Using Multiple Injectors Or Injections Patents (Class 123/299)
  • Patent number: 9739251
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for injecting and combusting an amount of gaseous fuel during an exhaust stroke of a cylinder combustion event in order to reduce turbo lag and reduce a duration of time required for an exhaust catalyst to light-off during transient events. In one example, when an increase in torque demand is greater than a threshold, a first amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during a compression stroke of a cylinder combustion event and a second amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during an exhaust stroke of the combustion event. The second amount may be adjusted based on the increase in torque demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, John Hedges
  • Patent number: 9732697
    Abstract: A method for engine combustion noise feedback control includes calculating an engine combustion noise target value by a controller. A cylinder pressure is measured after combustion of fuel according to a main injection timing and an amount of pilot fuel based on the calculated engine combustion noise target value. A combustion noise index (CNI) is calculated by converting the measured cylinder pressure into a cylinder pressure level. The feedback pilot injection is controlled in which the CNI is applied to injection variable control while controlling the main injection timing and the amount of pilot fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: In-Soo Jung
  • Patent number: 9719437
    Abstract: A system comprising an engine and a controller configured to determine an air mass flow command to provide a target air mass flow value to the engine that is based on a base air mass flow value adjusted for engine operating conditions, deviations in the actual torque from a target torque, and corrected for flow conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventor: Karim Abdoul Azizou
  • Patent number: 9708994
    Abstract: A method of controlling combustion in an internal combustion engine with exhaust after treatment device is proposed, wherein upon detection of a request for a regeneration event of the exhaust after treatment device, a regeneration combustion mode comprising a pilot injection and a retarded main injection is operated. During the regeneration combustion mode the injection timing of the main injection is controlled so that its retard is not later than a retard threshold that is determined as the maximum timing retard to provide the desired torque, but with an injected fuel quantity not exceeding a maximum fuel quantity given by a stored smoke-limit map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: DELPHI INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Michael Parmentier, Julien Schmitt
  • Patent number: 9708987
    Abstract: The density of fuel being used by a compression-ignition engine and the flammability of the fuel (readiness to ignite when injected into a combustion chamber of the engine, under the current operating conditions of the engine) are respectively detected. When the flammability is excessively low and the density is above a threshold value, the oxygen concentration of the intake air supplied to the cylinders is increased until the flammability reaches a reference condition, while when the flammability is excessively low and the density is below the threshold value, the compression ratio of the engine (and/or each pilot injection amount) is increased until the flammability reaches the reference condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Suzuki, Hideo Naruse, Jun Kawamura, Koji Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9702325
    Abstract: A gas injector for injecting gaseous fuel includes: a valve body; an outer needle which is a hollow needle; an inner needle disposed in a hollow region of the outer needle; and an actuator system configured to actuate the outer needle and the inner needle independently of each other in each case. A first sealing seat is provided between the valve body and the outer needle, and a second sealing seat is provided between the outer needle and the inner needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Jaegle, Olaf Ohlhafer, Joerg Schoefer, Robert Giezendanner-Thoben
  • Patent number: 9677497
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus of a compression ignition type internal combustion engine includes a controller adapted to control an injector so that pre-stage injection and post-stage injection are performed as fuel injection during one cycle. The controller controls an interval between the timing of the pre-stage injection and the timing of the post-stage injection so that an interval ?t1 between the timing of the pre-stage peak and the timing of the post-stage peak approximately satisfies a condition. The condition is that the interval ?t1 is 0.5 times an inverse number of the frequency f0 at which a combustion noise level becomes the maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuzuyama, Tsutomu Umehara, Takayuki Fuyuto, Masahiro Taki
  • Patent number: 9670850
    Abstract: A combustion-noise controlling method for a diesel engine includes: setting a target value for a vibration peak using one or more control variables needed for driving a vehicle, diagnosing a combustion noise of the engine based on the target value, and checking whether the diagnostic value for the combustion noise is higher than a reference value previously input to a controller. Combustion is performed depending on a result of the checking. A vibration signal of the engine is measured, and a vibration peak value depending on the measured vibration signal is obtained. A feedback control step includes obtaining a correction value by performing an arithmetic operation using the target value and the vibration peak value. A pilot fuel quantity is controlled according to the correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: In Soo Jung
  • Patent number: 9664122
    Abstract: A dual fuel engine utilizes a compression ignited pilot injection of liquid diesel fuel to ignite a mixture of gaseous fuel and air in each engine cylinder. The gaseous fuel is injected at a relatively low pressure directly into the engine cylinder from a fuel injector. The liquid diesel fuel is injected directly into the engine cylinder from the same fuel injector. In-cylinder dynamic gas blending during the compression stroke can reduce potential hydrocarbon slip that could occur when unburned fuel resides in crevice volumes within the engine cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dana R. Coldren, Cory A. Brown
  • Patent number: 9664605
    Abstract: A pulsation detection unit detects, as an actual characteristic, a pulsation frequency of a pressure pulsation, which is caused in fuel pressure, or a physical quantity corresponding to the pulsation frequency, according to a sensor signal from a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor detects a fuel pressure of fuel supplied to a fuel injection valve, which is equipped to an internal combustion engine. A storage unit stores, as a reference characteristic, a reference frequency of a predetermined reference pulsation or a physical quantity corresponding to the reference frequency. A density detection unit detects a fuel density according to a quantity of deviation between the reference characteristic, which is stored in the storage unit, and the actual characteristic, which is detected with the pulsation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Mikami
  • Patent number: 9664125
    Abstract: Methods are provided for reducing transient fuel issues in a multi-fuel engine system. When transitioning from co-fueling with a first fuel split ratio to co-fueling with an alternate fuel split ratio, the change in fuel split ratio is gradually ramped in over multiple engine cycles. This reduces combustion stability issues and the disturbance potential of a wholesale fuel change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Guido, Ed Badillo, Dev Saberwal, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 9657679
    Abstract: An electronic control unit, in an idle operating state, detects a crankshaft rotation fluctuation in each cylinder using a crank angle sensor, and updates an individual correction value for a control value for each fuel injection valve as a first learned value such that a degree of deviation in the crankshaft rotation fluctuation among the cylinders reduces. The electronic control unit uses a fuel pressure sensor to detect a manner of a fuel pressure fluctuation with fuel injection by each fuel injection valve, and updates an individual correction value for a control value for each fuel injection valve as a second learned value based on a result of comparison between a detected temporal waveform and a basic temporal waveform. In an idle operating state, a learning rate of the second learned value is reduced until the first learned value converges for the first time as compared with after its convergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Ryo Suzuki, Toyomori Tsuiki, Naoyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9599061
    Abstract: A method of igniting a fuel within a combustion chamber defined by a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine includes injecting a first portion of a fuel into the combustion chamber, and energizing a first plasma igniter. The first plasma igniter is configured for generating a first plurality of free radicals, extends through a cylinder head mated to the cylinder block, and protrudes into an intake port defined by the cylinder head that is disposable in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. After injecting the first portion, the method includes activating a second igniter configured for initiating a flame within the combustion chamber to thereby ignite the fuel. The second igniter extends through the cylinder head and protrudes into the combustion chamber. An internal combustion engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Cherian A. Idicheria, Orgun A. Guralp, Paul M. Najt
  • Patent number: 9587581
    Abstract: A method and system for actively controlling the fuel pressure in the fuel rails of a fuel injection system is disclosed for providing wideband fuel rail control. An active pressure control circuit controls the pressure control valve over the entire range of engine operating conditions and in the frequency domain. Implementation of a closed-loop feedback control is effective for attenuating fuel pressure fluctuations in the fuel rail assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Tariq O. Hashim
  • Patent number: 9527718
    Abstract: A fuel tank system, comprising: a fuel tank configured to store a liquid fuel and a pressurized gaseous fuel capable of partially dissolving in the liquid fuel; a refueling conduit coupled to the fuel tank via a tank access valve; a first high pressure refueling port coupled to the refueling conduit; a low pressure refueling port coupled to the refueling conduit via a check valve. In this way, pressurized gaseous fuel or a pre-pressurized mix of fuels may be added to the fuel tank without active control any time the fuel pressure in the fuel tank is below a maximum allowable pressure, and liquid fuel may be added to the fuel tank with active control whenever the fuel pressure and liquid fuel level in the fuel tank are below threshold levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Mark Allen Dearth
  • Patent number: 9518525
    Abstract: A method of operating an internal combustion engine is provided. An in-cylinder pressure within a cylinder of the engine is determined. A fuel injection pressure from a fuel injector disposed within the cylinder is determined. A ratio of the in-cylinder pressure within the cylinder and the fuel injection pressure is compared to a stored threshold value. The fuel injection pressure is adjusted based upon the comparison of the ratio of the in-cylinder pressure within the cylinder and the fuel injection pressure to the stored threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.
    Inventor: Russell P. Zukouski
  • Patent number: 9494074
    Abstract: An arrangement and method for a combustion engine with direct injection and in particular to switching between two types of fuel is disclosed. A high-pressure pump (10) is connected to a combustion engine and the high-pressure rail for the direct injection of a fuel. At least two fuel storages (21,27) containing petrol and liquefied gas are present. The arrangement allows for switching from one fuel to another. Switching occurs by purging a fuel from the high-pressure pump (10) and the fuel supply line connected thereto by temporarily collecting the fuel in a purge unit (28). The purge unit (28) is arranged for purging the high-pressure pump (10), thus forcing out the prevailing fuel and replacing it with the new fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: VIALLE GROUP B.V.
    Inventors: Maria Servatius Alfons Jaasma, Piet Van Eijck
  • Patent number: 9458809
    Abstract: A method for assessing an injection behavior of at least one injection valve of an internal combustion engine includes putting the internal combustion engine into a special operating mode defined by control parameters and operating the engine in the special operating mode during a diagnostic time period, at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine being determined at least during the diagnostic time period, and at least one quantity characterizing the injection behavior of the at least one injection valve being evaluated at least during a segment of the diagnostic time period and being evaluated on the basis of the at least one operating parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Joos, Werner Hess, Andreas Koch, Ruben Schlueter, Holger Rapp, Haris Hamedovic, Joerg Koenig, Harry Friedmann, Achim Hirchenhein, Christoph Heisen, Christian Reschke, Stephanie Wirth
  • Patent number: 9441593
    Abstract: In a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, having a combustion chamber with at least one intake valve at an intake side and with at least one exhaust valve at an exhaust side of the combustion chamber and a central injection nozzle for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber, the injection nozzle has injection orifices which are designed and oriented in such a way that a first quantity of fuel is injected into the intake side, a second quantity of fuel injected is into the exhaust side, and a third quantity of fuel which is about equal to the first quantity and greater than the second quantity is injected into a boundary area between the intake and the exhaust sides, providing for a low-emission operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Arnold Kaden, Guenter Karl, Klaus Roessler
  • Patent number: 9435305
    Abstract: A injection valve assembly includes a valve body having a central longitudinal axis and a cavity with a fluid inlet portion and a fluid outlet portion, a valve needle axially movable in the cavity between a closing position that prevents a fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion and further position that release the fluid flow, an electro-magnetic actuator unit that actuates the valve needle and includes an armature that is axially movable in the cavity and which includes a main body and a hydraulic damper fixedly coupled to the main body. The hydraulic damper includes an inner surface facing the main body and arranged for contact with the valve needle. The hydraulic damper also has a first opening and second opening (s), wherein the valve needle extends through the first opening, and the second opening (s) provide a fluid passage from the fluid inlet portion to the fluid outlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Marco Mechi
  • Patent number: 9435307
    Abstract: This invention relates to a deposit remove amount estimation device for estimating inlet and outlet deposit remove amounts by calculating an inlet deposit remove amount which is an amount of a removed combustion product among the combustion product accumulating on an injection hole inlet area and an outlet deposit remove amount which is an amount of a removed combustion product among the combustion product accumulating on an injection hole outlet area. In this invention, the inlet deposit remove amount is calculated on the basis of the inlet deposit accumulation amount which is an amount of the combustion product accumulating on the injection hole inlet area and the outlet deposit remove amount is calculated on the basis of the outlet deposit accumulation amount which is an amount of the combustion product accumulating on the injection hole outlet area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 9394871
    Abstract: When fuel is injected into a combustion chamber (2) of a cylinder (13) of an engine (30) of a vehicle (10), the fuel is injected in the form of multiple jets (3) with the aid of an injector (1). In this connection, a first plane is defined in which both the central axis (11) of the injector (1) and the central axis (12) of the cylinder (13) lie. Furthermore, a second plane is defined in which both the central axis (11) of the injector (1) and the surface normal of the first plane lie. The jets (3) are generated in such a way that for each jet pair, which is formed from two of the jets (3), an angle between the projections of the two central axes of the two jets of the jet pair into the second plane is smaller than 50°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kay Schintzel, Lars Hentschel, Jörg Theobald, Andreas Thaysen, Feitse Ebus
  • Patent number: 9376992
    Abstract: A dual fuel injector in a dual common rail fuel system includes an injector body defining a liquid fuel supply passage to a liquid fuel nozzle outlet, and a gaseous fuel supply passage to a gaseous fuel nozzle outlet. A liquid fuel needle check is movable within the injector body and has an opening hydraulic surface exposed to a fuel pressure of a liquid fuel common rail. A gaseous fuel needle check is positioned side by side with the liquid fuel needle check and has an opening hydraulic surface exposed to the fuel pressure of the liquid fuel common rail. Sensitivity to differences in gaseous fuel rail pressure and liquid fuel rail pressure is reduced by the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Andrew Brown, Dana R. Coldren
  • Patent number: 9347394
    Abstract: A fuel injection control system includes an engine speed detector, a throttle opening degree detector, a fuel injection device, a fuel injection controller, a fuel injection number determining device, and a fuel injection mode setting device. The engine speed detector is configured to detect an engine speed (NE). The throttle opening degree detector is configured to detect a throttle opening degree (TH). The fuel injection device is configured to inject fuel. The fuel injection controller is configured to calculate, based on an injection amount map, a fuel injection amount of the fuel to be injected from the fuel injection device and is configured to control the fuel injection device to inject the fuel according to the calculated fuel injection amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Uematsu, Masato Morita
  • Patent number: 9322376
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has an ignition promotion unit that has a function of promoting ignition of fuel sprays formed by the small quantity injections by supplying the fuel sprays with electric energy. The engine is provided with a control device which has a combustion control unit that carries out processing of causing the fuel injection valve to perform the plurality of times of small quantity injections so that fuel sprays formed by the first-time small quantity injection from among the plurality of times of small quantity injections are connected with one another by the fuel sprays formed by the subsequent small quantity injections from among the plurality of times of small quantity injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: IMAGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Ikeda, Naoki Toda, Shigeo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9309853
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve which has: swirl chambers each having an inner wall whose curvature is gradually increased from upstream to downstream along fuel flow; passages for swirling motion, the passages permitting introduction of fuel into the swirl chambers; fuel injection holes opening into the swirl chambers and including at least two narrow-angle injection holes and a wide-angle injection hole from which at least two narrow-angle sprays and a wide-angle spray are respectively ejected; and an orifice plate provided with the injection holes. The narrow-angle injection holes are spaced a given distance from the center of the orifice plate. The wide-angle injection hole is formed on a line perpendicularly intersecting a line segment that interconnects the centers of the narrow-angle injection holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Yoshihito Yasukawa, Noriyuki Maekawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 9303581
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for injecting and combusting an amount of gaseous fuel during an exhaust stroke of a cylinder combustion event in order to reduce turbo lag and reduce a duration of time required for an exhaust catalyst to light-off during transient events. In one example, when an increase in torque demand is greater than a threshold, a first amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during a compression stroke of a cylinder combustion event and a second amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during an exhaust stroke of the combustion event. The second amount may be adjusted based on the increase in torque demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, John Hedges
  • Patent number: 9291110
    Abstract: When an alcohol mixed fuel is supplied to an internal combustion engine, the magnitude of the alcohol concentration is determined, and the magnitude of an operation state temperature is determined on the basis of the determination. When the alcohol concentration is high and the operation state temperature is low, the generation of intermediate products, which are alcohol oxides contained in unburned alcohol mixed fuel, is promoted, and the intermediate products generated are trapped in an intake passage by opening an intake valve in the expansion stroke of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsuda, Koji Morita, Takahiro Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 9255542
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adjusting a plurality of fuel injections supplied to a cylinder during a cycle of the cylinder are described. In one example, fuel amounts are adjusted in response to a biodiesel concentration in fuel supplied to an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Paul Joseph Tennison
  • Patent number: 9249744
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine comprises introducing a first fuel, a second fuel and an oxidant into a first engine cylinder and a second engine cylinder; monitoring a plurality of engine parameters; and adjusting a quantity of one of the first fuel, the second fuel, and the oxidant introduced to the first engine cylinder to be different from a quantity of one of the first fuel, the second fuel, and the oxidant introduced to the second engine cylinder based at least one of the plurality of monitored engine parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
  • Patent number: 9249442
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of converting biomass to biofuel, and particularly to a consolidated bioprocessing method using a co-culture of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms which collectively can ferment the hexose and pentose sugars produced by degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses at high substrate conversion rates. A culture medium therefor is also provided as well as use of the methods to produce and recover cellulosic ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Richard Mielenz
  • Patent number: 9234478
    Abstract: A geometric compression ratio in an engine main body 1 is set to 15 or less. Injection control means (ECU 40) performs a main injection of injecting fuel near a compression top dead center, and a preceding injection prior to the main injection at a specific region of predetermined load within an operating region on a relatively low-speed side. The injection control means performs, as the preceding injection, a pilot injection of performing injection at a timing such that at least part of a fuel spray reaches outside a cavity 31 on a top face of a piston, and a pre-injection of injecting fuel at a predetermined timing after the pilot injection, to suppress thereby ignition of the fuel injected by the pilot injection and shorten an ignition delay of the fuel injected by the main injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Morinaga, Daisuke Shimo, Keiji Maruyama, Hiroshi Minamoto, Naotoshi Shirahashi, Daisuke Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9228506
    Abstract: A system includes a controller operable to communicate with at least one sensor and an engine. The controller responds to one or more signals received from the sensor and influences engine operation based on determined engine operation threshold limits and information regarding a first fuel and a second, different fuel. The controller is configured to change or maintain engine operation based on the one or more signals compared to the threshold limits, and to change or maintain an engine fuel supply to control specific fuel consumption of at least one of the first and second fuels and to achieve values for the one or more signals in a determined range relative to the threshold limits. The one or more signals indicate an exhaust emissions parameter or at least one of pre-turbine temperature, fuel injection pressure, turbocharger rotational speed, peak firing pressure, rate of pressure rise, or knock intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Manoj Prakash Gokhale, Adam E. Klingbeil
  • Patent number: 9212614
    Abstract: A system and method for regeneration of an aftertreatment component are described. The disclosed method can employ any one or combination of operating modes that obtain a target condition of the exhaust gas to support or initiate regeneration of the aftertreatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Ancimer, Axel Otto zur Loye, Arvind Suresh, Colin L. Norris
  • Patent number: 9212615
    Abstract: A start control device of a compression self-ignition engine is provided. The device includes: a determining module for determining whether a piston of a compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder that is stopped on a compression stroke according to an automatic stop is within a specific range set on a bottom dead center side of a predetermined reference stop position; an injection control module for controlling each fuel injection valve to inject fuel into the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder first after the piston of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder is determined to be stopped within the specific range and the engine restart condition is satisfied; and an in-cylinder pressure estimating module for estimating an in-cylinder pressure of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder at a first top dead center on the compression stroke in the restart, where the piston of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder reaches after the restart starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Shimo, Yoshihisa Nakamoto, Takeo Yamauchi, Junichi Taga, Kenta Kobayashi, Masahiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9200579
    Abstract: A heavy goods vehicle or omnibus motor vehicle with reduced sound emissions, having a diesel engine, the operation of which can be regulated by an injection pump by an engine electronics unit which includes a microprocessor, a data and program store and input and output peripherals. Measures for at least temporarily reducing the sound emissions by the engine can be carded out to and/or at a level preferably prescribed by legislation, by regulating operation of the engine such that free and/or additional data storage locations that need to be provided in the engine electronics unit switch to a reduced-noise mode, the effect of which at least temporarily increases consumption and at the same time is at least approximately constant in terms of power and rotation speed, and which reduces the emission of sound from the drive and/or engine, in particular the reduced-noise mode lowers the rail pressure, defers the injection to a later time and/or provides a greater volume of subsets in the fuel metering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventor: Steffen Troebst
  • Patent number: 9175599
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method comprises, during low and medium load conditions, introducing fuel from a fuel tank by intake pipe injection into at least one intake air line coupled to at least one cylinder, and during high load conditions, introducing the fuel from the fuel tank by direct injection into the at least one cylinder. In this way, the method of fuel delivery may be optimized based on the load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Ulrich Kramer
  • Patent number: 9169789
    Abstract: A control system for an engine includes a fuel mass determination module, a mass fraction determination module, and a fuel injector control module. The fuel mass determination module determines a first minimum fuel mass corresponding to a first fuel system of the engine. The mass fraction determination module determines first minimum and maximum mass fractions based on the first minimum fuel mass and a total fuel mass. The fuel injector control module limits a first desired mass fraction based on the first minimum and maximum mass fractions, and controls a first fuel injector of the engine based on the limited first desired mass fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Cowgill, Ben W. Moscherosch
  • Patent number: 9127613
    Abstract: A fuel injection system has a fuel injector and a fuel pressure sensor. An ECU acquires a pressure waveform detected by the fuel pressure sensor during performing a multi-stage injection as a detected waveform at the time of the multi-stage injection, memorizes a model waveform, which is used as a standard of the pressure waveform when an injection that is preceding an target injection is performed without performing the target injection when any one of an injection of a second stage or later of an injection is considered as the target injection among multi-stage injections, and extracts the pressure waveform resulting from the target injection by deducting the model waveform from the detected waveform at the multi-stage injection. The ECU corrects the model waveform used for extraction by a ratio according to a maximum injection rate in the injection of the preceding stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nonoyama, Naoyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9127637
    Abstract: A combustion mode transition control for controlling a transition between a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition (HCCI) combustion mode and a spark-ignition (SI) combustion mode includes slowly transitioning intake and exhaust camshafts from initial phase settings corresponding to one of the HCCI and SI combustion modes to target phase settings corresponding to the other of the HCCI and SI combustion modes. An ignition spark timing and an injected fuel mass are coordinated with the transitioning of the intake and exhaust camshaft phase settings to substantially maintain engine load continuity during the transitioning of the intake and exhaust camshaft phase settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Wermuth, Paul M. Najt, Hanho Yun
  • Patent number: 9097175
    Abstract: The internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger and a waste-gate valve. When the operation resumption request is generated while the internal combustion engine is stopped due to automatic stop control, the waste-gate valve fully opens as far as the engine speed is not lower than a predetermined revolution speed. Further, self-recovery control is executed over the internal combustion engine (or more specifically, a fuel injection and ignition operation is resumed). Meanwhile, in a case where the engine speed is lower than the predetermined revolution speed when the operation resumption request is generated, the waste-gate valve fully closes. Subsequently, stop control, which has already been initiated, is continuously executed to bring the internal combustion engine to a complete stop. The waste-gate valve reverts to an open position in preparation for the restart of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 9080501
    Abstract: A compression ignition engine uses two or more fuel charges having two or more reactivities to control the timing and duration of combustion. In a preferred implementation, a lower-reactivity fuel charge is injected or otherwise introduced into the combustion chamber, preferably sufficiently early that it becomes at least substantially homogeneously dispersed within the chamber before a subsequent injection is made. One or more subsequent injections of higher-reactivity fuel charges are then made, and these preferably distribute the higher-reactivity matter within the lower-reactivity chamber space such that combustion begins in the higher-reactivity regions, and with the lower-reactivity regions following thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Rolf Deneys Reitz, Reed M. Hanson, Derek A. Splitter, Sage L. Kokjohn
  • Patent number: 9057339
    Abstract: A stochastic pre-ignition (SPI) mitigation system includes a detection module, an engine load module, and an evaluation module. The detection module generates a pre-ignition determination signal indicating detection of a SPI event in a cylinder of an engine. The engine load module determines load on the engine and generates an engine load signal based on the load. The evaluation module determines whether to operate in a single-pulse mode or a multi-pulse mode and generating a mode signal to operate in a selected one of the single-pulse mode and the multi-pulse mode based on the pre-ignition determination signal and the engine load signal. The single pulse mode includes injecting a single pulse of fuel into the cylinder during a first per combustion cycle of the cylinder. The multi-pulse mode includes injecting multiple pulses of fuel into the cylinder during a second combustion cycle of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: J. Michael Gwidt, Karen Margaret-Bell Gwidt
  • Patent number: 9051895
    Abstract: This apparatus is applied to an engine equipped with a fuel supply system that supplies pressure-increased fuel to a fuel injection valve, and performs the fuel injection from the injection valve in one combustion cycle by a multiple injection process that includes a pre-injection and a main injection that are executed with an interval therebetween. The apparatus calculates a deviation between a required value (one-dot chain line) and an actual value (solid line) regarding the end timing of the pre-injection, based on the manner of fluctuation of the fuel pressure in the fuel injection that is detected by a pressure sensor. A target main injection timing and a target pre-interval are individually set on the basis of the state of operation of the engine. Based on the deviation, the target main injection timing and the target pre-interval, the apparatus sets control target values regarding the execution period of the pre-injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Makio Tsuchiyama, Yoshihiro Furuya
  • Patent number: 9046032
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for turbocharging a stratified charge engine includes flowing, in a turbocharged mode, exhaust gas from the engine into a turbocharger based on the engine having a load greater than a threshold load and the engine operating in a first range of engine speeds, the threshold load comprising a peak load for engine operation in a naturally-aspirated mode using a lean air-fuel mixture and providing, by the turbocharger while in the turbocharged mode, an increased amount of air to a combustion chamber in the engine based on the turbocharger receiving the exhaust gas. The method also includes restricting flow, in the naturally-aspirated mode, of the exhaust gas into the turbocharger based on at least one of: the engine having a load less than the threshold load or the engine operating in a second range of engine speeds, the second range being greater than the first range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Ko-Jen Wu
  • Publication number: 20150144094
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to injectors with integrated igniters providing efficient injection, ignition, and complete combustion of various types of fuels. These integrated injectors/igniters can include, for example, multiple drivers used to shape charges, controllers used to modify operations based on ionization parameters, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Publication number: 20150144095
    Abstract: A gasoline direct-injection engine is provided. The engine causes a self-ignition of a fuel injected into a cylinder by an injector and at least containing gasoline. The engine includes a controller for controlling the fuel injection by the injector. A geometric compression ratio of the engine is 15:1 or higher. The controller causes the injector to perform a pre-injection for keeping a variation of an in-cylinder temperature after a compression top dead center within a predetermined temperature range by injecting an amount of the fuel that causes an oxidative reaction without resulting in a hot flame reaction. The controller causes the injector to perform a main injection for causing self-ignition combustion of the fuel after the compression top dead center while the variation of the in-cylinder temperature is kept within the predetermined temperature range, by injecting the fuel after the pre-injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujimoto, Yoshitomo Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Koga, Hiroyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9038582
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a first cylinder having an intake valve in fluid communication with an intake manifold, and a second cylinder having an exhaust valve in fluid communication with an exhaust manifold. A transfer passage fluidly connects the first cylinder with the second cylinder. A first fuel injector is configured to provide a first fuel to the first cylinder, and a second fuel injector is configured to provide a second fuel to the second cylinder. The first cylinder operates, at times, to push a first air/fuel mixture through the transfer passage into the second cylinder. The second fuel injector is configured to provide at least one fuel injection plume into the first air/fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher R. Gehrke
  • Patent number: 9038595
    Abstract: A carbon oxygen hydrogen motor comprises an enclosure, a combustion chamber, and a plurality of injectors. A rotational crank is positioned within the enclosure and connected with a piston. The piston is positioned within the combustion chamber and connected to the rotational crank by a rod. A stream of hydrogen gas, oxygen gas, and carbon dioxide gas enter into the combustion chamber through the plurality of injectors. A spark plug, which is connected to the combustion chamber, ignites hydrogen gas, oxygen gas, and carbon dioxide gas inside the combustion chamber causing a reaction. The reaction moves the piston upward. After the reaction has taken place, the piston moves downward. The downward motion of the piston ejects all of the byproducts from the reaction through a ejecting valve located in the combustion chamber. Since the piston is connected with the rotational crank, the rotational crank rotates in cycles creating mechanical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventor: Buddy Ray Paul
  • Publication number: 20150136072
    Abstract: A dual fuel injector may be used to inject both gas and liquid fuel into a cylinder of a compression ignition engine. An injector body defines a first set of nozzle outlets, a second set of nozzle outlets, a first fuel inlet and a second fuel inlet. A dual solenoid actuator includes a first armature, a first coil, a second armature and a second coil that share a common centerline. The dual solenoid actuator has a non-injection configuration at which the first armature is at an un-energized position and the second armature is at an un-energized position. The dual solenoid actuator has a first fuel injection configuration at which the first fuel inlet is fluidly connected to the first set of nozzle outlets, the first armature is at an energized position and the second armature is at the un-energized position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Hoisan Kim, Mark F. Sommars, Xiangdong Ding