Patents by Inventor ADAM EDGAR
ADAM EDGAR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12359633Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling fuel factions delivered to different cylinders are provided. In one example, a controller is configured to, during a single engine cycle and responsive to a first condition, deliver a lower fraction of a first fuel into a donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the first fuel being injected into a non-donor cylinder and deliver a higher fraction of a second fuel into the donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the second fuel being injected into the non-donor cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
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Publication number: 20250145056Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for energy management at a consist. In one example, a method for the energy management includes coordinating a distribution of a power demand in response to a power output of each of a fuel cell system, a battery system, and an engine system. The power output of each of the fuel cell system, the battery system, and the engine system may be selected based on a respective efficiency of each system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Eric Dillen, Adam Edgar Klingbeil
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Patent number: 12247524Abstract: A vehicle control system and a method of operating thereof may include determining a first ratio at which to operate a vehicle system at a first location along a route along which the vehicle system moves. The first ratio may be based on an amount of a first fuel of a first fuel source relative to an amount of a second fuel of a second fuel source. The vehicle system may be powered by one or more of the first or the second fuel sources. First operational settings at which to control the vehicle system may be determined based on the first ratio between the first and second fuel sources at the first location along the route. Operation of the vehicle system may be controlled according to the first operational settings to move the vehicle system according to the first ratio at the first location along the route.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen
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Patent number: 12194889Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for energy management at a consist. In one example, a method for the energy management includes coordinating a distribution of a power demand in response to a power output of each of a fuel cell system, a battery system, and an engine system. The power output of each of the fuel cell system, the battery system, and the engine system may be selected based on a respective efficiency of each system.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Eric Dillen, Adam Edgar Klingbeil
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Publication number: 20240418134Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a multi-fuel engine. In one example, a method includes adjusting a substitution ratio based on an intake manifold temperature. The method further including adjusting the intake manifold temperature to increase the substitution ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen
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Patent number: 12152530Abstract: A turbine-compressor assembly includes a turbine-compressor device fluidly coupled with a heat source, a compressor, and a turbine via plural valves. A power device is coupled with the turbine-compressor device via a shaft. A controller can control operation of the plural valves to control the movement of fluids within the assembly to selectively switch between the turbine-compressor device operating in one of plural operating modes. In a first mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can generate electrical power and direct the electrical power to the power device to control an amount of power provided to or extracted from the shaft by the power device. In a second mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can receive electrical power from the power device to consumer the electrical power.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Neil Xavier Blythe, Pradheepram Ottikkutti, Rogier Giepman, Michael Majewski, Kevin McElhaney, Najeeb Kuzhiyil, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Adam C. Felton, Christopher Joseph Homison, Roy James Primus, Thomas Michael Lavertu
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Patent number: 11982241Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a multi-fuel engine. In one example, a method includes adjusting a substitution ratio based on an intake manifold temperature. The method further including adjusting the intake manifold temperature to increase the substitution ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen
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Patent number: 11952935Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for maintaining combustion stability in a multi-fuel engine. In one example, a system may include first and second fuel systems to deliver liquid and gaseous fuels, respectively, to at least one cylinder of the engine, and a controller. The controller may be configured to supply the gaseous fuel to the at least one cylinder, inject the liquid fuel to the at least one cylinder to compression ignite the liquid fuel and combust the gaseous fuel in the at least one cylinder, and retard an injection timing of the injection of the liquid fuel based on a measured parameter associated with auto-ignition of end gases subsequent to the compression-ignition of the liquid fuel. In some examples, the controller may further be configured to adjust an amount of the gaseous fuel relative to an amount of the liquid fuel based on the measured parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, James Robert Mischler, Daniel George Norton, Daniel Yerace
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Publication number: 20240088418Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling a plurality of fuel cells. The method includes coordinating a distribution of a power demand in response to a power request of a power system comprising a plurality of fuel cells, the power output of each of the fuel cells selected based on a respective efficiency of each of the fuel cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Eric Dillen, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Gayathri Indra Seenumani, James D. Brooks, David Allen Eldredge, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar
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Patent number: 11867142Abstract: A multi-fuel injector assembly in one embodiment includes a first fuel injector assembly to deliver a first type of fuel and a second fuel delivery system to deliver a second type of fuel. The first fuel injector includes a first nozzle, at least one first needle, and at least one first actuator configured to move the at least one first needle. The at least one first actuator moves the at least one first needle to a first fuel delivery configuration that corresponds to a first fuel mixture composition, and a second fuel delivery configuration that corresponds to a second fuel mixture composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Victor Manuel Salazar, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Pradheepram Ottikkutti
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Patent number: 11835002Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for using only hydrogen as fuel in a duel fuel engine. In one example, a method may include direct injecting only hydrogen as fuel to one or more engine cylinders and compression igniting the injected hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen, Thomas Michael Lavertu
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Patent number: 11821375Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for skipping fire in one or more cylinders in a dual fuel engine. In one example, a method may include injecting a combination of two fuels to a first set of cylinders of the engine while disabling fuel injection to all remaining cylinders of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Thomas Michael Lavertu, Eric Dillen
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Patent number: 11781469Abstract: An insert device includes a body having an upper body portion configured to couple with a cylinder head of an engine cylinder and a lower body portion extending from the upper body portion toward a combustion chamber of the engine cylinder. The body includes an interior surface extending around a central volume positioned to receive liquid fuel from a fuel injector. The body includes gas inlet channels and fuel-and-gas mixture outlet channels. The gas inlet channels direct gas into the central volume where the gas mixes with the liquid fuel to form the fuel-and-gas mixture. The fuel-and-gas mixture outlet channels direct the mixture into the combustion chamber. The interior surface includes concave surface portions between the inlet channels and the outlet channels along a center axis of the body that are shaped to direct the gas into the central volume toward the liquid fuel in the central volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Brett Heher, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Manuel Licon Flores, Kevin Paul Bailey
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Patent number: 11760335Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a method for a hybrid engine system. In one example, the method includes operating an electrical turbocharger to modify engine operating efficiency and to extend battery charge over a duration of a travel route based on a real-time status of the battery charge. The method allows fuel consumption to be decreased while meeting power demands of vehicle navigation.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Kevin McElhaney
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Publication number: 20230272737Abstract: A turbine-compressor assembly includes a turbine-compressor device fluidly coupled with a heat source, a compressor, and a turbine via plural valves. A power device is coupled with the turbine-compressor device via a shaft. A controller can control operation of the plural valves to control the movement of fluids within the assembly to selectively switch between the turbine-compressor device operating in one of plural operating modes. In a first mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can generate electrical power and direct the electrical power to the power device to control an amount of power provided to or extracted from the shaft by the power device. In a second mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can receive electrical power from the power device to consumer the electrical power.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Neil Xavier Blythe, Pradheepram Ottikkutti, Rogier Giepman, Michael Majewski, Kevin McElhaney, Najeeb Kuzhiyil, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Adam C. Felton, Christopher Joseph Homison, Oren Aharon
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Patent number: 11725619Abstract: An alignment system includes an optical sensor device that may be inserted into a passage of a body that is located between a fuel injector and a combustion chamber of an engine cylinder. The body is shaped to transmit fuel ejected from a spray hole in a fuel injector into the combustion chamber of the engine cylinder. The system also includes a controller that may examine output of the optical sensor device and determine whether the passage of the body is aligned with the spray hole of the fuel injector based on the output from the optical sensor device. The controller may change a position of one or more of the body or the fuel injector responsive to determining that the passage of the body is not aligned with the spray hole of the fuel injector.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Jay Richerson, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen, Kevin Bailey, Kent Jeffries, Brett Heher, Manuel Licon Flores
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Patent number: 11719154Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for engine startup. In one example, a method for an engine includes injecting a fuel mixture with a proportion of a first fuel to a second fuel to decrease carbon emissions, in response to detection of or request for the engine to start. The proportion of the first fuel to the second fuel in the injected fuel mixture is decreased in response to engine speed reaching an idling speed. The first fuel may be a non-hydrocarbon-based fuel and the second fuel may be a hydrocarbon-based fuel.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Thomas Michael Lavertu, Eric Dillen
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Patent number: 11719152Abstract: An engine control unit of a multi-fuel is provided. The engine consumes a mixture of a first combustion fuel and a second combustion fuel. The engine control unit includes hardware circuitry that includes one or more processors configured to calculate an autoignition delay of the mixture of the air and the second combustion fuel based on current operating conditions of the multi-fuel engine. The one or more processors also are configured to calculate an upper limit on an amount of the second combustion fuel that is supplied to the multi-fuel engine based on the autoignition delay that is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, James Robert Mischler, Daniel George Norton
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Publication number: 20230243504Abstract: An insert device may include a body coupled with an engine cylinder head. The body has an interior surface shaped to receive and engage a distal tip of a fuel injector. The body has gas conduits and mixture conduits with gas conduits extending from inlets along an exterior surface to outlets that intersect the mixture conduits. The mixture conduits extend from inlets along an interior surface of the body to outlets on the exterior surface. The gas conduits are positioned to direct gases outside of the body into the mixture conduits. The mixture conduits are positioned to receive fuel from spray holes of the fuel injector. The mixture conduits can entrain the gas with the fuel into a fuel-and-gas mixture that is directed out of the outlets of the mixture conduits and into a combustion chamber of an engine cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Brett Heher, Kevin Paul Bailey, Manuel Licon Flores, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, John P. Dowell
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Publication number: 20230235708Abstract: A vehicle control system and a method of operating thereof may include determining a first ratio at which to operate a vehicle system at a first location along a route along which the vehicle system moves. The first ratio may be based on an amount of a first fuel of a first fuel source relative to an amount of a second fuel of a second fuel source. The vehicle system may be powered by one or more of the first or the second fuel sources. First operational settings at which to control the vehicle system may be determined based on the first ratio between the first and second fuel sources at the first location along the route. Operation of the vehicle system may be controlled according to the first operational settings to move the vehicle system according to the first ratio at the first location along the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Thomas Michael Lavertu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Eric Dillen