Patents Examined by Dapinder Singh
  • Patent number: 12291852
    Abstract: Provided is a movement identification device capable of identifying a specific motion of a construction machine based on the output of a sensor attached to the construction machine with higher accuracy than the conventional technology. A movement identification device 100 includes a waveform generation unit 111, a waveform storage unit 121, and a motion identification unit 112. The waveform generation unit 111 generates a force waveform based on the signal of a force sensor that detects the force acting on the construction machine and an attitude waveform based on the signal of an attitude sensor that detects the attitude of the construction machine. The waveform storage unit 121 stores reference waveforms, which are combinations of force waveforms and attitude waveforms corresponding to specific motions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Ogasawara, Akio Hoshi, Shunichi Suda, Hiroshi Kanezawa, Takeshi Shiina
  • Patent number: 12281605
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system includes an introduction gas conduit, a dosing module, a mixer, and an outlet flange. The introduction conduit is centered on a conduit center axis. The dosing module is coupled to the introduction conduit and includes an injector. The injector is configured to provide a treatment fluid into the introduction conduit and is defined by an injection axis. The mixer is disposed within the introduction conduit and includes a mixer body. The mixer body is configured to receive exhaust gas and the treatment fluid. The outlet flange includes an outlet flange body, an outlet flange opening, and a plurality of outlet flange perforations. The outlet flange body is centered on an outlet flange center axis. The outlet flange body includes an outlet flange body inner portion and an outlet flange body outer portion. The outlet flange body inner portion is coupled to the mixer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CUMMINS EMISION SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Z. Gerald Liu, Apoorv Kalyankar, Achuth Munnannur, Niklas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12281650
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil pump including: a pump module provided with a rotary shaft, an inner rotor coupling with the rotary shaft, an outer rotor rotated engaging with the inner rotor, an inlet for sucking fluid, and an outlet for pressing and discharging the sucked fluid; housings supporting the pump module; and a direction switching unit coupled between the housings and the outer rotor to keep an eccentric distance between the rotary shaft or a central axis line of the inner rotor and a central axis line of the outer rotor. According to the disclosure, there is provided an oil pump used for both forward rotation and reverse rotation, which does not require changing a suction area and a discharge area and direction switching is stably performed even when a power source rotates forwardly and reversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: YOUNGSHIN PRECISION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Do Jae Joo, Seong Wook Cha, Gahyeon Yi, Hui Do Ryu
  • Patent number: 12281606
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine including intake and exhaust camshafts, a transmission, a turbocharger including a compressor and a turbine, a surge valve to selectively bypass the compressor, a main exhaust aftertreatment system with a main catalytic converter, and a light-off catalyst bypass system with a bypass valve configured to selectively provide exhaust gas to a bypass passage and a bypass catalytic converter. An emissions control system includes a controller configured to monitor a temperature of the main catalytic converter to determine if the temperature is below a light-off temperature, move the bypass valve to an open position to provide exhaust gas flow through the bypass passage and bypass catalytic converter when the main catalytic converter is below the predetermined light-off temperature, and move the surge valve to an open position to enable intake air to bypass the compressor to minimize pressure loss during a cold catalyst mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Jeongyong Choi, Michael A Barkey, William P Attard
  • Patent number: 12276217
    Abstract: An engine device includes an exhaust gas purification device above a cylinder head through a support pedestal. The support pedestal has a flat portion on which the exhaust gas purification device is mounted, and a plurality of legs which protrude downward form the flat portion and are fixed to the cylinder head. The flat portion and the leg portion are formed integrally. Portions between the legs are each formed in an arch-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Matsui, Naotoshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12270398
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of compressor assemblies including lower covers having mounting feet skirts configured for increasing mounting feet stiffness and provide better resistance to crack formation due to vibration, e.g., in mobile and transport applications, etc. The mounting feet skirts may comprise full, rounded, and/or radiused skirts disposed along or around the entire end portions of the mounting feet near the mounting holes (e.g., bolt holes, etc.) in the mounting feet. Using full, rounded, and/or radiused skirts avoids or eliminates sharp corners, such as the sharp corner fillet features of conventional lower covers that are prone to having cracks form due to vibration while in transit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Rahul Sharad Gadhe, Kamendra Singh, Amod Vinay Khardekar, Sanket Prabhakar Junghare, Chad Allen Winner, Chase Austin Benning
  • Patent number: 12257573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of hydrocarbon and the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, the catalyst comprising a substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending from the inlet end to the outlet end and a plurality of passages defined by internal walls of the substrate extending therethrough; and a coating disposed on the surface of the internal walls of the substrate, wherein the surface de-fines the interface between the passages and the internal walls, wherein the coating comprises a platinum group metal component supported on a first oxidic material and further comprises a mixed oxide of vanadium and one or more of iron, erbium, bismuth, cerium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, scandium, terbium, thulium, ytterbium, yttrium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, aluminum and antimony, wherein the mixed oxide is supported on a second oxidic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Beard, Joseph A. Patchett, Edgar Viktor Huennekes, Jan Martin Becker, John K. Hochmuth
  • Patent number: 12258882
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to generating electricity with a water engine. A water engine may include a boiler; a solar oven to retain heat with which the boiler is to heat a liquid to generate steam; a spout extending from the boiler to the liquid, through which the steam passes from the solar oven to the liquid and through which the liquid passes to the solar oven; a floating platform to float on the liquid; and a magnetic rotor operationally connected to the floating platform and to generate electricity by spinning in the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Curtis Lynn Breaux, Tiffany Lynn Breaux, Aziriah Breaux
  • Patent number: 12251676
    Abstract: A jig for inserting a packing into a flow passage of a reactor extending in one direction or for removing the packing from the flow passage, includes: a pair of strip portions extending in parallel with each other, having a length longer than the flow passage; and link portions arranged in an extending direction of the pair of strip portions, linking the pair of strip portions and having lengths with which the pair of strip portions sandwich the packing therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Takeuchi, Akihisa Yano, Shunji Miyajima, Shigeki Sakakura, Taiga Yamamoto, Takuya Yoshinoya, Hiroyuki Kamata, Daisuke Tsunoda, Nobuyuki Honma
  • Patent number: 12252240
    Abstract: A rotor blade configured to be installed on a rotary wing aircraft includes a spar including an inboard portion extending from a root of the rotor blade to a first spanwise position of the rotor blade and an outboard portion meeting the inboard portion at the first spanwise position. The rotor blade further includes an upper skin and a lower skin coupled the outboard portion of the spar. The first spanwise position is defined by a most inboard point at which the upper and lower skins are coupled to the spar. The inboard portion includes a top layer, a bottom layer, and an inner cavity. The top layer has a substantially constant first thickness and the bottom layer has a substantially constant second thickness, and the distance between an outer surface of the top layer and an outer surface of the bottom layer is substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua A. Breon, Eric S. Parsons, Timothy James Conti, Frank M. Caputo
  • Patent number: 12253037
    Abstract: A method of heating catalyst through system cooperation implemented by a vehicle may enable the start of an engine of a part load among engine operation modes to heat a catalyst even in a cold quick acceleration situation with a lock-up CH control by locking up an engine clutch through system cooperation implemented by mutually exchanging information between controllers of an engine management system (EMS) and a hybrid control unit (HCU) by applying a lock-up CH control logic which retards a lock-up CH ignition angle compared to an idle CH control logic of the conventional method, thereby improving the regulation responsiveness, fuel efficiency, and merchantability relatively compared to the idle CH even while having the advantages of the idle CH in which quick lambda feedback control for an engine is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doo-Il Won, Oh-Jae Lee, Naeun Jung, Dong-Woo Hong
  • Patent number: 12253020
    Abstract: An electrical power generating system includes one or more air compressors, one or more air staging tanks, one or more turbines, and one or more electric generators. The air compressors are in fluid communication with the air staging tanks to supply compressed air to the one or more air staging tanks. The staging tanks are connected to and in fluid communication with the turbines to convey the compressed air to the one or more turbines, so as to rotate the turbines. Each of the turbines is connected to an electric generator to generate power from the compressed air flowing through the turbines. The turbines are arranged one above another to form a vertical air pathway through the one or more turbines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Mark Patton
  • Patent number: 12246286
    Abstract: An electrically heatable catalytic converter with a metal honeycomb body, the honeycomb body being formed by a plurality of wound metal foils and the honeycomb body being received in a casing tube, a device for electrically contacting at least individual foils being led into the casing tube through an opening in the casing tube, the device being formed by an electrode which is electrically insulated from the inside of the casing tube by a connecting layer and mechanically connected to the casing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Schepers, Peter Hirth, Thomas Härig
  • Patent number: 12246306
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a carrier substrate of length L and at least two washcoat layers A and B wherein washcoat layer A comprises alumina; ceria; an alkaline earth compound and/or an alkali compound; platinum, palladium or platinum and palladium; washcoat layer B comprises a zeolite and palladium, wherein the palladium is present as palladium cation in the zeolite structure or is wholly or partially present as palladium metal and/or as palladium oxide in the zeolite structure and/or on the surface of the zeolite structure; and wherein washcoat layer A is arranged below washcoat layer B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Badr Bassou, Anke Woerz
  • Patent number: 12246809
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an engine and a propulsion unit to be driven by the engine. The engine includes cylinders arranged in series, exhaust ports respectively connected to combustion chambers of the cylinders and curved in a predetermined downstream direction to allow exhaust gases to flow out from the combustion chambers, and a collecting exhaust pipe. The collecting exhaust pipe is integral with the exhaust ports, and extends in the downstream direction to allow exhaust gases in the exhaust ports to flow in the downstream direction. At least one of a plurality of connector portions that individually connect the exhaust ports to the collecting exhaust pipe includes a concave portion at an inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Kasai, Koichi Nakayama, Jiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 12246311
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure made of ceramics, wherein the honeycomb structure includes: a borosilicate; and silicon particles doped with at least one dopant, the dopant is a Group 13 element or a Group 15 element, the silicon particles have a dopant amount (A) of 1×1016 to 5×1020/cm3, and the honeycomb structure has a silicon particle content (B) of 30 to 80% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hamazaki, Takayuki Inoue, Takashi Noro
  • Patent number: 12241399
    Abstract: Described herein is a process for increasing mass flow of an exhaust gas through a catalytic converter system for a vehicle. The process may comprise determining a centerline and corresponding cumulative centerline bend angle of a first catalytic converter system spanning from an inlet point at a first end of the catalytic converter systems exhaust pipe to an outlet point at a second end of the catalytic converter systems extension pipe. Once determined, the cumulative centerline bend angle may be increased by increasing an individual bend radius of at least one bend within the exhaust pipe and/or within the extension pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Prototitan, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Clark, Jr., David Rochau
  • Patent number: 12234825
    Abstract: An element for compressing a gas with a housing (2) which encloses a compression chamber (5) with an outlet port (7) connected to the outlet. A rotor (8) is mounted so that the compression chamber (5) is divided into working chambers. A passage (10) extends between the outlet and a working chamber in the compression chamber (5) which is not in adjacent contact with the outlet port (7). The passage has an overpressure valve (11) to open the passage when a pressure difference between the working chamber and the outlet (4) exceeds a preset value. A valve body (12) encloses a buffer space (13) with a variable volume that is in fluid connection with the outlet through a constriction (14), so the volume is reduced and gas from the buffer space (13) flows through the constriction (14) to the outlet upon opening the passage (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Wim Mathys, Luc Van Mieghem, Daniele Pettinari
  • Patent number: 12234783
    Abstract: A control unit for an engine system including an engine and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas from the engine, the control unit includes an engine control unit, a detection unit, a determination unit, and a stopping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Nawata, Yoshikazu Asami, Yuki Morita
  • Patent number: 12237751
    Abstract: According to the subject-matter of the present disclosure, there is provided an electrically powered fan engine. The fan engine includes: an energiser chamber between an inlet and an exhaust of the electrically powered fan engine; a first rotor within the energiser chamber, the first rotor including a plurality of blades and being configured to receive a fluid from the inlet and configured to rotate at a first velocity; and a second rotor within the energiser chamber, the second rotor including a plurality of blades and being configured to receive the fluid after passing through the first rotor and configured to rotate at a second velocity. The first velocity is different from the second velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Robert Cameron Bolam