Patents Examined by Kevin Lathers
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Patent number: 12228098Abstract: A system is provided for compressing gaseous fuel for injection into an engine. The system includes a turbine positioned in the exhaust passage of an engine and a compressor positioned in a gaseous fuel line upstream of the engine, where the compressor is coupled to the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Christopher Homison, Jacob Kenneth Pedder
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Patent number: 12221918Abstract: The present invention pertains A cooling system for a gas engine piston, the system comprising a cooling oil supply configured to feed a cooling oil flow to the gas engine piston, and a control device configured to control the cooling oil flow based at least on a predetermined parameter. The present invention further pertains to a gas engine comprising at least one gas engine piston and a cooling system according to any of the previous claims, wherein the gas engine piston is configured to be operable with at least one combustion gas. In addition, the present disclosure pertains to a cooling method for a gas engine piston, comprising the steps of receiving at least one predetermined parameter at the control device; controlling the cooling oil flow based on at least the predetermined parameter; and observing a sufficient cooling oil flow fed to the gas engine piston.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbHInventors: Sebastian Ohler, Olaf Berger
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Patent number: 12215655Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an intake manifold, at least one intercooler, at least one cylinder head with a plurality of piston-cylinder-units, at least one ammonia source, and a controller. Each piston-cylinder-unit includes at least a main combustion chamber, at least one intake valve, and an ignition device. The at least one ammonia source is configured to provide ammonia to each piston-cylinder unit as part of a combustion charge. The controller is configured to control the intercooler to provide a gaseous medium with a temperature of at least 60° C. to the intake manifold, and control a lambda of the combustion charge inside each main combustion chamber to be between 0.9 and 1.2.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OGInventors: Nikolaus Spyra, Wolfgang Fimml, Michael Url
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Patent number: 12209552Abstract: Piston for an internal combustion engine, preferably a gas engine comprising a pre-chamber, comprising a piston crown limiting the piston on a side facing a cylinder head when the piston is arranged inside an internal combustion engine, wherein the piston crown comprises at least one piston bowl which has a lower surface level than a radial edge region of the piston crown, wherein the piston bowl comprises a depth (d), which is defined by the distance between the radial edge region and the lower surface level of the piston bowl measured parallel to central elevation which has a height (H), wherein the height (H) of the central elevation equals the depth (d) of the piston bowl plus/minus 50%, preferably 20%, of the depth (d) of the piston bowl.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OGInventors: Matthias Raibel, Jochen Fuchs, Robert Boewing, Andreas Birgel
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Patent number: 12209560Abstract: A gaseous fuel engine system includes an engine housing forming a plurality of intake ports, and a plurality of fuel admission tubes oriented to admit a gaseous fuel into the plurality of intake ports. The fuel admission tubes include mixers having flow-impinged surfaces exposed to at least one of a flow of gaseous fuel or a flow of intake air and each including a detachment edge. The mixers may include fins, wedge structures, and/or a contoured outer surface of the fuel admission tube. Related apparatus and methodology is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Anders, Bobby John, Kenth I. Svensson, Naga Krishna Chaitanya Kavuri, William J. Barnes
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Patent number: 12209516Abstract: A method for the production of a poppet valve which is armoured in at least the region of a valve seat, comprising providing a substantially cylindrical or cup-shaped semi-finished product produced from a valve steel, which is coated with an armouring material, whereupon the coated semi-finished product is formed into an armoured poppet valve.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL VALVETRAIN GMBHInventors: Thorsten Matthias, Stefan Kellermann
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Patent number: 12196084Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a carriage assembly (3-n) for a swash plate engine (1) having a swash plate (7). The carriage assembly (3-n) has a carriage body (19) for reciprocating along a longitudinal axis (X-n). The carriage body (19) is configured to be connected to at least one piston (5-n). At least one bearing assembly (20-n) is disposed on the carriage body (19). The or each bearing assembly (20-n) includes a rolling bearing (21-n) configured to engage a rolling face of the swashplate (7); and a yoke (23-n) for supporting the rolling bearing (21-n). The yoke (23-n) is movable relative to the carriage body along the longitudinal axis. Aspects of the present invention also relate to a swash plate drive assembly (15); and a swash plate engine (1).Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: ZPE LTDInventors: Keith Nair, Daniel Spokes
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Patent number: 12194835Abstract: Typical active grille shutter vanes meet the frame at either end, with a small clearance between the parts, to avoid the parts binding together. This invention adds a set of soft flaps, which are molded in a two-shot process, to allow the vanes to seal against the frame while closed but sit free of the frame while open. This clearance is accomplished by adding a stepped wall to the frame component, to create an interference between the vane flaps while turning to the closed position, causing the flaps to be deflected in a gradual manner, so the actuator motor is not taxed with a sudden increase in required torque.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: MAGNA EXTERIORS, INCInventor: Jeffrey B. Manhire
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Patent number: 12196152Abstract: The present invention provides a throttle device for an engine enabling an operation of fitting a support shaft supporting an intermediate gear into a positioning hole and an operation of causing the intermediate gear and a counterpart gear to mate with each other to be easily performed when a throttle body-side assembly and a gear cover-side assembly, which have individually been assembled, are coupled to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Shogo Akase
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Patent number: 12187113Abstract: The invention relates to a module, comprising: —at least one, preferably only one, tangential turbomachine (28-1; 28-2) comprising a bladed wheel (32-1; 32-2) and a motor (33-1; 33-2) for rotationally driving the bladed wheel (32-1; 32-2), —a frame (30-1; 30-2) forming an opening (60-1; 60-2), preferably only one opening, —a shut-off means (62-1; 62-2) designed to selectively shut off the opening (60-1; 60-2), the shut-off means (62-1; 62-2) having at least two regions which, in contact in a position of the shut-off means (62-1; 62-2) in which the opening (60-1; 60-2) is left free, are at a distance apart in a position in which they shut off the opening (60-1; 60-2).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Kamel Azzouz, Sébastien Garnier, Amrid Mammeri
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Patent number: 12188386Abstract: A lubrication system for an internal combustion engine includes a fluid flow control device at an outlet side of the pump that regulates pressure conditions at the outlet side of the pump upstream of the lubrication circuit in the engine. The fluid flow control device is located in a recirculation path, and opens in response to a fluid pressure at the outlet of the pump exceeding a first threshold to allow the fluid to pass from the outlet side of the pump back to an inlet side of the pump. The recirculation path includes a tuning device that maintains the fluid pressure at engine speeds above the first threshold. In response to engine speeds above a second threshold, the tuning device restricts fluid flow in the recirculation path so that the fluid pressure in the fluid flow path increases.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Nicholas James Welch, Matthew D. Flessner
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Patent number: 12188421Abstract: A gaseous fuel engine system includes a quick start fuel system having a pressurized gaseous fuel supply, a fuel feed conduit and a quick start fuel admission valve. The fuel feed conduit is coupled to an intake conduit for the engine at a downstream fuel admission location. A main fuel system is coupled to the intake conduit at an upstream fuel admission location. The quick start fuel admission valve is electrically actuated to admit a pressured gaseous fuel from the pressurized gaseous fuel supply for quick starting the gaseous fuel internal combustion engine. The quick start fuel may have a fuel composition different than a fuel composition of the main fuel.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Steven W. Meinhardt, Andrew C. Gaarder, Andrew D. Palmer
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Patent number: 12187114Abstract: A shutter device includes a frame, an opening-closing portion, and a protrusion. The frame is disposed between a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger and defines an inner space through which air introduced from a grill opening of a vehicle flows in an airflow direction. Each of the first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger has a core and a remaining portion other than the core. The opening-closing portion is configured to selectively open and close the inner space of the frame. The protrusion protrudes, in a direction parallel to the airflow direction, from the frame toward the remaining portion of at least one of the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Maeda, Yukio Shidara
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Patent number: 12163447Abstract: A rocker arm configured to perform a first event and a second event against a valve bridge assembly operably associated with first and second engine valves includes a rocker arm body configured to rotate about a rocker shaft. The rocker arm body includes a first event rocker arm assembly comprising a hydraulic capsule in a bore, and a second event rocker arm assembly. The first event rocker arm assembly is configured to selectively engage the valve bridge assembly to open the first and second engine valves.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: James E. McCarthy, Jr., Douglas J. Nielsen, Kshamta Bishnoi, Nicola Andrisani
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Patent number: 12160086Abstract: A spark plug includes a metallic shell member having a tubular portion extending along an axial line of the metallic shell, a center electrode disposed inside the tubular portion and extending along the axial line, and a ground electrode which is inserted into an opening 5 provided in the tubular portion and forms a gap between the center electrode and a forward end portion of the round electrode in a direction in which the round electrode extends. A screw thread is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion. The opening has a sloping portion which tapers from the outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion toward an inner circumferential surface side. An angle formed between the 10 sloping portion of the opening and a tangent line to the outer circumferential surface is 90 degrees or greater.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NITERRA CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Mishima, Tomohiro Iwatsuka
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Patent number: 12158116Abstract: Operating an engine includes injecting one or more early pilot shots of a liquid fuel containing methanol (MeOH) into a cylinder in an engine, and moving a piston in the cylinder from a bottom-dead center position toward a top-dead center position. Operating an engine further includes forming hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the cylinder from the MeOH of the early pilot shots, injecting a main shot of a liquid fuel into the cylinder, and hastening combustion of the liquid fuel of the main shot in the cylinder via hydroxyl (OH) radicals formed from dissociation of the H2O2. Injection of the one or more early pilot shots at appropriate crank angle timing(s) associated with suitable temperature ranges may promote desired reaction pathways according to a medium temperature combustion regime.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Charlie Chang-Won Kim
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Patent number: 12152557Abstract: In some embodiments, a fuel rail for a two-stroke internal combustion engine includes a fuel rail body, a fuel inlet component integrated within the fuel rail body as a one-piece component and in fluidic contact with a fuel line, one or more fuel exit ports in fluidic contact with a cylinder of a combustion engine, and one or more fasteners adapted to secure the fuel rail body to a cylinder wall of the cylinder of the combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventor: Ken Ray Fredrickson
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Patent number: 12152550Abstract: An engine controller, an engine control method, and a storage medium are provided. An intake valve closes after a compression stroke starts. One of a predetermined period before the compression stroke starts and a predetermined period after the intake valve closes is a first injection period and the other one is a second injection period. A pre-ignition prevention injection process controls an injector such that fuel corresponding to a requested injection amount is injected by dividing an injection period into the first injection period and the second injection period when a period required for fuel injection corresponding to the requested injection amount is longer than the first injection period.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Suzuki, Tomihisa Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 12140093Abstract: An electronic control device for mixed hydrogen combustion includes a combustion timing detection unit that detects the combustion timing of an engine; and an abnormal state detection unit that detects an abnormal state, in which a type of abnormality occurring in the engine has been determined, on the basis of the combustion timing and a second fuel supply ratio calculated from the supply amount of hydrocarbon fuel supplied by a first fuel supply device and the supply amount of a second fuel supplied by a second fuel supply device. A control mode determination unit determines a control mode corresponding to the abnormal state, controls the supply amount of hydrogen to be supplied by the second fuel supply device on the basis of the control mode, and outputs the control mode to an engine controller for controlling the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Shimada, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Kengo Kumano
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Patent number: 12140074Abstract: An internal combustion engine, including a pair of opposed pistons, a pair of opposed cylinders, and an output shaft, wherein each of the pistons is arranged for reciprocating motion within a respective one of the cylinders, driven by combustion, and the pistons are coupled to the output shaft by a coupling such that said reciprocating motion of the pistons drives rotation of the output shaft, wherein the coupling includes a unitary connecting rod coupled to the opposed pistons, the connecting rod having side guides for guiding a slider bearing located for reciprocating movement relative to the connecting rod, and the coupling further includes a crankshaft rotatably mounted within the slider bearing, the crankshaft having at least one guide shoulder for supporting axial location relative to the slider bearing.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: ASF Technologies (Australia) Pty LtdInventors: Graham Harry Fountain, Emmanuel Kavarnos, Dimitrios Psonis, Richard Terrence Tamba