Patents Examined by Kevin A Lathers
  • Turbo housing element
    Patent number: 10989076
    Abstract: A turbo housing manifold includes a base plate defining a first opening and a housing conduit portion connected with the base plate and defining a second opening distal from the first opening. The housing conduit can include a first extending portion proximate to the base plate and extending axially away from the base plate, and a second extending portion connected with the first extending portion and distal from the base plate wherein an inner surface of the second extending portion transitions as the second extending portion extends away from the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Pridgeon & Clay, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Bostwick, Waigan W. Liu, Pete R. Wojtas
  • Double-crowned valve seat insert having seating surface formed of hard-facing material
    Patent number: 10989321
    Abstract: A valve seat insert for a gas exchange valve controlling gas exchange of a cylinder includes an insert body having an inner peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface, and a valve seating surface structured to contact the gas exchange valve at a closed position and profiled to limit valve recession thereof. The valve seating surface includes an arrangement of linear segments and curved segments forming crowns to contact the gas exchange valve at different wear states. The valve seat insert further includes a base material, and a hard-facing material metallurgically bonded to the base material and forming the valve seating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwin A Hattiangadi, Rong Qu, Paul Smallidge, Karen Snelling, Pay Broderson
  • Coolant delivery device for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, cooling system, and internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10989101
    Abstract: A coolant delivery device for an internal combustion engine, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a pump, a an activatable electric motor, a shut-off valve, a return line, a heating device, and a common module housing. The pump is configured to deliver liquid coolant, and includes a suction port configured to connect to a tank, and a pressure port for the coolant and which is assigned to the engine. The motor is configured to drive the pump. The valve is assigned to the suction port. The return line is configured to connect to the tank, and includes at least one check valve. At least the pump, motor, valve, heating device, and the at least one check valve together form a delivery module and are positioned in the common module housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Burak, Peter Schenk, Simon Obergfaell
  • Fuel system for diesel engines using carbonaceous aqueous slurry and emulsion fuels
    Patent number: 10989121
    Abstract: A fuel circulation system of a diesel type engine configured to use carbonaceous aqueous slurry or emulsion fuels. The diesel type engine includes a fuel injection system which is fluidly connected to the fuel circulation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventor: Louis James Wibberley
  • Adapter for roller tappet of engine and engine roller tappet assembly including same
    Patent number: 10975736
    Abstract: An adapter for a roller tappet of an engine may include a body and a support. The body may be combined with a cylinder block of the engine. The body may include oil inlet connected to main gallery of the cylinder block to receive an oil from the main gallery. The support may be extended from one end of the body to support the roller tappet. The support may include a first oil passageway connected to the oil inlet. The first oil passageway is formed through the body and the support to supply the oil supplied from the oil inlet to the roller tappet. Thus, the oil may be supplied from the main gallery to the roller tappet through the oil passageway so that it may not be required to form an additional oil passageway, which may supply the oil to the roller tappet, in the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jong-young Kim
  • Process and apparatus for the preparation of a cylinder oil
    Patent number: 10975739
    Abstract: A process for production of cylinder oil comprises providing used oil, providing fresh cylinder oil, and blending the used oil with the fresh cylinder oil. The used oil has a lower TBN value than the fresh cylinder oil. A process for the operation of an internal combustion engine comprises preparing cylinder oil as described and using the cylinder oil in the internal combustion engine. An apparatus for the preparation of a cylinder oil comprises a blending means for blending used oil and fresh cylinder oil. The blending means is in flow communication with at least one compartment of an internal combustion engine that comprises used oil or at least one storage compartment comprising used oil, at least one storage compartment for fresh cylinder oil, and at least one cylinder of an internal combustion engine. Used oil and fresh cylinder oil are used for the preparation of cylinder oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: LUKOIL MARINE LUBRICANTS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Claussen, Jan Thiedeitz
  • Cooling sysytem mechanical pump diagnosis
    Patent number: 10975857
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing a mechanical coolant pump in an automobile equipped with cooling system having a mechanical coolant pump and an electric coolant pump comprises detecting when an engine of the automobile has been started, dis-engaging the electric coolant pump, engaging the mechanical coolant pump, and verifying the mechanical coolant pump is operating properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Smith, Eugene V. Gonze, Eric E. Klauser, Christopher H. Knieper
  • System and method of securing brake booster negative pressure
    Patent number: 10975811
    Abstract: A method of securing brake booster negative pressure is provided. The method includes operating a purge pump that is connected to a canister having evaporation gas absorbed thereon and a brake booster and determining whether the evaporation gas is injected into an intake pipe by the operation of the purge pump. Whether a negative pressure of the brake booster is insufficient is determined and when the evaporation gas is being injected into the intake pipe and the negative pressure is insufficient, a degree of opening of a valve provided in a line connecting the canister and the purge pump is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young-Kyu Oh, Youn-Su Kim, Keum-Jin Park
  • Opposed-piston internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10975764
    Abstract: An opposed-piston internal combustion engine is configured so that one cylinder is provided with two pistons and these pistons reciprocate symmetrically with each other. The engine comprises: an expanded chamber formed at part of a wall of the cylinder positioned between the two pistons when a volume between the two pistons is the minimum and extending in a radial direction of the cylinder; an intake passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an exhaust passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an intake valve opening and closing the intake passage with respect to the expanded chamber; an exhaust valve opening and closing the exhaust passage with respect to the expanded chamber, and crankshafts respectively connected to the pistons. The expanded chamber formed so as to stick out from a wall surface of the cylinder in the same direction as axes of rotation of the crankshafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiichi Kamiyama
  • Breather structure of engine
    Patent number: 10968796
    Abstract: The disclosure prevents oil separated from blow-by gas by using a breather chamber and discharged to a valve chamber from leaking to the outside from a breather chamber mounting surface between the breather chamber and the valve chamber. A breather chamber includes cylindrical drain passages communicating with a valve chamber, and tips of the drain passages exceed breather chamber mounting surfaces of a cylinder head and a head cover and protrude from opening parts toward a side of the valve chamber, so the oil separated from the blow-by gas in the breather chamber can be reliably discharged to the valve chamber and prevented from leaking to the outside from the breather chamber mounting surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Konishi, Hikaru Ueno
  • Internal combustion engine control device and control method
    Patent number: 10961964
    Abstract: A multi-injection process includes performing intake synchronized injection in which fuel is injected in synchronism with an open valve period of an intake valve, and an intake asynchronous injection in which fuel is injected at a more advanced timing than during intake synchronized injection. A single-injection process includes injecting a required injection amount of fuel by intake asynchronous injection. An operating process includes operating a port injection valve for injecting fuel into an intake passageway. A selection process includes selecting the single-injection process if the temperature of an intake system of an internal combustion engine is not lower than a prescribed temperature, and selecting the multi-injection process if the temperature of the intake system is less than the prescribed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fuse, Masanori Toya
  • Device for supplying lubricant
    Patent number: 10954831
    Abstract: A device for supplying lubricant for a fuel injection nozzle for injecting compressed natural gas (CNG) into an internal combustion engine is provided. The device includes a lubricant reservoir for supplying lubricant and having a feed pressure supply apparatus for applying a feed pressure to lubricant which is stored in the lubricant reservoir, where a feed pressure valve for setting the feed pressure is provided between the feed pressure supply apparatus and the lubricant reservoir, and a lubricant metering valve for metering the lubricant supply is provided between the lubricant reservoir and the fuel injection nozzle, where the lubricant is fed to the lubricant reservoir from an oil gallery of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Berkemeier, Bernd Steiner
  • Water jacket structure
    Patent number: 10954883
    Abstract: A water jacket structure includes: a lower water jacket that is provided inside a cylinder head installed at the top of a cylinder block; and an upper water jacket that communicates with the lower water jacket, and is provided on a side away from the cylinder block than the lower water jacket; wherein the lower water jacket includes, for each space between cylinders: a communication flow passage that communicates with the upper water jacket; and a reinforcing post formation part on which a reinforcing post is installed; wherein the reinforcing post formation part is located on a downstream side in a flowing direction of cooling water along a cylinder arrangement direction than the communication flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hajime Takagawa
  • Opposed-piston internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10941702
    Abstract: An opposed-piston internal combustion engine is configured so that one cylinder is provided with two pistons and these pistons reciprocate symmetrically with each other. The engine comprises: an expanded chamber formed at part of a wall of the cylinder positioned between the two pistons when a volume between the two pistons is the minimum and extending in a radial direction of the cylinder; an intake passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an exhaust passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an intake valve opening and closing the intake passage with respect to the expanded chamber; an exhaust valve opening and closing the exhaust passage with respect to the expanded chamber, and crankshafts respectively connected to the pistons. The expanded chamber formed so as to stick out from a wall surface of the cylinder in the same direction as axes of rotation of the crankshafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiichi Kamiyama
  • System and method for injecting an aqueous solution on-board a vehicle
    Patent number: 10941730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle system for injecting an aqueous solution, said vehicle system comprising: a tank (500) for storing an aqueous solution; an injection system (300) configured for injecting aqueous solution from the tank (500) in an injection zone (Z) in the vehicle; and a UV light decontamination device (700) configured for decontaminating the aqueous solution stored in the tank (500) by emitting UV light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research
    Inventors: Stephane Leonard, Laurent Duez, Beatriz Monge-Bonini, Joel Op De Beeck
  • Engine cooling structure
    Patent number: 10934968
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Tatsuya Takahata, Yoshiaki Hayamizu, Keita Watanabe, Mikimasa Kawaguchi
  • Abnormality assessment device of internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10934963
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes on-off valves that configure a closed space by closing an internal space of a breather line, a pump that depressurizes or pressurizes the closed space, a pressure sensor that detects a pressure of the closed space, and an abnormality assessment element that assesses abnormality of the breather line. The abnormality assessment element assesses abnormality of the breather line based on a pressure change of the closed space in a case where the closed space is depressurized or pressurized by the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sekiguchi, Takashi Konomoto, Hiroki Ishikawa, Taku Hirota
  • Flow-directing water jacket diverter
    Patent number: 10920711
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a water jacket diverter. In one example, the water jacket diverter may be formed by injection molding and includes features such as cut-outs, an inlet ledge, a continuous upper rail, and one or more fins. The water jacket diverter may increase coolant flow in an upper portion of the water jacket, thereby increasing a cooling efficiency at an upper region of a cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Philip Damian Cierpial, Kenneth Steven Fedeson, Anthony Hale, Donna O'Hara, James Schneider, Calvin Tran
  • Vertical multicylinder straight engine
    Patent number: 10920650
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical multicylinder straight engine in which the temperature distribution of a plurality of cylinder barrels is made close to an even state. A cylinder jacket includes: a jacket inlet; a separated channel; a plurality of separated outlets; and heat dissipater channels for dissipating heat of the respective cylinder barrels to engine cooling water introduced through the separated outlets. The plurality of separated outlets include: a front-side separated outlet to a front-end barrel; a rear-side separated outlet to a rear-end barrel; and middle separated outlets to middle barrels between the front-end barrel and the rear-end barrel, and the jacket inlet is disposed so as to be contained within an entire middle barrel side area that is lateral to the middle barrels and has a front-rear length as long as a length from a front-most end to a rear-most end of the middle barrels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Ichikawa, Mutsuhisa Ishihara, Shinya Asada, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Systems and methods for controlling a variable speed water pump
    Patent number: 10914227
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an improved strategy for controlling a variable speed water pump in a vehicle. In some embodiments, more than one water pump speed function is calculated based on values obtained from vehicle sensors, and a controller chooses among the water pump speed function results to set a water pump speed. In some embodiments, the water pump speed is increased when driveline torque is greater than a threshold amount for an amount of time that varies based on the driveline torque. In some embodiments, ambient temperature is considered while determining whether the water pump should provide full coolant flow to an auxiliary coolant loop of a trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR INC
    Inventors: Tristan Pyle, René M. P. A. Nevels