Patents by Inventor Neil Robert Collins
Neil Robert Collins 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: 11794169Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Neil Robert Collins, John Benjamin Goodwin, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
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Patent number: 10569257Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Neil Robert Collins, John Benjamin Goodwin, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
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Patent number: 10443472Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Joerg Muench, Paul Richard Phillips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Patent number: 9987618Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Neil Robert Collins, John Benjamin Goodwin, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
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Patent number: 9643161Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Neil Robert Collins, John Benjamin Goodwin, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
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Patent number: 9527031Abstract: An exhaust system (10) for a lean-burn internal combustion engine (12) comprises a first substrate monolith (16) comprising a catalyst for oxidizing nitric oxide (NO) comprising a catalytic oxidation component followed downstream by a second substrate monolith (18) which is a wall-flow filter having inlet channels and outlet channels, wherein the inlet channels comprise a NOx absorber catalyst (20) and the outlet channels comprise a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (22) of nitrogen oxides with nitrogenous reductant.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Paul Richard Phillips, Daniel Swallow
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Publication number: 20160040576Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Phillips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Patent number: 9138731Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Phillips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Patent number: 8756926Abstract: An exhaust system (10) for a lean-burn internal combustion engine (12) comprises a first substrate monolith (16) comprising a catalyst for oxidizing nitric oxide (NO) comprising a catalytic oxidation component followed downstream by a second substrate monolith (18) which is a wall-flow filter having inlet channels and outlet channels, wherein the inlet channels comprise a NO x absorber catalyst (20) and the outlet channels comprise a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (22) of nitrogen oxides with nitrogenous reductant.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Paul Richard Phillips, Daniel Swallow
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Publication number: 20140157763Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Philips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Patent number: 8677739Abstract: Hydrocarbon traps used to trap then release unburned hydrocarbons upon startup of a spark ignition internal combustion engine are sensitive to degradation if exposed to normal temperature exhaust gases. On board diagnostics of HC traps are provided by the invention, by incorporating a heat sensitive oxygen storage material in the HC trap material, and using conventional determination of OSC efficiency to determine if the HC trap material has been exposed to excessive temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Neil Robert Collins, Christopher Morgan, Michael Howard
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Publication number: 20140033685Abstract: An exhaust system for a vehicular lean burn internal combustion engine that emits oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) is disclosed. The system comprises a NOx reduction catalyst for reducing NOx in the presence of a nitrogenous reductant, means for introducing the nitrogenous reductant into a flowing exhaust gas, a filter for removing PM from exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust system and a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) circuit for connecting the exhaust system downstream of the filter to an air intake of the engine. The EGR circuit comprises an ammonia oxidation catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Paul Richard Phillips
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Publication number: 20120216508Abstract: Hydrocarbon traps used to trap then release unburned hydrocarbons upon startup of a spark ignition internal combustion engine are sensitive to degradation if exposed to normal temperature exhaust gases. On board diagnostics of HC traps are provided by the invention, by incorporating a heat sensitive oxygen storage material in the HC trap material, and using conventional determination of OSC efficiency to determine if the HC trap material has been exposed to excessive temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Neil Robert Collins, Christopher Morgan, Michael Howard
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Patent number: 8211393Abstract: An exhaust system for a vehicular positive ignition internal combustion engine comprises a filter for filtering particulate matter from exhaust gas emitted from the engine, which filter comprising a porous substrate having inlet and outlet surfaces, wherein the inlet surfaces are separated from the outlet surfaces by a porous structure containing pores of a first mean pore size, wherein the porous substrate is coated with a three-way catalyst washcoat comprising a plurality of solid particles wherein the porous structure of the washcoated porous substrate contains pores of a second mean pore size, which is less than the first mean pore size, and a three-way catalyst washcoat disposed on a separate substrate monolith located upstream of the filter, wherein a mass of three-way catalyst washcoat on the upstream substrate monolith is ?75% of the total mass of three-way catalyst washcoat in the exhaust system.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Louise Clare Arnold, Robert James Brisley, Neil Robert Collins, David Robert Greenwell, Christopher Gough Morgan
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Patent number: 8205437Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, which system comprises a monolith substrate (10) coated with a catalyst, which monolith substrate comprising a plurality of substantially parallel channels, each channel having a length extending from an upstream end to a downstream end; and a first sensor disposed in a hole (16) defined in part by an external wall of the monolith substrate, wherein the monolith substrate comprises a portion (12) of the plurality of channels wherein the catalyst composition in at least a part of the length of channels extending from the upstream end has an increased activity for a reaction for which the catalyst composition is intended relative to catalyst composition in a remainder (14) of the monolith substrate, the arrangement being such that the sensor is contacted substantially only with exhaust gas that has first contacted the catalyst composition having an increased activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Louise Clare Arnold, Robert James Brisley, Graham Peter Champion, Maire Charlotte Clements, Neil Robert Collins, Darrell Morris, Paul Richard Phillips
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Patent number: 8127537Abstract: An exhaust system for a spark-ignited internal combustion engine comprises a three-way catalyst composition including an oxygen storage component, which TWC composition is coated on a flow-through monolith substrate, which substrate comprising a plurality of channels, each channel having a length extending from an inlet end to an outlet end and a single lambda sensor, wherein the substrate comprises a portion of the plurality of channels wherein the TWC composition in at least a part of the length of channels extending from the inlet end has a reduced oxygen storage activity, or no oxygen storage activity, relative to the TWC composition in a remainder of the substrate, the arrangement being such that the single lambda sensor is contacted substantially only with exhaust gas that has first contacted the TWC composition having a reduced oxygen storage activity or no oxygen storage activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Louise Clare Arnold, Marie Charlotte Clements, Neil Robert Collins, Darrell Morris
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Publication number: 20110179777Abstract: An exhaust system(10) for a lean-burn internal combustion engine (12) comprises a first substrate monolith (16) comprising a catalyst for oxidising nitric oxide (NO) comprising a catalytic oxidation component followed downstream by a second substrate monolith (18) which is a wall-flow filter having inlet channels and outlet channels, wherein the inlet channels comprise a NO x absorber catalyst (20) and the outlet channels comprise a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (22) of nitrogen oxides with nitrogenous reductant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Paul Richard Phillips, Daniel Swallow
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Publication number: 20110182790Abstract: A synthetic alumino silicate zeolite catalyst containing at least one catalytically active transition metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Fe, Hf, La, Au, In, V, lanthanides and Group VIII transition metals, which alumino silicate zeolite is a small pore aluminosilicate zeolite having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the mean crystallite size of the aluminosilicate zeolite determined by scanning electron microscope is >0.50 micrometer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Rodney Foo Kok Shin, Alexander Nicholas Michael Green, Paul Richard Phillips, Raj Rao Rajaram, Stuart David Reid
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Publication number: 20110158871Abstract: An exhaust system for a vehicular positive ignition internal combustion engine comprises a filter for filtering particulate matter from exhaust gas emitted from the engine, which filter comprising a porous substrate having inlet and outlet surfaces, wherein the inlet surfaces are separated from the outlet surfaces by a porous structure containing pores of a first mean pore size, wherein the porous substrate is coated with a three-way catalyst washcoat comprising a plurality of solid particles wherein the porous structure of the washcoated porous substrate contains pores of a second mean pore size, which is less than the first mean pore size, and a three-way catalyst washcoat disposed on a separate substrate monolith located upstream of the filter, wherein a mass of three-way catalyst washcoat on the upstream substrate monolith is ?75% of the total mass of three-way catalyst washcoat in the exhaust system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Louise Clare ARNOLD, Robert James Brisley, Neil Robert Collins, David Robert Greenwell, Christopher Gough Morgan
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Publication number: 20110036071Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, which system comprises a monolith substrate (10) coated with a catalyst, which monolith substrate comprising a plurality of substantially parallel channels, each channel having a length extending from an upstream end to a downstream end; and a first sensor disposed in a hole (16) defined in part by an external wall of the monolith substrate, wherein the monolith substrate comprises a portion (12) of the plurality of channels wherein the catalyst composition in at least a part of the length of channels extending from the upstream end has an increased activity for a reaction for which the catalyst composition is intended relative to catalyst composition in a remainder (14) of the monolith substrate, the arrangement being such that the sensor is contacted substantially only with exhaust gas that has first contacted the catalyst composition having an increased activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Jonhson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Louise Clare Arnold, Robert James Brisley, Graham Peter Champion, Marie Charlotte Clements, Neil Robert Collins, Darrell Morris, Paul Richard Phillips