Patents Examined by Diem Tran
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Patent number: 9897044Abstract: A control system of an engine is provided. The control system includes an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage, a deceleration fuel cutoff module for performing a deceleration fuel cutoff when a deceleration fuel cutoff condition is satisfied in an engine decelerating state, a purging unit for performing a purge to supply a purge gas to an intake passage during the deceleration fuel cutoff, an evaporated fuel supply amount estimating module for estimating a supply amount of evaporated fuel to the intake passage when the purge is performed, and a catalyst temperature estimating module for estimating a temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the supply amount of the evaporated fuel. The purging unit controls a supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the exhaust emission control catalyst temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Tanaka, Yuusou Sakamoto, Hiroshi Tsuboi
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Patent number: 9890684Abstract: A method and a device for operating an exhaust gas aftertreatment, wherein a diesel particulate filter is regenerated during the operation, in particular passively regenerated, wherein a corrected differential pressure is calculated from a current differential pressure across the diesel particulate filter at a current exhaust gas volumetric flow rate and with a current correction factor. The current correction factor is determined by determining a lower differential pressure in a predetermined time interval at a defined exhaust gas volumetric flow rate, in particular in a specified exhaust gas volumetric flow rate interval around the defined exhaust gas volumetric flow rate, and comparing the lower differential pressure with a specified current reference value and, depending thereon, calculating a new correction factor or retaining the previous correction factor as the current correction factor.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBHInventors: Andrea Prospero, Tim Späder, Stefan Merk
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Patent number: 9890676Abstract: A device includes a first catalyst 41 including a Pd-containing catalyst layer and a Rh-containing catalyst layer and a second catalyst 42 containing Pt-loaded alumina and containing neither Rh nor Pd. The first catalyst or the second catalyst are disposed in one place in such a manner that one of the first catalyst 41 or the second catalyst 42 is located upstream of the other in a flow direction of an exhaust gas from an engine 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hisaya Kawabata, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Hiroshi Yamada, Masahiko Shigetsu
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Patent number: 9863633Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for continuously providing oxygen-enriched gas/air produced from a predefined atmospheric air (normally comprising 78% of nitrogen N2 and 21% of oxygen O2) to a combustion area/chamber, using an impeller-based apparatus having a duct system. The impeller system can comprise at least one plurality of gates for capturing the oxygen-enriched gas/air to automatically improve processes of combustion, exhaust and/or related properties of the apparatus. The impeller can comprise a plurality of blades which, when rotating/spinning, may create the desired gas density/mass separation of oxygen and nitrogen. Furthermore, a nitrogen-enriched gas/air can be further provided from a predefined atmospheric air using the impeller-based apparatus with at least one plurality of further gates system/duct, gates rotating in sync with impeller blades, for collecting the nitrogen-enriched gas/air to further improve one or more apparatus parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventor: Leonard Lawrence Donahue
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Patent number: 9863298Abstract: An engine system includes an electronically controlled compression ignition engine configured to burn diesel fuel and a high ash oil to produce an exhaust with a temperature and NOx to soot ratio as well as a controlled level of ash deposits on the particulate filter of the system. An aftertreatment system is fluidly connected to the engine and includes a diesel oxidation catalyst, a reductant supply, and a diesel particulate filter coated with a NOx reduction catalyst. The soot load density on the diesel particulate filter can be stabilized by oxidizing soot at about a same rate as the compression ignition engine is supplying soot to the aftertreatment system.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ronald Silver, Brandon Shull
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Patent number: 9863337Abstract: A system includes a soot module, a coordinator module, a regeneration module, and actuator modules. The soot module determines a current amount of soot mass in a particulate filter of a gasoline engine, where the particulate filter is downstream from the gasoline engine and receives an exhaust gas from the gasoline engine. The coordinator module generates an enable signal, a torque reserve signal, and an equivalence ratio. The regeneration module, based on the current amount of soot mass and the enable signal, generates a regeneration signal to regenerate the particulate filter. The actuator modules, based on the regeneration signal, the torque reserve signal and the equivalence ratio, retard spark and increase an amount of air flow to the particulate filter. The actuators maintain a same amount of torque out of the gasoline engine during regeneration as output from the gasoline engine prior to the regeneration of the particulate filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Vijay Ramappan, Jan Fritzsche, Martino Casetti, Jeremy J. Anderson
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Patent number: 9862569Abstract: A brake comprising a frame, a braking member mounted on the frame movably between braking position and released position, and a rotatable lever mounted on the frame, the lever being functionally connected to the braking member such that movement of the lever axially away from frame moves the braking member towards released position. At least one cylindrical roller is mounted on one of the brake frame and lever, to be positioned between the brake frame and the lever, and the other of the brake frame and lever comprises a recess for receiving said cylindrical roller, and in that rotation of the lever is configured to cause said cylindrical roller to roll outwards from the recess along an edge portion of the recess forcing the lever to move axially away from the frame, thereby causing the braking member to move towards released position.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventor: Timo Vlasov
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Patent number: 9856774Abstract: An engine exhaust system includes an exhaust pipe assembly having an engine exhaust system inlet configured to receive engine exhaust and an engine exhaust system outlet. The system includes a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst device positioned downstream in exhaust flow from the engine exhaust system inlet. The first SCR catalyst device includes a substrate with a metallic catalyst coated on the substrate. An electric heater is configured to heat the metallic catalyst. A second SCR catalyst device is positioned downstream in engine exhaust flow from the first SCR catalyst device and upstream of the engine exhaust system outlet. The first SCR catalyst device and the exhaust pipe assembly define an empty chamber between the substrate and the second SCR catalyst device. Engine exhaust flows directly from the substrate to the second SCR catalyst device through the empty chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Luciano Nunziato Di Perna, Raffaello Ardanese, Michael J. Paratore, Jr., Rahul Mital, Jianwen Li
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Patent number: 9856996Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment unit includes an exhaust gas treatment device, a bracket and a connecting pipe. The exhaust gas treatment device is mounted on a bracket. The connecting pipe is connected to the exhaust gas treatment device. The connecting pipe directs exhaust gas to the exhaust gas treatment device. The connecting pipe may include a supporting portion and a pipe portion, with the supporting portion supporting the bracket and the pipe portion being integrated with the supporting portion. Alternatively, the exhaust gas treatment unit may further include a supporting member having a supporting portion supporting the bracket and a pipe portion integrated with the supporting portion, with the pipe portion connected to the connecting pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Taira Ozaki, Hiroshi Nakagami, Hironori Yamamitsu, Kanji Namimatsu, Hiroshi Ohta, Kenji Matsubara
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Patent number: 9856114Abstract: An elevator comprising a hoistway; an elevator car vertically movable in the hoistway; a counterweight vertically movable in the hoistway; at least one tightening wheel located in the lower end of the hoistway; at least one rope wheel located in or at least in proximity of the upper end of the hoistway; a first roping interconnecting the car and counterweight and passing around the at least one rope wheel located in or at least in proximity of the upper end of the hoistway; a second roping interconnecting the car and counterweight and passing around the at least one tightening wheel, the tightening wheel being mounted movably back and forth in a first direction towards the second roping, and in a second direction away from the second roping; and means for exerting force on the tightening wheel to move it in the first direction so as to tighten the second roping.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventor: Riku Lampinen
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Patent number: 9849422Abstract: A provision of assemblies and methods for treating exhaust gases from combustion devices to reduce air contaminants in the exhaust gas. The exhaust from a combustion device is cooled, followed by passing the exhaust through first and second catalytic chambers with an oxygen enrichment means in between the catalytic chambers. The catalytic chambers comprise at least one catalyst that substantially reduces nitrogen oxides or carbon monoxide or both.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Inventor: Dorian Francis Corliss, II
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Patent number: 9850096Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a travelling cable clamp assembly fixing an elevator travelling cable to a fixing base, such as to a first movable support structure in the hoistway for supporting said at least one elevator unit movable in the hoistway, including at least an elevator car.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Mark Peacock, Niki Backlund
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Patent number: 9850799Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and an insert device for an internal combustion engine including: a central exhaust passage; a first expansion chamber in an upstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage; a second expansion chamber in a downstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage and the first expansion chamber, forming a continuous expansion chamber throughout a length of the insert device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: NG1 Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Shirley June Shirra
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Patent number: 9828921Abstract: An engine sound enhancement system includes a conduit in communication with at least one of an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold of an engine. An interface is arranged at least one of within the conduit and between an inlet of the conduit and the at least one of the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold. The interface is responsive to pulses within the at least one of the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold, wherein the interface is configured to transfer the pulses into the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: William Seldon, Scott M. Reilly, Grant Brady, Randall S. Beikmann
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Patent number: 9822688Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a mixer. In one example, the mixer may include a plurality of projections spatially separated from one another along an exhaust conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Patent number: 9816415Abstract: In a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which processing of regenerating the NOx storage capacity of an NSR catalyst is carried out in accompany with processing of diagnosing an abnormality in an exhaust gas purification device including the NSR catalyst, the present invention is intended to suppress the fluctuation of torque at the time of regenerating the NOx storage capacity of the NSR catalyst, and to terminate abnormality diagnostic processing quickly. According to the invention, by setting an engine air fuel ratio, which has been set to a lean air fuel ratio before the processing of regenerating the NOx storage capacity of the NSR catalyst is started, to a weak lean air fuel ratio which is lower than a basic lean air fuel ratio and higher than a stoichiometric air fuel ratio, it becomes possible to suppress the fluctuation of torque at the time of regeneration processing being started, and to terminate abnormality diagnostic processing at an early period of time.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Hokuto
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Patent number: 9816424Abstract: A system for controlling exhaust heat recovery and an exhaust gas recirculation system (EGR), the system includes an exhaust gas post processing device mounted on an outlet of an engine exhaust manifold, an exhaust gas purifying device, an exhaust heat recovery chamber having an exhaust gas pick-up space and further having a structure in which a cooling water flow passage is formed on the outside, and further being mounted on the outlet of the exhaust gas post processing device, a bypass valve mounted on an outlet of the exhaust heat recovery, and an EGR valve mounted on the exhaust heat recovery chamber to be opened and closed to circulate the exhaust gas in the exhaust gas pick-up space to an EGR cooler and an engine intake manifold.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: Han Sang Kim
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Patent number: 9809954Abstract: A bulldozer includes a blade, an engine, first and second exhaust treatment devices that treat exhaust from the engine, and an engine cover. The first exhaust treatment device is disposed in front of the engine and lower than a first upper surface of the engine. The second exhaust treatment device is disposed above the engine. The engine cover includes a second upper surface sloping forward and downward. The engine cover covers the engine and the first and second exhaust treatment devices. Longitudinal directions of the first and second exhaust treatment devices extend along a vehicle lateral direction. In a top view of the bulldozer, the second exhaust treatment device includes a portion overlapping the engine. As seen from a side of the bulldozer, a front edge of the second exhaust treatment device is positioned forward of a rear edge of the first exhaust treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventor: Akira Uno
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Patent number: 9809420Abstract: A safety system for an elevator is provided including a safety brake. The safety brake is operatively connectable to one of an elevator car or a counterweight. The safety brake includes a trigger configured to engage the safety when actuated. An actuation device is configured to be mounted to a guide rail. The actuation device includes an actuator movable between a first position and a second position. The actuation device is configured to not actuate the trigger of the safety brake when the actuator is in the first position. The actuation device is configured to actuate the trigger of the safety brake when the actuator is in the second position by physically contacting the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Aurelien Fauconnet, Etienne Delachatre
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Patent number: 9809423Abstract: An elevator car includes a floor base, which is stiff in bending, with a metallic base structure in which a support element of plastics material is arranged. The support element is formed as an integral mold body and is produced by means of an injection-molding method.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventor: Agnaldo Santos