Patents Examined by Anthony Ayala Delgado
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Patent number: 12291986Abstract: Provided is a transmission exhaust system for a utility vehicle. The utility vehicle may include a power source compartment which houses, among other components, a power source, a power source exhaust system, a transmission within a transmission enclosure, and a transmission exhaust duct. The power source compartment may have a first end and a second end. The power source exhaust may exit the power source at or near the first end of the power source compartment. The transmission exhaust duct may allow transmission exhaust to leave the transmission enclosure at or near the second end of the power source compartment. The transmission exhaust may provide a source of airflow throughout the power source compartment, which provides cleaner air and increased pressure in the power source compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventor: William R. Dahlgren
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Patent number: 12287047Abstract: The hyperboloid (or concave) exhaust bellows includes a plurality of convolutions of varying heights arranged in a hyperboloid (or concave) configuration. The hyperboloid bellows has increased strength and resiliency in high stress environments due to the hyperboloid configuration of the convolutions. The hyperboloid bellows allows for increased lateral movement in the same axial space or envelope compared to the prior art. The hyperboloid bellows having the hyperboloid shaped expansion joint produces an excessive amount of lateral motion using a single ply to multi-plies metal expansion joint bellows.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Hyspan Precision Products, Inc.Inventor: Zoltan Takarich
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Patent number: 12286918Abstract: A catalytic converter for aftertreatment of combustion gases from an internal combustion engine, having at least one catalyst and at least one electrically heatable heating disk. The catalyst and the heating disk are each formed by a honeycomb having a multitude of flow channels through which flow is possible in a main flow direction. The mechanical connection between the catalyst and the heating disk is formed by at least one support pin (having an inner core. The support pin has a thickening in each of the two end regions and, the core is formed by a ceramic material and the thickening is formed by a ceramic-metal mixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Peter Hirth, Sven Schepers, Thomas Härig
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Patent number: 12286912Abstract: A system of controlling the capture of emissions from an exhaust emitter includes a housing including an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet; an adapter configured to attach to the exhaust emitter and the inlet of the housing; an attachment assembly coupled to the exhaust emitter, the attachment assembly including at least one leg pivotably coupled to the adapter; at least one valve coupled to the housing; and a control unit capable of communicating with the at least one valve to control the emission of exhaust through the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: GREENER PROCESS SYSTEMS INC.Inventor: Maurizio Festa
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Patent number: 12281588Abstract: A compressor casing is provided. The compressor casing includes an outer wall, a rail extending inwardly from the outer wall and comprising scallop features encompassing pathways and an inner wall connected with an inboard end of the rail. The inner wall includes a first platform surface at a first side of the rail and including first fillets interfacing with first sides of the scallop features and a second platform surface outboard of the first platform surface at a second side of the rail opposite the first side and including second fillets interfacing with second sides of the scallop features.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Davis Austin, Mason Adam Kessler
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Patent number: 12280332Abstract: The present invention relates to a tail gas treatment system as well as method for lowering nitrogen oxides content from the tail gas. The tail gas treatment system includes a tail gas main pipe carrying a tail gas and a tail gas bypass pipe. The treatment system also includes a centrifugal venturi sparger assembly arranged at an end of the tail gas bypass pipe. The centrifugal venturi sparger assembly extends at least substantially in the tail gas main pipe. The centrifugal venturi sparger assembly includes a vacuum venturi generator and a hollow sparger tube. The treatment system further includes a catalytic reactor to reduce nitrogen oxides content of the tail gas by catalytic reduction.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventor: Dean Carl Potter
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Patent number: 12276219Abstract: An integrated catalyst reformer is described, including a housing which surrounds and defines at least two individualized and adjacent chambers. The first chamber is intended for the catalytic conversion of exhaust gases from the MCI and at least one second chamber intended for reforming fuel, ethanol or others, and the heat generated in the first chamber is transferred to the second chamber by thermal conduction. The first chamber is connected, upstream, to the exhaust manifold of the MCI from the inlet nozzle and is connected to the exhaust of the vehicle from the outlet nozzle, while the plenum of the first chamber is filled with a catalytic mesh. The second chamber includes a plenum filled with a catalytic mesh; an intake nozzle intended to receive both ambient air and the fuel to be reformed; and an exhaust nozzle, connected upstream of the intake manifold, so as to allow the reformed fuel to be aspirated.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: FCA Fiat Chrysler Automóveis Brasil Ltda.Inventor: Luís Carlos Monteiro Sales
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Patent number: 12264609Abstract: A turbine engine assembly generates an exhaust gas flow that is communicated through a core flow path. The exhaust gas flow is split into a first exhaust gas flow and a second exhaust gas flow. Water from the second exhaust gas flow is condensed and extracted by a condenser. The extracted water is transformed into a steam flow within an evaporator system utilizing thermal energy from at least the second exhaust gas flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventor: Neil J. Terwilliger
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Patent number: 12258961Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: J. WAGNER GmbHInventors: Thorsten Schnittger, Lam Huu Nguyen, Florian Spindler, Alfred Göhring
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Patent number: 12258890Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Kumagai, Yuta Shimizu
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Patent number: 12258891Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey T. Tweet, David L. Vigen
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Patent number: 12258895Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Khunte, William D. Meyer, Marvin Karugarama, Kyle Robert Fath
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Patent number: 12258924Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLESInventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Jérémie Rabineau, Alexis Yves-Marie Loncle, Laurent Georges Valleroy
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Patent number: 12253083Abstract: 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 oType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Bumdong Sa, Seseok Seol, Seokhwan Moon
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Patent number: 12247509Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Atsushi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12241400Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jose L. Rodriguez, Ali Akturk, Fuad Ismayilov, Ardit Bitincka
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Patent number: 12241414Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Ryan Prescott Susca, Sachin Ramprashad, Ryan Shook
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Patent number: 12234821Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Erfeng Yang, Sheng Liang, Zhenfei Duan
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Patent number: 12228055Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Yong Yi, Nathan Folger, Christopher Schell
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Patent number: 12228062Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Generac Power Systems, Inc.Inventors: Enrique Guzman, Joseph Morgan, Antonio Carini