Patents Issued in August 27, 2019
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Patent number: 10393013Abstract: Disclosed are a coating layer including pores for thermal insulation and a method of preparing the same. As such, the coating layer may secure low thermal conductivity, low volume heat capacity and improved durability, such that the coating layer can be applied to an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Woong Pyo Hong, In Woong Lyo, Hong Kil Baek, Su Jung Noh, Seung Jeong Oh, Seung Woo Lee, Bokyung Kim
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Patent number: 10393014Abstract: An engine assembly including an internal combustion engine, an impulse turbine, and an exhaust pipe providing fluid communication between the exhaust port of the internal combustion engine and the flow path of the turbine. The exhaust pipe terminates in a nozzle. A ratio Vp/Vd between the pipe volume Vp and the displacement volume Vd of the internal combustion engine is at most 1.5. A minimum value of a cross-sectional area of the exhaust pipe is defined at the nozzle. In one embodiment, a ratio An/Ae between the minimum cross-sectional area An and the cross-sectional area Ae of the exhaust port of the internal combustion engine is at least 0.2. A method of compounding at least one internal combustion engine is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Andre Julien, Serge Dussault, Jade Bilodeau, Renaud Besner
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Patent number: 10393015Abstract: Methods and systems for treating a compressed gas stream. The compressed gas stream is cooled and liquids are removed therefrom to form a dry gas stream, which is chilled in a first heat exchanger. Liquids are separated therefrom, thereby producing a cold vapor stream and a liquids stream. A first part of the cold vapor stream is expanded to produce a cold two-phase fluid stream, and a second part of the cold vapor stream is cooled to form a cooled reflux stream. Various streams are fed into a separation column to produce a cold fuel gas stream and a low temperature liquids stream. The second part of the cold vapor stream is cooled by the cold fuel gas stream, which becomes a warmed fuel gas stream that is compressed and used with the low-temperature liquids stream to chill the dry gas stream and to cool the compressed gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Ananda K. Nagavarapu, Donald J. Victory, Robert D. Denton
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Patent number: 10393016Abstract: An inlet manifold for a multi-tube pulse detonation engine includes a vaneless diffuser disposed in a first zone to collect an air discharged from a compressor; a vaned diffuser including a plurality of guide vanes disposed in a second zone to slow the air from the compressor; a plenum disposed in a third zone located next to second zone to provide the air from the compressor to chambers; and a splitter disposed in a fourth zone to split the air from the compressor into an airflow required by each pulse detonation tube for detonation.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: James D. Hill, Michael J. Cuozzo
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Patent number: 10393017Abstract: A system for providing auxiliary power in an aircraft. A propulsion core comprises a compressor, a combustor, a turbine, and a shaft. An accessory unit comprises an accessory combustor, an accessory turbine, and an accessory shaft. A tank is configured to hold high pressure air and operably connected to the accessory unit. An electric generator comprises an electrical output and a mechanical input, with the mechanical input operably connected to the accessory shaft and the electrical output operably connected to an electric motor operably connected to the shaft. The electrical output is operably connected to an auxiliary power consuming device in the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Abraham Karam
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Patent number: 10393018Abstract: A hybrid power plant system including a gas turbine system and a coal fired boiler system inputs high oxygen content gas turbine flue gas into the coal fired boiler system, said gas turbine flue gas also including carbon dioxide that is desired to be captured rather than released to the atmosphere. Oxygen in the gas turbine flue gas is consumed in the coal fired boiler, resulting in relatively low oxygen content boiler flue gas stream to be processed. Carbon dioxide, originally included in the gas turbine flue gas, is subsequently captured by the post combustion capture apparatus of the coal fired boiler system, along with carbon diode generated by the burning of coal. The supply of gas turbine flue gas which is input into the boiler system is controlled using dampers and/or fans by a controller based on an oxygen sensor measurement and one or more flow rate measurements.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.Inventors: Song Wu, Allan Kukoski, Yasushi Fukuizumi
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Patent number: 10393019Abstract: Assemblies and methods for providing injection air to influence flow in a flow passage defined by a fan of a gas turbine engine are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving air into an interior of a nose cone; increasing the pressure of the air in the interior of the nose cone and directing the pressurized air; and discharging the air into the flow passage defined by the fan.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Hien Duong
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Patent number: 10393020Abstract: An anti-icing system for annular gas turbine engine inlet housings includes a substantially closed annular housing at a leading edge of the gas turbine engine inlet housing, the annular housing containing a quantity of air and a conduit extending from a source of high-pressure hot bleed air to the annular housing. The system also includes an injector connected to the end of the conduit and extending into the annular housing and one or more nozzles extending outwardly from the injector in a direction that the quantity of air circulates in the annular housing. The system may include one or both of an airfoil on an upstream side of the injector and an air direction element disposed one the injector that causes the quantity of air to be directed toward an outlet of the one or more nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROHR, INC.Inventors: Joel H. Frank, Lubomir A. Ribarov
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Patent number: 10393021Abstract: An air-inlet duct includes an outer wall, an inner wall, and a splitter. The splitter cooperates with the outer wall and the inner wall to establish a particle separator which separates particles entrained in an inlet flow moving through the air-inlet duct to provide a clean flow of air to a compressor section of a gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.Inventors: Crawford F. Smith, III, Victor Oechsle, Philip Snyder
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Patent number: 10393022Abstract: A cooled gas turbine engine component includes a wall having a plurality of effusion cooling apertures extending there-through from a first surface to a second surface. Each aperture has an inlet in the first surface and an outlet in the second surface. Each aperture includes an inlet portion, a collection chamber, a metering portion, a U-shaped bend portion and a diffusing portion arranged in flow series from the inlet to the outlet. The inlet portion of each aperture is arranged substantially perpendicularly to a surface of the collection chamber. The metering portion of each aperture is arranged to extend longitudinally from a first lateral side of the collection chamber and the diffusing portion of each aperture is arranged at an angle to the second surface. Each outlet has a quadrilateral shape in the second surface of the wall and each outlet is displaced laterally from the metering portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Adrian L Harding
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Patent number: 10393023Abstract: A tangential on-board injector for a gas turbine engine is provided. The tangential on-board injector includes a body having an entrance and an exit, the body having a curved shape and defining an air passageway between the entrance and the exit and an inlet extension connected to the entrance of the body, the inlet extension extending from the body and having an inlet configured to force air to change direction when entering the inlet of the inlet extension.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Mark F. Zelesky
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Patent number: 10393024Abstract: A multi-air stream cooling system is provided. The multi-air stream cooling system may comprise an inner vane support, a flow guide, and a fastened inner duct. The inner vane support may partially define a first airflow path. The flow guide may couple to the inner vane support and may partially define a second airflow path. The fastened inner duct may couple to the flow guide and may partially define a third airflow path. The inner vane support may comprise a discharge slot to allow a first airflow into a blade rim cavity. The flow guide may comprise a tangential onboard injector (TOBI) to provide a second airflow through a cover plate. The flow guide may also comprise a bypass passage configured to enable a third airflow from the third airflow path.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Michael S. Stevens, Brian C. McLaughlin
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Patent number: 10393025Abstract: A sealing arrangement is provided at the interface between a combustor and a turbine of a gas turbine. The turbine includes guiding vanes at its inlet. The guiding vanes are each mounted within the turbine at their outer diameter by means of rear outer diameter vane hook and are each at their inner diameter in sealing engagement by means of a front inner diameter vane tooth with a honeycomb seal arranged at the corresponding inner diameter part of the outlet of said combustor. The rear outer diameter vane hook allows a relative movement of the guiding vane in form of a rotation around the rear outer diameter vane hook. The sealing adapts the front inner diameter vane tooth and the corresponding honeycomb seal in their configuration to the rotating relative movement of the guiding vane, such that the compression of said honeycomb seal through transients of the gas turbine is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Wilhelm Reiter, Jost Imfeld, Marcos Escudero-Olano
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Patent number: 10393026Abstract: This disclosure describes a wall arrangement for a gas turbine engine, comprising: an annular wall comprising a plurality of circumferential wall segments, adjacent wall segments having opposing first and second end wall portions which define a separating gap therebetween, the gap including a saddle portion which faces radially outwards and comprises a first sealing face on the first end wall portion and a second sealing face on the second end wall portion; and, a longitudinal seal member having a curved sealing surface located within the saddle portion, wherein the curved sealing surface contacts the either or both first and second sealing faces along the length of the saddle portion in use, wherein the seal member includes axially compressible segments which allow the seal member to bend longitudinally.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Steven Hillier
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Patent number: 10393027Abstract: A multi-spool gas turbine engine comprises a low pressure (LP) spool and a high pressure (HP) spool independently rotatable about a central axis. The LP pressure spool has an LP compressor and an LP turbine. The HP spool has an HP turbine and an HP compressor. An accessory gear box (AGB) is drivingly connected to the HP spool. The LP compressor is disposed axially between the HP compressor and the AGB. A gear train drivingly couples the LP compressor to the LP turbine. The gear train is integrated to the AGB.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Guy Lefebvre, John Pietrobon
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Patent number: 10393028Abstract: A booster assembly for a gas turbine engine having a first rotor assembly comprising a low pressure turbine drivingly connected to a fan via a first shaft and a second rotor assembly comprising a second turbine drivingly connected to a high pressure compressor via a second shaft. The first and second rotor assemblies are arranged to undergo relative rotation in use about a common axis. The booster assembly comprises a further compressor arranged to be disposed about said common axis between the fan and high-pressure compressor in a direction of flow and a gearing having first and second input rotors and an output rotor. The first input rotor is arranged to be driven by the first rotor assembly and the second input rotor is arranged to be driven by the second rotor assembly such that the output rotor drives the further compressor in dependence upon the difference in rotational speed between the first and second rotor assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventor: Gideon Daniel Venter
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Patent number: 10393029Abstract: A method of controlling settings of one or more actuatable gas turbine engine components includes: providing a first matrix which relates reduction in the operational parameter maximum value during the transient manoeuvre to settings of the component(s); providing a second matrix which relates the operational parameter maximum values attained during the transient manoeuvre: time to attain the maximum value after transient manoeuvre initiation, and operational parameter rate of change at the time of the maximum value; monitoring the engine in operation to identify a start of a transient manoeuvre; predicting, on the basis of the second matrix maximum values, an overshoot operational parameter amount during the identified transient manoeuvre and a time the overshoot occurrence; selecting a setting, using the first matrix, to eliminate the predicted overshoot; and applying the setting to the component(s) for a predetermined period around the predicted time of occurrence to reduce or avoid the overshoot.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Timothy Tramontin
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Patent number: 10393030Abstract: Pilot fuel injectors for combustors of gas turbine engines are provided. The pilot fuel injectors include a swirler having an exit into a combustion chamber of the combustor and a nozzle located within the swirler. The nozzle includes a primary fuel circuit configured to atomize fuel dispensed therethrough and a secondary fuel circuit having a first sub circuit having at least one injection aperture a first injection depth from the exit of the swirler and a second subcircuit having at least one second injection aperture located at a second injection depth from the exit of the swirler, wherein the first injection depth is greater than the second injection depth.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: William Proscia
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Patent number: 10393031Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a vacuum generating throttle. In one example, a method may include pivoting the throttle based on a desired airflow rate and/or vacuum replenishment, where the airflow rate and/or vacuum replenishment are adjusted based on one or more passages arranged interior to the throttle.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Patent number: 10393032Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block that defines a cylinder and a cylinder head mounted to the cylinder block. A reciprocating piston is arranged inside the cylinder for compressing an air and fuel mixture at a geometric compression ratio of at least 10:1. A crankshaft is arranged in the cylinder block and rotated by the piston. An intake valve is operatively connected to the cylinder head and controls delivery of air to the cylinder for combustion therein. A mechanism provides a constant peak lift of the intake valve over an angle of rotation of the crankshaft that is at least 5 degrees, i.e., an extended dwell at peak lift. A multi-stage boosting system having first and second gas compressors is selectively controlled to pressurize air that is received from the ambient for delivery to the cylinder. A vehicle having such an engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Yongsheng He, David J. Cleary, Paul M. Najt, Jim Liu, David Sun, Bin Zhu
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Patent number: 10393033Abstract: A variable displacement internal combustion engine control system includes an engine having cylinders, each having an intake valve and an exhaust valve. An engine control module determines when to activate and deactivate the cylinders, and when to purge gas entrained in an oil system. A solenoid-actuated hydraulic control valve communicates with the engine control module to deactivate and activate individual cylinders. An air accumulation estimation program running multiple times per second for each of the cylinders identifies an approximate gas volume accumulating in a control port of the solenoid-actuated hydraulic control valve and if the gas volume has reached a predetermined threshold allows a purge pulse to be issued. The purge pulse initiates at a purge pulse initiation point during one of intake valve lift, exhaust valve lift, and when valve lifters of both the intake and the exhaust valve are on a base circle providing zero lift.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Allen B. Rayl, Jr.
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Patent number: 10393034Abstract: A multi-fuel engine includes an engine operable on a liquid fuel and a gaseous fuel. The multi-fuel engine also includes a liquid cutoff solenoid coupled to open and close a liquid fuel path to the engine, and a gaseous cutoff solenoid coupled to open and close a gaseous fuel source to the engine. A switch couples a power source to the liquid cutoff solenoid and the gaseous cutoff solenoid to switch between fuel sources on-the-fly during engine operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Champion Power Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Kendall J. Collie, Mark J. Sarder, Aleko D. Sotiriades, James J. Dehn, Leigh Jenison
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Patent number: 10393035Abstract: An engine device including: an intake manifold configured to supply air into a cylinder; an exhaust manifold configured to output exhaust gas from the cylinder; a gas injector which mixes a gaseous fuel with the air supplied from the intake manifold; and a main fuel injection valve configured to inject a liquid fuel into the cylinder for combustion. At the time of switching the operation mode from one to the other between a gas mode and a diesel mode, an instant switching to the diesel mode is executed when the engine rotation number is determined to approach the upper limit value which leads to an emergency stop of the engine device.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryoichi Hagiwara, Masayoshi Doi, Taishi Murakami, Tatsuro Ohsara, Osamu Yamagishi
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Patent number: 10393036Abstract: Systems and methods for increasing engine vacuum production and catalyst heating of a hybrid powertrain are described. In one example, a motor/generator rotates an engine at idle speed while the engine combusts air and fuel without providing torque sufficient to rotate the engine so that spark timing may be advanced or retarded from minimum spark timing for best torque to heat a catalyst and generate vacuum for vacuum consumers.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Ralph Wayne Cunningham
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Patent number: 10393037Abstract: A method for controlling intake and exhaust valves of an engine includes: Controlling opening and closing timings of the intake and exhaust valves by an intake continuous variable valve timing (CVVT) device and an exhaust CVVT devices; determining, by a controller, target intake and exhaust opening durations of the intake and exhaust valves, and target opening and closing timings of the valves based on an engine load and an engine speed; modifying current intake and exhaust opening durations based on the target opening durations via an intake continuous variable valve duration (CVVD) device and an exhaust CVVD device; adjusting opening or closing timings of the valves to the target opening or closing timings of the valves while maintaining the modified opening durations of the valves.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: In Sang Ryu, Kyoung Pyo Ha, You Sang Son, Kiyoung Kwon
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Patent number: 10393038Abstract: A two-stage air charging system for an internal combustion engine with mixed exhaust gas recirculation includes a high pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop, a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop, an air throttle system, a turbo air charging system, and an electric air charging system. A method to control the system includes monitoring desired operating target commands and operating parameters. Feedback control signals are determined based upon the monitored desired operating target commands and the monitored operating parameters. The two-stage air charging system is controlled based on system control commands for each of the high pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop, the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop, the air throttle system, the turbo air charging system and the electric air charging system.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Ibrahim Haskara, Giuseppe Conte
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Patent number: 10393039Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, while both a first exhaust valve and second exhaust valve of a cylinder are open, intake air may be routed through a flow passage coupled between the intake passage and the first exhaust manifold, the first exhaust manifold coupled to the first exhaust valve. The intake air may be further routed through the first exhaust valve, into the cylinder, and out of the second exhaust valve to the second exhaust manifold coupled to the exhaust passage including a turbine.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Corey Weaver
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Patent number: 10393040Abstract: A method and system for controlling an EGR valve for a vehicle may include an adjusting step of reducing the amount of air flowing into an engine at operation points of the engine lower than a predetermined value at each of the operation points by a controller; a learning step of maintaining, as a reduction-learning amount, a reduction amount of the amount of air from the predetermined value before a malfunction occurs, by the controller, when a malfunction occurs in the engine due to the reduction in the amount of air; a compensating step of determining a compensating air amount at each of the operation points by applying the reduction amount to the predetermined value by the controller; and an EGR controlling step of controlling an EGR-opening amount to satisfy the compensating air amount for a current operation time after the compensating step.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Seung Eun Yu, Young Ho Kim
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Patent number: 10393041Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a second exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a first exhaust manifold. In one example, in response to an intake throttle being at least partially closed, intake air may be routed from the intake passage to the second exhaust manifold via an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage where the intake air may be heated via an EGR cooler. The heated intake air may then be routed to an intake manifold, downstream of the intake throttle, via a flow passage coupled between the second exhaust manifold and the intake manifold.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Daniel Paul Madison, Brad Alan Boyer
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Patent number: 10393042Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing pumping losses during a partial deactivation. In one example, a method may include applying negative pressure to a deactivated cylinder group to remove gases trapped therein while an activated cylinder group continues to combust.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Juergen Stief, Werner Willems, Guohui Chen, Claudia Herudek, Frank Wunderlich, Christian Vigild
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Patent number: 10393043Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the temperature in a vehicle after-treatment system is provided. The system includes one or more temperature sensors positioned in the vehicle after-treatment system and an electronic control unit (ECU) configured by programming instructions encoded in computer readable media to execute a method. The method includes monitoring the temperature presented by the one or more temperature sensors, executing a lower oxygen combustion strategy for a slower exothermic reaction when the temperature exceeds a first threshold level, and deactivating the lower oxygen combustion strategy when the temperature drops below a second threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Andrea Pannuzzo, Andrea Dutto, Luca Gatti, Cristian Taibi
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Patent number: 10393044Abstract: A control device includes an electronic control unit. During deceleration of the engine, when a temperature of a three-way catalyst is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature and execution conditions of fuel cut processing are established, the electronic control unit executes first control for closing an exhaust shutoff valve, while fuel injection and ignition are continued. When the exhaust shutoff valve reaches the closed state in the first control, the electronic control unit executes second control for bringing the engine into an intake control state in which the intake throttle is closed and an EGR valve is in a predetermined open state. In the second control, the electronic control unit executes the fuel cut processing by stopping the ignition before the engine is brought into the intake control state and stopping the fuel injection after the engine is brought into the intake control state.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Ito, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yuji Miyoshi
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Patent number: 10393045Abstract: A method and system for initiating regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) within a diesel engine system comprising the DPF, a data link connector (DLC), and an electronic control unit (ECU) such as an engine control unit includes an engine communication interface (ECI) device and a communication device that request and transmit DPF inhibit parameters that indicate whether initiation of regeneration of the DPF can be performed. The ECI device can comprise two connectors that are connectable to different types of DLC. The communication device can comprise a smart-phone. The ECI device can determine which DPF inhibit parameter are to be requested from the ECU and which vehicle communication protocol is required to communicate with the ECU. The communication device can receive the DPF inhibit parameters, determine whether initiation of regeneration of the DPF can be performed, and transmit a communication to request initiation of regeneration of the DPF.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: IDSC Holdings, LLCInventors: David P. Shock, Thomas L. Kotenko, Dan O. Morris, Robert J. Hoevenaar, Daniel L. Doss
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Patent number: 10393046Abstract: A vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine including a fuel injection valve, a spark plug, and an electrically powered motor that rotates a crankshaft; and a controller that causes the internal combustion engine to start in a case where a starting condition is established while the internal combustion engine is stopped. The controller is configured to perform, when the starting condition is established, a first firing-combined starting that injects fuel into the combustion chamber by means of the fuel injection valve and performs, for a first time, a firing that ignites the injected fuel by means of the spark plug and, together therewith, starts driving of the motor, and after the speed of the internal combustion engine exceeds a predetermined determination threshold value that is greater than a resonance band, performs the firing for a second and succeeding times in sequence.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Naoki Hayashima
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Patent number: 10393047Abstract: An engine control system configured to operate an engine is configured to predict an expected duty cycle including an expected demand from the engine, and calculate two or more future operating conditions, each future operating condition including engine control parameters that, when used to control the engine, are expected to result in the engine meeting the expected demand. One of the future operating conditions is selected, and a present operation of the engine is adjusted in response to the selected future operating condition. A vehicle and/or offroad diesel apparatus may comprise the engine control system.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Inventors: Charles E. Ramberg, Stephen A. Dynan, Jack A. Shindle
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Patent number: 10393048Abstract: A control device is configured to perform, when it is estimated that a combustion fluctuation increases, estimation related to an ignition delay for initial flame generated from a discharge spark and an air-fuel mixture containing fuel spray injected by intake stroke injection. When it is estimated that the ignition delay for the initial flame is increased from that before the increase in the combustion fluctuation, an injection amount in expansion stroke injection is reduced in a next time cycle. When it is estimated that the ignition delay for the initial flame is reduced from that before the increase in the combustion fluctuation, the injection amount in expansion stroke injection is increased in a next time cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kotaro Suzuki, Shota Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 10393049Abstract: The control apparatus operates an engine water temperature adjustment apparatus so that the temperature of cooling water that passes through an engine head enters a first temperature region in a lean mode, and operates the engine water temperature adjustment apparatus so that the temperature of the cooling water enters a second temperature region that is lower than the first temperature region in a stoichiometric mode. When knocking is detected after switching is started from the lean mode to the stoichiometric mode, the control apparatus performs any one of a first operation to operate a variable valve apparatus so as to retard the closing timing of an intake valve, a second operation to operate an oil jet apparatus so as to increase an oil jet amount, and a third operation to operate an EGR apparatus so as to increase an EGR amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro Hotta, Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10393050Abstract: A reciprocating engine system includes a cylinder, a piston disposed within the cylinder, a knock sensor disposed proximate to the cylinder and configured to detect vibrations of the cylinder, piston, or both, a crankshaft sensor configured to sense a crank angle of a crankshaft, and a controller communicatively coupled to the knock sensor and the crankshaft sensor. The controller is configured to receive a raw knock signal from the knock sensor and a crank angle signal from the crankshaft sensor corresponding to vibrations of the cylinder, piston, or both relative to the crank angle of the crankshaft, convert the raw knock signal into a digital value signal, and at least one of a crank angle for a start of combustion, a peak firing pressure, a percentage of fuel mass fraction burn, or a combination thereof, based on the digital value signal and the crank angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: AI ALPINE US BIDCO INC.Inventors: Sharad Nagappa, Rahul Srinivas Prabhu, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Prashanth D'Souza
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Patent number: 10393051Abstract: An internal-combustion-engine fuel injection control device which can accurately control a boosted voltage applied to a fuel injection valve during fuel injection and can control a variation in a fuel injection amount without increasing a size or a cost of the fuel injection control device even when a width of a fuel injection driving pulse to drive the fuel injection valve is small is provided. A fuel injection control device includes a boosting operation control unit configured to start a boosting operation at predetermined timing regardless of an amount of a detected voltage when the detected voltage is higher than a threshold voltage for starting boosting and is lower than a threshold voltage for stopping boosting.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Fukuda, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Masahiro Toyohara, Yoshihisa Fujii, Osamu Mukaihara, Mitsuhiko Watanabe, Takeshi Konno
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Patent number: 10393052Abstract: A target injector valve opening period is calculated based on a target fuel injection amount, and an injector (2) is controlled by a current supply control unit (51) in accordance with an injector drive period acquired based on the target injector valve opening period. An actual valve closing delay period is calculated based on a drive waveform of the injector (2) at this time, and a difference between an actual valve closing delay period and a valve closing delay period calculated from a target injector valve opening period is learned. Then, the injector drive period is corrected by feedback control using a result of this learning.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Makino, Toru Tanaka, Osamu Maeda, Hideki Hagari, Hiroyuki Fukuyama
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Patent number: 10393053Abstract: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve, a heater, and a controller. The fuel injection valve is configured to supply fuel to the internal combustion engine. The heater is configured to heat the fuel in the fuel injection valve. The controller is configured to: control the fuel injection valve to stop supplying the fuel to the internal combustion engine, control the heater to execute or stop heating the fuel in the fuel injection valve, and control the fuel injection valve to prohibit the stop of supplying the fuel during execution of the heating by the heater.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Uchiyama, Hiromitsu Seo, Tomohiko Satomi, Takuya Takei, Masaya Murata
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Patent number: 10393054Abstract: A controller of an engine performs a failure diagnosis process for an injection valve. The failure diagnosis process increases a misfire count of the engine when a variation in rotation of the engine is equal to or greater than a predetermined variation in every predetermined cycle, and determines that the injection valve has a failure when the misfire count is equal to or greater than a first predetermined number of times over a predetermined time period. The controller determines that the multi-cylinder engine is in a predetermined load operation cycle if a volume efficiency of the multi-cylinder engine is less than a reference value, and the controller determines whether continuation of the injection mode is needed based on a comparison of the misfire count and a second predetermined number of times, wherein the second predetermined number of times is less than the first predetermined number of times.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hitoki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10393055Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for continuously estimating a direct injector tip temperature based on heat transfer to the injector from the cylinder due to combustion conditions, and heat transfer to the injector due to flow of cool fuel from the fuel rail. Variations in the injector tip temperature from a steady-state temperature are monitored when the direct injector is deactivated. Upon reactivation, a fuel pulse width commanded to the direct injector is updated to account for a temperature-induced change in fuel density, thereby reducing the occurrence of air-fuel ratio errors.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nathan Morris, Mark Richard Skilling
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Patent number: 10393056Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for calibrating engine port injectors. After pressurizing a low pressure fuel rail, a lift pump may be disabled and port injector variability may be correlated with a measured fuel rail pressure drop at each port injection event by sweeping injection pressure while maintaining injection voltage, and then sweeping injection voltage while maintaining injection pressure. A port injector variability map learned as a function of injection voltage and injection pressure is then transformed into a map learned as a function of injection current and injection pressure by accounting for injector variability caused due to changes in injector temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Adithya Pravarun Re Ranga, Gopichandra Surnilla
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Patent number: 10393057Abstract: An engine control device is provided which includes a first fuel injection valve; a second injection valve provided at such a position that the amount of fuel injected by the second fuel injection valve and adhering to the inner peripheral wall of a cylinder is smaller; a cooling water temperature detector for detecting the temperature of cooling water for cooling an engine; and an injection ratio determining arrangement for determining the ratio between the amount of fuel injected by the first fuel injection valve and the amount of fuel injected by the second fuel injection valve based on the temperature of cooling water. The injection ratio determining arrangement stores an injection amount adjustment operation range in which the injection ratio determining arrangement is configured to increase the fuel injection ratio of the amount of fuel injected by the second fuel injection valve, when the temperature of cooling water falls.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nozomu Nakamura, Kensuke Yanagawa, Fumiaki Hiraishi, Masayuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 10393058Abstract: Methods and systems for operating an engine with different fuels having different cetane levels are described. In one example, start of fuel injection timing for engine cylinders may be adjusted responsive to engine deceleration or combustion phase during engine cranking. The start of fuel injection timing may be retarded for higher cetane fuels and advanced for lower cetane fuels.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Brien Lloyd Fulton, Daniel Joseph Rinkevich
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Patent number: 10393059Abstract: A method of forming an engine is provided. A liner is cast with an outer surface with a first texture extending circumferentially from a first end to a second end of the liner. A section of the outer surface of the liner is machined to provide a second texture extending circumferentially about the liner and spaced apart from the first end, wherein the second texture has a lower specific surface area than the first texture. An engine and a cylinder liner for the engine are provided. The liner has first and second ends with an outer surface extending therebetween. An outer surface of the liner has axial sections defining different textures to form material interfaces with the block with different thermal conductivities thereacross.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Prasad Kamat, Jonathan Robert Burns, Daryl Gene Self, Bryan McKeough
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Patent number: 10393060Abstract: A water jacket coolant passage division member includes: a partition member that has a planar shape that conforms to a groove-like coolant passage provided to a cylinder block that is provided to an internal combustion engine; an inner-side rubber member that is provided to an inner side of the partition member, and comes in contact with a cylinder bore-side wall surface of the groove-like coolant passage; and an outer-side rubber member that is provided to an outer side of the partition member, and comes in contact with an outer wall surface of the groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which a cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature can be provided by utilizing the water jacket coolant passage division member.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Yukari Araki, Kentaro Mushiga, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Yoshifumi Fujita
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Patent number: 10393061Abstract: A cylinder head cooling structure includes: an intake-side cooling passage, inter-cylinder cooling passages, inter-port cooling passages, first cooling water supply passages that include an upstream end connected to a cooling water supply passage provided in a cylinder block of the engine and a downstream end which joins an upstream end of the inter-cylinder cooling passage; and blocking walls that are provided in the inter-cylinder cooling passages and extend obliquely in a direction from the exhaust ports of the cylinder on an upstream side to the intake ports of the cylinder on a downstream side to divide the inter-cylinder cooling passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Tsunaki Hayasaki
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Patent number: 10393062Abstract: Provided is a high pressure piston crown capable of withstanding a higher pressure than the existing piston crown by changing an internal structure of the piston crown reciprocating in a cylinder while being coupled with an upper portion of a piston skirt. The high pressure piston crown includes: a rib part 100 including a plurality of main ribs 110 that are radially disposed, have one side connected to a central portion C of the high pressure piston crown, and have a cross sectional area wider toward an outside of the high pressure piston crown; an oil gallery 200 formed by the rib part 100 and making cooling oil introduced from the piston skirt flow therein; and a lower plate 300 formed under the central portion C and connected to the rib part 100 to have an inside thereof connected to the oil gallery 200.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samyoung Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Geum Tai Han