Patents Examined by Jelitza Perez
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Patent number: 9702288Abstract: An emissions cleaning module is provided including a first support, a second support and a mixer module. The mixer module extends between the first support and the second support. The mixer module includes an outer body and an inner body located within the outer body. In addition the outer body is fixedly retained to the first support and the second support. Further, a first end of the inner body is slidingly retained within the outer body, and a second end of the inner body is fixedly retained relative to the outer body at or near the second support.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Perkins Engines Company LimitedInventor: Naseer A. Niaz
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Patent number: 9694319Abstract: The invention relates to a gas purifier that removes moisture and oxygen from inert gases and reducing gases, for example, at sub-atmospheric pressures. The purifier can remove part per million levels of moisture in a gas stream to less than 100 parts per trillion by volume, and has a low pressure drop and a sharp breakthrough curve.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Abneesh Srivastava, Thomas Richard Gaffney, Joshua T. Cook, Peter K. Shogren, Daimhin Paul Murphy, Stenio da Costa Pereira
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Patent number: 9683476Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device comprises a catalyst disposed to the exhaust-gas flow path, and an inhibiting member that is disposed downstream of the catalyst in the exhaust-gas flow path, and diminishes a bias in flow-rate distribution of exhaust gases that flow into the catalyst by inhibiting a partial flow of the exhaust gases that flowed out of the catalyst, wherein the inhibiting member comprises a concave part comprising a concave shape facing the catalyst, and inhibits, by the concave part, a partial flow of the exhaust gases that flowed out of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinobu Nagata, Yasufumi Umeno
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Patent number: 9675934Abstract: In one aspect, catalytic assemblies are described herein. A catalytic assembly, in some embodiments, comprises a plurality of honeycomb catalyst segments bonded to one another by a bonding material, the honeycomb catalyst segments comprising an outer peripheral wall and a plurality of inner partition walls defining flow channels extending longitudinally through the catalyst segments, wherein the outer peripheral wall and inner partition walls have dispersed throughout a chemical composition comprising 50-99.9 weight percent an inorganic oxide composition and at least 0.1 weight percent a catalytically active metal functional group.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Cormetech, Inc.Inventors: Chris E. Difrancesco, James C. Altizer
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Patent number: 9670816Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine includes an exhaust gas guide element that includes a dosage device for introducing a reduction agent into the guide element at a feed point and at least one interference element arranged upstream of the feed point, that introduces turbulences into the exhaust gas flow that is intermixed with the reduction agent. The guide element also includes a first guide portion, through which exhaust gas flows in a first flow direction, and a second guide portion, through which exhaust gas flows in a second flow direction that is opposite to the first flow direction. The first and second guide portions are fluidically connected with each other via a third guide portion, which redirects the exhaust gas from the first flow direction into the second flow direction. The feed point and the interference element are arranged in the third guide portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Peng Quan, Jeffrey Girbach, Daniel Hudson, Inderpal Singh
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Patent number: 9670815Abstract: A catalytic converter comprises: a catalyst carrier that purifies exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine; and a catalyst housing tube that houses the catalyst carrier. The catalyst housing tube comprises: an inlet-side conical part that comprises an exhaust-gas inlet, an inner diameter of the inlet-side conical part increasing as a distance from the exhaust-gas inlet increases; a tube part that comprises the catalyst carrier arranged therein; and, an outlet-side conical part that comprises an exhaust-gas outlet, an inner diameter of the outlet-side conical part increasing as a distance from the exhaust-gas outlet increases. A conical inner tube is further provided inside the inlet-side conical part, a diameter of the conical inner tube being smaller than that of the inlet-side conical part, and, the inlet-side conical part and the conical inner tube form a double structure upstream of the catalyst carrier.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Akira Yamamoto, Satoshi Ito
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Patent number: 9662612Abstract: An object of the present invention is to appropriately remove, from an exhaust gas, HC, CO, and ammonia flowing out from a filter (SCRF) on which an SCR catalyst is carried. In the present invention, a post-catalyst 8 is provided for an exhaust gas passage of an internal combustion engine on a downstream side from SCRF along with a flow of the exhaust gas. The post-catalyst 8 is constructed to include an adsorption reduction part 81c which adsorbs ammonia and which reduces NOx by using ammonia as a reducing agent, a first oxidation part 81b which oxidizes ammonia, and a second oxidation part 82 which oxidizes HO and CO.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Mikami, Shigeki Nakayama, Nobumoto Ohashi, Keishi Takada, Kenji Sakurai, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Otsuki, Junichi Matsuo, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9664383Abstract: There is provided a denitrification apparatus capable of reducing NOx from a combustion facility and preventing evaporation of a reducing liquid in a lance and an injection nozzle in the combustion facility in operation at a low load by adjusting concentration of a reducing agent, thereby achieving complete evaporation of the reducing liquid in an exhaust gas duct.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: BABOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Yamakaji, Ryosuke Nakagawa, Satoru Shishido, Toru Ogasahara
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Patent number: 9638084Abstract: A holding sealing material includes a one-sheet mat including inorganic fibers. The one-sheet mat includes a first mat with a first side face and a second mat with a second side face. A part of the first side face and a part of the second side face are foldably and integrally connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenzo Saiki
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Patent number: 9630146Abstract: A particulate filter for use in a vehicle engine exhaust is provided which includes a catalyst containing a mixture of nickel and copper. The catalyst is impregnated into the filter substrate, which is non-reactive with nickel and copper. When used in a vehicle exhaust gas treatment system, the catalyst on the filter improves soot burn-off at low temperatures, provides improved efficiency in reducing CO and NOx emissions over the use of conventional three-way-catalyst washcoats, and provides enhanced oxygen storage capacity (OSC) and water-gas-shift (WGS) functions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: James Robert Warner, Douglas Allen Dobson, Hungwen Jen, Giovanni Cavataio
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Patent number: 9623373Abstract: An electrically heatable honeycomb body assembly includes an electrical connection of sheet metal layers at a connection pin. A honeycomb body has a metal casing with an inner periphery, through which the connection pin is led in a bushing and electrically insulated. The sheet metal layers are alternately coarsely structured and finely structured or smooth sheets together forming a stack with uppermost and lowermost layers and channels for an axial gas flow between the layers. The connection pin runs radially approximately perpendicular to the layers and is metallically connected to at least two or all of the layers through at least one intermediate piece. The uppermost sheet metal layer preferably runs approximately parallel to the metal casing over at least 35% of the inner periphery and is separated therefrom only by an air gap. Simple production of an operationally safe and very uniformly electrically heatable honeycomb body is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Rolf Brueck, Ferdi Kurth, Peter Hirth, Thomas Haerig
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Patent number: 9617894Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system includes an exhaust purifying element for purifying exhaust gas, and a selective reduction catalyst for promoting reduction of NOx contained in the exhaust gas with a reducing agent. A housing for accommodating the exhaust purifying element includes an outer wall having an accommodating portion. A supply hole is formed on a bottom of the accommodating portion. A pipe that is located inside the housing has a passage through which an interior of the pipe communicates with an exterior of the pipe. The pipe is configured to guide exhaust gas toward the selective reduction catalyst through the passage and the interior of the pipe. The pipe has an end communicating with the supply hole. The injection device of the exhaust gas purification system injects the reducing agent to an interior of the pipe through the supply hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Tongu, Kuniharu Tobe
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Patent number: 9617886Abstract: An exhaust gas controlling catalyst includes zirconia particles; ceria particles which contact the zirconia particles, of which a mean particle size is smaller than a mean particle size of the zirconia particles; and an active metal that is supported on at least the ceria particles in a dispersed manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Watanabe, Shigeharu Takagi, Akira Morikawa, Takuto Hirose
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Patent number: 9610539Abstract: An exhaust-gas treatment device includes a honeycomb body wound and/or stacked with at least partially structured sheet-metal layers forming channels through which an exhaust gas can flow in axial direction from an inlet side to an outlet side. A first section of the sheet-metal layers ends flush at a first end surface associated with at least one of the sides and a second section of the sheet-metal layers ends at a second end surface associated with at least one of the sides. A spacing is provided between the first and second end surfaces because a first axial length of the first section is greater than a second axial length of the second section. The spacing forms a receptacle receiving a heating body, producing a simple electrically heatable exhaust-gas treatment device into which a heating body can be integrated during or after production of the honeycomb body.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Peter Hirth, Jan Hodgson, Peter Bauer
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Patent number: 9604174Abstract: An exhaust system, and a catalyzed substrate, is disclosed. The system comprises a catalyzed substrate, a counterflow urea injector downstream of the catalyzed substrate, and a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst downstream of the counterflow injector. The catalyzed substrate has an inlet end, an outlet end, an axial length extending from the inlet to the outlet, an inlet zone extending from the inlet, and an outlet zone extending from the outlet. The inlet zone comprises an oxidation catalyst and the outlet zone comprises a catalyst selected from the group consisting of a urea hydrolysis catalyst and a second SCR catalyst. The counterflow urea injector directs urea toward the outlet zone of the catalyzed substrate so that at least a portion of the urea contacts the outlet zone prior to contacting the first SCR catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Cathal Francis Prendergast
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Patent number: 9604177Abstract: A decrease in an NOx removal or reduction rate at the time of filter regeneration is suppressed. To this end, provision is made for an NOx selective reduction catalyst, a filter arranged at the upstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst, an NH3 generation catalyst arranged at the upstream side of the NOx selective reduction catalyst to generate NH3 when the air fuel ratio of an exhaust gas is equal to or less than a stoichiometric air fuel ratio, a regeneration unit to carry out regeneration of the filter, and a generation unit to make the air fuel ratio of the exhaust gas equal to or less than the stoichiometric air fuel ratio, thereby causing NH3 to be generated in the NH3 generation catalyst, wherein the regeneration unit inhibits the regeneration of the filter until the generation of NH3 by the generation unit is completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuyuki Irisawa
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Patent number: 9598999Abstract: An exhaust treatment device is disclosed. The exhaust treatment device has a compact configuration that includes integrated reactant dosing, reactant mixing and contaminant removal/treatment. The mixing can be achieved at least in part by a swirl structure and contaminant removal can include NOx reduction.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Korneel De Rudder, Stephane Le Merdy, Bart Schellens, Nic Degelin, Corine Chauvin, Jeffrey Curtis Gillen
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Patent number: 9598997Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes: a reducing agent passage that connects a tank and an injection valve; a heater that heats up a hydrolysis catalyst that is provided in the reducing agent passage; and a controller comprising at least one processor configured to control a pump so that a reducing agent located further toward a side of the injection valve than the hydrolysis catalyst flows toward a side of the hydrolysis catalyst after completion of injection of a reducing agent in a state where the hydrolysis catalyst is at a temperature lower than the hydrolysis temperature and before start of injection of a reducing agent in a state where the hydrolysis catalyst is at a temperature equal to or higher than the hydrolysis temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Itoh, Hiromasa Nishioka, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Ohtsuki, Yasumasa Notake, Hiroki Murata
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Patent number: 9587541Abstract: The present invention relates to a configuration method of a multifunctional particulate filter (MFPF), capable of reducing the content of particulate material (PM), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC), and increasing the content of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The MFPF may coat zeolite and an oxidation catalyst on both exhaust gas intake/discharge sides simultaneously, so as to minimize the slippage of HC and generate high-concentration NO2.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCHInventors: Jong-Soo Park, Young-Jae Lee, Kyung-Ran Hwang, Shin-Kun Ryi, Dong-Kook Kim, Tae-Hwan Kim, Chun-Boo Lee, Kyung-Sun Yoo
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Patent number: 9566547Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for treating exhaust gases comprising organosilicon components or accompanying substances. The invention more specifically relates to the use of bulk regenerator materials as storage materials allowing periodic removal, purification, and redelivery to the system. The invention solves the problem of clogged regenerator-storage materials during regenerative post-combustion of exhaust gases containing organosilicon components.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: CLAUSTHALER UMWELTTECHNIKINSTITUT GMBH (CUTEC-INSTITUT)Inventors: Otto Carlowitz, Bernd Ruskamp, Olaf Neese, Frank Kriebisch