Patents Examined by Ruben Picon-Feliciano
  • Patent number: 12286933
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine includes a starter housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet. The air turbine starter can include a rotatable turbine member having a central hub defining a platform and at least one blade extending radially from the platform. The air turbine starter can also include a blade cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Steven Ryan Kerley, Thomas V Ng
  • Patent number: 12286007
    Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system is disclosed comprising a first and a second coolant circuit each comprising a coolant pump. The first coolant circuit comprises a coolant duct configured to conduct coolant flow through a portion of the first coolant circuit, and an expansion tank connected to the coolant duct. The system further comprises a first connecting conduit connecting the second coolant circuit to the coolant duct, and valve controllable between a first state in which the valve hinders flow of fluid through the first connecting conduit, and a second state in which the valve allows flow of fluid through the first connecting conduit. The present disclosure further relates to a vehicle comprising a vehicle thermal management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Ola Hall, Martin Mohlin
  • Patent number: 12281587
    Abstract: An inlet assembly of a nacelle includes an inlet cowl that has a leading edge, an outer side that extends from the leading edge to an outer aft edge, and an inner side that extends from the leading edge to an inner aft edge. An exterior surface of the inlet cowl is seamless along an entire length of the outer side from the leading edge to the outer aft edge. The inlet cowl includes a lipskin that has a metallic coating. The metallic coating defines the exterior surface of the inlet cowl along the leading edge and the entire length of the outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Charles William Rust
  • Patent number: 12279555
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a system for sensing harvested grain levels within an agricultural harvester. The system including a grain tank configured to receive harvested grain, a sensor configured to emit a sensor beam into the grain tank for reflection off of the top surface of the harvested grain, and a reflective target integrated into a bottom surface of the grain tank at a minimum detectable grain level within the grain tank. The bottom surface of the grain tank being angled towards the sensor, the minimum detectable grain level being defined by a minimum grain level within the grain tank at which the top surface of the harvested grain is contacted by the sensor beam, and the reflective target being configured to reflect the sensor beam when the current grain level is vertically below the minimum detectable grain level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Justin Becker, Mark D. Dilts, Michael Minnich, Clayton E. Banks, Jr., Denver R. Yoder
  • Patent number: 12280761
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling an engine to shut down, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining current state information and operating parameter information of an engine, the current state information comprising a starting state, and the operating parameter information comprising rotating speed information, starting duration information, cooling liquid temperature information and torque information of the engine; and if the current state information is the starting state, and the rotating speed information, the starting duration information, the cooling liquid temperature information, and the torque information satisfy a first preset shutdown condition corresponding to the starting state, controlling the engine to be in a shutdown state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: NINGBO GEELY ROYAL ENGINE COMPONENTS CO., LTD., Aurobay Technology Co., Ltd., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Jing, Yiqiang Liu, Weishan Huang, Botao Zuo, Xuemei Yu, Ruiping Wang, Ingo Scholten
  • Patent number: 12275388
    Abstract: Until a specified condition is met, a processing circuitry of an adaptation system executes a first trial and a second trial in each execution of a learning routine, reflects, in a control map, a change in the trial with a larger reward, and ends the learning routine (first process). After the specified condition is met, the processing circuitry executes the first trial and the second trial multiple times in each learning routine, compares the reward for the multiple executions of the first trial with the reward for the multiple executions of the second trial, and reflects, in a control map, a change in the trial with the larger reward, and ends the learning routine (second process).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Katayama, Shiro Yano, Kenichiro Kumada
  • Patent number: 12276206
    Abstract: A turbomachine part of an annular assembly includes a structural body and a connecting edge integral with the structural body. Each connecting edge includes at least one groove intended to receive a sealing tab. Each connecting edge is made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement consisting of randomly-oriented short fibres, the reinforcement being densified by a ceramic matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Matthieu Arnaud Gimat
  • Patent number: 12276232
    Abstract: During NA operation, the electronic control unit, which is a control device of the vehicle equipped with the turbocharged engine equipped with the blow-by gas recirculation device that ventilates the crankcase by extrusion of the blow-by gas by the supercharging pressure during the supercharging operation, executes the stagnation elimination control for changing the operating condition of the turbocharged engine to the operating condition in which the driving force of the vehicle is maintained and the stagnation state of the ventilation is eliminated, when the stagnation state in which the intake pipe pressure of the turbocharged engine is in the vicinity of the atmospheric pressure continues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Yatabe
  • Patent number: 12276990
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment device is capable of suppressing sleeve enlargement and preventing the rattling thereof with a synthetic resin housing. Flanges are formed on the temperature adjustment member. The sleeve has a groove along the circumferential direction on its outer periphery and a lateral hole opening at one end to the groove and penetrating through the wall thickness of the sleeve. A clip member has an outer fitting portion, elastically deformable and fittable to the groove and has an inward convex portion holding the flange from the distal-end side of the sleeve, by being inserted in the lateral hole. The groove wall has a groove-depth wall at the deepest portion opposite to the groove opening and a distal-proximal-end-side curved portion of the groove-depth wall connected to the distal-proximal-end side of the sleeve. The radius of curvature of the distal-end-side curved portion is larger than that of the proximal-end-side curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Masayuki Numata
  • Patent number: 12263831
    Abstract: A drive force control system for a vehicle configured to accurately imitate a change in a drive force in a model vehicle. A drive torque simulator computes a virtual drive torque supposed to be delivered to drive wheels of the model vehicle in response to a manual operation to manipulate the vehicle, based on torque changing factors of a powertrain of the model vehicle. An actual torque calculator computes a target torque of a motor that is practically delivered to the drive wheels in the vehicle based on the virtual drive torque computed by the drive torque simulator, taking account of torque changing factors of the powertrain of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Imamura, Yoichiro Isami, Yoshio Itou, Hiroyuki Amano, Akiko Nishimine, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroaki Kodera
  • Patent number: 12263719
    Abstract: A control method for a vehicle includes determining whether an internal combustion engine is overheated based on driving information of the vehicle and cooling information of a passenger compartment while the vehicle is driving and an HVAC system is operating in a cooling mode, and controlling an alternator or an actuator of a switching door to reduce a cooling capacity provided by the HVAC system when it is determined that the internal combustion engine is overheated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Woong Lim, Hyun Kyun Jung, Ji Wan Son, Han Sol Mun
  • Patent number: 12261450
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a wireless charger for a vehicle includes a communication device to receive an input from a user and information on the vehicle, and a controller to employ one of a first driving duty ratio of a cooling fan set based on the information on the vehicle, a second driving duty ratio of the cooling fan set based on the input from the user, or a third driving duty ratio of the cooling fan set through auto-tuning operation to operate the cooling fan, to enhance charging performance of the wireless charger while minimizing the feeling of the user bothered due to operating noise of a cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 12258020
    Abstract: A system and method for slowing a vehicle. Road conditions around the vehicle are monitored, and determined if those road conditions are hazardous. An engine control unit is informed of the hazardous road conditions and alters the operation of the engine control unit in response to the hazardous road conditions. When an operator of the vehicle desires to slow the vehicle down, an indication is received indicating the intent to slow the vehicle down. The vehicle is then slowed based upon the altered operation of the engine control unit by applying a vacuum to increase a manifold vacuum of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Doyle, John R. Dangler, Layne A. Berge, Jason J. Bjorgaard, Matthew A. Walther, Kyle Schoneck, Thomas W. Liang
  • Patent number: 12253865
    Abstract: A device including a main plug controlling fluid flow between a chamber and an outside of a housing by pressing against a housing seat, and a bypass plug controlling fluid flow between the chamber and a housing lateral passage. The device includes a thermostatic element with a movable part to which the plugs are connected to control backflows. For efficiency, economy and adaptability to housing geometries, the device includes an adapter, including a tubular body, inside of which a cylindrical sleeve of the bypass plug is fitted to slide, and a lateral tubing extending from an outer face of the tubular body, which has an end for connecting to the lateral passage of the housing, and which discharges into the tubular body via a hole closed by the cylindrical sleeve when the main plug is open, the cylindrical sleeve leaving the hole open when the main plug is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: VERNET
    Inventor: William Da Silva
  • Patent number: 12247539
    Abstract: An ignition resumption control unit (40) is disposed that resumes control of an ignition plug (14) if a first predetermined time has elapsed or if engine rotation number has fallen below a threshold value, after receiving an engine stop signal. The ignition resumption control unit (40) executes the control of the ignition plug (14), based on resumption ignition timings (Tg(R-on)) that are timing deviating from an entire ignition timing range set in a normal working area of an engine body (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayato Oimatsu, Taiji Matsubara, Keigo Egawa
  • Patent number: 12240428
    Abstract: An engine heater system for supplying compressed air to an air brake of a vehicle. The engine heater system including a gas turbine. A compressor fluidly coupled to an air reservoir of the vehicle. The air reservoir fluidly coupled to an air brake of the vehicle. A shaft rotatably attached between the gas turbine and the compressor, and when the gas turbine rotates the shaft, the compressor provides compressed air to the air reservoir of the vehicle for operating the air brake of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HotStart, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Boyce, Michael T. Abbott
  • Patent number: 12234786
    Abstract: Provided is an engine control device and an engine device that enable stable self-travelling of the engine in a limp home mode. The engine control device includes a revolution speed detection unit that detects revolution speed of the engine, and an arithmetic unit that calculates an opening of a throttle valve opened by an electronic throttle mechanism, and an injection amount of fuel injected by injectors. In an operation of the engine in the limp home mode, in a case where the revolution speed of the engine detected by the revolution speed detection unit exceeds a predetermined limiting value, the arithmetic unit performs an operation to suppress injection of the fuel to be injected by the injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michisuke Iga, Tomotaka Tanaka, Kosuke Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawasoe, Kengo Hidaka
  • Patent number: 12233848
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, an electric machine, a disconnect clutch configured to selectively couple the engine to the electric machine, and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to a request to start the engine with the electric machine, command a target pressure to the disconnect clutch that depends on a seal friction derived from a measured line pressure of the disconnect clutch and a rate change of the measured line pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hiral Jayantilal Haria, Yuji Fujii, Akshay Bichkar, Yang Xu
  • Patent number: 12228149
    Abstract: A flush-mounted, in-ceiling exhaust fan grille for attachment to an exhaust fan housing includes a planar integration flange forming a perimeter of the grille. The integration flange includes a plurality of through holes along the perimeter. An insert may be configured for insertion within the perimeter of the integration flange. A light module may be configured to join within a central portion of the insert while maintaining an opening between an entirety of the light module and the insert. At least one spring may be attached to the insert on a first end and attached to the fan housing on a second end, wherein the at least one spring applies a force drawing the insert towards the fan housing. An exhaust fan may be provided to draw air into the fan housing through the opening between the light module and the insert to be exhausted for proper ventilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLC
    Inventors: Jared Peterson, Ryan A. Revers, Richard R. Sinur
  • Patent number: 12228067
    Abstract: A control system that uses an algorithm to control the fan speed in a cooling system for an engine is disclosed. The algorithm is adapted to maintain a cooling medium at a set temperature instead of an operating temperature range of the cooling medium. The algorithm is also adapted to maintain a cooling medium at a set temperature and to build a cooling safety margin in response to an engine output torque percentage that is below an output torque percentage setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wenling Babbitt