Patents Examined by Dapinder Singh
  • Patent number: 11118491
    Abstract: A regeneration system for a vehicle includes: a particulate module configured to determine an amount of particulate trapped within a particulate filter, the particulate filter configured to filter particulate from exhaust output from an engine; and a regeneration control module configured to, in response to a determination that the amount of particulate trapped within the particulate filter is at least a predetermined amount: close a wastegate of a turbocharger; and open an EGR valve connected (a) to an intake system of the engine downstream of the turbocharger and (b) to upstream of the particulate filter, the closing of the wastegate and the opening of the EGR valve flowing air from (a) the intake system to (b) upstream of the particulate filter through the EGR valve without the air entering the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: William D. Gough, Michael A. Smith, Vijay A. Ramappan, Timothy Wendling
  • Patent number: 11111834
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a mixing chamber in a turbine. In one example, a system comprises a mixing chamber integrally formed within a turbine with an injector positioned to inject reductant directly into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Andreas Kuske, Frank Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 11111864
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an intake oxygen concentration control system suitable for an engine with lean NOx trapping technology. The system adopts an exhaust turbocharging device to provide a pressure difference for an oxygen-enriched membrane to generate oxygen-rich and oxygen-deficient gases, and controls the intake oxygen concentration of different cylinders by adjusting the opening of flow control valves to match lean and rich combustion cycles of a lean NOx trapping system. In a lean combustion cycle, all four cylinders are filled with an oxygen-rich gas, which can make the combustion more complete and improve the thermal efficiency and fuel economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Tianjin University
    Inventors: Haifeng Liu, Can Wang, Mingchao Liu, Mingfa Yao, Zunqing Zheng, Hu Wang
  • Patent number: 11105239
    Abstract: An exhaust component assembly includes a housing defining an internal passage for engine exhaust gas, at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment component within the internal passage, and at least one heater to heat the engine exhaust gas. The heater comprises a helical-shaped element with a surface that spirals about an axis for a predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel McCarrick, Thomas Rohart
  • Patent number: 11098715
    Abstract: In an asymmetrical scroll compressor, at least one injection port through which an intermediate-pressure refrigerant is injected into a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber, at least one injection port penetrating an end plate of a fixed scroll at a position where the injection port is open to the first compression chamber or the second compression chamber during a compression stroke after a suction refrigerant is introduced and closed. Further, the amount of a refrigerant injected from an injection port into the first compression chamber is made more than the amount of a refrigerant injected from the injection port into the second compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakai, Atsushi Sakuda
  • Patent number: 11078910
    Abstract: A pumping unit is provided, including a primary vacuum pump of a multistage dry type, including at least four pumping stages fitted in series; and a two-stage Roots vacuum pump, including a first pumping stage and a second pumping stage fitted in series, the second pumping stage being fitted in series with and upstream of a first pumping stage of the primary vacuum pump in a direction of flow of gases to be pumped, in which a ratio of a volume displacement of the first pumping stage of the two-stage Roots vacuum pump to a volume displacement of the second pumping stage of the two-stage Roots vacuum pump is less than six, and in which a ratio of a volume displacement of the second pumping stage of the two-stage Roots vacuum pump to a volume displacement of the first pumping stage of the primary vacuum pump is less than six.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUM
    Inventor: Philippe D'Harboulle
  • Patent number: 11078911
    Abstract: In a rotary compressor, a lower end plate includes a lower discharge valve that opens and closes a lower discharge hole, a lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion in which the lower discharge valve is accommodated, and a lower discharge-chamber recessed portion that is formed so as to overlap with the lower discharge hole side of the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion and communicates with a refrigerant passage hole. A lower end plate cover is formed in a flat-plate shape and is provided with a bulging portion having a portion facing the lower discharge hole. An upper end-plate cover chamber is formed by the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion, the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and the bulging portion. The bulging portion has a volume of 1/18 or greater and 1/9 or less of a total of air volumes of an upper compression chamber and a lower compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenshi Ueda, Yasuyuki Izumi
  • Patent number: 11053830
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system includes an exhaust gas aftertreatment component and an exhaust duct positioned downstream of the exhaust gas aftertreatment component. The exhaust duct defines an internal cavity and a mixer is positioned within the internal cavity. A sensor is configured to sample exhaust gas downstream of the mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventor: Jerome Hornback
  • Patent number: 11053823
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a heat exchanger phase change material installed as a component of a variable exhaust tuning system. In one example, a method may include absorbing excess heat energy from exhaust gases during and after an engine-on event within a heat exchanger material, releasing heat energy stored in the heat exchanger material during and after an engine-off event, and heating an adjustable exhaust valve with the heat energy stored in the heat exchanger material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Roy Jentz, Sanyam Sharma, Sumanth Dadam
  • Patent number: 11047324
    Abstract: An oxygen storage amount estimation device estimates an oxygen storage amount of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. The oxygen storage amount estimation device includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data, which is data specifying a mapping that uses multiple variables including at least an excess-deficient amount variable and a previous value of a storage amount variable as an input to output a value of the storage amount variable. The processing circuitry executes a storage amount variable calculation process that repeatedly calculates a value of the storage amount variable based on an output of the mapping using the multiple variables and an operation process that operates predetermined hardware based on a calculation result of the storage amount variable calculation process. The mapping data includes data learned by machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Harufumi Muto, Akihiro Katayama, Yosuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11047283
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for monitoring an SCR catalytic converter in an exhaust line of an internal combustion engine, into which a reducing agent solution for the reduction of nitrogen oxides is dosed, wherein the SCR catalytic converter is diagnosed as defective if a measured variable is below a corresponding threshold and wherein the diagnosis of the SCR catalytic converter occurs when enabling criteria are met, wherein the enabling criteria are selected depending on a BPU model and a WPA model such that when the SCR catalytic converter (3) conforms to the BPU model, ammonia slip occurs through this SCR catalytic converter (3), and when the SCR catalytic converter corresponds to the WPA model, no ammonia slip occurs through this SCR catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Franz, Tobias Pfister
  • Patent number: 11047284
    Abstract: Mixer box for mixing, vaporization and decomposition of a liquid additive to the exhaust gas flow from a combustion engine, comprising a gas inlet (108), a gas outlet (109) and internal duct means establishing a gas flow path (A-H, a-h) from the gas inlet (108) to the gas outlet (109). The duct means includes a first duct portion (107) having an outer wall (171) and an inner wall (161), which is surrounded by the outer wall (171), such that the gas flow path through said first duct portion (107) is established inbetween. The first duct portion (107) is provided with at least two partitions (121-124) extending between the outer wall (171) and the inner wall (161), which separate the first duct portion (107) into at least two duct sections (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b) of which at least one is an upstream duct section (101a, 101b) and at least one is a downstream duct section (102a, 102b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: VOLVO PENTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hannes Kannisto
  • Patent number: 11041418
    Abstract: Turbocharged engine water vapor ingestion control techniques determine a dew point of a charge air cooler (CAC) in an induction system of the engine based on measured humidity and temperature of a mixture of (i) air drawn into the induction system and (ii) exhaust gas produced by the engine that is cooled and recirculated by a low pressure cooled exhaust gas recirculation (LPCEGR) system of the engine back into the induction system. When the mixture temperature is less than the CAC dew point, a condensate accumulation in the CAC is determined. When the CAC condensate accumulation does not satisfy a set of one or more thresholds, the mixture temperature is increased. When the CAC condensate accumulation satisfies the set of one or more thresholds, an amount of the exhaust gas that is cooled and recirculated by the LPCEGR system is decreased until the mixture temperature meets the CAC dew point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Nikhil Patil, Sangeeta Theru, Ethan E Bayer
  • Patent number: 11028744
    Abstract: The separation efficiency of carbon dioxide is improved by making the temperature of exhaust gas further low. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a first heat exchanger arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and configured to carry out heat exchange between outside air and exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a second heat exchanger arranged in the exhaust passage and configured to carry out heat exchange between a circulating heating medium and the exhaust gas, and a carbon dioxide separator arranged in the exhaust passage at the downstream side of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and configured to separate carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Kouseki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11015517
    Abstract: A turbocharger system includes a valve assembly with an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The inlet is configured for receiving flow of an exhaust gas from an engine. The valve assembly includes a valve structure disposed within a housing. The valve structure is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation between a first position and a second position. The valve structure defines a nonlinear flow passage with an axial upstream end and radial downstream end. The valve structure, in a first position, directs exhaust gas from the inlet to the first outlet and closes off the second outlet. The valve structure, in the second position, directs exhaust gas from the inlet to the second outlet and closes off the first outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSOPORTATION I INC
    Inventors: Miroslav Zatko, Jaroslav Krejci, Jakub Planka, Jan Klement
  • Patent number: 11015502
    Abstract: A compression ignition internal combustion engine system includes an engine and an exhaust system with an upstream exhaust conduit, and an oxidation catalyst device (DOC). Systems and methods of desulfating the oxidation catalyst by the injection of a lightoff fluid to promote ignition of uncombusted fuel in the exhaust stream are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Lynn Ratts, Wilce Damion Williams
  • Patent number: 11015505
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cooling an aftertreatment device with exhaust gas. In one example, an exhaust system comprises a recirculation passage branching from an EGR passage from downstream of an EGR cooler to a portion of an exhaust passage between the EGR passage and an aftertreatment device. In one example, the aftertreatment device is an SCR device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, David van Bebber
  • Patent number: 11015540
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit is structured to determine that a combustion cylinder is operating in a transition period between an exhaust stroke and an intake stroke of the combustion cylinder. The second circuit is structured to provide an injection command during the transition period to a fuel injector associated with the combustion cylinder, the injection command being to inject fuel into a combustion chamber of the combustion cylinder such that at least a portion of the fuel escapes from the combustion chamber through an exhaust port of the combustion cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Chandan Mahato, John L. Hoehne, E. Nathan Linen, Shounak Mishra, Boopathi S. Mahadevan, Foy C. Henderson
  • Patent number: 11015509
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus to generate electrical power from aircraft engine heat are described herein. An example aircraft engine described herein includes a gas turbine engine having an engine housing. The engine housing defines a flow path through a combustion chamber and a core exhaust cavity. The example aircraft engine also includes an energy-generating cell coupled to a portion of the engine housing defining the core exhaust cavity. The energy-generating cell is to generate electrical energy from high temperature fluid in the core exhaust cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew L. Armatorio, Richard Loftis
  • Patent number: 11008921
    Abstract: Technical solutions described herein include an emissions control system for treating exhaust gas in a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine. The emissions control system includes a model-based controller to control reductant injections into the exhaust gas. Controlling the reductant injections includes determining an amount of NOx and an amount of NH3 at an outlet of the first SCR device, and at an outlet of the second SCR device. The controlling further includes computing an amount of reductants to inject to maintain a first predetermined ratio between the amount of NH3 and the amount of NOx at the outlet of the first SCR device and to maintain a second predetermined ratio between the amount of NH3 and the amount of NOx at the outlet of the second SCR device. Further, the controlling includes sending a command for receipt by the reductant injectors to inject the computed amount of reductants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Giulio Binetti, Giuseppe Mazzara Bologna, Daniela Meola