Patents Examined by Anthony Ayala Delgado
  • Patent number: 11339705
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment component may be mounted in brackets, each bracket having a clamping surface which in a use orientation is arranged in parallel with a corresponding mounting surface of a fixed mount, the mounting surfaces defining adjustment planes which are spaced apart along a length axis of the mount. Each bracket may be adjusted independently in its use orientation to define a variable clamping position in the adjustment plane. In another aspect, the component may be mounted in one or more brackets, each bracket comprising curved contact surface, each surface being defined by an arc of a respective circle, each arc being contained in the circle of the other respective arc, whereby the centre points of the respective circles are spaced apart in the reference plane so that each arc is contained in the circle of the other respective arc. The component can be clamped to the bracket irrespective of its diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventors: Arpad Turoczy, Naseer Niaz
  • Patent number: 11339696
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine system that includes an internal combustion engine and an exhaust aftertreatment device. The method includes: carrying out a filling control in order to regulate a filling level of the exhaust aftertreatment device as a function of a predefined filling level setpoint value, a lambda setpoint value for a lambda regulation being predefined as a manipulated variable, adapting the filling control with the aid of an adaptation variable that indicates a correction value for the lambda setpoint value, and storing an adaptation value as a function of an operating range of the engine system, the adaptation value in question being updated with the value of the adaptation variable for the instantaneous operating range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Fey, Bernd Kraewer, Maik Unverricht
  • Patent number: 11326502
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust fumes reduction device for an internal combustion engine. The device reduces the generation of exhaust fumes and improves output and fuel efficiency by smoothing the discharge flow of exhaust gas in a state additionally mounted at the end of an exhaust line of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust fumes reduction device includes; a housing pipe connected to the end of the exhaust port to discharge exhaust gas; a vortex pipe mounted inside the housing pipe to increase the speed of the exhaust gas introduced into the housing pipe and discharge the exhaust gas spirally; and an external pipe mounted on the outside of the housing pipe and in communication with the housing pipe to allow the outside air to flow in and to assist the smooth discharge of exhaust gas discharged to the housing pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Geum Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11326501
    Abstract: A cross-pipe exhaust assembly includes: a first inlet collector splitting into an upper outlet and a lower outlet; a second inlet collector splitting into an upper outlet and a lower outlet; a first outlet collector joining an upper inlet and a lower inlet into a single outlet of the first outlet collector; a second outlet collector joining an upper inlet and a lower inlet into a single outlet of the second outlet collector; a first inline conduit located between the first inlet collector and the first outlet collector; a second inline conduit located between the second inlet collector and the second outlet collector; a first crossover conduit extending between the first inlet collector and the second outlet collector; and a second crossover conduit extending between the second inlet collector and the first outlet collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: David Akiba Borla
  • Patent number: 11326500
    Abstract: An attachment structure for an exhaust gas sensor, wherein an exhaust gas sensor is attached to a downstream connection pipe part of an exhaust pipe so as to be disposed, in a side view of a motorcycle, in a spatial region between a footrest and a brake pedal provided to the motorcycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kubo, Yuji Kurasawa, Hiroshi Tadokoro
  • Patent number: 11319849
    Abstract: Technologies for producing an exhaust gas stream with controlled hydrocarbon species are disclosed. In some embodiments the technologies include an apparatus for producing an exhaust gas stream. The apparatus may include a burner for combusting primary fuel and produce an exhaust gas stream, and an exhaust pipe coupled to the burner to receive the exhaust gas stream. One or more supplemental fuel inlets may be coupled to the exhaust gas pipe for the addition of supplemental fuel to the exhaust gas stream. In embodiments, the speciation and total concentration of hydrocarbon compounds in the exhaust gas stream may be adjusted by controlling the relative amount of supplemental fuel added to the exhaust gas stream. Methods for producing an exhaust gas stream are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cary A. Henry, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Scott T. Eakle
  • Patent number: 11300028
    Abstract: An after-treatment exhaust gas mixer for mixing the exhaust gas with a reducing agent, such as a diesel exhaust fluid for selective catalyst reduction, comprises a mixing chamber through which the exhaust gas circulates, from an inlet to an outlet, and a reducing agent sprayer, able to spray a reducing agent into the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber comprises a pipe that is rectilinear along an axis and the sprayer is positioned in the upstream part of the rectilinear pipe and oriented so as to spray in the downstream direction substantially parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: Stéphanie Meunier
  • Patent number: 11300025
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system includes a decomposition reactor, an injector, and a processor. The decomposition reactor includes a body, an impingement structure, and a heater. Exhaust gas is flowable through the body. The body includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is configured to receive the exhaust gas at a first temperature. The outlet is configured to selectively expel the exhaust gas at a second temperature greater than the first temperature. The impingement structure is disposed within the body between the inlet and the outlet. The impingement structure extends into the body and is located such that the exhaust gas flowing through the body impinges on the impingement structure. The heater is coupled to the impingement structure and configured to selectively heat the impingement structure. The injector is configured to inject reductant into the body. The processor is programmed to control the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew K. Volmerding, Gaurav Hemant Pandit
  • Patent number: 11286839
    Abstract: A method for reusing a vehicular catalyst that ensures effective reuse of a catalyst discarded when a vehicle is discarded is provided. A catalyst deterioration level of a catalytic converter is diagnosed, a catalyst that has a value of the deterioration level diagnosed to be smaller than a predetermined value is determined as a reusable catalyst, and the catalytic converter that includes the catalyst determined as the reusable catalyst is removed from a discarded vehicle. The removed catalytic converter is stored in association with a vehicle type and a manufacturing time of the discarded vehicle. When an abnormality occurs in a catalyst of a drivable vehicle corresponding to the vehicle type and the manufacturing time, a catalytic converter that includes the abnormal catalyst is replaced with the stored catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11274586
    Abstract: A method for controlling an exhaust gas purification apparatus including a front three-way catalyst (TWC) and a rear TWC that purify the exhaust gas may include determining an oxygen flow rate and a flow rate of a reducing agent introduced into the front TWC, determining the oxygen storage amount of the front TWC based on the oxygen flow rate and the flow rate of the reducing agent flowing into the front TWC, determining a maximum oxygen storage amount of the front TWC, determining a slip oxygen flow rate and a slip reducing agent flow rate of the front TWC, determining an oxygen storage amount of the rear TWC, comparing a rear TWC oxygen storage amount and a target value of the rear TWC oxygen storage amount, and maintaining a catalyst purge of the front TWC when the rear TWC oxygen storage amount is greater than the target value of the rear TWC oxygen storage amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Sung Park
  • Patent number: 11274591
    Abstract: Nitrous oxide (NOx) sensors and related methods and systems for use with combustion processes. The NOx sensor uses metal oxide semiconductors. The NOx sensor may have two sensing circuits that share a common electrode. The sensing circuits are differentiated by having different porous catalytic filter coatings protecting the metal oxide semiconductors: one sensing circuit has a porous catalytic filter coating that contains a Noxcat material (rhodium, ruthenium, cobalt, palladium, or nickel), while the porous catalytic filter coating of the other sensing circuit is substantially free of Noxcat material. The two sensing circuits are simultaneously exposed to the exhaust gases at a common macro location. The NOx level may be determined based on a difference in resistance between the two sensing circuits and a temperature of the NOx sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Kerdea Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Ervin Fosaaen
  • Patent number: 11268421
    Abstract: The invention relates to a regeneration air system for an exhaust aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine and to such an exhaust aftertreatment system. The regeneration air system comprises a regeneration air delivery element, a regeneration air duct, and a regeneration air valve. A sensor system is provided in the regeneration air duct with which a regeneration air mass flow {dot over (m)}SL can be determined exactly. The exhaust aftertreatment system comprises an exhaust system with an exhaust duct in which, in the direction of flow of an exhaust gas through the exhaust duct, a three-way catalytic converter is arranged underhood and a four-way catalytic converter is arranged downstream. A provision is made that an intake point for the regeneration air from the regeneration air system is formed on the exhaust duct downstream from the underhood three-way catalytic converter and upstream from the four-way catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Williges, Lars Stratmann, Rene Fink
  • Patent number: 11268427
    Abstract: In one aspect, an aspiration system for a work vehicle includes an exhaust tube extending along a flow direction and an aspiration tube in flow communication with the exhaust tube at an aspiration zone of the exhaust tube such that the aspiration tube is configured to receive an aspirated airflow. The system also includes an airflow area modifier provided in operative association with the aspiration zone and actuatable to adjust a cross-sectional flow area of the exhaust tube within the aspiration zone. The system includes an actuator provided in operative association with the airflow area modifier such that the actuator is configured to alter an orientation of the airflow area modifier such that the cross-sectional flow area of the exhaust tube within the aspiration zone is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Lacher, Derek Thomas Jennen, James Patrick Boeshans, Paul Francis Wollmuth
  • Patent number: 11261772
    Abstract: An assembly for determining lambda values of an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine is attached to an exhaust gas treatment device with at least one first catalyst and a second catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Robert Alig
  • Patent number: 11248511
    Abstract: A sinuous balanced mid-pipe exhaust system has a straight mid-pipe and a sinuous mid-pipe disposed intermediate manifold and muffler. The manifold has a differential bilateral manifold pipe length. The longer manifold pipe connected to the straight mid-pipe and the shorter manifold pipe connected to the sinuous mid-pipe. Sinuous mid-pipe has 2-3 sinusoidal curved segments such that a sinuous gas flow path therethrough substantially equals the straight pipe flow path length and the manifold differential pipe length. The method balances and equalizes gas flows by defining straight gas flow path, having a path length and defining a sinuous gas flow path with at least two sinusoidal segments which is equal to the path length and the differential path length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Active Automotive Group Inc.
    Inventors: David Hugh, Karl Hugh
  • Patent number: 11242794
    Abstract: A connector system for attaching diffusers to automotive vehicle exhaust systems which, in accordance with the characteristics thereof, provides a connector system in a specific structure of the mechanical type and based in an outlet nozzle with a groove flange, a tongue flange making the interface outlet nozzle-diffuser, an outlet connector with a tongue flange making the interface to the automotive vehicle exhaust system, a groove flange making the interface outlet connector-diffuser, and fixing clamps for the pairs of tongue-groove flanges, in order to provide complete optimization procedures to press fit and fasten the diffusers and their parts such as outlet nozzles and outlet connectors to automotive sports vehicle exhaust systems, coupled with a 360-degree double rotating system of their parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventor: Marcos Graça Jardim
  • Patent number: 11236656
    Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a vehicle exhaust gas abatement apparatus. The vehicle exhaust gas abatement apparatus includes: an exhaust gas discharging unit having an exhaust gas discharging pass which is formed on one side thereof and along which an exhaust gas generated from an engine of a vehicle is discharged; a catalytic converter connected to a rear end of the exhaust gas discharging unit along a direction in which the exhaust gas is discharged and removing harmful components in the exhaust gas using a catalyst; and a surface combustion unit coupled to one side of the exhaust gas discharging unit and heating an inner portion of the exhaust gas discharging unit so that the exhaust gas is heated to an activation temperature or higher of the catalyst and then arrives at the catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Se Young Lee, Jong Hun Woo, Dae Hee Kim, Hyo Jong Gil, Duk Euy Lee, Taek Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 11225898
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine including an engine body and a catalyst device and a carbon dioxide recovery device recovering carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust is provided. The engine body, catalyst device, and carbon dioxide recovery device are mounted in the vehicle so that relationships X1>X2 and X2>X3 stand where a distance from a mounting position of the engine body to a mounting position of the carbon dioxide recovery device is X1, a distance from a mounting position of the catalyst device to the mounting position of the carbon dioxide recovery device is X2, and a distance from a mounting position of the engine body to a mounting position of the catalyst device is X3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Otsuki
  • Patent number: 11225892
    Abstract: A heating device comprises a grid and a power supply device connected to the grid to pass an electric current in the grid. The grid is formed by strands delimiting openings between the strands. The strands of the grid do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventors: Guillaume Aufranc, Xavier Bartolo, Maxime Goncalves, Christophe Tournier
  • Patent number: 11208939
    Abstract: A water separator for use in a marine exhaust system comprises a horizontally disposed, generally cylindrical housing including a wet exhaust inlet, a dry exhaust outlet, and a water outlet. Wet exhaust entering the wet exhaust inlet is constrained against the inner housing wall by a variable geometry vane or baffle which causes the wet exhaust to accelerate such that centrifugal force causes the entrained water to separate from the exhaust gas. Separated water encounters a longitudinally disposed barrier and flows to the water outlet for discharge from the vessel. A tubular dry exhaust pipe is longitudinally disposed within the housing and includes an inlet disposed in proximity to a first end thereof, and an outlet projecting from a second end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Woodrow Woods, Darrin Woods