Patents Issued in March 9, 2021
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Patent number: 10941681Abstract: Oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device each have a pump housing formed by housing body 31 and cover member 32, pump shaft 33 having driven side helical gear 43 at which thrust force occurs when transmitting rotation force and rotating a rotor by the rotation force provided from drive side helical gear 13 that is engaged with driven side helical gear 43, first and second thrust receiving portions 47, 46 formed close to hole edges of bearing holes 32a, 31a of the cover member and the housing body, and first and second thrust limiting portions 49, 48 provided at the driven side helical gear and the pump shaft, contacting the thrust receiving portions from axis direction and limiting thrust movement of the pump shaft. With this configuration, oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device which are capable of securing stable support of the pump shaft are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Kato, Atsushi Naganuma, Yasushi Watanabe, Hideaki Ohnishi
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Patent number: 10941682Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an oil filter system for a vehicle system. In one example, an oil filter system comprises a housing within which a plurality of oil filter elements are disposed and a frame supporting the housing, the frame including one or more mountings configured to support one or more vehicle sub-assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Paul John Fontecchio, Gregory Alan Marsh, Mark Thomas Zysk, Paul James Wadding, Michael Edward Keverline
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Patent number: 10941683Abstract: A removable oil filter system includes an oil filter mount, an oil filter element removably connected to the oil filter mount, an impending-bypass indicator connected to the oil filter mount and in fluid communication with an oil in the oil filter system, and a full-bypass indicator in fluid communication with the oil filter mount. The impending-bypass indicator is capable of reporting an impending-bypass condition of the oil filter system. The full-bypass indicator is capable of reporting a full-bypass condition of the oil filter system.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.Inventor: Scott David Poster
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Patent number: 10941684Abstract: A cylinder head cover that prevents the gas outlet for the blow-by gas from being cooled by structural improvements so that the gas outlet does not freeze or become clogged in a cold condition. A cylinder head cover includes: a gas passage through which blow-by gas from a crankcase passes; and a gas outlet portion protruding upward from a head cover upper wall. The gas outlet portion includes a protruding case portion bulging upward from the head cover upper wall so as to form an outlet passage through which blow-by gas passes, and an air layer is formed outside the outlet passage in the protruding case portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Nagai, Takahiro Yamazaki, Reo Yoshida, Tomoya Akitomo, Shoichi Okimi
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Patent number: 10941685Abstract: Embodiments described herein methods can be used in particulate filter regeneration, such as particulate filters used for filtering the exhaust of an engine, e.g., a diesel engine. Systems herein can be configured to dispense combustion gas(es) into housing were a particulate filter is contained and to ignite the combustion gases. Methods for conducting a safety verification process of such systems are disclosed, as well as methods for regenerating the filters. Still other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: JTSMCDP, LLCInventors: Mark Colaw, John Stiles, David Philips
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Patent number: 10941686Abstract: An assembly for treating gaseous emissions has a substrate along which extend cells for the passage of emissions gas. Lengths of conducting wire are located in a set of the cells and an induction heating coil is used to generate a varying electromagnetic field, so as to inductively heat the lengths of conducting wire. The substrate body has a front for entry of flowing emissions gas to be treated into the substrate body and a back for exit of treated gaseous emissions gas. The lengths of conducting wire have projections extending from the front and/or back of the substrate body so that when inductively heated, the wire parts in the substrate body heat the surrounding substrate and the wire projections heat the flowing emissions gas directly.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY EMISSION SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Robin Crawford, John Douglas
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Patent number: 10941687Abstract: A catalyst temperature estimation device that estimates a temperature of a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data that specifies a mapping that uses multiple input variables to output an estimation value of the temperature of the catalyst. The multiple input variables include at least one variable of an ambient temperature variable or an excess amount variable. The multiple input variables further include a fluid energy variable, which is a state variable related to energy of fluid flowing into the catalyst, and a previous cycle value of the estimation value of the temperature of the catalyst. The processing circuitry is configured to execute an acquisition process, a temperature calculation process, and an operation process. The mapping data includes data that is learned through machine learning.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Harufumi Muto, Atsushi Nagai, Yosuke Hashimoto, Masakazu Aoki
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Patent number: 10941688Abstract: An electrical connection for an electrical component in an exhaust gas system. The exhaust gas system has a metal casing through which an electrical conductor is routed. The connection has the conductor, an electrical insulation surrounding the conductor, and a metal bushing surrounding the insulation and the conductor, all together extend along a center axis. The insulation extends along the center axis beyond the bushing by an insulation gap of at least 2 mm at least at a first end of the connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Peter Hirth, Thomas Härig, Christoph Pabst
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Patent number: 10941689Abstract: A method for the exhaust gas aftertreatment of a combustion engine having an exhaust system in which at least three catalytic converters and at least three lambda probes are disposed. Downstream of a first catalytic converter, an actively heatable catalytic converter is provided, which is actively heated at a start of the combustion engine. The lambda control of the combustion engine is carried out in each case by that lambda probe disposed downstream of the respective last catalytic converter to reach the light-off temperature thereof. Also, an exhaust gas aftertreatment system for implementing such a method.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Stefan Paukner, Falk-Christian Baron Von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna, Michael Manz, Michael Kaack
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Patent number: 10941691Abstract: An integrated vehicle on-board system configured to generate hydrogen and to introduce the generated hydrogen into an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, the system including a water-splitting article configured to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and a hydrogen injection article configured to introduce the hydrogen into the exhaust gas stream, is effective for the abatement of carbon monoxide and/or hydrocarbons and/or nitrogen oxides. The introduction of hydrogen may be intermittent and/or during a cold-start period.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BASF CORPORATIONInventors: Shiang Sung, Garo Khanarian
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Patent number: 10941692Abstract: A mixer assembly for an exhaust aftertreatment system includes a first support ring. The first support ring defines a plurality of first slots angularly spaced apart from each other. A second support ring spaced apart from the first support ring defines a plurality of second slots angularly spaced apart from each other. A plurality of blades extends between the first support ring and the second support ring. Each of the plurality of blades is coupled to each of the first support ring and the second support ring. Each of the plurality of blades includes a base. The base includes a first connecting portion engaged with a corresponding first slot from the plurality of first slots and a second connecting portion engaged with a corresponding second slot from the plurality of second slots. At least one tab extends outwardly from the base at an angle relative to the base.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Yanping Zhang, Henry Zhang, Meng-Huang Lu, Fulun Yang
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Patent number: 10941693Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system includes a first component that receives exhaust gas output from an engine and a second component that is fluidly coupled to the first component to define an upstream portion of a vehicle exhaust system. A vehicle frame member includes an internal acoustic volume. A pipe connects the internal acoustic volume in parallel to the upstream portion of the vehicle exhaust system.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLCInventors: James Egan, Joseph E. Callahan
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Patent number: 10941694Abstract: An air guiding device is provided for regulating air flow through at least one air inlet opening in a front cowling of a vehicle. The at least one air inlet opening is arranged laterally in the front cowling and, in a closed state, is covered completely to the outside by the air guiding device. The air guiding device has a retaining frame and slats arranged movably in the retaining frame. The slats are mounted movably in the retaining frame and the angle of incidence of the slats can be changed by a servo motor that is connected to an adjusting mechanism, in such a manner that an air flow approaching the at least one air inlet opening is at least partially guided around the vehicle. A method also is provided for regulating an air flow in proximity to the front cowling of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Thomas Ritz
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Patent number: 10941695Abstract: Cooling systems for cooling various heat generating components of a vehicle are provided. A cooling system for a vehicle, according to one embodiment, includes a primary cooling assembly arranged near the front of the vehicle. The primary cooling assembly may include at least one of an air conditioning condenser configured for cooling an interior passenger space of the vehicle and a radiator for cooling a power source of the vehicle. The cooling system also includes a first electronics radiator arranged near the front of the vehicle in front of and/or adjacent to the primary cooling assembly and a second electronics radiator arranged in front of and/or adjacent to the primary cooling assembly. One or more cooling lines are operable for carrying a cooling fluid between the first and second electronics radiators and one or more electronic components disposed in the vehicle remote from the first and second electronics radiators.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Fredrik Tholander, Magnus Backelie, Linda Tegehall, Samuel Swedenborg, Ulf Nilsson
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Patent number: 10941696Abstract: An engine cover capable of appropriately covering the upper side of an engine is provided. An engine cover is provided with a plate member installed above an engine, and the plate member is provided with a reinforcement structure for increasing the torsional rigidity of the plate member.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Seigi Aratake, Kozo Kitagawa, Takahiro Miyasaka, Koji Kashiwase
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Patent number: 10941697Abstract: A cooling system (10) for a motor vehicle has an air system that fluidically connects a plurality of coolers (12) for supplying the coolers (12) with cooling air (16). An air fan is arranged fluidically in the air system for conveying the cooling air (16) to the coolers (12). Valves are arranged fluidically in the air system upstream of the coolers (12), for blocking the cooling air (16) conveyed to the respective cooler (12).Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Bjoern Pehnert, Thomas Warbeck, David Kuhn
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Patent number: 10941698Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a control device for adjusting coolant flow. In one example, the control device may be shaped to receive charge air, engine coolant, and charge-air cooler coolant to adjust a flow of charge-air cooler coolant to a radiator.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring, Herbert Ernst, Antonio Farina
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Patent number: 10941699Abstract: A multi-flow exhaust gas turbocharger (101) comprising a turbine (105), a turbine wheel, a first flow (1) and a second flow (2), a bypass line (6) for bypassing the turbine wheel, a bypass valve unit (107) for adjusting the size of a bypass exhaust gas flow through the bypass line (6), and comprising a flow connection unit (108) for adjusting an extent of the connection of exhaust gas flows into the flows (1, 2), characterized in that the bypass valve unit (107) and the flow connection unit (108) can be actuated in a mechanically coupled way by means of a coupling unit (109).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Sascha Karstadt, Sascha Weiske, Aleksandar Vuletic
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Patent number: 10941700Abstract: A turbocharger turbine wastegate assembly can include a lever that includes an opening and two arms, where each of the two arms extends a respective length from the opening; and a crank that includes a wastegate shaft coupling, where the lever and crank are operatively coupled via one of the arms by a pin received in a channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.Inventors: Filip Tomanec, Antonin Forbelsky
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Patent number: 10941701Abstract: The supercharging system and the internal combustion engine according to the present invention are provided with: a first supercharger (20); a second supercharger (30); an electric motor (23) connected to a shaft end of a first compressor (21); a generator (24) connected to a shaft end of a first turbine (22); a bypass exhaust pipe (L6) that allows exhaust air to bypass the first turbine (22); a cooler (51) that cools the generator (24); and a control device (50) that activates the cooler (51) when the generator (24) is driven by exhaust air that has driven the first turbine (22).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Byeongil An, Motoki Ebisu
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Patent number: 10941702Abstract: An opposed-piston internal combustion engine is configured so that one cylinder is provided with two pistons and these pistons reciprocate symmetrically with each other. The engine comprises: an expanded chamber formed at part of a wall of the cylinder positioned between the two pistons when a volume between the two pistons is the minimum and extending in a radial direction of the cylinder; an intake passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an exhaust passage communicated with the expanded chamber; an intake valve opening and closing the intake passage with respect to the expanded chamber; an exhaust valve opening and closing the exhaust passage with respect to the expanded chamber, and crankshafts respectively connected to the pistons. The expanded chamber formed so as to stick out from a wall surface of the cylinder in the same direction as axes of rotation of the crankshafts.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiichi Kamiyama
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Patent number: 10941703Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for operating an engine that includes a knock control system that may determine contributions of individual noise sources to an engine background noise level. The contributions of the individual noise sources may be the basis for establishing the presence or absence of knock in one or more engine cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rani Kiwan, Mohannad Hakeem, Christopher Paul Glugla, James Matthew Kindree, Amey Karnik
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Patent number: 10941704Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling operation of an engine of a vehicle to supply power to a power box that in turn supplies power to loads external to the vehicle. In one example, a method comprises, responsive to a request by an operator to operate an engine to power one or more loads external to the vehicle, monitoring an engine temperature and issuing an alert requesting the operator to take mitigating action to reduce the engine temperature when the engine temperature reaches a threshold temperature, and controlling a cooling fan as a function of whether or not the mitigating action is taken. In this way, fuel economy may be improved and power supply to power external loads may be optimized.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart Salter, Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Paul Kenneth Dellock, William Taylor, David Brian Glickman
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Patent number: 10941705Abstract: Modifying existing commercial jet engine technology to leverage the temperature and pressure available in the combustion of kerosene A-1 jet fuel (or other fuels) to include the Haber process (or other industrial processes requiring high temperatures and high pressures) presents possibilities for the creation of ammonia and other down-stream compounds suitable for atmospheric seeding of reflective or absorptive compounds. Compounds such as ammonia and urea (or other compounds—as time goes on) provide alternatives to high-altitude (20 km) seeding of sulfur dioxide (which is destructive to atmosphere, vegetation, and ozone alike).Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Matthew Vernon Hanson
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Patent number: 10941706Abstract: An aeronautical gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine including a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an exhaust section in serial flow order. The aeronautical gas turbine engine additionally includes a closed cycle heat engine including a compressor configured to compress a working fluid; a primary heat exchanger in thermal communication with the turbomachine and the working fluid, the primary heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from the turbomachine to the working fluid; an expander coupled to the compressor for expanding the working fluid; and an output shaft driven by the expander.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Arnab Sen, Brandon Wayne Miller, Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Kishanjit Pal, Daniel Alan Niergarth
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Patent number: 10941707Abstract: Hybrid turbine engines, aircraft including the same, and associated methods. A hybrid turbine engine includes a gas turbine engine mechanically and/or electrically coupled to a rotary electric engine. The rotary electric engine includes a nacelle, a fan with fan blades, a stator operatively coupled to the nacelle, and a rotor with a plurality of rotor magnets coupled to the fan blades. The stator includes a plurality of field coils. In examples, the stator is configured to rotate each field coil relative to the nacelle. In examples, an aircraft includes a hybrid turbine engine such that the gas turbine engine is substantially enclosed within the nacelle or is supported by a fuselage of the aircraft. In examples, a method of operating an aircraft with a hybrid turbine engine includes generating a gas turbine thrust with the gas turbine engine and generating an electric engine thrust with the rotary electric engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Tyler Emerson Berkey, Daniel S. Thomas
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Patent number: 10941708Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine engine including a fan, a nacelle including a flutter damper forward of the fan, the flutter damper including an acoustic liner having a perforated radial inner face sheet and a radial outer back sheet, the acoustic liner configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range that is greater than a frequency range associated with fan flutter, a chamber secured to the radial outer back sheet, the chamber in fluid communication with the acoustic liner, and the chamber configured for peak acoustical energy absorption at a frequency range associated with fan flutter modes, and the engine includes (i) the nacelle and a core cowl forming a convergent-divergent fan exit nozzle; (ii) a variable area fan nozzle capable of being in an opened and closed, the opened position having a larger fan exit area than the closed position; and/or (iii) the fan being shrouded.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Steven D. Sandahl
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Patent number: 10941709Abstract: The gas turbine engine can have a gas path extending in serial flow communication across a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine, the turbine having at least one multistage turbine section having a front toward the combustion chamber and a rear opposite the front, a plenum radially outward of the gas path, and a plurality of aperture sets interspaced from one another between the front and the rear, the aperture sets providing fluid flow communication from the plenum to the gas path, and a cooling air path having an outlet fluidly connected to the plenum at the rear of the plenum.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Ion Dinu, Mohammed Ennacer, René Paquet
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Patent number: 10941710Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine, comprising a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet for communicating a flow of gas there through. A turbine member is journaled within the housing and disposed within the flow path for rotatably extracting mechanical power from the flow of gas. A gear train is drivingly coupled with the turbine member, a drive shaft is operably coupled with the gear train, and an output shaft is selectively operably coupled to rotate with the engine. A screen is located within the interior between the at least one turbine member and the set of outlets and adapted to mitigate ejection of ignited particles from within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Kenneth W. Magee, Luis Angel Martinez
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Patent number: 10941711Abstract: A regulator device for automatically regulating a power plant of a rotary wing aircraft having a turbine engine includes a computer system. The computer system, while implementation of an idling mode of operation of the turbine engine is requested and the aircraft is standing on ground, implements the idling mode of operation and operates the turbine engine in compliance with idling mode of operation as a function of operational and hierarchically ordered conditions either through a first mode of regulation by regulating a speed of rotation (Ng) of a gas generator of the turbine engine or through a second mode of regulation by regulating a speed of rotation (NTL) of a free turbine of the turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERSInventor: Alban Corpron
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Patent number: 10941712Abstract: An internal combustion engine with a regulating device, whereby a fuel-air mixture is burned in the internal combustion engine with a combustion air ratio controllable by the regulating device, whereby the regulating device comprises an emission control loop, which is designed to control the charge-air pressure as a substitute variable for the NOx emission by the actuators influencing the charge-air pressure via a functional relationship, such that, for each target power or actual power of the internal combustion engine, a charge-air pressure target value can be set, and whereby the internal combustion engine further comprises a variable valve train, by means of which an operating characteristic of at least one inlet valve can be varied, whereby the functional relationship takes into account the influence of an adjustment of the operating characteristic of the at least one inlet valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: INNIO JENBACHER GMBH & CO OGInventors: Josef Thalhauser, Nikolaus Spyra, Ettore Musu
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Patent number: 10941713Abstract: A transport refrigeration system (20) having: a multi-fuel capable engine (26); a refrigeration unit (22) powered by the engine (26); a first fuel system (120, 130, 140, 150) operably connected to the engine (26), the first fuel (120, 130, 140, 150) system including at least one of a propane fuel system (120), compressed natural gas fuel system (130), liquefied natural gas fuel system (140), and gasoline fuel system (150); a second fuel system (120, 130, 140, 150) operably connected to the engine (26), the second fuel system (120, 130, 140, 150) including at least one of a propane fuel system (120), compressed natural gas fuel system (130), liquefied natural gas fuel system (140), and gasoline fuel system (150); and a controller (30) configured to command a fuel to the engine (26) from the first fuel system (120, 130, 140, 150) or the second fuel system (120, 130, 140, 150), the controller (30) adjusts operation of the engine (26) in response to the fuel commanded.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Swab
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Patent number: 10941714Abstract: An engine including a main fuel injection valve, a pilot fuel injection valve, a liquid fuel supply rail pipe, and a pilot fuel supply rail pipe. The main fuel injection valve supplies liquid fuel from the liquid fuel supply rail pipe to a combustion chamber during combustion in a diffusion combustion system. The pilot fuel injection valve supplies pilot fuel from the pilot fuel supply rail pipe to the combustion chamber in order to ignite gaseous fuel during combustion in a premixed combustion system. The liquid fuel supply rail pipe is disposed at one side of an imaginary vertical plane including an axis of a crank shaft. The pilot fuel supply rail pipe is disposed at the side of the imaginary vertical plane at which the liquid fuel supply rail pipe is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Nishimura, Koichi Hirose
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Patent number: 10941715Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure coupled control method and system for diffusion combustion of a natural gas engine, the method comprising: S11: detecting an operating condition of a natural gas engine; S12: an electronic control unit calculating a target diesel fuel pressure value flowing into a fuel rail of the natural gas engine according to the operating condition, and detecting an actual diesel fuel pressure value flowing into the fuel rail by means of a diesel pressure sensor in the fuel rail; S13: the electronic control unit calculating a target natural gas pressure value flowing into a gas rail of the natural gas engine according to the actual diesel fuel pressure value, and regulating a natural gas flowing into the gas rail by means of a signal of a gas rail pressure sensor in the gas rail; S14: after the target diesel fuel pressure value and the target natural gas pressure value are established, successively injecting high pressure diesel fuel and a high pressure natural gas into a gas cyType: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Weichai Power Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuguang Tan, Dongchao Su, Junyin Li, Shitong Liu
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Patent number: 10941716Abstract: A method of operating a genset (1), wherein an internal combustion engine (2) drives a generator (3), wherein a kinematic parameter characteristic for a rotation of a rotor (13) of the generator (3) and an electrical parameter characteristic for a frequency and/or a phase of a power supply network (4) are directly or indirectly detected, wherein at least one deviation of the kinematic parameter from the electrical parameter is used in a control of the mechanical power output of the internal combustion engine (2) before or during a connecting of the generator (4) to the power supply network (4) in order to supply electrical power to the power supply network (4), wherein a control intervention for a control of the mechanical power output of the internal combustion engine (2) using the control law is starting to fire a plurality—preferably all—of previously unfired cylinders (11) and/or stopping to fire a plurality—preferably all—previously fired cylinders (11).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Innio Jenbacher Gmbhh & Co OGInventors: Sid Ahmed Attia, Georg Arnold
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Patent number: 10941717Abstract: When a required pressure ratio RP* is less than or equal to a calculation switching pressure ratio RPwot, an engine control unit calculates, as a target opening degree TA*, a throttle opening degree TA at which a throttle upstream-downstream pressure ratio RP is the required pressure ratio RP*. When the required pressure ratio RP* exceeds the calculation switching pressure ratio RPwot, the engine control unit obtains a switching point opening degree TAwot, a switching point load factor KLwot and a maximum load factor KLmax, and calculates the target opening degree TA* as a value that has a linear relationship with the required load factor KL* between the switching point opening degree TAwot and the maximum opening degree TAmax.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Wanibe
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Patent number: 10941718Abstract: An evaporated fuel processing apparatus preventing evaporated fuel from being discharged out of a canister when residual purge gas is made to return to the canister and processed is provided. In the apparatus, an ECU performs residual purge gas processing operation of returning the residual purge gas into the canister and processing during halt of purge control. This operation includes a residual purge gas pressure-feeding process of pressure-feeding the residual purge gas with the air into the canister by the purge pump in a state in which the atmospheric passage is shut off and the purge passage and the second bypass passages are opened and an air discharge process of discharging the air in the canister outside via the atmospheric passage by opening the atmospheric passage while the purge passage and the second bypass passage are shut off.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanobu Shinagawa, Yoshihiko Honda, Hiroyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10941719Abstract: An evaporative fuel treating apparatus includes: a canister; a vapor passage configured to cause a fuel tank to communicate with the canister; a closure valve including a valve disc arranged in the vapor passage and a stepping motor configured to open and close the valve disc; and a control device configured to control the closure valve. The control device is configured, in opening the valve disc to perform a pressure relief operation of the fuel tank, to: execute a flow rate estimation processing that calculates an estimated flow rate of gas passing through the closure valve, based on the absolute value of the amount of change of in-tank pressure of the fuel tank and a space volume inside the fuel tank; and execute a motor control processing that controls the number of steps of the stepping motor such that the estimated flow rate approaches a required flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Fukui, Makoto Yamazaki, Makoto Takano, Tomohiro Itoh, Yoshikazu Miyabe
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Patent number: 10941720Abstract: A control device for an internal-combustion engine, includes: an ejector including an exhaust port coupled to an intake passage upstream of a compressor, an intake port coupled to a recirculation passage recirculating intake air from the intake passage downstream of the compressor to the intake passage upstream of the compressor, and a suction port coupled to a first branch passage; a first pressure acquirer obtaining a first pressure that is a pressure upstream of the compressor in the intake passage; a second pressure acquirer obtaining a second pressure that is a pressure downstream of the compressor in the intake passage; and an ejector negative pressure estimator configured to estimate an ejector negative pressure based on an opening period of the purge valve and the second pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Rintarou Tachibana, Hirokatsu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10941721Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for exhaust heat recovery and EGR cooling via a single heat exchanger. In one example, a method may include selecting a specific mode of operation of an engine exhaust system with the heat exchanger based on engine operating conditions and an estimated fuel efficacy factor. The fuel efficiency factor may take into account fuel efficacy benefits from EGR and exhaust heat recovery.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: William Samuel Schwartz, Gregory Patrick McConville, Chad Allan Baker, Timothy Noah Blatchley, Michael James Uhrich
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Patent number: 10941722Abstract: In one aspect, a skip fire engine controller is described. The skip fire engine controller includes a skip fire module arranged to determine an operational firing fraction and associated cylinder load for delivering a desired engine output. The skip fire engine controller also includes a firing controller arranged to direct firings in a skip fire manner that delivers the selected operational firing fraction. Various methods, modules, lookup tables and arrangements related to the selection of a suitable operational firing fraction are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: Tula Technology, Inc., GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Mark A. Shost, Louis J. Serrano, Steven E. Carlson, Vijay Srinivasan, Eric J. Defenderfer, Nitish J. Wagh, Randall S. Beikmann, Jinbiao Li, Xin Yuan, Li-Chun Chien
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Patent number: 10941723Abstract: A controller (125) for controlling an engine (102) of a vehicle (103) is disclosed, along with a control system (101) comprising a controller (125), a vehicle (103) and a method (200, 500). The controller (125) comprises control means configured to cause stopping of power generation of the engine (102) during movement of the vehicle (103) in dependence on at least one criterion being met and to cause restarting of power generation by the engine (102), in dependence of at least one input signal indicating a requirement for the engine (102) to restart to provide a required power output.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventor: Rob Jerger
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Patent number: 10941724Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an engine system control device capable of stabilizing a combustion state, while improving fuel economy by performing intake air heating. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine system control device which controls an engine system including an engine configured to combust air-fuel mixture, an intake air path configured to take air to the engine, and an intake air heating mechanism configured to heat the intake air, wherein a heating amount of the intake air is controlled depending on a combustion speed of the air-fuel mixture.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hisayuki Orita, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Motoyuki Abe
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Patent number: 10941725Abstract: The disclosure includes a system that includes an adaptive control module for an engine. The adaptive control module is configured to receive a power input signal and receive, from an engine vibration sensor, a vibration signal indicative of an operating condition of the engine. The adaptive control module is further configured to determine, using a set of control laws, a power demand signal based on inputs including the power input signal and the vibration signal. The adaptive control module is further configured to output the power demand signal to at least one component of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventor: Keith Calhoun
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Patent number: 10941726Abstract: Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shogo Namba, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji
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Patent number: 10941727Abstract: In a piston of an internal combustion engine in which a recessed portion that holds an intake air swirling flow is formed on a crown surface of the piston, the crown surface includes a heat insulating film formation portion having a heat insulating film whose thermal conductivity is lower than a base material of the piston, the heat insulating film whose thermal capacity per volume is smaller than the base material of the piston, and a heat insulating film non-formation portion provided at a position on the more outside of a cylinder bore side of the internal combustion engine than the heat insulating film formation portion, the heat insulating film non-formation portion not having the heat insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuma Suzuki, Yutaka Mabuchi, Yuka Suzuki
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Patent number: 10941728Abstract: A machine, method of making, and method of using, along with necessary intermediates, illustratively, by way of a method, there can be a method of generating electrical power, the method including: inputting air, including adjusting flow rate of the air; inputting fuel, including throttling flow rate of the fuel, wherein: the fuel flow rate and the air flow rate are in stoichiometric proportions for combustion, and the fuel is comprised of at least one hydrocarbon, alcohol, or both; combusting a mixture of the fuel and a portion of the air with the remainder of the air to produce heat, wherein: prior to the combusting: combining the portion of the air with the fuel to produce the mixture that, when heated, stoichiometrically forms syngas; heating the mixture with the heat from the combusting; heating the remainder of the air with the heat from the combusting; and during the combusting, matching the remainder of the air with at least one of flow rate, pressure drop, and flow velocity of the mixture; generatingType: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 10941729Abstract: A nacelle for a dual-flow turbojet engine comprises a structure, a fixed cowl, a cowl translationally mobile on the structure, a window open between a secondary jet and the outside of the nacelle, and delimited by the fixed and mobile cowls, an outer thrust-reversing door rotationally mobile and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism comprises a single power cylinder arranged at the level of a median plane and having a first end mounted articulated on the structure, a shaft with the second end of the power cylinder mounted articulated on the shaft, a first yoke joint secured to the outer thrust-reversing door and free to rotate on the shaft, and a second yoke joint secured to the mobile cowl, and where each of the two flanks of the second yoke joint has a groove in each of which the shaft is mounted to slide parallel to the median plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS SASInventor: Patrick Oberle
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Patent number: 10941730Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle system for injecting an aqueous solution, said vehicle system comprising: a tank (500) for storing an aqueous solution; an injection system (300) configured for injecting aqueous solution from the tank (500) in an injection zone (Z) in the vehicle; and a UV light decontamination device (700) configured for decontaminating the aqueous solution stored in the tank (500) by emitting UV light.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and ResearchInventors: Stephane Leonard, Laurent Duez, Beatriz Monge-Bonini, Joel Op De Beeck
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Patent number: 10941731Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a device for operating a tank ventilation system of an internal combustion engine. This device has a fuel tank, an activated carbon filter for collecting and buffering fuel vapors escaping from the fuel tank, a purge air pump and a control unit. The outlet of the purge air pump is connected to the intake tract of the internal combustion engine via a first tank venting valve and connected to the exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine via a second tank venting valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbHInventors: Gerhard Eser, Florian Kleiner, Erwin Achleitner, Gerhard Haft