Patents Issued in August 14, 2018
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Patent number: 10047651Abstract: Selective catalytic reduction filter (SCRF) devices and systems incorporating the same are provided. Systems can include an exhaust gas source, an exhaust gas conduit capable of receiving an exhaust gas stream from the exhaust gas source, and an SCRF device in fluid communication therewith. The SCRF device can include a filter, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst disposed on at least portion of the filter, and a soot oxidizing catalyst (SOC) material disposed on at least a portion of one or more of the filter and the SCR catalyst. The SOC material can include one or more transition metal oxides, excluding platinum group metals. The SOC material can include one or more of a titanium oxide, an iron oxide, a tungsten oxide, a cerium oxide, and acidic zirconia. The SOC material can be in amorphous form. The SOC material can be biased towards to the upstream side of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventors: Rahul Mital, David Brown, Wei Li, Jianwen Li
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Patent number: 10047652Abstract: A method of removing sulfur from a lean NOx trap of a mild hybrid vehicle while the vehicle is stationary is disclosed, the method comprising connecting an electrical system of the vehicle to a large capacity external battery, operating an integrated starter generator driven by an engine of the vehicle as a generator to load the engine thereby allowing the engine to be operated at a higher torque level and rich of stoichiometric and storing the electrical energy produced by the integrated starter generator in the large capacity battery during the time period required for the removal of sulfur from the lean NOx trap.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Paspuleti Ashish Kumar Naidu, James Wright, Peter George Brittle
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Patent number: 10047653Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regenerating exhaust-gas aftertreatment systems capable of storing nitrogen oxides in lean exhaust gas, and in rich exhaust gas of reducing nitrogen oxides to nitrogen. The invention is used in exhaust-gas aftertreatment systems which consist of at least one NOx storage catalyst arranged near the engine and at least one NOx storage catalyst located in the underbody of the vehicle and are intended to clean the exhaust gas of spark-ignition engines predominantly run on a lean mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Frank Adam, Sebastian Mueller, David Palm, Susanne Kunert
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Patent number: 10047654Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle includes a turbine positioned in an exhaust stream from the internal combustion engine, a first diesel oxidation catalyst positioned upstream of the turbine within the exhaust stream, and a bypass for selectively bypassing the exhaust stream around the diesel oxidation catalyst to the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventors: Isadora Ricci, Giovanni Montinaro, Emilie Reynier, Riccardo Baria
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Patent number: 10047655Abstract: A sensor probe for an exhaust system including a sensor body, a sensor cup, and a fluid shield. The sensor body defines a conduit and having a plurality of apertures formed through a sidewall of the sensor body. The sensor cup is coupled to an end of the conduit of the sensor body and is in fluid communication with the conduit. The sensor cup includes an outlet formed therein. The fluid shield may be integrally coupled to the sensor cup and positioned relative to the outlet formed in the sensor cup such that the fluid shield deflects fluid away from the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Aashish Wadke, Snehal Khisty, Jim Alonzo, Elizabeth Balke
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Patent number: 10047656Abstract: The disclosure relates to internal combustion engines in general, and teaches various methods and apparatus for operating engines with an exhaust-gas turbocharger. Some embodiments include a method for operating an internal combustion engine having a fresh-gas tract for the supply of fresh gas to a cylinder, and an exhaust tract for the discharge of exhaust gas. They may include determining a value of a first operating condition of a catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust tract; determining a value of a second operating condition of the catalytic converter; calculating, as a function of the determined value, a first value for a maximum admissible scavenged-over quantity of fresh gas into the exhaust tract during scavenging operation; and setting the maximum admissible scavenged-over quantity to a second value lower than the first value if the value of the second operating condition reaches a predefined value.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventor: Matthias Delp
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Patent number: 10047657Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas output from a combustion engine comprises a mixer housing including a wall defining an exhaust passageway having a longitudinal axis. A tubular swirling device housing extends along a first axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis. The tubular swirling device includes a plurality of openings through which exhaust gas enters. The exhaust gas within the tubular swirling device swirls about the first axis and exits at an outlet end of the tubular swirling device. A mixing plate is positioned immediately downstream of the tubular swirling device and includes apertures through which the exhaust gas exiting the outlet end of the tubular swirling device flows. The mixing plate swirls the exhaust about a second axis extending parallel to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Lawrence J. Noren, IV, Daniel J. Owen, Jeffrey W. Denton, Attila Kovacs, Eric A. Hein, Meng-Huang Lu, Manoj K. Sampath
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Patent number: 10047658Abstract: An exhaust gas temperature control apparatus adjusts the temperature of exhaust gas in a stage before an exhaust gas purification unit disposed in an exhaust pipe passage of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas temperature control apparatus includes a heat reservoir which can store and radiate heat, a heating member which causes the heat reservoir to store heat, and a temperature control section which controls the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust gas temperature control apparatus by causing the heat reservoir to store heat or radiate heat in accordance with operation state of a vehicle on which the internal combustion engine is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaya Yoshikawa, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 10047659Abstract: A vehicle engine is provided that includes an exhaust manifold configured to emit a first emission. A heat shield is positioned proximate the exhaust manifold and has a shield substrate defining an aperture. An indicator is positioned over the aperture with a support substrate and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is configured to absorb the first emission and emit a second emission.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Talat Karmo
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Patent number: 10047660Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine (1), comprising: at least one cylinder block (2), which is connected to at least one cylinder head (3); at least one first cooling jacket (4) in the cylinder block (2) and at least one second cooling jacket (5) in the cylinder head (3), wherein the first and the second cooling jackets (4, 5) are arranged in a coolant circuit and are connected to each other with regard to flow; and at least one control element arranged in the coolant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Heinz Petutschnig, Manfred Breitenberger, Robert Poeschl
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Patent number: 10047661Abstract: A fuel module apparatus is for a marine engine. The fuel module apparatus includes a housing having a fuel cavity and a fuel pump in the housing. The fuel pump is configured to pump fuel through the fuel cavity from an inlet on the housing to an outlet on the housing. A cooling fluid sprayer sprays cooling fluid onto an outer surface of the housing to thereby cool the housing and the fuel in the fuel cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Brunswick CorporationInventor: Michael A. Torgerud
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Patent number: 10047662Abstract: A cooling system for an engine is provided. The cooling system includes coolant flow paths including a first flow path and a second flow path and where coolant circulates, a coolant pump for circulating coolant within the coolant flow paths, a flow rate control valve for adjusting a flow rate of the coolant through the second flow path, a temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the coolant within the first flow path, and a valve controller for adjusting an opening of the flow rate control valve based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector. The first flow path passes through a cylinder head of the engine, and the second flow path branches from the first flow path and passes through auxiliary machinery of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kotaro Takahashi, Nobuo Yunoki, Masahiro Naito
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Patent number: 10047663Abstract: A gas/liquid heat exchanger for cooling a hot gas has a plastic housing at least partly surrounding a metal core. The housing has separately formed inlet and outlet segments which may be formed from plastic materials having different heat resistance, and which are joined together along a sealed joint. One or both of the inlet and outlet segments are provided with bypass blocking element to at least partially blocks any gaps between the irregularly shaped sides of the core and the sides of the housing. Where the sides of the core include indentations, the bypass blocking elements may comprise a comb structure having fingers extending into the indentations. The housing is constructed to permit the core to be slidingly received into one or both of the inlet segment and the outlet segment of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Dana Canada CorporationInventors: Lee M. Kinder, Kenneth M. A. Abels, Christopher Lynn Flowers
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Patent number: 10047664Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a compact engine. An engine has a two-stage turbocharger provided with a high-pressure turbocharger and a low-pressure turbocharger. The high-pressure turbocharger and the low-pressure turbocharger are separately disposed on the gear case side and the flywheel side in along direction of a main body respectively. An intake pipe and an exhaust pipe connecting the high-pressure turbocharger with the low-pressure turbocharger are separately and respectively disposed on right side and left side in a transverse direction of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumihiro Nishiura, Takehiro Noda, Shunji Hamaoka, Fumiya Kotou, Yuuya Hanada
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Patent number: 10047665Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting operation of an electric motor coupled to a compressor at high altitude engine operation. In one example, the method may include adjusting a ratio of electric compressor assist provided by an electric motor to an intake compressor relative to turbine assist provided via a wastegate during engine idling conditions as well as during transmission gearshifts. The method allows for engine idle speed and torque to be maintained at high altitudes while reducing sluggish boost behavior.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Arturo del Refugio Sanchez Perez, Daniel Andres Ramos Coria, Rodrigo Felix, Artemio Magaña
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Patent number: 10047666Abstract: An object is to enable low fuel-consumption operation of an engine by controlling a back pressure and a power generation amount taking account of a trade-off relationship between deterioration of fuel efficiency due to an increase in pumping loss due to a back-pressure rise of the engine and improvement of fuel efficiency due to recovery of exhaust energy by a turbo compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Ko Takayanagi, Ryo Sase, Atsushi Matsuo, Rikikazu Hayashi
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Patent number: 10047667Abstract: An apparatus for reducing flow noise in a commercial engine vehicle includes an actuator into which first compressed air generated according to operation of an accelerator pedal and second pressed air generated from an air tank of a vehicle are selectively introduced. The apparatus also includes a lift plate moving up and down in the actuator by a pressure of the first or second compressed air introduced thereinto. The apparatus also includes a waste gate valve operated by a pressure according to the up and down movement of the lift plate in the actuator, in order to bypass exhaust gas in a turbine when the waste gate valve is opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Hyun Kee So, Jae Gab Lee
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Patent number: 10047668Abstract: A none-compression internal combustion rotor motor and method to eliminate all of the disadvantages of the presently available internal combustion engines. By eliminating the compression stroke, increasing the efficiency. By replacing the crank shaft, the valve train and the cast iron parts with the main rotor, the combustion pressure can be converted into much higher rotational power and torque and efficiency. By having less parts, and by manufacturing from aluminum, eliminating all of the cast iron parts, reducing the manufacturing energy consumption. By having only balanced rotating parts that rotate on bearings without touching each other, greatly increasing the lifetime of the motor. The none-compression internal combustion rotor motor is air cooled needing no coolant, making it environmentally friendly.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventor: Imre Nagy
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Patent number: 10047669Abstract: An internal combustion engine provided with a cylinder block able to move relative to a crankcase is provided with a block movement mechanism arranged just at one side of the internal combustion engine, a pair of guide walls provided at the crankcase, a support member supporting a side surface of the cylinder block, and a pushing member pushing against a side surface of the cylinder block. Further, at the guide wall at the side of arrangement of the block movement mechanism, the support member is attached to the top side from the position of attachment of the other end part of the connecting member and the pushing member is attached to the bottom side from the position of attachment of the other end part of the connecting member, while at the guide wall at the opposite side from the side of arrangement of the block movement mechanism, the support member is attached to the bottom side (bottom side of cylinder block) a predetermined space from pushing member.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10047670Abstract: An internal combustion engine has at least one piston which performs stroke movements in a cylinder crankcase. Via two connecting rods, the piston interacts with two parallel crankshafts which rotate synchronously in opposite directions. The connecting rods have, on a side facing toward a piston crown of the piston, bearing eyelets which, via piston pins, are operatively connected to the first and second bearings provided at opposite first and second sides of the piston, which bearings and piston pins act as a device for compensating an asymmetry of the profile of the crankshafts. To optimize the internal combustion engine, the first and the second bearings have cylindrical bearing disks which, firstly, are rotatably mounted in piston bores and which, secondly, include disk bores for receiving first and second pin sections of the piston pins.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Neander Motors AGInventor: Claus Bruestle
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Patent number: 10047671Abstract: The present invention provides methods and system for power generation using a high efficiency combustor in combination with a CO2 circulating fluid. The methods and systems advantageously can make use of a low pressure ratio power turbine and an economizer heat exchanger in specific embodiments. Additional low grade heat from an external source can be used to provide part of an amount of heat needed for heating the recycle CO2 circulating fluid. Fuel derived CO2 can be captured and delivered at pipeline pressure. Other impurities can be captured.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventors: Rodney John Allam, Glenn William Brown, Jr., Miles R. Palmer
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Patent number: 10047672Abstract: A gas turbine wet compression system using electrohydrodynamic (EHD) atomization is disclosed. In one embodiment, the wet compression system includes: a gas turbine system including an air inlet duct, and a plurality of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) nozzles coupled to a water supply, the plurality of EHD nozzles configured to provide a water-spray for reducing a temperature of inlet air drawn into the air inlet duct. In another embodiment, a wet compression system for a gas turbine system includes: a plurality of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) nozzles, and a water supply in fluid communication with the plurality of EHD nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Hua Zhang, Jianmin Zhang
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Patent number: 10047673Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide a low pressure liquid CO2 stream. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods wherein a high pressure CO2 stream, such as a recycle CO2 stream from a power production process using predominately CO2 as a working fluid, can be divided such that a portion thereof can be expanded and used as a cooling stream in a heat exchanger to cool the remaining portion of the high pressure CO2 stream, which can then be expanded to form a low pressure CO2 stream, which may be in a mixed form with CO2 vapor. The systems and methods can be utilized to provide net CO2 from combustion in a liquid form that is easily transportable.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventors: Rodney John Allam, Brock Alan Forrest, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
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Patent number: 10047674Abstract: An exhaust device for an engine includes an engine main body having a cylinder head provided with a manifold exhaust passage formed with a gathering exhaust port, a turbo supercharger, a catalyst device provided adjacent to the turbo supercharger, and a processing device disposed on the same side as the cylinder head surface of the engine main body. The processing device includes an exhaust gas processing device and an EGR device. The turbo supercharger guides exhaust gas discharged from the gathering exhaust port upward. The catalyst device includes a carrier, and a container which allows the exhaust gas to pass through a lower region of the carrier. The EGR device and the exhaust gas processing device are at least disposed below the catalyst device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Amane Tsuda, Hiroaki Deguchi, Yasushi Niwa, Noriyuki Maruoka, Kazuya Niida, Kentaro Nomura
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Patent number: 10047675Abstract: A power plant having at least one compressor, at least one fuel-burning engine, and a cooler device for cooling admission air for the engine, the engine being provided with a combustion chamber. The cooler device is constituted by a heat engine having three heat sources arranged between two compression stages of the compressor and including a refrigerant fluid and two evaporators. The admission air flows in succession through the two evaporators between the two compression stages firstly to cool the admission air between the two compression stages prior to being injected into the combustion chamber, and secondly to vaporize the refrigerant fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERSInventor: Vincent Pomme
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Patent number: 10047676Abstract: An electromechanical component arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes a mechanical component located at a first side of a firewall. An electronic module assembly of the electromechanical component is connected to the mechanical component and includes a housing, a mounting frame located in the housing and an electronic module secured to the mounting frame. The electronic module is operably connected to the mechanical component via a module cable. A vibration isolator is located in the housing to locate and support the mounting frame therein. The vibration isolator is configured to vibrationally isolate the electronic module from gas turbine engine vibrations. A cover plate is secured to the housing and the first side of the firewall, while the housing extends from the cover plate through a module opening in the firewall to a second side of the firewall having a lower operating temperature than the first side.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Stack, Jesse M. Chandler, Gabriel L. Suciu, Kurt J. Sobanski
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Patent number: 10047677Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a compressor section, a combustor in fluid communication with the compressor section and a turbine section in fluid communication with the combustor. A buffer system includes a first circuit that supplies a first buffer supply air and a second circuit that supplies a second buffer supply air. The first circuit includes a first bleed air supply and a second bleed air supply. The second circuit includes a third bleed air supply and a fourth bleed air supply and at least one of the first circuit and the second circuit includes a variable area ejector.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jorn A. Glahn, Clifton J. Crawley, Jr., Philip S. Stripinis, William K. Ackermann
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Patent number: 10047678Abstract: A method of stopping an engine of a rotorcraft in overspeed, the engine comprising a gas generator and a power assembly. When the engine is in operation, the engine is automatically stopped when the following three conditions are satisfied simultaneously: a torque (Tq) measured on the power assembly is below a predetermined torque threshold (Tq1); and a speed of rotation referred to as a “first speed of rotation (N1)” of the gas generator is above a threshold referred to as a “first speed threshold (S1)”; and a speed of rotation referred to as a “second speed of rotation (N2)” of the power assembly is above a threshold referred to as a “second speed threshold (S2)”.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Airbus HelicoptersInventor: Bernard Certain
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Patent number: 10047679Abstract: A monitoring system for a gas turbine includes a processor configured to receive an operating signal indicating an operating parameter of the gas turbine. The processor is configured to predict an occurrence of a lean blowout (LBO) event based on the operating parameter and an entropy ratio of combustion dynamics associated with a combustor of the gas turbine, wherein the LBO event corresponds to when the combustor stops firing. The processor is configured to send an alarm signal indicating the predicted LBO event to an electronic device prior to the occurrence of the LBO event.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xiaomo Jiang, Ilan Leibu, Lijie Yu, Devang Jagdish Gandhi, Karen Warren Miller, Matthew Everett Moore, Ketan Kalele
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Patent number: 10047680Abstract: An air flow velocity calculating device of a internal combustion engine, has a cylinder, a spark plug, an air intake passage, an air flow controlling valve, an air flow velocity calculating portion, and an electric discharge current controlling portion. An electric discharge between a center electrode and a ground electrode is sustained during an electric discharge sustaining period. The electric discharge sustaining period is a period from when the electric discharge begins to when the electric discharge is intercepted by the air flow. Energy is supplied to the spark plug, so that the electric discharge current is sustained at a constant value by the electric discharge current controlling portion during an ignition period. The ignition period is a sum of an electric discharge sustaining period of a first electric discharge and electric discharge sustaining periods of second and subsequent electric discharges in one cycle of the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoshi Tsuda
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Patent number: 10047681Abstract: A method for detecting and controlling a load weight of a vehicle by means of a tire pressure of the vehicle and a device are provided. The method includes the steps of installation setting, detecting the load weight, and controlling an electric switch. The device includes tire pressure detectors installed on rear wheels of the vehicle and connected with a processor which is input with a preset tire pressure value and able to receive the tire pressure detected by the tire pressure detectors. The processor is connected with an electric switch of the vehicle. The processor compares the tire pressure detected by the tire pressure detectors with the preset tire pressure value, and controls the electric switch to turn on/off a power source of the vehicle. The device is capable of detecting and controlling the load weight of the vehicle by detecting a change of the tire pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventor: Fang-Jun Chai
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Patent number: 10047682Abstract: A device is provided for operating an internal-combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a power actuator and a control unit. The control unit is configured for adjusting the power actuator as a function of a load demand on the basis of a displacement of the driving pedal by the driver, wherein, during an efficiency mode demanded and activated by the driver, independently of the displacement of the driving pedal, a rotational-speed-dependent consumption-optimal first load demand, and as a function of the displacement of the driving pedal, a second load demand, are determined. The control unit is configured for adjusting the power actuator while taking into account the determined first and second load demands.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Jochen Frieden
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Patent number: 10047683Abstract: A method for controlling valve timing of an engine may include: classifying control regions; applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap in a first control region; applying the maximum duration to the intake valve and an exhaust valve in a second control region; controlling a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) of an intake manifold to be maintained constant in a third control region; controlling a wide open throttle valve (WOT) and creating a valve overlap by reducing interference of exhaust in a fourth control region; and controlling a wide open throttle valve (WOT) and controlling an intake valve closing timing based on the engine speed. In particular, the control regions are classified by a controller based on an engine load and an engine speed compared with predetermined values, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: In Sang Ryu, Kyoung Pyo Ha, You Sang Son, Kiyoung Kwon
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Patent number: 10047684Abstract: A method for controlling valve timing is provided for an engine including continuous variable duration (CVVD) device disposed on both intake valve and exhaust valve sides respectively. The method may include: classifying control regions into first, second, third, fourth, and fifth control regions based on engine load and speed; applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap in a first control region, applying the maximum duration to the intake valve and exhaust valve in the second control region; controlling a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) of an intake manifold to be maintained consistently in the third control region; controlling a throttle valve to be fully opened, advancing an intake valve closing (IVC) timing, and controlling an exhaust valve closing (EVC) timing to after top dead center in the fourth control region; and controlling a wide open throttle valve (WOT) and retarding the intake valve closing in the fifth control region.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: In Sang Ryu, Kyoung Pyo Ha, You Sang Son, Kiyoung Kwon
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Patent number: 10047685Abstract: An engine control device (2) of a motor vehicle includes: a control device (6) with elements for generating a control signal; and at least one output circuit (8) including: an input (14) intended to receive a control signal generated by the control device (6), and an output (16) connected to a component (4) and equipped with switching elements (18). The control device (2) further includes a monitoring device (20), which has: a first input (24) receiving the signal from the input (14) of the output circuit (8) connected to the control device (6), a second input (22) connected to the output (16) of the output circuit (8), and control elements associated with time delay elements for interrupting the connection between the output of the output circuit (8) and the component (4).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventor: Jean-Luc Boyer
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Patent number: 10047686Abstract: A system includes a residual per cylinder calculation module that calculates an amount of residual (i.e., trapped exhaust gas) within an engine cylinder. A temperature calculation module calculates a temperature within the engine cylinder based on the amount of residual. A first air per cylinder (APC) calculation module calculates total charge content within the engine cylinder based on the temperature and calculates a first amount of air trapped within the engine cylinder based on the total charge content and the amount of residual. A residual mass fraction (RMF) calculation module calculates an RMF of the exhaust gas based on the amount of trapped exhaust gas at EVC and the total charge content. A second APC calculation module determines a backflow of the charged content into the engine cylinder and calculates a second amount of air trapped within the engine cylinder based on the backflow and the first amount of air.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Ning Jin
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Patent number: 10047687Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a crank angle sensor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate a correlation index value showing a degree of a correlation between a actually measured data of a combustion mass ratio and reference data of the combustion mass ratio based on an operating condition of the internal combustion engine. The electronic control unit is configured to, in a case where the correlation index value is lower than a determination value, prohibit the actually measured value of the specific ratio combustion point pertaining to a combustion cycle in which the correlation index value is calculated from being reflected in the engine control or reduce a degree of the reflection in the engine control compared to a case where the correlation index value is equal to or higher than the determination value.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiki Kitagawa
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Patent number: 10047688Abstract: A method for operating a spark ignited gaseous fuel internal combustion engine is disclosed. The engine may have at least one main combustion chamber and at least one ignition device configured to initiate an ignition event within an ignition region. The method may include supplying pressurized fuel to the ignition region at times between about 30° to about 0° crank angle before the ignition event is initiated by the ignition device for enriching the ignition region with fuel. The method may also include initiating an ignition event in the ignition region for combusting an enriched air/fuel mixture within the ignition region.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hauke Holst, Eike Joachim Sixel
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Patent number: 10047689Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes: processing means for executing at least one of a process of increasing an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture burned in the internal combustion engine and a process of increasing EGR gas recirculated by an EGR apparatus, when increasing a NO2 proportion in exhaust gas; and control means for controlling the processing means so that an increase in the air-fuel ratio becomes larger, and an increase in the EGR gas becomes smaller when a temperature of the exhaust gas purification apparatus is high as compared to when the temperature of the exhaust gas purification apparatus is low.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro Hotta, Yasuyuki Irisawa
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Patent number: 10047690Abstract: The present disclosure teaches method for balancing cylinders in a motor vehicle including an engine which has at least two cylinders. The method may include: determining a cycle period of a cycle of the engine and a number of cycles of the engine, determining a cylinder value function for each cylinder of the engine for each cycle indicative of acceleration of a crankshaft of the engine caused by the corresponding cylinder, carrying out a signal analysis for each cylinder value function, detecting an amplitude for each signal, forming an amplitude mean value for each cylinder, detecting irregular running of the engine on the basis of the amplitude mean values, and compensating for the detected irregular running of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Gerhard Eser, Dirk Heinitz, Wolfgang Moser, Martin Reisinger
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Patent number: 10047691Abstract: A fuel injection controlling apparatus includes a fuel cut controlling unit applied to an engine and a transmission to perform a fuel cut control of a fuel injection apparatus upon shifting of the transmission. A shift state detection unit decides a shift state. The fuel cut controlling unit changes a decision threshold value to be used for decision of whether or not the fuel cut control is to be ended in response to the shift state detected by the shift state detection unit. A dog clutch type transmission is configured to select an arbitrary one of a plurality of transmission gear pairs through engagement or disengagement of a dog clutch configured from dowels and dowel holes. The shift state is indicated by a length of a dowel abutment time period for which a state in which the dowels abut with a side wall of a transmission gear upon shifting continues.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Endo, Yasuhiro Nozaki
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Patent number: 10047692Abstract: A GDCI engine control system determines if in-cylinder conditions are sufficient to achieve combustion in a given cylinder or if a misfire is likely. Fuel is delivered to that cylinder if combustion is probable, but fuel is disabled to that cylinder if a misfire is probable.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventors: Gregory T. Roth, Gary C. Fulks, Andrew Fedewa
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Patent number: 10047693Abstract: A fuel injection control device controls fuel injection of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine for direct injection into a cylinder and independently controls circulation of a coolant in a head-side cooling channel and in a block-side cooling channel. The fuel injection control device is provided with a controller that sets a fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder such that an intake valve closing timing occurs during a reduction in gas temperature inside the cylinder due to evaporative latent heat of the injected fuel, while the coolant circulates in the head-side cooling channel and the circulation of the coolant in the block-side cooling channel is stopped. The controller injects the fuel based on the fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Imaoka, Takao Inoue
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Patent number: 10047694Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a sliding shoe carried in a force accumulator. The sliding shoe has a channel to transfer cooling oil into a hollow space. The force accumulator is located is a channel formed by the piston, and the sliding shoe is guided partially inside the force accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBHInventors: Matthias Laqua, Markus Pinz
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Patent number: 10047695Abstract: A crankcase assembly for an engine comprising: a crankcase comprising a crank sump; the crank sump comprising primary and secondary sump volumes; one or more crankcase oil catchers, the crankcase oil catchers comprising surfaces to catch dispersed oil in the crankcase and direct the oil away from a crankcase casing wall and towards the crank sump, wherein the crankcase oil catchers are provided above a crankshaft and below a piston of the engine; and one or more guides to collect oil and guide the oil to the primary sump volume. At least a portion of the guide is movable between a first configuration in which the guide collects the captured oil that would otherwise have.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ian Graham Pegg, Roland Paul Stark
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Patent number: 10047696Abstract: A cover structure for an internal combustion engine includes: a plastic cover member attached to a body of the internal combustion engine so as to cover the power transmission and a metallic holding member configured to hold an oil seal pressurized to the outer circumference of the crank shaft. Also, the holding member is positionable by engaging with the body of the internal combustion engine with respect to an axial direction of the crank shaft and a planar direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The cover member and the holding member are fastened together by a fastening bolt while interposing a gasket positioned to surround the crank shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsuya Goto
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Patent number: 10047697Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-rubber laminate material comprising a metal plate, a rubber layer formed on the surface of the metal plate, and a solid lubricant layer formed on the rubber layer, the solid lubricant layer comprising an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 40 to 150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60 to 170° C., graphite, and optionally a fluororesin. The metal-rubber laminate material, in which the metal plate and the rubber layer are bonded through a primer layer and an adhesive layer in this order, exhibits excellent effects, such as fretting resistance, when used as a metal gasket in an internal combustion engine for an automobile engine, etc.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Yokoto, Toshihiro Higashira
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Patent number: 10047698Abstract: A gas turbine engine having a fan and a bypass duct for discharging airflow from the fan to generate engine thrust. The bypass duct includes a first component and a second component each having a gas washed surface, the first component being positioned adjacent the second component with a gap therebetween. A sealing strip is positioned in the gap between the first component and the second component distal to the gas washed surfaces of the first and second components. A sealant is positioned between the first and second component proximal to the gas washed surfaces of the first and second components, so as to seal the gap between the first component and the second component from airflow through the bypass duct.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Mark Hicklin, Darren Robert Smith
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Patent number: 10047699Abstract: A disclosed turbofan engine includes a gas generator section for generating a gas stream flow. A speed reduction device is driven by the power turbine. A propulsor section includes a fan driven by the power turbine through the speed reduction device at a second speed lower than the first speed for generating propulsive thrust as a mass flow rate of air through a bypass flow path. The fan includes a tip diameter greater than about forty-five (45) inches and an Engine Unit Thrust Parameter (“EUTP”) defined as net engine thrust divided by a product of the mass flow rate of air through the bypass flow path, a tip diameter of the fan and the first rotational speed of the power turbine for cruise, climb and take-off power conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Jayant Sabnis
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Patent number: 10047700Abstract: A disclosed turbofan engine includes a gas generator section for generating a gas stream flow. A speed reduction device is driven by the power turbine. A propulsor section includes a fan driven by the power turbine through the speed reduction device at a second speed lower than the first speed for generating propulsive thrust as a mass flow rate of air through a bypass flow path. The fan includes a tip diameter greater than forty-five (45) inches and an Engine Unit Thrust Parameter (“EUTP”) defined as net engine thrust divided by a product of the mass flow rate of air through the bypass flow path, a tip diameter of the fan and the first rotational speed of the power turbine for cruise, climb and sea level take-off power conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Jayant Sabnis