Patents Issued in August 24, 2017
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Publication number: 20170241305Abstract: An engine braking method includes the steps of engaging a cam roller(235) of an internal combustion engine with an engine power cam(230) for an engine power operation; disengaging the cam roller(235) from the engine power cam(230); losing a motion from the engine power cam(230) and a motion of an engine valve(301) associated with the motion from the engine power cam(230); engaging the cam roller(235) with an engine braking cam(2302) for an engine braking operation; transmitting a motion from the engine braking cam(2302) to the engine valve(301); and generating an engine valve motion for the engine braking operation. An engine braking system includes an engine power cam(230) of an internal combustion engine; an engine braking cam(2302) of the internal combustion engine; and a cam roller(235) that is designed to engage with the engine power cam(230) for an engine power operation and to engage with the engine braking cam(2302) for an engine braking operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Yong Xi, Zhou YANG, Rujie ZHU
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Publication number: 20170241306Abstract: A method for controlling a drivetrain of a motor vehicle is disclosed. Either a start mode for starting the reciprocating engine is activated via the driving vehicle wheel, or a coasting mode is activated for driving the reciprocating engine via the driving vehicle wheel. At least one volume-reducing stroke is executed that follows an intake stroke for at least one cylinder of the reciprocating engine with at least intermittently open cylinder. Alternately at least one volume-enlarging stroke is executed for at least one cylinder of the reciprocating engine, which is followed by a compression stroke of this cylinder, and at least one volume-reducing stroke of this cylinder, which follows an expansion stroke that follows the compression stroke, with a cylinder that is closed, if possible, in this operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Hartmut Fischer
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Publication number: 20170241307Abstract: A device for supplying lubricant to a lubrication point in a machine, a tunnel boring machine, for example, includes a lubrication pump unit and a control unit. The lubrication pump unit is configured to supply a quantity of the lubricant to the lubrication point, and the control unit is configured to regulate the quantity of lubricant based on a sensor measurement signal. The sensor measurement signal may be based on a temperature measured in a region of the lubrication point, a pressure measured in a region of the lubrication point, a measured viscosity of the lubricant, a measured dielectricity of the lubricant, a measured water content of the lubricant, a vibration intensity measured at a part of the machine, or a measured rotational speed of a part of the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: SKF Lubrication Systems Germany AGInventors: Andreas Borek, Juergen Kreutzkaemper, Sefan Frank, Stefan Schuermann
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Publication number: 20170241308Abstract: A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, selectively powering a heating device to augment heating of an engine oil associated with an engine of a vehicle in a manner that influences an oil quality value of the engine oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Erik DONDZILA, Ted HALADYNA
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Publication number: 20170241309Abstract: In order to provide a drainage device, for example an oil drainage device used in particular for crankcase ventilation in motor vehicle engines, which reliably prevents an undesired liquid reflux and can be produced easily and inexpensively, it is proposed that the drainage device comprises a fluid line and a drainage valve arranged in the fluid line, wherein the drainage valve comprises a floating body that opens a fluid passage in an open position and closes it in a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: ElringKlinger AGInventors: Holger COOLENS, Erich AMANN, Torsten STIFEL
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Publication number: 20170241310Abstract: Provided acoustic devices include an external housing defining an expansion chamber and a wall extending through and partitioning the expansion chamber into a central chamber and a peripheral chamber adjacent the central chamber, wherein an inlet and outlet communicate with the central chamber, and wherein the wall includes a plurality of apertures formed therethrough to allow air movement to and from the central and expansion chambers, the plurality of apertures sized to provide an average flow resistance ranging from 100 MKS Rayls to 5000 MKS Rayls. The acoustic devices advantageously show significant sound attenuation while streamlining air flow to reduce pressure drop across the expansion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Thomas P. Hanschen, Jonathan H. Alexander, Paul A. Martinson, John Stuart Bolton, Seungkyu Lee, Thomas Herdtle, Ronald W. Gerdes
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Publication number: 20170241311Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system component includes an exhaust tube defining an exhaust gas flow path, a side branch tuning tube connected to the exhaust tube at an interface, and a porous structure associated with the exhaust tube to reduce noise generated at the interface. In one example, the porous structure comprises a perforated orifice in the exhaust tube. In another example, the porous structure comprises a mesh screen or mesh sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Joseph Trent Bogard, Jonathan Wesley Christian, Ankur Anil Joshi
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Publication number: 20170241312Abstract: A particulate filter (1) is provided having a first wall flow region (2) and a second flow through region (3). The filter is provided with a catalytic washcoat, whereby the filter can be used to remove both particulate matter and harmful gaseous emissions from an exhaust gas stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Stephen CUDMORE, Jonathan HARTLAND, Jamil KHAN, Ken HANSEN
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Publication number: 20170241313Abstract: Provided are emissions treatment systems for an exhaust stream having an ammonia-generating component, such as a NOx storage reduction (NSR) catalyst or a lean NOx trap (LNT) catalyst, and an SCR catalyst disposed downstream of the ammonia-generating catalyst. The SCR catalyst can be a molecular sieve having the CHA crystal structure, for example SSZ-13 or SAPO-34, which can be ion-exchanged with copper. The LNT can be layered, having an undercoat washcoat layer comprising a support material, at least one precious metal, and at least one NOx sorbent selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth elements, rare earth elements, and combinations thereof and a top washcoat layer comprising a support material, at least one precious metal, and ceria in particulate form, the top washcoat layer being substantially free of alkaline earth components. The emissions treatment system is advantageously used for the treatment of exhaust streams from diesel engines and lean burn gasoline engines.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Chung-Zong Wan, Xiaolai Zheng, Susanne Stiebels, Claudia Zabel, Torsten Neubauer, R. Samuel Boorse
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Publication number: 20170241314Abstract: A controller including a self-tuning circuit for controlling a pressure system to output an input pressure corresponding to an input pressure value using an adaptive fuzzy control system and updating dosing command values of a dosing command table for controlling a dosing unit of an aftertreatment system. The self-tuning circuit is configured to determine an input pressure value and generate a pressure control signal using the adaptive fuzzy control system based on the input pressure value, a detected input pressure, and an error amount. The self-tuning circuit is further configured to regulate the input pressure of reductant to the dosing unit from a reductant tank using a pressure control signal for a pressure control device. The self-tuning circuit is further configured to update a dosing command value of a dosing command table of the controller in conjunction with regulating the input pressure of reductant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Nassim Khaled, Bibin N. Pattel
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Publication number: 20170241315Abstract: When an integrated value of a determination value correlated with a command value for an amount of supply of a reducing agent at the time of the command value being larger than a command supply amount threshold value reaches an integration threshold value, a determination is made that a diagnosis condition is satisfied, and an abnormality in the supply of the reducing agent is diagnosed based on an integrated value of the command value for the amount of supply of the reducing agent and an integrated value of an estimated value of the amount of supply of the reducing agent, whereas in cases where a period of time in which the diagnosis condition is not satisfied is longer than a time period threshold value, an interval of supply of the reducing agent is extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeru SHIRASAWA, Toru KIDOKORO, Makoto OGISO, Kenji FURUI
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Publication number: 20170241316Abstract: The reducing agent tank has a tank main body and a feed pipe. The tank main body stores a reducing agent to be supplied to an exhaust gas treatment device. The feed pipe protrudes from the tank main body. The feed pipe is provided to replenish the tank main body with the reducing agent. A support base supports a vessel for the reducing agent for replenishment of the reducing agent tank. The support base is variable in position between a developed position in which the support base is arranged at a greater distance from the tank main body than from the feed pipe in a direction of protrusion of the feed pipe from the tank main body in a plan view and a stored position in which the support base is stored in an exterior cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Adrianus Novadri SUPARMAN, Hirokazu SAITOU
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Publication number: 20170241317Abstract: An exhaust after-treatment system for treating an exhaust produced by an engine. The exhaust after-treatment system includes an exhaust passage, at least one catalytic exhaust after-treatment component in communication with the exhaust passage for treating the exhaust, and a water-removal device in communication with the exhaust passage that receives a portion of the exhaust therein at a location positioned upstream from the catalytic exhaust after-treatment component. The water-removal device is defined by a housing that includes a water-removal membrane that separates water from the portion of the exhaust to provide a permeate that is enriched with water, and to produce a retentate that is water depleted that facilitates the treating of the exhaust by the catalytic exhaust after-treatment component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: Michael C. BRADFORD
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Publication number: 20170241318Abstract: A reducing agent injection device includes a honeycomb structure having a honeycomb structure body and a pair of electrode members arranged in a side surface of the honeycomb structure body and a urea spraying device spraying a urea water solution in mist form. The urea water solution sprayed from the urea spraying device is supplied inside cells from a first end face of the honeycomb structure body, and urea in the urea water solution supplied in the cells is heated and hydrolyzed inside the electrically heated honeycomb structure body to generate ammonia. The ammonia is discharged outside the honeycomb structure body from a second end face and injected outside. There is provided a reducing agent injection device that can generate and inject ammonia from a urea solution with less energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki KASAI, Kazumi MASE, Katsumi SAIKI
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Publication number: 20170241319Abstract: Unit for reduction of exhaust gases for an IC engine. The unit has a cylindrical housing with gas inlet and outlet openings and injector for a reducing substance. A helicoid is coaxially arranged inside the housing. A channel conveys the exhaust gases, has a substantially quadrangular cross-section, and helicoidally develops inside the unit. The helix is generated by the intersection between the inner surface of the housing and the helicoid has an inclination angle (?) relative to planes perpendicular to the generatrices of the cylindrical housing ranging from 0° to 30°. The unit includes a coaxial stiffening and stabilization sleeve located at the center of the helicoid passing axially throughout the helicoid and axially over a length at least equal to the axial length of the helicoid. The sleeve cooperates with the inner surface of the housing and with the opposite surfaces of the helicoid to define the helicoidal channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: OFFICINE METALLURGICHE G. CORNAGLIA S.P.A.Inventor: Pier Mario Cornaglia
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Publication number: 20170241320Abstract: An exhaust gas heat recovery system may include a housing, a valve member, and a heat exchanger. The housing may include an inlet, an outlet, a first exhaust gas pathway in communication with the inlet and outlet, and a second exhaust gas pathway in communication with the inlet and outlet. The valve member may be disposed within the housing and may be movable between first and second positions. In the first position, the valve member may allow fluid flow through the first exhaust gas pathway and substantially prevent fluid flow through the second exhaust gas pathway. In the second position, the valve member may allow fluid flow through the second exhaust gas pathway. The heat exchanger may be in communication with the second exhaust gas pathway and may include a conduit containing a fluid in thermal communication with exhaust gas when the valve member is in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: Clayton A. SLOSS
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Publication number: 20170241321Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting NOx sensor degradation based on results from a NOx sensor self-diagnostic (SD) test performed after a key-off event. In one example, a method may comprise waiting a duration to perform a SD test of a NOx sensor after a key-off event until engine operating conditions stabilize and reach a set of qualifying conditions. One or more SD tests may be performed after waiting the duration, but outputs generated under conditions where one or more of a temperature at the sensor is greater than a threshold, and an oxygen concentration is outside a threshold range, may be excluded when determining whether or not the NOx sensor is degraded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: In Kwang Yoo, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, James Joseph Reynolds, Mark Robert Laleman
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Publication number: 20170241322Abstract: An aftertreatment module is disclosed for use with an engine. The aftertreatment module may have an inlet housing at least partially defining an inlet passage for exhaust, and at least one mixer disposed in the inlet passage. The aftertreatment module may also have an outlet housing at least partially defining an outlet passage for exhaust, and a catalyst housing removably connected between the inlet housing and the outlet housing. The aftertreatment module may further have a plurality of catalyst substrates configured to be mounted in the catalyst housing, to receive exhaust from the inlet passage in parallel, and to discharge exhaust to the outlet housing in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Raymond U. Isada, Kurtis E. Chenoweth, Eric Spaeth, Ping Xiang, Yung T. Bui
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Publication number: 20170241323Abstract: A seawater cooling system adapted to mitigate salt crystallization in a seawater cooling loop. The system may include a pump operatively connected to the cooling loop and configured to pump seawater through the cooling loop, a temperature sensor operatively connected to the cooling loop and configured to monitor a temperature of the seawater in the cooling loop, and a controller operatively connected to the temperature sensor and to the pump, the controller configured to issue a warning and to increase a speed of the pump if it is determined that the monitored temperature of the seawater exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: IMO Industries, Inc.Inventors: Dan YIN, Stefan Werner, Soeren Lemcke
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Publication number: 20170241324Abstract: A number of variations may include a thermal management system comprising: an engine, an exhaust heat recovery system, and a coolant system comprising a coolant circuit and a coolant pump wherein the coolant pump operates independently of the engine and is operated by an electronic control unit, and wherein the electronic control unit is constructed and arranged to operate the coolant pump after engine start up to limit coolant temperature below a predetermined value in and/or near the exhaust heat recovery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Xiaobing LIU
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Publication number: 20170241325Abstract: A dual fuel engine is provided. The dual fuel engine includes an engine cylinder and a piston disposed within the engine cylinder. The dual fuel engine includes a cylinder head coupled to the engine cylinder and a fuel injector coupled to the cylinder head. The fuel injector is adapted to supply a first fuel to the engine cylinder. The dual fuel engine further includes a pre-combustion chamber coupled to the cylinder head at a predetermined distance from the fuel injector. The pre-combustion chamber is in fluid communication with the engine cylinder via at least one conduit and the pre-combustion chamber is adapted to receive a second fuel and an air mixture. The second fuel is different from the first fuel. The dual fuel engine further includes a spark plug structured and arranged within the pre-combustion chamber and the spark plug is adapted to ignite the second fuel within the pre-combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Yongxian Gu, Phillip J. Houtz, Keith A. IntVeld
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Publication number: 20170241326Abstract: A snowmobile has a frame including a tunnel, at least one ski, an engine having an engine air inlet and a drive track operatively connected thereto and disposed at least partly below the tunnel around a rear suspension. A heat exchanger connected to the tunnel has a heat exchanger air inlet and a heat exchanger air outlet fluidly communicating with the heat exchanger air inlet and the engine air inlet. A snowmobile has a frame including an inverted U-shaped tunnel having top, left and right portions at least partly enclosing a space. A drive track, operatively connected to an engine, is disposed around a rear suspension and at least partly in the space. An air intake system has a heat exchanger surface disposed in or adjacent to the space. Air flowing through the intake system contacts the heat exchanger surface to be cooled thereby before entering the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Sebastien VEZINA, Jonathan FORTIER, Alain LAVOIE
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Publication number: 20170241327Abstract: According to the present invention, a rotary blower or supercharger includes a recirculation loop for readmitting pressurized outlet gas back into the rotor chambers, and cooling means for cooling the pressurized outlet gas before it is readmitted into the rotor chambers, thereby providing a supercharger having a lower operating temperature and a higher operating pressure capability. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a supercharger includes a housing assembly defining first and second transversely overlapping cylindrical chambers. The housing defines an inlet port for the inflow of an inlet gas, and an outlet port for the outflow of the outlet gas. The supercharger further has first and second meshed, lobed rotors respectively disposed in the chambers for counter rotation about axes substantially coincident with the chamber axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: Edward Charles Mendler, III
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Publication number: 20170241328Abstract: A supercharging device is disclosed for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger and a fresh-air compressor. The supercharging device includes a recuperation charger which has a compressor-turbine with a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side and which has an electromechanical motor-generator coupled to the compressor-turbine. The compressor-turbine is operable at least firstly when the supercharging device is configured in a booster operating mode in a manner driven by the motor-generator as a compressor for increasing the pressure of charge-air mass flow to the intake tract of the engine, and secondly when the supercharging device is configured in a recuperation operating mode in a manner driven by the charge-air mass flow as a turbine for energy recovery by the motor-generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Jan Ehrhard, Nisar Al-Hasan, Hong Zhang
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Publication number: 20170241329Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for providing an engine supercharger allowing an exhaust gas to efficiently act on a turbine in a wide operating range. A turbine for use in a supercharger includes a turbine housing, a turbine scroll formed inside the housing continuously with a turbine lead-in route, and a turbine wheel to turn on an axis of rotation close to a tongue portion. The turbine lead-in route is partitioned by a partition wall into first and second lead-in routes. Exhaust variable valves are provided upstream of the second lead-in route in order to change the flow rate of the exhaust gas to be introduced. When viewed in the direction in which the axis of rotation extends, a downstream end of the partition is aligned with the axis of rotation and the tongue portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki UEHANE, Junji UMEMURA, Hideya HORII, Tomoaki FUJIYAMA
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Publication number: 20170241330Abstract: A turbocompound unit for converting energy of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine to torque increase of a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine includes a turbine arrangement and an arrangement configured to operatively connecting the turbine arrangement to the crankshaft is a hydrodynamic coupling and freewheeling arrangement. The turbocompound unit further includes a brake arrangement, wherein the brake arrangement and the freewheeling arrangement are located on an opposite side of the hydrodynamic coupling in relation to the turbine arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Pontus ERIKSSON, Kent GISELMO
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Publication number: 20170241331Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward a linear combustion engine, comprising: a cylinder having a cylinder wall and a pair of ends, the cylinder including a combustion section disposed in a center portion of the cylinder, a pair of opposed piston assemblies adapted to move linearly within the cylinder, each piston assembly disposed on one side of the combustion section opposite the other piston assembly, each piston assembly including a spring rod and a piston comprising a solid front section adjacent the combustion section and a gas section; and a pair of linear electromagnetic machines adapted to directly convert kinetic energy of the piston assembly into electrical energy, and adapted to directly convert electrical energy into kinetic energy of the piston assembly for providing compression work during the compression stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Adam Simpson, Shannon Miller, Matt Svrcek
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Publication number: 20170241332Abstract: An opposed piston engine is provided. The engine includes a mechanism enabling adjustment of a compression ratio of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: James C. Warren, Scott G. Jorda, Dennis K. Scheer
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Publication number: 20170241333Abstract: A variable compression connecting rod system (10) located in an internal combustion engine (12) and a method of assembly can include a connecting rod (28) mountable to a piston pin (26) having a first longitudinal axis at one end and 5 mountable to a crankpin (22) having a second longitudinal axis at a second end portion (36). A hydraulically actuated eccentric rotor (52) rotatable about one of the first and second longitudinal axis. The eccentric rotor (52) including first and second vanes (54a, 54b) for driving the rotor between first and second angular positions in response to fluid pressure acting on the first and second vanes. The eccentric rotor 10 (52) having an eccentric surface area with different radial distances (80, 82) movable into alignment with a longitudinal axis of the connecting rod (28) for varying a longitudinal length of the connecting rod (28) between the first and second longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: David B. ROTH, Christopher J. PLUTA, Paul A. DARSKY, Daniel BROWN
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Publication number: 20170241334Abstract: An integrated linear parallel hybrid engine is described. Embodiments of the integrated parallel hybrid engine can include, but are not limited to, a linear electric motor integrated into an internal combustion engine. The integrated linear parallel engine can include a plurality of pistons each having magnetic properties, a plurality of electromagnets, a power supply, and an internal combustion engine. The magnetic pistons can be implemented to act as normal pistons in the internal combustion engine and to act as rotors for the linear electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Maglev Motors, Inc.Inventors: Gebin Maxey, John Bohlmann
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Publication number: 20170241335Abstract: The present invention discloses a carbon removing and cleaning device and method for an engine fuel nozzle and a combustion chamber of an automobile. The carbon removing and cleaning device comprises a fuel supply pipeline provided with a quick joint and a fuel line connection arranged in the front of the engine fuel nozzle; and a tee joint is connected between the quick joint and the fuel line connection, the quick joint is connected with a first inlet of the tee joint, an outlet of the tee joint is connected with the fuel line connection, a second inlet of the tee joint is connected with a pressurized cleaning agent tank, an electric control cleaning agent nozzle is arranged between the second inlet and a connecting port of the cleaning agent tank, and the pressure of a cleaning agent in the cleaning agent tank is larger than the fuel supply pressure of a fuel supply pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: XINYU LIU
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Publication number: 20170241336Abstract: A process for retrofitting an industrial gas turbine engine of a power plant where an old industrial engine with a high spool has a new low spool with a low pressure turbine that drives a low pressure compressor using exhaust gas from the high pressure turbine, and where the new low pressure compressor delivers compressed air through a new compressed air line to the high pressure compressor through a new inlet added to the high pressure compressor. The old electric generator is replaced with a new generator having around twice the electrical power production. One or more stages of vanes and blades are removed from the high pressure compressor to optimally match a pressure ratio split. Closed loop cooling of one or more new stages of vanes and blades in the high pressure turbine is added and the spent cooling air is discharged into the combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Russell B. Jones, Joseph D. Brostmeyer, Justin T. Cejka, John E. Ryznic
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Publication number: 20170241337Abstract: A combustor having an ion transport membrane therein and an adjustable swirler, which is mechanically connected at an inlet of a combustion zone of the combustor; a combustion system comprising the combustor, a feedback control system adapted to adjust swirler blades of the combustor based on a compositional variation of a fuel stream, and a plurality of feedback control systems to control operational variables within the combustor for an efficient oxy-combustion; and a process for combusting a fuel stream via the combustion system. Various embodiments of the combustor, the combustion system, and the process for combusting the fuel stream are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Esmail M. A. MOKHEIMER, Yinka S. SANUSI
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Publication number: 20170241338Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power production system that is adapted to achieve high efficiency power production with carbon capture when using a solid or liquid hydrocarbon or carbonaceous fuel. More particularly, the solid or liquid fuel first is partially oxidized in a partial oxidation reactor that is configured to provide an output stream that is enriched in methane content. The resulting partially oxidized stream can be cooled, filtered, additionally cooled, and then directed to a combustor of a power production system as the combustion fuel. The partially oxidized stream is combined with a compressed recycle CO2 stream and oxygen. The combustion stream is expanded across a turbine to produce power and passed through a recuperator heat exchanger. The recycle CO2 stream is compressed and passed through the recuperator heat exchanger and optionally the POX heat exchanger in a manner useful to provide increased efficiency to the combined systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Brock Alan Forrest, Xijia Lu
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Publication number: 20170241339Abstract: A combustor having a plurality of nozzles (main nozzles) to supply fuel disposed, includes a water supplier that is connected to all or part of the plurality of nozzles to supply water to each of fuel pipes, wherein the water supplier varies a supply amount of water for each of the nozzles to which the water is supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Takahiro YAMAUCHI, Keijiro SAITO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Koichi NISHIDA, Masakazu NOSE
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Publication number: 20170241340Abstract: A bleed air system for an aircraft includes a turbocompressor including a turbine portion coupled to drive a compressor portion. The compressor portion includes a compressor inlet and a compressor air discharge. The turbine portion includes a turbine inlet and a turbine discharge. A passage delivers air to the compressor inlet from one or more locations of an engine. A passage delivers air to the turbine inlet from at least one or more locations of the engine. A passage receives air from the compressor discharge selectively delivered to one or more locations of the engine. An outlet passage receives air from the turbine discharge communicating airflow to an aircraft system. A controller directs inlet and discharge airflow of the compressor portion and the turbine portion to control operation of the turbocompressor. A gas turbine engine and a method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: Matthew R. Feulner
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Publication number: 20170241341Abstract: An air intake for efficiently channeling a flow of ambient air toward an air inlet of a turboprop or turboshaft gas turbine engine is disclosed. The air intake comprises an intake inlet for receiving the flow of air, an intake duct for channelling the flow of air, and an intake outlet for discharging the flow of air toward the air inlet of the gas turbine engine. The air intake may comprise a scroll portion and a strutted portion configured to receive the flow of air from the intake duct and channel the flow of air toward the intake outlet. The strutted portion may comprise one or more vanes for interacting with the flow of air. The intake duct may be oriented toward a flow direction of the air pushed aft by a propeller coupled to the gas turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Eugene GEKHT, Francois BISSON, Mark CUNNINGHAM, Michel DESJARDINS, Guo Rong YAN
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Publication number: 20170241342Abstract: An air intake for efficiently channeling a flow of ambient air toward an air inlet of a turboprop or turboshaft gas turbine engine is disclosed. The air intake comprises an intake inlet for receiving the flow of air, an intake duct for channelling the flow of air, and an intake outlet for discharging the flow of air toward the air inlet of the gas turbine engine. The intake duct may be oriented toward a flow direction of the air pushed aft by a propeller coupled to the gas turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Eugene GEKHT, Francois BISSON, Mark CUNNINGHAM, Michel DESJARDINS, Guo Rong YAN
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Publication number: 20170241343Abstract: A sump housing apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: an annular body; and a plurality of service tubes arrayed around the body, each service tube having a proximal end intersecting the body and an opposed distal end, each service tube having an inner port communicating with an interior of the body; wherein the body and at least one of the service tubes are part of a monolithic whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: John Alan Manteiga, Jordan Tesorero, Emilio Eramo, Michael D. Miller
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Publication number: 20170241344Abstract: A component 2 for a bearing, the component 2 comprising a bearing surface 4, wherein the bearing surface 4 is formed so as to be tapered at rest, thereby offsetting deformation of the bearing during an operational condition which generates an induced angle in the bearing surface 4 or an opposing surface of the bearing. A method of manufacturing a bearing is also provided. The method comprises: determining an induced angle of a component 2 of the bearing caused by deformation of the bearing during an operational condition: and providing a surface 4 of the component 2 or an opposing component with a taper at rest so as to offset the induced angle generated during the operational condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Daren R. ASHMORE, James A. PLANT
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Publication number: 20170241345Abstract: A fuel supply assembly for a gas turbine engine includes at least one fuel transfer tube, at least one fuel nozzle, and at least one retaining bracket. The transfer tube and the nozzle are assembled in fluid communication with one another. The retaining bracket is fixedly attached to one of the nozzle and the transfer tube and displaceable relative thereto between a first position and a second position. A free end of the bracket is engageable with the other of the fuel nozzle and the transfer tube to retain the transfer tube to the fuel nozzle when the bracket is in the second position. The retaining bracket is disengaged from one of the fuel nozzle and the transfer tube in the first position so that the fuel nozzle and the transfer tube are disengageable from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Oleg Morenko, Ryan Miskie
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Publication number: 20170241346Abstract: A combustion staging system includes a splitting unit receiving a metered fuel flow and controllably splitting the received flow into pilot and mains flows. Pilot and mains fuel manifolds distribute fuel. A cooling flow recirculation line provides a cooling flow to the mains manifold during pilot-only operation, and a return section to collect mains manifold cooling flow. The cooling flow enters a delivery section and exits the return section. A fuel recirculating control valve on the delivery section has an open position so that the cooling flow enters the delivery section during pilot-only operation; a shut off position prevents the cooling flow entering the delivery section through the cooling flow orifice during pilot and mains operation. A supplementary valve bleeds or feeds cooling flow. The mains manifold cooling flow pressure is determined by the cooling flow and pressure raising orifices flow numbers, and a control setting of the supplementary valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventors: Graham THOMPSON, Daniel WATERS
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Publication number: 20170241347Abstract: The invention relates to a removable reactivation pack for a turboshaft engine of a helicopter, comprising a gas generator equipped with a drive shaft, said turboshaft engine (6) being capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable flight of the helicopter, said removable pack comprising: a removable gearbox comprising a gearbox output shaft; controlled means for rotating said gearbox output shaft, referred to as reactivation means of said turboshaft engine; mechanical means for reversibly coupling said gearbox output shaft to said drive shaft of said gas generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINESInventors: Patrick MARCONI, Romain THIRIET, Camel SERGHINE, Caroline SEVE, Pierre DARFEUIL
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Publication number: 20170241348Abstract: A gas turbine engine has two connected parts that rotate together during use. The two parts have a tensile loading that acts to separate the two parts in use. The two parts may be neighbouring rotating stages of a gas turbine engine. The two parts are connected together using both a mechanical fastener and an interlocking feature. The interlocking feature may be, for example, interlocking conical surfaces and/or interlocking protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Johnathan H. WILSHAW
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Publication number: 20170241349Abstract: A valve comprises a valve body, a flap, and a shaft driving the flap. At least one first bearing guides a first end of the shaft. The first end of the shaft includes an inner housing emerging axially. The first bearing includes a barrel axially engaged in the inner housing, such that no accumulation of condensates can occur in the inner housing when the first end of the shaft points downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Frederic Greber, Gilbert Jean Delplanque
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Publication number: 20170241350Abstract: In high horse power engines there are strict energy budgets allotted for each subsystem. It is a challenge for a gaseous fuel pumping system to supply the necessary gaseous fuel mass flow to the engine while staying within budget. A method for pressurizing a gaseous fuel supplied to an engine comprises providing first and second hydraulically actuated pumping apparatus comprising first and second shuttle valves in first and second hydraulic pistons respectively; and selectively communicating hydraulic fluid flow to the first and second hydraulically actuated pumping apparatuses. In a first mode hydraulic fluid is communicated through the first hydraulically actuated pumping apparatus to the second hydraulically actuated pumping apparatus. In a second mode hydraulic fluid is communicated through the second hydraulically actuated pumping apparatus to the first hydraulically actuated pumping apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Michael EBBEHOJ, Kenneth W. KRATSCHMAR
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Publication number: 20170241351Abstract: A control device for an internal-combustion engine to utilize low octane fuel and high octane fuel having a high octane value higher than a low octane value of the low octane fuel, the control device includes an inclination state sensor and a computer processor. The inclination state sensor detects an inclination state of a high octane fuel tank to store the high octane fuel. The computer processor acquires a remaining quantity of the high octane fuel in the high octane fuel tank. The computer processor restricts a power generated by the internal-combustion engine in accordance with the inclination state and the remaining quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi KUROTANI, Kohei KUZUOKA, Kenji SHIGETOYO
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Publication number: 20170241352Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control a ratio of an amount of low octane number fuel to be supplied to a cylinder to a total amount of the low octane number fuel and a high octane number fuel to be supplied to the cylinder in order to control an overall octane number of fuel to be supplied to the cylinder. The high octane number fuel has a second octane number higher than a first octane number of the low octane number fuel. The circuitry is configured to calculate a maximum octane number of the fuel to be supplied into the cylinder. The circuitry is configured to restrict a power generated by the internal combustion engine based on the maximum octane number.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi KUROTANI, Kenji SHIGETOYO, Kohei KUZUOKA
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Publication number: 20170241353Abstract: According to some embodiments, the present disclosure may relate to a system including a gaseous fuel consuming engine operating at an air to fuel ratio (AFR) and including a throttle valve controlling a speed of engine, and an engine controller coupled to the engine. The engine controller may be configured to obtain the speed of the engine and obtain the AFR of the engine. The engine controller may also be configured to, based on a transient event affecting the engine, coordinate modification of both the throttle valve to change the speed of the engine and trim valve to change the AFR of the engine to maintain at least one of the speed and the AFR of the engine within a threshold deviance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Peter M. YOUNG, Yi HAN, Daniel ZIMMERLE
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Publication number: 20170241354Abstract: A turbocharger control system of a vehicle includes a trigger module that generates a trigger signal when a transmission of the vehicle is in one of (i) park and (ii) neutral. A wastegate target module, in response to the generation of the trigger signal, sets a target opening of a turbocharger wastegate to a predetermined opening and independently of a position of an accelerator pedal. The predetermined opening is greater than zero percent opening of the turbocharger wastegate. A wastegate actuator module actuates the turbocharger wastegate based on the target opening of the turbocharger wastegate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Maqsood Rizwan ALI KHAN, Mark R. CLAYWELL, Scott M. REILLY