Patents Examined by Syed O Hasan
  • Controller of fan coupling device
    Patent number: 11566558
    Abstract: A controller of a fan coupling device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an acceleration parameter and a deviation parameter; a control unit that controls a regulation mechanism; a prediction unit that predicts that hunting occurs in the rotation speed of the fan, when an operating point of the fan expressed with the deviation parameter and the acceleration parameter belongs to a predicted region; and a restraining unit that executes, when the hunting is predicted to occur, a hunting restraining process of executing at least one of lowering an integral gain of a feedback control to be lower than when the hunting is not predicted to occur and increasing a derivative gain of the feedback control to be higher than when the hunting is not predicted to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamaguchi, Toshio Takaoka, Noboru Takagi, Shoichi Akiyama
  • Half bearing and sliding bearing
    Patent number: 11566658
    Abstract: Provided is a half bearing constituting a sliding bearing for a shaft member of an internal combustion engine that is unlikely to cause seizure in a sliding surface even if deflection or whirling of the shaft member occurs during an operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Iida, Yasushi Saito
  • Side structure of engine
    Patent number: 11560866
    Abstract: Removal and breakage of fuel piping during a vehicle front collision is prevented for an engine mounted longitudinally in an engine compartment. Embodiments include a side structure of the engine having an alternator in front of an intake manifold and fuel piping behind the intake manifold so as to extend in the vertical direction. The intake manifold includes a plurality of independent intake pipe portions each having one end portion connected to one side of the engine in a vehicle width direction, and a surge tank portion to which the other end portions of the independent intake pipe portions are connected. As seen from the rear side, a portion of the fuel piping closer to the surge tank portion is located closer to the one side of the engine in the vehicle width direction than the surge tank portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Furutani, Takuya Yamada
  • Intake manifold structure
    Patent number: 11549470
    Abstract: Interference between an intake manifold and a fuel pipe during a vehicle front collision is prevented in an engine which is longitudinally mounted in an engine room. A vehicle component is arranged on the front side of an intake manifold, and a fuel pipe is arranged on the rear side of the intake manifold. The intake manifold includes a mounting portion on the intake-air downstream end side of a plurality of independent intake pipe portions and connects each of the plurality of independent intake pipe portions to a portion of the engine on one side of the engine in the vehicle width direction. The mounting portion has a front-side mounting portion relatively positioned on the front side and a rear-side mounting portion relatively positioned on the rear side, and the rear-side mounting portion has a higher rigidity than the front-side mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Furutani, Akira Ichigi, Masahiro Nishioka, Takuya Yamada
  • Filter muffler for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11549471
    Abstract: A filter muffler includes a front element, a rear element, and a plurality of damping elements arranged between the front element and the rear element, where the damping elements are arranged radially around a central axis of the filter muffler such that a flow channel is formed between adjacent damping elements, where respective outflow-side ends of the damping elements have a diffuser element which has an outflow-side tapering, and where an angle ? between two opposite sides of the diffuser element is selected from a range of 1°???8°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Heinz-Jürgen Feld, Marcel Joho
  • Two-stroke engine
    Patent number: 11549430
    Abstract: An engine (2) is a four-flow scavenging type engine. Four scavenging ports (34) include: first right and left scavenging ports (34(lef-1) and 34(ref-1)) that lie on a side relatively away from an exhaust port (22) and that lie facing each other with a cylinder (4) in between; and second right and left scavenging ports (34(lef-2) and 34(ref-2)) that lie closer to the exhaust port (22) than first right and left scavenging ports do and that lie facing each other with the cylinder (4) in between. The second left scavenging port and the first right scavenging port that make up a first mutually diagonal set (Diag-No. 1) have different opening timings from those of the first left scavenging port and the second right scavenging port that make up a second mutually diagonal set (Diag-No. 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Ito, Takahiro Yamazaki, Shouta Genba, Takahiro Kinoshita
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11549413
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a blow-by gas processing device. A cylinder head cover of the internal combustion engine is provided with a joint portion including a connection port to which a connection pipe is connected and a throttle portion having a passage sectional area smaller than a passage sectional area of the connection port. The joint portion is communicated with an inside of a cylinder head and a space in the joint portion serves as an oil separator. A pressure sensor is connected to the space in the oil separator via a connection passage. The connection passage includes a first pipe, a second pipe, and a chamber including a first connection port to which the first pipe is connected and a second connection port to which the second pipe is connected. The first connection port and the second connection port are open toward the same direction in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masami Ishikawa
  • Charge-air cooler and water distribution device to evenly proved water to engine cylinders
    Patent number: 11536230
    Abstract: An engine includes a block defining cylinders, a charge-air cooler, and an intake manifold configured to receive air from the charge-air cooler and convey the air to the cylinders. The intake manifold includes an inlet connected in fluid communication with the charge-air cooler, a plurality of runners each associated with one of the cylinders, and a wedge disposed in an air path between the inlet and the runners with a leading edge of the wedge facing the inlet. The wedge is configured to deflect water, condensed in the charge-air cooler, to distribute the water among the runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Shuya Shark Yamada
  • Block ribs for reducing liner distortion
    Patent number: 11536222
    Abstract: An engine block includes one or more cylinder bores at least partially surrounded by a cylinder bore wall. The cylinder bore wall includes a liner stop mechanism to support a liner in the cylinder bore. The engine block has an outer cylinder block wall that is exterior to the cylinder bore wall. The outer cylinder block wall includes at least one rib located relative to the liner stop mechanism to reduce rotation and buckling of the liner during operation of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Xiling Zhou, Vijaysai Karuppiah Kumareshan, John Jerl Purcell, III, Mathew A. Clark
  • Controller and control method for vehicle
    Patent number: 11536169
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle that includes an internal combustion includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a predicted temperature outside the vehicle and estimates the viscosity of a lubricating oil based on the oil pressure and the oil temperature of the lubricating oil when the internal combustion engine satisfies a specific operation condition. When the processing circuitry determines that there is a likelihood of a cranking failure occurring in the internal combustion engine on condition that the predicted temperature is less than a threshold value that is based on the viscosity, the processing circuitry outputs a notification signal indicating that that there is a likelihood of a cranking failure occurring in the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Higashi
  • Charge-air cooler and method to reduce water induction in engine
    Patent number: 11525424
    Abstract: An engine system includes an intake manifold and a charge-air cooler disposed upstream of the intake manifold. The charge-air cooler includes a housing defining an enclosure having a water reservoir, a heat exchanger disposed within the enclosure, and a valve disposed within the enclosure. The valve has a flap that is movable between an open position in which airflow is permitted across the water reservoir and a closed position is which airflow across the water reservoir is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Shuya Shark Yamada
  • Systems and methods for a crankcase pressure sensor
    Patent number: 11519360
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for reducing an amount of oil reaching a crankcase overpressure sensor. In one example, a system may include a cast wall protruding perpendicularly from an internal wall of crankcase, the cast wall at least partially surrounding a sensor port for a crankcase overpressure (COP) sensor, the sensor port fluidically coupled to the COP sensor via an internal passage; and a cover plate fixedly coupled to the cast wall, the cover plate parallel to the internal wall. In this way, oil may be blocked from reaching the COP sensor, while air may flow through the internal passage to the COP sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Powerhouse Engine Solutions Switzerland IP Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Ganesasubramanian Murugesan, Todd Hayden
  • Dynamic loads based on fuel type
    Patent number: 11519345
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically controlling an aggregate load on a generator is described. Fuel change data for a gaseous fuel for the generator is identified. The fuel change data indicates a change in fuel type for the generator. A controller identifies at least one load portion from the aggregate load associated with the change in fuel type and generates a switch command for a switch coupled to the at least one load in response to the change in fuel type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: William Gysi, Peter Thompson
  • EGR pre-mixer for improved mixing
    Patent number: 11506153
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for an engine includes a conduit, and a U-shaped exhaust gas mixer. The conduit is configured to direct an exhaust gas away from an exhaust manifold. The U-shaped exhaust gas mixer is configured to direct exhaust gas from the conduit and into an engine air intake system. The U-shaped exhaust gas mixer is arranged with a pre-mixing cavity configured to disperse the exhaust gas and entraining the exhaust gas into an intake air flow prior to distribution into an intake manifold of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Styles, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Liangjun Hu, Daniel William Kantrow, Darrell Sparks
  • Work machine
    Patent number: 11498088
    Abstract: A work machine in which an engine and a reserving unit configured to reserve lubricating oil to be supplied to the engine are connected by a lubricating oil channel, and the lubricating oil is circulated, wherein at least a part of the lubricating oil channel and at least a part of a working fluid channel for a working fluid to be supplied to a work unit of the work machine are arranged such that heat can be exchanged between the lubricating oil and the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Saito, Noboru Kawaguchi
  • Marine engines, cylinder liners for marine engines, and methods and assemblies for forming marine engines
    Patent number: 11499499
    Abstract: A marine engine has a cylinder block defining at least one cylinder bore and a cylinder liner providing a running surface for a piston in the cylinder bore. The cylinder liner is non-axisymmetric relative to a center axis of the cylinder liner. The cylinder block defines a pocket that retains the cylinder liner and prevents the cylinder liner from rotating about the center axis. Novel cylinder liners, assemblies and methods are provided for forming a marine engine having the cylinder block with the cylinder liner formed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel P. Hoffman, Alexander K. Monroe, Clayton T. Rasmussen, Gregory Roberts, Dennis J. Stephany
  • Internal combustion engine air intake system
    Patent number: 11493006
    Abstract: An improved internal combustion engine air intake system that operates in tandem with the original equipment air intake system and does not endanger the vehicle warranty and provides improved airflow to the engine which improves engine performance and efficiency. The improved internal combustion engine air intake system also provides one or more additional air inputs taken from a different location than the original equipment air intake which improves the likelihood of providing additional cooler, denser, air to the engine air intake which will improve engine efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Jeffrey Andrew McKaughan
  • Oil tank system
    Patent number: 11492927
    Abstract: An oil tank system (100) for a gas turbine engine is provided. The oil tank system (100) includes an oil tank (102) having an upper tank portion (112) and a lower tank portion (114), a waisted section (118) being provided between the upper tank portion (112) and the lower tank portion (114). Oil is received by a de-aerator (104) of the system (100) which supplies de-aerated oil to the upper tank portion (112). The waisted section (118) includes an upper face (119) configured to catch oil drips from above the waisted section (118) and to guide oil to a lower face (121) of the waisted section (118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Mark P. Reid
  • Engine air intake device
    Patent number: 11493007
    Abstract: A cover covering an engine and an intake duct for introducing fresh air outside an engine room into a combustion chamber of the engine are provided in the engine room. The cover includes a top face cover portion covering the engine from above, and a side face cover portion covering the engine from the lateral side. The intake duct is disposed so as to be continuous to a side edge of the side face cover portion such that the intake duct covers the engine from the lateral side together with the side face cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Kodama, Kenji Sugasaki, Hiromasa Nakagawa
  • Systems and methods for variable displacement engine oil flow
    Patent number: 11492934
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for oil flow for a variable displacement engine of a vehicle. In one example, a system may include an engine having a plurality of deactivatable cylinders capped by a cylinder head, an oil supply passage formed in the cylinder head and joined to a first oil inlet, deactivatable hydraulic lash adjusters (HLAs) arranged along a flow path of the oil supply passage, and a primer filter disposed within the cylinder head and fluidly coupling the oil supply passage to a second oil inlet. Oil may flow through the primer filter to the oil supply passage to maintain a flow rate of oil through the oil supply passage above a pre-determined flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Fluharty, Jonathan Crowe