreatment module may further have at least one noise attenuation passage fluidly connecting the first chamber with the second chamber. The at least one noise attenuation passage may be oriented generally orthogonal to the inlet and the at least one outlet and be located between the inlet and the outlet face of the at least one catalyst substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventor: Raymond B. GERGES