Patents Examined by Thai-Ba Trieu
  • Patent number: 11118541
    Abstract: Systems are provided for a mounting assembly providing structural support to a pair of turbocharger and charge air coolers. In one example, the mounting assembly may include support brackets and pedestals for coupling the turbochargers and the charge air coolers to one structure. Separate channels for applying lubricant and coolant to the turbochargers and the charge air coolers may be coupled to the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Ganesasubramanian Murugesan, Akshay Kotecha, Kamala Hasan Pethuraj, Michael Mendoza, John Stephen Roth, Sandeep Kanzal Venkatesha
  • Patent number: 11098673
    Abstract: A cylinder head arrangement for an internal combustion engine is provided. The cylinder head includes an integrated exhaust manifold having first and second exhaust passages to collect exhaust gas from respective cylinders to direct the exhaust gas to respective outlets of the cylinder head. The cylinder head includes a flange where the first and second outlets exit the cylinder head for connection with a turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Adam C. Cecil, Matthew Behling, Anthony Kyle Perfetto
  • Patent number: 11098624
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of compacting an ash deposited in a particulate filter for a vehicle exhaust gas system, the method includes the steps of: a) providing a low-temperature melting salt to the particulate filter, thereby forming a mixture of the ash and the low-temperature melting salt: and b) heating the particulate filter to a compaction temperature, thereby compacting the mixture of the ash and the low-temperature melting salt. The disclosure further relates to engine oils, dosage products, engine systems and vehicles for implementing such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Henrik Eriksson, Francesco Regali, Mattias Berger, David Raymand, Ulf Nylèn, Joel Carlsson
  • Patent number: 11085351
    Abstract: A system and method for determining an error in a vehicle catalytic converter prevent an incorrect determination and improve reliability of the determination. The method includes determining whether the error occurs in the catalytic converter in consideration of both fuel injection state and fuel injection cut-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Sung Ha Lee
  • Patent number: 11085328
    Abstract: A system is provided for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion system. This system includes a tubular outer structure, a tubular inner structure and a seal assembly. The tubular inner structure projects through a bore of the tubular outer structure. The seal assembly is configured to close an end of an annulus between the tubular outer structure and the tubular inner structure. The seal assembly includes a seal land and a seal element. The seal land includes a seal land mount that circumscribes and is attached to the tubular inner structure. The seal land mount is configured with a v-shaped sectional geometry. The seal element is attached to the tubular outer structure. The seal element circumscribes and is sealingly engaged with the seal land. The seal element may be configured from or otherwise includes a polymer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kroeger, Jasen Miner
  • Patent number: 11085848
    Abstract: A method of estimating the oxygen storage capacity of a catalyst includes providing an engine system having an internal combustion engine and an exhaust system having a catalyst and an oxygen sensor, providing a three-way catalyst observer model having a Kalman filter and a three-way catalyst kinetic model, estimating a three-way catalyst next time step state and a modeling error, linearizing the three-way catalyst observer model, filtering the estimated three-way catalyst next time step state, and calculating a covariance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Min Sun, Jonathan M. Davis, Andrew M. Fedewa, Scott H. Wittkopp, Gionata Cimini
  • Patent number: 11085363
    Abstract: An intercooler drain system which drains condensate from an intercooler includes an upper header, a lower header, and a plurality of tubes connecting the upper header and the lower header, the intercooler drain system including: a drain passage allowing the condensate collected in the lower header of the intercooler to be drained; and a valve opening and closing the drain passage. The valve has a specific gravity less than a specific gravity of the condensate, and when the condensate is collected above a predetermined level in the lower header, the valve rises due to buoyancy to open the drain passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Seong Bin Jeong
  • Patent number: 11085329
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes a fan. The fan includes a first shaft driven in rotation via a reduction gear, the first shaft being guided in rotation with respect to a support of a fixed structure via an upstream bearing and a downstream bearing, the downstream bearing guiding in rotation the first shaft with respect to a downstream branch of the support, the first shaft and the support together defining an enclosure. The reduction gear includes a ring gear fixed to the structure via a shell. The turbine engine also includes a lubricator composed of at least one pipe for conveying a liquid lubricant, wherein the pipe is located in the enclosure, the pipe passing through an orifice made in the shell and an opening made in the downstream branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Xavier Jean Yves Alain Agneray, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Patent number: 11073077
    Abstract: An electric supercharger includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in the housing via a rolling bearing, an impeller, and an electric motor. The electric motor including a cylindrical stator around which a coil is wound. The stator having a stator core and coil ends. The rolling bearing has an inner ring, an outer ring, and a rolling element. The housing has an oil supply portion. The oil supply portion has attached thereto an oil supply member. The oil supply member has a supply passage and an injection hole. The housing has therethrough oil supply holes communicating with the oil supply portion and disposed so as to overlap with the coil ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Makio Oshita
  • Patent number: 11073059
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving catalyst temperature control while reducing oxygen saturation. Secondary air is injected at a location downstream of the catalyst during selected conditions. A mixing valve position is coordinated with the air injection to improve local turbulence and thereby enhance air and fuel mixing in the exhaust passage, in at least one arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Williams, John M. Roth
  • Patent number: 11066986
    Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine that has a housing, main rotors with an external cylindrical surface with rigidly fixed gear wheels and blades in the form of gear ledges (protrusions), as well as additional rotors with an external cylindrical surface with rigidly fixed gear wheels and recesses corresponding to the size of the blades on the main rotors. Additionally, the engine includes a unit for preparing and igniting the working mixture and a unit for discharging exhaust gases. Moreover, the circumference values of the main and additional rotors do not match, and are multiples of the length L1 between the nearest points of tangency (physical contact) of the center of the surface of the gear ledge with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Aleksei Mihailovich Orel
  • Patent number: 11066970
    Abstract: A tube-pin assembly for a heat exchanger of a vehicle includes a housing having an inlet into which exhaust gas flows; a plurality of tubes arranged inside the housing to provide a passage through which the exhaust gas flows; and cooling pins provided between the tubes to provide a coolant passage through which coolant flows, where a foamed metal made of a porous material is provided inside at least one of the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Young Lee, Sung Il Yoon, Seok Ha
  • Patent number: 11066983
    Abstract: Provided are: a lubricating device for a bearing; and an exhaust turbosupercharger, wherein a bearing device (36) is provided with a housing (15) with a hollow shape, and journal bearings (21, 22) which rotatably support a rotary shaft (14) arranged inside the housing (15), the bearing device (36) being further provided with: a third feeding passage (43) and a fourth feeding passage (44) through which lubricant is fed toward outer circumferential surfaces (21b, 22b) of the journal bearings (21, 22); a sixth feeding passage (46) through which lubricant is fed toward a space section (16A) between the journal bearings (21, 22); and a guide section which guides, toward inner circumferential surfaces (21c, 22c) of the journal bearings (21, 22), the lubricant fed from the sixth feeding passage (46) to the space section (16A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Futae, Yuta Ishii, Yuya Kojima
  • Patent number: 11053824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification apparatus and an exhaust gas purification method using the same. According to a specific embodiment, the exhaust gas purification apparatus comprises: a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) unit for converting nitrogen oxides (NOx), contained in an exhaust gas introduced therein through a gas inlet portion, into nitrogen dioxide (NO2); a composite diesel particulate filter (DPF) unit connected to the rear end of the DOC unit through an inflow line and removing harmful components including particulate substances and nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas discharged from the DOC unit and introduced therein; and a circulation line disposed in the inflow line so as to introduce the exhaust gas discharged from the DOC unit into the gas inlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Seok Eom, Jung Bin Lee, Jun Han Kim, Joong Won Lee, Kwang Beom Hur
  • Patent number: 11028792
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include a divided exhaust engine with at least one primary EGR cylinder and a plurality of non-primary EGR cylinders. The systems, apparatus and methods control the amount of recirculated exhaust gas in a charge flow in response to EGR fraction deviation conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Alcides Lana, David J. Stroh, Samuel C. Geckler, Marten H. Dane, Anthony Kyle Perfetto, Karthik Kappaganthu, Govindarajan Kothandaraman
  • Patent number: 11028757
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine is provided with: an exhaust purification catalyst supporting a precious metal and able to store oxygen; and a control device controlling an amount of fuel fed to a combustion chamber. When a predetermined condition for performing a fuel cut operation stands, the control device is configured to perform fuel feed control in which fuel is temporarily fed to the combustion chamber so that the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst is a rich air-fuel ratio richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, then start fuel cut control stopping the feed of fuel to the combustion chamber in the state the internal combustion engine is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Umemoto
  • Patent number: 11028766
    Abstract: A method of operating a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine has at least one combustion engine which is connected by a rotary drive via a transmission and optionally a clutch with powered wheels of the motor vehicle, and further comprises a fresh gas line, and wherein in the fresh gas line, a compressor is integrated, which is associated with a trim controller, by means of which an edge-side portion of the inlet cross section of a compressor impeller of the compressor is coverable to a variable extent. In this case, in a release position of the trim controller, the edge-side portion of the inlet cross section is covered relatively little, preferably the least possible, and in a covering position of the trim controller, is mostly covered, preferably as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Javier Bartolome, Manuel Vahldiek, Dirk Hagelstein, Arne Staats
  • Patent number: 11028756
    Abstract: A thermal system includes a Rankine cycle heat recovery device including a Rankine circuit having a first heat exchanger, an expander, a condenser, and a first pump. A cooling device having a cooling circuit that includes a second heat exchanger, a second pump, and a third heat exchanger with a device to be cooled. The thermal system comprises a device for regulating the pressure in the Rankine circuit and includes an enclosure delimiting a space and housing a movable part separating the space into first and second chambers. The first chamber communicates with the Rankine circuit and the second chamber communicates with the cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventor: Julien Rapior
  • Patent number: 11009034
    Abstract: A method of designing a supercharger that yields a high isometric efficiency based on a fixed pressure ratio, a plurality of rotor leads and a plurality of rotor operating speeds is provided. An efficiency map is generated of rotor lead versus rotor operating speeds for the fixed pressure ratio. A rotor lead value is determined based on the fixed pressure ratio and rotor speed combination from the efficiency map that yields a high isometric efficiency. A supercharger is provided having the determined rotor lead and that is configured to operate with the fixed pressure ratio and the determined rotor operating speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Matthew Swartzlander
  • Patent number: 11007480
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification system which exhibits high exhaust gas purification performance. The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification system including: a carrier containing aluminum oxide; an exhaust gas purification device including a catalyst provided on the carrier and containing gallium, and connected to an internal combustion engine; and a system connected to the exhaust gas purification device for increasing an oxygen concentration. The system for increasing an oxygen concentration provides an oxygen concentration higher than that of a post combusted gas of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eri Takahashi, Masato Kaneeda, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari