Patents Examined by Anthony Ayala Delgado
  • Patent number: 12258924
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a nacelle of a turbojet engine of an aircraft extending about a longitudinal axis and including a fixed structure and at least one door which is rotatable between a closed position and an open position and including a downstream frame spaced axially from a downstream end edge of the door by an axial clearance parallel to the longitudinal axis. The thrust reverser includes a system for diverting fluids to the exterior including at least one projection fixed onto the door or the other fixed structure and extending into the axial clearance and towards one of the fixed structure or the door, while leaving an axial gap between a free end of said projection and one of the fixed structure or the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Jérémie Rabineau, Alexis Yves-Marie Loncle, Laurent Georges Valleroy
  • Patent number: 12258961
    Abstract: A fault-rectification method for an eccentric screw pump of a conveying apparatus for conveying viscous construction materials, comprising the steps of monitoring a start of a conveying operation of the eccentric screw pump by way of a characteristic-variable-monitoring program of a control device of the conveying apparatus, wherein a working-free program is executed by the control device of the eccentric screw pump if, for one or more characteristic variables. The characteristic-variable-monitoring program acquires characteristic-variable values which are stored, alone or in combination with one another, as fault values that indicate jamming of a rotor/stator unit of the eccentric screw pump, and wherein otherwise a conveying operation is begun. The eccentric screw pump is operated in the working-free program in such a way that an electric motor of a drive unit of the conveying apparatus is multiply alternately switched on and switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: J. WAGNER GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Schnittger, Lam Huu Nguyen, Florian Spindler, Alfred Göhring
  • Patent number: 12258895
    Abstract: A power converter apparatus includes a parent circuit board comprising a first surface, a second surface, and a thermal conductor core disposed intermediate the first surface and the second surface. A first child circuit is board mounted on the parent circuit board. A first plurality of power switches are mounted on the first child circuit board. A second child circuit is board mounted on the parent circuit board. A second plurality of power switches are mounted on the second child circuit board. A first heat transfer circuit includes a first set of conductors thermally conductively coupling the first plurality of power switches with the thermal conductor core. A second heat transfer circuit includes a second set of conductors thermally conductively coupling the second plurality of power switches with the thermal conductor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Khunte, William D. Meyer, Marvin Karugarama, Kyle Robert Fath
  • Patent number: 12258890
    Abstract: A catalyst deterioration diagnosis device, including: a processor to execute, when a cycle of reversal between increasing and decreasing of a fuel amount is disturbed such that the increasing/decreasing of the fuel amount is reversed three or more times in a period that is identical in length with a period in which the increasing/decreasing of the fuel amount is reversed twice when the reversal between increasing and decreasing of the fuel amount is normal, a process of diagnosing the deterioration state of a catalyst based on plural sets of data of the output signal of a downstream oxygen concentration sensor obtained in each unit period during a diagnosis period. The sets of data obtained in each unit period during the diagnosis period is not susceptible to an influence of variations including both increase and decrease of the output signal of the downstream oxygen concentration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Kumagai, Yuta Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12258891
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a snowmobile includes a muffler housing, the bottom end of the muffler housing including a muffler exhaust outlet configured to emit exhaust. The exhaust system includes a muffler housing cover spaced from the muffler housing to define an airflow channel therebetween, the muffler housing cover forming a bottom opening. The exhaust system also includes a gas combiner at least partially surrounding the muffler exhaust outlet on the bottom end of the muffler housing and extending through the bottom opening of the muffler housing cover. The gas combiner receives air from the airflow channel and the exhaust from the muffler exhaust outlet to emit a combined air-exhaust stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Tweet, David L. Vigen
  • Patent number: 12253083
    Abstract: A rotary compressor is provided that may include a cylinder; a chamber eccentrically formed in the cylinder and accommodating a predetermined working fluid; a rotor rotatably received in the chamber and arranged so as to be concentric to the cylinder; first and second bearings disposed on upper and lower portions, respectively, of the cylinder so as to close the chamber, and which support a drive shaft of the rotor; a plurality of vanes movably installed on the rotor in a radial direction thereof, and protruding from the rotor up to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder so as to divide the chamber into a plurality of compression spaces; first and second guide grooves which, in order to accommodate a portion of the vanes, are formed on respective surfaces, facing the chamber, of the first and second bearings so as to be concentric to the chamber, and guide the plurality of vanes while the rotor is rotating so that the plurality of vanes continuously protrude up to the inner circumferential surface o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bumdong Sa, Seseok Seol, Seokhwan Moon
  • Patent number: 12247509
    Abstract: A catalyst temperature control apparatus includes: a calculation part calculating an amount of heat transfer obtained by adding together i) an amount of heat that transfers from a wall surface of a catalyst to exhaust based on an exhaust temperature, exhaust flow rate, and catalyst wall surface temperature of an upstream side of the catalyst, and ii) an amount of heat that transfers from the wall surface of the catalyst to the outside air around the catalyst based on the catalyst wall surface temperature, the outside air temperature, and a vehicle speed; and a heater control part causing a heater provided upstream of the catalyst to generate heat if an estimated catalyst wall surface temperature of the catalyst after a first predetermined time period, which has been estimated on the basis of the amount of heat transfer and the catalyst wall surface temperature, is lower than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12241414
    Abstract: A system includes an actuation pump sub-system (APS). A fuel oil cooler (FOC) is included in a first branch of a supply line. The FOC is in fluid communication to receive flow from a second outlet of the APS. The APS includes a bypass valve (BPV) in a second branch of the supply line, in parallel with the FOC and in fluid communication to allow flow from the third outlet into the supply line bypassing the FOC. A combined main and augmentor pump sub-system (CMAPS) has a main inlet connected in fluid communication with the supply line downstream of the BPV and FOC, a gas generator (GG) outlet for supplying fuel to a downstream gas generator, and an augmentor outlet for supplying fuel to a downstream augmentor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Prescott Susca, Sachin Ramprashad, Ryan Shook
  • Patent number: 12241400
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system 10 is provided to (i) capture waste heat 16, such as from or within an exhaust pipe 32 of a tractor-trailer 18, (ii) extract a thermal heat value from the waste heat 16, (iii) convert the thermal heat value into electricity, and (iv) route the electricity to an electricity sink 26, such as a tractor-trailer 18 Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jose L. Rodriguez, Ali Akturk, Fuad Ismayilov, Ardit Bitincka
  • Patent number: 12234821
    Abstract: Disclosed are a scroll compressor and a method for assembling a non-orbiting scroll of the scroll compressor. The scroll compressor includes: a scroll mechanism including a non-orbiting scroll which includes a non-orbiting scroll end plate and a non-orbiting scroll wrap and an outer peripheral wall; and a main bearing seat for supporting the scroll mechanism including a main body part and an axial seat portion whose inner peripheral surface is formed with a circumferential annular groove. The scroll compressor further includes an elastic ring provided between the outer peripheral wall and the axial seat portion and a push structure for forcing the elastic ring to expand radially outward, so that a part of the elastic ring in a radial direction is inserted into the circumferential annular groove to limit axial movement of the non-orbiting scroll away from the main bearing seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Erfeng Yang, Sheng Liang, Zhenfei Duan
  • Patent number: 12228060
    Abstract: A control system is arranged to control the heater system; wherein the control system is programmed to heat the exhaust after treatment system based on a setpoint value. The control system comprises a controller having an error input and an output; that outputs a heating power setpoint value that is adjusted by a feedback signal, said adjusted setpoint value provided in parallel to a branch including the heater system and a branch including a dynamic response system. The dynamic response system comprises a dynamic response part and a delay part. A first subtractor subtracts a measured heat output and an output of the dynamic response system; an adder adds an output of the dynamic response part and an output of the first subtractor. A second subtractor subtracts a heating power setpoint from the output of the adder to provide a control error signal for the error input of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DAF Trucks N.V.
    Inventors: Ignace Theodorus Maria Van Den Heuvel, Tim Weidema
  • Patent number: 12228055
    Abstract: A sensor and housing assembly may include a sensor configured to detect a quantity of a gas in engine exhaust, and a housing including an inner upstream wall, a first inner side wall having a sensor opening for the sensor, an inner downstream wall opposite to the inner upstream wall, and a second inner side wall opposite to the first inner side wall, and having a housing inlet and a housing outlet that is opposite to the sensor opening in the first inner side wall. The sensor is positioned within the sensor opening on the first inner side wall, and a tip of the sensor protrudes through the housing outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Yi, Nathan Folger, Christopher Schell
  • Patent number: 12228062
    Abstract: A diesel emissions control system comprising a first DEF tank and a second DEF tank. A pump for pumping fluid from one or more of the first DEF tank and the second DEF tank. A connection line fluidly connecting the first DEF tank and the second DEF tank. A heating system preventing freezing of the DEF in the diesel emissions control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Generac Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Guzman, Joseph Morgan, Antonio Carini
  • Patent number: 12221915
    Abstract: An air supply to an internal combustion engine, which includes at least one cylinder and a heater. A first air duct is provided for supplying air to the at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine for operating the internal combustion engine and a second air duct is provided for supplying air to a heater for heating an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine. The first and second air ducts are connected by a third air duct to an air filter, for providing filtered ambient air to the internal combustion engine. The first and second air ducts in each case have at least one control element for controlling the amount of air flowing through. The second and third air ducts in each case have a mass flow sensor for measuring a mass of the air flowing through the relevant air duct. Methods and devices for diagnosing the air supply are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Benedikt Graf, Christian Disch, Conrad Bubeck, Stefan Bauer
  • Patent number: 12215684
    Abstract: A scroll compressor may include an oil supply passage provided independent of an intermediate pressure chamber to allow an oil passage of a rotational shaft to communicate with a compression chamber, such that some of the oil suctioned through the oil passage is guided to the compression chamber. As an inner space of a casing communicates directly with the compression chamber without passing through the intermediate pressure chamber, even in a state in which an operating pressure ratio is, for example, 1.3 or less, namely, even if a differential pressure between the inner space and the compression chamber is not large, oil stored in the inner space may be smoothly supplied to the compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Howon Lee, Cheolhwan Kim, Sangbaek Park
  • Patent number: 12214889
    Abstract: An integral propulsion and auxiliary power generation system includes a rocket engine, a liquid propellant supply system, an auxiliary electrical system, and a transmission system. The liquid propellant supply system is configured to supply a liquid fuel and a liquid oxidizer to the rocket engine. The liquid propellant supply system includes a gas generator configured to burn a mixture of the liquid fuel and the liquid oxidizer to generate a combustion gas stream, and a gas turbine configured to convert the kinetic energy of the combustion gas stream into mechanical energy. The auxiliary electrical system includes a power generator configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and an electric load device electrically coupled to the power generator. The transmission system is configured to mechanically couple the gas turbine and the power generator to selectively transfer mechanical energy between the gas turbine and the power generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Venus Aerospace Corp.
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Duggleby, Nicholas D. Cardwell, Christian Bailey
  • Patent number: 12209521
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system includes a first decomposition chamber that receives exhaust and treatment fluid, a first dosing module that includes a first injector that injects the treatment fluid into the first decomposition chamber, and a second decomposition chamber disposed downstream of the first decomposition chamber and that receives the exhaust and the treatment fluid from the first decomposition chamber. The exhaust aftertreatment system further includes a second dosing module that includes a second injector that injects the treatment fluid into the second decomposition chamber and a pressure sensor that generates a pressure signal based on a pressure of the treatment fluid in the second dosing module. The exhaust aftertreatment system further includes a variable resistor selectively switchable between multiple resistances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masoud Ziabakhsh Deilami, Joe V. Hill, Jens Honeck, Ralf Rohrmueller
  • Patent number: 12209586
    Abstract: A non-lubricated system for pumping a gas, includes a stationary stator with a housing that includes a rotor cavity and at least one rotatable rotor element incorporated within the rotor cavity. The stator includes at least one self-supporting sealing element, incorporated within the rotor cavity between an end face of at least one of the rotor elements and an interior wall of the housing to form a seal along the corresponding end face. At least one self-supporting sealing element is provided with an abradable coating on at least one side facing the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Karen Anna Leon Marien, Guido Jozef Christian Peeters
  • Patent number: 12203402
    Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for purifying exhaust gas of a vessel and a vessel including the same, in which a risk for a vessel and crew of being exposed to ammonia gas used to collect carbon dioxide included in exhaust gas emitted from a vessel may be minimized and an ammonia solution may be recycled and reused to collect carbon dioxide, in order to satisfy regulations on discharge of exhaust gas by the IMO. Also, the present invention provides an apparatus 1000 for purifying exhaust gas of a vessel and a method of purifying exhaust gas of a vessel using the same, in which carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide included in exhaust gas emitted from a vessel may be collected by using a reaction solution and may be changed into a substance that does not affect the environment so as to be stored and transported to land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: HANWHA OCEAN CO., LTD., HI AIR KOREA
    Inventors: Keun Bae Kim, Gwang Hyun Lee, Hyung Ju Roh, Min Woo Lee, Won Kyeong Son, Byung Tak Nam, So Young Choi, Seung Min Jeon
  • Patent number: 12196119
    Abstract: Included are: a CO2 adsorber 7 including a plurality of adsorption passages 71 allowing exhaust gas to flow through and an adsorbent, on its wall surface, capable of adsorbing and desorbing CO2 depending on a temperature, and a heat exchanger 6 including a plurality of heat exchange passages 61 allowing the exhaust gas to flow through, being disposed in contact with the CO2 adsorber 7, and, when the exhaust gas flows through the heat exchange passages 61, transferring the heat to the CO2 adsorber 7 for heating it while removing the heat of the exhaust gas. The numbers of adsorption cells 72 and heat exchange cells 62 per unit area in a transverse section C are each set to a predetermined number and/or the sizes of the adsorption cell 72 and the heat exchange cell 62 in the transverse section C are each set to a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Uto, Takuya Mito, Shumon Hoshino, Osami Yamamoto