Patents Issued in February 5, 2015
  • Publication number: 20150033679
    Abstract: A packaging device includes a conveyance mechanism, a guide portion and a control portion. The control portion is configured to cause a first section of a film to be bonded to a base, cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction, move the guide portion along a movement path, cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward the upstream side, cause a second section of the film to be bonded to the base, and cause the film to be moved in an opposite direction to a feeding direction at any time during a period after the first section is bonded to the base and before the second section is bonded to the base, the feeding direction being a direction in which the film is fed out when the base is conveyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Teruo Imamaki, Yohei Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150033680
    Abstract: A transport packaging (100) for transporting an object (24) comprises a container (10) that is open at least at first on one side and has a bottom (12) and at least two opposing sidewalls (14). It is suggested that the two opposing sidewalk (14) have at least one material weakening (20) starting from the free end (18), and that the transport packaging (100) comprises a tightening strap (28) that is tightened around the container (10) in the area of the material weakening (20) and penetrates the sidewall (14) in the area of the material weakening (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Joerg Koch
  • Publication number: 20150033681
    Abstract: An inlet air filter device including: at least one passage for delivering an air mass from an inlet section to an outlet section of the inlet air filter device, a water separator in the at least one passage for separating water in the air mass, the water separator positioned between the inlet section and the outlet section, a bypass element movable between a first open position in which the air mass is forced to cross the water separator and a second closed position in which the air mass flows from the inlet to the outlet section without crossing the water separator; a shutter element which is actuatable to co-operate with the bypass element for isolating the water separator from the air mass when the bypass element is in the second closed position
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Marco Santini, Marc Malivernay, Giorgio Marchetti, Ludovic Pesenti, Philippe Claudon
  • Publication number: 20150033682
    Abstract: A work cabinet includes a casing, an airflow adjuster, and a conveyer. The airflow adjuster is configured to adjust an airflow in an inner space of the casing. The conveyer is disposed in the casing and configured to convey a longitudinally continuous sheet so as to make the sheet pass below the inner space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Osamu YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150033683
    Abstract: A fume hood, which comprises a plurality of peripheral inclined drainage channels for receiving condensed grease that is gravitationally delivered thereto from a region of the fume hood thereabove. One of the drainage channels continuously extends into an adjacent drainage channel therebelow to provide a single passageway that delivers the received grease to a single grease collection hole. Each of the drainage channels comprises a surface along which the received grease flows and which slightly extends inwardly into a hood interior from a bottom edge of a corresponding wall of the hood, and a border element which extends vertically above an inward edge of the drainage channel surface to a sufficient height which prevents the flowing grease from spilling into the hood interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Ori Fichman
  • Publication number: 20150033684
    Abstract: A filter housing (10) for a filter unit (50). The filter unit having a substantially semicylindrical air filter (52). The filter housing having an air inlet (20) and an engine air outlet (40). The filter housing has an extra air outlet (36) and an air aperture (64) to the extra air outlet (36). The air aperture extends between the filter unit (50) and the engine air outlet (40). The aperture (64) extends along a periphery of the engine air outlet. There is a filter unit for such a filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Emil Pettersson
  • Publication number: 20150033685
    Abstract: An oil separator is provided with a housing having an inlet for air, and an expansion chamber located inside the housing. The oil separator introduces air containing oil that has passed through the inlet into the housing, and separates and recovers the oil from the introduced air. The transverse cross-sectional area of the expansion chamber is larger than the opening area of the inlet. The oil separator is further provided with a collected liquid storage portion that is located below the expansion chamber and collects the separated oil, a liquid communication portion having a communication hole that connects the expansion chamber to the collected liquid storage portion, and a mounting and dismounting mechanism for mounting and dismounting the collected liquid storage portion to and from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: NABTESCO AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Sugio, Ichiro Minato
  • Publication number: 20150033686
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plurality of cells and porous cell walls. The plurality of cells include exhaust gas introduction cells and exhaust gas emission cells. The porous cell walls each have a porosity of 55% or acre but not more than 70%. The porous cell walls include pores with a pore diameter of 40 ?m or more. The pores have a pore volume occupying 10% or more of a total pore volume of the porous cell walls. The exhaust gas emission cells have an average cross sectional area larger than an average cross sectional area of the exhaust gas introduction cells in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells. A total volume of the exhaust gas introduction cells is larger than a total volume of the exhaust gas emission cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIBATA, Yuki MIWA
  • Publication number: 20150033687
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are disclosed that relate to one or more aspects of a filter structure that may remove contaminants from a stream of fluid. In various aspects the filter structure includes a front portion having a first orientation and a rear portion having a second orientation unique from the first orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammad Usman Rafi, Nathaniel Nance
  • Publication number: 20150033688
    Abstract: A filter element (10) of a filter for fluid, in particular fuel, oil, water, urea solution or air, in particular of an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, and a method for producing the same are described. The filter element (10) comprises a filter medium (14), which is designed as a filter medium hollow body (12) and is circumferentially closed at least with respect to an imaginary axis (16). On at least one end face, the filter medium (14) comprises an end body (20). The end body (20) comprises a closing section (28), which is sealingly connected at least to the filter medium (14). Moreover, the end body (20) has a central fluid opening (24) into which a tube-like connecting element (38) of the filter can be inserted. At least one sealing section (30) is provided on the end body (20) for circumferentially sealing the fluid opening (24) with respect to the tube-like connecting element (38).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Fabian Wagner, Robert Hasenfratz, André Roesgen, Christian Thalmann, Frank Pflueger
  • Publication number: 20150033689
    Abstract: A filter system for filtering fluids has a housing, an inlet, and an outlet. A filter element is arranged inside the housing. A cover closes the housing and provides access to the filter element inside the housing. A securing device prevents the housing from being closed by the cover when the filter element is missing. The filter element has at least one filter element guide path section. The housing or the cover has a rim area with at least one rim guide path section. The filter element guide path section and the rim guide path section supplement one another to a guide path. The securing device comprises at least one securing element arranged on the cover or the housing. The securing element is guided on the guide path when a closing movement is carried out for closing the housing by the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Kocksch, Thomas Rodewaldt
  • Publication number: 20150033690
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a silicon carbide honeycomb fired body, an end face, and porous cell walls. The silicon carbide honeycomb fired body includes a plurality of cells through which exhaust gas is to flow and which include exhaust gas introduction cells and exhaust gas emission cells. The silicon carbide honeycomb fired body includes silicon carbide grains having a silicon-containing oxide layer with a thickness of 0.1 to 2 ?m on surfaces of the silicon carbide grains. The end face has an aperture ratio of not less than 20% at the exhaust gas emission side. The porous cell walls define rims of the plurality of cells. The plugged portions of the exhaust gas introduction cells are arranged in vertical and horizontal lines with the porous cell walls residing between the plugged portions in the end face at the exhaust gas emission side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIBATA, Yuki MIWA
  • Publication number: 20150033691
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plurality of cells and porous cell walls. The plurality of cells include exhaust gas introduction cells and exhaust gas emission cells. Each of the exhaust gas emission cells is adjacently surrounded fully by the exhaust gas introduction cells across the porous cell walls. The exhaust gas introduction cells include first exhaust gas introduction cells and second exhaust gas introduction cells. Each of the first exhaust gas introduction cells has the cross sectional area equal to or smaller than 0.7 mm2 in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIBATA, Yuki MIWA
  • Publication number: 20150033692
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling lateral tilt of a header of an agricultural machine, uses gauge wheels or skids on lateral ends of the header in combination with operation in a free float mode for maintaining uniform cut height across the header, and automatically changes to a controlled tilt mode when one or more conditions for that mode is present. During operation in the controlled tilt mode, if a condition or conditions for free float is present, the system will operate in that mode. The system can also optionally damp relative up and down movements of the gauge wheels or skids and the header on each end, and can limit the tilt in the free float mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Jay D. Schroeder, Vincent B. P. Theunynck
  • Publication number: 20150033693
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a mower deck including a blade rotationally driven to cut grass and generate an air flow to feed the cut grass. A cutting chamber houses the blade. An ejection outlet is open to the cutting chamber and ejects the cut grass. A grass collection container collects the cut grass ejected from the ejection outlet. An air chamber is provided in a vicinity of the cutting chamber and receives the air flow generated by rotation of the blade through the grass collection container. A first passage connects the ejection outlet and the grass collection container. A second passage connects the grass collection container and the air chamber. The air flow supplied from the grass collection container to the air chamber through the second passage is supplied to the cutting chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Kazuo KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20150033694
    Abstract: A wire strand (10) comprises a plurality of wires (12, 16, 20). The wires comprise a central king wire (12), a first layer (14) of wires (16) arranged around the king wire, and a second layer (18) of wires (20) arranged around the first layer. The king wire is formed of steel having a carbon content of at least 0.3 wt %. Each wire of the first layer is formed of steel having a carbon content which is less than the carbon content of the king wire. Each wire of the second layer is formed of steel having a carbon content which is greater than, or the same as, the carbon content of the wires of the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Hugh David Facey
  • Publication number: 20150033695
    Abstract: In an open-end spinning rotor with a rotor cup, and with a rotor shaft, through which the spinning rotor is supported in a bearing, the rotor shaft and the rotor cup are detachably connected to each other through a coupling device. The coupling device includes a positive-locking connection for the transmission of the turning moment between the rotor cup and the rotor shaft, along with a magnetic device for the axial connection of the rotor shaft and the rotor cup. The rotor shaft features at least one projection with a one turning moment-transmitting area, which engages in a recess of the rotor cup with a turning moment-transmitting counter-area. A socket for a permanent magnet is arranged on the rotor cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bernd Loos, Hans Kustermann
  • Publication number: 20150033696
    Abstract: A system includes a turbine casing assembly that includes an outer shell and an inner shell positioned substantially concentrically within the outer shell. The inner shell includes an inner surface facing away from the outer shell and an outer surface facing toward the outer shell, and the outer surface has one or more false flanges. At least one of the one or more false flanges includes a first surface protruding from the outer surface and facing the outer shell, and a flow diverting portion extending between the first surface and the outer surface of the inner shell. The flow diverting portion includes a first portion that diverges in a first circumferential direction between the first surface and the outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brian David Moran, Kyle Eric Benson, Jeffery Craig Moree, Chandresh R. Shah, Xiaoqiang Zeng
  • Publication number: 20150033697
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement (56) having: a duct (30) configured to receive hot gases (16) from a combustor; and a flow sleeve (50) surrounding the duct and defining a cooling plenum (52) there between, wherein the flow sleeve is configured to form impingement cooling jets (70) emanating from dimples (82) in the flow sleeve effective to predominately cool the duct in an impingement cooling zone (60), and wherein the flow sleeve defines a convection cooling zone (64) effective to cool the duct solely via a cross-flow (76), the cross-flow comprising cooling fluid (72) exhausting from the impingement cooling zone. In the impingement cooling zone an undimpled portion (84) of the flow sleeve tapers away from the duct as the undimpled portion nears the convection cooling zone. The flow sleeve is configured to effect a greater velocity of the cross-flow in the convection cooling zone than in the impingement cooling zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Jay A. Morrison, Ching-Pang Lee, Michael E. Crawford
  • Publication number: 20150033698
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine system that has a turbine, a combustor, and a compressor having an air intake. The air intake is configured to supply an air flow to the compressor. The system also includes a fluid injection system that has a fluid wash system configured to inject a wash fluid into the gas turbine system via the air intake. The fluid wash system includes an injector configured to inject the wash fluid into the gas turbine system and an anti-icing system configured to inject an anti-icing fluid into the gas turbine system via the air intake. The anti-icing system is configured to inject the anti-icing fluid into the gas turbine system via the injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jose Antonio Cuevas, Tho Nguyen, Horacio Solis
  • Publication number: 20150033699
    Abstract: An ignition unit for a turbojet engine, including: an electrical power supply, a single control channel to receive a control signal from a computer, a main sparkplug ignition channel to energize at least one main sparkplug of a main combustion chamber, and an afterburner sparkplug ignition channel to energize at least one afterburner sparkplug of an afterburner chamber. The ignition unit is configured, in response to pulsed controls on the single control channel, to selectively activate the main sparkplug ignition channel or the afterburner sparkplug ignition channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Christian Schaeffer, David Gino Stifanic, Bertrand Boedot
  • Publication number: 20150033700
    Abstract: Systems and methods for defrosting sensing components in fluid sensing system. In one embodiment, the invention provides a defrosting system that includes a sensing system. The sensing system includes a sensor operable to sense a characteristic of the fluid in a tank. The defrosting system includes a fluid pickup line spaced apart from the sensor, and a fluid return line. The fluid return line includes an output. The output is positioned to direct fluid onto the sensing system. In one embodiment, the defrosting system further comprises a pipe configured to provide the fluid to a system external to the tank. The fluid is heated by heat generated by the external system and directed onto the sensing system at least partially defrosts fluid contained within the sensing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: SSI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David T. Schlenke
  • Publication number: 20150033701
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to vehicles with reduced emissions. More particularly, this disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses related to vehicles with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon dioxide emissions may be stored in a carbon dioxide clathrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150033702
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to vehicles with reduced emissions. More particularly, this disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses related to vehicles with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon dioxide emissions may be stored in a carbon dioxide clathrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150033703
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to vehicles with reduced emissions. More particularly, this disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses related to vehicles with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon dioxide emissions may be stored in a carbon dioxide clathrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150033704
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system includes a SCR device that stores a reductant that reacts with the NOx emissions and a reductant supply system to inject the reductant according to a reductant load model. At least one temperature sensor or model generates a temperature signal indicating an SCR temperature of the SCR device. The exhaust gas treatment system further includes a control module in electrical communication with the reductant supply system. The control module is configured to determine an amount of reductant that slips from the SCR device based on the at least one temperature signal and the rate of change of the SCR temperature. The control module further determines a correction factor based on the amount of slipped reductant to modify the reductant load model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Raffaello Ardanese, Justin Adam Shetney, James M. Perrin, Paul Jasinkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20150033705
    Abstract: A dosing control system for an exhaust system of an engine includes: a tank containing a reductant solution having urea; an injector operable to inject the reductant solution into an exhaust flow upstream of an SCR apparatus; first and second NOx sensors disposed to sense NOx emissions in the exhaust flow upstream and downstream, respectively, of the SCR apparatus; and a control module. The control module is disposed in signal communication with the first and second NOx sensors and in operable communication with the injector, the control module being operable to set an original dosing level and decrease a dosing of the reductant solution injected by the injector based on a determination from signals received from the first and second NOx sensors that a reduction in a conversion efficiency of the SCR apparatus below a defined level of conversion efficiency has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Igor Anilovich, Jeffrey F. Loo, Janean E. Kowalkowski, Justin Adam Shetney
  • Publication number: 20150033706
    Abstract: A method for determining the efficiency of an exhaust gas purification device of a diesel internal combustion engine for motor vehicles, having a first NOx sensor, arranged ahead of an oxidation catalyst and/or a particulate filter, and a second NOx sensor, arranged downstream of a reduction catalyst, and having a device for the metered supply of a reducing agent, wherein the method includes feeding the signals from the two NOx sensors are fed to a control unit, by means of which at least one feed quantity of the reducing agent is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Andreas PFAFFINGER
  • Publication number: 20150033707
    Abstract: A system for determining a regeneration phase of an exhaust gas particulate filter for an internal combustion engine may include a temperature sensor for detecting an elevated exhaust gas temperature, a sensor for detecting the particulate content in the exhaust gas stream exiting from the exhaust gas particulate filter, and a processing device for determining the regeneration phase on the basis of the detected values. A method for determining a regeneration phase of an exhaust gas particulate filter for an internal combustion engine may include detecting an elevated exhaust gas temperature, sampling a signal from a sensor for detecting the particulate content in the exhaust gas stream exiting from the exhaust gas particulate filter, detecting that the particulate content is elevated, and determining the regeneration phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Johannes Ante, Markus Herrmann, Willibald Reitmeier, Denny Schaedlich
  • Publication number: 20150033708
    Abstract: A diesel engine exhaust treatment device includes an exhaust flow divider in an exhaust path. The flow divider causes exhaust to flow EGR gas with PM unevenly distributed and remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. EGR gas is recirculated to a combustion chamber, and the discharged gas is atmospherically discharged. First and second corona discharge passages are provided at the exhaust flow divider. Corona discharge in the first discharge passage causes the PM, water vapor, and oxygen in the exhaust to generate electron attachment. Electrostatic force causes the exhaust to flow the EGR gas with the electron-attached PM, water vapor, and oxygen unevenly distributed and the remaining discharged gas in a divided manner. The discharged gas is guided to the second discharge passage. Corona discharge in the second discharge passage causes gas molecules in the discharged gas to dissociate, and NOx in the discharged gas is reduced to nitrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Aketa, Yosuke Matsukawa, Satoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150033709
    Abstract: A system and a method of operating the system are presented. The system includes a first sensor, a second sensor and a catalyst. The catalyst is located between the first sensor and the second sensor in the path of an exhaust stream from an engine. The first sensor and the second sensors include noble metal electrodes, and are configured to measure concentration of a gaseous species and produce first and second sensor signals respectively. The system further includes a sulfur detector that is configured to receive the first and second signals, and configured to determine a sulfur concentration in the exhaust stream with a lambda value less than 1. The sulfur detector is configured to detect the concentration of sulfur by performing a calculation involving the first and second sensor signals; and by producing an output signal based on the determined sulfur concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel George Norton, William Collins Vining, Dennis John Spaulding
  • Publication number: 20150033710
    Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Dietmar Krauss, Jan Dreves, Michael Sturm, Carsten Rickert, Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Publication number: 20150033711
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to vehicles with reduced emissions. More particularly, this disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses related to vehicles with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon dioxide emissions may be stored in a carbon dioxide clathrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150033712
    Abstract: A method for draining a delivery unit for a liquid additive, in particular a urea-water solution, includes at least: a) producing an electrical connection by using a currentless switch which is constructed to produce an electrical connection when a temperature falls below a threshold temperature; and b) draining the delivery unit when, in step a), the electrical connection has been produced. The method can be used, in particular, in SCR systems for exhaust-gas aftertreatment for motor vehicles. A delivery unit and a motor vehicle having a delivery unit are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: CARSTEN KRUSE, THOMAS NAGEL, SVEN SCHEPERS, JAN HODGSON
  • Publication number: 20150033713
    Abstract: A device for supplying a liquid additive for a motor vehicle includes a tank for storing the liquid additive and a delivery unit for delivering the liquid additive out of the tank. A sensor emits and receives waves and is configured to measure a fill level of the liquid additive in the tank by way of a propagation time measurement of the waves along a measurement path to a liquid surface in the tank and back to the sensor. The measurement path runs at least partially through a measurement duct. At least one back-flushing line ends in the measurement duct so that flushing of the measurement duct to the tank can be performed, in such a way that the measurement duct is kept clean and/or is cleaned. A motor vehicle having the device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: JAN HODGSON, SVEN SCHEPERS, ROLF BRUECK
  • Publication number: 20150033714
    Abstract: Provided are a holding material for a gas treatment device, which is inexpensive, has a simple structure, and exhibits high holding force, a gas treatment device, and a method for manufacturing the same. A holding material for a gas treatment device according to the present invention is a holding material, which is a holding material to be arranged, in a gas treatment device including a treatment structure and a casing for housing the treatment structure, between the treatment structure and the casing, the holding material including silica fibers and an alumina sol in an amount of 3 parts by mass or more in terms of a solid content with respect to 100 parts by mass of the silica fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Satoh, Nobuya Tomosue, Kazutoshi Isomura, Kiyoshi Sato, Tadashi Sakane, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150033715
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst is described for treating an exhaust gas from a diesel engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region disposed on the substrate, wherein the first washcoat region comprises a first platinum group metal (PGM) and a first support material; a second washcoat region adjacent to the first washcoat region, wherein the second washcoat region comprises a second platinum group metal (PGM) and a second support material; a third washcoat region disposed on the substrate, wherein the third washcoat region comprises a third platinum group metal (PGM) and a third support material; and wherein either: (i) the third washcoat region is adjacent to the second washcoat region; or (ii) the second washcoat region is disposed or supported on the third washcoat region. Also described are uses and methods involving the oxidation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: PENELOPE MARKATOU, YARITZA M. LOPEZ-DE JESUS, WASSIM KLINK, KIERAN JOHN COLE, COLIN RUSSELL NEWMAN, ROBERT HANLEY, YOSHIHITO HASHIMOTO, MASAHITO SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20150033716
    Abstract: A DPF system for an engine generator that performing a recovery process on a filter (DPF) provided to remove particulate matter generated by combustion of fuel when an amount of the particulate matter in the DPF exceeds a predetermined value, the engine generator performing the recovery process by carrying out an automatic recovery operation to raise a temperature of exhaust gas to combust the particulate matter, the system comprising: a dummy load connected to the engine generator when necessary; and control device for allowing the engine to perform a recovery preparation operation in such a manner that, once the amount of the particulate matter exceeds the predetermined value, the recovery operation is performed when the temperature of exhaust gas reaches a reference temperature, and the dummy load is connected to the generator to raise the temperature of exhaust gas when the temperature thereof fails to reach the reference temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: DENYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji MATSUO, Yasuhiro KOBAYASHI, Shinji MATSUDA, Tadahiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20150033717
    Abstract: A ocean buoyancy power generating system includes a water inlet pipe with a water inlet, a water drawing pipe, a guiding pipe, multiple water drawing devices, a gas charging unit, an ocean power generating and collecting apparatus or ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) power generating and collecting apparatus, a first moving apparatus, and a second moving apparatus. Through cyclically discharging the gas to one of the water drawing devices in the water inlet pipe by the gas charging unit, buoyancy is generated on the water drawing device to continuously drive the seawater in the water drawing pipe to move upwards for electric power generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Kuo-Hua Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150033718
    Abstract: In order to provide a forklift capable of performing an inching control suitable for a specific work and a running operation of the forklift and an inching control method of the forklift, an inching ratio calculating unit calculates an inching ratio, a target engine speed calculating unit calculates a target engine speed, a modulation control unit sets a time constant of the inching ratio in response to a speed difference between the target engine speed and outputs a correction inching ratio having the time constant set thereto, a multiplication unit outputs a correction absorption torque obtained by multiplying the correction inching ratio by a target absorption torque, and a HST pump electromagnetic proportional control output current converting unit outputs a current instruction value to a pump capacity setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Shinji Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150033719
    Abstract: In order to avoid cavitation in a boom cylinder head end at the beginning of a dig cycle, fluid from an alternate source is supplied to the head end before or in addition to fluid supplied by the main boom-up hydraulic circuit. In one embodiment, an electronic hydraulic valve, related sensors, and control system determines the beginning of a dig operation and uses fluid at an intermediate pressure to rapidly provide fluid to a boom head end cylinder to prevent voiding or cavitation before fluid under high pressure from the main pump can be brought to the cylinder. An on/off fluid switch is activated early in a dig operation to address low pressure at the boom cylinder head end and provide an alternate path for fluid into the cylinder in reaction to the boom being lifted by a motion of the stick and bucket in contact with the work surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Edward Lawrence, John James Krone, Nick William Biggs, Karl Arthur Kirsch, Yuya Kanenawa, Tetsuya Yoshino, Magomed Gabibulayev
  • Publication number: 20150033720
    Abstract: A hydraulic motor drive system is disclosed. The hydraulic motor drive system includes a pump, a flow control module fluidly coupled to a discharge of the pump via a first conduit, and a hydraulic motor fluidly coupled to the flow control module via a second conduit and a third conduit, and a controller operatively coupled to the flow control module. The controller is configured to operate the flow control module in a first mode, such that the flow control module blocks fluid communication between the pump and the hydraulic motor via the second conduit, and effects fluid communication between the pump and the hydraulic motor via the third conduit, and operate the flow control module in a second mode, such that the flow control module effects fluid communication between the pump and the hydraulic motor via the second conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Mate, Zhangong Du, John Mount
  • Publication number: 20150033721
    Abstract: The Liquid Nitrogen Conventional Generator operates by using electrical energy from an existing power plant to collect, cool, store and utilize Nitrogen from the atmosphere to generate power, in any form required, to provide continuous, augmented, supplemental or alternate output of power in any predetermined form, including but not limited to electrical, mechanical and/or hydraulic, which may be produced individually or in any combination. Nitrogen is extracted from the atmosphere, condensed and cooled, stored in liquid form and then expanded to be applied to the generation unit which is selected to provide the type of power needed, allowing reduction of size of the conventional plant supplying power to this system while maintaining the output of said plant. And recycling the expanded Nitrogen gas within the system to provide increased efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Scott Clair Pockrandt
  • Publication number: 20150033722
    Abstract: A turbine system that can be releasably anchored in a flow of liquid, like a waterfall, and generate power from the flow includes a runner operable to receive some or all of the flow of liquid and rotate to generate power, a penstock operable to direct some or all of the flow toward the runner, and an intake operable to direct some or all of the flow into the penstock. The runner may be coupled to a generator to generate electric power. The penstock has a length that is adjustable to accommodate changes in the height of the liquid drop or waterfall, which may be desirable if the distance between the top and bottom of the drop fluctuates like an ocean's tide. The turbine system also includes a valve operable to modify the flow of the liquid flowing into the runner, and a control circuit operable to determine an amount of liquid entering the penstock and, in response to the determined amount, move the valve to increase or decrease the flow of liquid into the runner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Layton, James Styner, Brian Peithman, Jason Rota, Dane Roth
  • Publication number: 20150033723
    Abstract: A hydraulic system, wherein an actuating cylinder and an accelerating cylinder each includes a piston, a rod, and a tube. When the rod of the actuating cylinder extends in an unloaded condition, a circuit is configured such that oil discharged from the bottom-side section of the accelerating cylinder is supplied to the bottom-side section of the actuating cylinder through a bottom line. When the rod of the actuating cylinder extends in a loaded condition, a circuit is configured such that oil supplied to the bottom line without passing through the accelerating cylinder is supplied to the bottom-side section of the actuating cylinder. The circuit for the unloaded condition and the circuit for the loaded condition is switched based on a pressure sensing in the bottom line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: TAGUCHI INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20150033724
    Abstract: A compressed-air energy storage system according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress and expand air, one or more compressed air storage tanks, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and, in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor-expander uses mechanical power to compress air (when it is acting as a compressor) and converts the energy stored in compressed air to mechanical power (when it is acting as an expander). In certain embodiments, the compressor-expander comprises one or more stages, each stage consisting of pressure vessel (the “pressure cell”) partially filled with water or other liquid. In some embodiments, the pressure vessel communicates with one or more cylinder devices to exchange air and liquid with the cylinder chamber(s) thereof. Suitable valving allows air to enter and leave the pressure cell and cylinder device, if present, under electronic control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Danielle A. FONG, Stephen E. CRANE, Edwin P. BERLIN, JR., AmirHossein Pourmousa ABKENAR, Kartikeya MAHALATKAR, Yongxi HOU, Todd BOWERS
  • Publication number: 20150033725
    Abstract: A hydraulic hybrid safety system with an over-center bent-axis rotary pump/motor, a yoke and a calibrated orifice. The yoke has a zero yoke angle and a plurality of non-zero yoke angles. In addition, the pump/motor has zero torque when the yoke angle is at the zero yoke angle and non-zero torque when the yoke is at a non-zero yoke angle. The system also has at least one accumulator and at least one hydraulic line. The at least one accumulator is configured to provide hydraulic pressure and rotate the yoke via the at least one hydraulic line. The calibrated orifice is located within the at least one hydraulic line and limits the rotational speed of the yoke to a predetermined maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Martin Pischinger
  • Publication number: 20150033726
    Abstract: A hybrid construction machine includes first and second main pumps, first and second supply passages, first and second circuit systems, a hydraulic motor, a motor generator, an assist pump, a joint passage connected to the assist pump and branching off, first and second logic valves, and a switching valve. The switching valve switches between a state where the assist pump is connected to the second supply passage and a state where the second main pump is connected to the hydraulic motor. The hybrid construction machine includes a bypass passage branching off from the other branch passage at the downstream of the switching valve. The bypass passage is connected to the second supply passage on the downstream side of the second logic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shunsuke Fukuda, Nobuyoshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150033727
    Abstract: A hybrid construction machine includes first and second main pumps, first and second supply passages, first and second circuit systems, a hydraulic motor, a motor generator, an assist pump, a joint passage connected to the assist pump and branched off, first and second logic valves, a switching valve disposed in the other branch passage and switchable to a state where the assist pump is connected to the second supply passage on the upstream side of the second logic valve and a state where the second main pump is connected to the hydraulic motor, and a check valve. A poppet diameter of the first logic valve is smaller than that of the second logic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Fukuda, Nobuyoshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150033728
    Abstract: A hydrostatic fan drive is operated with a closed circuit and includes a variable-displacement pump with a swept volume that is configured to be adjusted by an adjustment device. The variable-displacement pump is connected by two working lines to a motor that is coupled fixedly in terms of torque to a fan impeller. The fan drive further includes a feed pressure pump and an adjustment pressure line by which the adjustment device is supplied with adjustment pressure medium. A pressure cut-off valve is connected to the adjustment pressure line. The pressure cut-off valve is configured to limit an adjustment pressure, as a function of a high pressure in the working line acting as high-pressure line, to a value such that a certain value of high pressure is not exceeded. The pressure cut-off valve is configured to exhibit pilot control to regulate a working pressure of the variable-displacement pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Igor Glaz, Steffen Loritz