Patents Examined by Johnny H. Hoang
  • Patent number: 12196151
    Abstract: A control method for the combustion system comprises: a fuel injector conducts first primary spray and second primary spray at intervals, and the fuel injector injects fuel to a first arc ridge during the first primary spray; and the fuel injector sprays fuel to a second arc ridge during the second primary spray. By adopting a combustion chamber having two arc ridges and respectively injecting fuel to the two arc ridges by means of the fuel injector, it can be ensured that the amount of fuel shared by each arc ridge is reduced, gathering the fuel at a single arc ridge can be avoided, and it is beneficial to exert the improvement effect of the arc ridge on a wall impact jet flow velocity field at the tail end of a fuel beam, such that the fuel and gas distribution in a cylinder is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuguang Tan, Bin Pang, Dehui Tong, Peng Zhou, Xiaoxin Liu, Yuncheng Gu, Xu Cheng
  • Patent number: 12197180
    Abstract: A first generator set may store, in a memory of the first generator set, data representing local attributes associated with an engine. The first generator set may receive, via a network switch of the first generator set, remote data representing remote attributes associated with a second generator set. The first generator set may cause the first controller to update, based on the remote data, the local data in the memory to synchronize the local attributes with the remote attributes. The first generator set may transmit, via the network switch, an indication that the local data was successfully updated in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Haddad, Christopher W. Menge, Viswanadha Koppolu, Raman Jamloki, Matthew Headley, Matthew L. Andrews
  • Patent number: 12195074
    Abstract: A device (100, 200?, 200?, 300, 400) for detecting the contact between a user and a steering wheel (9) of a vehicle, the device (100, 200?, 200?, 300, 400) comprising: an electrically insulating support (10); a first electrically conductive track (101, 201, 301, 401) fastened to the support (10) and comprising a plurality of first peaks (11) alternated with a plurality of first troughs (12) along a direction (D), wherein the first track (101, 201, 301, 401) is distributed over the support so that the surface of the first track (101, 201, 301, 401) adapted to come into contact with a user's hand decreases along said direction (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: I.R.C.A. S.P.A. INDUSTRIA RESISTENZE CORAZZATE E AFFINI
    Inventors: Federico Zoppas, Mauro Berioli, Angelo Morello, Roberto Oboe, Paolo Magnone
  • Patent number: 12188425
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining a size of a leak in a fuel tank system. The method includes: starting an internal combustion engine; calculating a stoppage time for a vehicle and/or a temperature difference between the fuel in the fuel tank system and the environment; and checking whether at least one of a plurality of diagnostic conditions is fulfilled. A first diagnostic condition is fulfilled when the stoppage time is longer than a predetermined minimum stoppage time. A second diagnostic condition is fulfilled when the temperature difference is smaller than a predetermined maximum temperature difference. Additionally, when at least one of the plurality of diagnostic conditions is fulfilled, the method includes: evacuating the fuel tank system; recording a time profile of the pressure in the fuel tank system; and determining the size of a leak based on the recorded time profile of the pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hong Zhang, Gerhard Haft
  • Patent number: 12188423
    Abstract: In a cylinder deactivation control method of an engine, a cylinder deactivation trigger moment of a to-be-controlled engine is determined; a second cycle and a cylinder deactivation mode corresponding to the next first cycle are determined according to the crankshaft rotation speed at the cylinder deactivation trigger moment, the target torque at the cylinder deactivation trigger moment, and a second cycle and a cylinder deactivation mode corresponding to the current first cycle at the cylinder deactivation trigger moment; the cylinder pressure type of each cylinder in the current first cycle is determined in conjunction with the cylinder deactivation modes of three adjacent first cycles; the fuel injection quantity of each ignition cylinder in the current first cycle is determined based on the calibrated preset fuel injection quantity chart of the first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Ren, Fei Wang, Bin Pang, Qingzhen Ma, Huihui Wang, Lin Chen, Wenchao Mo, Xianfa Xu
  • Patent number: 12180904
    Abstract: In a control method for the combustion system, spatial intensities of entrainment effects in a cylinder of fuel sprays of the two injections can be superimposed by means of two main fuel injections, two organizations of the fuel sprays for a flow field in the cylinder are implemented; by determining a duration and a first injection pressure of first main fuel injection, a cylinder pressure can at least reach an upper limit threshold of the cylinder pressure; and during second main fuel injection, in a time period when the cylinder pressure drops from the upper limit threshold of the cylinder pressure to a set cylinder pressure, a change rate of the curve slope of a cylinder pressure change curve at each time point is within a set range of slope change rates, and a rotation angle of a crankshaft is not smaller than a first preset rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuguang Tan, Peng Zhou, Dehui Tong, Bin Pang, Yuncheng Gu, Xiaoxin Liu
  • Patent number: 12174029
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence fuel management system and method that facilitates optimizing fuel management and vehicle service times for a variety of vehicle types through determining the remaining trip range for a vehicle and providing optimal routing and vehicle fueling options for a trip route involving autonomous vehicles, vehicle platoon management, and/or vehicular fuel management systems. The associated vehicles are fueled by at least one of a liquid fuel and an alternative fuel. The liquid fuel is either gasoline or diesel, and the alternative fuel is either electricity, bio-fuel, bio-alcohol, synthetic and paraffinic, steam, heat, vegetable and waste-derived oils, compressed air, liquid nitrogen, liquid petroleum gas, propane, hydrogen, ethanol, methanol, butanol, or natural gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Geotech Corp
    Inventor: John A. Reyhani
  • Patent number: 12173665
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for controlling a motorcycle, a system, a motorcycle and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first wheel speed signal and a second wheel speed signal; calculating a difference between the first wheel speed signal and the second wheel speed signal; detecting whether the difference satisfies a first condition, the first condition being used for detecting whether to adjust ignition timing of an engine; if the difference satisfies the first condition, detecting whether the exhaust temperature of the engine exceeds a temperature threshold; if the exhaust temperature does not exceed the temperature threshold, determining an ignition plug ignition angle of the engine according to the difference and the rotating speed of the engine; and adjusting the ignition timing of the engine according to the ignition plug ignition angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: United Automotive Electronic Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shilei Guo, Qiang Li, Xuemin Jiang, Xinghong Jiang, Qiang Yu, Yincheng Zhou, Donglai Yang
  • Patent number: 12173676
    Abstract: An embodiment hydrogen direct injection system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a fuel line and a fuel injector configured to inject hydrogen fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, wherein the fuel injector is configured to receive the hydrogen fuel via the fuel line and to receive water via the fuel line, and wherein the water is configured to lubricate the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Ulrich Karrer, Bernd Friedrichs, Roman Pelzetter, Leigh Deissenroth, Milos Tichy, Markus Peppler, Andreas Kapp
  • Patent number: 12168965
    Abstract: A vehicle drive having a vacuum system for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine that is connected to a supply air line and to an exhaust air line. The vacuum system has an ejector. A propellant gas line opens into a nozzle channel of a propellant nozzle of the ejector. The nozzle channel opens into a mixing chamber of the ejector through a nozzle opening. A suction line opens into the mixing chamber and the mixing chamber on an outlet side opens directly or indirectly into a mixed gas line. The mixed gas line opens into the supply air line. The suction line is connected to a vacuum consumer, and the nozzle opening in the propellant nozzle is formed by a nozzle edge having teeth and/or corrugations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Norma Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Kintea, Lukasz Gabrys, Michal Sajdak, Gerrit von Breitenbach, Janusz Szwajkosz
  • Patent number: 12168952
    Abstract: Operating an engine includes moving a piston in an engine from a bottom-dead-center position toward a top-dead-center position in a cylinder, and directly admitting a prechamber fuel such as methanol into a prechamber ignition device fluidly connected to the cylinder. Operating the engine further includes autoigniting the prechamber fuel to produce jets of gases from the prechamber ignition device containing reactive species such as hydroxyl radicals to ignite a main charge of a fuel in the cylinder via the jets of gases produced via the autoignition of the prechamber fuel. Related apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Charlie Chang-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 12165085
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors and memory coupled to the one or more processors, storing processor-executable instructions that cause the one or processors to perform operations. The operations include, prior to a train departing from a departure location: generating, one or more train departure strategies for a segment of a trip for the train traveling on a track from the departure location where the train is stationary, displaying information associated with the segment of the track, playing a simulation of the train traveling on the track over the segment based on the one or more train departure strategies, the simulation beginning from when the train is stationary at the departure location; receiving a selection of a train departure strategy, and engaging the selected train departure strategy for operating the train from the departure location where the train is stationary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Progress Rail Services Corporation
    Inventor: Keith Wesley Wait
  • Patent number: 12162324
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a suspension of a vehicle to improve ride comfort of the vehicle includes: a sensor that measures rainfall around the vehicle, a camera that takes an image of a road surface ahead the vehicle, and a controller that recognizes an obstacle located on the road surface based on the image of the road surface ahead the vehicle. In particular, the controller determines a type of the obstacle depending on the measured rainfall around the vehicle, and controls a damping force of the suspension based on control information corresponding to the determined type of the obstacle when the vehicle passes over the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyung Jin Kim, Young Jae Kim, Yoon Kab Noh, Jong Hoon Choi, In Yong Jung, Byung Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 12162029
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a shielding jig which mainly comprises an adjustment unit, a positioning unit and a sealing unit. The adjustment unit is configured and engaged between the positioning unit and the sealing unit. Therefore, a first actuation surface of the adjustment unit matches with a second actuation surface of the sealing unit, resulting in expansion of the sealing unit. This expansion makes the shielding jig be able to shade and seal any workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: GUDENG PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Chien Chiu, En-Nien Shen, Yung-Chin Pan, Shih-Feng Wu
  • Patent number: 12163463
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a propeller to generate a propulsive force by the drive force of the engine, a lithium ion capacitor, a starter motor to be actuated by a power supply from the lithium ion capacitor to crank the engine, a starter relay provided on a starting power supply line between the lithium ion capacitor and the starter motor, a start switch to be turned on by an engine starting operation by a user to energize a coil of the starter relay from the lithium ion capacitor so as to turn on the starter relay, and a charging controller including a switch to connect the lithium ion capacitor to a charging power source to charge the lithium ion capacitor during the driving of the engine, and to disconnect the lithium ion capacitor from the charging power source when the driving of the engine is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12158130
    Abstract: A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine, in particular a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine, includes a cylinder head system that includes an intake duct and a fuel inlet aperture, the fuel inlet aperture opening into the intake duct, an injector holder that is detachably connected to the cylinder head system and that includes an injector receiving borehole, an injector that is accommodated in the injector receiving borehole and braced against the injector holder with the aid of clamping means, and a tubular plug-in piece that is situated between the injector holder and the cylinder head system in such a way that a discharge opening of the injector and the fuel inlet aperture of the cylinder head system are fluidically connected to one another via the via the plug-in piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DEUTZ Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Klosterberg, Janine Queren, Klaus-Peter Bark, Georg Töpfer, Manuel Hirmer, Benedikt Nork, Ralph Kleuser
  • Patent number: 12158390
    Abstract: A method for operating a control unit for an exhaust gas sensor, in particular for a broadband lambda sensor for an internal combustion engine, in particular, of a motor vehicle, or for another sensor device. The control unit is designed to electrically activate the exhaust gas sensor. The control unit is, in particular, implemented in the form of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The method includes: specifying a measuring sequence and/or a starting point in time, in particular, for an operation of the control unit and/or of the exhaust gas sensor, with the aid of a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias-Gerhard Zobel, Bernhard Ledermann, Claudius Bevot, Florian Mezger
  • Patent number: 12151664
    Abstract: A system includes a brake torque request module, a brake control module, and a diagnostic module. The brake torque request module is configured to generate a brake torque request based on a brake pedal position during a braking event. The brake control module is configured to apply friction brakes on a wheelset of a vehicle to satisfy the brake torque request during the braking event. The wheelset includes less than all wheels of the vehicle. The diagnostic module is configured to detect a fault in a brake rotor on a wheel in the wheelset based on vehicle operating conditions measured during the braking event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Milad Jalaliyazdi, Graeme R. Garner, Hossein Sadjadi, Hamed Kazemi
  • Patent number: 12152518
    Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust purification filter with which pressure loss can be reduced, the filter having high exhaust purification performance and granular-substance-filtering performance. The exhaust purification filter comprises a filter base material having a wall flow structure, and an exhaust purification catalyst supported on a dividing wall of the filter base material, the exhaust purification filter being such that: a median pore diameter (D50) of the filter base material according to a volumetric basis is 15 ?m or greater; and the exhaust purification catalyst is unevenly supported on a high-density layer, in which the density of the exhaust purification catalyst is relatively high, and a low-density layer, in which the density of the exhaust purification catalyst is relatively low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiaki Seki, Yusuke Imai, Atsushi Furukawa, Yuichi Matsuo, Naohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 12146449
    Abstract: At least some embodiments of present disclosure direct to a fuel injection timing drift detection and/or compensation system. In some cases, the system collects or receives a series of fuel pressure data measured by one or more fuel pressure sensors. The system is configured to receive an indication of fuel flow cutout and a start-of-injection command signal. The system calculates a set of pressure drops using the series of fuel pressure data and identifies a selected pressure drop greater than a predetermined threshold to determine a measured start-of-injection timing based on the selected pressure drop. The system is further configured to evaluate whether a fuel injection drifting occurs based on received start-of-injection command signal and the measured start-of-injection timing. In some cases, the fuel injection drifting is used to either compensate fuel injection timing or raise a flag indicating the drifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Mayur H. Borate, Srinivas Kumar Mulukutla, Shailesh Nair, David Michael Carey, Syed Shah Jalal