Patents Examined by Dapinder Singh
  • Patent number: 12129778
    Abstract: A system comprising (i) a vehicular compression ignition engine comprising one or more engine cylinders and one or more electronically-controlled fuel injectors therefor; (ii) an exhaust line for the engine comprising: a first emissions control device comprising a first honeycomb substrate, which comprises a hydrocarbon adsorbent component; and a second emissions control device comprising an electrically heatable element and a catalysed second honeycomb substrate, which comprises a rhodium-free platinum group metal comprising platinum, wherein the electrically heatable element is disposed upstream from the catalysed second honeycomb substrate and wherein both the electrically heatable element and the catalysed second honeycomb substrate are disposed downstream from the first honeycomb substrate; a third emissions control device, which is a third honeycomb substrate comprising an ammonia-selective catalytic reduction catalyst disposed downstream from the second emissions control device; and one or more tempera
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: David Bergeal, Andrew Chiffey, Daniel Hatcher, Francois Moreau, Paul Phillips
  • Patent number: 12116918
    Abstract: A heater for an exhaust system that includes a housing having a connector coupled to the exterior thereof, a first terminal and a second terminal that are each disposed to the interior of the housing and electrically coupled to the connector, a heating element coupled to the first and second terminals, a heating wire coupled to the first and second terminals, and a plurality of heating rods inserted into the heating element to conduct heat from the heating wire throughout the heating element, wherein the connector receives power from an external power supply to supply electrical current to the heating element and the heating wire and wherein at least one of the heating rods supports the heating wire. The combination of elements are configured to heat and disrupt the flow of exhaust gases and aid in removing and/or reducing toxic gases and pollutants from the exhaust system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ECC TEC MSJ INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Saban Akyildiz
  • Patent number: 12116999
    Abstract: A compressor includes a fixed scroll, a movable scroll and a cover body. The cover body has an injection hole. The compressor has a compression chamber which is at least partially located between the fixed scroll and the movable scroll. The compressor includes a communication tube which defines a communication channel in communication with the enthalpy increasing channel. One end of the communication tube is at least partially located in the enthalpy increasing channel. A circumferential side wall of the one end of the communication tube is directly or indirectly in contact with an inner wall of the enthalpy increasing channel. Another end of the communication tube is at least partially located within the injection hole. A circumferential side wall of the another end of the communication tube is directly or indirectly in contact with an inner wall of the injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU LVNENG NEW ENERGY VEHICLE PARTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weili Guo, Dawei Ge, Jun Ouyang
  • Patent number: 12110796
    Abstract: An engine housing includes a rotor housing and a side housing assembly. The rotor housing includes a rotor housing body. The rotor housing body extends about an axis to form a rotor cavity of the engine housing. The rotor housing body extends between and to a first axial end and a second axial end. The side housing assembly includes a side housing body, a side plate, and a seal assembly. The side housing body is disposed at the first axial end. The side plate is disposed axially between the rotor housing body and the side housing body. The side plate includes an inner side, an outer side, and a perimeter edge. The seal assembly includes a support ring and a sealing ring. The support ring is disposed at the perimeter edge and the first axial end. The support ring circumscribes the side plate. The sealing ring extends between and to a first axial sealing ring end and a second axial sealing ring end. The first axial sealing ring end is disposed at the support ring and the outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Johnny Vinski, Jean-Philippe Simoneau, David Gagnon-Martin, Vincent Savaria, Bruno Villeneuve, Stephane Berube, Frederic Roy, Sebastien Bolduc
  • Patent number: 12110819
    Abstract: A side housing for a rotary internal combustion engine, has: a side wall defining first threads, the first threads extending around a central axis; a side plate having a rotor-engaging side facing away from the side wall and a back side opposite the rotor-engaging side and facing the side wall; and a nut rotatable relative to the side plate about the central axis, the nut and the side plate axially locked to one another, the nut defining second threads extending around the central axis, the side plate secured to the side wall via a threading engagement between the first threads of the side wall and the second threads of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Johnny Vinski, Vincent Savaria
  • Patent number: 12110816
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes an internal combustion engine, a motor/generator configured to drive the internal combustion engine or be driven by the internal combustion engine to generate electricity to charge a high voltage battery and/or drive one or more electric traction motors, and an exhaust aftertreatment system having a gasoline particulate filter (GPF). A control system includes a controller for monitoring and performing a regeneration operation of the GPF. The controller is programmed to determine the GPF needs to be regenerated, and operate the internal combustion engine in fuel shut-off to generate a flow of air to the GPF to initiate a GPF regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Brett Schubring, Brian E Hallgren
  • Patent number: 12110807
    Abstract: A hollow vane assembly including an open body including an interior; at least one cover support structure formed in said open body proximate the interior; a cover brazed to the open body to form at least one flow passage; and at least one ply formed in the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Bitter, S Bret Bonarrigo, William John Oldach, William C. Sheridan, Matthew Michael Massaro
  • Patent number: 12097940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to rotating equipment, and more specifically, to high efficiency rotating equipment which generates thrust through contra-rotating or produces electricity. The rotating equipment includes: a plurality of propeller modules (10, 20) including a plurality of blades (11, 21) installed inside along a circumferential direction; and a rotary module (40) which rotates the plurality of propeller modules (10, 20) or is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: VAM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dohyun Kang
  • Patent number: 12092004
    Abstract: A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, with an exhaust gas line, which is configured to feed the exhaust gas expelled from the internal combustion engine to at least one component for exhaust gas aftertreatment. The at least one adsorber for the temporary storage of hydrocarbons contained in the exhaust gas, a catalytic converter for the catalytic aftertreatment of the exhaust gas, an electrically heatable catalytic converter and a cracking catalytic converter for cracking long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter-chain hydrocarbons are arranged in the exhaust gas line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Rolf Brück, Peter Hirth, Ines Lienou Lzeutchi
  • Patent number: 12092018
    Abstract: A map creating method for nozzle vanes includes performing an imbalance operation as many times as the number of the cylinders while changing the specific cylinder, creating air-fuel ratio data indicating changes in the air-fuel ratio during the imbalance operation, calculating an air-fuel ratio fluctuation amount for each of pieces of the air-fuel ratio data, determining whether a specific condition is met, the specific condition being that a minimum value among the air-fuel ratio fluctuation amounts is greater than or equal to a first determination value and a difference between the minimum value and a maximum value among the air-fuel ratio fluctuation amounts is less than or equal to a second determination value, and storing, as an opening degree map, the opening degree of the nozzle vanes meeting the specific condition in association with the engine operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Tsukiyama
  • Patent number: 12092017
    Abstract: A fluid-cooled manifold is configured to cool exhaust from an engine. The fluid-cooled manifold includes a plurality of exhaust runners. Each of the exhaust runners includes a runner body having an inlet end and an outlet end, an exhaust conduit extending through the runner body, and a coolant passage extending through the runner body. The fluid-cooled manifold also includes an exhaust collection manifold including a plurality of inlets. Each inlet of the exhaust collection manifold is coupled to the exhaust outlet opening of a respective one of the exhaust runners. The fluid-cooled manifold also includes a coolant feed pipe and a coolant exit pipe. The coolant feed pipe includes a plurality of outlets coupled to the coolant inlets of the exhaust runners. Likewise, the coolant exit pipe includes a plurality of inlets coupled to the coolant outlets of the exhaust runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Power Solutions International, Inc.
    Inventors: Constantine Xykis, Mark Damico, Dan Kasper, Patrick Stockwell, Joshua Horner
  • Patent number: 12092109
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that may include first and second variable-capacity units that provide communication between a first intermediate pressure chamber and a low-pressure portion and between a second intermediate pressure chamber and the low-pressure portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanghun Seong, Seokhwan Moon, Jinyong Jang, Sooho Jang
  • Patent number: 12092009
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an exhaust gas cooling device for an internal combustion engine, having a housing which can be connected to an exhaust gas line of the internal combustion engine and has an axis of symmetry and having a Venturi assembly coupled to the housing for introducing exhaust gas and ambient air and having an outlet line emitting an exhaust gas-ambient air mixture into the environment, wherein: the Venturi assembly has a Venturi channel which can be coupled fluidically to the exhaust gas line and an inlet opening delimited by the Venturi channel and the exhaust gas line for ambient air; the Venturi channel is used to conduct an exhaust gas-ambient air mixture and opens, with the inlet opening, into a mixing chamber; the Venturi channel has an outlet opening and the outlet opening has an inflow opening, wherein the outlet opening and the inflow opening are spaced apart from one another; the Venturi channel and the outlet line, with the inflow opening, open into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Tenneco GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Schuster, Philipp Gran, Peter Räsch
  • Patent number: 12092011
    Abstract: A system and method include determining, by a controller associated with an aftertreatment system, satisfaction of an enabling condition and in response to the satisfaction of the enabling condition pausing, by the controller, hydrocarbon dosing in a regeneration cycle of the aftertreatment system. The system and method also include upon pausing of the hydrocarbon dosing, monitoring, by the controller, an oxidation catalyst of the aftertreatment system for a light-off shift condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yinghuan Lei, Todd A. Corbet, Jinqian Gong, Vijay Ramchandra Kadam
  • Patent number: 12092007
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling a regeneration event for an exhaust aftertreatment system of a vehicle is described. The method comprises predicting, by a processor device, expected travelling times for travelling from a starting point to a first destination point and from an auxiliary point to a second destination point based on collected drive time statistical data and collected additional drive time statistical data; and controlling, by the processor device, the regeneration event based on the predicted expected travelling times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oscar Stjernberg, Martin Wilhelmsson, Johan Bjernetun, Anders Eriksson
  • Patent number: 12085047
    Abstract: An air intake device includes a supercharger, a connection tube, an intercooler, and an intake manifold. The supercharger is connected to an exhaust port of a cylinder. The intercooler is connected to the supercharger through the connection tube. The intake manifold is connected to the intercooler and an intake port of the cylinder. The intercooler is located above a cylinder head of an engine. The device of the present disclosure features less height space occupation, a short connection tubeline between elements and a compact structure, which is beneficial for an increase of the pressurization response speed and reduction in the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sicong Lin, Wenfeng Zhan, Yuhuai Li, Bo Li, Hao Feng
  • Patent number: 12085002
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling the operation of an engine system in a vehicle is provided. The engine system comprising an engine and an exhaust aftertreatment system for reducing at least NOx emissions of the exhaust gases from the engine using a reductant, the engine system comprising a plurality of engine system components configured to perform a plurality of NOx emission reducing activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johan Dahl, Esteban Gelso
  • Patent number: 12085003
    Abstract: A device for aftertreatment of exhaust gases, having a flow section which is able to be flowed through by exhaust gas and has at least one honeycomb body, acting as a catalytic converter, and has at least one heating element. The heating element is formed from a ceramic material which is able to be flowed through along a plurality of flow channels from an inflow side to an outflow side. The heating element is electrically conductive along the walls delimiting the flow channels and, by an electrical contact, is connectable to a voltage source, wherein the heating element runs in a meandering manner over a through-flowable cross section of the flow section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Rolf Brück
  • Patent number: 12085046
    Abstract: Provided are an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system and a vehicle. The EGR system includes a cooler, a first end of the cooler is provided with an air inlet for connecting to an exhaust system of the vehicle, and a second end of the cooler is provided with an air outlet, an air passage is connected between the air inlet and the air outlet in the cooler, and the air outlet is at a position higher than the air inlet in a vertical direction. The cooler is further provided with at least one water inlet for a cooling liquid to enter and at least one water outlet for discharging waste cooling liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunyan Dong, Chengbo Lin, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12085078
    Abstract: A blower assembly includes, but is not limited to, a blower housing defining a blower chamber and including a gas inlet and a gas outlet; a first rotor positioned within the blower chamber and adapted for rotation therein, the first rotor including a first shaft and at least two lobes defining a first lobe profile; and a second rotor positioned within the blower chamber and adapted for rotation therein, the second rotor including a second shaft and at least two lobes defining a second lobe profile, wherein the first and second rotors are formed from a metal having a coefficient of thermal expansion from about 1 (10?6 in/in*K) to about 13 (10?6 in/in*K), and wherein at least one of the outer surface of the first rotor, the outer surface of the second rotor, or the blower chamber includes a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Clive Palmer, Kyle Maples, Vladimir Muzichuk