Patents Examined by Charles J Brauch
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Patent number: 12043175Abstract: Systems for detecting movement of a trailer having a rearward facing camera and linked to a tow vehicle. The systems include taking a first image and a second image with the camera and comparing the images. A first amount of trailer movement is determined between the second image and the first image. The systems may also take additional images and determine a second amount of trailer movement occurring between the additional images. Tracking the first amount and the second amount of trailer movement determines an amount of trailer sway. The determined trailer sway may be compared to a maximum allowable sway and, if the movement is greater than the maximum allowable sway, mitigating sway of the trailer with the tow vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Yun Qian Miao, Halit Zengin, Akram M. Abdel-Rahman, Todd W. Nelson
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Patent number: 12044191Abstract: An internal combustion engine with an engine block with at least one cylinder cavity housing a cylinder liner. The cylinder liner includes at least one aperture in a wall of the cylinder liner that is aligned with one of an intake port or an exhaust port in the engine block.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignees: Cummins Inc., Achates Power, Inc.Inventor: David J. Eckroth
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Patent number: 12037934Abstract: A coolant draining tool for draining a coolant from an electrical storage system, ESS, of a heavy-duty vehicle, wherein the coolant draining tool is of elongated shape and includes an internal tubular channel for guiding a flow of coolant in a discharge direction, the coolant draining tool including an externally threaded portion which encloses the tubular channel at a distal first end of the coolant draining tool, wherein a valve engagement member is arranged centered in the tubular channel at the first end of the coolant draining tool, the valve engagement member being arranged to engage a spring-loaded valve of an ESS connector to bias the valve into an open position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Johan Öjergren, Oskar Hedberg, Kenny Leandersson
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Patent number: 12037922Abstract: A turbomachine blade includes a blading made of composite material with a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix and a metal leading edge formed by a metal foil, the foil having an intrados fin and an extrados fin which extend respectively over intrados and extrados faces of the blading by conforming to an airfoil of the blade, wherein the blade also includes at least one unidirectional fabric ply made of composite material on the leading edge between the blading and the metal foil, each unidirectional fabric ply extending at least partially over the intrados and extrados faces of the blading.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Azalia Moradi, Bassem Ben Belgacem, Célia Iglesias Cano
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Patent number: 12025083Abstract: Oxidizer and fuel supply system for internal combustion engines, which includes oxygen supplies for the engines, particle filters, oxygen generators using nanofilters, pressurized oxygen bottles and air compressors, O2 loading media, by means of bottles, carboys or interchangeable tanks or hoses, Complementary means of nanomolecular membrane filters that separate O2 from air, performing the separation by means of aspiration or suction from the combustion engine or the suction or impulsion of a pump or compressor driven by an electric motor or mechanically by the combustion engine itself; Storage means for the separated or obtained O2; means for controlling the variable fuel/O2 mixture by means of a processor or an ECU (engine control unit); and as fuel: synthetic fuel, hydrocarbons, alcohols or hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Inventor: Manuel Munoz Saiz
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Patent number: 12025224Abstract: An improvement to the Waissi type opposed piston internal combustion (IC) engine is proposed. The engine has at least one pair of aligned and opposed cylinders with one reciprocating double-headed piston assembly in each cylinder pair. The reciprocating motion of the piston is transmitted to the driveshaft by a rotating crankdisk, which is mounted off-centered to the driveshaft. When the crankdisk rotates, the flat linear sections on the outer perimeter of the bearing ring prevent the bearing ring from rotating, hydrodynamic lubrication conditions are created on both the outer flat linear interfaces and the inner perimeter of the bearing ring.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Inventors: Gary Ray Robert Waissi, Robert Waissi
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Patent number: 12027042Abstract: A road information providing system includes: a first traffic state recognition unit that recognizes a first traffic state that is a traffic state of first-type movable bodies; a second traffic state recognition unit that recognizes a second traffic state that is a traffic state of second-type movable bodies smaller in size than the first-type movable bodies; a specific road area extraction unit that extracts, as a specific road area, a road area satisfying traffic determination conditions including a determination condition that the first traffic state shows that a traffic volume of the first-type movable bodies has decreased and a determination condition that the second traffic state shows that the second-type movable body is traveling; and a traveling obstruction information providing unit that provides traveling obstruction information serving as notification that an event has occurred which obstructs the traveling of the first-type movable bodies in the specific road area.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Hagihara, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Shigeyuki Odashima, Kousuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 12018632Abstract: The disclosure relates to an air filter assembly for cleaning an air stream for a commercial vehicle, including a pre-filter communicating with an air intake and a first fine filter which is provided downstream of the pre-filter in the direction of the air stream and, together with the pre-filter, is associated with an air filter part which extends vertically in a predetermined installation position. A redundant second fine filter, which is associated with an air filter part which extends horizontally in the predetermined installation position, follows the first fine filter in the direction of the air stream, the horizontally extending air filter part being a component of a syphon-like conduit region which rises in a curved manner in the direction of an air outlet, starting from the redundant second fine filter.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Ming Parker Yuen, Alexander Berg, Phouphadeth Sananikone, Silvia Janouschek
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Patent number: 12006833Abstract: A turbomachine including a turbine rotor, a compressor rotor, and a shaft, and at least one balance weight assembly connected to the shaft. The shaft drivingly connects the turbine rotor with the compressor rotor to rotate the compressor rotor about a rotational axis when the turbine rotor rotates about the rotational axis. The at least one balance weight assembly including a first chamber, at least one additional chamber, and a balance weight movable between the first chamber and the at least one additional chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Prateek Jalan, Kudum Shinde, Milind Dhabade, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Tyler F. Hooper
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Patent number: 12006898Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an aircharger air intake system for filtering and conducting an airstream to an air intake of an engine. The aircharger air intake system includes an air filter comprising a filter medium configured to entrap particulates flowing within the airstream. An air box comprising one or more sidewalls and a mount wall is configured to support the air filter within an engine bay. The air box is configured to be mounted, or fastened, onto the engine. An intake tube is coupled with the air filter and configured to conduct the airstream to the air intake of the engine. The intake tube is configured to be coupled with an air temperature sensor or a mass air sensor of the engine. An adapter is configured to couple the intake tube with the air intake.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.Inventor: Steve Williams
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Patent number: 12000350Abstract: A controller for a hydrogen engine is provided. Control circuitry performs, after a stop request for the hydrogen engine, a water reduction process that reduces a proportion of water vapor in exhaust gas. The control circuitry stops the hydrogen engine after operating the hydrogen engine with the water reduction process executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Nobuhiko Satake, Daiki Sato
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Patent number: 11988104Abstract: A plurality of static stator vane are circumferentially spaced in a row axially intermediate the rows of turbine blades. Each stator vane has at least an outer platform with mount structure. Each of the stator vanes are formed of composite materials. The mount structure is provided with sacrificial material. At least a first of the stator vanes is circumferentially adjacent to a second of the stator vanes. An orientation of the first of the stator vanes is re-staggered relative to the second of the stator vanes. The sacrificial material of the first of the stator vanes is machined away such that a final trailing edge of the first of the stator vanes mount structure is now better axially aligned with the trailing edge of the second of the stator vanes mount structure trailing edge.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Robert A. White, III, Raymond Surace, Howard J. Liles, Bryan P. Dube
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Patent number: 11978933Abstract: A compression apparatus includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode on a principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, a cathode on another principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, an anode separator on the anode, a cathode separator on the cathode, and a voltage applicator. Upon the voltage applicator applying a voltage, protons are extracted from an anode fluid fed to the anode to move to the cathode through the electrolyte membrane and compressed hydrogen is produced. The anode separator has a fluid channel, a manifold hole, and a communicating path which are formed in an anode-side principal surface. The compression apparatus includes a face seal disposed on an outer periphery of a region of the anode-side principal surface of the anode separator which faces the anode. The face seal has a three-layer structure including a metal sheet and a pair of elastic sheets.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Sakai, Takashi Kakuwa
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Patent number: 11965484Abstract: There is presented a method for damping an edgewise vibration of a rotor blade of a wind turbine, wherein the method comprises measuring at the rotor blade a motion parameter of the edgewise rotor blade vibration, generating based on said motion parameter a blade pitch angle control signal, and damping the edgewise vibration of the rotor blade by pitching the rotor blade according to the blade pitch angle control signal, wherein the blade pitch angle control signal is arranged so that a resulting force on a rotor blade pitched according to the blade pitch angle control signal, in a direction of the edgewise vibration of the rotor blade in a coordinate system, which rotates with a rotor of the wind turbine, is opposite and proportional to the edgewise rotor blade vibration velocity.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Fabio Caponetti, Claus Thy Henningsen, Robert Grøn-Stevens
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Patent number: 11964251Abstract: Provided is a fuel-reforming device comprising: an ammonia tank (4); a reformer (5) for reforming ammonia and generating high-concentration hydrogen gas having a hydrogen content of at least 99%; a mixing tank (7) for mixing ammonia and hydrogen for temporary storage; and a control means (10) for controlling the respective supply amounts of ammonia and high-concentration hydrogen gas that are supplied to the mixing tank (7). The control means (10) calculates the combustion rate coefficient C of mixed gas with respect to a reference fuel on the basis of equation (1). Equation (1): S0=SH×C+SA×(1?C). In equation (1), S0 is the combustion rate of the reference fuel, SH is the combustion rate of hydrogen, SA is the combustion rate of ammonia, and C is the combustion rate coefficient of mixed gas. In addition, on the basis of equation (2), the control means (10) determines the volume fractions of ammonia and hydrogen that are supplied to the mixing tank. Equation (2): C=1?exp(?A×MB).Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, SAWAFUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Kambara, Tomonori Miura, Yuya Tanaka, Tatsuya Ikeda
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Patent number: 11964527Abstract: A vehicle stabilizer system, including: a stabilizer device and a switching mechanism to switch a roll suppressing function by a stabilizer bar between an effective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered effective and an ineffective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered ineffective; and a controller configured to determine whether a lateral acceleration of a vehicle body is greater than a threshold lateral acceleration and control the switching mechanism to render the roll suppressing function effective when the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration and ineffective when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, wherein the controller employs, as a determination lateral acceleration for determining whether the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, a smaller one of an actual lateral acceleration and an estimated lateral acceleration estimated based on a turning degreeType: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Tabata, Kazuyuki Murata, Masashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11959401Abstract: A deswirl system for a gas turbine engine includes a deswirl shroud, and at least one deswirl vane having a leading end and a trailing end. The deswirl system includes a deswirl hub spaced apart from the deswirl shroud by the at least one deswirl vane. The deswirl hub includes a hub body that extends at a first angle and a hub extension that extends beyond the trailing end of the at least one deswirl vane. The hub extension extends from the hub body at a second angle, and the first angle is different than the second angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Shakeel Nasir, Atul Verma, Jeffrey Krise, Doni Tapederi, Jacob Salai, Rodolphe Dudebout
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Patent number: 11959415Abstract: In an internal combustion engine (1) comprising an electroconductive cylinder head (3), a head cover (5) attached to the cylinder head, a fuel pump (11) attached to the cylinder head and including an electroconductive pump case electrically connected to the cylinder head, and an engine cover (30) positioned so as to oppose the head cover and the fuel pump, the engine cover includes a sound insulating material (31) in contact with the pump case.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiko Tamegai
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Patent number: 11958595Abstract: An actuator for aviation applications, in particular for adjusting rotor blades in a helicopter, may include an electromechanical drive assembly connected to an output drive via a downstream transmission, where the drive assembly is divided into sub-drives that can be operated independently, and where at least two sub-drives are spatially separated from one another in that the transmission is placed between these sub-drives. The transmission may include at least two harmonic gearings coupled to one another by at least one first coupling element, where a first harmonic gearing is located inside a non-rotating first housing, where a second harmonic gearing is located inside a rotating second housing, and where the second housing is connected to the output drive.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS TECHNIK GMBHInventors: Jan Haar, Uwe Arnold, Martin Meunier, Carsten Wintjen, Matthias Müller, Werner Pflüger
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Patent number: 11952970Abstract: A fuel booster system having a fuel inlet port, a fuel outlet port, and a fuel accumulator fluidically coupled to both ports. The fuel inlet port allows fuel to be delivered to the fuel accumulator and the fuel outlet port is in fluid communication with a combustion engine to deliver fuel from the fuel booster system to the combustion engine. A source of pressurized gas is also fluidically coupled to the fuel accumulator to deliver pressurized gas through a gas port in one end of the fuel accumulator. A piston is located within the fuel accumulator and the source of pressurized gas can be discharged into the fuel accumulator to force accumulated fuel from the fuel accumulator and to the engine when the fuel booster system determines that the engine needs more fuel.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Pressure Drop Technology Integration, Inc.Inventor: William F. Klier