Patents Examined by Dapinder Singh
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Patent number: 11879389Abstract: An exhaust turbine includes a turbine wheel having a plurality of rotor blades, an exhaust outlet where the exhaust outlet is arranged downstream of the rotor blades and is delimited radial to the outside by an axial turbine diffusor. An exhaust mass flow can be output in an axial flow direction by the exhaust outlet duct and the axial turbine diffusor opens downstream, radially to the outside at a non-constant diffusor-opening angle, such that at a first diffusor-opening angle deviates from a second diffusor-opening angle by at least 1°. The exhaust turbine further includes a waste gate duct, the outlet region of which opens into the diffusor or directly downstream of the diffusor into the exhaust outlet duct. The waste gate duct is designed to generate a substantially axial flow direction of a waste gate mass flow at the outlet region of the waste gate duct.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Turbo Systems Switzerland Ltd.Inventors: Christoph Mathey, Stephan Senn
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Patent number: 11879380Abstract: A power delivery system includes a turbocharger assist device and an inverter. The turbocharger assist device is mechanically connected to a turbocharger that is operably coupled to an engine, and is configured to generate electric current based on rotation of a rotor of the turbocharger. The inverter is electrically connected to the turbocharger assist device via a bus, and is configured to receive the electric current generated by the turbocharger assist device via the bus and supply the electric current to power a load.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar
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Patent number: 11878805Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system comprising a reciprocating liquid cooled engine housed within the fuselage driving twin fuselage mounted ducted-fans is disclosed. The propulsion system may be liquid cooled with a liquid cooled exhaust and at least one turbocharger. The ducted-fans may run fan blade tip speeds of up to 97% Mach driven by a near constant RPM engine through a continuously variable transmission. The propulsion system may be low noise and may meet environmental standards typical in the automotive industry.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: U.S. Aeronautics, Inc.Inventor: James Paul Hines
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Patent number: 11867281Abstract: A pump stage assembly including at least two pump suction stages and at least one pump pressure stage. The pump suction stages and the pump pressure stage are arranged spaced apart from one another in a pump housing PG and have a common drive shaft. The pump suction stages are formed by a first assembly of intermeshing external gearwheels that lie in a first plane, and the pump pressure stage is formed by a second assembly of intermeshing external gearwheels that lie in a second plane. A first delivery volume flow can be drawn in from a first region of a dry sump by a first pump suction stage, and a second delivery volume flow can be drawn in from a second region of the dry sump by a second pump suction stage. The two delivery volume flows intermix in the pump housing before they reach an oil tank.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventor: Christian Böhm
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Patent number: 11867178Abstract: An improved screw-spindle pump, particularly for cooling systems, includes a first screw, a second screw and a pump housing, inside which the first screw and the second screw are rotatably housed between the first screw, the second screw and the pump housing, being defined pumping chambers adapted to move, as a consequence of the rotation of the first screw and the second screw, a fluid from a suction area to a delivery area of the pump. The pump housing housing the first screw and the second screw is made in one piece.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FLUID-O-TECH S.R.L.Inventors: Pasquale Borriello, Jacopo Varriale, Pierpaolo Lucchesi, Francesco Tirelli, Diego Andreis
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Patent number: 11852062Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing greenhouse gas emission in a vessel and a vessel including the same, which are capable of constantly maintaining a concentration of a greenhouse gas absorbing liquid to prevent a decrease in absorption performance of an absorption tower, and applying a pressurization system to prevent the loss of an absorbent liquid due to the natural evaporation of a high-concentration absorbent liquid. Or which are capable of cooling exhaust gas with fresh water by a heat exchange method, thereby preventing a decrease in concentration of an absorbent liquid, and controlling the concentration of the absorbent liquid to constantly maintain the concentration of the absorbing liquid, thereby preventing a decrease in absorption performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Byung Tak Nam
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Patent number: 11852100Abstract: A turbocharged compressor system using an Organic Rankine Cycle system to recover waste heat from a compression process. The Organic Rankine Cycle system circulates an organic fluid through an evaporator, where the organic fluid vaporizes and is expanded in a turbine section of a turbocharger to drive a compressor section of the turbocharger. The organic fluid vapor is condensed in a condenser and is pumped to the evaporator once again for recirculation. The compressor section of the turbocharger pre-compresses a working fluid before entering an airend in a compression system. As the working fluid exits the airend, it may be delivered to the evaporator, where the waste heat from the working fluid evaporates the organic fluid flowing in the Organic Rankine Cycle system. The working fluid may also be circulated between intercoolers in multi-stage compressor systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: INGERSOLL-RAND INDUSTRIAL U.S., INC.Inventors: Vineeth Poulose, Sajesh Poolathody, Sujin Abdul Salam
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Patent number: 11846277Abstract: A system for supplementing the electric power needed by a pump jack electric motor, thereby reducing the electric power purchased from the local utility or power supplier. The system comprises a solar photovoltaic system, or other forms of renewable energy, and regenerated power from the electric motor or drive. The system can be both “on-grid” and “off-grid.” Battery banks and capacitor banks may be used to store energy.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Kavan Graybill
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Patent number: 11846423Abstract: A mixer assembly having a plurality of mixer vanes, each of the plurality of mixer vanes having a first end, a second end, and a body portion extending between the first end and the second end, the body portion having a length, a width, a thickness, a cross-sectional area, a curvature, and a twist, wherein each of the plurality of mixer vanes has a 3-dimensional shape defined by the length, width, thickness, cross-sectional area, curvature, and twist of the body portion, and wherein at least one of the plurality of mixer vanes has a non-uniform 3-dimensional shape.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Steven Clayton Vise, Clayton Stuart Cooper, Michael Anthony Benjamin, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Rameshkumar Muthuvel Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 11846222Abstract: Systems and methods for conditioning an aftertreatment system. For example, a computer-implemented method for conditioning an aftertreatment system of a hybrid system including an electric motor and a combustion engine includes: determining whether the aftertreatment system is in a first temperature zone below a first temperature threshold; determining whether a power demand corresponding to the operation of the hybrid system is in a first power demand zone below a power threshold; and if the aftertreatment system is determined to be in the first temperature zone and the power demand of the hybrid system is determined to be in the first power demand zone, setting the hybrid system to compressor mode to heat the aftertreatment system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: CUMMINS INC.Inventors: Xing Jin, Lisa A. Orth-Farrell, Gary C. Salemme, Manik Narula
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Patent number: 11834980Abstract: An exhaust-gas guiding housing for an exhaust-gas system of an internal combustion engine includes an air inlet housing part through which exhaust gas can flow in an exhaust-gas main flow direction and which has a housing wall surrounding a housing longitudinal axis. At least one air inlet opening is provided in at least one air inlet peripheral region of the housing wall. An inner wall is provided at an inner side of the air inlet housing part, which inner wall, together with the housing wall, defines an air inlet chamber. The at least one air inlet opening is open to the air inlet chamber. At least one air passage opening is provided in the inner wall, and/or at least one air passage opening is formed between the inner wall and the housing wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Purem GmbHInventors: Christoph Buckermann, Marc-André Marek
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Patent number: 11834163Abstract: An aerial vehicle with a plurality of selectively collapsible arms capable of transitioning between an extended state and a contracted state is described. In the extended position, the distance between the main body of the vehicle and the rotor associated with each arm is maximized. In the contracted state, the distance between the main body of the vehicle and the rotor associated with each arm is minimized. In certain embodiments, each of the arms may include one or more tape springs that are biased to selectively move the associated one or more rotors of each arm between the retracted and extended states.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: David Patterson, Mark Silver
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Patent number: 11834978Abstract: A vehicle system includes a diesel oxidation catalyst. The vehicle system includes a hydrocarbon-selective catalytic reduction unit located downstream of the diesel oxidation catalyst. The hydrocarbon-selective catalytic reduction unit is configured to receive exhaust gas from the diesel oxidation catalyst. The vehicle system includes a turbocharger located downstream of the hydrocarbon-selective catalytic reduction unit. The turbocharger is configured to receive exhaust gas from the hydrocarbon-selective catalytic reduction unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventor: Jacob Backhaus
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Patent number: 11828241Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage, a fuel injection valve that supplies fuel to a cylinder, and an ignition device. A controller controls a fuel injection amount of the fuel injection valve and an ignition timing of the ignition device. The controller executes a fuel supply process that supplies fuel of the internal combustion engine from the fuel injection valve to the catalyst and a correction process that corrects an amount of fuel supplied to the catalyst during the fuel supply process so that the catalyst is supplied with less fuel when the ignition timing is retarded than when the ignition timing is advanced.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryota Sugiyama, Yuto Ikeda, Takanobu Gotoh
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Patent number: 11821428Abstract: Provided is a motor-integrated fluid machine that has improved performance and reliability by efficiently cooling a fluid machine body and a motor without increasing an installation space. The present invention is characterized by being provided with: a fluid machine unit that compresses or expands a fluid; a motor unit that has a drive shaft connected to the fluid machine unit; and a cooling fan that cools the motor unit and the fluid machine unit by sucking cooling air from the motor unit side and that is connected to the drive shaft at the side opposed to that connected to the fluid machine unit, wherein between the motor unit and the cooling fan, the minimum sectional area of a cooling air passage from the outside in the radial direction toward the drive shaft is larger than that of a cooling air passage from the motor unit side toward the cooling fan.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Fuminori Kato
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Patent number: 11814996Abstract: A method (200) for operating an exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) with central coordination of heating measures that are intended to heat the exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) to a temperature level at which the reactions to be catalyzed take place with an adequate reaction rate (so-called catalytic converter window). Through the central coordination of the heating measures on the basis of defined heating strategies, in which in each case one or more of the available heating measures are combined with one another in an expedient manner, the required outlay in terms of control can be considerably reduced, and mutual interference of the heating measures can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Beate Rittmann, Jan Kappa, Marcel Alexander Schneck, Michael Bachner
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Patent number: 11815002Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust aftertreatment system of a vehicle. A power demand from a first component of the aftertreatment system is measure, a heat transfer into the first component of the aftertreatment system based on power demand of the first component and a configurable emissivity value of the exhaust gas is determined, and the temperature of the first component based on the calculated heat transfer is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tom Leroy, Owen Lineham, Mike Rowland
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Patent number: 11808174Abstract: A turbine includes: a rotatable impeller with a hub provided with a plurality of rotor blades; and a tubular member in which a diffuser located downstream of the impeller is formed. On an inner surface of the tubular member, a plurality of projections projecting radially inward of the tubular member are formed at positions closer to an inlet end of the tubular member than an outlet end of the tubular member. The plurality of projections are arranged in a circumferential direction of the inner surface so as to leave a space between adjacent projections.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida, Makoto Ozaki
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Patent number: 11808226Abstract: A method (200) for operating an exhaust gas system (120) that includes a first catalytic converter (122) and at least one second catalytic converter (124), which are both arranged downstream from an internal combustion engine (110) The internal combustion engine (110) is controlled to generate a rich exhaust gas having a first rich gas portion, (220) a fill level of the second catalytic converter (124) is ascertained with respect to at least one lean gas component that is storable in the second catalytic converter and, if the ascertained fill level drops below (230) a minimum fill level, (240) the internal combustion engine (110) is controlled to generate a lean exhaust gas. The internal combustion engine (110) is then controlled to generate a rich exhaust gas having a second rich gas portion, and subsequently controlled (210) to generate the rich exhaust gas having the first rich gas portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alexander Baumann, Frank Meier, Jan Kappa
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Patent number: 11808227Abstract: A control unit configured to control an electric turbocharger and an EGR valve. While an internal combustion engine is stopped, an oxygen-free period, which is a period during which oxygen surrounding an exhaust gas purifier used for an oxidation reaction runs out, is estimated based on a temperature of the exhaust gas purifier. Before entering the oxygen-free period, the EGR valve is opened and the electric turbocharger is driven. Air surrounding the exhaust gas purifier is replaced with fresh air. After replacement with the fresh air has been completed, the electric turbocharger is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Kazuhiro Nitta