Patents Issued in May 2, 2024
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Publication number: 20240141773Abstract: A method may include acquiring NMR data and sonic data for a borehole in a subsurface geologic region; inverting the NMR data and the sonic data to determine volume fractions for a number of classes of pore types, where the classes include shape and size-based classes; and characterizing the subsurface geologic region based on the volume fractions for the number of classes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jun Tao Ma, Lin Liang, Xi Yan, Gong Rui Yan, Marie Van Steene, Wael Abdallah, Shouxiang Ma
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Publication number: 20240141774Abstract: A method can include receiving strain data associated with propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a subsurface geologic region; performing a comparison between the strain data and simulation results generated using a mesh model of the subsurface geologic region and enrichment equations that represent one or more discontinuities in the subsurface geologic region; and, based on the comparison, characterizing the subsurface geologic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Safdar Abbas, Adrian Enrique Rodriguez Herrera, Karsten Fischer
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Publication number: 20240141775Abstract: A survey tool system (100) for surveying deviation of a previously drilled hole (10, 20) from a selected hole path (30) comprises: an assembly of drill pipe sections (55) co-operable with said previously drilled hole (10, 20); and at least one sensor (125) included within the assembly of drill pipe sections (55) for collecting survey data including data correlated with deviation of said previously drilled hole (10, 20) from said selected hole path (30). A processor (130) processes data collected from the at least one sensor (125) and determines deviation of the previously drilled hole (10, 20) from the selected path (30) for said previously drilled hole (10, 20).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Michael AYRIS, John T. FLAM, Alexander BUTLER, Arnstein LØVØ, Rune LINDHJEM
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Publication number: 20240141776Abstract: Systems and methods for using stratigraphic heat maps to steer a well being drilled. Data from one or more offset wells can be provided to a computer system and used with data from a well being drilled to generate one or more stratigraphic heat maps during the drilling of the subject well. The stratigraphic heat maps can be displayed and used to determine the location of the wellbore relative to one or more geological formations, including one or more target formations or within a target formation. Based on the use of the heat maps and the location of the wellbore relative to a target, the drill plan can be adjusted or updated and/or one or more drilling parameters or operations may be adjusted to drill the wellbore, such as to drill the wellbore to the target or to maximize the length of the wellbore within a target zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Timothy William Gee, Stefan Maus, Kenneth Robert McCarthy, Alexander Michael Mitkus, Jin Sun
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Publication number: 20240141777Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for monitoring wellbore deformation is disclosed. The apparatus includes an expandable annular cylindrical packer and a plurality of assemblies mounted on an exterior circumferential surface of the packer. The plurality of assemblies are configured to be pressed against a wellbore surface by the packer. Each of the assemblies includes at least one fiber-optic coil embedded in a sheet of deformable substrate, a tray-shaped receptacle formed from a low thermal conductivity material and attached along the rim to an edge of the sheet with a pressure tight-seal, and an optical coupler configured to couple the fiber-optic coil to a fiber-optic cable. The assemblies further include a pressure-tight compartment containing a high-pressure inert gas that is formed by the receptacle, the sheet, and the seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANYInventors: Damian San Roman Alerigi, Jose Oliverio Alvarez, Adrian Cesar Cavazos Sepulveda, Sameeh Issa Batarseh
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Publication number: 20240141778Abstract: There is described a downhole electromagnetic induction communication system with a receiver arranged to receive from a transmitter a magnetic signal. The downhole electromagnetic induction communication system receiver comprising: a first inductive coil, a second inductive coil, and an amplifier; wherein the first inductive coil and the second inductive coil are configured to convert the magnetic signal into a first input electrical signal and a second input electrical signal. Additionally, the first inductive coil and the second inductive coil are differentially connected to inputs of the amplifier, such that a differential input electrical signal is found, the differential input electrical signal comprising reduced noise compared with the first input electrical signal and the second input electrical signal. The downhole electromagnetic induction communication system reduces noise and improves a signal-to-noise ratio of communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Leading Magnetic Design LtdInventors: Alex CRANE, Yuri ZHURAVLEV
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Publication number: 20240141779Abstract: A drill string device configured to operate at a down hole location in a well bore toward a location proximate the surface of an earthen formation includes one or more motors and/or a capacitor bank. The drill string device may be in fluidic communication with a drilling fluid. A first motor of the one or more motors may be operated as part of processing the drilling fluid. A first electrical energy may be provided to the first motor at least as the first motor is operating. A signal to stop the first motor may be received and/or the first motor may be stopped. A second electrical energy may be received from the first motor at least as the first motor is stopping. At least some of the second electrical energy may be directed to the capacitor bank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: APS Technology, LLCInventors: Daniel E. BURGESS, Jason R. BARBELY
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Publication number: 20240141780Abstract: Some examples described herein relate to producing an optimized composition of a downhole drilling fluid. For example, a system can execute an iterative optimization process to determine an optimized composition of downhole drilling fluid that satisfies at least one objective function and matches a received set of target fluid properties. Each iteration of the iterative optimization process can involve: selecting a mixture of fluid components for the downhole drilling fluid from a search space, providing the selected mixture of fluid components as input to a trained machine-learning model, receiving a set of predicted fluid properties for the mixture of fluid components as output from the trained machine-learning model, and determining whether the set of predicted fluid properties matches the set of target fluid properties. The system can transmit a control signal to a mixing subsystem for causing the mixing subsystem to produce the optimized composition of the downhole drilling fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Feng Feng, Fahad Ahmad, Tywon C. Veazie, Jason Glen Bell, Jay Deville, Mohamed Abdelsalam
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Publication number: 20240141781Abstract: A method involves obtaining a measured drainage function for a well and obtaining a set of drainage models, wherein each drainage model includes a reservoir model and a fracture model. The method also includes, for each drainage model, forming a predicted drainage function based, at least in part, on the drainage model, and determining a misfit value based, at least in part, on the predicted drainage function and the measured drainage function. The method further includes determining a set of candidate drainage models based, at least in part, on the misfit value for each drainage model, wherein each candidate drainage model comprises a candidate reservoir model and a candidate fracture model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANYInventor: Harun Ates
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Publication number: 20240141782Abstract: A sample while logging tool for downhole fluid sampling and production logging may include a sample collector sub and a sensor sub. The sample collector sub may include a body defining a bore extending from a first end to a second end. One or more sample chambers may be housed in the bore. The sample chamber may collect a fluid sample. At least one probe may be coupled to the sample chamber to measure fluid properties of the collected fluid sample within the sample chamber and transmit the fluid properties. A piston may be coupled to the first end having a gate distal to the first end. The piston may be actuated to open and close an opening of the sample chamber. Additionally, the sensor sub may measure and transmit data on fluids within a well to form production logging data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Muhammad Imran Javed, Sanjiv Kumar, Mohammed N. Almannai
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Publication number: 20240141783Abstract: A tracer diffusion device includes: a first container, for holding a first fluid containing a tracer; a second container, for holding a second fluid; a drilling pipe; wherein, a first end of the drilling pipe is connected to the first container; a second end of the drilling pipe is extended into a borehole; and the second end of the drilling pipe is equipped with a first sealing capsule and a second sealing capsule; a plurality of through holes are arranged on the drilling pipe between the first sealing capsule and the second sealing capsule; a unidirectional driving device, arranged on the drilling pipe, for injecting the first fluid from the first container into the borehole between the first sealing capsule and the second sealing capsule; and a bidirectional driving device, arranged between the second container and the first sealing capsule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY, BEIJINGInventors: Yifan ZENG, Shihao MENG, Qiang WU, Lu WANG, Shijie TANG, Xuedong KAN, Chao YU, Han BAO
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Publication number: 20240141784Abstract: Disclose are a roadway/tunnel excavation robot and an automatic cutting control method. The robot includes a rack, a moving platform, a supporting and stabilizing mechanism, a milling mechanism, a telescoping mechanism, an inclined cutting feed adjusting mechanism, a horizontal swinging mechanism, a lifting mechanism and a controller. The milling mechanism includes a drive unit, a milling shaft, an eccentric rotary casing, a high-pressure jet nozzle unit, a tension and compression sensor and a direction sensor. Through the deflection of a center line of an inner hole of the eccentric rotary casing, the milling mechanism drives a milling cutter head to carry out a rotational oscillation motion for rock breaking; and the milling cutter head is in discontinuous contact with a rock mass. The telescoping mechanism, the inclined cutting feed adjusting mechanism, the lifting mechanism and the horizontal swinging mechanism are controlled such that the milling mechanism performs coal rocks milling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: China University of Mining and TechnologyInventors: Hongxiang JIANG, Zhencai ZHU, Songyong LIU, Gang SHEN, Xiaodi ZHANG, Huihe ZHAO, Hongsheng LI
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Publication number: 20240141785Abstract: A zonal bolt-grouting support device and method for cataclastic rock mass large deformation of a high-stress tunnel, the method includes: drill holes in surrounding rock of a tunnel against a tunnel face after rock mass excavation, install high-strength prestressed anchor members, apply a preload to anchor bolts when expansion anchoring agent is fully expanded and has a certain strength, and zonally grout the surrounding rock after stress adjustment. The high-strength prestressed anchor member comprises an anchor bolt, an expansion anchor agent, a decoupling material, a grouting device, a reverse anti-skid device, etc. The grouting device consists of a shallow grouting steel pipe, a deep grouting steel pipe and a grouting stop valve, and the grouting steel pipe is arranged side by side with the anchor bolt in a drill hole. The technical proposal of the invention effectively inhibits the large deformation of a cataclastic rock mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Guojin Zhu, Pengzhi Pan, Xuexing Cao, Yangyi Zhou, Zhaofeng Wang, Shijie Yang, Xufeng Liu, Huyue Zhan, Fengqiong Li
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Publication number: 20240141786Abstract: An active control method and device for large deformation of a deep thin-bedded surrounding rock, the active control method includes: drill holes in the surrounding rock of a tunnel against a tunnel face, add the active control device containing a sleeve, a high-strength prestressed anchor bolt, a resin anchoring agent and a grouting device into drill holes, apply a preload to the anchor bolt when the resin anchoring agent has a certain strength, and carry out lag grouting in the surrounding rock through the grouting device after stress adjustment, and the high-strength prestressed anchor bolt and the grouting device are inserted in the sleeve with holes on the side. The active control device or method of the invention can effectively reduce the fracture depth and degree of a thin-bedded soft rock in deep engineering, and effectively inhibit the occurrence of large deformation disasters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hua Zhou, Yelin Feng, Fugang Zhao, Pengzhi Pan, Hailong Huang, Zhaofeng Wang, Xufeng Liu, Yangyi Zhou, Longhai Xi, Xuanjiao Zhen
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Publication number: 20240141787Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing power usage in mining environments. The amount of power needed to operate a set of electrical machines that are to run simultaneously is determined. Power usage by the electrical machines during a time period can be predicted based on how much power is expected to be needed by each machine. If the predicted power usage exceeds a threshold power usage, power to one or more electrical machines in the mining environment is restricted so that actual power usage in the mining environment does not exceed the threshold power usage during the specified time period. The electrical machines which will have power restricted thereto can be selected based at least in part on relative priorities for the electrical machines in the set. Power can be restricted to machines as a whole (an effective shutdown), or to specific operations of the machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Michael W. Lewis, Edward A. Branscombe
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Publication number: 20240141788Abstract: The present invention discloses systems and methods of measuring environmental information in a mine tunnel. The system may comprise an ultrasonic anemometer, a multi-parameter monitor, a data acquisition module, a central control platform, a data communication module, a flexible manipulator, a power conversion module, a display and alarm module, and a computer. The multi-parameter monitor may comprise at least one of an infrared detector, a CH4 detector, a CO gas sensor, an O2 gas sensor, a CO2 gas sensor, and a temperature and humidity sensor. The system may also measure the airflow in large sections of a mine tunnel through the flexible manipulator. The method may be able to remote measure the underground environment and airflow during normal production of the mine, which helps improve the abilities of mine disaster response and relief while ensuring the safety of emergency rescue personnel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yong Sun, Yuntao Liang, Depeng Zhang, Xinfeng Cui, Ruide Wang
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Publication number: 20240141789Abstract: A rotational engine system comprises a rotational engine and a propulsion system. The rotational engine includes an outer ring enclosure, an inner ring component, and a drive gear. The inner ring component includes a piston and a drive gear engagement portion. The piston is configured to travel within the outer ring enclosure along a circumference of the outer ring enclosure. The drive gear engagement portion is configured to rotate as the piston travels along the circumference of the circular shape of the outer ring enclosure. The drive gear is coupled to the drive gear engagement portion of the inner ring component such that rotation of the drive gear engagement portion rotationally drives the drive gear. The propulsion system is configured to deliver propulsive energy to propel the piston along the circumference of the outer ring enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Curren Emmett KRASNOFF
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Publication number: 20240141790Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for passive fan blade tip clearance control. A fan blade for a gas turbine engine, the fan blade comprising a fan blade body including a tip region at a blade tip of the fan blade body and a blade tip insert disposed within the tip region of the fan blade body, the blade tip insert is formed from a material that passively adjusts a shape of the blade tip insert to maintain a blade tip clearance between the blade tip and an engine casing or nacelle by at least one of expanding or contracting based on temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Abhijeet Yadav, Kishore Budumuru, Nitesh Jain
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Publication number: 20240141792Abstract: A fan blade includes an aerofoil portion including a leading edge extending from a root to a tip and defining a blade span therebetween. A leading edge thickness is defined as a thickness of a cross-section at a given radius at a location along a camber line that is 9% of the total length of the camber line from the leading edge. For cross-sections through the aerofoil portion at radii between 50% and 70% of the blade span from a root radius, the leading edge thickness includes a first maximum value. For cross-sections through the aerofoil portion at radii greater than 70% of the blade span from the root radius, the leading edge thickness includes a second maximum value that is between 105% and 125% of the first maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Michael BARTHOLOMEW, David HIGGINBOTTOM
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Publication number: 20240141793Abstract: An airfoil cooling structure, an airfoil having the airfoil cooling structure, and a turbine blade/vane element including the airfoil are disclosed. The airfoil cooling structure includes a cooling path formed inside the airfoil and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an additive manufactured (AM) feature disposed in the cooling path, manufactured by additive manufacturing, and including a plurality of column parts intersecting with each other so as to abut against the first surface and the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jeong Ju KIM, Ki Don LEE
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Publication number: 20240141794Abstract: A rotor assembly is provided that includes a rotor disk, a rotor blade and a rotor spacer. The rotor disk includes a slot. The rotor blade includes a blade root arranged within the slot. The root spacer is arranged within the slot between the rotor disk and the blade root. The root spacer is configured as or otherwise includes a cellular structure with a plurality of internal cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Colin J. Kling, Nicholas J. Lawliss
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Publication number: 20240141795Abstract: Described herein is a flow splitter for a gas turbine engine, the flow splitter comprising a leading edge, wherein the radial and/or axial position of the leading edge varies circumferentially around the flow splitter, such that the leading edge is non-axisymmetric. Also described is a method of manufacture of a flow splitter and an engine comprising a flow splitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Samuel P. LEE
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Publication number: 20240141796Abstract: A first-stage stationary blade segment includes an outer ring extending in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of first-stage stationary blades attached on a radially inner side of the outer ring so as to be aligned in the circumferential direction. Each of the first-stage stationary blades has a blade body extending in the radial direction, and an outer shroud formed on a radially outer side of the blade body with respect to an axis. The outer shroud has a shroud main body, and an embedded portion connected to the radially outer side of the shroud main body. The embedded part has an embedded front end surface facing the side upstream along the axis, and an embedded rear end surface facing the side downstream along the axis. The outer ring has outer ring grooves into which the outer shrouds of each of the plurality of first-stage stationary blades is inserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yasuhiko KOGA, Shouhei DANNO, Yuki SEKIGUCHI, Yoichi MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240141797Abstract: A seal assembly for rotary machines having a wear protection assembly with an abradable covering. The wear protection assembly has one or more wear protection features that enable in-operation opening of the seal assembly by increasing a clearance between a seal rotor and a seal slider of the seal assembly. In particular, the wear protection assembly is configured to open the seal assembly and increase the clearance of the seal rotor and the seal slider during slider air-bearing wear conditions, slider counterbore wear conditions, rotor air-bearing wear conditions, or extreme vibration wear conditions. Under such or similar wear conditions (or under conditions preceding or leading up to a wear condition), the wear protection assembly yields a pressure gradient and/or a fluid flow that oppose the forces acting to decrease the clearance between the seal rotor and the seal slider.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Narendra Anand Hardikar, Scott Alan Schimmels
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Publication number: 20240141798Abstract: There is an axial gap between a leading edge of one of a blade outer air seal and a stator vanes and a trailing edge of the other. A feather seal is positioned to span the axial gap. The feather seal has axially spaced curved portions, with one of the curved portions in contact with a surface of the blade outer air seal and another of the curved portions being in contact with a surface of the stator vane. A pressure differential forces the feather seal into contact with the sealing surfaces and the contact being point contact due to the curved portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Paul M. Lutjen, Morely S. Sherman
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Publication number: 20240141799Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing a rotor (100) of a generator (4) in a turbine plant (1) in which the generator (4) is driven by at least one turbine (7), in particular a gas turbine or steam turbine, in which the turbine (7) is opened and the rotor (39) of the turbine (7) is removed, and only then is the rotor of the generator (4) pulled out of the generator (4) so that it is located in the lower housing half of the turbine (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Florian Lang, Oliver Rottländer, Andreas Müller, Mark Grasso, Torsten Löber
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Publication number: 20240141800Abstract: A thermoelectric generator for a turbine engine is provided. The turbine engine can include a core having a casing surrounded by an engine cowl. The thermoelectric generator is attached to or formed integrally with the casing. The thermoelectric generator includes a power generation module formed by a plurality of thermocouples that utilize a temperature differential between a hot side and a cold side of the casing to generate electrical power. In one aspect, an electrically insulative layer is positioned between the casing and the power generation module. In another aspect, the thermoelectric generator includes a phase change material pack that includes an inner layer and an outer layer, the power generation module being positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer. In other aspects, the thermoelectric generator can be additively manufactured on the casing or another structural component of the turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Vishnu Das K, Vinaykumar Shrimantrao Patil, Manish Singhal, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
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Publication number: 20240141801Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine device of the gas turbine cycle type with cooled compression, regeneration, and reheating during expansion. The turbine engine device comprises a first turbocharger (C1, T2), a second turbocharger (C2, T1), two combustion chambers (CC1, CC2), an intercooler (IC), and a heat exchanger (E1). The device is configured to implement a fluid flow from the first compressor (C1) to the intercooler (IC), to the second compressor (C2), to the heat exchanger (E1), to the first combustion chamber (CC1), to the second turbine (T1) or the first turbine, to the second combustion chamber (CC2), to the first turbine (T2) or the second turbine, According to one aspect, the turbochargers are mounted on separate axes (A1, A2).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Wissam BOU NADER
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Publication number: 20240141802Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This engine assembly includes a gas turbine engine case, a conduit and a bushing. The gas turbine engine case includes a case wall and a boss at a port through the case wall. The conduit extends longitudinally along a centerline through the port and into an interior of the gas turbine engine case. The bushing circumscribes the conduit and is arranged within the port. The bushing is engaged with and laterally between the conduit and the boss. The bushing is configured from or otherwise includes a cellular material. The cellular material may be or otherwise include a cellular metal material and/or a cellular composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Krzysztof Kowiel
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Publication number: 20240141803Abstract: A bearing chamber is provided. The bearing chamber includes an interior surface comprising a terminal block defining a keyway and a conduit terminating at the keyway and an oil nozzle defining an internal channel. The oil nozzle includes a base tightly fittable in the keyway. When the base is tightly fit in the keyway, the internal channel is communicative with the conduit and an orientation of the keyway and a configuration of the oil nozzle are cooperatively established to aim the oil nozzle at a predefined target within the bearing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Christopher D. Ramsey
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Publication number: 20240141804Abstract: A shroud hanger assembly is provided for hangers and shrouds defining dimensionally incompatible components such as those which are press or frictionally fit to engage one another. The shroud hanger assembly includes a multi-piece hanger and a shroud that is pinned to the hanger assembly by at least one axially extending pin and which locates the shroud relative to the hanger to control motion in one or both of circumferential (tangential) and radial directions relative to the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jan Christopher Schilling, Andrew John Breslin, Bryce Loring Heitman
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Publication number: 20240141805Abstract: A manufacturing method is provided during which a body is additively manufactured. The body includes an engine case for a gas turbine engine, a support structure and an aperture. The support structure projects out from the engine case. The support structure includes a lattice, a wall and an internal volume. The wall surrounds the lattice. The internal volume is within the support structure along the lattice. The internal volume is filled with powder. The aperture is at an intersection between the engine case and the support structure. The powder is extracted from the internal volume through the aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
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Publication number: 20240141806Abstract: An apparatus configured to support a diffuser segment during removal from and installation into an assembly. The apparatus includes a body having two or more supports and at least two clamp rods. The clamp rods each extend from a first end to a second end. The body defines a pocket extending between the supports on a first side of the clamp rods. An end clamp releasably mates with the second end of each clamp rod. The end clamp has a foot extending into the first side of the clamp rod. A wheel is received within each support. The pocket and the foot of each end clamp releasably retain a diffuser segment and the wheels rotate to allow the diffuser segment to be removed without damaging a surface coating of the diffuser segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: SANDRA BEVERLY KOLVICK, THOMAS ALAN MOGLE, II, ERIC LYNN STRUNK, WILLIAM THOMAS ORDEAN
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Publication number: 20240141807Abstract: A thermal utilization system is capable of producing power, storing energy via a chemical or and a hydropower-elevation means. It also capable of transport fluid as vapor over obstacles and terrains, as well as desalinate water. It may in some embodiments do all or some of these tasks simultaneously and with the same amount of energy. It may run with any source of energy including renewable energy sources such as solar energy, and wind. The system may use that energy to run a heat engine and, at the same time, stores that energy via chemical separation. When energy is needed, the system may withdraw the chemical substances and lets them interact to claim the energy back, and then use it to run a heat engine and desalinate water. Some parts of the system can be used for cooling and heating. The system may be configured to be an air conditioner unit or a refrigerator that has an internal back up energy storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Husham Al Ghizzy
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Publication number: 20240141808Abstract: A variable valve lift rocker arm assembly can include a latching axle assembly comprising a roller latch assembly and a first latch receiver assembly; an outer body configured to rotate around a rocker shaft, the outer body comprising at least a valve end, and a cam end comprising an outer axle bore for seating the first latch receiver assembly of the latching axle assembly; an inner body configured to rotate around the rocker shaft, the inner body comprising an inner axle bore configured for seating the roller latch assembly of the latching axle assembly; a main roller operatively coupled to the outer body; and a secondary roller operatively coupled to the inner body; wherein the roller latch assembly and the first latch receiver assembly are configured to selectively operatively couple the outer body to the inner body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Emanuele Raimondi, Massimo D’Amore
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Publication number: 20240141809Abstract: A valve bridge for a valve train of an engine includes a bridge operating region via which the valve bridge can be operated by a first rocker arm and is movable translationally in a first operating direction, a first valve operating region via which a first gas exchange valve of the engine can be operated, and a second valve operating region via which a second gas exchange valve of the engine can be operated. The first valve operating region has a through opening continuous along the first operating direction, a first longitudinal region in which the through opening is completely continuously closed in its peripheral direction, and a second longitudinal region directly connected to the first longitudinal region in the first operating direction and in which the through opening is open along its peripheral direction at a first location in a first opening direction perpendicular to the first operating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Matthias LAHR
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Publication number: 20240141810Abstract: A valve rotating device with valve stem seal includes a valve rotating device, with a cylinder head rest and a spring rest intended to bear against a valve spring during operation. The valve rotating device is designed to rotate the spring rest relative to the cylinder head rest during operation. A valve stem seal is attached to the cylinder head rest of the valve rotating device. The valve stem seal being designed to bear against a valve stem and to seal same during rotational and axial movements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: DIRK SCHOBER, FRANK ZWEIN, FLORIAN RINGELING, THORSTEN MATTHIAS, STEFAN KELLERMANN
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Publication number: 20240141811Abstract: A control system for a cam phaser can include a cam phaser coupled to a cam shaft, the cam phaser to adjust a position of the cam shaft, an actuator in mechanical communication with the cam phaser, and a controller in electrical communication with the actuator, the controller including a processor and a memory. In one example, the processor is configured to calculate a first hysteresis position of the actuator with respect to a hysteresis band, determine if the actuator is within a first threshold distance of a first edge of the hysteresis band, and if the actuator is not within the first threshold distance of the first edge of the hysteresis band, command the actuator to displace across the hysteresis band.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Todd Wollenberg, Patrick Heithoff, Brian Griffiths
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Publication number: 20240141812Abstract: The present invention relates to a wall-flow filter for removing particles from the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, which comprises a coating F, which comprises a sintered material S, wherein material S comprises an oxide, oxide-hydroxide, carbonate, sulphate, silicate, phosphate, mixed oxide, composite oxide, molecular sieve or a mixture comprising two or more of these materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Massimo COLOMBO, Jan SCHOENHABER, Meike Antonia GOTTHARDT, Carolin BRAUN
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Publication number: 20240141813Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment device 30 of an internal combustion engine 1 includes a catalyst 24 provided in an exhaust passage 4, a first branch passage 31 having one end 35 connected to an exhaust passage downstream of a catalyst, a second branch passage 32 having one end 38 connected to the exhaust passage upstream of the catalyst, a tank 33 to which the other end 36 of the first branch passage and the other end 39 of the second branch passage are connected and capable of storing exhaust, a valve mechanism 34 configured to switch open and closed states of the first branch passage, the second branch passage, and a downstream portion 41 of the exhaust passage downstream of a branch point 37 to which the one end of the first branch passage is connected, and a control unit 100 configured to control the valve mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Syogo TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20240141814Abstract: There is provided a control device that controls an injection amount of a reducing agent to be supplied to a selective reduction catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. The control device includes a pre-correction injection amount calculation unit configured to calculate a pre-correction injection amount of the reducing agent based on an operating state of the engine, and an injection amount correction unit configured to calculate a corrected injection amount obtained by correcting the pre-correction injection amount, based on a rate of change over time of a rotation speed of the engine and a rate of change over time of a fuel injection amount of the engine, such that the injection amount of the reducing agent increases when at least both the rate of change over time of the rotation speed and the rate of change over time of the fuel injection amount are positive.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitoshi Nagado
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Publication number: 20240141815Abstract: A system for controlling reductant spray momentum for a target spray distribution includes an exhaust system having an exhaust conduit with exhaust flowing therethrough, a reductant injection system for injecting reductant into the exhaust flowing through the exhaust system based on one or more injection parameters, a reductant supply system for supplying reductant to the reductant injection system based on one or more supply parameters, and a controller. The controller is configured to access current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, determine one or more control parameters based on a control model and the accessed current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, and modify a value of the one or more injection parameters or the one or more supply parameters to control the reductant spray.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Samuel Johnson, Nassim Khaled, Patrick C. Hudson
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Publication number: 20240141816Abstract: A method of operating a reducing agent injector includes determining a reference level of toxic substances exhausted from a catalytic reduction arrangement when injecting reducing agent at the pre-set mass flow rate; controlling a reducing agent injector to inject reducing agent at a first mass flow rate, the first mass flow rate being different from the pre-set mass flow rate; determining a first level of toxic substances exhausted from the catalytic reduction arrangement after injecting reducing agent at the first mass flow rate; determining which one of the reference level of toxic substances and the first level of toxic substances being a lowest level of toxic substances; updating the pre-set mass flow rate of the predefined injection model to an updated pre-set mass flow rate as the mass flow rate causing the catalytic reduction arrangement to exhaust the lowest level of toxic substances; and controlling the reducing agent injector to inject reducing agent at the updated pre-set mass flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Volvo Truck CorporationInventors: Dan STENQVIST, Martin Wilhelmsson, Per-Johan Carlsson
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Publication number: 20240141817Abstract: In a fastening structure that fastens an exhaust manifold to a cylinder head of an engine, a bolt that extends through a flange is inserted into and fixed to a bolt hole of the cylinder head. The flange includes a contact surface that contacts a coupling surface of the cylinder head, and an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the contact surface. A clearance is provided between the bolt and the cylinder head inside the bolt hole in a range extending from the coupling surface of the cylinder head to a specified length.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoya OSHIMA, Kohei KODAMA, Futoshi YANAI
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Publication number: 20240141818Abstract: The application relates to cylinder head water jacket design. A water jacket for a cylinder head of an engine system includes a water jacket lower portion including a plurality of water jacket lower portion coolant inlets and a plurality of water jacket lower portion coolant paths. The water jacket lower portion is in coolant receiving communication with the water jacket lower portion coolant inlets. The water jacket further includes a water jacket upper portion connected to and in coolant receiving communication with the water jacket lower portion. The water jacket upper portion includes a first coolant rail, a second coolant rail, and a water jacket upper portion coolant outlet. A first one of the plurality of water jacket lower portion coolant paths surrounds at least a portion of an exhaust port of the cylinder head. A second one of the plurality of water jacket lower portion coolant paths is positioned between two intake ports of the cylinder head.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: CUMMINS INC.Inventors: Xiling Zhou, Darrin Ferry, Vijaysai Karuppiah Kumareshan
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Publication number: 20240141819Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block including a water jacket, a water jacket spacer inserted into the water jacket, and a first gasket and a first cylinder head assembled to the cylinder block.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Tomoya OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240141820Abstract: Method and systems for determining when to cancel coolant stop. An initial coolant temperature value is measured. The initial coolant temperature value is used to create Multiple Control Valve (MCV) opening thresholds. A first threshold is generated for MCV opening threshold for engine speed. A second threshold is generated for MCV opening for intake air mass flow. A comparison is made between the first threshold and the currently measured engine speed and/or a comparison is made between the second threshold and the currently measured intake air mass flow. The comparison(s) are then used to determine when to cancel coolant stop and open the MCV.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mark A. Bachicha
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Publication number: 20240141821Abstract: A tank that is used in a temperature control system and that accommodates coolant used for temperature control includes a container body having an opening and configured to accommodate the coolant; a lid portion covering the opening, the lid portion including a pump housing portion recessed toward an inner side of the container body and including a through hole extending through an inside of the container body, and at least one inflow port into which the coolant flows from a coolant circuit of the temperature control system; and a pump housed in the pump housing portion and configured to draw the coolant accommodated in the container body through the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kazutoshi MIYAKE, Kenichiro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20240141822Abstract: A portable efficient heater management system includes an external heat source, a circulation pump that provides the circulation of the water taken from the external heat source, a heat sensor measuring the temperature of the water coming from the heat source, water transfer pipes, a two-section heat exchanger in which the waters in them do not mix with each other, but heat transfer can be made, a pressure gauge, a processor, a heat sensor placed on a generator, a generator circulation pump, a three-way valve. It also provides the engine blocks of diesel-powered generators to be heated with the heat obtained from an external heat source, as long as the heat in the external source is sufficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: PANOTEKNIK JENERATOR ELEKTRIK SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETIInventor: Ismail TASKIRAN
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Publication number: 20240141823Abstract: An engine includes an engine block having a cylinder, a piston movably disposed in a main chamber of the cylinder, a prechamber adjacent to and in fluid communication with the main chamber via a prechamber nozzle, and a fuel injector in fluid communication with the main chamber, wherein the fuel injector has spray nozzles interfacing with the main chamber. The fuel injector and the prechamber are aligned such that a first nozzle of the spray nozzles is directed towards the prechamber nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANYInventors: Xin Yu, Anqi Zhang, Andrew Baur, Nayan Engineer