Patents by Inventor Rohit Menon

Rohit Menon 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).

  • Patent number: 9222429
    Abstract: A control system for a gaseous-fueled engine is disclosed. The gaseous-fueled engine may have an intake valve mechanically driven by a camshaft. The control system may have a variable valve timing device configured to adjust a cyclical opening and closing timing of the intake valve. The control system may further have a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a speed of the engine and a controller in communication with the variable valve timing device and the sensor. In addition, the controller may be configured to selectively initiate a first Miller Cycle timing and a second Miller Cycle timing based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron C. Luft, Darryl D. Baldwin, Rohit Menon, Jordan P. Gilsinger
  • Patent number: 8847625
    Abstract: A multi-valued logic (MVL) circuit includes a MVL clock generator that generates a MVL clock signal having three or more ith MVL levels, a single MVL clock signal distribution network connected to the MVL clock generator, and three or more ith MVL selection circuits connected to the single MVL clock signal distribution network where i=0 to N and N>=3. Each ith MVL selection circuit corresponds to a specified ith MVL level. The ith MVL selection circuit outputs an ith binary clock signal having: (a) a first logic level whenever the MVL clock signal is equal to the ith MVL level and the ith data input receives the first logic level, (b) a second logic level whenever the MVL clock signal is equal to the ith MVL level and the ith data input receives the second logic level, and (c) a previous logic level of the ith binary clock signal whenever the MVL clock signal is not equal to the ith MVL level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Southern Methodist University
    Inventors: Mitchell Aaron Thornton, Rohit Menon
  • Publication number: 20140224200
    Abstract: A control system for a gaseous-fueled engine is disclosed. The gaseous-fueled engine may have an intake valve mechanically driven by a camshaft. The control system may have a variable valve timing device configured to adjust a cyclical opening and closing timing of the intake valve. The control system may further have a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a speed of the engine and a controller in communication with the variable valve timing device and the sensor. In addition, the controller may be configured to selectively initiate a first Miller Cycle timing and a second Miller Cycle timing based on the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Aaron C. Luft, Darryl D. Baldwin, Rohit Menon, Jordan P. Gilsinger
  • Publication number: 20120125276
    Abstract: A four stroke internal combustion includes at least one cylinder and at least one intake valve associated with the cylinder. The intake valve is configured to open and close over a predetermined range of crankshaft rotation in accordance with a Miller thermodynamic cycle. An electronic controller receives at least one input signal indicative of an amount of air and/or an amount of air/fuel mixture in cylinder. The electronic controller is configured to provide a timing phase signal that operates to adjust a timing of operation of the intake valve based on the input signal(s) such that a torque output of the engine is maintained substantially constant over a predetermined range of engine speed by shifting the predetermined range of crankshaft rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Darryl Baldwin, Rohit Menon, Willibald Berlinger