Patents Issued in October 29, 2019
  • Patent number: 10458282
    Abstract: An engine mounting arrangement is provided for supporting a gas turbine engine. The mounting arrangement comprises a module adaptor mounted to an overhead or a ground based carrier for rotation about a substantially horizontal axis. The module adaptor extends horizontally from a base to an axially-opposed distal end having a first mounting interface configured for attachment to a module of the engine. The module adaptor holds the engine by the module to which it is attached and with the other engine modules projecting in a cantilever fashion from the supported module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory Reinhardt, Joseph Swiderski, Douglas Pollock, Real Barrette, Stephane Mongeau
  • Patent number: 10458283
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, an example method is provided. The example method may comprise operating a pumped thermal system in a charging cycle at a first compression ratio, wherein the pumped thermal system comprises a working fluid circulating through, in sequence, a compressor system, a hot side heat exchanger, a turbine system, and a cold side heat exchanger, wherein the working fluid is in thermal contact with a hot thermal storage (“HTS”) medium in the hot side heat exchanger and the working fluid is in thermal contact with a cold thermal storage (“CTS”) medium in the cold side heat exchanger. The example method may also comprise operating the pumped thermal system in a discharging cycle at a second compression ratio different than the first compression ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Malta Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Laughlin, Philippe Larochelle, Nicholas Cizek
  • Patent number: 10458284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for variable pressure inventory control of a closed thermodynamic cycle power generation system or energy storage system, such as a reversible Brayton cycle system, with at least a high pressure tank and an intermediate pressure tank are disclosed. Operational parameters of the system such as working fluid pressure, turbine torque, turbine RPM, generator torque, generator RPM, and current, voltage, phase, frequency, and/or quantity of electrical power generated and/or distributed by the generator may be the basis for controlling a quantity of working fluid that circulates through a closed cycle fluid path of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Malta Inc.
    Inventors: Raj Apte, Philippe Larochelle
  • Patent number: 10458285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling the working fluid circulating in a closed circuit (10) operating according to a Rankine cycle, said circuit comprising a heat exchanger (22) for evaporation of said fluid, swept by a hot fluid (Ch) from a hot source (28), expansion means (30) for expanding the fluid in vapor form, a cooling exchanger (40) swept by a cold fluid (Fr) for condensation of the fluid in vapor form, and a circulation and compression pump (12) for the fluid in liquid form. According to the invention, the device comprises means (54) of managing the mass of fluid contained in circuit (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventor: Alexandre Duparchy
  • Patent number: 10458286
    Abstract: A method for converting heat from a heat source to mechanical energy is provided. The method comprises heating a working fluid E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and at least one compound selected from 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane using heat supplied from the heat source; and expanding the heated working fluid to lower the pressure of the working fluid and generate mechanical energy as the pressure of the working fluid is lowered. Additionally, a power cycle apparatus containing a working fluid to convert heat to mechanical energy is provided. The apparatus contains a working fluid comprising E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and at least one compound selected from 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane. A working fluid is provided comprising an azeotropic or azeotrope-like combination of E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventor: Konstantinos Kontomaris
  • Patent number: 10458287
    Abstract: A pushrod tube cover assembly for an engine includes a first tube configured to cover a pushrod and a second tube configured to cover the pushrod. The first tube has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the second tube such that the second tube is configured to be slidably positioned in the first tube. An annular groove formed in a first end of the first tube, wherein a diameter of the groove is larger than the inner diameter of the first tube. An annular seal is disposed within the groove of the second tube to sealingly engage an outer surface of the second tube adjacent to a first end of the second tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLC, Vulcan Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Edward Rolinski, Winfred Bryan Alexander, II, Timothy John Trenkle, Thomas Charles Freinik
  • Patent number: 10458288
    Abstract: A variable valve timing apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including: an actuator that activates a variable valve timing mechanism; a detection unit that detects a driving position of the actuator; a control unit that drive-controls the actuator, and when a predetermined execution condition is established, executes one of a first initialization process and a second initialization process that match the driving position of the actuator detected by the detection unit with an actual driving position of the actuator; and an abnormality determination unit that determines whether or not an abnormality is present in the driving position detected by the detection unit and stores an abnormality history after determining that an abnormality is present. The control unit executes the first initialization process when the abnormality history is stored and the second initialization process when the abnormality history is not stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shogenji, Fumito Takimoto, Takashi Nakagawa, Shunsuke Habara
  • Patent number: 10458289
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a phase control apparatus in a variable cam timing (VCT) system of an engine, the phase control apparatus having a locking pin coupled to a rotor vane and engageable with a locking pin recess in the phase control apparatus cover plate. In one example, a method for assembling the phase control apparatus may include positioning respective retarded side surfaces of the rotor vane and the housing in face-sharing contact while positioning respective retarded side surfaces of the locking pin and the locking pin recess in face-sharing contact and maintaining a backlash gap between only the advanced side surfaces of the locking pin recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Charles Hanshaw, Luke Brodbeck, Andrew Erich Mast, Shawn Kevin Carlisle, Paul John Adam, Joel John Beltramo
  • Patent number: 10458290
    Abstract: The phasing device for phasing a trunnion assembly of an internal combustion engine includes a rotary input member and a planetary gear assembly having a sun gear connected to the rotary input member, a ring gear connected to an actuator device and a planetary carrier connected to a rotary output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Andrew G. Balding
  • Patent number: 10458291
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes a platform having a non-gas path side and a gas path side, an airfoil extending from the gas path side of the platform, and a cover plate positioned adjacent to the non-gas path side of the platform. The cover plate can include a first plurality of openings that communicate a first portion of a cooling air to a first cooling cavity of the platform and a second plurality of openings that can communicate a second portion of the cooling air to the second cooling cavity that is separate from the first cooling cavity. Each of the first cooling cavity and the second cooling cavity can include a plurality of augmentation features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon W. Spangler, Russell J. Bergman
  • Patent number: 10458292
    Abstract: An actuator for axial displacement of a gas exchange valve of a combustion engine is configured to be connected to a pressure fluid source and a pressure fluid sink, respectively, and to be driven by a gaseous pressure fluid and includes an actuator piston including an actuator piston disc and an actuator piston rod projecting therefrom in the axial direction, a cylinder volume, the disc separating the cylinder volume into a first part and a second part and being displaceable back and forth in the axial direction in the cylinder volume between an inactive position and an active position, the first part being configured for controllable fluid communication with the pressure fluid source and the pressure fluid sink, respectively, and a hydraulic circuit includes a chamber, the free end of the rod being arranged therein, wherein the rod is displaceable back and forth in the axial direction in a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FREEVALVE AB
    Inventor: Anders Hoglund
  • Patent number: 10458293
    Abstract: Provided is a metering plate for a poppet-style valve in which the metering plate includes a peripheral edge structure that reduces the impact of edge variation as a result of typical manufacturing tolerances. The peripheral edge structure is located at the sealing surface and extends from the peripheral surface of the metering plate so as to avoid a sharp edge at the outer diameter of the metering plate. In embodiments, the peripheral edge structure is a chamfered surface or a curved surface. Small dimensional deviations from these surfaces resulting from typical manufacturing tolerances do not have a significant effect on the discharge coefficient of the metering plate. In this way, the discharge coefficients of poppet-style valves across a fluid admission system are contained in a much tighter range, thereby enhancing the efficiency of and control over the fluid admission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Farrow, Jerrod C. Pedley, Roger M. Kifer, Steven A. DeHerrera
  • Patent number: 10458294
    Abstract: A variable valve device for an engine, may include a camshaft; a movable cam device fitted over the camshaft to be slidable in an axial direction of the camshaft, and configured such that cams with at least two different cam profiles and a guide protruding portion are disposed along the axial direction of the camshaft; at least one shaft groove linearly processed to have a predetermined cross-sectional shape in an external circumferential surface of the camshaft along the axial direction thereof; a cam groove provided in an internal circumferential surface of the movable cam device to communicate with the shaft groove; and an insertion member inserted into a communication space defined by the shaft groove and the cam groove such that a rotational displacement of the camshaft is transmitted to the movable cam device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Soo Hyung Woo, Back Sik Kim, Seung Kook Han
  • Patent number: 10458295
    Abstract: A valve train device includes a camshaft, a first valve actuating unit for actuating at least one first gas exchange valve, and a second valve actuating unit for actuating at least one second gas exchange valve. The first valve actuating unit has at least one first release element connected to the camshaft for conjoint rotation and the second valve actuating unit has at least one second release element connected to the camshaft for conjoint rotation. The release elements are coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Matthias Lahr
  • Patent number: 10458296
    Abstract: A crankcase oil catcher, the crankcase oil catcher comprising one or more surfaces configured to catch dispersed oil in a crankcase and direct the oil along the surfaces of the crankcase oil catcher away from a crankcase casing wall and towards a crank sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Graham Pegg, Roland Paul Stark
  • Patent number: 10458297
    Abstract: Various embodiments of valve assemblies are provided for use in connection with the fluid systems of machines such as engine-powered machines. The valve assemblies may be used for performing fluid refill operations, fluid evacuation operations, fluid purge operations, and other types of fluid operations in connection with machine maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: RPM INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: John K. Apostolides
  • Patent number: 10458298
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine includes a first exhaust gas line leading into a first muffler; a second exhaust gas line arranged fluidly parallel to the first exhaust gas line and leading into a second muffler, wherein the first and second exhaust gas lines are respectively connected upstream of the first and second muffler at a branch to a common exhaust gas feed line; a control valve arranged in the first exhaust gas line upstream of the first muffler; and a damping device fluidly arranged between the branch and the control valve and adapted for damping exhaust gas resonance vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Axel Peters
  • Patent number: 10458299
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment apparatus for an internal combustion engine, in particular a stationary internal combustion engine having at least one catalyst unit for exhaust gases, which is arranged downstream of the internal combustion engine. Exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine can be taken past the at least one catalyst unit by way of a bypass conduit, and the at least one catalyst unit and the bypass conduit are arranged in a common housing. The housing has at least two separate feed conduits for untreated exhaust gas and at least one outlet conduit for exhaust gas treated by the at least one catalyst unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG
    Inventors: Friedhelm Hillen, Arne Bienholz, Bhuvaneswaran Manickam, Marco Dris Paul
  • Patent number: 10458300
    Abstract: An engine system may include an intake line, and a cylinder deactivation (CDA) device selectively deactivating a portion of combustion chambers in the engine. The engine system may further include a first exhaust manifold connected to a first plurality of combustion chambers mounted with the CDA device, a second exhaust manifold connected to a second plurality of combustion chambers without the CDA device, a first exhaust line connected to the first exhaust manifold, a second exhaust line connected to the second exhaust manifold, and a third exhaust line connected with the first and second exhaust lines through an exhaust gas processing device. In addition, a turbocharger including a turbine is mounted at the first exhaust line and rotated by exhaust gas. An air injection device may supply air to the second exhaust manifold or the second exhaust line in a catalyst heating mode of the exhaust gas processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hyungbok Lee, Jong Il Park, Kwanhee Choi, Joowon Lee, Dong Hee Han, Hyun Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 10458301
    Abstract: A reactant release arrangement for an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine has an exhaust gas guide element (12) with an exhaust gas flow duct (13). A reactant release body (14) extends into the exhaust gas flow duct (13) and has a reactant-receiving volume (20) with a wall inner surface (32) and a wall outer surface (18) of a body wall (16) that is open to the exhaust gas flow duct (13) via at least one passage opening (44, 46). Exhaust gas (G) flowing in the exhaust gas flow duct (13) flows around the reactant release body (14) at a wall outer surface (18) of the body wall (16). A reactant release unit (22) releases reagent (M) into the reactant-receiving volume (20). A heating device (38) is associated with an area of the inner surface (32) of the body wall (16) and heats the reactant release body (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Vempati, Enver Kurpejovic
  • Patent number: 10458302
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system may include a reductant tank, a gaseous ammonia source, an injector, first conduit and a second conduit. The injector may receive the liquid reductant from the reductant tank and the gaseous ammonia from the gaseous ammonia source and inject the liquid reductant into a stream of exhaust gas in a first mode, inject the gaseous ammonia into the stream of exhaust gas in a second mode, and both the liquid reductant and the gaseous ammonia into the stream of exhaust gas in a third mode. The first conduit may communicate liquid reductant from the reductant tank to the injector. The second conduit may communicate gaseous ammonia from the gaseous ammonia source to the injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc., Tenneco GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Devito, Ryan A. Floyd, Adam J. Kotrba, Padmanabha R. Ettireddy, Michael C. Bradford, Bradley Fingland, John W. Degeorge, Philipp Kreutziger, Manuel Kluck, Michael Flockert, Mathias Hund, Eric A. Hein
  • Patent number: 10458303
    Abstract: A vehicular urea pump module includes a structure capable of preventing urea from permeating into electrical elements such as a pump, a heater, and a sensor of the urea pump module; a structure capable of easily defrosting frozen urea; a structure of separating foreign substances; a structure of reducing vibration noise; a structure of enabling the discharge and suction of urea using a single pump; and a structure of increasing the efficiency of assembly for ease of assembly of respective elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundam Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Won Lee, Seung Hoon Choi, June Young Park, Tae Yoon Lee, Jun Sik Lim, Yong Taek Hwang, Chan Yo Jeon
  • Patent number: 10458304
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a quality signal (26). The quality signal (26) is provided by a quality sensor (24) used in a reagent metering system (10). The reagent metering system (10) meters a urea/water solution (14) stored in a tank (12), the quality of which is checked by the quality sensor (24), upstream of an SCR catalytic converter (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Michl Hofmann, Reinold Weinmann
  • Patent number: 10458305
    Abstract: A base for supporting a catalyst for exhaust gas purification, the base including a honeycomb structure obtained by superposing a metallic flat foil and a metallic wavy foil, characterized in that the wavy foil has offset portions where any adjoining two of the wave phases arranged in the axial direction of the honeycomb structure are offset from each other. The base is further characterized in that an oxide coating film has been formed in a given range of these offset portions which includes exposed edge surfaces that are exposed on the gas-inlet side, that the oxide coating film includes 30-99.9 mass % first alumina, with the remainder comprising at least one of second aluminas, Fe oxides, and Cr oxides, that the first alumina comprises ?-alumina, that the second aluminas comprise one or more of ?-, ?-, ?-, ?-, ?-, and ?-aluminas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tooru Inaguma, Shinji Kawasoe, Yasuhiro Tsumura, Shogo Konya, Masayuki Kasuya, Masafumi Omizu
  • Patent number: 10458306
    Abstract: An object is to prevent a wrong diagnosis from being made in an abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas purification system including a filter and a PM sensor. After sensor regeneration is performed, the application of voltage to the PM sensor is started, and thereafter abnormality diagnosis of the PM sensor is performed based on whether or not a signal is output from the PM sensor. Abnormality diagnosis of the filter is performed based on whether or not the output value of the PM sensor reaches a predetermined abnormality criterion value. If the output value of the PM sensor reaches the predetermined abnormality criterion value before a predetermined diagnosis completion time after the abnormality diagnosis of the PM sensor, the filter is diagnosed as abnormal, and the application of voltage to the PM sensor is stopped at that time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Takaoka, Toru Kidokoro
  • Patent number: 10458307
    Abstract: A 2-cycle, direct-injection diesel engine configured to accommodate low cetane diesel and jet fuels. The engine includes combustion chambers having surfaces which are operable at high temperatures during engine operation to increase the combustion rate of low cetane fuels. The engine is further configured to reduce starting times in cold and/or low pressure situations such as those experienced during attempts to restart a plane engine at relatively high altitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: DeltaHawk Engines, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas A. Doers, Robert A. Greco, Paul Olesen, Dennis Raymond Webb
  • Patent number: 10458308
    Abstract: A method of modifying the oil cooling system of a diesel engine includes the steps of removing the original equipment liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger and installing a manifold having a configuration adapted to match the mounting configuration of the oil passages of the original equipment liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger. The manifold has an oil outlet port directed to a remotely mounted oil cooler. The manifold also has a water passage having a configuration that is adapted to match the mounting configuration of the water passages of the original equipment liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger. The water passage causes the entirety of the flow of water to be discharged back to the water cooling system of the engine where it is circulated by the water pump through the water cooling passages in the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Neal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Neal, Kennieth Neal
  • Patent number: 10458309
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a blower unit that includes a movable bracket rotatably supported to a vehicle body, a fan supported to the movable bracket and rotationally driven around an axis, and a movable shroud covering the fan from an outer peripheral side. The movable shroud includes a shroud body supported so as to face the movable bracket and surrounding the fan, a ring shroud formed in an annular shape and provided between the shroud body and an outer peripheral end of the fan, and a bolt fixing the ring shroud to the shroud body from a side opposite to a side on which is supported to the movable bracket when viewed from the shroud body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohei Seto
  • Patent number: 10458310
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to suppress the occurrence of pre-ignition by appropriately controlling a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber based on a target temperature region in which the frequency with which pre-ignition occurs is reflected, without causing pre-ignition to actually occur. An ECU 50 acquires a wall surface temperature of a combustion chamber 14 or an engine water temperature or the like that correlates therewith as a wall temperature parameter. The ECU 50 is equipped with data for a pre-ignition suppression temperature region that is a region in which the pre-ignition occurrence frequency is smallest among temperature regions of the wall temperature parameter. In a pre-ignition susceptibility operating region A, the wall temperature parameter is controlled so as to fall within the pre-ignition suppression temperature region by operating a cooling water amount varying mechanism 38.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Motoichi Murakami, Hiroshi Yaguchi, Takeshi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 10458311
    Abstract: Internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder and a piston supported for repeated reciprocal movement in the cylinder so as to define a combustion chamber of an engine bore diameter A-A, the internal combustion engine further comprising an ignition device arranged in said cylinder having an igniter portion and an fuel injector which are both arranged in a pre-chamber, wherein the pre-chamber comprises a plurality of orifices for providing fluid communication between said pre-chamber and the combustion chamber, and wherein the plurality of orifices are of an overall orifice area so that the ratio between the overall orifice area and the engine bore diameter A-A ranges from 0.01 mm to 0.2 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE Powertrain LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Blaxill, Michael Bunce
  • Patent number: 10458312
    Abstract: A system for controlling enriched prechamber stoichiometry includes a prechamber ignition device, and an ignition control system that includes a sensor structured to measure an amount of at least one of CO2 or O2 in a prechamber, an engine timing sensor, a fuel quality sensor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is structured to receive signals from each of the sensors and determine an air-fuel ratio of the prechamber for comparison with a target air-fuel ratio, and produce a fuel delivery signal based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Wang, David Ginter, Jaswinder Singh, Arnold Kim
  • Patent number: 10458313
    Abstract: An engine exhaust gas circuit includes a primary circuit in fluid communication with an intake of an engine and an outlet of the engine. The primary circuit conveys a gas from the outlet of the engine to the inlet of the engine. The primary circuit including a valve body having a rotary flap rotatably disposed in the valve body. A bypass circuit extends from a branch point intermediate the outlet of the engine and the valve body to the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: L'uboslav Kollár, Carsten Ohrem, Ji{hacek over (r)}í Bazala, Guillaume Hébert, Ivo Vaverka
  • Patent number: 10458314
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid intercooler system integrated with an air conditioning system and a method of controlling the same. In accordance with the present disclosure, it is possible to stabilize the temperature of intake air passing through the inlet of an intercooler using a water cooling unit and increase the cooling efficiency of the intercooler using an air cooling unit. Consequently, it is possible to improve engine power and fuel efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Dang-Hee Park
  • Patent number: 10458315
    Abstract: A compressor structure for turbochargers 1 including a scroll piece 20, a shroud piece 30 and a seal plate 40 assembled with each other in an axial direction, wherein the scroll piece 20 includes a penetration part 22 penetrating in the axial direction so as to constitute a discharge port 13 and a first intermediate wall surface 23 smoothly extending from an intake-side wall surface 21 to the discharge port 13, the shroud piece 30 includes an inner circumferential side wall surface 32, and the seal plate 40 includes a protruding part 42 provided with a second intermediate wall surface 43 extending from an outer circumferential side wall surface 41 and facing the first intermediate wall surface 23 so as to constitute an inner wall surface 14a of an intermediate part 14 through which the discharge port 13 and the scroll chamber 12 are communicated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: OTICS Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Isogai, Tetsuya Niwa
  • Patent number: 10458316
    Abstract: The present invention is a device for controlling an amount of air fed into the intake of a supercharged internal combustion engine with the engine comprising two exhaust gas outlets (32 and 36) each linked to an exhaust manifold (30 and 34) in at least one cylinder (121, 122, 123, 124). A supercharging device (38) comprising a turbo-compressor with a double-intake (50 and 52) turbine (40) is connected to the exhaust gas outlets and to an outside air compressor (44) and to a partial transfer duct of the compressed air from the compressor towards the intakes of the turbine. The partial transfer duct comprises two branches (70 and 72) which are connected to intakes of the turbine each having a shut-off (74 and 76) which controls circulation of compressed air in the branches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Thierry Colliou, Bruno Walter
  • Patent number: 10458317
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a boosted engine system having an engine arranged to receive boosted air from a variable geometry turbocharger and an electrically powered compressor arranged in parallel with the turbocharger. During temporary high torque demands above a predefined level, the electrically powered compressor may be used to supplement the flow of boosted air from the turbocharger. Additionally, a recirculation circuit around the electrically powered compressor may be provided to build up pressure in the electrically powered compressor before it is connected to the engine so as to minimize fluctuations in engine boost pressure upon start-up of the electrically powered compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Cade, Steve Johnson, Paul Nigel Turner
  • Patent number: 10458318
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine comprising a scroll passage including at least first and second portions, a gas outlet extending axially from the scroll passage, a turbine wheel including one or more blades disposed in the gas outlet, and structure for establishing a bypass flow between the first and second portions of the scroll passage or for altering gas flow through the turbine. A method for adjusting exhaust gas temperature is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: VOLVO LASTVAGNAR AB
    Inventors: Adam Myers, John Gibble
  • Patent number: 10458319
    Abstract: A method of joining parts of the wastegate assembly, and a wastegate assembly includes an arm defining a hole. The wastegate assembly also includes a shaft. The shaft includes a first end disposed inside the hole of the arm. The shaft includes an outer surface defining a groove disposed inside the hole of the arm. The arm and the first end of the shaft are welded together to form a joint having a joint root region disposed adjacent to the groove. A turbocharger includes a compressor, a turbine and a rotating assembly driven by exhaust gas. The rotating assembly has a turbine wheel disposed inside the turbine and a compressor wheel disposed inside the compressor. The turbocharger further includes the wastegate assembly described above, and the wastegate assembly defines an opening configured to selectively redirect at least a portion of the exhaust gas to bypass the turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Grant W. Brady, Huaxin Li, Julie A. Swartz, Jane E. Preston
  • Patent number: 10458320
    Abstract: A wastegate actuator assembly includes a regulating rod, an arm, and a shaft. The regulating rod includes a proximate end region and a distal end region wherein the proximate end region of the regulating rod may be connected to an actuator. The arm includes a first end region and a second end region. The first end region is pivotally coupled to the distal end region of the regulating rod via a crank pin, a first cup spring, and a second cup spring wherein the first and second cup springs retain a solid lubricant substantially around the crank pin. The regulating rod may move in a linear fashion causing the arm and the shaft to rotate so as to move a wastegate cover connected to the shaft from a closed wastegate duct position (toward the wastegate duct) to an open wastegate duct position (away from the wastegate duct).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhe Li, Julie A. Swartz, Grant W. Brady
  • Patent number: 10458321
    Abstract: A charger device may include a variable turbine geometry having guide vanes mounted rotatably in a van bearing ring. Each guide vane may have a top side that runs in convex fashion from a profile nose to a profile end. A concave recess may be arranged on a bottom side of each guide vane at the profile nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BMTS Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roman Poltoratski, Florian Rentz, Ruediger Schwaeger, Senol Soeguet, Dirk Naunheim, Heinz B. Haiser, Jochen Laubender
  • Patent number: 10458322
    Abstract: This surge determination device is provided with a surge determination unit for determining the presence or absence of a surge of a compressor that outputs compressed air to an engine on the basis of a rotation speed of the engine and an air flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Yukio Yamashita, Mitsufumi Goto, Musashi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10458323
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder and a pair of opposed, reciprocating pistons within the cylinder forming a combustion chamber therebetween. The engine has at least one combustion igniter associated with the cylinder, a portion of the combustion igniter being exposed within the combustion chamber formed between the opposed pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: COX POWERTRAIN LIMITED
    Inventor: Christian Bucksey
  • Patent number: 10458324
    Abstract: A rotary piston engine having a rotor with an output shaft and a plurality of longitudinally extending cylinder-forming bores, each having a slidable piston disposed therein. The rotor is contained in a housing that contains an elliptical cam track that interacts with the pistons, upon combustion, to cause rotation of the rotor. An opening in the housing end cap admits air into the cylinders on the rear side of the pistons and a port delivers air driven by the rear side of the pistons to an intake port in the side of the housing where, in response to the angular position of the rotor, the air is admitted to the front side of a piston for compression with injected fuel. The compressed fuel-air mixture is ignited and an exhaust port in the side of the housing opens to discharge the products of combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Daniel J Edwards
  • Patent number: 10458325
    Abstract: A rotary engine includes an insert having a pilot subchamber defined therein and communicating with the internal cavity of the engine. A pilot fuel injector has a tip in communication with the pilot subchamber. An ignition element extends into an element cavity defined through the insert adjacent the pilot subchamber. The element cavity is in communication with the pilot subchamber through a communication opening defined in the insert between the element cavity and the pilot subchamber. The communication opening is smaller than a portion of the ignition element adjacent the communication opening such as to prevent the portion of the ignition element from completely passing through the communication opening upon breaking off of the portion of the ignition element from a remainder of the ignition element. An outer body for a rotary engine and a method of combusting fuel in a rotary engine are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Gaul, Andre Julien, Bruno Villeneuve
  • Patent number: 10458326
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder case that includes a first geartrain disposed on a front end of the cylinder case and a second geartrain disposed on a rear end of the cylinder case. The first geartrain drives a first camshaft, and the second geartrain drives a second camshaft, the first and second camshafts having respective rotational axes that are parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Craig P. Hittle
  • Patent number: 10458327
    Abstract: In an opposed-piston engine, two or more fuel injectors are mounted to a cylinder for direct side injection into the cylinder. The injectors are controlled so as to inject either a single fuel pulse or a plurality of fuel pulses per cycle of engine operation in order to initiate combustion during varying engine speeds and operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: ACHATES POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Clark A. Klyza, Fabien G. Redon
  • Patent number: 10458328
    Abstract: A combustion pressure sensor has a case member with a joint surface on the side of a tip end and in which an opening portion is provided. A joint surface of a pressure reception member on which a combustion pressure acts is brought into planar contact with the joint surface of the case member so as to block the opening portion. A welding portion joins the joint surfaces to each other. A piezoelectric element stored in the case member converts a pressing force based on the combustion pressure transmitted from the pressure reception member into a signal. On the side of one edge side in at least the one joint surface, the one joint surface is limited to a given depth of welding from the other edge side. A predetermined clearance portion is provided so as to form a predetermined gap with the opposite joint surface and a welding portion is provided which includes at least all the limited joint surface from the other edge side in the one joint surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: CITIZEN FINEDEVICE CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Takahashi, Yoshihiko Soga
  • Patent number: 10458329
    Abstract: A power generation process for use in a processing unit that includes the steps of: using a regenerator to produce a flue gas stream; removing catalyst particles from the flue gas stream; routing the flue gas stream to a combustor/expander unit after performing the step of removing catalyst particles; and using rotation of the turbine of the combustor/expander unit as a source of rotary power. Preferably, the combustor/expander unit includes a combustion chamber and a power recovery turbine housed within a single casing. In certain embodiments, the flue gas stream is routed between the regenerator and the combustor/expander without passing through a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Xin X. Zhu, Joao Jorge da Silva Ferreira Alves, Paolo Palmas, Richard A. Johnson, II, Michael R. Van de Cotte
  • Patent number: 10458330
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a fan drive turbine, a fan rotor, and a gear reduction driven by the fan drive turbine to, in turn, drive the gear architecture. A main oil supply system supplies oil to components within the gear reduction, and an auxiliary oil supply system. The auxiliary oil system operates to ensure that the gear reduction will be adequately supplied with lubricant for at least 30 seconds at power should the main oil supply system fail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: William G. Sheridan
  • Patent number: 10458331
    Abstract: Fuel injectors for gas turbine engines are provided herein. The fuel injectors include a nozzle configured to dispense fuel into a combustor of a gas turbine engine, a fuel conduit fluidly connecting a fuel source to the nozzle, and a heat pipe having a vaporization section and a condensation section, wherein the vaporization section is in thermal communication with the nozzle and the condensation section is in thermal communication with a cooling source of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: JinQuan Xu