Patents Issued in June 27, 2019
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Publication number: 20190195163Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a conduction time calculation unit, a detection unit, an estimation unit, a correction unit, a sudden change determination unit, and a reflection speed setting unit. The detection unit detects a physical quantity having a correlation with an actual injection quantity during the partial lift injection. The estimation unit estimates the actual injection quantity on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit. The correction unit corrects the requested injection quantity by a correction quantity corresponding to a deviation between the actual injection quantity and the requested injection quantity. The sudden change determination unit determines whether or not the correction quantity is in a sudden change state on the basis of whether or not the correction quantity has changed from a previous value by a prescribed quantity or more. The reflection speed setting unit sets the reflection speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki SATAKE, Tomohiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20190195164Abstract: A control device is applied for an internal combustion engine which is provided with a high-pressure fuel pump driven by a driving shaft of the internal combustion engine to discharge a fuel pressurized in a pressurizing chamber, an accumulator accumulating a high-pressure fuel discharged from the high-pressure fuel pump, and a relief valve which is opened when a fuel pressure in the accumulator is higher than a specified pressure in order to return the fuel in the accumulator to a specified chamber where a fuel has lower pressure than a fuel in the pressurizing chamber. An idle speed of the internal combustion engine is increased to a specified speed when the fuel pressure in the accumulator has been higher than a determination pressure, which is lower than the specified pressure, for a first period or longer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Yasuo HIRATA
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Publication number: 20190195165Abstract: A method of retrofitting a V-twin engine for increasing displacement. A cylinder replacement is performed by dismounting each of a pair of original cylinders from a crankcase. A pair of replacement cylinders are provided, each having a second cylinder bore diameter larger than a first cylinder bore diameter of the original cylinder to provide the V-twin engine with a second displacement greater than a first displacement of the original cylinder. A replacement spigot portion from each of the pair of replacement cylinders are aligned with a respective bore of the crankcase. The replacement spigot portion includes a second outer diameter larger than a first outer diameter of an original spigot portion. The second outer diameter of the replacement spigot portion and the crankcase bore diameter defining a subsequent diametric clearance smaller than an original diametric clearance of the original cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Tony Nicosia, Brad Bishop, Mark Dane
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Publication number: 20190195166Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes cylinders, a cylinder head that includes a pair of intake ports and a pair of exhaust ports for each of the cylinders, and a cylinder block that includes a block-side coolant passage. One of the pair of intake ports and the pair of exhaust ports is a pair of specified ports. The cylinder head includes an inter-port coolant passage between the specified ports. The inter-port coolant passage is connected to the block-side coolant passage through a communication portion. A flow direction is a direction in which the coolant flows in a portion of the block-side coolant passage that is connected to the communication portion. A center of a passage cross section of the communication portion is shifted to a downstream side in the flow direction with respect to a center of a passage cross section of the inter-port coolant passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiko SAKATA, Atsushi KOMADA
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Publication number: 20190195167Abstract: A cylinder head comprises a cylinder head body. The cylinder head body has two intake ports placed on a first side of the cylinder head body with respect to the plug hole, and the two exhaust ports placed on a second side of the cylinder head body with respect to the plug hole. A water jacket of the cylinder head includes: an intake-port-to-intake-port passage portion communicating with the outside of the cylinder head and extending between the two intake ports; an exhaust-port-to-exhaust-port passage portion communicating with the outside of the cylinder head and extending between the two exhaust ports; and a central passage portion communicating with the intake-port-to-intake-port passage portion and the exhaust-port-to-exhaust-port passage portion, the central passage portion being formed so as to surround the plug hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiko SAKATA, Atsushi KOMADA
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Publication number: 20190195168Abstract: A buried structure of a cast-iron insert for an engine bed plate, the structure may include a body frame formed of aluminum, and a plurality of supports, wherein the cast-iron insert is integrally cast with the each of the plurality of supports to form the buried structure, and the cast-iron insert has a protruding portion which is exposed at a position supporting a thrust bearing of each of the plurality of supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Byung-Hyun LEE
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Publication number: 20190195169Abstract: A system and method for vectoring the thrust of a supersonic, air-breathing engine. A thrust vectoring mechanism uses two asymmetrically staggered ramps; one placed at the throat, the other positioned at the exit lip of the nozzle of the engine to re-direct exhaust flow off-axis with the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Carlos F. Montes, Roger L. Davis
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Publication number: 20190195170Abstract: The turbojet comprises, linking two of its parts (1, 2) as a main nacelle portion and a rear nacelle portion, a device (4) which moves them relative to one another, for example in order to open a reverse gas thrust slot (3). The device (4) comprises a sleeve (5) and two rods (6, 7) which are coaxial connected together by two screw links (8, 9) and two locking means (10, 11) which may be engaged independently, such that the deployment of one of the rods (6) results in the opening of the slot (3) and the movement of the other rod (7), controlled by the same device (12), only occurs under specific turbojet maintenance circumstances.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCAFT ENGINESInventors: Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri PATSOURIS, Quentin Matthias Emmanuel Granaud, Antoine Elie Hellegouarch, Martial Alexandre Monseu, Clementine Charlotte Marie Mouton
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Publication number: 20190195171Abstract: A rocket engine benefiting from better behavior during its starting stage, the rocket engine (1) including a diverging section (13) and a lashing system (40) configured to hold the diverging section (13) while starting the rocket engine (1), the lashing system (40) comprising: a plurality of radial cables (42) connected at respective first ends to a plurality of points of the diverging section (13), and a peripheral cable (41) connected to the second ends of the radial cables (42) and configured to co-operate with attachment points (43) of a launch platform (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicants: ARIANEGROUP SAS, ARIANEGROUP SASInventors: Alain PYRE, Gérard ROZ
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Publication number: 20190195172Abstract: An air cleaner assembly (100) for an internal combustion engine, has a housing (10) with at least one intake air inlet and at least one intake air outlet (14) formed in the housing wall (18) for supplying an intake air to the internal combustion engine, at least one filter element disposed within the housing (10) for filtering the intake air, separating a rough air side from a clean air side inside the housing (10), and at least one flow straightener insert (20) comprising a body structure (40) with a hydrocarbon absorbing medium (30) disposed at the clean air side of the filter element. The at least one outlet (14) accommodates the at least one flow straightener insert (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Jason Worrall
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Publication number: 20190195173Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine using a neural network, wherein an output value obtained by experiments is made training data for a value of an operating parameter of the engine in a presumed usable range, while an output value obtained by prediction without relying on experiments is made training data for a value of the operating parameter of the engine outside of the presumed usable range. The training data obtained by experiments and the training data obtained by prediction are used to learn the weights and the biases of the neural network so that an output value which changes in accordance with a value of an operating parameter of the engine matches the training data, and thereby even outside of the presumed usable range of the operating parameter, the output value can be suitably estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiki KITAGAWA, Masato Ehara
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Publication number: 20190195174Abstract: This intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a first bank and a second bank includes: an intake pipe including one new-air intake pipe, two branched pipes, and a junction connecting the new-air intake pipe to the two branched pipes; an EGR gas pipe connected to the junction; and a partitioning member placed around an opening in the EGR gas pipe that opens toward the intake pipe. The partitioning member defines an EGR gas storage chamber. The EGR gas storage chamber has first-bank and second-bank flow passages in which the EGR gas flows toward the first bank and the second bank. The first and second effective cross-sectional areas in the first-bank flow passage and the second-bank flow passage are smaller than the flow passage cross-sectional area in the opening of the EGR gas pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Mitsuki ASAI
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Publication number: 20190195175Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine is provided. The exhaust gas recirculation system includes: an EGR passage configured to connect an exhaust gas passage of the internal combustion engine with an intake air passage; an EGR cooling system arranged at the EGR passage; and a control device configured to control the EGR cooling system. The control device is configured to provide feedback control of the cooling efficiency of the EGR cooling system to cause the temperature of intake gas suctioned into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine to approach a target intake gas temperature. The control device is configured to more increase the amount of change of the cooling efficiency when the flow rate of EGR gas recirculated is less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori MORISHIMA, Taku IBUKI, Takeshi GOTO, Ryo HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20190195176Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The internal combustion engine includes a plurality of cylinders, a fuel injection valve configured to supply fuel to each cylinder, an EGR passage configured to connect an exhaust passage and an intake passage, an EGR valve configured to adjust a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing from the exhaust passage into the intake passage through the EGR passage, and an air-fuel ratio sensor provided in the exhaust passage. The control device includes an electronic control unit configured to execute determination processing for determining that a degree of imbalance abnormality is greater when a fluctuation amount of a detection value of the air-fuel ratio sensor is relatively large than when the fluctuation amount is relatively small.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke NAGAKURA, Eiji YAMADA
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Publication number: 20190195177Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders, a fuel injection valve for supplying a fuel to each cylinder, an EGR passage connecting an exhaust passage and an intake passage, and an EGR valve adjusting a flow rate of exhaust flowing into the intake passage from the exhaust passage via the EGR passage, the controller includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute determination processing for determining that a degree of an imbalance abnormality is larger when a torque fluctuation amount is relatively large than when the torque fluctuation amount is relatively small.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke NAGAKURA, Kuniyuki SASAKI
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Publication number: 20190195178Abstract: An adsorber element for an intake air filter system of a motor vehicle is provided with a first flat filter material and a second flat filter material. Adsorber material particles are arranged between the first flat filter material and the second flat filter material. A cutout penetrates the first flat filter material and the second flat filter material. A fastening element is received in the cutout and prevents outflow of the adsorber material particles. The intake air filter system has a housing in which the adsorber element is received and non-detachably fastened to a housing wall of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Harald Auer
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Publication number: 20190195179Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an exhaust scavenging system for an engine system including an engine enclosed in an engine enclosure and an air intake system including an air filter having a filter element for filtering air. The exhaust scavenging system includes an exhaust conduit, a venturi, and a valve system. The exhaust conduit is coupled to the engine and is configured to receive exhaust gas discharged by the engine. The venturi is associated with the exhaust conduit and operates to generate a suction to draw air from the air filter and the engine enclosure. The valve system is configured to selectively fluidly connect the venturi with the engine enclosure or the air filter. The valve system fluidly connects the venturi with the air filter for facilitating purging of the filter element of the air filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Brian D. Hoff
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Publication number: 20190195180Abstract: A motorcycle intake air guide for feeding an intake air volumetric flow to a motorcycle internal combustion engine includes an unfiltered-air channel, a filtered-air channel, and an air filter therebetween. An intake air guide valve provided in the unfiltered-air channel is configured to change a cross-section of the unfiltered-air channel cross-section. The unfiltered-air channel has a double-flow design at least in sections with a first unfiltered-air partial channel and a second unfiltered-air partial channel which are merged downstream of a steering head of a frame of the motorcycle in a collection region of the unfiltered-air channel. The intake air guide valve is arranged in the collection region, downstream of the first and second unfiltered-air partial channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Fritz DUERMAIER, Dieter HABLE
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Publication number: 20190195181Abstract: An engine head assembly includes a plurality of fuel injectors each positioned within a fuel injector bore in an engine head, and fluidly coupled with a fluid conduit. Each fuel injector includes a valve assembly within a fuel injector case such that an interior fluid space is formed between the fuel injector case and the valve assembly. The fuel injector case includes an elongate body having a particulate-blocking perforation array formed therein, and that is structured to block particulates in fuel entering the fuel injector from the fluid conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron Michael Brown, Michael Edward Pickell
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Publication number: 20190195182Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat 15b and a valve body 27c that cooperate with each other to open and close a fuel passage, a movable element 27 that has the valve body 27c provided at one end thereof and has a fuel passage formed therein, a valve seat member 15 having the valve seat 15b formed thereon, an upstream-side communication hole 27boa that is located upstream of the flow of fuel and connects the inside and outside of the movable element 27, and a downstream-side communication hole 27bob that is located downstream of the flow of fuel and connects the inside and outside of the movable element, in which a guide section for the valve body 27c, where the valve seat member 15 and the valve body 27c are in sliding contact with each other, is provided downstream of the downstream-side communication hole 27bob and in which a fuel passage 17h for connecting in the center axis direction the upstream side and downstream side of the guide section is provided at the same angular position in the circumfType: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro SAITO, Nobuaki KOBAYASHI, Eiji TAMURA
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Publication number: 20190195183Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection nozzle in which a nozzle hole that injects fuel is provided to be exposed to a combustion chamber from a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine, and a hollow duct in which an inlet and an outlet are exposed to the combustion chamber. The duct is provided to penetrate through an inside of the cylinder head so that fuel spray injected from the nozzle hole of the fuel injection nozzle passes from the inlet to the outlet. The duct is preferably configured so that a direction from the inlet to the outlet corresponds to a direction of the fuel spray injected from the nozzle hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takeshi HASHIZUME
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Publication number: 20190195184Abstract: The invention relates to the technology of gasoline direct injection (GDI) in automotive engines. In this context, the invention provides a method for maximizing the formation of deposits in injector nozzles of GDI engines, said method including at least one test cycle, each test cycle including at least one testing step in which a predetermined condition of speed and load of the GDI engine is maintained for a specified period of time, wherein, in said cycle, in at least one testing step, the engine speed is maintained between 1300 and 3700 rpm, the engine load is maintained between 10 and 80% and the specified period of time is from 10 to 200 minutes. Thus, the method of the invention is able to reproduce severe conditions of deposition of material in a few days, so that, in a short period of time, the test fuel can be assessed for tendency to form deposits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. - PETROBRASInventors: Paulo Cesar PEREIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Guilherme BASTOS MACHADO, Tadeu CAVALCANTE CORDEIRO DE MELO, Marcelo LAURENTYS AIROLDI, Renata NOHRA CHAAR DE SOUZA, Flávio GOMES DEAS, Franck YVES TURKOVICS, Pedro Artur LIRA DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20190195185Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for starting an engine via an electric turbocharger. In one example, a method for starting the engine via the electric turbocharger may include flowing compressed air from the electric turbocharger to cylinders of the engine to crank a crankshaft of the engine without a starter motor. The method may include adjusting an opening amount of electrically or pneumatically actuated intake valves and exhaust valves to reduce a force to crank the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Eric Money
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Publication number: 20190195186Abstract: System comprising an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft, a crankshaft sprocket coupled to the crankshaft, an electric motor in mechanical communication with the crankshaft sprocket, a bidirectional engine position sensor coupled to the crankshaft sprocket, a controller in electrical communication with the bidirectional engine position sensor and a non-transitory memory having instructions that, in response to execution by a processor, cause the processor to determine a position of an engine component upon shutdown of the engine, store the position of the engine component at shutdown in the non-transitory memory, and control the electric motor at restart in response to the position of the engine component at shutdown are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: John P. O'Brien, Jeffrey S. Rauch, Luke A. Barnford
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Publication number: 20190195187Abstract: A hydraulic turbine suspending device is provided which facilitates the positioning of a hydroelectric generator in a waterway, and which is easy to work on. The hydraulic turbine suspending device is a support that suspends a hydraulic turbine (10) in a waterway by laterally bridging the same, and comprises a combination of a suspending beam (2) positioned in parallel with the upstream and downstream sides of the waterway; a plurality of stanchions (5) that support the edges of the suspending beam (2) in a horizontal position on the outside of the waterway; and a floor plate (6) provided in a tensioned state to the suspending beam (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Masahiko SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190195188Abstract: A wave energy converter deep sea mounting system consists of a floatable platform, an enclosure, a wave energy converter mechanism, a generator, a float arm, and a float. The enclosure is mounted atop the floatable platform by an enclosure support axle, about which the enclosure can rotate. The wave energy converter mechanism and the electrical generator are mounted within the enclosure. The float arm is connected between the enclosure and a stationary float, and as the floatable platform rises and falls due to wave action, the enclosure is thus rotated. The wave energy converter mechanism has a stationary input pulley connected through at least one pulley system to a generator output pulley, multiplying input rotations from the float arm action to the electrical generator in order to generate electricity. As the enclosure rotates about the stationary input pulley, the remaining pulleys are forced to spin through rotation about the stationary input pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: John J. Heim
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Publication number: 20190195189Abstract: A method and associated apparatus for determining at least one parameter of an energy conversion device, the method comprising determining one or more losses associated with the energy conversion device; determining at least one parameter of the energy conversion device by improving, varying, optimising or maximising at least one operational variable and/or output of the energy conversion device (such as a power output of the energy conversion device) by reducing, minimising or optimising the one or more losses or a function thereof; and determining a value, range or function of at least one parameter of the energy conversion device (such as a power or torque curve) associated with, or that results in, the improvement, variation, optimisation or maximisation of the at least one operational variable (e.g. power output) and/or output of the energy conversion device and/or that results in the reduction, minimisation or optimisation of the one or more losses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: POWER ENABLE SOLUTIONS LIMITEDInventor: Estanislao Juan Pablo ECHENIQUE SUBIABRE
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Publication number: 20190195190Abstract: A pultruded fibrous composite strip, a spar cap made from such strips, a wind turbine rotor blade having such a spar cap and a method for making a spar cap from such strips are provided. The strip is stacked with similar strips to form the spar cap. The strip has a substantially constant cross-section defined by first and second mutually opposed and longitudinally extending sides, and by first and second longitudinal edges. The first and the second sides include first and second abutment surfaces, respectively. The first and/or the second abutment surfaces has corrugated profile such that a plurality of longitudinally extending grooves are defined on the abutment surface having the corrugated profile. When the strip is stacked with similar strips, and subsequently resin is infused, the grooves on the abutment surface having the corrugated profile facilitate transfer and flow of the resin into spaces between the stacked strips.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Donato Girolamo, Jens Jørgen Østergaard Kristensen, Michael Noerlem
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Publication number: 20190195191Abstract: A pultruded fibrous composite strip, a spar cap made from such strips, a wind turbine rotor blade having such a spar cap and a method for making a spar cap from such strips is provided. The strip is stacked with similar strips to form the spar cap. The strip has a substantially constant cross-section defined by first and second mutually opposed and longitudinally extending sides, and by first and second longitudinal edges. The first and the second sides include first and second abutment surfaces, respectively. The first and the second abutment surfaces are non-planar. When the strip is stacked with similar strips, and subsequently integrated within shell of the wind turbine blade, the non-planar profile of the strips at least partially obviates formation of resin rich pockets at the interface of the spar cap and the shell and/or stress concentration between the edges of the spar cap and the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Donato Girolamo, Jens Jørgen Østergaard Kristensen, Michael Noerlem
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Publication number: 20190195192Abstract: A condition monitoring apparatus which monitors a condition of equipment including a rotor includes a storage and a calculator. The storage stores a plurality of results obtained from a plurality of divided data strings, respectively, resulting from division of a data string obtained by sampling at a regular time interval of signals from sensors provided in the equipment. The calculator estimates a plurality of rotation speeds corresponding to the plurality of divided data strings from the plurality of results accumulated in the storage, respectively, corrects the plurality of divided data strings based on the plurality of rotation speeds, respectively, and generates a corrected data string by combining the plurality of corrected divided data strings. A condition monitoring apparatus capable of accurately analyzing data obtained from the sensors while increase in cost is suppressed and influence by variation in rotation is lessened is thus provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventor: Toru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190195193Abstract: Provided is a rotor blade hub for a wind turbine. The rotor blade hub includes a connecting portion for torque-transmitting coupling of the rotor blade hub to a main shaft of the wind turbine. The rotor blade hub has a single-stage transmission which is non-rotatably mounted to the rotor blade hub at the drive input side and has the connecting portion at the drive output side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Albrecht BRENNER, Jochen RÖER, Jan Carsten ZIEMS
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Publication number: 20190195194Abstract: Disclosed herein is a turbine system comprising a support structure, a turbine assembly and a guide vane assembly. The support structure defines a central hollow and has an outer portion and an inner portion forming the periphery of the central hollow. The turbine assembly is movably coupled to and configured to be supported from the inner portion of the support structure to enable rotational displacement thereof along the periphery of the central hollow and about the first axis. The guide vane assembly is coupled to the outer portion of the support structure for circumscribing the support structure, the guide vane assembly comprising a plurality of guide vanes positionable for guiding fluids impinging thereupon towards the turbine assembly to thereby rotationally displace the turbine assembly about the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Guy Andrew VAZ
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Publication number: 20190195195Abstract: A fluid flow turbine having a turbine rotor with a plurality of blades (also known as “vanes”) for converting the kinetic energy of a flowing fluid into mechanical rotational energy of the turbine rotor is provided by this invention. The plurality of blades are defined by a continuously sinuous curve outer edge that results in the lateral surface of the blades having a lower concave portion for scooping up the horizontal incoming fluid flow and redirecting it to a substantially vertical fluid flow along the lateral surface of the blade. The upper portion of the lateral surfaces of the blades is convex, causing the upper edge of the blades to tail off laterally so that the fluid flow exits the turbine in a substantially vertical direction, instead of turning back upon itself to reduces turbulence of the fluid flow inside the turbine. The fluid flow turbine can comprise a small wind turbine that will produce electrical power at low wind speeds, and can be mounted to the top of a building.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Michael R. Theis
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Publication number: 20190195196Abstract: A system for slew ring repair includes a drive mechanism and a tool coupled thereto. The tool may include a fixture structurally configured to secure the tool to a frame on a top end of a wind tower, and a rotatable shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, where the proximal end is coupled to the drive mechanism and the distal end is structurally configured to insert within a housing on the top end of the wind tower that contains a slew ring of a wind turbine disposed on the wind tower. The tool may further include a grinder disposed on the distal end of the rotatable shaft, where the grinder is structurally configured to engage the slew ring while being rotated by the drive mechanism for repair or maintenance of the slew ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Wind Solutions, LLCInventor: Christopher James Winslow
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Publication number: 20190195197Abstract: A rotor arresting device for a wind turbine, to a wind turbine and to methods for arresting and for moving a rotor of a wind turbine. A rotor arresting device for a wind turbine having a rotor and a rotation assembly which is connected to the rotor in a rotationally rigid manner, comprising at least one coupling device which can be arranged on a static assembly, which is positionally fixed relative to the rotation assembly, of the wind turbine, having a first actuator, a second actuator, and a coupling element which is connected to the first and the second actuator, and a counterpart coupling element which can be arranged on the rotation assembly, wherein the coupling element and the counterpart coupling element are releasably connected, preferably in a form-fitting manner, in an arresting position of the coupling device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Jochen RÖER
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Publication number: 20190195198Abstract: A method for use in controlling a wind turbine generator based on a condition of a power converter or a component forming part of a power converter in the wind turbine generator. The method comprises determining a condition of the power converter or the component forming part of a power converter, then comparing the condition to a predetermined threshold and modifying an operational parameter of the wind turbine generator if the condition substantially equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold. In particular, the invention proposes the wind turbine generator is derated if the condition of the power converter or the component forming part of a power converter substantially equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Gert Karmisholt ANDERSEN, Lars HELLE, Morteza RABI, Poul Møhl DYRLUND
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Publication number: 20190195199Abstract: A system and method for protecting a wind turbine from extreme wind gusts includes monitoring a wind speed and a wind direction at the wind turbine. The method also includes determining a wind gust threshold, wherein wind speeds and wind directions exceeding the wind gust threshold, respectively, are indicative of an extreme wind gust occurring at the wind turbine. In addition, the method includes comparing, via a controller, the monitored wind speed or a function thereof and the wind direction or function thereof to the wind gust threshold, respectively. Thus, the method includes implementing, via a controller, a corrective action when the monitored wind speed and the monitored wind direction exceed the wind gust threshold, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Venkata Krishna Vadlamudi, Prashanth Kumar Reddy Vaddi
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Publication number: 20190195200Abstract: The disclosure relates to hoisting accessories for wind turbines. The hoisting accessory is configured to be rotatably attached to the rotor hub and is further configured to assume a hoisting configuration and a passive configuration, wherein in the hoisting configuration, a wind turbine blade can be hoisted and mounted substantially vertically to the rotor hub, and wherein in the passive configuration, the rotor hub carrying one or more wind turbine blades can be rotated. The present disclosure also relates to kits including such hoisting accessories and methods of hoisting wind turbine blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Gomez Daniel
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Publication number: 20190195201Abstract: Provided is a foundation building system for an offshore wind turbine, whereby a monopile is configured to be placed on the seabed, having an upper portion) with a first attachment interface for attaching a foundation platform unit, at least one internal, second attachment interface in an interior cavity of the monopile for attaching at least one electrical platform unit, and a third attachment interface for attaching a tower of the offshore wind turbine atop the at least one electrical platform unit, wherein the upper portion is to be placed at least partly above sea level, the foundation platform unit providing at least one foundation platform extending around the tower when installed, and the at least one electrical platform unit comprising at least one platform for electrical equipment for guiding and/or connecting of an connection cable for connecting the offshore wind turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Carsten Thrue, Soeren E. Nielsen
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Publication number: 20190195202Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a protective cover attached along the blade by a layer of adhesive. The adhesive is a general purpose adhesive, and the adhesive forms a joint or sealing between an outer edge of the cover section of the blade and the surface of the blade so that the outer edge is covered by the adhesive and so that the joint forms an oblique surface from the outer edge to the surface of the blade. The joint has a first height at the outer edge and a second height at the position where it ends at the surface of the blade. The second height is smaller than the first height and smaller than 0.2 millimetres, and the joint is integrally formed with the layer of adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Mads Kirkegaard, Thomas Gliese
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Publication number: 20190195203Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine blade for a wind turbine, having a tip end area, a tip end and a root end area and a lightning protection system. The lightning protection system comprises at least one metal foil, wherein said metal foil extends continuously from a first end in the tip end area towards the root end area of the blade and wherein the metal foil is arranged in proximity to the outer surface of the blade, so that the metal foil is adapted to function as a receptor of a stroke of lightning and as a down conductor. The lightning protection system further comprises a first metallic lightning receptor being in direct electrical contact with the metal foil, wherein the first metallic lightning receptor is disposed in proximity to the outer surface of the blade and between the first end of the metal foil and the blade tip end.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Hideyasu FUJIOKA
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Publication number: 20190195204Abstract: A wind power installation comprising one or more rotor blades, a rotor hub to which the rotor blade or blades are mounted, and a generator for generating electrical power, wherein the generator has a generator stator and a generator rotor which is non-rotatably connected to the rotor hub and which is rotatable about an axis, wherein the rotor hub and the generator rotor have a common main bearing system or means which is subdivided into two bearing portions which are spaced from each other in the direction of the axis, wherein in that the first bearing portion has a first radial plain bearing and a first axial plain bearing and the second bearing portion has a second radial plain bearing and a second axial plain bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Samer MTAUWEG
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Publication number: 20190195205Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine, including a rotor with a rotor shaft connected to a generator and a bearing housing, whereby the bearing housing includes at least a first bearing group and a second bearing group each comprising at least a primary bearing setup and a secondary bearing setup in which bearing is receivable, whereby the rotor shaft is rotatably arranged by the primary bearing setups or the secondary bearing setups.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Uffe Erikson, Edom Lemma, Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Kim Thomsen
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Publication number: 20190195206Abstract: Various examples related to a deployable gridded ion thruster are described. A deployable gridded ion thruster can include: a thruster body including an ion generating unit; and an expandable discharge chamber configured to expand from a stored configuration to a deployed configuration. The expandable discharge chamber can include a chamber wall having a first geometric shape compressed within the thruster body when in the stored configuration and a second geometric shape expanded outward from the thruster body when in the deployed configuration. Also described herein are methods of operation for a deployable gridded ion thruster.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Mitchell L. R. WALKER, II, Cheong CHAN
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Publication number: 20190195207Abstract: A hydraulic system for a work machine includes an operation member, a prime mover, a hydraulic pump driven by the prime mover, the hydraulic pump configured to output an operation fluid, a first temperature sensor to measure a temperature of the operation fluid, a first fluid tube connected to the hydraulic pump, an operation valve connected to the first fluid tube, the operation valve configured to control, in accordance with an operation extent of the operation member, a pressure of the outputted operation fluid, a hydraulic apparatus driven by the operation fluid outputted from the operation valve, a second hydraulic tube connecting the operation valve to the hydraulic apparatus, a discharge fluid tube to discharge the operation fluid included in the second fluid tube; and an actuation valve disposed on the discharge fluid tube, the actuation valve configured to control an aperture of the actuation valve based on the temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji FUKUDA, Kazuyoshi ARII, Ryohei SUMIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20190195208Abstract: A non-pulsation pump is provided with: a cam mechanism that converts the rotational motion of a shared motor into reciprocal motion having a prescribed phase difference; a plurality of cross heads that make reciprocal motion with a prescribed phase difference through the cam mechanism; and a plurality of reciprocating pumps that are driven with a prescribed phase difference and that include plungers connected to the cross heads, wherein the total discharge flowrate toward a shared discharge pipe is kept constant. This non-pulsation pump includes a preliminary compression step for moving the plungers of the reciprocating pumps to a discharge side by very small amounts before a discharging step but after a suction step, and has a stroke adjustment mechanism for adjusting the effective stroke length of the plunger in the preliminary compression step. Thus, generation of pulsation can be suppressed even when the set pressure changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.Inventors: Fusao MURAKOSHI, Hideaki SATO
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Publication number: 20190195209Abstract: A three-stage variable color paste pump, comprising: a differential pump, which includes: a rodless cavity, a rod containing cavity, and a piston rod; configuring a control valve, which comprises a valve body and a valve core, wherein the valve body is provided with a rod containing cavity opening which is in communication with the rod containing cavity; configuring a rodless cavity opening as in communication with the rodless cavity, configuring a color paste tank opening as in communication with a color paste tank, and configuring an injection outlet; configuring a channel on the valve core, moving the valve core to different positions may form three communication structures. The pump uses one differential pump to achieve three-stage injection output, thus ensuring the accuracy of the injection output of the color paste pump. The pump has a simple structure, takes up a small surface area, and is easy to use.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Song HUANG, Weidan XUE
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Publication number: 20190195210Abstract: A hydrostatic system has a pressure source and a hydraulic motor or a consumer. An additional hydraulic motor/pump unit is furnished for controlling the volumetric flow for the consumer or the power output of the hydraulic motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: MATTHIAS ROMMEL, BERT BRAHMER
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Publication number: 20190195211Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing suction pulsation and a swash plate type compressor comprising same.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Yeol Woo SUNG, Young Seop YOON
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Publication number: 20190195212Abstract: An electric compressor includes a casing which accommodates an inverter and includes a bottom plate on which a power board of the inverter is mounted and a cooling water passage which is provided in a housing and opens to a bottom plate of the casing. The bottom plate of the casing includes a first surface on which a power board is mounted and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A metal plate is buried at a position corresponding to the power board in the bottom plate and a rear surface of the metal plate is exposed to the second surface side and faces the cooling water passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Yuji SASAKI, Takashi YOSHIDA, Tatsumi INOMATA, Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takuya OZASA, Ryosuke YUMOTO