Patents by Inventor Ather Quader

Ather Quader 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).

  • Process and system for improving combustion and exhaust aftertreatment of motor vehicle engines
    Patent number: 7293409
    Abstract: A diesel combustion engine system providing improved fuel combustion and exhaust aftertreatment includes: a diesel combustion engine having a liquid fuel intake, an air intake, a reformate intake, and an exhaust outlet; a liquid diesel fuel source in fluid communication with the liquid fuel intake and an on-board catalytic partial oxidation fuel reformer that receives a supply of hydrogen-containing liquid diesel fuel and a supply of air and produces therefrom a hydrogen-rich reformate. An exhaust conduit in fluid communication with the exhaust outlet and the reformer includes a reformate conduit upstream from exhaust aftertreatment components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Sellnau, Ather Quader, John E. Kirwan
  • Process and system for improving combustion and exhaust aftertreatment of motor vehicle engines
    Publication number: 20070180819
    Abstract: A diesel combustion engine system providing improved fuel combustion and exhaust aftertreatment includes: a diesel combustion engine having a liquid fuel intake, an air intake, a reformate intake, and an exhaust outlet; a liquid diesel fuel source in fluid communication with the liquid fuel intake and an on-board catalytic partial oxidation fuel reformer that receives a supply of hydrogen-containing liquid diesel fuel and a supply of air and produces therefrom a hydrogen-rich reformate. An exhaust conduit in fluid communication with the exhaust outlet and the reformer includes a reformate conduit upstream from exhaust aftertreatment components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Sellnau, Ather Quader, John Kirwan