Patents Issued in July 14, 2020
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Patent number: 10711631Abstract: A turbine engine such as a pusher fan engine is provided. This turbine engine includes a nacelle with a bypass flowpath. A fan rotor is configured to propel air out of the bypass flowpath. A plurality of guide vanes are configured to direct the air to the fan rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Wesley K. Lord, Jayant Sabnis, Jesse M. Chandler
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Patent number: 10711632Abstract: A turbine engine having a variable nozzle assembly that includes: a variable nozzle having an airfoil that extends radially across an annulus formed between inner and outer platforms; and a segmented shaft that translates a torque between segments included therewithin. The segmented shaft may include a first and second segment. The first segment of the segmented shaft may include: the airfoil of the variable nozzle; an outer stem extending from the outer end of the airfoil; and an inner stem extending from the inner end of the airfoil. A first and second connector may connect the first segment to the inner platform and outer platform, respectively. A third connector may connect the first segment to the second segment. The first and second connector may include a first and second spherical bearing, respectively. The third connector may include a first universal joint.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zachary John Snider, Gary Charles Liotta
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Patent number: 10711633Abstract: A main stop valve includes: a hydraulic cylinder; a piston arranged in a hydraulic cylinder; a valve rod connected to the piston; and a valve body connected to the valve rod and configured to block a steam passage. The main stop valve further includes: a pilot cylinder having a communication port in fluid communication with the hydraulic cylinder; a rod connected in parallel with the valve rod and configured to be inserted from one end of the pilot cylinder; a sliding ring provided on the rod; and a pilot sleeve configured to be slidably fitted into an inner surface of the pilot cylinder and slidably fitted into an outer peripheral surface of the sliding ring in a section between the one end of the pilot cylinder and the communication port.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: ELLIOTT EBARA TURBOMACHINERY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Okamoto, Teruo Kamijima, Ryohei Shibata, Wataru Miura
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Patent number: 10711634Abstract: An engine health monitoring system includes an engine component having a sensor system configured to monitor at least one parameter of the component. An autonomous monitoring system is coupled to the sensor system and is configured to receive and store the at least one monitored parameter while an engine controller is unpowered. The engine controller is communicatively coupled to the autonomous monitoring system.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventor: Denman H. James
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Patent number: 10711635Abstract: An apparatus and method for a multiple layer fan casing surrounding a fan having a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades rotatable about a rotational axis and having a sub-portion defining a blade impact zone, the multiple layers comprising an inner fiber layer confronting the blades, an outer fiber layer overlying the inner carbon layer, a glass layer sandwiched between the inner and outer composite fiber layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Frank Worthoff, Benjamin James Roby, Scott Roger Finn
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Patent number: 10711636Abstract: A system for coating a component is provided. The system includes a feedstock supply, a carrier fluid supply, and a thermal spray gun coupled in flow communication with the feedstock supply and the carrier fluid supply. The feedstock supply contains a substantially homogeneous powder mixture of a first powder and a second powder. The second powder is softer than the first powder and has a percentage by mass of the powder mixture of between about 0.1% and about 3.0%.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eklavya Calla, Joydeep Pal, Krishnamurthy Anand
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Patent number: 10711637Abstract: A turbine component assembly is disclosed, including a first component, a second component, and an interface shield. The first component is arranged to be disposed adjacent to a hot gas path, and includes a ceramic matrix composite composition. The second component is adjacent to the first component and arranged to be disposed distal from the hot gas path across the first component. The interface shield is disposed on a contact region of the first component, and directly contacts the second component.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Glenn Curtis Taxacher, Bruce Badding, Herbert Chidsey Roberts, III
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Patent number: 10711638Abstract: A vibration resistant fan guide vane for a gas turbine engine is provided. The fan guide vane comprises a vibration damping component made of a MAXMET composite. The damping component may be a cover that covers some or all of the fan guide vane body. Alternatively, portions of the fan guide vane body or the entire vane body may be made from MAXMET composites. The disclosure makes use of the ultrahigh, fully reversible, non-linear elastic hysteresis behavior that MAXMET composites exhibit during cyclic elastic deformation in order to damp vibration.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Shahram Amini, Christopher W. Strock, Sergei F. Burlatsky, Dmitri Novikov
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Patent number: 10711639Abstract: A turbomachine may include a turbine arranged in a housing and configured to be acted on with a hot working medium. The turbomachine may include at least one bypass channel for heating the housing through the working medium. The bypass channel may extend completely within the housing and be configured to bypass the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Sebastian Ewert, Rolf Mueller, Holger Oechslen, Peter Wieske
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Patent number: 10711640Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section. The turbine section includes a high pressure turbine first stage blade having an outer tip, and a blade outer air seal positioned radially outwardly of the outer tip. A tap taps air having been compressed by the compressor, the tapped air being passed through a heat exchanger. A vane section has vanes downstream of the combustor, but upstream of the first stage blade, and the air downstream of the heat exchanger passes radially inwardly of the combustor, along an axial length of the combustor, and then radially outwardly through a hollow chamber in the vanes, and then across the blade outer air seal, to cool the blade outer air seal.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Jonathan Ortiz, Lane Mikal Thornton, Matthew A. Devore
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Patent number: 10711641Abstract: A compressor includes a compressor bundle and an outer casing. Between the outer casing and the compressor bundle a thermal shield is provided, for reducing thermal stress and visco-plastic deformation of the casing under severe operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: NUOVO PIGNONE SRLInventors: Silvio Giachetti, Massimiliano Borghetti, Luca Lombardi
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Patent number: 10711642Abstract: A lubrication system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The lubrication system includes a supply source of a fluid lubricant, a main supply pump, and a boost pump system. The main supply pump has an MSP fluid flow inlet port and an MSP fluid flow exit port. The main supply pump is configured to receive a source fluid lubricant flow at a first pressure, and configured to produce a supply fluid flow at a second pressure. The second pressure is greater than the first pressure. The boost pump system has a boost pump having a BP fluid flow inlet port, and a BP fluid flow exit port. The boost pump system is configured so that the boost pump selectively receives at least a portion of the supply fluid flow from the main supply pump at the BP fluid flow inlet port, and the boost pump is configured to produce a boost supply fluid flow at a third pressure at the BP fluid flow exit port, wherein the third pressure is greater than the second pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Francis Parnin, Alan J. Goetschius, Thomas B. Avis
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Patent number: 10711643Abstract: A turbine engine is provided with a longitudinal rotation axis having at least one shaft with a radial axis, in particular a pitch change system for the blades of a propeller, said shaft traversing a radial passage of a substantially cylindrical case around the longitudinal axis. The turbine engine includes an annular oil guiding device around the radial shaft. The device has first and second annular parts nested in one another and secured to one another by hooping. The first part is secured by hooping to the radial shaft, and the second part is configured so as to be separated from the first part under the action of a force oriented along the radial axis and exerted on the second part by a member of the turbine engine forming a stop during a radial movement of the radial shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Clément Cottet, Fabrice Michel François René Cretin, Christophe Paul Jacquemard, Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Leny Toribio
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Patent number: 10711644Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a bearing compartment that has an inlet. A supply line splits into a supply conduit and a reservoir conduit that are fluidly parallel to one another for a length. The reservoir conduit fluidly rejoins the supply conduit at a junction. The supply conduit is fluidly connected to the inlet, and the reservoir conduit includes a flow restrictor upstream from the junction. A main pump is fluidly connected to the supply line and is configured to supply a lubricant to the bearing compartment through the supply line and supply and reservoir conduits in an operating state. The main pump has a non-operating state in which the reservoir conduit is configured to slowly refill the supply conduit through the flow restrictor.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Bruce Avis, Francis Parnin
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Patent number: 10711645Abstract: A lubrication system for use with a gas turbine engine includes a first reservoir for containing a lubricant. The first reservoir includes a first discharge passage through which the lubricant is flowable in a first direction. A second reservoir contains the lubricant. The second reservoir includes a second discharge passage through which the lubricant is flowable in a second direction. The first direction is generally opposite to the second direction. A first pump pumps the lubricant from the first reservoir. A second pump pumps the lubricant from the second reservoir. A manifold distributes the lubricant to a component. The lubricant from the first pump and the second pump flows into the manifold and exits the manifold through a manifold discharge.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Denman H. James
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Patent number: 10711646Abstract: A catch assembly is provided that includes a keeper, a guide and a catch. The catch includes a catch mount, a catch arm and a catch hook. The catch arm is cantilevered from the catch mount. The catch arm extends longitudinally away from the catch mount to a distal end of the catch. The catch hook is connected to the catch arm at the distal end. The catch is configured to bias the catch hook against the guide. The catch hook is configured to slide longitudinally along the guide from a first position to a second position where the catch hook engages the keeper.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Rohr, Inc.Inventor: Michael Sean Pretty
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Patent number: 10711647Abstract: Included in a gas turbine casing and a gas turbine are a first casing that has a first flange portion, first connecting holes, and first notches; a second casing that has a second flange portion, a plurality of second connecting holes, and second notches; and fastening bolts to fasten the first flange portion and the second flange portion with the portions being closely attached to each other and with each fastening bolt penetrating the corresponding first and second connecting holes. A first radial direction ratio (L/H) is set to be from 0.09 to 0.11 where H is a length of each of the first flange portion and the second flange portion in a radial direction, and L is a length of each of the first notch and the second notch in a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Uetsuki, Eiichi Yanagisawa, Tadayuki Hanada, Yohei Fujimoto, Takafumi Ota
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Patent number: 10711648Abstract: A example nosecone support of a gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a spar to extend radially from a nosecone. The spar is configured to attach to a case to support the nosecone.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: David Maliniak
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Patent number: 10711649Abstract: According to one example, an assembly for a repair of a compressor casing of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The assembly can comprise: an arcuate track configured to be mounted to the casing, wherein when mounted to the casing the track is configured to be spaced in a substantially concentric arrangement from an inner surface of the casing; a carrier coupled to the track and movable therealong; and a machining device mounted to the carrier, the carrier configured to adjust at least an axial position of the machining device relative to the track for machining the inner surface of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.Inventors: Chet Carter, Noah Rowe
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Patent number: 10711650Abstract: An internal structure of a primary exhaust duct of a turbomachine. The internal structure comprises a primary wall comprising a surface of revolution, allowing air to pass through the orifices and forming an internal surface of the primary exhaust duct, an interior skin, comprising a surface of revolution, arranged inside the primary wall and extending between an upstream flank for facing toward the front of the turbomachine and a downstream flank for facing toward the rear of the turbomachine, and a plurality of spacers angularly distributed around a periphery of the interior skin and fixed between the primary wall and the interior skin. The particular way in which the interior wall is fixed makes the internal structure easier to construct and allows attenuation of noise at chosen frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Laurent Bertandeau, Grégory De Oliveira, Erwan Krier, Sandrine Andre, Morad Kassem, Michael Kilkenny
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Patent number: 10711651Abstract: A rotating device for an at least partially opened gas turbine, is designed for being mounted on a parting line of the housing of the at least partially opened gas turbine by way of at least one connecting portion, wherein the rotating device has at least one first fastening portion, which is designed for mechanically interacting with a force-transmitting connection, in particular at least one traction cable, in order to pass on mechanically a rotating movement of at least one component of the at least partially opened gas turbine, wherein it has at least one sleeve, which has at least one second fastening portion, wherein the sleeve is designed for being connected non-positively to the gas turbine rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Armin Hülfenhaus, Gang Yi Li
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Patent number: 10711652Abstract: Provided are a main steam piping connecting a steam generator and a steam turbine, a bypass piping branched from the main steam piping and bypassing the steam turbine, a bypass valve provided in the bypass piping, a warming piping branched from the bypass valve, a warming valve provided in the warming piping, and a control system. The control system controls the warming valve in such a manner that bypass valve temperature t is brought to within a temperature range satisfying the three conditions: (1) being equal to or higher than the saturated temperature of steam flowing into the bypass valve; (2) having a temperature difference from the flowing-in steam of equal to or less than an allowable value; and (3) being equal to or lower than a temperature at which the formation rate of steam oxidation scale rises.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Manabe, Hitoshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10711653Abstract: A process and system of extracting useful work or electricity from a thermal source, wherein heat energy from the thermal source is used in the form of a heated collection fluid; a first side of a heat exchanger is filled with a liquid or supercritical working fluid; fluid flow out of the first side of the heat exchanger is closed such that a fixed volume of the working fluid is maintained in the first side; the heated collection fluid flowed through a second side of the heat exchanger that is adjacent to the first side to affect a transfer of heat from the heated collection fluid to the fixed volume of the working fluid to raise its temperature and pressure; the pressurized working fluid is released from the first side of the heat exchanger upon the working fluid reaching a threshold state; a flow of the pressurized working fluid is directed to an expander capable of converting the kinetic energy of the pressurized working fluid into useful work or electricity; and the foregoing steps are repeated.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Inventor: Darrell Ford
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Patent number: 10711654Abstract: A valve timing controller includes: a driving side rotation member synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotation member disposed coaxially with a rotary shaft center of the driving side rotation member and rotating integrally with a valve opening/closing cam shaft; advancing and retarding chambers formed between the driving side and driven side rotation members; a valve unit disposed coaxially with the rotary shaft center and controlling feeding and discharging of a fluid to and from the advancing and retarding chambers; and a tubular valve case having an internal space extending in a direction along the rotary shaft center, accommodating the valve unit in the internal space, having an opening at one end in the direction along the rotary shaft center, and having a bottom portion at the other end.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Hisaeda, Takeo Asahi, Hideyuki Suganuma, Tomohiro Kajita
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Patent number: 10711655Abstract: A method of retrofitting a rocker arm assembly for an engine includes removing a first rocker arm assembly from the engine such that a camshaft of the engine remains in the engine. The method also includes providing a second rocker arm assembly that includes a rocker shaft, a rocker arm, a pushrod, and a hydraulic lash adjuster. The rocker arm is connected to the rocker shaft such that the rocker arm can pivot relative to the rocker shaft. The rocker arm has a first end, a second end, and a first oil passage. The pushrod has a top end and a bottom end, in which the top end is connected to the second end of the rocker arm and the bottom end is configured for engaging a camshaft of the engine. The hydraulic lash adjuster includes a housing, a first body member, a second body member, a check valve, and a biasing member. The first body member is disposed in the housing such that a first radial clearance exists between an outer surface of the first body member and an inner surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ashwin A. Hattiangadi, Charles F. Coffey, Kevin D. Yoder
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Patent number: 10711656Abstract: A control apparatus of a valve opening/closing timing control mechanism, configured by including driving side and driven side rotating bodies; a stopper unit; and an electric motor, includes: a phase controller controlling an electric motor to reduce, when a target phase is set, a deviation between the target phase and a current first actual phase and reducing power to be supplied to the electric motor as the deviation decreases; and a control target setting unit setting a first target phase displaced to a side of the first actual phase in an operation direction where the deviation is reduced when the target phase is set to a most retarded or most advanced angle phase, in which the phase controller executes a first phase control of reducing a deviation between the set first target phase and the current first actual phase.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Kakuda, Toshiki Sato, Shogo Katsuki, Yugo Kurahashi
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Patent number: 10711657Abstract: Systems and methods for varying a rotational relationship between a cam shaft and a crank shaft on an internal combustion engine (i.e., cam phasing) are provided. In particular, systems and methods are provided that facilitates a rotary position of a first component to be accurately controlled with a mechanism causing a second component, which can be coupled to the cam shaft or crank shaft, to follow the rotary position of the first component.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: HUSCO AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Austin Schmitt, Brian Heidemann, Dean Wardle, Allen Tewes, Michael Kujak
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Patent number: 10711658Abstract: A camshaft phaser or camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The camshaft adjuster includes a rotor, and a stator disposed about the rotor in a slideable engagement such that the stator and the rotor are rotatable relative to each other. A trigger wheel is configured to interact with an associated sensor for detection of an angular speed or position of the trigger wheel. A drive plate is configured to be non-rotatably fixed with an inner camshaft and rotatably coupled to the trigger wheel. In various embodiments, the trigger wheel has an axial face that defines an opening, and the drive plate has a tab with an axially-extending portion extending through the opening in the trigger wheel.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Shannon Bell, Gilson Arima
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Patent number: 10711659Abstract: A camshaft phaser for a concentric camshaft assembly includes a stator defining a cavity and configured to receive power from an engine crankshaft. A rotor is supported within the cavity and is rotatable relative to the stator. A drive adapter has a shank and a head. The shank is extendable through the rotor and is configured to engage with an inner camshaft. The head has an end face defining a first key feature and a continuous groove. A drive plate is fixed to the stator and includes a radial wall defining a second key feature engageable with the first key feature to rotationally fix the drive adapter to the drive plate. An annular gasket is received in the groove and is sealable with the wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventor: Shannon Bell
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Patent number: 10711660Abstract: An electric-hydraulic camshaft phaser assembly, including a hydraulic camshaft phaser and an electric camshaft phaser. The hydraulic camshaft phaser includes: a stator arranged to receive rotational torque and including a plurality of radially inwardly extending protrusions; a rotor arranged to be non-rotatably connected to a first camshaft and including a plurality of radially outwardly extending protrusions circumferentially interleaved with the plurality of radially inwardly extending protrusions; and a plurality of chambers bounded at least in part by the plurality of radially inwardly extending protrusions and the plurality of radially outwardly extending protrusions. The electric camshaft phaser includes: an input non-rotatably connected to the stator; an output gear; and at least one protrusion fixed to the output gear and arranged to be inserted into at least one slot of a second camshaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Dan Zehan
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Patent number: 10711661Abstract: A method for operating a drive apparatus, having a reciprocating-piston engine and an exhaust-gas-driven turbocharger, of a motor vehicle, the reciprocating-piston engine being operated in a four-stroke mode during on-load operation; and the exhaust-gas-driven turbocharger having an electrical machine, in particular a media gap machine, that is operated in generator mode during overrun operation of the reciprocating-piston engine. During overrun operation, the reciprocating-piston engine is operated in a two-stroke mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosh GmbHInventors: Michael Nau, Michael Bauerle
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Patent number: 10711662Abstract: A system for supplying hydraulic fluid in an internal combustion engine comprises a pumping assembly disposed within a housing and a hydraulic circuit, operatively connected to the pumping assembly, also disposed within the housing, which housing may be fixed or dynamic. A source of pumping motions is operatively connected to the pumping assembly, which source of pumping motions may comprise a valve actuation motion source or a component of a valve train between the valve actuation motion source and an engine valve. Pumping motions applied to the pumping assembly by the source of pumping motions causes hydraulic fluid received from a supply pressure hydraulic fluid input of the hydraulic circuit to be transmitted to an increased pressure hydraulic fluid output of the hydraulic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: JACOBS VEHICLE SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Justin Baltrucki, Scott Nelson, G. Michael Gron, Jr.
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Patent number: 10711663Abstract: A valve drive of an internal combustion engine may include a camshaft, at least one cam follower, and a hydraulic actuating element. The camshaft may include at least one first cam structured as a brake cam and a second cam structured as an exhaust cam. The at least one first cam may have a reduced cam lift relative to the second cam. The at least one cam follower may be connected to an exhaust valve of the internal combustion engine via a rocker. The hydraulic actuating element may include a plunger that is adjustable to an extended position and a retracted position. When the plunger is in the extended position, the hydraulic actuating element may be operatively connected to the brake cam providing a braking stroke. When the plunger is in the retracted position, the hydraulic actuating element may be operatively disconnected from the brake cam providing a cylinder cutout.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Patrick Altherr, Thorsten Ihne
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Patent number: 10711664Abstract: A valve drive may include a sliding cam element that is held on a carrier shaft so as to be axially displaceable along an axis of rotation of the carrier shaft. The sliding cam element may include at least one cam profile group with cam profile sections of mutually different form. The valve drive may further include a pick-off element by way of which a control movement can be picked off from the cam profile sections and transmitted to a valve. The sliding cam element may also include a second cam profile group that is similar or identical to the first cam profile group and, which for the joint control of one valve, may interact with the pick-off element.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AGInventor: Ulf Müller
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Patent number: 10711665Abstract: A camshaft may comprise a main shaft, on which at least two sliding cam pieces are accommodated in a rotationally fixed and axially displaceable manner, wherein the sliding cam pieces each comprise a carrier tube, on which are seated cam groups each comprising at least two cam tracks for valve-control purposes, as well as an adjustment element that can be brought into operative connection with an actuator for axial displacement of the two sliding cam pieces. A method for assembling such a camshaft may involve providing a module body with bearing bridges that receive the camshaft in a rotatable manner, inserting a first sliding cam piece into a first bearing bridge, connecting the first sliding cam piece to the adjustment element, inserting a second sliding cam piece into a second bearing bridge, and connecting the second sliding cam piece to the adjustment element with the aid of an axial adjustment distance of at least one of the sliding cam pieces in the bearing bridges.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Volker Junge, Kevin Wöhler, Merlin Depta, Michael Fricke, Thomas Rogatsch, Marko Curlic, Falk Heitling
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Patent number: 10711666Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring and controlling a cylinder valve deactivation mechanism. In one example, a method may include sending a lower command signal to a cylinder deactivation valve control (CDVC) system without actuating a cylinder valve transition, determining an impedance of a solenoid of the CDVC system while sending the lower command signal, and actuating the cylinder valve transition responsive to the determined impedance by sending a higher command signal to the CDVC system. In this way, the cylinder valve transition is performed when the impedance is high enough to prevent over-current.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam Krach, John Rollinger, Rob Ciarrocchi, Adam Richards
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Patent number: 10711667Abstract: A tubular roller valve for an internal combustion engine, which includes a hollow tube having at least one hole, the at least one hole being configured to access an air inlet or an exhaust of a cylinder in an engine block, a tubular outer insulator outside of the hollow tube, the outer insulator being fixed to a cylinder head, and a tubular inner insulator inside of the hollow tube. An additional tube between the hollow tube and the outer insulator can serve to operate as a compression release brake.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Inventor: Jonathan Tavernier
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Patent number: 10711668Abstract: An exemplary monitoring assembly includes a sensor that provides a first output when a lubricant reservoir holds a first amount of a contaminant, and a different, second output when the lubricant reservoir holds a different, second amount of the contaminant. A lubrication system monitoring controller operatively coupled to the sensor and configured to initiate a maintenance mode in response to the second output.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Md Shahnoor Amin
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Patent number: 10711669Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to rotating coalescers. One embodiment includes a housing comprising a first housing section having a blowby gas inlet structured to receive crankcase blowby gases from a crankcase. The housing further comprises an oil outlet. The rotating coalescer includes an endcap and filter media. The filter media is arranged in a cylindrical shape and is coupled to and positioned between the first housing section and endcap. The filter media is structured to filter the crankcase blowby gases passing through the filter media by coalescing and separating oils and aerosols contained in the crankcase blowby gases. The rotating coalescer includes a hollow shaft extending through the housing and positioned radially inside of the filter media. The hollow shaft forms a blowby gas outlet structured to route filtered crankcase blowby gases out of the housing. The rotating coalescer further includes a drive mechanism operatively coupled to the hollow shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.Inventors: Anthony Barreteau, Christopher E. Holm, Benjamin L. Scheckel, Alain Olier
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Patent number: 10711670Abstract: A muffler devised particularly for a small, reciprocating-piston two-stroke internal combustion engine of the type used on unmanned aerial vehicles. The muffler comprises a body incorporating an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of chambers for exhaust gas flow from the inlet to the outlet. The body is configured to present a compact profile for installation on the engine. The chambers are so configured that adjacent chambers communicate to facilitate exhaust gas flow from the inlet to the outlet via flow passages. The various chambers comprise an inner chamber, an outer chamber, and one or more intervening chambers disposed between the inner and outer chambers. The various chambers are disposed one about another in annular formation. This arrangement creates a long flow path from the inlet to the outlet incorporating various directional changes.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: ORBITAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDInventors: Stephen John Karay, Mario Charles Muscat, Pouria Mehrani
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Patent number: 10711671Abstract: A diesel engine system includes a diesel engine, an exhaust line, a particulate filter interposed in the exhaust line and an electronic control unit for controlling fuel injectors associated with cylinders of the engine. When an accumulated particulate mass in said filter reaches a predetermined threshold, a filter regeneration mode is activated, including activating post-injections of fuel by controlling said injectors, to determine a start of an automatic filter regeneration step, which is caused by an increase in temperature of exhaust gases fed to the filter. The temperature increase is sufficient to burn particulate in the filter. The post-injections of fuel are deactivated whenever a critical condition occurs for at least a first period of time, the critical condition being one in which a temperature value upstream of the filter exceeds a first threshold value. In this case, the regeneration mode is resumed following disappearance of the critical condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: FCA Italy S.p.A.Inventors: Alessandro Mauro, Vincenzo Colandrea, Danilo Garombo
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Patent number: 10711672Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling and coordinating control of a post-catalyst exhaust throttle and an EGR valve to expedite catalyst heating. By closing both valves during an engine cold start, an elevated exhaust backpressure and increased heat rejection at an EGR cooler can be synergistically used to warm each of an engine and an exhaust catalyst. The valves may also be controlled to vary an amount of exhaust flowing through an exhaust venturi so as to meet engine vacuum needs while providing a desired amount of engine EGR.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, William Charles Ruona, Thomas G. Leone, Gopichandra Surnilla
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Patent number: 10711673Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: a fuel injection amount acquisition unit, which acquires a fuel injection amount of a vehicle; a temperature acquisition unit which acquires a temperature of a catalyst for reducing and purifying nitrogen compounds in exhaust; a temperature control unit, which controls the temperature of the catalyst; and an execution control unit, which causes the temperature control unit to increase the temperature of the catalyst when the temperature of the catalyst is lower than a predetermined threshold and the fuel injection amount satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventors: Yuuki Sugaya, Takayuki Koike, Kenta Shioyasu
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Patent number: 10711674Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a carrier substrate of the length L, a passive nitrogen oxide adsorber and means to control the temperature of the carrier substrate, as well as a process for cleaning of an exhaust gas emitted from a lean burn engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Davion Onuga Clark, Christoph Hengst
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Patent number: 10711675Abstract: In a selective catalytic reductant dosing system including a reductant injector adapted to inject liquid reductant into an exhaust line, a method of analyzing flow of reductant through the injector includes determining a measure of the temperature of the injector prior to activation of the injector. The method also includes activating the injector and determining a measure of the temperature of the injector subsequent to activation of the injector. The method also includes analyzing the flow of reductant through the injector consequential to the activation by analyzing changes in the measure of temperature of the injector prior to activation and the measure of temperature of the injector subsequent to activation.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITEDInventors: Martin A. P. Sykes, Simon R. Panteny
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Patent number: 10711676Abstract: An apparatus includes a pump, a delivery mechanism in fluid communication with the pump, and a controller communicatively coupled to the pump and the delivery mechanism. The controller is structured to interpret, via a pump diagnostic circuit, first and second pump parameters indicative of first and second pump rates, interpret, via a dosing diagnostic circuit, first and second dosing parameters indicative of at least one of (i) first and second reductant flows or (ii) first and second injector characteristics, determine, via a delivery diagnostic circuit, a delivery status based, at least in part, on the interpretation of the first and second pump parameters and the first and second dosing parameters, and generate, via the delivery diagnostic circuit, a status command indicative at least one of an under-restricted delivery mechanism or an over-restricted delivery mechanism in response to the determination of the delivery status.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: Bharath Sundar, Apurva Arvind Chunodkar, Michael Haas, Astha Kukreja
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Patent number: 10711677Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas output from a combustion engine comprises a mixer housing including a wall defining an exhaust passageway having a longitudinal axis. A tubular swirling device housing extends along a first axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis. The tubular swirling device includes a plurality of openings through which exhaust gas enters. The exhaust gas within the tubular swirling device swirls about the first axis and exits at an outlet end of the tubular swirling device. A mixing plate is positioned immediately downstream of the tubular swirling device. The mixing plate swirls the exhaust about a second axis extending parallel to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Lawrence J. Noren, IV, Daniel J. Owen, Jeffrey W. Denton, Attila Kovacs, Eric A. Hein, Meng-Huang Lu, Manoj K. Sampath
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Patent number: 10711678Abstract: In the abnormality diagnosis device which carries out an abnormality diagnosis of the reducing agent adding device by obtaining a diagnostic parameter which is a parameter correlated with an amount of pressure drop in a reducing agent passage in the case where, from a state in which an addition valve has been closed and in which a voltage to be applied to a pump is controlled to a diagnostic voltage so that the pressure in the reducing agent passage becomes a predetermined pressure, the addition valve is made to open in a state where the voltage to be applied to the pump is maintained at the diagnostic voltage, and by making a comparison between the diagnostic parameter and a predetermined threshold value, the abnormality diagnosis is carried out by using the diagnostic parameter or the predetermined threshold value which is corrected based on the pump discharge capacity of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Kidokoro, Makoto Ogiso, Takeru Shirasawa, Kenji Furui, Kazuya Takaoka
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Patent number: 10711679Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for restricting work produced by combustion in a combustion chamber, wherein an aftertreatment system is arranged for reduction of at least one substance resulting from the combustion, wherein the work produced by the combustion is restricted when there is a malfunction regarding reduction of the at least one substance. The method includes: performing a first evaluation regarding the reduction of the at least one substance, when the first evaluation indicates a malfunction, performing a second evaluation regarding the reduction of the at least one substance, the second evaluation being different from the first evaluation, and restricting work produced by the combustion only when a malfunction regarding reduction of the at least one substance is indicated also by the second evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Scania CV ABInventor: Mikael Lundström
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Patent number: 10711680Abstract: An engine has a cylinder block with a deck face and at least one cylinder liner with a cylinder axis. The block has a first fluid jacket about the liner, a second fluid jacket about the liner, and a third fluid jacket about the liner. The first, second, and third fluid jackets are fluidly independent from one another and spaced apart from one another along the cylinder axis. A method for forming the engine includes using an insert to provide each of the fluid jackets. The insert has a lost core material surrounded by a metal shell.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Clifford E. Maki, Antony George Schepak