Patents Examined by Syed O Hasan
  • Ignition source adapted for positioning within a combustion chamber
    Patent number: 11085413
    Abstract: An opposed-piston engine optionally contains an ignition system that is at least partially contained within the combustion chamber to enhance the combustion efficiency of a fuel-air mixture within the combustion system. More specifically, the ignition system contains at least one spark plug having an elongated center electrical delivery electrode, and, an elongated ground electrode. Accordingly, the elongated electrodes extend from an area adjacent to the inner periphery of the cylinder to a radially central area within the combustion chamber. Yet further, a cooling jacket is incorporated to provide cooling of the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ENGINAITY POWER SYSTEMS, INC
    Inventors: James C. Warren, Gregory Powell, William Vincent Meyers, Jr., Steve Niswander
  • Charge air cooler shroud with access panel
    Patent number: 11085362
    Abstract: A charge air cooler shroud is provided. That charge air cooler shroud includes a main body having an access opening and a removable access panel carried on the main body and covering the access opening. A method is also disclosed for mounting a cooling module to a frame of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Brett Sovine, Erin Gibb, Robert Eugene Otterman
  • System and method of reciprocating piston engine, multi-fuel piston engine
    Patent number: 11078836
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to piston engine systems which are no longer restricted by their compression ratios. Rather, a mixture of fuel and pre-compressed air is used to complete the combustion. The pressure of the compressed air is independently controlled. As a result, the clearance volume can be reduced to less than 1/50 or to zero, and the piston engine systems can be used with different types of fuels, for example, gasoline, diesel, ethanol, or vegetable oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Defang Yuan
  • Cylinder head housing, method for producing a cylinder head housing, and casting core
    Patent number: 11078865
    Abstract: A cylinder head housing for a combustion unit, which forms at least two cylinders arranged in-line, having receiving openings for one outlet valve each, which are assigned to the individual cylinders of the combustion unit, comprising exhaust gas channels, which extend from these outlet valve receiving openings and are merged into an exhaust gas outlet channel, and cooling channels having a roof distribution channel which is connected to an injector cooling channel provided for an arrangement above a cylinder and/or having a manifold distribution channel, which extends along the row of outlet valve receiving openings, the manifold distribution channel being connected to a plurality of manifold network channels running along the exhaust gas channels, which are directly or indirectly connected to a manifold collection channel, which extends along the row of outlet valve receiving openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paulo Urzua Torres, Michael Henn, Martin Bier, Madlen Rudloff
  • Length-adjustable connecting rod with control device
    Patent number: 11066988
    Abstract: A length-adjustable connecting rod for a reciprocating piston machine, which may be a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, is disclosed as well as a reciprocating piston machine and a vehicle. The connecting rod comprises a hydraulic length-adjusting device for adjusting an effective connecting rod length and a control device that can switch between two switching states, for controlling the length-adjusting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: AVL List GmbH, iwis motorsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Melde-Tuczai, Abdelkarim Redouane, Siegfried Hartwig
  • Method for operating a reciprocating piston machine having at least one piston rod that is hydraulically adjustable in length
    Patent number: 11066987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a reciprocating piston machine, particularly an internal combustion engine, having at least one piston rod that is hydraulically adjustable in length for setting a compression ratio, wherein the piston rod comprises a piston and a hydraulic cylinder for adjusting its length, wherein the piston with the hydraulic cylinder delimits at least one working chamber, through the fill level of which at least two switching positions of the piston rod are possible, wherein independently from the setting of the compression ratio the working chamber is at least partially filled and emptied as a function of at least one first predetermined requirement to effect an at least partial exchange of a hydraulic medium in the at least one working chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AVL LIST GMBH
    Inventors: Siegfried Lösch, Alois Fürhapter, Gerhard Heimel, Bernhard Kometter, Uwe Dieter Grebe
  • System for an integrated hybrid composite cylinder head and turbine
    Patent number: 11060478
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbine integrally formed with a cylinder head. In one example, a system includes a cylinder head and a turbine shaped from a single, continuous piece of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Wicks, Mark Michael Madin
  • Parabolic combustion engine
    Patent number: 11053883
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a cylinder for an internal combustion engine having at least one combustion chamber and a squish area disposed at or around a base of the at least one combustion chamber, wherein the at least one combustion chamber comprises a paraboloidal cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Richard William Condon
  • Air intake apparatus
    Patent number: 11053897
    Abstract: An air intake apparatus includes a plurality of funnel-shaped portions provided in a plurality of intake ports. The plurality of funnel-shaped portions respectively include open ends located at positions at which lengths of the plurality of intake ports are aligned with each other, the open ends being provided along a direction perpendicular to a direction in which respective centerlines of the plurality of intake ports extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Sakurai
  • Oil pan
    Patent number: 11047273
    Abstract: An oil pan disposed underneath an engine of a motorcycle and configured to reserve engine oil includes a shallow bottom portion and a deep bottom portion formed to extend in a front-rear direction of the motorcycle substantially at a center in a left-right direction of the motorcycle of the shallow bottom portion, and to become deeper than the shallow bottom portion, and in which a space defined in the left-right direction of the motorcycle between both side wall portions of the deep bottom portion that face each other in the left-right direction of the motorcycle is formed to increase as the deep bottom portion extends from a front toward a rear thereof with respect to the motorcycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro Okazaki, Ryo Nagasawa, Akira Osada
  • Parallel hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 11041427
    Abstract: A parallel hybrid vehicle includes: an engine serving as a drive source for travel of the parallel hybrid vehicle; an electric motor serving as a drive source for travel of the parallel hybrid vehicle; and a water pump that causes a cooling liquid to circulate in a cooling path. The water pump is connected to the engine to receive power from the engine and is connected to the electric motor to receive power from the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
  • Methods and system for an engine lubrication system with a three-stage oil cooler bypass valve
    Patent number: 11035265
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a temperature of an oil used for lubricating an engine of a vehicle. In one example, a method comprises controlling an oil pump to pump oil at a first pressure, a second pressure or a third pressure in order to bias an oil cooler bypass valve to a first position, a second position or a third position, respectively, as a function of engine operating conditions. In this way, oil may be selectively routed through or around the oil cooler depending on engine operating conditions, which may serve to control oil temperature in line with the operating conditions and additionally improve fuel economy by reducing a load on the oil pump when operating conditions are such that the oil pump can be bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ben Xuehai Ni
  • V-engine air intake structure
    Patent number: 11002232
    Abstract: A first throttle body and a second throttle body include valve rotation devices that independently drive respective throttle valves. The first throttle body and the second throttle body are arranged such that the respective valve rotation devices have states rotated around respective bore central axes to cause respective throttle valve rotation shafts to have angles with respect to straight lines parallel to a crankshaft in an engine top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Ikeda
  • Engine
    Patent number: 10995696
    Abstract: An engine includes: a crankcase; a cover that is connected to the crankcase at a mating surface of the cover inclined toward an inner side in a vehicle width direction in going downward when the engine is mounted to a vehicle body, the cover covering a protruding end of a rotary shaft; and attachment bosses that are formed to be integral with the cover, have a predetermined height from the mating surface, and accept fastening members for fastening the cover to the crankcase. Accordingly, when mounted on a two-wheeled motor vehicle, the engine can restrain protrusion in the vehicle width direction and can be disposed at a position as low as possible with reference to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Mori, Yoshitaka Nukada, Hiroshi Yokota, Chiharu Kawai, Toshiaki Deguchi, Fumiaki Okubo
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10989107
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including a fuel reformation cylinder for reforming a fuel and an output cylinder for yielding an engine power by combusting a fuel or a reformed fuel, wherein at least a part of the surfaces constituting a volume-variable reaction chamber of the fuel reformation cylinder has a highly heat-insulative material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Go Asai
  • System for storing an aqueous solution on-board a vehicle
    Patent number: 10989148
    Abstract: A vehicle system storing an aqueous solution includes: a first compartment; a second compartment; a module that includes a feed pump unit connected for pumping aqueous solution from the first compartment to a feed outlet; and a jet pump having a suction inlet, a pressure inlet and an outlet. The feed pump unit is further connected for pumping aqueous solution along a flow path from the first compartment through the feed pump unit, through the pressure inlet of the jet pump to the outlet of the jet pump. A heater heats the flow path. The suction inlet is connected to a suction line that receives the aqueous solution from the second compartment. The outlet of the jet pump returns aqueous solution from the suction inlet and from the pressure inlet to the first compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research
    Inventors: Joel Op De Beeck, Franck Dhaussy, Stephane Leonard
  • Ignition apparatus
    Patent number: 10992113
    Abstract: To provide an ignition apparatus which can turn on and off the sub primary coil according to extension degree of the discharge path of the spark discharge. An ignition apparatus is provided with an ignition coil that is provided with a main primary coil, a sub primary coil which generates energization magnetic flux of a direction opposite to the energization magnetic flux of the main primary coil, and a secondary coil which is magnetically coupled with the main primary coil and the sub primary coil and supplies spark discharge energy to a spark plug; and after turning off energization to the main primary coil, based on a detection value of terminal voltage of the main primary coil, turns on and off the sub switch circuit to turn on and off energization to the sub primary coil and additionally supply spark discharge energy to the secondary coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Muramoto, Yusuke Naruse, Naoki Kataoka
  • Apparatus and method for cooling engine
    Patent number: 10982585
    Abstract: A valve body of a flow rate control valve includes a fin having a flow formation surface that forms a flow of coolant from a liquid chamber toward a heater port in accordance with rotation of the valve body. An engine cooling apparatus is configured to rotate and drive the valve body alternately in a positive direction and a negative direction from when an engine is automatically stopped to when the engine is automatically restarted so that a heater core is supplied with coolant when the engine is automatically stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Arai, Tetsuma Takeda
  • Method and apparatus for checking the plausibility of the functionality of a crankcase ventilation system
    Patent number: 10982574
    Abstract: Various embodiments may include a method for checking the plausibility of the functionality of a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine, wherein crankcase ventilation system has a crankcase, an intake tract equipped with an intake manifold, and a connecting line arranged between the crankcase and the intake manifold, the method comprising: detecting an occurrence of a negative load change; in response, comparing a measured intake manifold pressure with a modelled intake manifold pressure using acquired operating variables of the internal combustion engine and of a crankcase model; and determining on the basis of the comparison result whether the connecting line arranged between the crankcase and the intake manifold becomes blocked or drops out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Hofmann, Andreas Holzeder
  • Blow-by gas return device
    Patent number: 10975742
    Abstract: A blow-by gas return device includes: a gas path which is configured to introduce a blow-by gas generated in a crankcase into an intake system through an inside of a head cover, a pressure control valve and a blow-by pipe; and an orifice provided to the gas path, the orifice mounted on a wall portion of an intake manifold on a cylinder head side. A passage for a blow-by gas is formed in the wall portion on the cylinder head side, and the orifice is formed on a joint pipe mounted on the passage for the blow-by gas for communicably connecting the blow-by pipe with the passage for the blow-by gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Isoshima, Kentaro Shiraishi