Patents Issued in March 28, 2019
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Publication number: 20190093555Abstract: A bleed valve control system for mounting to a support structure adjacent to a fan air plenum within an aircraft includes a bleed valve module, a pneumatic valve controller, and a fan air duct. The bleed valve module includes a pipe, a plurality of bleed valves connected to the pipe, and a plurality of pneumatic actuators connected to the bleed valves. The pneumatic valve controller includes a plurality of electrical control elements and a cooling shroud. The cooling shroud is attached to the pipe and at least partially surrounds the plurality of electrical control elements. The fan air duct connects the cooling shroud to the fan air plenum such that fan air flows through the cooling shroud to cool the plurality of electrical control elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Donald E. Army, John M. Maljanian, Gregory L. DeFrancesco
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Publication number: 20190093556Abstract: An energy storage system is disclosed. The energy storage system includes a turbo train drive, a hot heat sink, and a reservoir. The turbo train drive is in mechanical communication with a compressor and an expander. The hot heat sink is in thermal communication between an output of the compressor and an input of the expander. The reservoir is in thermal communication between an output of the expander and an input of the compressor. The compressor and the expander, via the turbo train drive, are operable between a charging function for charging the hot heat sink and a discharging function for discharging the hot heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Ercan Dumlupinar
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Publication number: 20190093557Abstract: A compact inlet design including a single bulkhead and/or an acoustic panel extending into nacelle lip region for noise reduction. The compact inlet is used with a low power fluid ice protection system capable of preventing ice build-up on the acoustic panel in the nacelle lip region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Holly J. Thomas, Brian L. Riedel, Alexandre D. Curaudeau, David W. Foutch, Steve G. Mackin
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Publication number: 20190093558Abstract: An integrated inlet particle separator (IPS) blower/engine starter including a housing having an inlet and an outlet. A turbine member is rotatably supported in the housing. A geared member operatively connected to the turbine member extends outward from the housing. The integrated IPS blower/engine starter is operable in a first configuration receiving a first fluid flow to rotate the geared member and in a second configuration generating a fluid flow through powered rotation of the geared member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Simonetti, Andrew G. Keith
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Publication number: 20190093559Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for cooling a turbine casing, preferably of a low-pressure turbine of a turbomachine, with air jets, the device comprising a pressurised air supply housing (3) and at least two curved cooling pipes (40) arranged on either side of the housing (3), around and spaced apart from a part of the casing and provided with air injection holes (41), the housing comprising, in particular, a bottom (31) and two longitudinal side walls (32, 33), and the bottom being pierced by air injection holes. The device is characterised in that each of the side walls extends outwards as at least one single-piece tubular sleeve, to which a cooling pipe is joined, the bottom of the sleeve being located at the same level as the bottom of the housing at the point where they are joined together.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Emeric D'HERBIGNY, Pierre TINCELIN
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Publication number: 20190093560Abstract: A fluid manifold includes a manifold body, a first annular passage and a second annular passage. The first annular passage is defined within the manifold body between a first passage inlet and a first passage outlet downstream from the first passage inlet. The second annular passage is defined within the manifold body nested radially outward from the first annular passage, and between a second passage inlet and a second passage outlet downstream from the second passage inlet. The first and second annular passages are concentric about a manifold axis. The first passage outlet and the second passage outlet are positioned at the same axial position relative to the manifold axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Jason A. Ryon, Jacob Greenfield, Lev Alexander Prociw
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Publication number: 20190093561Abstract: A transfer tube assembly includes an outer tube defining a first flow path and an inner tube positioned within the first flow path. The inner tube defines a second flow path in fluid isolation from the first flow path. A connecting segment is downstream from the inner tube and the outer tube. The connecting segment has a first bore in fluid communication with the first flow path and a second bore in fluid communication with the second flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Jason A. Ryon, Jacob Greenfield, Lev Alexander Prociw
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Publication number: 20190093562Abstract: A scroll for a fuel injector assembly of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The scroll includes a cylindrical body that has an axial end face and an inner surface defining a bore. A passage spans circumferentially within the cylindrical body around the bore. Further, an inlet channel extends from the axial end face to the passage and is configured to facilitate a flow of a fuel to the passage. Moreover, outlets are formed in the cylindrical body to facilitate a release of the fuel from the passage. The cylindrical body includes a resonator integrally formed with the cylindrical body. The resonator includes a chamber, and a channel that fluidly couples the chamber to the inlet port.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventors: Meagan Lau, James Wilfrid Blust, II, Leonel Arellano, Georgina Jeannette McGee
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Publication number: 20190093563Abstract: A combined cycle power plant that includes a gas turbine and HRSG engaged with a steam turbine via a water steam cycle having higher and lower pressure levels. The CCPP further includes a fuel line and fuel preheater. A higher pressure feedwater line delivers higher pressure feedwater to a higher pressure feedwater branch that extends through the fuel preheater, the high pressure feedwater branch including upstream and downstream segments defined to each side of the fuel preheater. A lower pressure feedwater line delivers lower pressure feedwater to a lower pressure feedwater branch. The downstream segment of the higher pressure feedwater branch is combined with the lower pressure feedwater branch at a junction point and a combined feedwater line extends therefrom. A first heat exchanger exchanges heat between the combined feedwater line and fuel line. A second heat exchanger exchanges heat between the higher pressure feedwater branch and fuel line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kenneth Eugene Selfridge, Douglas Frank Beadie, Alberto Jose Negroni
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Publication number: 20190093564Abstract: A system for designing a resonator to dampen acoustic energy in a combustion system includes a design module configured to generate a resonator design to dampen a target frequency and acceptable damping, a system analysis module configured to evaluate the resonator design within a modeled combustion system environment to determine a damping effect of the resonator design on the combustion system as a whole, and a system optimization module configured to adjust the resonator design to optimize an overall effect on the combustion system as a whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Esam ABU-IRSHAID, Michael BRODY
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Publication number: 20190093565Abstract: The gas turbine engine includes a fluid system fluidly connecting at least two components of the gas turbine engine, and a tunable resonator in fluid flow communication with the fluid system. The tunable resonator has a resonating volume that varies as a function of a volume of an inflatable member located inside the tunable resonator. The inflatable member having a means for varying the volume of the inflatable member, to thereby tune the resonating volume to a selected frequency of pressure fluctuations or acoustic waves within the fluid system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Ninad JOSHI, Sid-Ali MESLIOUI
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Publication number: 20190093566Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a fluid-based system are disclosed. The systems and methods may include a model processor for generating a model output, the model processor including a set state module for setting dynamic states, the dynamic states input to an open loop model based on the model operating mode, where the open loop model generates current state derivatives, solver state errors, and synthesized parameters as a function of the dynamic states and a model input vector. A constraint on the state derivatives and solver state errors is based a series of utilities that are based on mathematical abstractions of physical laws that govern behavior of the component. The model processor may include an estimate state module for determining an estimated state of the model based on at least one of a prior state, the current state derivatives, the solver state errors, and the synthesized parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Boris Karpman, Thomas Niemczycki, Ian Michael Dinsmore, David Sembiante, Robert H. Luppold
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Publication number: 20190093567Abstract: A static structure of a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an outer platform, an inner platform, an airfoil that extends between the outer platform and the inner platform, a service tube disposed at least partially through the airfoil, and a seal assembly that seals between the service tube and one of the outer platform and the inner platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Grace E. Szymanski
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Publication number: 20190093568Abstract: A wash optimization system and related methods are provided that increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of engine washes. A system comprising at least one processor receives sensor data representing one or more measured parameters of a turbine engine and determines at least one performance parameter based on the sensor data. The at least one performance parameter represents one or more particulate values associated with the turbine engine. The system generates a health state for the turbine engine based on the at least one performance parameter and generates a wash identifier based on the health state of the turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Lorenzo Escriche, Charles Larry Abernathy, Daniel John Maggard
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Publication number: 20190093569Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes a feed arm defining a conduit extending between an inlet end and an outlet end and a plunger. The plunger is disposed within the conduit and is movable between a plunger first position and a plunger second position. A flow area defined between the plunger and the feed arm is smaller in the plunger first position than in the plunger second position to bias fuel flow through the fuel injector. Fuel systems, gas turbine engines, and methods of controlling fuel flow in gas turbine engine fuel systems are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Jason A. Ryon, Lev Alexander Prociw
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Publication number: 20190093570Abstract: A combustion device includes: a nozzle casing defining an axial flow passage; and a nozzle disposed in the axial flow passage. The nozzle includes: a nozzle body having a tubular shape extending along the axial flow passage; a swirler vane protruding radially outward from the nozzle body in a radial direction of the nozzle body; at least one first injection hole having an opening on a surface of the nozzle body or the swirler vane; at least one second injection hole having an opening on the surface of the nozzle body or the swirler vane; a first fuel flow passage extending through the nozzle body and being in communication with the at least one first injection hole; and a second fuel flow passage extending through the nozzle body separately from the first fuel flow passage, and being in communication with the at least one second injection hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kei INOUE, Shin KATO, Tomo KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20190093571Abstract: Disclosed is a control device for an engine provided with a first intake valve and a second intake valve in an intake port. The control device comprises: a variable valve operating mechanism (72) configured to control a valve opening timing and a valve closing timing of an intake valve (21a); and a variable valve operating mechanism (72) configured to control a valve opening timing and a valve closing timing of an intake valve (21b), independently of the intake valve (21a). The latter variable valve mechanisms (72) is operable, in an intake stroke of the engine, to close the intake valve (21b) after the elapse of a delay time rt since the intake valve (21a) is closed. The delay time rt is a time period during which a pressure wave generated upon closing of the intake valve (21a) reaches the intake valve (21b) through the intake port (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi YOUSO, Takaaki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20190093572Abstract: Provided is a dual-fuel engine control system including: a sensing unit for generating sensing information by sensing a parameter related to a dual-fuel engine; a main control unit for generating a control signal for controlling a micro-pilot injection value and a gas fuel inlet valve by analyzing a state of the dual-fuel engine on the basis of the sensing information; an EFI control unit for controlling the micro-pilot injection value and the gas fuel inlet valve on the basis of the control signal; and a deep learning unit for analyzing a state of the dual-fuel engine on the basis of the control signal transferred from the main control unit and the sensing information transferred to the main control unit at a time point of generating the control signal, and transferring an analysis result to the main control unit and the EFI control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Kyoung Suk Kim
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Publication number: 20190093573Abstract: The systems, methods, and apparatuses provided herein disclose interpreting a performance criteria for a vehicle, wherein the performance criteria is indicative of a desired operating parameter for the vehicle; interpreting a good driver definition value indicative of a good driver profile for the interpreted performance criteria; determining a performance value indicative of how an operator of the vehicle is performing with respect to the good driver definition value; and in response to the performance value indicating that the vehicle is not satisfying the performance criteria, managing an actuator output response value for at least one actuator in the vehicle to facilitate achievement of the good driver definition value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: J. Steven Kolhouse, Carlos Alcides Lana, Vivek A. Sujan, Phani Vajapeyazula, J. Stephen Wills, Thomas M. Yonushonis
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Publication number: 20190093574Abstract: An engine control device controls an engine. The engine includes a turbocharger, a waste gate valve, and a throttle. In a predetermined low load region, the engine control device performs first control in which the waste gate valve is opened at a predetermined opening degree or more and output adjustment is performed by an opening degree of the throttle. In a predetermined high load region, the engine control device performs second control in which the throttle is opened at a predetermined opening degree or more and output adjustment is performed by an opening degree of the waste gate valve. When a torque limiting request is generated in the high load region, the engine control device performs third control in which the waste gate valve is substantially fully closed and output adjustment is performed by the opening degree of the throttle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Konosuke MURAMATSU, Tomoyuki Kaneda
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Publication number: 20190093575Abstract: A boosted engine is provided, which includes an engine body formed with a combustion chamber, a spark plug, a fuel injection valve, a booster, a boost controller, and a control unit including an operating range determining module and a compression end temperature estimating module. In a high load range, the fuel injection valve and the spark plug are controlled so that a mixture gas inside the combustion chamber starts combustion through flame propagation by ignition of the spark plug, and unburned mixture gas then combusts by compression ignition, and the boost controller is controlled to bring the booster into a boosting state. When a gas temperature inside the combustion chamber exceeds a given temperature at CTDC, the fuel injection valve is controlled so that a fuel injection end timing occurs on a compression stroke, and the spark plug is controlled so that the mixture gas is ignited after CTDC.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Atsushi Inoue, Keiji Araki
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Publication number: 20190093576Abstract: An EGR control device includes: a drive unit, a basic opening degree deriving unit, a measurement unit, a memory unit, a correction opening degree deriving unit and a control unit. The drive unit varies an opening degree of an EGR valve. The basic opening degree deriving unit derives a basic EGR valve opening degree based on an operating condition of an engine. The measurement unit measures a temperature in the downstream side of a position of where EGR gas is recirculated in an intake passage. In the memory unit, information acquired in advance is stored. The information indicates a relationship between the opening degree and a temperature difference. The correction opening degree deriving unit derives a correction opening degree with reference to the information. The control unit controls the drive unit such that the opening degree of the EGR valve becomes a target EGR valve opening degree by correcting the basic EGR valve opening degree with the correction opening degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hirooki USHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20190093577Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to control a vehicle internal combustion engine having a crankshaft connected to a manual transmission via a clutch. The controller is configured to execute a feedback process, a torque control process, an assist process, a fixing process, and a gradual decrease process. The fixing process includes fixing a correction coefficient at a specified value on condition that the clutch is in a transition period from the disengaged state to the engaged state. The gradual decrease process includes stopping the fixing process and gradually decreasing the correction coefficient to the feedback operation amount when the fixing process is executed and the assist torque is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junichi MORI
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Publication number: 20190093578Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a dither control process and an enlarging process. The enlarging process includes at least one of the following two processes: a process of causing an operation region of the internal combustion engine in which the dither control process is executed to be larger in a case in which an amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is large than in a case in which the amount is small; and a process of causing a degree of richness of the rich combustion cylinder and a degree of leanness of the lean combustion cylinder to be greater in a case in which the amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is large than in a case in which the amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki NOSE, Takashi NAKAMURA, Keiichi MYOJO
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Publication number: 20190093579Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, an air-fuel control method for the engine system may include flowing air from the intake manifold through a plurality of engine cylinders to a junction of the exhaust passage and a bypass passage in response to a condition, the junction positioned along the exhaust passage between first and second emission control devices. The method may further include flowing exhaust gas to the first emission control device while flowing the air to the junction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Donald Lewis
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Publication number: 20190093580Abstract: A controller is configured to execute a dither control process of operating fuel injection valves such that at least one of cylinders is a lean combustion cylinder, in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and at least another one of the cylinders is a rich combustion cylinder, in which the air-fuel ratio is richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and a limiting process of limiting the dither control process such that the difference in the air-fuel ratio between the cylinders is smaller in a change period, in which a gear ratio of the multi-speed transmission is changed, than in periods except for the change period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nose, Yoshiyuki Shogenji, Eiji Ikuta, Misako Ban, Keiichi Myojo
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Publication number: 20190093581Abstract: In some embodiments of the present disclosure, sensors mounted on a vehicle can allow opportunities for coasting to be predicted based on environmental conditions, route planning information, and/or vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure signaling. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, these sensors can also predict a need for power and/or an end of a coast opportunity. These predictions can allow the vehicle to automatically enter a coasting state, and can predictively re-engage the engine and/or powertrain in order to make power available with no delay when desired by the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: PACCAR IncInventors: Uday Vadlamani, Carl Anders Hergart, Michael D. Gerty
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Publication number: 20190093582Abstract: A method for an engine control unit to conduct real time updating of data tables based on feedback from the air flow sensor without external computing. The air fuel ratio is based on information received from an air flow meter, where a look-up table is actively tuned for the air flow calibration instead of the volumetric efficiency tables. Here, the look-up table involves a single dimension value so the calculations are simpler than more complex evaluations previously set forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Derek Stevens
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Publication number: 20190093583Abstract: An oil dilution rate calculation system of an internal combustion engine acquires a blowby gas flow ratio showing the ratio of the flow of blowby gas to the flow of gas to the combustion chamber and an output current of the air-fuel ratio sensor during fuel cut control in which the internal combustion engine stops the feed of fuel to the combustion chamber and at a plurality of points of time of different flows of blowby gas passing through the blowby gas passage and flowing to the downstream side of the throttle valve in the intake passage, and calculate an oil dilution rate based on the acquired blowby gas flow ratio and output current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi MIYAMOTO, Toru KIDOKORO, Yasushi IWAZAKI, Kenji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190093584Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using an engine laser ignition system to take images, in real-time, of a cylinder during combustion and estimate cylinder soot generation. If excess soot generation is determined, cylinder fueling is adjusted by varying an injection pressure, amount, and ratio. An air-fuel ratio of the cylinder is also adjusted in view of exhaust temperature constraints to reduce soot generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Kenneth James Miller
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Publication number: 20190093585Abstract: The control apparatus for an engine includes: a first controller that sets a valve-opening timing of an intake valve of the engine in response to an amount of intake air; and a second controller that sets an injection start time of a fuel injector of the engine in response to the amount of intake air. In a case where the amount of intake air is within a first range being equal to or more than a predetermined value, the first controller advances the valve-opening timing as compared with a case where the amount of intake air is equal to the predetermined value, and the second controller delays the injection start time as compared with a case where the amount of intake air is within a second range being less than the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke ITANO, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Hitoshi TODA
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Publication number: 20190093586Abstract: An engine control device controls an engine including a turbo-supercharger, a waste gate valve, an air-bypass valve, and a high-pressure fuel system. The engine control device includes: an air-bypass valve control unit and an abnormality detection unit. The air-bypass valve control unit controls the air-bypass valve. The abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality in the high-pressure fuel system. The air-bypass valve control unit increases an opening degree of the air-bypass valve in accordance with detection of the abnormality by the abnormality detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Makoto ITO, Ryotaro YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190093587Abstract: The invention realizes fuel microinjection volume correction with high degrees of accuracy, stability, and reliability regardless of a configuration of a transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Atsushi Hoshino, Shouta Tashiro
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Publication number: 20190093588Abstract: The method for determining fuel injection profiles in an internal combustion engine, comprising the steps of providing data of a setpoint combustion profile; measuring data of an actual combustion profile; and varying a fuel injection profile, such that the actual combustion profile comes closer to the setpoint combustion profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Joschka Schaub, Christian Jörg, Daniel Neumann
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Publication number: 20190093589Abstract: An injector driving device includes a control circuit of a booster circuit that charges a capacitor by repeatedly switching a booster switch ON/OFF during a voltage boost control to cause a reverse voltage in a coil, and stops the voltage boost control upon determining that a capacitor voltage has reached a corrected target value. The control circuit detects a peak value of the capacitor voltage during an OFF period of the boost switch. The control circuit also detects a capacitor voltage as an ON value during the subsequent ON period of the booster switch. A difference between the peak voltage and the ON value of the capacitor is calculated, and a post-correction target value is set by adding the difference to a reference value of a target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Hiroki NAMBU
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Publication number: 20190093590Abstract: A fuel injection system is provided with a pressure accumulator accumulating a high pressure fuel, a fuel pump supplying the high pressure fuel to the pressure accumulator, a fuel injector injecting the high pressure fuel, and a fuel pressure sensor detecting a fuel pressure in a fuel passage between the pressure accumulator and an injection port of the fuel injector. An ECU includes a fuel pressure obtaining portion which obtains the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor, a differential value calculating portion which differentiates the fuel pressure obtained by the fuel pressure obtaining portion so as to calculate a fuel pressure differential value, and an end timing calculating portion which calculates an injection end timing at which the fuel injector terminates a fuel injection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Naoki MIKAMI
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Publication number: 20190093591Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a low pressure fuel pump, a low pressure fuel passage, a high pressure fuel pump, a high pressure fuel passage, a fuel injection valve, a high pressure controller, and a low pressure controller. The low pressure controller calculates a feedforward correction amount that increases as a request injection amount of the fuel injection valve increases and an increase rate of the high pressure target value increases when a high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller calculates a feedback correction amount based on a low-side pressure deviation when the high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller controls driving of the low pressure fuel pump based on a sum of the feedforward correction amount and the feedback correction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sohichi IMAI, Motohiro SUGIMOTO, Masanao IDOGAWA
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Publication number: 20190093592Abstract: A combustion control device for a compression autoignition engine includes an engine, a state quantity setting device, a spark plug, a controller, and a sensor. The spark plug receives a control signal from the controller and ignites air-fuel mixture at predetermined ignition timing such that the ignited air-fuel mixture is combusted by flame propagation and then unburned air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber is combusted by autoignition. The controller outputs a control signal to an injector such that, in a compression stroke, fuel is injected at specific timing at which a line obtained by extending an axis of each hole of the injector overlaps with a specific portion including an opening edge of a cavity in an upper surface of a piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Kota Matsumoto, Tomonori Urushihara, Atsushi Inoue, Yusuke Kawai, Toru Miyamoto, Yudai Koshiro
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Publication number: 20190093593Abstract: Method for operating an injector, comprising the steps of generating (S201) a digital injection profile by combining trapezoidal individual injection operations which are matched to a prespecified target injection profile (200); and generating (S202) an electrical actuating signal for the injector on the basis of the generated digital injection profile and the actuating parameters of the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Christian Jörg, Thorsten Schnorbus, Joschka Schaub
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Publication number: 20190093594Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided in which fuel is withdrawn from a high-pressure accumulator and injected into a combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the method including the steps of detecting under conditions of angular synchronism a pressure of the fuel in the high-pressure accumulator during a first injection into the at least one cylinder and during a later, second injection into the at least one cylinder; ascertaining a gradient of the detected pressure; ascertaining a frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure and a frequency-transformed spectrum of the ascertained gradient; correcting the frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure by the frequency-transformed spectrum of the ascertained gradient; and ascertaining a cylinder-individual injection quantity of fuel, which was injected into the at least one cylinder, from the corrected frequency-transformed spectrum of the detected pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Florian Reiling, Christos Hondros
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Publication number: 20190093595Abstract: An air intake duct includes an air intake duct body (11) which includes an air intake part (111) and a connecting part (112) connected with the air intake part (111). A first channel is formed inside the air intake part (111), a second channel intercommunicating with the first channel is formed inside the connecting part (112), one side of the connecting part (112) is provided with a connecting surface (112a) which inclines towards an axis of the air intake duct body (11), the connecting surface (112a) is inclined and extended from a connection joint of the connecting part (112) and the air intake part (111) to an end portion of the connecting part (112), and the first channel has a larger cross section area than the second channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Zhuyun Zhang, Wenfeng Zhan, Jujiang Liu, Zhuo Liu, Shangfen Ding, Yuhuai Li
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Publication number: 20190093596Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine with a piston crown and a circumferentially arranged crown edge, whereby, near the periphery of the crown edge, a thermal barrier coating is applied, whereby the thermal barrier coating tapers off before the periphery of the crown edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Paul Stephen DIMASCIO, Magdalena GACA, Piotr ZAJAC, Sebastian NIEDZIELA, Luke PEARSON
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Publication number: 20190093597Abstract: A piston crown for a piston of a pair of pistons in a two-stroke, opposed-piston, compression ignition combustion engine has a barrier layer and a conductive layer. The barrier layer at least partially surrounds a combustion chamber formed by the piston crown and an end surface of an opposing piston. The conductive layer connects the crown to the rest of the piston body. The barrier layer and the conductive layer are joined either through welding or through the fabrication process. Optionally, the piston crown includes an insulating layer between the barrier and conductive layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: ACHATES POWER, INC.Inventors: Bryant A. Wagner, Ryan G. MacKenzie
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Publication number: 20190093598Abstract: A piston and combustion chamber including piston crown grooves extending from the combustion bowl, promoting swirl and mix within the compressed atmospheric air/gases made up of 78% nitrogen along with 20% oxygen locked in the bowl into an ideal mix with the introduced fuel forming into an ideal charge trapped in the bowl of the piston crown improve thermal efficiencies by overcoming erratic, incomplete and improper combustion resulting in lower emissions that can prevent environmental damages due to pollution from UHC, CO, NOx, soot with the least carbon dioxide formations when using carbon rich fuels such as diesel engine operations under full load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Somender Singh
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Publication number: 20190093599Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery unit, includes: a heat exchanger that is provided inside an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas flows, the heat exchange being formed from silicon carbide, and the heat exchanger performing heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a heat medium; and a retention member that is provided at the periphery of the heat exchanger, is formed of a ceramic sheet or an expandable graphite sheet, and is sandwiched between the exhaust pipe and the heat exchanger, thereby retaining the heat exchanger in the exhaust pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio MURATA, Yoshihiro KOGA
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Publication number: 20190093600Abstract: An assembly is provided that includes an inner support, an intermediate support, an outer support, first and second pins and a pin actuator. The intermediate support circumscribes and rotatably attachs to the inner support about a first axis. The outer support includes a first flange and a second flange. The intermediate support is laterally between the first flange and the second flange. The first and the second pins rotatably attach the intermediate support to the outer support about a second axis. The first pin is arranged with the first flange, and the second pin is arranged with the second flange. The pin actuator includes a drive element projecting laterally through the outer support. The pin actuator is configured to translate the second pin along the second axis upon rotation of the drive element about a rotational axis thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Christopher J. Roberts
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Publication number: 20190093601Abstract: A thrust reverser is described that comprises a new type of locking means for locking an actuator in position so that maintenance can be performed on the machine. The locking means comprises a removable locking device for preventing movement of an actuator. The locking means may also function in one configuration as an end cap. An actuator is also described comprising a removable torque limiting device for limiting torque of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Antony Morgan
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Publication number: 20190093602Abstract: A rocket engine combustion chamber liner of the present disclosure has a combustion chamber in which fuel and oxygen are ignited thereby generating low-velocity gases. The rocket engine combustion chamber liner further has a throat integral with and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber that generates high-velocity gases from the low-velocity gases received from the combustion chamber. Additionally, the rocket engine combustion chamber has a nozzle integral with and in fluid communication with the throat through which the high-velocity gases are emitted causing thrust for a rocket. The combustion chamber, the throat, and the nozzle have a common outer surface and etched into the outer surface are a plurality of channels wherein the channels have the same width and depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Shapefidelity, Inc.Inventor: Robert Black
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Publication number: 20190093603Abstract: An aerospace turbofan engine that injects oxygen-enriched gas from an inlet includes an oxygen-enriched gas injection component, a body structure, an afterburner middle portion and a first afterburner outer ring. An aerospace turbofan engine that injects oxygen-enriched gas from an inlet and an afterburner individually or simultaneously includes an oxygen-enriched gas injection component, a body structure, an afterburner middle portion and a second afterburner outer ring. The aerospace turbofan engines which fully utilize oxygen in the atmosphere for combustion and work in various flight altitude ranges adopt regenerative cooling-type afterburners with acoustic cavity and baffle plates, so that an aircraft can fly to an altitude of 20-50 km and reach a speed of Mach 2-5. Variants of the aerospace turbofan engines are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Minglong GE
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Publication number: 20190093604Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation mixer includes a convergent nozzle in a flow path from an air inlet of the mixer to an outlet of the mixer. The convergent nozzle is oriented converging toward the outlet of the mixer. The nozzle accelerates the flow to high velocity, which is released as a free-jet. The mixer includes an exhaust gas housing having an exhaust gas inlet into an interior of the exhaust gas housing, and a convergent-divergent nozzle having an air-fuel-exhaust gas inlet in fluid communication to receive fluid flow from the convergent nozzle (i.e., the free-jet), the interior of the exhaust gas housing, and a fuel supply into the mixer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Woodward, Inc.Inventors: Gregory James Hampson, Domenico Chiera