Patents Examined by Kelsey L Stanek
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Patent number: 11590450Abstract: A CO2 separation system configured to separate CO2 from mixed gas containing CO2 includes a CO2 separator, a CO2 collector, and a pressure difference generator. The CO2 separator includes a separation membrane configured to separate the CO2 from the mixed gas, and a separation-membrane upstream chamber and a separation-membrane downstream chamber demarcated by the separation membrane. The CO2 separator is disposed to cause the mixed gas to flow into the separation-membrane upstream chamber. The pressure difference generator includes at least a negative pressure generator. The negative pressure generator is disposed on a gas path of the permeating gas that connects the separation-membrane downstream chamber and the CO2 collector.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kouseki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11591945Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment arrangement for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas channel leading to a flow path switching unit. The flow path switching unit is configured for changing exhaust gas parts of an exhaust gas stream flowing through the exhaust gas channel, which are conducted into first and second exhaust gas flow paths downstream of the flow path switching unit. The first exhaust gas flow path and the second exhaust gas flow path lead to an exhaust gas outlet. An SCR catalyst unit is in the first exhaust gas flow path upstream of the exhaust gas outlet. A liquid bypass line drains liquid from a liquid collection region in the exhaust gas channel upstream relative to the switching unit. The liquid is drained to a liquid discharge region for discharging liquid into the second flow path downstream of the switching unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Purem GmbHInventors: Carsten Kohberg, Markus Henzler, Arthur Wieland
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Patent number: 11583812Abstract: A mixer for a vehicle exhaust gas system includes a mixer housing defining an internal cavity and having a mixer inlet configured to receive exhaust gas and a mixer outlet to direct exhaust gas to downstream exhaust components. A flow device is configured to receive the exhaust gas from the mixer inlet and to facilitate mixing of the exhaust gas and a reductant introduced into the first flow device. The flow device comprises a Venturi body centered on a body center axis, and the Venturi body comprises a body inlet configured to receive the exhaust gas from the mixer inlet and a body outlet configured to provide the exhaust gas to the mixer outlet. The Venturi body also includes a louver extending from an internal surface of the mixer housing to a distal edge that is downstream of the body outlet. An upstream vane is positioned within the Venturi body proximate the body inlet and is coupled to an upstream vane hub that is centered on an upstream vane hub axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLCInventor: Eduardo Alano
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Patent number: 11585256Abstract: An exhaust gas/reactant mixing arrangement is for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine for mixing exhaust gas and reactant. The mixing arrangement includes an exhaust gas guide housing extending in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis and a housing wall. The housing wall surrounds and defines an exhaust gas duct accommodating a flow of exhaust gas. A mixing zone is formed between an upstream end wall and a downstream end wall arranged downstream of the upstream end wall. The mixing zone includes a first chamber and a second chamber as well as a reactant dispensing unit carried on the exhaust gas guide housing for dispensing reactant into the first chamber in a reactant main dispensing direction oriented substantially along a reactant dispensing line.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Purem GmbHInventor: Peter Kast
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Patent number: 11585255Abstract: A mixer assembly for a vehicle exhaust system includes a mixer shell defining an internal cavity, wherein the mixer shell includes an upstream end configured to receive exhaust gases and downstream end, and a reactor positioned within the internal cavity. The reactor has a reactor inlet configured to receive injected fluid and a reactor outlet that directs a mixture of exhaust gas and injected fluid into the internal cavity. An inlet baffle is mounted to the upstream end of the mixer shell. The inlet baffle includes at least one opening that directs exhaust gas into at least one exhaust gas inlet to the reactor and a plurality of bypass openings that direct exhaust gas to bypass entry into the reactor. The inlet baffle includes a crowned portion that curves away from the reactor to provide for an increased open area within the internal cavity between the inlet baffle and the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLCInventors: Randall Cvelbar, Eduardo Alano, Amaresh Rakkasagi, Jerome Hornback, Jeffery Prairie
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Patent number: 11585285Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a rich air-fuel ratio control for performing fuel injection while setting a target equivalence ratio such that, at recovery from a fuel cutoff process, an air-fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture is richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. The controller is configured to execute a target equivalence ratio setting process for setting the target equivalence ratio that is maintained during execution of the rich air-fuel ratio control such that the target equivalence ratio increases as an air excess ratio that is calculated from an output value of a second air-fuel ratio sensor at start of the rich air-fuel ratio control increases.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takamitsu Mizutani, Yusuke Joh, Masanao Idogawa, Takeshi Genko
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Patent number: 11578632Abstract: An exhaust gas heater for an exhaust gas system of a combustion engine includes a carrier and at least one heating conductor through which a current flows. The heating conductor is mounted on the carrier. The heating conductor is provided via separation from a metal flat material blank. A method of making an exhaust gas heater includes a step of separating the heating conductor from the metal flat material blank.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Purem GmbHInventors: Sandra Hoeckel, Fatih Uysal
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Patent number: 11578717Abstract: A tappet, which may be a fuel pump actuator, includes a body that is a contiguous piece of case-hardened ferrous metal. The body has a cylinder-conforming bore-running surface and an anti-rotation guide feature that has been made by stamping to project outwardly from the bore-running surface. A cam follower is mounted to the body. The body has been case hardened by ferritic nitrocarburizing, but has not been distorted by heat treatment and has a malleable interior. A transverse web for the tappet may be fully hardened. Axle holes for the cam follower may be formed by stamping. The tappet is durable and provides superior alignment of the roller to a cam, which reduces friction and noise.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: Douglas Ray Cornett, Adam Greg Paul
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Patent number: 11560820Abstract: A static mixer for exhaust gas ducts of internal combustion engines includes an elongated hollow metal body having a shape which, relative to a symmetry axis, substantially corresponds to a solid of revolution defining at its inside a cavity having opposite bases, at least one of which has an axial opening, and a closed lateral wall connecting the opposite bases and having at least one radial opening over which a concave blade is arranged extending radially outward from a portion of the peripheral edge of the radial opening and surrounding a portion of the radial opening so as to define, in a first angular direction relative to the symmetry axis, a corresponding concave screen or spoon and, in a second, opposite direction, a mouth intended for the passage of gases and located substantially in front of the concave screen or spoon.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: OFFICINE METALLURGICHE G. CORNAGLIA S.P.A.Inventors: Alessandro Aru, Marco Barone, Pier Mario Cornaglia, Cristina Robino, Zakaria Tiji
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Patent number: 11549423Abstract: A method that determines a cause for the impaired performance of a catalytic configuration of the exhaust gas of a combustion engine (231), the method including determining (s410) a course of a NOx-conversion ratio; determining (s420) a prevailing temperature of the catalytic configuration; increasing (s430) the temperature of the catalytic configuration from a prevailing temperature below a predetermined temperature value (Te) to a temperature (TSred) above the predetermined temperature value above which sulphur is removed from the catalytic configuration; and/or decreasing (s440) the temperature of the catalytic configuration from a prevailing temperature (TSred) above the predetermined temperature value (Te) to a temperature below the predetermined temperature value so as to impair the performance of the catalytic configuration in case sulphur is present; and determining (s450) one cause out of a set of causes on the basis of the course of the NOx-conversion ratio thus determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Scania CV ABInventor: Mikael Lundström
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Patent number: 11549422Abstract: A flow distributor provided within an exhaust system for a combustion engine configured to generate an exhaust fluid stream. The flow distributor comprising an inlet, and a plate. The plate having at least one perforation defining an outlet, a first peak and a second peak spaced from the first peak.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Edward C. Hill, Matthew Yule, Christopher Poplin, Brooke E. Gwaltney, Xuegeng Zhu
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Patent number: 11536166Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster (1), in which the locking system (7, 8) includes a first and a second control element (7, 8). In order to approach the middle position easily, the first control element (7) has a first and a second switching position, wherein in the first switching position a fluidic connection between the hydraulic pump (P) and a first of the two sub-chambers (B) and a fluidic connection between the other, second sub-chamber (A) and the tank (T) can be established, and in the second switching position a fluidic connection between the hydraulic pump (P) and the second of the two sub-chambers (A) and a fluidic connection between the other, first sub-chamber (B) and the tank (T) can be established, and the second control element (8) is free from different switching positions and has no influence on the flow of hydraulic fluid.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Ali Bayrakdar
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Patent number: 11536179Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment assembly unit for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a tubular outer housing (12) elongated in a direction of an outer housing longitudinal axis (LA), a tubular inner housing (14) elongated in the direction of an inner housing longitudinal axis (LI), an exhaust gas treatment unit (16) being carried in the inner housing (14), and a locking fixing device (24) detachably fixing the inner housing in the outer housing. The locking fixing device (24) includes a locking fixing element (26) held at the inner housing (14) in both axial directions with a radially outwards prestressed locking meshing area (28). In association with the locking meshing area (28), a locking receiving area (42) at the outer housing (12), interacts with the locking meshing area (28) for holding the inner housing (14) in the outer housing (12) in at least one axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: PUREM GMBHInventors: Wolfgang Datz, Markus Henzler, Peter Kast
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Patent number: 11530628Abstract: A denitration device comprising a duct (22) that leads and distributes exhaust gas from a turbine (56) of a gas turbine (50) including a compressor (52) and the turbine (56), an ammonia injection grid (24) that sprays, into the duct (22), an mixed gas in which ammonia gas and dilution air are mixed with each other, and a denitration catalyst (26) that is installed on a downstream side of flow of the exhaust gas of the ammonia injection grid in the duct (22), and there is provided an air bleeding line (76) that is connected to a low compression portion of the compressor (52) of the gas turbine (50) and supplies air bled of the compressor (52) into the ammonia injection grid (24) as the dilution air.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akira Hirota, Kanji Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11530630Abstract: A system for monitoring operation of an internal combustion engine having a rocker arm assembly for actuating an engine valve is disclosed. The rocker arm assembly includes a first arm with a first end, a second arm also having a first end pivotally connected near the first end of the first arm along a pivot axle, at least one torsion spring coiled around an end of the pivot axle, a latch that when latched secures the first arm relative to the second arm in a latched mode, and when unlatched allows the first arm to move relative to the second arm in an unlatched mode. The system also employs a sensor attached to one of the first and second arms that can detect when the arms are moving relative to each other, and adapted to provide a signal indicating the sensed movement.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventor: Brian Karl VanDeusen
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Patent number: 11519296Abstract: A bearing chamber housing for supporting a shaft of a turbomachine is provided, the bearing chamber housing including an additively built-up housing wall which bounds an oil chamber of the bearing chamber housing radially outwardly relative to an axis of rotation of the shaft, the housing wall being built up with an oil duct which has an inlet opening toward the oil chamber for admission of oil from the oil chamber into the oil duct, and which has an outlet opening for discharging the oil from the oil duct, the outlet opening being located at a different axial position and at a different circumferential position than the inlet opening, considered relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and the oil duct having an extent with both an axial component and a circumferential component, at least over a portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Frank Stiehler, Georg Kempinger, Juergen Kraus, Steffen Schlothauer, Christian Liebl, Alois Eichinger, Thomas Koebke
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Patent number: 11484847Abstract: A mixer assembly unit, for an exhaust system exhaust gas treatment unit of an internal combustion engine, mixes exhaust gas discharged by the internal combustion engine with reactant. A mixing section (12), downstream in relation to a reactant release device (14), mixes exhaust gas, flowing in an exhaust gas flow direction, with reactant. The mixing section includes a core flow duct (34), extending in a direction of a mixing section longitudinal axis (L), through which a first exhaust gas partial stream (T1) flows. A second exhaust gas partial stream (T2) flows through a jacket flow duct (36) surrounding the core flow duct and separated from the core flow duct by an inner wall (30). The reactant release device releases reactant into the core flow duct or/and into the first exhaust gas partial stream. A mixer (38) is provided at an upstream end area (22) of the mixing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Purem GmbHInventors: Michael Mayer, Heike Többen, Christoph Illi, Wolfgang Datz, Konstantin Kappes, Tobias Wolf, Philipp Weinmann
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Patent number: 11486290Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment mixing device comprises a casing, a mixing pipe located in the casing and a partition plate separating the casing into an upstream space and a downstream space. The mixing pipe comprises a first pipe portion located in the upstream space and a second pipe portion located in the downstream space. The first pipe portion is provided with at least two first openings located on two sides of the first pipe portion, respectively. A shielding plate shields an upstream portion of at least one of the first openings. The shielding plate is shaped and positioned within the casing to urge exhaust gas flowing through the upstream space away from the first end of the mixing pipe and around the shielding plate prior to entering the first openings.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TENNECO (SUZHOU) EMISSION SYSTEM CO., LTD.Inventor: Cong Wang
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Patent number: 11486274Abstract: A valve actuation system comprises at least one main rocker arm operatively connected to a first engine valve, the at least one main rocker arm configured to receive at least main valve actuation motions. A second rocker arm is operatively connected to a second engine valve, the second rocker arm being configured to receive first auxiliary valve actuation motions. The second rocker arm further comprising a hydraulically-controlled first actuator that can selectively couple or decouple the second rocker arm and the second engine valve thereby permitting or preventing conveyance of the first auxiliary valve actuation motions from the second rocker arm to the second engine valve. A one-way coupling mechanism disposed between the at least one main rocker arm and the second rocker arm permits valve actuation motions to be transferred from the at least one main rocker arm to the second rocker arm, but not vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.Inventors: John Mandell, Matei Alexandru
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Patent number: 11480368Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas heat pump system. The gas heat pump system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an air conditioning module comprising a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion apparatus, an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant line; and an engine module comprising an engine for combusting a mixture of fuel and air, thereby providing power for driving the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jinwoo Lee, Minho Chung, Song Choi