Patents Issued in April 30, 2019
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Patent number: 10273875Abstract: A fuel reforming system for a vehicle intake and exhaust line that reforms fuel in a vehicle intake and exhaust line including an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) apparatus that recirculates a portion of an exhaust gas of an engine and a recirculation line that transfers an exhaust gas that is recirculated by the exhaust gas recirculation apparatus to supply as an intake gas of the engine, may include a fuel reformer that mixes an exhaust gas that passes through the recirculation line with fuel and that reforms fuel that is mixed in the exhaust gas, wherein an insulation material is coated at a wall surface of the fuel reformer.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seung Woo Lee, In Woong Lyo, Hong Kil Baek, Tae Won Lee, Woong Pyo Hong, Bokyung Kim, Ju Hun Lee, Jeong Hwa Cha
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Patent number: 10273876Abstract: An alternator includes an exciter field device generating an exciter magnetic field in a first air gap, an exciter armature device configured to rotate with respect to the exciter magnetic field and impart a first voltage in a first set of coils at the first air gap, a main stator device including a second set of coils, and a rotor field device configured to be energized by the first current in the first set of coils and generate a main magnetic field that imparts a second voltage on the main stator device at a second air gap. The main stator device and the exciter field device lie in on a common plane normal to an axis of rotation, and the exciter armature device is inwardly spaced from the exciter field device, main stator device, and the rotor field device.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: Isaac S. Frampton, Adam Larson, Frank C. Formas
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Patent number: 10273877Abstract: A variable compression ratio (VCR) internal combustion engine includes an engine block defining a cylinder and a cylinder head mounted to the engine block and defining at least a part of a combustion chamber. The engine also includes a reciprocating primary piston arranged inside the cylinder and configured to compress a mixture of air and fuel and a crankshaft arranged in the engine block and rotated by an application of a combustion force to the primary piston. The engine additionally includes a secondary piston mounted in the cylinder head, movably with respect to the combustion chamber and a mechanism configured to shift the secondary piston in the cylinder head and thereby vary a volume of the combustion chamber and a compression ratio of the engine. A vehicle employing such an engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Akram R. Zahdeh
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Patent number: 10273878Abstract: A rigid cap is provided for a motor vehicle, in particular, for the engine of a motor vehicle. The rigid cap has a first layer made of a metal material and at least a second layer comprising polyamide 11. Preferably, the second layer is made entirely of polyamide 11 and, even more preferably, entirely covers the first layer. The cap may be a press-fit cap or a threaded cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Dayco Europe S.R.L.Inventors: Jordi Viladrich, Gianluca Perfetti, Stefan Brandin
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Patent number: 10273879Abstract: Circular propulsion jet compressor-engine, through a circular combustion chambers propellants spheroidal geometry set, generates a tangential push the turning radius and therefore resulting angular momentum about the shaft of the circle in rotation. This impulse is the consequence of the principle of action-reaction, the violent expansion that occurs inside the combustion chamber, when burning mixtures of fuel and oxidizer at high pressure, or by merging a small mass of H2, encapsulated and simultaneously subjected to very high pressure, constant electromagnetic fields and high-frequency electric fields and high peak intensity. The high pressure on the oxidant or H2, is achieved using the force resulting from the centripetal acceleration shaft rotating about a significant mass of a piston, solid or liquid and alternatively or cyclically. The gases and vapors produced are cooled inside the engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Inventor: Diego Orellana Hurtado
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Patent number: 10273880Abstract: A method includes generating an exhaust gas from combustion gases with a turbine; recirculating the exhaust gas along an exhaust recirculation flow path; reducing moisture within the exhaust gas along the exhaust recirculation path with an exhaust gas processing system; providing the exhaust gas to a first exhaust gas inlet of an exhaust gas compressor for compression; and providing the exhaust gas from the exhaust recirculation path to a second exhaust gas inlet separate from the first exhaust gas inlet for cooling, preheating, sealing, or any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: General Electric Company, ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Richard A. Huntington, Franklin F. Mittricker
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Patent number: 10273881Abstract: A system includes a foreign object damage (FOD) screen configured to be disposed upstream of an air intake of a gas turbine engine and to keep debris from entering the air intake. The FOD screen is configured to extend across a fluid flow path extending through the air intake into the gas turbine engine. The FOD screen includes a flexible, woven fabric made of a non-metal material and configured to absorb and dissipate energy from the debris, and the flexible, woven fabric includes a tensile strength ranging between 2700 megapascals (mPa) and 3700 mPa.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Richard Garland Dornier, Jason Alan Nassar
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Patent number: 10273882Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine system including: a compressing portion; a combustor generating a combustion operation by using first compressed air coming from the compressing portion; a turbine portion generating power by using a combustion gas coming from the combustor; a heat recoverer recovering a heat from a discharge gas of the turbine portion; and a compressed air supplier providing second compressed air to which the heat recovered by the heat recoverer is transferred, wherein at least a portion of the second compressed air to which the heat has been transferred is supplied to at least one of the combustor and the turbine portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.Inventor: Myeong Hyo Kim
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Patent number: 10273883Abstract: An accessory drive for an engine includes a power takeoff (PTO) configured to couple power from a rotating shaft of the engine and to convey the power through an opening in a housing of the engine. A gearbox is coupled to and configured to be driven by the PTO. The gearbox is disposed external to the housing and includes a planetary gear train. At least one engine accessory is coupled to and configured to be driven by the planetary gear train.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jeffrey M. Roach, Michael T. Fox, Howard Carter, III
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Patent number: 10273884Abstract: A valve includes a housing with a mounting portion, a venting portion, and a cap portion. The valve also includes a piston in the housing with a shaft, a disc, and a flange, the piston being moveable between a closed position and an open position. The valve also includes a vessel that is in contact with the cap portion and the flange wherein fluid pressure contained in the vessel biases the piston into one of the opened position and the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Lubomir A. Ribarov, Thomas O. Harris
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Patent number: 10273885Abstract: A high-pressure pump control device is applied to an internal combustion engine including a high-pressure pump supplied with fuel discharged from a low-pressure pump and an injector supplied with fuel discharged from the high-pressure pump. The high-pressure pump control device includes a prediction unit predicting whether a discharge quantity of the high-pressure pump exceeds a discharge quantity of the low-pressure pump and a restricting unit executing a discharge quantity restriction control to restrict a discharge quantity of the high-pressure pump not to exceed a predetermined value when the prediction unit predicts that a discharge quantity of the high-pressure pump exceeds a discharge quantity of the low-pressure pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuo Hirata
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Patent number: 10273886Abstract: The present invention provides a process for reducing abnormal combustion within a combustion chamber of the engine. The process can include simulation of the piston-driven internal combustion engine with oil droplets from the crankcase entering into the combustion chamber. In addition, the oil drops entering into the combustion chamber can be simulated as hot spots, as can simulation of fuel combustion within the combustion chamber. A probability of pre-ignition for at least a portion of the simulated hot spots as a function of the simulated fuel combustion and the simulated hot spots within the combustion chamber can be calculated and based on the calculation a combustion chamber parameter can be altered such that pre-ignition within the combustion chamber is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Tenghua Tom Shieh, Oana Nitulescu, Wei Liu Liu, Kiyotaka Yamashita
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Patent number: 10273887Abstract: In a case where a control device receives a stop signal instructing stopping of an engine and the control device determines that the engine temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature based on a signal from a timer or based on a signal from a cooling water temperature sensor, an operation control is maintained until the control device determines that the engine temperature is the predetermined temperature or higher. This way, an engine is provided which is capable of restraining generation of blowby condensate water without stopping a cooling water pump during the operation of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideshi Okada, Hirotoshi Kihara
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Patent number: 10273888Abstract: A GDCI engine recirculates exhaust gases to a combustion chamber using desired early injection parameters for a steady state engine operation from a controller. An engine control system detects a load increase relative to the steady state engine operation, and insufficient recirculated exhaust gases to the combustion chamber are delivered in response to the detected load increase as a result of transport delays. A last fuel injection into the combustion chamber during an engine cycle with multiple fuel injections is delayed as compared to the steady state engine operation. Combustion phasing within the combustion chamber is retarded in response to the delayed injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventors: Mark C. Sellnau, Wayne R. Moore, James F. Sinnamon
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Patent number: 10273889Abstract: A method and system of periodically cycling an air shutoff valve, upon a pre-determined length of time elapsing since the last valve cycle; or upon the cumulative run time of an engine since the last valve cycle exceeding a pre-determined value.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Inventor: Darren Rivet
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Patent number: 10273890Abstract: The internal combustion engine comprises a swirl control valve able to change a strength of a swirl generated in a combustion chamber; a load sensor for detecting an engine load; and a control device for controlling the swirl control valve. The control device controls the swirl control valve, when the engine load detected by the load sensor is lower than a predetermined load, so that the swirl ratio is higher when a suction intake gas amount is increasing, compared to when it is decreasing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaaki Katayama
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Patent number: 10273891Abstract: Operating a gaseous fuel engine includes injecting a pilot charge directly into a combustion chamber in an engine, and igniting one spray plume of the pilot charge. A flame front is propagated to other pilot spray plumes to produce an ignition flame for igniting later injected main charge spray plumes. Injection of the pilot and main charges is by way of the same fuel injection orifices.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Glen Martin, David Ginter, Jaswinder Singh
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Patent number: 10273892Abstract: A fuel supply system for use with an internal combustion engine has a check valve and a purge valve disposed in a purge passage that extends from a canister to connect with an intake passage of the internal combustion engine. A controller regulates the purge valve open with a first opening degree or a first duty ratio during a purge operation. The controller may also regulate the purge valve to open with a second opening degree larger than the first opening degree or a second duty ratio larger than the first duty ratio a predetermined time after initiating the purge operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Miyazaki, Hidetoshi Tsutsumi, Tomonori Nakatsuka, Kinji Morihiro, Koji Honda
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Patent number: 10273893Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine may comprise a first assignment unit, an observer, a calibration unit, and a second assignment unit. The first assignment unit may determine cylinder-specific measurement signals as a function of the measurement signal from a lambda probe. The observer may include a sensor model of the lambda probe arranged in a feedback branch of the observer. The calibration unit may impress a predefined interference pattern made of cylinder-specific mixture differences and adapt, in reaction to the respectively predefined interference pattern as a function of the observer output variables related to the respective cylinders, an assignment rule between the measurement signal of the lambda probe and a lambda signal. The second assignment unit may carry out, by means of the assignment rule, an assignment between the measurement signal and the lambda signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Gerhard Eser, Sirko Schlegel, Sushman Dinka-Honnappa
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Patent number: 10273894Abstract: A variety of methods and arrangements for improving the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines based on skip fire operation of the engine are described. In one aspect the skip fire decisions are made on a working cycle by working cycle basis. During selected skipped working cycles, the corresponding cylinders are deactivated such that air is not pumped through the cylinder during the selected skipped working cycles. In some implementations, the cylinders are deactivated by holding associated intake and exhaust valves closed such that an air charge is not present in the working chamber during the selected skipped working cycles.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Tula Technology, Inc.Inventor: Adya S. Tripathi
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Patent number: 10273895Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a hybrid powertrain that includes an engine and a motor/generator are described. The systems and methods provide a way of determining whether or not an engine has stalled while a vehicle may be propelled via the motor/generator. In one example, an engine stall may be indicated responsive to a first estimated engine torque and a second estimated engine torque.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rajit Johri, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Joseph A. Zamora, Paul Stephen Bryan, Minku Lee
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Patent number: 10273896Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is provided to control the internal combustion engine that includes a variable valve operating device that makes variable an opening period of an intake valve that opens and closes an intake port. The control device is configured, in an engine operating condition in which knocking is easy to occur, to increase an effective opening period of the intake valve when an intake gas temperature in the intake port is higher than a wall temperature of the intake port as compared to when the intake gas temperature is lower than the wall temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tetsuo Omura
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Patent number: 10273897Abstract: A method for controlling PTO clutch engagement includes determining a first change in clutch speed based on an inertial load of a PTO implement. The method also includes determining a second change in clutch speed based on a threshold amount of energy of a PTO clutch. The method further includes determining a third change in clutch speed between the first change in clutch speed and the second change in clutch speed. The method also includes adjusting a clutch current based on the third change in clutch speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Kushan Vora, Haibo Guo, Brian Allen Hartman
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Patent number: 10273898Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to increase an air amount that is suctioned into a cylinder while maintaining the lean air-fuel ratio as a first torque increasing operation in a case where target torque is increased during the operation at the lean air-fuel ratio such that torque is increased. The electronic control unit is configured to compute limit torque as an upper limit of the torque that can be realized in a case where the lean air-fuel ratio is kept for a certain time from a current time point. The electronic control unit is configured to switch to the operation at the theoretical air-fuel ratio and increase the torque as a second torque increasing operation in a case where the target torque becomes higher than the limit torque during execution of the first torque increasing operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Naoto Kato, Satoshi Yoshizaki
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Patent number: 10273899Abstract: A method and test device for recognizing detecting whether a mass air flow meter of intake air of an internal combustion engine is defective is provided. In the method and device, a test procedure is executed using a pilot controller while a mixture controller that is used in non-test engine operation is deactivated. The pilot controller for the mixture of fuel and air in the respective cylinders outputs control values which, during normal operation of the internal combustion engine via the mixture control, are varied on the basis of a mixture deviation of the current mixture from a stoichiometric mixture. The engine is set to one or more different idling speeds and at each respective idling speed the mixture deviation is detected. If the detected mixture deviation(s) (i'lA.) satisfy a predetermined criteria thresholds, the air flow meter is identified as defective.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Sebastian Grasreiner
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Patent number: 10273900Abstract: A method to determine reference actuator positions for a gasoline engine, includes entering a base torque request, a known spark advance, a known CAM position and a known exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve position into an inverse torque model to generate a first iteration desired air per cylinder (APC) value. The first iteration desired APC value is passed through a deadband filter to produce a filtered first iteration desired APC signal. A Predicted As Cal (PAC) spark advance is calculated for the filtered first iteration desired APC value. The PAC spark advance and the base torque request are modified, and data from a first lookup table is entered to generate a second iteration desired APC value.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Christopher E. Whitney, David N. Hayden, Gary Robert Cygan, Jr., Stephen P. Levijoki
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Patent number: 10273901Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cam carrier insert coupled to a cylinder head of an engine. In one example, a system may comprise: a cylinder head with a cam bearing tower; a cam carrier insert positioned in the cylinder head; and a camshaft, the camshaft directly supported by the cam bearing tower and directly supported by the cam carrier insert. By mounting a first portion of the cam shaft to the cam bearing tower and a second portion of the cam shaft on the cam carrier insert, the system may operate deactivatable and non-deactivatable intake or exhaust valves of one or more engine cylinders in the engine. In this way, packaging of engine components within the cylinder head may be improved while promoting better engine performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeff D. Fluharty, Forest Heggie, Robert Stephen Furby, Daniel Nelson, John Christopher Riegger, Jeffrey Thomas Lacroix
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Patent number: 10273902Abstract: A galleryless steel piston designed to improve thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, and performance of an engine is provided. The piston includes a steel body portion and a thermal barrier layer applied to an upper combustion surface and/or a ring belt to reduce the amount of heat transferred from a combustion chamber to the body portion. The thermal barrier layer has a thermal conductivity which is lower than a thermal conductivity of the steel body portion. The thermal barrier layer typically includes a ceramic material, for example ceria, ceria stabilized zirconia, and/or a mixture of ceria stabilized zirconia and yttria stabilized zirconia in an amount of 90 to 100 wt. %, based on the total weight of the ceramic material. The thermal barrier layer can also have a gradient structure which gradually transitions from 100 wt. % of a metal bond material to 100 wt. % of the ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventor: Norbert G. Schneider
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Patent number: 10273903Abstract: A nacelle for a gas turbine jet engine for an aircraft includes plasma actuators that act as flow disruptors to provide boundary layer turbulence when the engine is exposed to air flow that is obtuse or perpendicular to direction of travel of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roy D. Fulayter, Crawford F. Smith, III
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Patent number: 10273904Abstract: The invention relates to a fairing (37) for a mixer (28) of a nozzle (26) of a dual-flow turbomachine (20), said mixer being of an overall annular shape and extending along a longitudinal axis (24) of the turbomachine, said mixer comprising an upstream part (29) provided with a flange (31) extending radially toward the outside of the mixer, intended to be fastened to an exhaust casing (21) of the turbomachine, and a downstream part (33) forming a flow mixing area, the fairing (37) being of an overall annular shape and configured to extend around the upstream part (29) of the mixer (28) and to be attached to the flange (31) of said upstream part (29), the fairing being without means for fastening to the downstream part (33) of the mixer (28), in such a way as to connect the fairing (37) to the mixer (28) at a distance from the flow mixing area.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Benoit Argemiro Matthieu Debray, Mario Cesar De Sousa, Gregory Ghosarossian-Prillieux, Frederic Noel
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Patent number: 10273905Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine including multiple reed valve chambers which are provided to cylinder head portions of a multi-cylinder engine. The reed valve chambers are formed by covering recessed portions in the cylinder head portion with reed valve covers. Upstream sides of the reed valve chambers communicate with the atmosphere via a secondary air supply pipe. Downstream sides of the reed valve chambers communicate with exhaust ports via communication passages provided to the cylinder head portion. The reed valves are interposed between the upstream sides and the downstream sides of the reed valve chambers, and are opened by exhaust pulsation pressure. In the cylinder head portion, the multiple reed valve chambers are disposed with spaces therebetween. The reed valve covers communicate individually with the secondary air supply pipe, and the reed valve covers are connected in series by the secondary air supply pipe.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ikebe, Hiroshi Yokota, Hiroyuki Sugiura
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Patent number: 10273906Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling exhaust catalyst temperature during an engine cold-start by water injection. In one example, a method may include during the engine cold-start, injecting water into an intake of an engine based on the exhaust catalyst temperature and accumulating water molecules within an exhaust catalyst to generate heat within the exhaust catalyst. In this way, by generating and storing heat within the exhaust catalyst, the exhaust catalyst may be heated up rapidly, thus reducing catalyst light-off time.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael McQuillen, Daniel A. Makled, David John Kubinski, Richard E. Soltis
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Patent number: 10273907Abstract: A method is provided, comprising terminating a pressure rise portion of an engine-off natural vacuum test based on an initial rate of change of a fuel system pressure upon sealing a fuel system; and initiating a vacuum portion of the engine-off natural vacuum test responsive to suspending the pressure rise portion. The initial rate of change may indicate a likelihood of the pressure rise portion reaching a pressure rise threshold. In this way, the vacuum portion of the test may be initiated earlier, increasing the likelihood of a conclusive result being obtained during a test time limit.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed M. Dudar, Chingpo Liu, Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Robert Roy Jentz, Fling Finn Tseng, Imad Hassan Makki, Russell Randall Pearce
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Patent number: 10273908Abstract: An engine system may include an engine having an intake line flowing an intake gas supplied to the combustion chambers; an intake manifold; a throttle valve provided at a front of the intake manifold and controlling an air amount supplied to the combustion chamber; an electric supercharger provided at the throttle valve and including a motor and an electric compressor operated by the motor to supply the supercharged air to the combustion chamber; an exhaust gas processing device purifying an exhaust gas generated in the combustion chamber; and an exhaust gas recirculation device including a recirculation line branched from the downstream portion of the exhaust gas processing device and joined to the intake line of the upstream portion of the electric compressor, an EGR cooler mounted at the recirculation line, and an EGR valve mounted at a part where the recirculation line and the intake line are joined.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Joowon Lee, Jong Il Park, Kwanhee Choi, Hyungbok Lee, Dong Hee Han, Hyun Jun Lim
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Patent number: 10273909Abstract: Provided is a catalytic converter to be disposed in a branch portion between an exhaust gas passage that guides exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine to outside and an exhaust gas recirculation passage that recirculates a portion of the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas passage to an intake system of the internal combustion engine. The catalytic converter comprises a catalyst storage case that stores a catalyst, a recirculation pipe that forms the exhaust gas recirculation passage, an abutment portion that makes the catalyst storage case and the recirculation pipe be in surface contact with each other and be arranged in parallel to each other, and a downstream cone that makes the exhaust gas passage and the exhaust gas recirculation passage merge with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsuhisa Takagi
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Patent number: 10273910Abstract: A valve assembly for an exhaust gas recirculation system of an engine. The valve assembly includes a three-way flow path housing defining an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. A valve actuator is spaced apart from the three-way flow path housing and connected to the three-way flow path housing by a linkage. Actuation of the linkage by the valve actuator simultaneously opens the first outlet and closes the second outlet, and simultaneously closes the first outlet and opens the second outlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.Inventors: Fadi Elias, Jonathan Logan, Mark Williams
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Patent number: 10273911Abstract: An EGR control device includes: a tumble generation valve, a recirculation passage, an EGR valve, an EGR valve opening degree deriving unit, and an EGR valve control unit. The tumble generation valve is configured to adjust a passage area of an intake passage of an engine. The recirculation passage is configured to recirculate an exhaust gas from an exhaust passage of the engine to the intake passage. The EGR valve is disposed on the recirculation passage and configured to open and close the recirculation passage. The EGR valve opening degree deriving unit is configured to derive an opening degree of the EGR valve on a basis of an engine speed, an engine load, and a tumble generation valve opening and closing rate. The EGR valve control unit is configured to drive and control the EGR valve to achieve the opening degree derived by the EGR valve opening degree deriving unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Taku Sasaki, Hiroshi Oiwa
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Patent number: 10273912Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: at least one magnet (10) inserted into at least one immersion container (8) present in the fuel tank (3), at least one magnet (20) applied on the cooling duct; at least one pair of magnets (30) arranged on the fuel duct, the fuel duct defining a coil; at least one pair of magnets (40) applied on the air suction pipe; and at least one pair of magnets (50) applied on the fuel filter, the magnets (10), (20), (30), (40) and (50) being permanent magnets including rare earth elements. The internal combustion engine includes at least one metal sheet (1) including paramagnetic and/or ferromagnetic elements applied on at least one portion of at least one internal surface (2) of the tank (3).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: TITANO S.R.L.Inventors: Alessandro Bove, Fabrizio Bove
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Patent number: 10273913Abstract: A combustor including a first perforated layer including a first opening having a first diameter, wherein the first opening is configured to receive a flow of fluid including a fuel and air mixture; and impart a first rotational instability to the flow of fluid that is dependent on the first diameter; and a second perforated layer surrounding a combustion area, wherein the second perforated later includes a second opening having a second diameter, and wherein the second layer is located between the first layer and the combustion area.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Steven G. Tuttle
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Injection device, internal combustion engine, and method for operating an internal combustion engine
Patent number: 10273914Abstract: An injection device for an internal combustion engine is described, which has a first fuel injector for injecting fuel having a first fuel composition based on ethanol, and a separate second fuel injector for injecting fuel having a second fuel composition, which differs from the first fuel composition, the injection device having a heating device for preheating exclusively the fuel having the first fuel composition and injected by way of the first fuel injector.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Thor Windbergs -
Patent number: 10273915Abstract: Combustion air intake ports are provided on left and right side faces of an upper part of an engine cover. An outer louver is disposed to confront the combustion air intake port, and an inner louver is disposed inward of the outer louver at a predetermined interval to face the outer louver. The combustion air received from the combustion air intake port passes through the outer louver and the inner louver and is guided to the engine unit from the guide hole. In this case, a splash of water is dispersed in the outer louver, and a large-sized water droplet falls down due to its self-weight before the combustion air reaches the inner louver, so that a small-sized water droplet can be collected and removed using inertial impaction at the inner louver. Therefore, it is possible to effectively separate water.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Jiro Saiga, Keisuke Daikoku
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Patent number: 10273916Abstract: An internal combustion engine including an intake passage fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into an intake passage and a cylinder inside fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, includes: a fuel pump pressurizing and feeding fuel, which is fed from a fuel tank, to the cylinder inside fuel injection valve; a securing part provided on a cylinder head member of the internal combustion engine to secure the fuel pump; an introducing member having heat conductivity, the introducing member connected to the fuel pump and formed with: a first introducing path for introducing fuel from the fuel tank to the fuel pump; and a second introducing path for introducing fuel from the fuel tank to the intake passage fuel injection valve; and a heat transmitting member transmitting heat between the introducing member and the securing part.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Nozu, Tadanori Minoura, Takeshi Ohshima, Genki Kurimoto
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Patent number: 10273917Abstract: A fuel injection device for smooth discharge of a gas accumulated therein comprising a fuel pump, a solenoid valve for injecting pressurized fuel into the intake passage of an engine, a high-pressure fuel passage extending from the fuel pump to the solenoid valve and has a medially positioned constant-pressure chamber, and a fuel return passage connected to a fuel return pipe, with the fuel return passage extending from the constant-pressure chamber and having a medially positioned priming pump. The constant-pressure chamber is configured with the top wall in the upper space thereof disposed above the opening of the high-pressure fuel passage opposite the solenoid valve, the fuel return passage opens into the upper space at a position above the opening of the high-pressure fuel passage, and the gas accumulating in the constant-pressure chamber is discharged from the upper space toward the fuel tank via the fuel return passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ZAMA JAPAN KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi Nonaka, Hideki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10273918Abstract: A fuel injector has a seat and at least one seat passage. The seat includes an outer tip surface through which the seat passage extends. Fin structure is provided in the outer tip surface and is constructed and arranged to increase a surface area of the outer tip surface as compared to a surface area of the outer tip surface absent the fin structure. The outer tip surface, including the fin structure, is constructed and arranged to be heated by combustion gases so that the outer tip surface reaches a temperature greater than a temperature that the outer tip surface would reach absent the fin structure, so as to cause evaporation of fuel that contacts the outer tip surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: CONTINENTAL POWERTRAIN USA, LLCInventor: William James Imoehl
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Patent number: 10273919Abstract: Provided is an end seal structure of a fuel rail for a gasoline direct injection engine, in which an end or both ends of a rail body composed of a pipe is/are closed by a thread fastening type of an end cap or end caps having a cap-nut shape, is characterized in that a metallic gasket is provided between an inner wall surface of the end cap having the cap-nut shape and an end section of the rail body, the end cap having the cap-nut shape is screwed and fixed to the rail body, and the gasket is tightened by an axial force created by tightening of the end cap having the cap-nut shape so that the end of the rail body is sealed.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha LimitedInventor: Daisuke Asahi
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Patent number: 10273920Abstract: In a tappet-driven single piston pump, piston side loads caused by return spring out-of-squareness are eliminated by effectively piloting the piston return spring, preferably the associated spring seat, by the tappet, thereby allowing the tappet to bear the spring side load. The piston engages and is returned by the spring seat, but radial clearance between the piston and spring seat is greater than radial clearance between the spring seat and tappet, thus eliminating side loading imparted to the piston. The spring seat can be considered a piston retainer, in which the piston is not closely attached to the retainer but instead exhibits a predefined radial clearance greater than the piloting clearance between the retainer and the tappet.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Stanadyne LLCInventor: Robert G. Lucas
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Patent number: 10273921Abstract: A fuel pump unit includes a pump head provided with an axial blind bore within which is arranged a piston extending from an inner end, inside the bore, to an outer end, outside the head, the outer end cooperating with a cam follower and a cam of which rotations reciprocally displace the piston. The pump unit also includes a coil spring axially compressed between pump head and the cam follower and a tubular turret assembly extending toward the cam and provided with a through bore through which extends the piston, the final spirals of the spring being slipped around the outer surface of the turret. The turret is an added part, non-integral to the pump head and, arranged in abutment against an under face of the pump head, the blind bore being coaxial to the through bore arranged in the turret.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventor: Christopher J. McCrindle
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Patent number: 10273922Abstract: An object of a control method to control a direct injection internal combustion engine that directly injects fuel in a cylinder is to reduce an increase in PN caused by attachment of the fuel to a fuel injection valve distal end. The control method cools the fuel before a fuel temperature when the fuel passes through an injection hole on a fuel injection valve reaches a temperature at which an amount of attached fuel to the fuel injection valve distal end increases.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Imaoka, Takao Inoue, Takeshi Tsuyuki
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Patent number: 10273923Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine having a combustion cylinder, and at least one fuel injector configured to supply a number of fuel pulse to the cylinder. A controller is programmed to issue a first fuel pulse command to actuate the fuel injector allowing fuel to pass through the fuel injector as a first fuel mass. The controller is also programmed to monitor a voltage across the fuel injector, and determine a preliminary fuel injector opening magnitude based on a rate of change of voltage. The controller is further programmed to assign the preliminary fuel injector opening magnitude as a maximum fuel injector opening magnitude in response to the first fuel mass being greater than a quantity threshold. The controller is further programmed to apply a scaling factor to adjust a second fuel pulse command to normalize the maximum fuel injector opening magnitude value to a predetermined full open value.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Yiran Hu, Scott E. Parrish
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Patent number: 10273924Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a mild hybrid vehicle includes an engine including a plurality of combustion chambers for generating driving torque by burning fuel, at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve for opening and closing each of the combustion chambers, an MHSG (mild hybrid starter and generator) for assisting the driving torque of the engine and selectively being operated as a generator, a VVA (variable valve apparatus) including an oil control valve that changes a direction of a path for flowing engine oil in order to adjust opening timing, lift, and duration of the intake valve and the exhaust valve, and a controller operating the MHSG to assist the engine torque when the oil control valve is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Hyun Kim, Ki Hong Kang, Sung Il You, Hwa Yong Jang, Yong Ug Kim, YoungMin Kim