Patents Issued in March 2, 2017
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Publication number: 20170058727Abstract: A variable camshaft timing device can operate using pressure generated by camshaft torque energy to transfer fluid from one working chamber to another work chamber or operate via an external fluid pressure source to fill one working chamber while simultaneously exhausting an opposing working chamber or operate using both modes simultaneously. The mode of the variable camshaft timing device is determined by the position of the control valve. The lock pin is controlled by fluid from one of the working chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Franklin R. Smith, Brian T. Kenyon
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Publication number: 20170058728Abstract: A fluid conditioning system includes a recirculation pump fluidly coupled to a reservoir via a first conduit; a delivery pump fluidly coupled in series with the recirculation pump, such that an outlet of the recirculation pump is fluidly coupled to an inlet of the delivery pump via a second conduit; and a recirculation loop including a recirculation filter, an inlet of the recirculation filter being fluidly coupled to the second conduit, and an outlet of the recirculation filter being fluidly coupled to the first conduit. The recirculation pump is configured to operate at a flow rate that is higher than a flow rate of the delivery pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Martin Lehman, Scott F. Shafer
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Publication number: 20170058729Abstract: A filter head of an engine includes a conduit extending along a longitudinal axis and a thermostat extending longitudinally within the conduit. The thermostat is movable between an open position and a closed position. The filter head also includes a sealing member positioned within the conduit downstream from the thermostat. The thermostat abuts the sealing member to inhibit flow through the conduit when in the open position and the thermostat is longitudinally spaced apart from the sealing member to permit axial flow of fluid through the conduit when in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Thomas J. Lochrane, Stephen D. Cofer, Thomas L. Mack
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Publication number: 20170058730Abstract: A replaceable oil filter sub-assembly for use with an oil filter housing having an oil drain passageway extending outwardly from an interior volume of the oil filter housing, the oil filter sub-assembly including a filter element having a filter medium defining an upstream side and a downstream side of the filter element and an oil drain passageway sealing rod assembly having a first end configured for oil sealing engagement with the oil drain passageway of the oil filter housing, the oil drain passageway sealing rod assembly being separate from the filter element and extending through the interior volume of the filter housing at the upstream side of the filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Yaakov Ben-Shimon, Itsik Levy, Ilana Polak
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Publication number: 20170058731Abstract: Restrictors are disclosed that include a body defining a Venturi tube having a throat defining a junction of a converging inlet cone to a diverging outlet cone along a longitudinal axis thereof, and with the converging inlet cone and the diverging outlet cone each defining an inner passageway that transitions as a hyperbolic or parabolic function toward the throat.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Dayco IP Holdings, LLCInventors: David E. Fletcher, Brian M. Graichen, James H. Miller, Keith Hampton
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Publication number: 20170058732Abstract: An exhaust system for internal combustion engines has an exhaust tract, which has at least one first flow path and a second flow path for an exhaust gas stream. The first and the second flow path extend fluidically separated from each other from a pre-silencer to at least one end silencer. Depending on the rotational speed of the engine, the first flow path can be continuously closed by way of a controllable flap, wherein the exhaust gas stream is guided through the second flow path when the flap is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Peter HEBEL, Timo KRESSE, Dieter HABLE, Franz MATZKE-NEUMAIR, Harald MITSCHKE
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Publication number: 20170058733Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine includes a muffler, a first exhaust pipe which is connected to the muffler for sound damping, and a second exhaust pipe which extends in terms of flow in parallel relation to the first exhaust pipe and extends through first muffler in the absence of a flow communication with the first muffler. The first and second exhaust pipes originate from a common exhaust pipe. A switching valve adjusts hereby a throughflow cross section of the second exhaust pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Axel PETERS, Siamak ALIZADEH, Gerd VERBECK
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Publication number: 20170058734Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine configured to generate power and noise. The vehicle includes a transmission configured to operate in a first gear corresponding to a first gear ratio and a second gear corresponding to a second gear ratio. The second gear ratio is less than the first gear ratio. The vehicle also includes a noise reduction device coupled to the engine and configured to operate in a first state to reduce the noise of the engine to a first volume and a second state to reduce the noise of the engine to a second volume that is greater than the first volume. The vehicle also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the engine, the transmission and the noise reduction device and configured to control the noise reduction device to switch to the second state when the transmission shifts from the second gear to the first gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Mohammad E. Dufford
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Publication number: 20170058735Abstract: Methods and systems are provided sensing particulate matter by a particulate matter sensor positioned downstream of a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system. In one example, a method may include increasing an inlet opening of the particulate matter sensor when an exhaust flow rate falls below a threshold to allow more particulates to enter the particulate matter sensor and further includes decreasing the inlet opening when the exhaust flow rate rises above the threshold to reduce the particulates entering the sensor. By adjusting the amount of particulates entering the sensor based on the exhaust rate, the rate of deposition of the sensor and hence the sensitivity of the sensor to the exhaust flow rate may be maintained at a desired level, and independent of the exhaust flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Publication number: 20170058736Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle includes an exhaust pipe and a secondary air device having a first secondary air path which feeds into the exhaust gas pip. Disposed in the first secondary air path is a secondary air pump and a secondary air valve. To compensate, for example, fluctuations in the supply voltage of the secondary air pump, provision is made for arrangement in the secondary air path of a Laval nozzle which can be placed downstream of the secondary air valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: MARCUS SCHIELE, SIEGFRIED MEIXNER, MARK BANZER, GEROLD BERTHOLD
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Publication number: 20170058737Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for generating power in low emission turbine systems and separating the exhaust into rich CO2 and lean CO2 streams. In one or more embodiments, the exhaust is separated at an elevated pressure, such as between a high-pressure expansion stage and a low-pressure expansion stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Franklin F. Mittricker, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Richard A. Huntington, Omar Angus Sites, Dennis M. O'Dea, Russell H. Oelfke
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Publication number: 20170058738Abstract: A method for injecting a reductant into an exhaust gas stream of a combustion turbine engine for selective catalytic reduction. The method may include the steps of: directing the exhaust gas stream through an exhaust duct; receiving the directed exhaust gas for treatment by a catalyst positioned within the exhaust duct; providing a reductant in a liquid state; pressurizing and heating the reductant in a manner that maintains the reductant in the liquid state; and injecting the heated, pressurized reductant into the exhaust gas stream such that the reductant flash vaporizes upon injection due to a pressure differential.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Gordon Raymond Smith
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Publication number: 20170058739Abstract: A method for operating a reagent metering system which meters a reagent into an exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine upstream of an SCR catalytic converter, in which, after the metering operation is ended, at least part of the reagent metering system is emptied by back-suction by means of a reciprocating pump. The procedure according to the invention is distinguished in that during the back-suction, a stop determination determines the flight time of a reciprocating piston of the reciprocating pump from a starting time as far as the stop time, in that a comparator compares the flight time determined with a flight time threshold value, and in that the activation power of the reciprocating pump is reduced if the flight time determined is less than the flight time threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Matthias Burger
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Publication number: 20170058740Abstract: System and method of treating exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine using selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and adaptive control of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injection. Adaptive control of DEF injection includes intentionally underdosing the injected DEF based on an amount of DEF determined by an electronic control unit as an amount needed to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) to a compliance threshold. Since underdosing prevents ammonia (NH3) slip from occurring due to low levels of DEF, a sensor accurately senses NOx present in the exhaust gas at an output of an SCR chamber. An electronic control unit increases the amount of injected DEF based on the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Taner Tuken, Robert J. Iverson
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Publication number: 20170058741Abstract: A microchip oxygen sensor for sensing exhaust gases from a combustion process, and related methods. The microchip oxygen sensor includes a dielectric substrate and a heater pattern affixed to the substrate. A first electrode is affixed to the substrate and has a first plurality of fingers forming a first comb. A second electrode is affixed to the substrate and has a second plurality of fingers forming a second comb. The second electrode is disposed in spaced relation to the first electrode such that the first and second combs face each other. A semiconducting layer is disposed over the first and second electrodes so as form a physical semiconductor bridge between the first and second electrodes. The semiconducting layer comprises an n-type semiconducting material or a p-type semiconducting material. A porous dielectric protective layer, advantageously containing a catalytic precious metal, may cover the semiconducting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Ken Ervin Fosaaen
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Publication number: 20170058742Abstract: An exhaust processing system for treating an exhaust gas stream that includes an exhaust duct for directing the exhaust gas stream; a first catalyst positioned within the exhaust duct for receiving the exhaust gas stream flowing therethrough; and an injection system for injecting cooling air and reductant in the exhaust gas stream. The injection system may include: a reductant supply feed for supplying the reductant; a cooling air supply feed for supplying the cooling air; a junction configured at which the reductant supply feed and the cooling air supply feed combine to form a combined supply feed thereafter; and an injector disposed within the exhaust duct to which the combined supply feed connects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Hua Zhang, Gordon Raymond Smith, Parag Prakash Kulkarni
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Publication number: 20170058743Abstract: A method of desulfurizing a lean NOx trap (LNT) of an exhaust purification system provided with the LNT and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst includes determining whether a desulfurization feasibility condition of the LNT is satisfied, determining whether a desulfurization demand condition of the LNT is satisfied, and performing desulfurization of the LNT if both of the desulfurization feasibility condition of the LNT and the desulfurization demand condition of the LNT are satisfied, wherein the desulfurization of the LNT is performed by repeating a desulfurization lean mode and a desulfurization rich mode according to whether a mode switching condition due to a desulfurization temperature is satisfied and whether a mode switching condition due to generation of H2S is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Jin Ha LEE, Won Soon PARK, Jin Woo PARK, Ki Hyung JOO, Sera LIM, Thomas WITTKA, Alexander VOVK, Joschka SCHAUB
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Publication number: 20170058744Abstract: In an exhaust passage, an exhaust manifold connected to exhaust ports of each cylinder of an engine body and formed to extend vertically is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder head. A secondary air supply system has an intake silencer, a check valve configured to permit only a flow to the exhaust passage side, a secondary air supply control valve configured to control a flow rate of the secondary air, and a secondary air supply passage configured to connect those components to each other and the exhaust passage. The secondary air supply system is arranged in a side portion of a cylinder block placed between a crankcase of the engine body and an assembly of the exhaust manifold and the cylinder head.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki SHOMURA, Ryuji HAMADA, Tomohiko MIYAKI, Toshio HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170058745Abstract: A recovered energy transfer apparatus of a waste heat recovery system includes an input unit connected to an expander of the waste heat recovery system and rotatable by recovered energy of the expander, and one or more output units for receiving a torque of the input unit and outputting the torque to at least one of a power generator, an engine of a vehicle, and a power take-off (PTO) for a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Jung Min SEO
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Publication number: 20170058746Abstract: Methods and systems are provided sensing particulate matter by a particulate matter sensor positioned downstream of a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system. In one example, a method may include increasing an inlet opening of the particulate matter sensor when an exhaust flow rate falls below a threshold to allow more particulates to enter the particulate matter sensor and further includes decreasing the inlet opening when the exhaust flow rate rises above the threshold to reduce the particulates entering the sensor. By adjusting the amount of particulates entering the sensor based on the exhaust rate, the rate of deposition of the sensor and hence the sensitivity of the senor to the exhaust flow rate may be maintained at a desired level, and independent of the exhaust flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Publication number: 20170058747Abstract: The present disclosure provides an engine control device including: an adjustment section that adjusts a flow amount per unit time of exhaust gas from an engine; and a control section that, in a case in which a temperature below freezing point is detected by a temperature detection section that detects an external air temperature or an intake air temperature, a preceding engine operation duration is shorter than a first duration, and a value in a predetermined range in which water in an exhaust pipe can be drained by the flow amount being raised by a certain amount is detected by a value detection section that detects a value representing an acceleration, an accelerator opening or an engine rotation speed, controls the adjustment section so as to raise the flow amount by the certain amount until a second duration has passed from starting of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio MURATA, Tadashi Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20170058748Abstract: Methods and systems are provided sensing particulate matter by a particulate matter sensor positioned downstream of a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system. In one example, a method may include increasing an inlet opening of the particulate matter sensor when an exhaust flow rate falls below a threshold to allow more particulates to enter the particulate matter sensor and further includes decreasing the inlet opening when the exhaust flow rate rises above the threshold to reduce the particulates entering the sensor. By adjusting the amount of particulates entering the sensor based on the exhaust rate, and further including a plurality of flow redirectors inside the sensor, the rate of deposition of the sensor and hence the sensitivity of the senor to the exhaust flow rate may be maintained at a desired level, and independent of the exhaust flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Publication number: 20170058749Abstract: The internal combustion engine comprises an exhaust purification catalyst 20, a downstream side sensor 41, an air-fuel ratio control unit, and an oxygen storage amount calculating unit for calculating the oxygen excess/deficiency of the inflowing exhaust gas in an air-fuel ratio maintenance time period and cumulatively adding the calculated oxygen excess/deficiency to calculate a maximum oxygen storage amount of the exhaust purification catalyst. The oxygen storage amount calculating unit uses a point of time that an absolute value of an output slope of the downstream side sensor finally becomes less than a threshold value in the air-fuel ratio maintenance time period as an end point of cumulative addition of the oxygen excess/deficiency. The threshold value is made larger when a maximum value of the absolute value of the output slope in the air-fuel ratio maintenance time period is relatively large compared to when the maximum value is relatively small.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Hiroshi Miyamoto, Tatsuhiro Hashida, Takahiko Fujiwara, Yasushi Iwazaki, Toru Kidokoro
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Publication number: 20170058750Abstract: Methods and systems are provided related to an emissions control system. The emissions control system has an exhaust after-treatment system defining a plurality of distinct exhaust flow passages through which at least a portion of an exhaust stream can flow, e.g., the exhaust stream is produced by an engine. The emissions control system also includes a controller for controlling injection of reductant into the exhaust stream flowing through each of the flow passages. In one example, the emissions control system is configured for use in a vehicle, such as a locomotive or other rail vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Jessica Lynn Plummer, Gail Leroy Detar, Shashi Kiran, Shridhar Shrikant Kulkarni, Lawrence Heverley, III
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Publication number: 20170058751Abstract: A piston cooling structure for an engine includes a first nozzle and a second nozzle for injecting a cooling liquid towards a back face of a piston that reciprocally move within a cylinder bore along a cylinder axis line. The first angle of inclination of an axis of the first nozzle relative to the cylinder axis line is set to be smaller than the second angle of inclination of an axis of the second nozzle relative to the cylinder axis line.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hisatoyo Arima
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Publication number: 20170058752Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core and a tank. The tank is equipped to a side of the core. The tank has a pocket, which is a space having an opening. The pocket is configured to receive a nut through the opening and to accommodate the nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Jacob Wright, Michael Wojdyla, Michael Lacey
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Publication number: 20170058753Abstract: An engine system includes a cylinder block and a cylinder head. A coolant control valve unit is engaged with the cylinder head to receive a coolant exhausted from the cylinder block and a coolant exhausted from the cylinder head. The coolant control valve unit controls a coolant to be supplied to a heater, a radiator, and an oil cooler and controls the coolant exhausted from the cylinder block. The coolant control valve unit receives the coolant from the cylinder head, supplies the coolant to the oil cooler, and controls the coolant distributed to the heater and the coolant exhausted from the cylinder block.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Yonggyu LEE, Seok Jun YOON, HyunWook RYU, Hogyoun KANG, Hyo Jo LEE, Sungmoon CHO, Jin Do LEE
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Publication number: 20170058754Abstract: A thermoregulation system, especially for automobiles, the thermoregulation system including an exhaust-gas outlet for discharging exhaust gas from the engine, an engine gas inlet, an exhaust-gas recirculation circuit between the exhaust-gas outlet and the gas inlet for recirculating at least part of the exhaust gases, a circuit for conducting and/or circulating the coolant in order to cool the engine, whereby the coolant-conducting circuit includes a latent-heat storage unit which receives heat from or transfers heat to the coolant. A first heat exchanger is arranged in the exhaust-gas recycling circuit to exchange heat between the exhaust gas and the coolant. A means for controlling the flow includes at least one valve and at least one branch for controlling the heat exchange in the first heat exchanger. An oil-feed circuit is provided for heating or cooling the oil and includes a second heat exchanger exchanging heat between the oil and the coolant flowing from the first heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Guillaume Hébert, L'uboslav Kollár, Jirà Bazala
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Publication number: 20170058755Abstract: Some exemplary embodiments include an electrically driven cooling system for cooling non-engine components of a vehicle. The electrically driven cooling system includes a closed loop coolant flowpath including an electrically driven coolant pump and a radiator connected to the closed loop coolant flowpath, and one or more components connected in parallel and/or in series in the closed loop coolant flow path that receives the coolant. An electrically driven radiator fan is also operable to cool the coolant in the radiator. The electrically driven cooling system is flow isolated from any mechanically driven cooling system that provides coolant to the engine for vehicles that include an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Mahesh Madurai-Kumar, Gary L. Parker, Martin T. Books
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Publication number: 20170058756Abstract: A thermostat is diagnosed as open failure when a specified time variation in radiator inflow water temperature from a temperature sensor mounted in a first flow path running through a radiator at a time of starting an electric water pump at a cold start of an engine is equal to or greater than a predetermined variation. In the case of open failure of the thermostat, starting the electric water pump causes cooling water from a cooling water flow path of the engine to be flowed to the first flow path, as well as to a second flow path. The radiator inflow water temperature detected by the temperature sensor mounted in the first flow path is raised by the cooling water from the cooling water flow path of the warmed engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Hitoki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20170058757Abstract: A device for cooling a drive apparatus, of a motor vehicle, including a cooling apparatus through which air can flow in a throughflow direction, a redirection apparatus and a ventilator apparatus. The device includes a bypass apparatus located such that air heated by the cooling apparatus or the drive apparatus which is flowing in the direction of the cooling apparatus is at least partially induced into the bypass apparatus and prevented from reaching the cooling apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Maximilian L. Ganis, Roland Kopp
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Publication number: 20170058758Abstract: An internal combustion engine (10) includes at least one cylinder (12) having a piston, and a cylinder head containing an inlet duct (3) incorporating an inlet valve 1 to allow flow in only one direction and an exhaust duct incorporating no mechanical flow restricting device and at least one chamber valve (2) through which both inlet and exhaust fluids pass from the ducts (3,4) into and out of the cylinder (12), and a combustion chamber (6) in the cylinder (12) that allows the chamber valve (2) to be significantly open when the piston (5) is at top dead centre enabling a transfer of fluid, fluid flow pressure and pressure waves between the cylinder, and the inlet (3) and exhaust ducts (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Paul Francis Andrews
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Publication number: 20170058759Abstract: A split-cycle engine includes: a first cylinder housing a first piston, wherein the first piston performs an intake stroke and a compression stroke, but does not perform an exhaust stroke; a second cylinder housing a second piston, wherein the second piston performs an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke, but does not perform an intake stroke; and a valve chamber housing a valve, the valve comprising an internal chamber that selectively fluidly couples to the first and second cylinders, wherein the valve and internal chamber move within the valve chamber and relative to the first and second cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Tour Engine, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Hugo TOUR, Oded TOUR, Gilad TOUR, Ehud SIVAN, Michael H. WAHL
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Publication number: 20170058760Abstract: A system for recovering thermal energy from one or more devices of an engine is provided to increase the overall efficiency of the engine. The system comprises an exhaust turbocharger, which is in fluid communication with the engine and driven by a supply of exhaust gas from the engine. The driven exhaust turbocharger is configured to supply compressed air to the engine. A boiler is provided to transfer heat from the exhaust gas to a heat-transfer fluid to generate a heat-transfer vapor. The vapor operates to drive a vapor turbocharger to supply additional compressed air to the engine. The vapor is further used to absorb heat from a coolant fluid used in an engine cooling system before a vapor compressor compresses the vapor back to a semi-saturated state and returns it to the boiler to complete a vapor cycle. A method for implementing the above-mentioned system is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Brian Shor
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Publication number: 20170058761Abstract: A control arrangement (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (4) which has a charger housing (2), the control arrangement (1) having a spindle (15) which has a first end region (24) arranged outside the charger housing (2) and a second end region (25) arranged within the charger housing (2) and having a valve disk (18) which is connected to the spindle (15), wherein the valve disk (18) and the spindle (15) are separate components, and wherein the spindle (15) is connected by way of its second end region (25) to the valve disk (18) by means of a connecting means (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Michael STILGENBAUER, Matthias RUH
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Publication number: 20170058762Abstract: An assembly can include a turbine housing that includes a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage that extends to the wastegate seat; a bushing disposed at least in part in the bore; a rotatable wastegate shaft received at least in part by the bushing; a wastegate plug that extends from the wastegate shaft; a control arm operatively coupled to the wastegate shaft; a control link operatively coupled to the control arm; a pin that forms a joint between the control arm and the control link; and a biasing element coupled to the pin and to the control link.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Manuel Marques, Manuel Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20170058763Abstract: An exhaust device for an engine, interposed between an engine body, and a supercharger to be driven by a pressure of exhaust gas to be discharged from the engine body, includes a first exhaust passage and a second exhaust passage which introduce exhaust gas to the supercharger; a partition wall disposed between the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage, and configured to partition the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage from each other; and a valve disposed within the second exhaust passage, and configured to adjust the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through the second exhaust passage. The partition wall includes a communication portion for communicating between the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Einosuke SUEKUNI, Junji UMEMURA, Shuhei TSUJITA, Makoto MIHARA, Tomoaki FUJIYAMA, Hiroyuki HAMADA, Kouji HADAMA, Masahiro IKEDA
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Publication number: 20170058764Abstract: In a variable nozzle unit, at a position located away from and opposed to a first nozzle ring in a right-left direction, a second nozzle ring is provided integrally with the first nozzle ring through multiple connecting pins arranged in a circumferential direction. An inner edge portion of a support ring is connected to the first nozzle ring by riveting of one end portions of the multiple connecting pins. Each pin hole in the support ring is formed into such a shape extending in a radial direction of the support ring. A washer is provided between a rim of each pin hole in the support ring and a rivet head brought about by joining of the end portion of the corresponding connecting pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Jose Javier BAYOD, Koutarou ITOU, Taiki YOSHIZAKI, Tomohiro INOUE, Kenji BUNNO, Takao ASAKAWA, Ryota SAKISAKA, Kazuko TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20170058765Abstract: A multi-joint crank drive of an internal combustion engine includes at least one coupling member rotataby supported on a crankpin of a crankshaft for rotation about a coupling member rotation axis; and at least one connecting rod supported on a crankpin of an eccentric shaft for rotation about an eccentric rotation axis, wherein the coupling member is connected with a piston rod of a piston of the internal combustion engine for pivoting about a piston rod rotation axis and with the connecting rod for rotation about a connecting rod rotation axis, said coupling member having a bearing eye receiving the crankpin of the crankshaft, wherein a coupling angle between an imagined straight line though the coupling member rotation axis and the connecting rod rotation axis and an imagined straight line through the coupling member ration axis and the piston rod rotation axis is at least 140° and at most 180°, wherein a center point of the coupling member is arranged outside the bearing eye, and on a side of a first planType: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: MATTHIAS BRENDEL, MARKUS MEYER
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Publication number: 20170058766Abstract: A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A fluid passage is defined between the splitters. The turbofan engine has a plurality of surface interruptions on a core side surface of the upstream splitter and a plurality of vortices originating from the surface interruptions, thereby restricting the migration of the core stream into the bypass stream through the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Rolls Royce North American Technologies IncInventor: Edward C. Rice
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Publication number: 20170058767Abstract: A combustion engine comprising a radial compressor in flow communication via a flow passage with an annular compressor-combustor array radially outward of the radial compressor. Both the radial compressor and compressor-combustor are co-axial with, and rotatable around, a central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Clive Propert Williams
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Publication number: 20170058768Abstract: The invention relates to a method for storing and recovering energy, wherein an air liquefaction product (LAIR) is formed during an energy storage period, and a fluid pressure flow (12) is formed during an energy recovery period using at least one part of the air liquefaction product (LAIR) and is expanded for operation in at least one energy recovery device (14, 17). The air liquefaction product (LAIR) is obtained as a liquid medium during the energy storage period by compressing air in an air conditioning device (3), said compression being operated while supplying energy, in particular while supplying a current (9), optionally stored in a cold state, and fed to an evaporator unit (7). The air liquefaction product (LAIR) is expanded for operation as a fluid pressure flow (12) in the at least one energy recovery device (14, 17) during the energy recovery period after a pressure increase.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbHInventors: Christian Bergins, Torsten Buddenberg
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Publication number: 20170058769Abstract: A system for operating a combustor in a non-Premix mode of operation includes a combustor comprising a plurality of primary fuel nozzles annularly arranged around a center fuel nozzle, a fuel supply system that is fluidly coupled to the plurality of primary fuel nozzles and the center fuel nozzle, a steam injection system that is fluidly coupled to the fuel supply system and to at least one of the plurality of primary fuel nozzles or the center fuel nozzle and a controller. The controller is electronically coupled to the fuel supply system and the steam injection system. The controller is programmed to initiate the steam injection system to inject a flow of superheated steam into a flow of fuel from the fuel supply system upstream from at least one of the plurality of primary fuel nozzles or the center fuel nozzle during a non-Premix mode of operation of the combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Daniel Doyle Vandale, Michael Anthony Cocca, James Harper
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Publication number: 20170058770Abstract: A system for decoupling steam production dependency from gas turbine load includes a gas turbine having an inlet system, a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. The combustor includes a plurality of axially staged fuel injectors positioned downstream from a plurality of primary fuel nozzles and a center fuel nozzle. The gas turbine further includes at least one bleed air extraction port that is in fluid communication with at least one of the compressor, a compressor discharge casing or the combustor. The system also includes a diluent injection system that is in fluid communication with the combustor and an exhaust section that is disposed downstream from the turbine. The exhaust section includes an oxidation catalyst system and a heat recovery steam generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Daniel Doyle Vandale, Michael Anthony Cocca, Joseph Phillip Klosinski, James Harper
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Publication number: 20170058771Abstract: A system and method for generating steam during gas turbine low-load operating conditions is disclosed herein. The system includes a gas turbine having a compressor, a combustor, a turbine and at least one bleed air extraction port in fluid communication with the compressor, a compressor discharge casing or the combustor. The system further includes a premix duct burner downstream from the turbine and upstream from a heat recovery steam generator of the gas turbine. During operation, the premix duct burner increases temperature of combustion gases flowing from the turbine and into the heat recovery steam generator and compressed air flows out of the bleed air extraction port so as to reduce pressure within the compressor, the compressor discharge casing or the combustor during low-load gas turbine operating conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Daniel Doyle Vandale, Michael Anthony Cocca, Joseph Phillip Klosinski
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Publication number: 20170058772Abstract: An anti-icing system for annular gas turbine engine inlet housings includes a substantially closed annular housing at a leading edge of the gas turbine engine inlet housing, the annular housing containing a quantity of air and a conduit extending from a source of high-pressure hot bleed air to the annular housing. The system also includes an injector connected to the end of the conduit and extending into the annular housing and one or more nozzles extending outwardly from the injector in a direction that the quantity of air circulates in the annular housing. The system may include one or both of an airfoil on an upstream side of the injector and an air direction element disposed one the injector that causes the quantity of air to be directed toward an outlet of the one or more nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Joel H. Frank, Lubomir A. Ribarov
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Publication number: 20170058773Abstract: A cooling system for an aircraft includes an air intake, a heat exchanger configured to receive air passing into the air intake when the aircraft is operating at Mach speed, and configured to receive compressed refrigerant from a first compressor at a first pressure, an evaporator positioned within the aircraft and configured to receive heated air from a compartment within the aircraft, at least one of an expansion device and an expansion machine, and the compressed refrigerant rejects heat in the heat exchanger to the air, expands in the at least one of the expansion device and the expansion machine, and receives heat in the evaporator from the heated air.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Igor Vaisman
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Publication number: 20170058774Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods related to thermal management systems for gas turbine engines. For example, a thermal management system comprises a fuel circuit, comprising a burn line and a recirculation line, and a burn line fuel-oil cooler, coupled to the burn line and an oil circuit. The oil circuit comprises a sending portion, configured to carry oil from the burn line fuel-oil cooler to an engine lube system, and a returning portion, configured to carry oil from the engine lube system to the burn line fuel-oil cooler. The thermal management system further comprises a recirculation fuel-oil cooler, coupled to the recirculation line and the returning portion, and an air-fuel cooler coupled to the recirculation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Simon Pickford
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Publication number: 20170058775Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a combustor supported in a gas generator case. A baffle apparatus is attached to the gas generator case, surrounding an upstream section of the combustor to create at least one passage for directing an air flow discharged from a compressor diffuser to pass therethrough for cooling the combustor. The at least one passage extends from an upstream end of the combustor and has a passage exit immediately upstream of a dilution hole in the combustor. The baffle apparatus is configured to increase a velocity of the air flow entering the at least one passage and passing over the combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Bhawan B. PATEL, Oleg MORENKO
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Publication number: 20170058776Abstract: A cooling arrangement for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an offtake duct that has an offtake inlet coupled to a cooling source, the offtake duct defining a throat, and a valve downstream of the throat. The valve couples the offtake duct and a first cooling flow path. The valve is operable to selectively modulate flow through the offtake duct. A bleed passage includes a bleed inlet coupling the offtake duct and a second cooling flow path. The bleed inlet is defined at a location between the offtake inlet and the throat, inclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Michael Ronan