Fuel Injection System Patents (Class 123/445)
  • Publication number: 20140182550
    Abstract: A high-pressure quill for a fuel injection system of an engine includes a pair of elongated components linked together in fluid communication. The upstream component includes a plenum chamber with a seat at its upstream end. The pair of elongated components is linked together by a linking component in a manner to permit fluid flow therethrough. A fuel flow limiter is slidably supported in the chamber and is operable during normal operation to provide predetermined quantities of fuel during each injection event to a combustion chamber and, in the event of a failure condition, to terminate fuel flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Gerstner
  • Patent number: 8763587
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device for an internal combustion engine is controlled according to properties of employed fuel, and capable of accurately detecting an abnormality in a fuel property sensor, and more particularly, a stuck fuel property sensor. A measurement section of the sensor is housed in a fuel container, which is not disposed in a main flow path of a fuel flow path connecting a fuel pump to an injector, but is disposed apart from the main flow path. Fuel drawn from a fuel tank is introduced into the fuel container. The resulting output value of the sensor is acquired as a first sensor output value. Further, the fuel is discharged from the fuel container. The resulting output value of the sensor is acquired as a second output value. The first and second sensor output values are then used to check for an abnormality in the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Wakao, Mie Sasai
  • Patent number: 8757130
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-layer piezoelectric element capable of achieving a high response speed and an increase in the displacement amount, ensuring sufficient mechanical strength, and suppressing deterioration of characteristics. A multi-layer piezoelectric element includes a stacked body in which piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated, and the piezoelectric layers include a polarization domain extending over a plurality of crystal particles. Since the piezoelectric layers include the polarization domain extending over the plurality of crystal particles, the multi-layer piezoelectric element can achieve a high response speed and an increase in the displacement amount, ensure sufficient mechanical strength, and suppress deterioration of characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20140158072
    Abstract: An engine combustion cylinder is fluidly connectable to an intake system through an intake valve and to an exhaust system through an exhaust valve. A valve activation system is to activate the intake valve and the exhaust valve. The valve activation system is responsive to a controller providing command signals to the valve activation system such that, when the engine operates in a six-stroke combustion cycle, the intake valve is opened during a recompression stroke to allow a portion of the products from the first combustion stroke to exit the combustion cylinder and enter into the intake system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: D. Ryan Williams, Scott B. Fiveland
  • Publication number: 20140158070
    Abstract: An engine combustion cylinder is fluidly connectable to an intake system through an intake valve and to an exhaust system through an exhaust valve. A valve activation system is to activate the intake valve and the exhaust valve. The valve activation system is responsive to a controller providing command signals to the valve activation system such that, when the engine operates in a six-stroke combustion cycle, the intake valve is opened during a recompression stroke to allow a portion of the products from the first combustion stroke to exit the combustion cylinder and enter into the intake system. This may be done to match the power densities of the first and second power strokes of the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: D. Ryan Williams, Scott B. Fiveland
  • Publication number: 20140158084
    Abstract: A six-stroke engine system including an engine with a combustion chamber including an exhaust valve that expels exhaust gasses during an exhaust stroke, and a blowdown exhaust valve that expels blowdown exhaust gasses during recompression. An intake line directs air into the combustion chamber, and an exhaust line directs exhaust gasses from combustion chamber. A blowdown exhaust line directs blowdown exhaust gasses out of the combustion chamber and into the intake line. The blowdown exhaust gasses are expelled through the blowdown exhaust valve during recompression, and exhaust gasses are expelled through the exhaust valve during the exhaust stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Scott B. Fiveland, D. Ryan Williams
  • Publication number: 20140158090
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve which achieves both atomization of a fluid spray and improvement of the degree of freedom in design of a spray shape, a spray direction, etc. According to a fuel injection valve (1) of the present invention, at least one of injection holes is a switching-spray injection hole (12B), which corresponds to an injected spray, directions of a long axis and a short axis of a switching spray (32A) changing due to an axis-switching phenomenon to deform the switching spray (32A) at downstream. The plurality of injection holes other than the switching-spray injection hole (12B) are coalescent-spray injection holes (12A) for forming a coalescent spray (40) formed by coalescence under Coanda effect exerted between single sprays (30A, 31A). The coalescent spray (40) and the switching spray (32A) coalesce under the Coanda effect to form an integrated spray (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mamoru SUMIDA
  • Patent number: 8746213
    Abstract: An injector including a nozzle that includes an opening and a seat, a needle movably mounted in the nozzle and having an end defining a valve in a contact area with the seat, a mechanism for vibrating the valve, a first acoustic-impedance breaking area at a first distance from the valve along the nozzle, and another first acoustic-impedance breaking area at a second distance from the valve along the needle. Each of the first and second distances is such that the respective propagation time of acoustic waves along the distance is: Ti=ni*[?/2], where ni is a positive integer coefficient different from zero with i=3 for the first distance and i=4 for the second distance, ? being a period of the vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Andre Agneray, Nadim Malek, Marc Pariente, Laurent Levin
  • Patent number: 8746214
    Abstract: The invention, described herein, is an improved Fuel Injection Servo (“Servo”) for the homebuilt aircraft. The Servo has been designed to allow the manufacturer to more easily fine tune the pressure differential over the air diaphragm. The Servo also provides an idle valve that the manufacturer and homebuilder can easily fine tune. In a second embodiment, the Servo is further adapted to replace the carburetor in smaller aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Turn and Bank Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Hall
  • Publication number: 20140156174
    Abstract: A dual-injector engine for a dual-injector engine that includes at least two injectors disposed on at least two respective intake ports that communicate with a single combustion chamber. The at least two injectors are independently, asymmetrically and cooperatively operated to distribute the amounts of fuel injected from the injectors. Eventually, the fuel vaporability of a fuel and air mixture may be maximized. Thus, the combustion performance of the engine may be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hyung Ju Lee, Ho Kyun Chun
  • Patent number: 8733671
    Abstract: Fuel injectors with intensified fuel storage and methods of operating an engine therewith. At least one storage cavity is provided in the intensifier type fuel injector, with a check valve between the intensifier and the needle chamber and storage cavity preventing loss of injection pressure while the intensifier plunger cylinder is refilling with fuel. This provides very efficient injector operation, particularly at low engine loads, by eliminating the wasted energy of compressing, venting and recompressing fuel for injection. Various injector designs and methods of operating the same in an engine are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sturman Digital Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Oded Eddie Sturman
  • Publication number: 20140137840
    Abstract: A fuel injector-igniter incorporating adaptive swirl injection and ignition. The fuel injector-igniter comprises a housing, an actuator, and a valve. The valve includes a valve head operative to open and close against a valve seat in response to activation of the actuator. The valve seat includes an electrode portion extending beyond the valve head and within the housing to form at least one gap, such as an annular gap. A current discharge between the housing and electrode portion establishes a plasma and electromagnetic forces driving the plasma from the gap. The injector-igniter may further comprise a power supply connected to the housing and valve seat that is operative to provide the current discharge. The electrode portion includes a plurality of flow shaping features, such as a plurality of twisted fins disposed around the electrode portion and thereby operative to impart a rotation to the plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: MCALISTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Publication number: 20140130776
    Abstract: A method for fuelling an internal combustion engine, and a fuel system for delivering a variety of fuel types to the engine, configured to accommodate liquid fuels such as gasoline, ethanol or a blend thereof, and gaseous fuels such as CNG, LNG or LPG. The engine is configured to operate on any of the designated liquid fuels, and can switch between the liquid and gaseous fuels. The fuel system includes a common delivery arrangement, for selectively delivering fuel into the combustion chamber of each cylinder of the engine, comprising a fluid delivery injector and a liquid metering device configured for operation in concert. The same common fluid delivery injector is used for delivery of gaseous fuel only, delivery of liquid fuel only (by way of an air assist delivery process), or delivery of a fuel mixture comprising the gaseous fuel and the liquid fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: ORBITAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventor: David James Caley
  • Publication number: 20140130777
    Abstract: [Summary] [Subject] A low-cost and brief method to detect an airtight failure in a working-gas circulating type gas engine with sufficient accuracy and a working-gas circulating type gas engine using the method should be provided. [Means for Solution] In a working-gas circulating type gas engine, an extra predetermined quantity 1 of at least one of fuel gas, oxidizer gas, and working gas is supplied as surplus gas into a circulation passage. Based on the difference between this predetermined quantity 1 and increment of this predetermined quantity 1 and the increment of the quantity of the gas in the circulation passage separately detected by a gas quantity detecting means, the existence of an airtight failure in the engine is judged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Rentaro Kuroki, Daisaku Sawada, Akira Kato
  • Publication number: 20140123944
    Abstract: A hybrid fuel injection and carburetor assembly for delivering a fuel and air mixture into an intake manifold of an engine is provided. The assembly includes a housing and a plurality of inserts with Venturi-shaped bores to establish low pressure regions in the flow of air. The housing and inserts cooperate with one another to present cavities, and the inserts include apertures extending between the cavities and the low-pressure regions. The assembly also includes fuel injectors in fluid communication with the cavities. In operation, fuel is injected at a high pressure into the cavities to the point, and the pressurized fuel is delivered into the low pressure air via the apertures. Because of the large pressure difference between the pressurized fuel in the cavities and the low pressure air, the fuel becomes very atomized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: Marvin V. Benoit
  • Publication number: 20140123945
    Abstract: A fuel distributor which is used particularly for fuel injection systems of mixture-compressing, spark ignition internal combustion engines, includes a first half shell and a second half shell. A fuel chamber is embodied between the half shells. A plurality of cups is embodied on the first half shell and/or on the second half shell. The first half shell and the second half shell are connected to each other in a continuous material manner. Such a fuel distributor is especially suitable for medium pressure, particularly between 5 MPa and 7 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Maier, Martin Goehner, Markus Feigl, Dietmar Uhlenbrock, Nikolaus Hautmann, Holger Uhrig, Helmut Schneider
  • Publication number: 20140123946
    Abstract: An injector for injecting fluid includes a valve needle axially moveable with respect to a valve body and operable to prevent a fluid injection in a closing position and to permit the fluid injection in an open position, an armature for moving the valve needle in a first direction from the closing position towards the open position, a needle retainer fixed to the valve needle, and an armature holder fixed to the armature, wherein the needle retainer and the armature holder are releasably coupleable such that when the armature moves in the first direction the needle is moved in the first direction by the movement of the armature holder and the needle retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Mauro Grandi, Valerio Polidori, Cristiano Mannucci
  • Publication number: 20140116386
    Abstract: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system may have a first fuel injector configured to inject a first stream of gaseous fuel radially into a combustion chamber of a cylinder of the engine through a first air intake port. The fuel system may also have a second fuel injector configured to inject a second stream of gaseous fuel radially into the combustion chamber through a second air intake port to collide with the first stream of gaseous fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Electro-Motive Diesel Inc
    Inventors: Scott B. Fiveland, David T. Montgomery, Aaron G. Foege, Deep Bandyopadhyay
  • Publication number: 20140116390
    Abstract: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system may have a fuel injector configured to inject fuel into a cylinder of the engine. The fuel system may also have a first fuel supply line configured to supply liquid fuel to the fuel injector to cool the fuel injector. The fuel system may further have a second fuel supply line configured to direct fuel from the fuel injector back to the fuel injector for discharge into a cylinder of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIESEL, INC.
    Inventor: Aaron G. Foege
  • Publication number: 20140116393
    Abstract: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system may have a gaseous fuel injector configured to inject gaseous fuel radially into a cylinder of the engine. The fuel system may also have a primary cooling line configured to circulate coolant through the engine. The fuel system may also have an auxiliary cooling line fluidly connecting the primary cooling line with the gaseous fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott B. Fiveland, Farhan Devani
  • Publication number: 20140116391
    Abstract: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system may include a gaseous fuel injector configured to inject gaseous fuel into a cylinder of the engine. The gaseous fuel injector may include an end fluidly connected to an air intake port and a tip creating an axial flow path for the gaseous fuel directed toward a center of the cylinder. The fuel system may also include a blocking member located in the axial flow path at a distal end of the tip. The blocking member may include at least one aperture to allow the gaseous fuel to pass through the blocking member on the axial flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIESEL, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron G. Foege, Deep Bandyopadhyay, Edward J. Cryer, III
  • Patent number: 8708250
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a cylinder that defines a pressure chamber at an end portion of a nozzle needle. A floating plate as a control member is placed in the cylinder. A cutout portion and multiple grooves are formed in the floating plate. The cutout portion and the grooves causes a gap between a large-diameter inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface to communicate with the pressure chamber. The cutout portion and the grooves reduce a contact surface portion between the cylinder and the floating plate and divide the contact surface portion into multiple island portions. As a result, it is possible to reduce the contact surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Yamashita, Naofumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 8695892
    Abstract: In a fuel injection device, a control body has a pressure control chamber, an inflow port and an outflow port. The inflow port and the outflow port are opened at an abutting surface exposed to the pressure control chamber. In the pressure control chamber is arranged a floating plate for pressing the abutting surface by a pressing surface with the pressure of the fuel to interrupt communication between the inflow port and the pressure control chamber. The abutting surface of the control body is provided with an outer opposite surface portion opposite to an outer edge of the pressing surface in a displacement axis direction of the floating plate, and the outer opposite surface portion has a special depressed portion that is depressed in the displacement axis direction and that extends along the shape of the outer edge of the pressing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Kobane, Shuichi Matsumoto, Naofumi Adachi, Tsukasa Yamashita, Fumihiro Fujikake
  • Publication number: 20140096745
    Abstract: A fuel supply device for an engine is provided in which a throttle body is provided with an electrically operated fuel pump, wherein a base member integrally having a base portion that extends in the vertical direction on one side of the throttle body and a housing tube portion that is formed into a bottomed tube shape having an end wall communicating with the base portion is linked integrally to a body, a pump housing case that forms a fuel storage chamber is formed from the housing tube portion and a bottomed tubular housing cover joined to the housing tube portion via a seal member and is disposed beneath the body, and a vapor discharge path for discharging vapor generated in a fuel storage chamber is formed in the base portion so as to extend in the vertical direction and communicate with the fuel storage chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoki Akimoto, Kuniaki Takahashi, Tatsuya Miura, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8683977
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine with separate cylinder banks, separate exhaust passages are connected to each cylinder bank of an engine and a shared intake passage is connected to both cylinder banks. One end of an EGR passage is connected to the separate exhaust passage of one cylinder bank, and the other end of the EGR is connected to the shared intake passage. If it is determined that an EGR valve in the EGR passage is stuck in an open state, a fuel-cut control is executed in the cylinder bank that is connected to the separate exhaust passage to which the EGR passage is connected. Thus, even when the EGR valve is stuck in an open state, it is possible to prevent the internal combustion engine from operating unstably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeki Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20140069384
    Abstract: The present invention resides in a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which selective use is made of a case where a first fuel, being easy to be ignited, is caused to combust by itself, and a case where a second fuel, being hard to be ignited, is also caused to combust by igniting said first fuel, and which is provided with an acquisition unit configured to acquire a combustion state of said second fuel in the case where said second fuel is also caused to combust by igniting said first fuel, and a decision unit configured to decide amounts of supply of said first fuel and said second fuel to be supplied to said internal combustion engine on and after next time, based on the combustion state of said second fuel determined by said acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Suzuki, Isamu Goto, Masahiko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: 8664783
    Abstract: A system for improving engine starting is disclosed. In one example, an engine starting is improved by providing a predictable load to the engine during engine starting. The predictable load may be provided by controlling alternator field voltage during the engine start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex O'Connor Gibson, John Anthony DeMarco, Allan Roy Gale, Vincent John Boscheratto
  • Patent number: 8656890
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling an injection time of a fuel injector. The system includes a drive circuit configured to output a drive signal having a pulse width, wherein the injection time is influenced by the pulse width and a closing electrical decay of the fuel injector. A controller is configured to determine the closing electrical decay of the fuel injector and adapt the pulse width based on the closing electrical decay to control the injection time. The closing electrical decay includes a closing response. The controller determines the closing response based on an injector signal, such as a coil voltage of the fuel injector. By determining the closing response, the pulse width can be adjusted to compensate for fuel injector part-to-part variability, fuel injector wear, variations in fuel pressure received by the fuel injector, dirt in the fuel injector, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe S. Farah, Ronald J. Krefta, Brent J. Wahba, Eugene A. Kobos, Kevin R. Keegan
  • Publication number: 20140048041
    Abstract: An in-cylinder pressure detecting device of a direct injection type internal combustion engine is provided in which a ring-shaped pressure detection element (34) surrounding a fuel injection hole (33b) is provided in the vicinity of an extremity of an injector (20) that injects fuel into a combustion chamber. Since the pressure detection element is provided on the injector, not only is it unnecessary to change the shape or structure of the cylinder head or the combustion chamber in order to provide the pressure detection element, but it is also possible to cool the pressure detection element (34) by fuel passing through the inside of the injector to thus enhance the precision of pressure detection and the durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicants: KEIHIN CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Shusuke Akazaki, Yuji Yamamoto, Toshitaka Hachiro, Gaku Sato
  • Publication number: 20140041631
    Abstract: Fuel injector-igniters with variable gap electrodes. A fuel injector-igniter comprises a housing, an actuator disposed in the housing, and a valve including a valve head operative to open and close against a valve seat in response to activation of the actuator. An electrode cage surrounds the valve head and includes at least one aperture. At least one reed electrode extends from the electrode cage to form a gap between the reed electrode and the housing. The valve head includes a magnet, such as a permanent magnet, wherein the magnet is operative to move the reed electrode toward the electrode cage when the valve head opens, thereby increasing the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: McAlister Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Publication number: 20140034014
    Abstract: Various systems and method for controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes injecting fuel to a subset of cylinders that includes less than all cylinders of a first cylinder group to obtain a target EGR rate. The first cylinder group provides exhaust gas through an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage structure fluidly coupled between the first cylinder group and an intake passage structure. The method further includes injecting fuel to at least one cylinder of a second cylinder group. The second cylinder group provides substantially no exhaust gas through the EGR passage structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Neil Xavier Blythe, Shawn Michael Gallagher, James Robert Mischler, Luke Henry
  • Publication number: 20140034015
    Abstract: An injection device for an internal combustion engine having a first injection system for injecting fuel having a first fuel composition, and a second injection system for the injection of fuel having a second fuel composition that has a lower ethanol component than the first fuel composition, the first injection system having at least one first fuel injector for injecting fuel having the first fuel composition both in the direction of a first intake orifice of a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and in the direction of a second intake orifice of the combustion chamber, wherein the second injection system has a second fuel injector for injecting fuel having the second fuel composition essentially only in the direction of the first intake orifice, and a separate third fuel injector for injecting fuel having the second fuel composition essentially only in the direction of the second intake orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Gutscher, Andreas Posselt, Marko Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20140033705
    Abstract: Various systems and method for controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes during a first operating condition, directing exhaust gas from a first cylinder group into an engine air intake stream and directing substantially no exhaust gas from a second cylinder group to the engine air intake stream. The method further includes during a second operating condition, directing exhaust gas from the second cylinder group through a turbocharger bypass into the engine air intake stream and reducing a fuel injection amount of the first cylinder group relative to a fuel injection amount of the second cylinder group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Neil Xavier Blythe, Shawn Michael Gallagher, James Robert Mischler, Luke Henry
  • Publication number: 20140026855
    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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventor: Christopher R. Gehrke
  • Publication number: 20140026856
    Abstract: A method for treating the air-fuel mixture to feed to any one internal combustion engine, includes the following magnetization steps: treatment of the fuel present inside any one tank (2) with at least one immersion container (1), having a plurality of holes (40), placed in proximity to the fuel duct (8) and containing at least one cylindrical container (3), equipped with a plurality of holes (41), in turn adapted to contain a plurality of magnetic elements (5) spaced from each other by the same number of ceramic spacers (6); treatment and magnetization of the air fed to the internal combustion engine with at least one pair of magnets (16), placed on a suction duct (17) in proximity to the engine, adapted to provide the air fed to the engine with an opposite charge from that provided to the fuel fed to the engine via devices b, c, d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: TITANO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Bove, Alessandro Bove
  • Patent number: 8635992
    Abstract: A method for controlling the temperature of an injector of an injection system for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine during the standstill of the internal combustion engine involves branching off a partial amount of the fuel as flush volume between a pre-supply pump and a high-pressure pump; conducting it through a heat exchanger for heating the fuel; and feeding the heated fuel to a high-pressure fuel storage (inside the injector) so that the flush volume flows through the high-pressure fuel storage to prevent fuel from solidifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Bernhaupt
  • Publication number: 20140014067
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to controlling a fuel injection quantity of a fuel injector are provided. In one embodiment, a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel supply channel, a nozzle valve including a valve stem, and an actuator to actuate the nozzle valve. The nozzle valve and an inner wall of the fuel supply channel form a first flow cross section and at least one second flow cross section that is greater than the first flow cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Oliver Berkemeier, Robin Ivo Lawther
  • Publication number: 20140007843
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress, in an internal combustion engine in which two injectors are disposed in a line upstream and downstream in an intake pipe, adhesion of deposits to the downstream-side injector. In order to suppress such adhesion, a fuel injection control device according to one embodiment of the present invention operates both injectors together when a required fuel injection amount is equal to or greater than a reference value. The reference value is set to a value equal to or greater than the sum of lower limit injection amounts of the injectors. In such case, the fuel injection control device adjusts the proportion of fuel injected from the injector disposed downstream in the intake pipe to be greater than the proportion of fuel injected from the injector disposed upstream in the intake pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20140007842
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus includes a material fuel tank, a separator, a condenser, a first fuel tank, and a first storage device. The material fuel tank is to store a material fuel. The separator is to separate the material fuel supplied from the material fuel tank into a first fuel and a second fuel. The condenser is to condense the first fuel supplied from the separator through a primary-order recovery passage. The first fuel tank is to store the first fuel supplied from the condenser through a secondary-order recovery passage. The first storage device is provided in the secondary-order recovery passage to temporarily store the first fuel supplied from the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Hirotsugu KUDO, Masayoshi KAWAGUCHI, Hiroshi CHISHIMA, Kenji SHIGETOYO
  • Publication number: 20140007841
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided, which can favorably suppress an occurrence of abnormal combustion in the case of including a fuel injection valve capable of injecting a fuel by dividing the fuel in any desired number of times of division by using at least one of an intake stroke and a compression stroke. A direct-injection injector (16) is included, which is capable of injecting a fuel by dividing the fuel in any desired number of times of division by using at least one of the intake stroke and the compression stroke during one cycle of an internal combustion engine (10). When an occurrence of abnormal combustion of the internal combustion engine (10) is detected or predicted, the number of times of division of fuel injection is decreased as compared with a case in which the occurrence of the abnormal combustion is not detected or predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140000559
    Abstract: An injection device for an internal combustion engine having a first injection system for injecting fuel having a first fuel composition, and a second injection system for the injection of fuel having a second fuel composition that has a lower ethanol component than the first fuel composition, the first injection system having at least one first fuel injector for injecting fuel having the first fuel composition both in the direction of a first intake orifice of a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and in the direction of a second intake orifice of the combustion chamber, in which the second injection system has a second fuel injector for injecting fuel having the second fuel composition essentially only in the direction of the first intake orifice, and a separate third fuel injector for injecting fuel having the second fuel composition essentially only in the direction of the second intake orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Gutscher, Andreas Posselt, Marko Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20140000560
    Abstract: There is provided a gas engine fuel gas supply device in which a fuel gas flows along the axial direction on the outer circumferential side of an inlet valve rod, and is supplied into the inlet path in a cylinder head. In the device, in the inner circumferential surface of a sleeve slidably fitted with a projection, the projection being a portion of the inlet valve rod, there is provided a suction hole situated within the region of movement of the projection, and to be opened and closed in response to the movement of the inlet valve rod, and a fuel gas injection hole is formed in the bottom end face of the sleeve communicating with the suction hole. The device is characterized in that the sleeve is disposed so as not to protrude into the inlet path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Michiyasu Ishida, Minoru Esaki
  • Publication number: 20140000563
    Abstract: A coaxial quill assembly is used for supplying gaseous and liquid fuels from separate common rails to individual fuel injectors of a compression ignition engine. Each coaxial quill assembly includes a matched pair of an outer quill and an inner quill that are matched based upon a fuel system dimensional specification that causes both the inner and outer quills to sealingly engage a common conical seat of a fuel injector. During pre-installation handling, the matched pair of inner and outer quills are retained together with a retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: David Elliot Hackett
  • Publication number: 20140000558
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a merit by intake stroke injection in a wider operation range while efficiently exploiting a merit of compression stroke injection in an internal combustion engine having a cylinder fuel injection device. For this purpose, a fuel injection control device provided by the present invention sets an injection sharing ratio of a quantity of a fuel which is injected in an intake stroke, and a quantity of a fuel which is injected in a compression stroke, in accordance with an operating state or an environmental condition of the internal combustion engine, and manipulates the cylinder fuel injection device so as to inject a part or all of a required fuel in the intake stroke and inject a remaining part in the compression stroke, in accordance with the set injection sharing ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuuichi Katou
  • Publication number: 20140000561
    Abstract: A hydraulically intensified fuel injection system comprises a hydraulic fluid accumulator, an adapter, and an injector connecting tube. The hydraulic fluid accumulator has a fluid outlet and is adapted to contain a volume of pressurized hydraulic fluid. The adapter is disposed partially within the fluid outlet of the hydraulic fluid accumulator. The adapter has an first opening provided in fluid communication with the fluid outlet of the hydraulic fluid accumulator. The first opening of the adapter has a recessed groove. The injector connecting tube is disposed at least partially within the first opening of the adapter. The injector connecting tube has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is adapted to deflect outward to reduce a gap between the injector connecting tube and the first opening of the adapter. The injector connecting tube has an second opening formed through the upper portion and the lower portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Publication number: 20130340710
    Abstract: An injection apparatus (6) includes a container (62), a liquid ammonia supply part (69) for supplying a predetermined amount of liquid ammonia into the container (62), a compression part (65) connected to the container (62) and for compressing a gas filled in a space for compression to introduce the compressed gas into the container (62), and a nozzle (66) connected to the container (62) and for introducing into a combustion chamber ammonia that is pushed out of the container (62) due to the introduction of the compressed gas into the container (62). The injection apparatus (6) uses a gas that is heated to a high temperature by compression to inject ammonia into the combustion chamber and thus can easily produce the combustion of ammonia in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Masahisa Fukuyama, Kenji Ishiguro, Naohiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20130333666
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, in particular for a motor car, having a fuel supply for liquid fuel, in particular gasoline, and a fuel supply for gaseous fuel, in particular natural gas, at least one heat exchanger is provided between the two fuel supplies, by means of which a heat exchange is facilitated between the gaseous and the liquid fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Albert Ebner, Jens Schittenhelm, Dirk Schneider, Helge Wollenhaupt, Klaus Wunderlich
  • Publication number: 20130333667
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel gas supply device for a gas engine in which a fuel gas flows along the axial direction on the outer circumferential side of an inlet valve rod, and is supplied to an inlet path in a cylinder head. The device is characterized in that fuel gas injection holes to be opened and closed with the movement of a projection are provided in the inner circumferential surface of a sleeve into which the projection is slidably fitted, the projection being provided at the inlet valve rod, having a larger outer diameter than the inlet valve rod and having a portion concentric with and in parallel with the inlet valve rod, and in that the fuel gas injection holes are each formed in an ellipse, and the opening upper and lower end region part of the ellipse is situated within the movement region of the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Michiyasu Ishida, Minoru Esaki
  • Publication number: 20130327295
    Abstract: A gas engine system has a control unit including: a first determination section for determining, as a first determination, whether the gas pressure is a low pressure less than a predetermined pressure, while the control device recognizes the gas valve is closed; a second determination section for determining, as a second determination, whether the gas pressure is a high pressure equal to or more than the predetermined pressure, while the control device recognizes that the gas valve is open, if the first determination determines the gas pressure is the low pressure; a start-up section for performing the first and second determinations before start of engine operation when receiving a start-up command; and an operation start section for opening the valve and starting the engine, if the first determination determines the gas pressure is the low pressure, and if the second determination determines the pressure is the high pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Fujisawa, Kenji Ogata, Shohei Amakawa, Masato Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okada
  • Publication number: 20130312705
    Abstract: A method of producing a fuel distribution pipe includes providing a forged bar made of metal, forming a main bore in the forged bar so as to extend along an axial direction of the forged bar, forming an injector bore having an injector opening in the forged bar, forming a bolt through hole having a bolt opening in the forged bar, obtaining a base pipe having the main bore, the injector bore and the bolt through hole from the forged bar, and bending the base pipe such that the injector opening of the injector bore and the bolt opening of the bolt through hole are provided along a line parallel to the axis of the main bore. The injector bore directly communicates with the main bore and the bolt through hole does not communicates with the main bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: OTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji ISOGAI, Takayoshi OTA