Patents Examined by Kelsey L Stanek
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Patent number: 10648371Abstract: A system for actuating engine valves may include a valve bridge having a main event rocker interface portion, a first valve interface portion and a second valve interface portion extending in generally opposite directions from the main event rocker interface portion. The second valve interface portion may include an open end including a slot for receiving a bridge pin. The slot permits the valve bridge to be removed from the actuation system without removal of the main event rocker or other actuating components, such as an auxiliary rocker. The valve bridge can be removed from the valve train without requiring removal of other actuation system components, such as auxiliary rockers or main event rockers. A single valve bridge configuration can be used with different valve spans, which may occur among different cylinder sizes in a given engine family, or across different engine families.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.Inventors: Justin D Baltrucki, G. Michael Gron, Jr.
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Patent number: 10641149Abstract: A gas duct (100) has a duct wall (110) enclosing an interior space (120), a heated porous metal structure (113) arranged in the interior space (120) for passing through gases and an electric heater (102). The electric heater (102) is a mineral-insulated heater including a heat conductor (104), one or more front-side connection openings and an outer metal jacket (108). The electric heater (102) has a section (102a), which is passed through the duct wall (110), so that all front-side connection openings (116) are arranged outside the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100) and the outer metal jacket (108) is welded or soldered to the duct wall (110) in the section. The heat conductor (104) is completely embedded in a ceramic insulation (106) at least in the sections of the electric heater (102) that are arranged in the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Türk & Hillinger GmbHInventor: Andreas Schlipf
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Patent number: 10634026Abstract: An overall exhaust gas purification function based on an NOx reduction function and an HC oxidation function in an NSR catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is improved. In the NSR catalyst, a portion of an NOx storage catalyst layer supported by a carrier, which extends from its upstream end to an X % (0<X?75) of an overall length thereof along the flow of exhaust gas, forms an upstream side catalyst layer, and a portion of the NOx storage catalyst layer at the downward side of the upstream side catalyst layer along the flow of exhaust gas forms a downstream side catalyst layer. The upstream side catalyst layer does not contain potassium (K) as an NOx storage material, but the downstream side catalyst layer contains potassium (K) as an NOx storage material.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobusuke Kabashima
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Patent number: 10626780Abstract: The present invention relates to a manifold for receiving exhausts from a multi-cylindrical internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine has such a firing order that the riser in the manifold receives exhausts from two cylinders during an overlapping stage, simultaneously via an inlet opening arranged upstream and from an inlet opening arranged downstream in the riser. The riser comprises a substantially constant cross sectional area, except in one area, which is located in a position in connection with the inlet opening arranged downstream of the two inlet openings, receiving exhausts simultaneously. Said area has a geometry facilitating receipt and flow of exhausts in the predetermined direction in the riser, on occasions when the two inlet openings receive exhausts simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Scania CV ABInventors: Dennis Konstanzer, Kim Petersson
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Patent number: 10626822Abstract: A valve operating system for a multicylinder engine opens and closes a pair of valves provided on each of cylinders by means of a pair of rocker arms operated by a cam provided on a camshaft supported on a cam holder. When viewed in a direction of a cylinder axis, the pair of rocker arms of at least one of the cylinders are inclined in opposite directions to each other with respect to a direction orthogonal to a camshaft axis. Therefore, thrust loads acting on the camshaft from the pair of rocker arms are counteracted individually for each of the cylinders, thereby enabling the thrust load to be reduced and axial movement of the camshaft to be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTORS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeya Harada, Kiyohiko Masago, Masaru Kawano, Naoya Ashita, Kei Ueda, Koji Katsumata, Koichi Ogino, Hitoshi Ouchi
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Patent number: 10619528Abstract: An engine compression braking system includes a brake tappet linking an exhaust cam to at least one exhaust valve of an engine cylinder. The brake tappet is connected with a working fluid that selectively activates and deactivates a compression braking mode of operation by selectively engaging and releasing a lash assembly of the brake tappet relative to a housing of the brake tappet.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventor: Adam C. Cecil
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Patent number: 10619588Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes: a failure determination section which determines a failure state in a case where a relative rotation phase of an intake side valve opening and closing timing control mechanism does not change when controlling the mechanism after starting the driving of a starter motor and trying to change the relative rotation phase of the mechanism in a start control for starting an internal combustion engine. When the section determines a failure, the controller performs at least one of an intake air amount increase control in which an opening degree of a throttle valve is increased, an ignition timing advance angle control in which injection of fuel is performed at a timing earlier than a set timing and ignition is performed, and a multi-injection control in which the fuel is injected immediately before the ignition in addition to the fuel injection in an intake stroke.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiichi Fujimoto, Hirokazu Tanaka, Masaaki Kaneko, Tomohiro Kozaki, Suguru Kamiya, Atsushi Hanaura
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Patent number: 10598036Abstract: An assembly for a turbine engine includes a case, a guide vane arrangement and a flexible seal ring. The case extends circumferentially around an axis, and includes a first seal land. The guide vane arrangement is located radially within the case, and includes a second seal land. The seal ring at least partially seals a gap between the first seal land and the second seal land. The seal ring includes a first leg and a second leg that is connected to the first leg at a corner of the seal ring. The first leg is axially engaged with the first seal land. The second leg is axially engaged with the second seal land.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Jorge I. Farah, Andrew D. Burdick
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Patent number: 10563544Abstract: A continuous variable valve duration system may include a camshaft, a first cam portion including a first cam, of which the camshaft is inserted therein, an internal bracket transmitting rotation of the camshaft to the first cam portion, a control shaft parallel to the camshaft, a slider housing in which the internal bracket is rotatably inserted, on which a control groove where the control shaft is inserted into is formed, and the slider housing movable vertical to the camshaft, a guider configured for guiding movement of the slider housing, a rocker shaft, a first rocker arm rotatably disposed to the rocker shaft of which a first end portion contacts with the first cam and of which a second end portion is connected to a first valve and a control portion selectively rotating the control shaft for changing a position of the slider housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyung Mo Kim
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Patent number: 10550734Abstract: A camshaft phaser for the adjusting valve timing of a combustion engine includes a stator and a rotor that can rotate relative to the stator. The rotor is connected to one end of the camshaft via an adapter as well as via a sprocket which is fixedly mounted to the stator. The sprocket is slideably mounted about the camshaft with a first guiding section and is slideably mounted about the adapter with a second guiding section.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Juergen Weber, Christian Boesel, Jochen Thielen
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Patent number: 10550699Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor having a pretrench that receives at least a portion of a tip of a stator, the portion of the tip extending radially into the pretrench.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Ioannis Alvanos
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Patent number: 10544714Abstract: A system including a phaser with a first lock pin and a second lock pin in the rotor assembly. The first and second locks pins having a locked position where they engage a recess in the housing assembly and an unlocked position in which they do not engage the housing assembly. The first lock pin locks the rotor assembly to the housing assembly when the phaser is in or near an intermediate phase angle position. The second lock pin locks the rotor assembly to the housing assembly when the phaser is at a full retard position. Alternatively, the second lock pin can lock the rotor assembly to the housing assembly when the phaser is at a full advance position. The second lock pin is spring biased towards the unlocked position and is pressurized to engage and move to the locked position by either the advance or the retard chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Franklin R. Smith
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Patent number: 10539049Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes: a driving side rotator synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator coaxially disposed with a rotation axis of the driving side rotator and integrally rotating with a valve opening/closing camshaft; advance and retard chambers formed between the driving side and driven side rotators; a lock mechanism including a lock member capable of engaging with a recessed portion formed on one of the driving side and driven side rotators, and provided in the other of the driving side and driven side rotators; and a connecting bolt coaxially disposed with the rotation axis and connecting the driven side rotator to the camshaft, in which the connecting bolt includes an internal space, a valve unit accommodates a spool, and the spool includes an internal flow path, and, in the spool, a lock holding check valve is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Yamakawa, Masaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10539059Abstract: A mixer for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, for mixing a reactant with an exhaust gas flow, includes guide blade portions, fold webs and spacer webs. The guide blade portions are provided as guide blade pairs including a first blade portion connected to a second guide blade portion by at least one of the fold webs and folded at the at least one of the fold webs such that the first blade portion is disposed extending adjacent to and spaced from the second guide blade portion. Each of the guide blade pairs is connected to at least one adjacent guide blade pair by at least one of the spacer webs. The fold webs are disposed centrally and located adjacent to each other in an annular pattern of adjacent fold webs and the spacer webs are disposed peripherally spaced apart from each other about a circumference of the mixer.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Eberspächer North America Inc.Inventors: Mark Dennis Bugnell, John Francis Padalis, Jack Hall Riddle, II, Timothy Edward Fensch
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Patent number: 10539152Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan frame for a plurality of fan modules, particularly for a radiator of a motor vehicle, comprising a first fan holder having a first outflow region, at least one further fan holder having a further outflow region, and an intermediate region that connects adjoining edge regions of the first and the further fan holders to each other. The fan frame is characterised in that a shielding device, which separates the first and a further outflow region from each other, is provided in the intermediate region. The present invention further relates to a fan module, particularly having such a fan frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WUERZBERGInventors: Nils Springer, Thomas Dreesen, Antje Findeisen
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Patent number: 10539051Abstract: A valve operating system that includes a plurality of cam assemblies that are coupled for rotation about a rotary axis. Each of the cam assemblies has a control link and a first cam member. Each of the control links has a link body, which forms a majority of the control link, and that extends parallel to the rotary axis. Each of the first cam members is coupled to one of the control links for axial movement therewith along the rotary axis between first and second positions to alternate between first and second cam profiles, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Mark M. Wigsten, Dale N. Smith
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Patent number: 10519819Abstract: There is provided a mounting structure of an oil control valve unit configured to control a hydraulic pressure to a variable valve timing device of an engine. The engine is supported by a vehicle body frame. The oil control valve unit is mounted to an outer surface of the engine. The oil control valve unit is detachably mounted to the outer surface of the engine avoiding the vehicle body frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Ozeki
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Patent number: 10513950Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with a cam switching device including a cam groove provided on the outer peripheral surface of a camshaft and an electromagnetic solenoid type actuator capable of protruding, toward the camshaft, an engagement pin that is engageable with the cam groove. The control device is configured, in causing the cam switching device to perform a cam switching operation, to perform energization of the actuator such that the engagement pin is seated on a forward outer peripheral surface, and to more lower, when an electric current (coil current) flowing through the actuator as a result of the energization is greater, an average electric voltage per unit time applied to the actuator in protruding the engagement pin toward the cam groove from the forward outer peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara, Kaoru Ohtsuka
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Patent number: 10502154Abstract: An electronic control unit of a control device for an internal combustion engine executes, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling an actuator such that a pin drive operation is executed for switching from a first cam to a second cam, executes second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle, and executes abnormality determination processing for determining that a cam switching mechanism has an abnormality in a case where a pin returns to a reference position by using a pin return section following a cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Noriyasu Adachi, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Shinji Sadakane, Kaoru Otsuka
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Patent number: 10502118Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device includes: a first pipe through which exhaust gas from an engine flows; a second pipe that communicates with the first pipe and bypasses the first pipe; a heat recovery unit that is disposed at an interior of the second pipe, and that exchanges heat between the exhaust gas and cooling water that circulates at an interior of the heat recovery unit, and that recovers heat of the exhaust gas; and a heat transfer suppressing mechanism that is provided at a portion connecting the first pipe with the second pipe, and that suppresses transfer of heat from the first pipe to the second pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Murata, Tadashi Nakagawa, Kazunari Matsuura