Patents Issued in January 19, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170016368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regenerating exhaust-gas aftertreatment systems capable of storing nitrogen oxides in lean exhaust gas, and in rich exhaust gas of reducing nitrogen oxides to nitrogen. The invention is used in exhaust-gas aftertreatment systems which consist of at least one NOx storage catalyst arranged near the engine and at least one NOx storage catalyst located in the underbody of the vehicle and are intended to clean the exhaust gas of spark-ignition engines predominantly run on a lean mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frank ADAM, Sebastian MUELLER, David PALM, Susanne KUNERT
  • Publication number: 20170016369
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises an SCR system and at least one reductant insertion assembly fluidly coupled thereto. The reductant insertion assembly includes an injector and reductant storage tank. The injector includes a first fluid connector and a second fluid connector. A first fluid connector marking is defined on the first fluid connector and a second fluid connector marking is defined on the second fluid connector. The reductant storage tank includes a first fluid conduit fluidly coupled to the first fluid connector and a second fluid conduit fluidly coupled to the second fluid connector. A first fluid conduit marking is defined on the first fluid conduit, and a second fluid conduit marking is defined on the second fluid conduit. The first fluid conduit marking corresponds to the first fluid connector marking, and the second fluid conduit marking corresponds to the second fluid connector marking, thereby identifying a coupling relationship therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Myer
  • Publication number: 20170016370
    Abstract: An electrically heatable catalytic converter (100, 200, 300, 400) for treating a gas stream, especially of the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, the electrically heatable catalytic converter (100, 200, 300, 400) has a tubular housing (101, 201, 301, 401), an interior space enclosed by the tubular housing (101, 201, 301, 401), and a porous structure, which is arranged in the interior space of the tubular housing (101, 201, 301, 401) and can be heated by an electric heater, in which the electric heater is a mineral-insulated heater (103, 203, 303, 403) with a heat conductor (104, 204, 304, 404), with at least one front-side connection opening (109, 209, 210, 309, 409) and with at least one outer metal jacket (108, 208, 308, 408), the mineral-insulated heater (103, 203, 303, 403) has at least one section (103, 203a, 203b, 303a), which is passed through a housing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Andreas SCHLIPF
  • Publication number: 20170016371
    Abstract: A gas duct (100) has a duct wall (110) enclosing an interior space (120), a heated porous metal structure (113) arranged in the interior space (120) for passing through gases and an electric heater (102). The electric heater (102) is a mineral-insulated heater including a heat conductor (104), one or more front-side connection openings and an outer metal jacket (108). The electric heater (102) has a section (102a), which is passed through the duct wall (110), so that all front-side connection openings (116) are arranged outside the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100) and the outer metal jacket (108) is welded or soldered to the duct wall (110) in the section. The heat conductor (104) is completely embedded in a ceramic insulation (106) at least in the sections of the electric heater (102) that are arranged in the interior space (120) of the gas duct (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Andreas SCHLIPF
  • Publication number: 20170016372
    Abstract: A cooling device for a reducing agent injection module includes a coolant circulation line connected to a module cooling channel for cooling the reducing agent injection module and configured that a coolant circulates therethrough, a closed circuit circulation line respectively connected to a first portion of the coolant circulation line in front of the module cooling channel and to a second portion of the coolant circulation line in rear of the module cooling channel and configured that a portion of the coolant circulation line is selectively used to form a closed circuit, and at least one heat dissipating part provided in the closed circuit to dissipate heat which is transported from the module cooling channel by natural convection of the coolant within the closed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Eun-Hyoung KIM, Nam-Il CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170016373
    Abstract: A mixer assembly of a vehicle exhaust system includes a base tube or pipe section and a plurality of mixing or stirring blades that sequentially engage notches formed in an end or edge portion of the base tube section and interconnect with each other to form a static blade assembly. Each blade of the plurality of mixing blades spans across the interior volume of the base tube section and includes a tab or attachment feature at each of the opposing ends of the respective blade that engages notches on opposing sides of the base tube section. The tabs of the plurality of mixing blades may be coupled with the notches in a manner that prevents disengagement and provides no weld surfaces at an interior volume of the base tube section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Leroy Middleton, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170016374
    Abstract: A synthetic resin tank can prevent being damaged when it expands or contracts by the change of ambient temperature, though it can be easily fixed on the vehicle with fastener such as bolts, without the belts for securing the vehicle. The synthetic resin tank includes a body which defines a storage space for fluid and fixing means which is attached to the body. At least one recess is formed on the surface of the body. The fixing means includes at least one elastically deformable plate portion which covers the recess partially and which has a through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Keiichi Shimoyamada
  • Publication number: 20170016375
    Abstract: A heating and thermal insulation pipe including: a temperature-regulated pipe configured to allow a liquid to pass therethrough; at least two temperature-regulating pipes configured to allow a liquid coolant to pass therethrough, the at least two temperature-regulating pipes being in a mutual contact with the temperature-regulated pipe; a binding member for fixing the temperature-regulated pipe and the at least two temperature-regulating pipes together; and an outward protection tube sheathing therewith the temperature-regulated pipe and the at least two temperature-regulating pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Masatsugu Okada, Kazuhiro Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20170016376
    Abstract: A removing poison apparatus of a lambda sensor includes: a lambda sensor detecting an oxygen concentration included in an exhaust gas; and a control unit differentiating a heating temperature and a heating time to remove poison of the lambda sensor depending on a lambda signal output from the lambda sensor in an overrun condition of the engine. By heating the lambda sensor depending on the magnitude of the lambda signal output from the lambda sensor, the lambda sensor may be inhibited from being degraded by combusting the material poisoned to the electrode of the lambda sensor and the failure of the lambda sensor may be correctly determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: HwaYong JANG, Mooseock SEO, Shin Geol KIM, Jeong Sik JIN, Jinseung YOO, Seongmin PARK, Sung Il YOU, Ki Hong KANG, SeungWoo SEO
  • Publication number: 20170016377
    Abstract: A heat insulating structure for an exhaust junction pipe to be disposed in an area in which exhaust gas passages having different respective lengths are merged together comprises a first heat insulation portion that covers and provides heat insulation for at least a portion of one branch part of branch parts that are branched in the exhaust junction pipe; the one branch part forms one exhaust gas passage in a not-yet-merged state of the exhaust gas passages, and forms the one exhaust gas passage having a short length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro JINDA, Munehiro TSUBOSAKA, Takuya KONDO, Shinnosuke TOICHI, Toshikazu NAMIKIRI, Manabu YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170016378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a casting product and a method of manufacturing the casting product. The manufacturing method of the casting product includes: manufacturing a salt core including a heterogeneous material part; manufacturing the casting product by inserting the salt core including the heterogeneous material part into a casting mold; injecting a molten metal into the casting mold; and removing the salt core from the casting product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chul Jun Youm, Soon Hyon Hwang, Jae Kwon Lee, Jong Hyuck Kim
  • Publication number: 20170016379
    Abstract: A coolant circulation system for turbochargers is provided. The coolant circulation system includes a turbocharger provided with a coolant outlet line and a coolant inlet line. The coolant is discharged from the turbocharger through the coolant outlet line. The coolant outlet line is connected to a first flow path connecting an inlet port of a radiator to an outlet port of a heater core. The coolant is supplied into the turbocharger through the coolant inlet line. The coolant inlet line is connected to a second flow path connecting a first end of a water pump to an inlet port of the heater core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Kyu KWON, Jun Ho SONG, Nam Shin KIM, Chi Weon Jeong, Kyoung Duk RHO, Chang Won LEE, Ki Lyong JANG, Seung Ho MOK, Sung Woo KANG
  • Publication number: 20170016380
    Abstract: The invention of the present application relates to a control device and a control method for a cooling device. A cooling device includes a first cooling water passage of a cylinder head, a second cooling water passage of a cylinder block, a control valve that changes a ratio between a flow rate of the first cooling water passage and a flow rate of the second cooling water passage, and a water pump. Then, the control device controls the control valve so that a ratio of the flow rate of the first cooling water passage increases when a cooling water circulation flow rate is insufficient due to failure of the water pump. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress damage of an engine body while suppressing deterioration in traveling performance of a vehicle when failure occurs in the water pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Yuichi TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170016381
    Abstract: A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes a first flow passage supplying a cooling medium of the internal combustion engine to a radiator, a second flow passage branching from the first flow passage by a flow control valve to supply the cooling medium to a first heat exchanging portion, a third flow passage provided separately from the first flow passage to supply the cooling medium to a second heat exchanging portion via an on-off valve and a control portion controlling the on-off valve and the flow control valve based on a temperature of the cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto YUMISASHI, Masanobu MATSUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20170016382
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing an improved heater for electronic thermostats which can increase clamping force between a wax case and the heater while allowing reduction in the number of components and cost reduction, thereby improving productivity and reducing manufacturing costs in manufacture of an electronic thermostat, while improving durability and operational reliability of an electronic thermostat. The present invention provides a heater for electronic thermostats including: a hollow tube open at one end thereof and closed at the other end thereof; a heating member disposed inside the tube and generating heat by electrical resistance; and lead wires supplying electric power to the heating member, wherein the tube is directly inserted into a fastening hole of a wax case through interference fitting such that the heater is mounted on the wax case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: WOO JIN IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok-Ha RYU, Young Jin CHO, Seok-Ju LEE
  • Publication number: 20170016383
    Abstract: A cooling system (10) for a vehicle has a high temperature cooling circuit (11) for cooling a drive assembly (13) and an exhaust gas turbocharger (14) and has a low temperature cooling circuit (12) for cooling a charge air cooler (19). The high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12) are coupled via a coupling line (25), into which a nonreturn valve (26) is connected. The nonreturn valve (26) is opened or closed depending on the pressure ratio between the high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12). The high temperature cooling circuit (11) and the low temperature cooling circuit (12) can be vented via a common cooling water compensation tank (21) only in defined operating states when the nonreturn valve (26) of the coupling line (25) is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Heiko Roehm, Miroslaw Oslislok
  • Publication number: 20170016384
    Abstract: A ducted combustion system is disclosed. The ducted combustion system may include a combustion chamber, which is defined as an enclosure bound at a first end by a flame deck surface of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and bound at a second end by a piston top surface of a piston disposed within the internal combustion engine. The system may further include a fuel injector, having at least one orifice, injecting fuel into the combustion chamber as at least one fuel jet. The system may further include at least one Venturi duct disposed within the combustion chamber between the flame deck surface and the piston top surface, the at least one Venturi duct being disposed such that each of the at least one fuel jet, at least partially, enters the at least one Venturi duct structure upon being injected into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Koci
  • Publication number: 20170016385
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger of an engine. In one example, a method may include balancing a pressure differential between compressor wheels of the turbocharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Andreas Kuske
  • Publication number: 20170016386
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for an engine includes: an inlet; an outlet; a radiator spanning the inlet and the outlet and in fluid communication with both the inlet and the outlet; and a bypass element spanning the inlet and the outlet and in fluid communication with both the inlet and the outlet and in parallel fluid communication with the radiator, the bypass element including a control mechanism, the control mechanism including a bypass valve and a control cylinder connected to the bypass valve for operating the bypass valve, the control cylinder including a pneumatic ram cylinder in communication with a turbocharger outlet of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: James C. Ray, Michael T. Schaner
  • Publication number: 20170016387
    Abstract: A piston-cylinder arrangement for an internal combustion engine includes a first cylinder bore in an engine with a first piston disposed therein. A combustion chamber may be positioned between walls of the first cylinder bore and the first piston. A second cylinder bore in the engine block may be aligned with the first cylinder bore with a second piston disposed therein. A compression chamber may be positioned between walls of the second cylinder bore and the second piston. One or more supporting members may connect the first piston to the second piston for facilitating concurrent reciprocation of the first piston and the second piston within their respective cylinder bores during operation of the internal combustion engine. The first piston, the second piston, and the one or more supporting members may define a stacked piston arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Antonio Cannata
  • Publication number: 20170016388
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for turbine temperature control in an engine system having multiple staged charge boosting devices. In one example, compressed air is provided by a turbocharger compressor until an outlet temperature of the compressor reaches a limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Baitao Xiao, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Mario Anthony Santillo, John Erik Mikael Hellstrom
  • Publication number: 20170016389
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for turbocharger speed control in an engine system having multiple staged charge boosting devices. In one example, compressed air is provided by a turbocharger compressor until a turbocharger speed reaches a limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Baitao Xiao, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, John Erik Mikael Hellstrom, Mario Anthony Santillo
  • Publication number: 20170016390
    Abstract: An assembly for an exhaust bypass valve of a two-stage turbocharger can include a first turbocharger stage; a second turbocharger stage; an exhaust bypass valve that includes an open state and a closed state; and a linkage mechanism that links the exhaust bypass valve to an actuator where the linkage mechanism includes a locked state for the closed state of the exhaust bypass valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chris Groves, Damien Marsal, Stephane Sibille, Andreas Heckner
  • Publication number: 20170016391
    Abstract: A system for controlling a variable turbocharger includes: a first controller outputting a duty value for adjusting an opening degree of a vane of a turbocharger, and a second controller checking opening or closing operations of the vane when the first controller adjusts the opening degree of the vane. In particular, the second controller outputs a corrected duty value by correcting the output duty value, based on a correction map, in consideration of a back pressure according to whether the vane is opened or closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Young Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20170016392
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and vehicles for use with internal combustion engines comprising combustion chambers that produce exhaust gases that include a Stirling engine having a hot side and a cold side with the hot side being in thermal contact with exhaust gases produced by the internal combustion engine. The Stirling engine is configured to be powered by heat from the exhaust gases during operation of the internal combustion engine, and a compressor powered by the Stirling engine is configured to provide compressed air to combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Adhiraj B. Mathur, Haiyan Henry Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170016393
    Abstract: An engine may include a cylinder having a first combustion chamber at one end thereof and a second combustion chamber at an opposing end thereof, first and second cylinder heads at an end of the first combustion chamber and the second combustion chamber, respectively, and a double-faced piston slidably mounted within the cylinder. The piston may be configured to move in a first stroke from the first end to the second end of the cylinder. The piston and the cylinder may be configured such that the first stroke includes an expansion stroke portion during which chemical energy from combustion in the first combustion chamber is converted into mechanical power of the piston, and a momentum stroke portion during which the piston continues to move to the second end of the cylinder and gases are exchanged between the first combustion chamber and a location outside the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Aquarius Engines (A.M.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Shaul Haim YAAKOBY
  • Publication number: 20170016394
    Abstract: An engine trigger wheel is disclosed having a central annular portion and a cylindrical rim portion defining a number of trigger teeth, wherein the central annular and cylindrical rim portions are pressed from a single piece of metal. A number of balance apertures are formed in the central annular portion to move a center of mass of the trigger wheel away from an axis of rotation. The engine trigger wheel when fastened to one end of a crankshaft of an engine provides both an indication of the angular position of the crankshaft and a counterweight function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Duncan Scholtes
  • Publication number: 20170016395
    Abstract: A power augmentation system for a gas turbine that is electrically coupled to a power grid incudes, in serial flow order, a compressed air supply, a compressed air storage tank and an expansion turbine that is disposed downstream from the compressed air storage tank. An exhaust outlet of the expansion turbine is in fluid communication with at least one of an inlet section or a compressor of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kihyung Kim, Diego Fernando Rancruel, Leslie Yung Min Tong, Stephen R. Watts, Kamlesh Mundra
  • Publication number: 20170016396
    Abstract: For a gas turbine engine (10), a method and apparatus for determining temperature of combustion gas in a flow path (17) of the engine. In one embodiment a waveguide (30) includes a cavity (36) with a first waveguide end (32) including a barrier layer (58) which may be a membrane. With the first end positioned to inject an acoustic signal into the flow path, the barrier layer (58) isolates the cavity from combustion gas. Acoustic instrumentation positioned along the surface (38i) of a wall (38) of the waveguide provides generation and propagation of acoustic signals into the flow path for detection and measurement after reflection back into the cavity. The wall may include sections of two different materials, one material having a higher melting temperature than the other, or one material having greater electrically isolating properties than the other section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Upul P. DeSilva, Heiko Claussen
  • Publication number: 20170016397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas turbine which includes a cooling system provided with cooling air supply paths bypassed through an outside casing and, more specifically, to a gas turbine including a cooling system and a cooling method, wherein, in order to supply cooling air to a plurality of turbine blades and other devices provided to the inside of the gas turbine, cooling air supply paths are not provided to the rotor center shaft of the gas turbine but provided around the outer casing of the gas turbine so as to achieve the increased effect in the aerodynamic efficiency of the compressor and the turbine. According to the above structure and method, it may be possible to provide the cooling air supply paths not to the rotor center shaft of the gas turbine but around the outer casing of the gas turbine, thereby finally achieving the increased effect in the aerodynamic efficiency of the compressor and the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kyung Kook KIM, Dong Hwa KIM, Jong Seon KIM, Victor SHEMYATOVSKIY
  • Publication number: 20170016398
    Abstract: Emergency start-up device for a turboshaft engine of a helicopter, comprising: a hydraulic motor which is mechanically connected to said turboshaft engine; a hydropneumatic store which is connected to said hydraulic motor by a hydraulic circuit for supplying pressurised liquid to said hydraulic motor; and a hydraulic valve which has controlled quick opening, arranged on the hydraulic circuit between said store and said hydraulic motor, and is suitable for being placed on command at least in an open position in which the liquid can supply said hydraulic motor, or in a closed position in which said hydraulic motor is no longer supplied with pressurised liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Thiriet, Bertrand Moine, Camel Serghine, François Porel
  • Publication number: 20170016399
    Abstract: The invention relates to an architecture of a propulsion system of a multiple-engine helicopter comprising turboshaft engines (5, 6), characterised in that it comprises: at least one hybrid turboshaft engine (5) that is capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable flight of the helicopter, the other turboshaft engines (6) operating alone during this stable flight; an air turbine (30) that is mechanically connected to the gas generator (17) of the hybrid turboshaft engine (5) and is suitable for rotating said gas generator (17); means for withdrawing pressurised air from the gas generator (27) of a running turboshaft engine (6); and a duct (31) for routing this withdrawn air to said air turbine (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Olivier BEDRINE, Olivier Pierre DESCUBES
  • Publication number: 20170016400
    Abstract: An operation plan preparation and evaluation device including a storage unit for storing master data related to equipment and a component, transaction data related to the equipment and the component generated when an operation plan is prepared, and an initial parameter used when the operation plan is prepared, and a control unit for preparing the operation plan based on the master data, the transaction data, and the initial parameter, in which the control unit performs a factor setting process of assigning a predetermined set value as the initial parameter, an operation plan preparation process of preparing the operation plan based on the initial parameter serving as the set value, the master data, and the transaction data, and an operation plan evaluation process of evaluating a plurality of respective operation plans prepared by repeatedly performing the operation plan preparation process while varying the initial parameter, and deriving an optimum operation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoaki KITAGAWA, Manabu KASANO, Aki NAKAYAMA, Akihiko YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170016401
    Abstract: A method of controlling fuel flow for combustion in a gas turbine engine comprising a low pressure spool, a high pressure spool and a fuel metering valve is disclosed. The method comprises scheduling the fuel metering valve in dependence upon the speed of the high pressure spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Mark Thomas STOCKWELL
  • Publication number: 20170016402
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling intake surge noise of an engine of a vehicle are provided to suppress generation of noise due to an intake surge using an opening/closing location of a throttle valve and a time control when an intake surge pressure is generated. In particular, surge pressure and surge noise are removed by excluding an existing anti-surge valve or an existing intake purge valve, and determining whether intake surge generation conditions including a fuel supply state, intake pressures at front and rear ends of a throttle valve, a vehicle speed, and an engine speed to control an opening degree of the throttle valve for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jae Sung Myung, Seung Ho Choi
  • Publication number: 20170016403
    Abstract: A method for controlling a back pressure valve may include: an operation of sensing, by a controller, an engine speed and a fuel injection rate; an operation of comparing the engine speed with a preset speed and comparing the fuel injection rate with a preset injection rate after the operation of sensing; and a first control operation of, when a result of the operation of comparing indicates that the engine speed is less than the preset speed and that the fuel injection rate is less than the preset injection rate, controlling a control constant of the back pressure valve to be set to a compensation value that is less than a reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Chang Hyun HA
  • Publication number: 20170016404
    Abstract: A flap device for an internal combustion engine includes a flap body comprising at least one end position, a shaft which has the flap body arranged thereon, a housing which has a flow duct formed therein, an actuator which rotates the shaft in the flow duct, a lever which includes a lever surface, the lever being attached to the shaft outside of the flow duct, and an abutment which has the lever bear thereon in the at least one end position of the flap body. The flow duct includes a throughflow cross section which is regulated by a rotation of the shaft. The lever surface which faces toward the abutment includes an abutment region which is formed so as to be inclined in a direction of the abutment with respect to a radially outwardly extending straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: PIERBURG GMBH
    Inventors: LARS BAUMEISTER, DIRK KAMARYS
  • Publication number: 20170016405
    Abstract: A control process for controlling an engine speed governor of an engine is provided. The process comprises the steps of calculating the current engine power being developed by the engine, and determining an appropriate engine speed for the current engine power based upon a first engine map. The process then instructs the speed governor to adjust the engine speed in accordance with the first map if required. The process monitors for desired engine power requests, and calculates a power ratio of desired engine power versus current engine power upon receiving a desired engine power request. The process then establishes an engine speed adjustment value based upon a second engine map of power ratio versus speed adjustment value, and instructs the speed governor to adjust the engine speed in accordance with the speed adjustment value. A speed governor system incorporating the control process, and a work machine or vehicle incorporating such a system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventors: Paul Moore, William Carroll
  • Publication number: 20170016406
    Abstract: A single control for manipulating a fuel valve, a choke condition, and an ignition system condition of an engine of a portable engine powered device that simplifies starting, stopping, and operation of the engine associated with use of the device. The control includes a dial that can be rotated to positions between a first radial position and a second radial position. When the dial is in the first radial position, the fuel valve is maintained in a closed position and the ignition system is grounded such that the engine is rendered inoperable. Rotation of the dial away from the first radial position completes the ignition circuit, opens the fuel valve, and initiates a choke position suitable for subsequent starting and self-sustained operation of the engine. The dial is also axially displaceable to activate an electronic starter for engines so equipped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Repasky, Russell Saari, Glen Schneider, Gary Castaldo, Jennifer Caldwell
  • Publication number: 20170016407
    Abstract: An engine control system includes a prediction module that, during an exhaust stroke of a first cylinder of an engine, determines a predicted intake manifold pressure at an end of a next intake stroke of a second cylinder following the first cylinder in a firing order of the cylinders. An air per cylinder (APC) module determines a predicted mass of air that will be trapped within the second cylinder at the end of the next intake stroke of the second cylinder based on the predicted intake manifold pressure. A fueling module controls fueling of the second cylinder during the next intake stroke based on the predicted mass of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher E. WHITNEY, Layne K. Wiggins, Rafat F. Hattar, Gary Robert Cygan, JR., Ning Jin, Gregory P. Matthews
  • Publication number: 20170016408
    Abstract: Method for optimizing the current A/F settings when accelerating the engine over at least one defined speed interval, the method comprising comparing at least two acceleration times of different A/F ratio that each encompasses at least one defined speed interval. Adjusting the A/F ratio based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan Wixe, Martin Axelsson, Björn Lundblad
  • Publication number: 20170016409
    Abstract: A heat-ray type of airflow meter has a signal processor for converting a detected intake air quantity into a frequency signal. An engine controller has a conversion table for converting the frequency signal into an air quantity. The signal processor and the conversion table have features such that the frequency increases as the magnitude of a positive air quantity increases, and the frequency decreases as an absolute value of a negative air quantity increases. In the conversion table, a prescribed positive air quantity value is assigned a dummy output for frequencies lower than a prescribed threshold value. Under normal circumstances, frequencies lower than a minimum value are not used. The frequency decreases to near 0 Hz when there is a disconnection or a short circuit, the dummy output is therefore output, and an injection quantity equal to or greater than a misfire limit is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yukinobu ITO, Yukimi MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20170016410
    Abstract: An engine operation control apparatus and engine operation control method of a vehicle are provided. The engine operation control apparatus includes a coolant temperature sensor that detects a coolant temperature of a coolant line which passes through an engine. Further, the apparatus includes first and second maps in which corresponding engine operating points are mapped to a vehicle speed, a gear stage, a driver requesting torque, and an electric field load amount of the vehicle. A controller determines a candidate operating point using any one of the first and second maps based on a comparison between the coolant temperature and a predetermined threshold value and determines an optimal operating point of the engine using the candidate operating point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Kak Choi, Hyungseuk Ohn, Minseok Song, Dong Jun Shin
  • Publication number: 20170016411
    Abstract: The Thermal Compression Engine is an external combustion engine using a regenerator to achieve cycle efficiency. The Thermal Compression Engine uses thermal compression (heat addition resulting in pressure rise) rather than mechanical. By alternating flow into a constant volume, of hot and then cold fluid creates pressure rise and fall in the working fluid. This fluctuating pressure generates a reservoir of high, and a reservoir of low pressure fluid. The TCE cycle uses the high and low pressure storage to generate a fluid flow, with expansion through a turbine or other expansion device, to generate power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Gerald J. HERMAN
  • Publication number: 20170016412
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a bypass turbojet engine nacelle is disclosed, which includes movable cowls that move backwards with respect to a fixed front structure to uncover thrust reverser cascades and a variable secondary nozzle connected to the movable cowls by guide means allowing an axial sliding of the system which controls the movement of this variable secondary nozzle, wherein it includes cylinders bearing on the front structure for controlling reversal means of the displacement direction connected to the movable cowls, which move the variable secondary nozzle backwards when these cylinders output a forward stroke, as well as blocking devices which connect the secondary nozzle to the movable cowls when this nozzle is deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick BOILEAU, Olivier KERBLER
  • Publication number: 20170016413
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a jet engine and a telescopic tube assembly positioned on the jet engine. The telescopic tube assembly includes one end portion of the telescopic tube assembly which is associated with a thrust reverser translating sleeve of the jet engine and an opposing end portion of the telescopic tube assembly which is associated with a fixed portion of the of the jet engine. A jet engine includes a telescopic tube assembly positioned on the jet engine. The telescopic tube assembly includes one end portion of the telescopic tube assembly which is associated with a thrust reverser translating sleeve of a jet engine and an opposing end portion of the telescopic tube assembly which is associated with a fixed portion of the of the jet engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kent Edmund Karnofski, Chris T. Jasklowski, Michael Jay Burghdoff
  • Publication number: 20170016414
    Abstract: Devices for producing vacuum using the Venturi effect are disclosed that have a motive passageway converging toward a suction chamber, a discharge passageway diverging away from the suction chamber, and a suction passageway, all of which are in fluid communication with the suction chamber. The motive passageway has a single entrance, and subdivides downstream thereof into a plurality of subpassageways, one each leading to one of the plurality of motive exits, which are spaced apart from a discharge entrance of the discharge passageway to define a Venturi gap. The fletch having a plurality of ribs extending between an exterior surface of the generally conically-shaped main body thereof and an interior surface of the motive passageway is disposed in the motive passageway. The ribs divide the motive passageway into the plurality of sub-passageways, each converging fluid flow over the exterior surface thereof toward one of the plurality of motive exits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Dayco IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Fletcher, Brian M. Graichen, James H. Miller, Keith Hampton
  • Publication number: 20170016415
    Abstract: In order to provide a humidity measuring device capable of determining whether or not a detection value by a humidity sensor is valid, a humidity measuring device of the present invention is a humidity measuring device for measuring humidity of the intake air in an internal-combustion engine, and includes a water droplet adhesion determination means for determining whether or not a water droplet adheres to a surface of a sensor element of a humidity sensor, based on changes in the humidity and the temperature of the intake air. Thus, it is possible to determine whether or not a detection value by the humidity sensor is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroaki HOSHIKA, Takayuki YOGO, Takahiro MIKI, Takeo HOSOKAWA, Yuki ISOYA
  • Publication number: 20170016416
    Abstract: A fluid injection system includes a fluid injector assembly; a fluid conditioning module having an outlet port that is fluidly coupled to an inlet port of the fluid injector assembly; an injector assembly outlet conduit fluidly coupled to an outlet port of the fluid injector assembly and disposed downstream of the fluid injector assembly, the injector assembly outlet conduit defining a pressure measurement port and a flow-restricting orifice, the pressure measurement port being disposed upstream of the flow-restricting orifice along the direction of fluid flow through the fluid injector assembly; a pressure sensor fluidly coupled to the pressure measurement port; and a controller operatively coupled to the fluid conditioning module and the pressure sensor. The controller is configured to adjust a flowrate of a fluid through the injector assembly inlet conduit based on a pressure signal from the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Scott F. Shafer, Martin Lehman, Lifeng Wang, David E. Hackett, Taylor Tang, Andrew Marrack, Dennis H. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20170016417
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a coil, a stator provided on an inner side of the coil, a housing including an injection hole at an end opposite to a stator side in an axial direction, a movable element including a movable element main body that generates a first gap with the stator and a stopper portion provided to an injection hole side of the movable element main body, and provided inside the housing in a reciprocable manner, a main valve including a lock portion that generates a second gap smaller than the first gap together with an end face of the stopper portion on the stator side, and provided to open and close the injection hole, a first pushing portion constantly pushing the movable element to the injection hole side, and a second pushing portion constantly pushing the main valve to the stator side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Tomoki FUJINO