Having An Adsorbent Canister Patents (Class 123/519)
  • Patent number: 12098692
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle on which a part used for performing an inspection for a leak of gas from an evaporative emission system is mounted such that a weight balance of the straddled vehicle is maintained and mass concentrates includes a canister-integrated-leak-detection device that detects a leak of gas from an evaporative emission system. The canister-integrated-leak-detection device configured in a state where at least one of a vent valve or a suction pump is integrated with a canister is supported via a common attaching member to intersect with at least one of a virtual-left-right-center plane that includes a center in a left-right direction and is perpendicular to the left-right direction, a virtual-front-rear-center plane that includes a center in a front-rear direction and is perpendicular to the front-rear direction, or a virtual-up-down-center plane that includes a center in an up-down direction and is perpendicular to the up-down direction in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuya Hidai, Hisatoshi Kinoshita, Kazuteru Iwamoto, Atsushi Hirano, Tatsuya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 12076689
    Abstract: Provided is a canister that makes it possible to reduce production costs. One aspect of the present disclosure is a canister. The canister includes an outer case including a charge port that takes in an evaporated fuel, a purge port that discharges the evaporated fuel, and an atmosphere port open to the atmosphere, an inner case arranged inside the outer case, the inner case having an inner space to which the atmosphere port is connected, a first adsorption chamber arranged in the inner space of the inner case, and a second adsorption chamber arranged between the first adsorption chamber and the atmosphere port in a flow path of the evaporated fuel in the inner space of the inner case. A cross-sectional area perpendicular to a gas flow direction in the second adsorption chamber and a cross-sectional area perpendicular to a gas flow direction in the first adsorption chamber are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Iwamoto, Tamami Ina
  • Patent number: 12078131
    Abstract: A canister that adsorbs and desorbs evaporative fuel generated in a fuel tank of a vehicle includes an adsorbent and a tubular body. A contact surface that is at least a partial area of an inner wall surface of the tubular body in a length direction of a central axis is brought into contact with a side surface of the inserted adsorbent to suppress movement of the adsorbent in a direction orthogonal to the central axis. The tubular body has an inclined surface in which the inner wall surface is inclined in a direction approaching the central axis of the tubular body in at least a partial area of an area from a starting point to the contact surface, the starting point being an opening end of an opening into which the adsorbent can be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12071887
    Abstract: An engine assembly for a vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and an exhaust system. The exhaust system includes a catalytic converter, a main muffler, a hydrocarbon trap, a pre-muffler disposed upstream from the main muffler and the hydrocarbon trap, and an exhaust path valve. The exhaust path valve is movable between first and second exhaust path positions. The exhaust path valve obstructs a second exhaust path in the first exhaust path position such that exhaust gas flows from an exhaust port of an engine cylinder to the catalytic converter to the main muffler and to the atmosphere. The exhaust path valve obstructs a first exhaust path in the second exhaust path position such that exhaust gas flows from the exhaust port of the engine cylinder to the catalytic converter to the hydrocarbon trap and to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BRP-ROTAX GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Rokita, Matthias Zarhuber, Christian Raffelsberger, Heinz Kusel, Nigel Foxhall, Markus Doppelbauer, Thomas Zorn, Christian Schwab
  • Patent number: 12060856
    Abstract: A canister is provided. The canister includes an inflow port, adsorbents, an atmosphere port, an outflow port, and an adjustment member. The adjustment member includes rod-like members. The adjustment member includes a positioning member configured to enable positioning of the adjustment member in a target chamber by being insertable in a second cylinder and by not being insertable in a first cylinder. The second cylinder has a cylindrical shape, the cross sectional area of which is larger than a cross sectional area of the first cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12050206
    Abstract: An example material testing system includes: a pneumatic grip configured to grip a specimen under test based on a supplied pressure; and a processor configured to control the pressure supplied to the pneumatic grip by repeatedly: controlling a fill valve to increase the supplied pressure; allowing the supplied pressure to stabilize after each increase; and adjusting a pressurization time based on comparing an expected pressure increase to an actual pressure increase during the pressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Tremblay, Richard Conti
  • Patent number: 12018633
    Abstract: An ejector includes a high-pressure passage, a low-pressure passage, and a connection passage. The high-pressure passage includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The upstream end is configured to be connected to a passage through which a high-pressure gas flows. The low-pressure passage is connected to the downstream end of the high-pressure passage. The connection passage is connected to a junction of the high-pressure passage and the low-pressure passage. The high-pressure passage is bent at one or more locations between the upstream end and the downstream end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOJIMA PRESS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Nagayama, Takuya Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11964554
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an evaporative emission fuel (EVAP) system. In one example, a method for the EVAP system includes loading canisters in parallel sequentially during a refueling event. The method further includes switching loading from one canister to another in response to a fuel level during the refueling event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed Dudar, Scott Bohr, Matthew Werner
  • Patent number: 11852110
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment apparatus includes an electrically-operated valve disposed between a full tank control valve and an atmosphere open port and a control unit that controls the electrically-operated valve, and the control unit performs valve-closing control that fully closes the electrically-operated valve when a valve-closing condition is satisfied after the start of fuel supply, in which a value measured by a fuel volume measurement unit is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value determined in advance and a value detected by a pressure sensor is equal to or greater than a second predetermined value determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohito Buseki, Mariko Kawase
  • Patent number: 11813586
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hydrocarbon emission control systems. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to substrates coated with hydrocarbon adsorptive coating compositions and evaporative emission control systems for controlling evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from motor vehicle engines and fuel systems. The hydrocarbon adsorptive coating compositions include particulate carbon having a BET surface area of at least about 1300 m2/g, and at least one of (i) a butane affinity of greater than 60% at 5% butane; (ii) a butane affinity of greater than 35% at 0.5% butane; (iii) a micropore volume greater than about 0.2 ml/g and a mesopore volume greater than about 0.5 ml/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruettinger, Laif R. Alden, Steven Chin, Akash Abraham, Christy Chen
  • Patent number: 11788455
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for recirculation of an engine exhaust gas. The system includes an engine, an exhaust system configured to channel exhaust gas from the engine to an outlet, an aftertreatment device, an exhaust recirculation system configured to divert at least some of the exhaust gas as recirculated exhaust gas from a first position in the exhaust system downstream of the aftertreatment device, through a buffer tank, and to a second position in the exhaust system upstream of the aftertreatment device, wherein the recirculated exhaust gas is combined with the exhaust gas at the second position, a controller configured to, by a processor, selectively operate the exhaust recirculation system to control the exhaust recirculation system to divert the exhaust gas and thereby cause the recirculated exhaust gas to be treated with the aftertreatment device more than once with sequentially increased catalyst temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chengke Liu, Rafat F. Hattar
  • Patent number: 11780322
    Abstract: A fuel system, a vehicle, and a method of controlling an evaporative emissions system for the vehicle are provided. The fuel system has a fuel tank having a fuel fill port with a closure member. An evaporative emissions canister has a first port fluidly coupled to the fuel tank to receive vapor therefrom and a second port, with the canister positioned between an air intake for an engine and a vent to atmosphere. A filter or a second canister is supported by a bracket for movement between first and second positions, with the filter fluidly coupling the second port of the canister to the vent in the first position, and the filter spaced apart from and decoupled from the second port of the canister in the second position. The second port of the canister is in direct fluid communication with atmosphere when the filter is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed M. Dudar, Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Kenneth L. Pifher
  • Patent number: 11718171
    Abstract: It is intended to enable a saddled vehicle, including an internal combustion engine supported by a lower part of a vehicle body frame, a fuel tank supported by an upper part of the vehicle body frame, a canister including an external air introducing pipe for introducing an external air, and a vehicle body cover covering the vehicle body frame, the internal combustion engine and the fuel tank, to efficiently discharge steam, released from the external air introducing pipe of the canister, to the outside of the vehicle. An external air introducing tubular pathway extends inside the vehicle body cover while continuing at one end thereof to the external air introducing pipe of the canister. An other end-side opened portion of the external air introducing tubular pathway is opened to the outside of the vehicle body cover while penetrating a through hole formed in the vehicle body cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11702061
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine; a battery; a power converter; a relay; a first controller; and a second controller. The second controller is configured to control the engine and the power converter according to allowable charging power and allowable discharging power received from the first controller. The second controller has, as control modes, a normal mode in which the relay is closed and the battery and the power converter are electrically connected and a batteryless drive mode in which the relay is opened to cause the hybrid vehicle to move with the battery electrically disconnected from the power converter. The second controller is configured to select the batteryless drive mode when at least one of the magnitude of the allowable charging power and the magnitude of the allowable discharging power become smaller than a first predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Junichi Matsumoto, Akio Uotani
  • Patent number: 11697090
    Abstract: Sorbent material sheets are wound around a center core of material that includes additional sorbent. This configuration further increases the packaging efficiency and performance of the sorbent material sheets as part of an overall housing or apparatus. In some embodiments, the sorbent material sheets are arranged in a stacked configuration. Configurations of the sorbent material sheets as part of a canister are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CALGON CARBON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Greenbank, Robert H. Vaughn, Robert Gebhard, Steven Evanovich, Walter G. Tramposch, David T. Doughty, Andrew Herrman, Matthew Adomaitis, Richard A. Mimna
  • Patent number: 11661911
    Abstract: Provided is an evaporated fuel treatment device configured to adsorb and desorb an evaporated fuel originating in a fuel tank. A first adsorption chamber is arranged in a flow passage. A second adsorption chamber is connected to the first adsorption chamber, and is arranged, in the flow passage, closer to an atmosphere port with respect to the first adsorption chamber. A first adsorption layer is arranged within the first adsorption chamber, and adsorbs the evaporated fuel. A second adsorption layer is arranged within the second adsorption chamber, and adsorbs the evaporated fuel. A sectional area of the second adsorption layer perpendicular to a direction in which the evaporated fuel flows through the second adsorption layer being larger than a sectional area of the first adsorption layer perpendicular to a direction in which the evaporated fuel flows through the first adsorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Nakagawa, Masahito Hosoi, Tamami Ina
  • Patent number: 11603157
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, at least three wheels including a front wheel and a rear wheel, a fuel tank above the engine, a seat rearward of the fuel tank, a canister positioned lower than the fuel tank, and a vent hose to supply air therethrough into the canister to desorb the adsorbed fuel evaporative emission from the canister. An upstream end of the drain hose is connected to the vent hose. A downstream end of the drain hose is positioned lower than the canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Kenta Higashiyama
  • Patent number: 11585298
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an evaporative emissions control system for onboard refueling vapor recovery of a heavy duty vehicle. In one example, a method may include, in response to greater than a threshold change in a fuel level of a fuel tank fluidically coupled to at least two fuel vapor storage canisters of an evaporative emissions control system during a refueling event, performing a canister working capacity diagnostic on each of the at least two fuel vapor storage canisters by measuring an exhaust gas air-fuel ratio (AFR) while independently purging each of the at least two fuel vapor storage canisters. In this way, the working capacity of each fuel vapor storage canister may be separately assessed in order to more accurate identify degradation of the working capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed Dudar, Scott Bohr, Matthew Werner
  • Patent number: 11584221
    Abstract: A vent shut-off assembly configured to manage venting on a fuel tank includes a main housing, a poppet valve and an actuator. The main housing is positioned outside of the fuel tank and selectively vents to a canister. The poppet valve is disposed in the main housing and includes a plunger that provides over pressure relief (OPR) and over vacuum relief (OVR) functions. The actuator assembly can be housed in the main housing and includes a cam assembly having a cam shaft that includes a cam having a profile that one of opens and closes the poppet valve. When the poppet valve is in the closed position, vapor is precluded from passing between the fuel tank and the canister. When the poppet vale is in the open position, vapor is permitted from passing between the fuel tank and the canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Vaughn K. Mills
  • Patent number: 11577603
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine. The method includes: operating the internal combustion engine including a lambda regulation, which sets a fuel quantity to be supplied in accordance with a predefined setpoint lambda value, at preset times, carrying out a filter cleaning operation for a fuel tank ventilation, as a function of the presence of a release condition of the internal combustion engine, carrying out an adaptation of the lambda regulation by adapting at least one adaptation parameter as a function of operating variables of the internal combustion engine, at active filter cleaning operation and upon the presence of the release condition, operating variables which are required to carry out the adaptation of the lambda regulation being recorded, at deactivated filter cleaning operation and presence of the release condition, the adaptation of the lambda regulation being carried out as a function of the recorded operating variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Perless, Cam Lai Ngo, Guido Schock, Holger Jessen, Juergen Geier, Martin Schaefer
  • Patent number: 11568686
    Abstract: Systems and methods for waking a controller from a sleep mode are described. In one example, the controller may be woke in response to an estimated amount of time that it will take for a temperature in an evaporative emissions system to be within a threshold temperature of ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Jentz, Sanyam Sharma, Matthew Carpenter, Aed Dudar
  • Patent number: 11549467
    Abstract: A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a controller configured to detect an abnormality in at least one of a first check valve, a second check valve, a second purge passage, a charging passage, and an ejector based on pressure detected by a pressure detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Akita
  • Patent number: 11536178
    Abstract: An evaporative emission control canister system comprises an initial adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of greater than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane, and at least one subsequent adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of less than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane. The evaporative emission control canister system has a two-day diurnal breathing loss (DBL) emissions of no more than 20 mg at no more than 210 liters of purge applied after the 40 g/hr BETP butane loading step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: INGEVITY SOUTH CAROLINA, LLC
    Inventors: Laurence H. Hiltzik, Peter D. Mccrae, James R. Miller, Roger S. Williams
  • Patent number: 11493000
    Abstract: A vehicle and a fuel system for a vehicle are provided. The fuel system has a fuel tank, a fuel fill inlet fluidly connected to the fuel tank to receive fuel dispensed from an external fuel supply device, and a recirculation line with a first end fluidly connected to the fuel fill inlet and a second end fluidly connected to the fuel tank. An ejector is positioned within the recirculation line. A valve fluidly connects the ejector to the fuel tank via a drain line. A method of fueling a vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed Dudar, Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Jeevagan Natarajan
  • Patent number: 11493001
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an evaporative emissions control system for onboard refueling vapor recovery of a heavy duty vehicle. In one example, a method may include adjusting flow among at least two canisters during canister purging, where the at least two canisters are arranged in a parallel loading and unloading flow direction, to increase flow through a higher loaded canister. Flow may be adjusted using a first valve coupled to the first canister, a second valve coupled to the second canister, and so on for n number of canisters and n number of valves, and a balancing valve used to selectively couple the at least two canisters to a fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed Dudar, Scott Bohr, Donald Ignasiak, Chuck Bartus
  • Patent number: 11473536
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing evaporative emissions from a vehicle. In one example, the vehicle may include a system for capturing emissions including a plurality of vacuum ports coupled to a vacuum source. The plurality of vacuum ports may be disposed in vehicle components prone to emitting hydrocarbon vapors and activation of the vacuum source draws the vapors from the vehicle components to a fuel canister where the evaporative emissions are stored until the fuel canister is purged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Diamond, Jim Stevens, David Guglielmo, Kenneth Middleton
  • Patent number: 11428184
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for diagnosing operation of passive grade vent valves of a fuel system. The methods and systems include adjusting a position of a vehicle so that fuel in a fuel tank may cause a first grade vent valve to open and a second grade vent valve to close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed Dudar
  • Patent number: 11408378
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel processing device may include a flow passage through which evaporated fuel generated in a fuel tank flows; a first adsorbent constituted of activated carbon and arranged in the flow passage for adsorbing the evaporated fuel flowing in the flow passage; and a second adsorbent constituted of a porous metal complex and arranged in the flow passage on a downstream side of the first adsorbent for adsorbing the evaporated fuel having passed through the first adsorbent and flowing in the flow passage on the downstream side of the first adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Shinagawa, Hiroaki Kitanaga, Rina Kondo
  • Patent number: 11371471
    Abstract: A tank system (1) for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine to which fuel is supplied from a tank (2), wherein the tank (2) is assigned, in a ventilation path to the atmosphere (7), a flushable filter device (6, 6) for being loaded with hydrocarbon vapors of the fuel. The filter device (6, 6) has multiple mutually separate activated carbon filters (6). All of the activated carbon filters (6) are connected permanently in parallel. In this way, the ventilation resistance from the tank in the direction of the atmosphere can be kept low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: Andreas Menke
  • Patent number: 11345231
    Abstract: A valve system includes a housing with a tank connection for connecting to a fuel tank, a filter connection for connecting to an activated carbon filter, and a filling tube connection for connecting to a filling tube of the fuel tank. Both the tank connection and the filter connection and/or the filling tube connection can be in form of a connecting piece, connected directly or indirectly to the fuel tank through a connecting line leading to the fuel tank, the activated carbon filter or the filling tube. The tank connection/filter connection or the tank connection/filling tube connection can be fluidically connected to one another through a main vent duct. The tank connection or a tank-side main vent duct, and the filter connection or a filter-side main vent duct, can be fluidically connected by means of a secondary vent duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Alfmeier Präzision SE
    Inventors: Helmut Auernhammer, Ronny Gehlmann, Erich Dörfler, Lawrence Mukaronda
  • Patent number: 11331617
    Abstract: A canister includes a main casing, a first port formed in a wall of the main casing, and a first adsorbent section within the main casing. The first adsorbent section and the wall of the main casing define a space section therebetween. The first adsorbent section includes a first adsorbent and a first retainer holding the first adsorbent. The canister also includes a first elastic element disposed in the space section. The first elastic element urges the first retainer to elastically hold the first adsorbent. In addition, the canister includes a subcasing integral to the wall of the main casing. The subcasing is positioned within the space section. Further, the canister includes a second adsorbent section in communication with the first port. The second adsorbent section includes a second adsorbent disposed within the subcasing. Still further, the canister includes a second retainer holding the second adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryuji Kosugi
  • Patent number: 11326561
    Abstract: A canister includes a casing defining an adsorbent chamber. The casing includes a tank port in fluid communication with a fuel tank and an atmospheric port in fluid communication with the atmosphere. The canister includes at least three adsorbent sections arranged in series in the adsorbent chamber. The at least three adsorbent sections include a first adsorbent section proximate to the atmospheric port, a second adsorbent section disposed on a tank port side of the first adsorbent section, and a third adsorbent section disposed on a tank port side of the second adsorbent section. The first adsorbent section contains a first adsorbent, the second adsorbent section contains a second adsorbent, and the third adsorbent section contains a third adsorbent. An adsorption capacity of the first adsorbent is equal to or greater than an adsorption capacity of the second adsorbent. The adsorption capacity of the second adsorbent is greater than an adsorption capacity of the third adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori Akiyama, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11300080
    Abstract: A dual chamber fuel tank protector valve has a transversely oriented divider defining a plurality of apertures for fluid flow between a first port and a second port. Each chamber has a seal disk therein. The first seal disk is normally biased to an open position by a first biasing member. The second seal disk is normally biased to a closed position by a second biasing member having a preselected biasing force set to a preselected pressure differential that allows movement to its open position before the first seal disk moves to its closed position. When the first seal disk and the second seal disk move to their respective closed positions, the direction of movement is toward one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Dayco IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Chester E. Duffield, III
  • Patent number: 11242824
    Abstract: A fuel adsorption device may include a case and a heater. The case may be metal and may have a multi-cylindrical shape. The case may accommodate a plurality of adsorbents configured to at least one of adsorb and desorb evaporated fuel. The case may include a cylindrical first wall part, at least one cylindrical second wall part disposed further inward than the first wall part, and a plurality of connection parts connecting the first wall part and the at least one second wall part to one other. A first adsorbent of the plurality of adsorbents may be arranged in a first space disposed between the first wall part and the second wall part. A second adsorbent of the plurality of adsorbents may be arranged in a second space disposed further inward than the second wall part. The heater may be disposed on an outer surface of the first wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Hasumi, Hiroshi Iwauchi, Junpei Omichi, Yuya Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11236708
    Abstract: A fuel system for a vehicle includes a fuel evaporation gas treatment system configured to control fuel evaporation gas generated inside a fuel tank. The fuel evaporation gas treatment system includes: a gas collection chamber configured to store the fuel evaporation gas discharged from the canister through an atmosphere line connected to the canister; and an outlet of the gas collection chamber is connected to a purge line through a gas intake line so that the fuel evaporation gas stored in the gas collection chamber flows into an engine through the gas intake line and the purge line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Han Kim, Gil Eon Kang, Jun Sik Lim, Seung Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11230997
    Abstract: The concepts described herein provide for a method, apparatus and system to monitor and control a fuel vapor capture system that is disposed in an air intake system of an internal combustion engine for evaporative emission control. This includes an air intake system for an internal combustion engine that includes a fuel vapor capture system disposed in an interior portion of the air intake system, the fuel vapor capture system including a Metal Organic Framework (MOF) material that is configured to adsorb and desorb hydrocarbon vapor and a controllable device that is integrated into the fuel vapor capture system. In one embodiment, the MOF material is a flexible MOF material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Michael B. Viola, Darrell W. Burleigh, Timothy E. McCarthy, Anne M. Dailly
  • Patent number: 11186166
    Abstract: A fuel tank ventilation valve includes a float valve, a float control mechanism, and a barrier member. The float valve includes a float and a float chamber. The float chamber is provided by a case. The float control mechanism controls the area of a fuel opening so that a fuel outflow speed from the float chamber is slower than a fuel inflow speed into the float chamber. The barrier member is located between an opening for a ventilation passage and the float. The barrier member suppresses fuel intrusion. The fuel tank ventilation valve is capable of preventing an outflow of a liquid component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: KYOSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Iiduka, Yuko Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 11187167
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment apparatus includes a canister, a purge passage, a purge pump, a purge valve, and a controller for executing purge control. The controller is configured to switch the purge valve to a closed state or an open state once, subsequently set a concentration sensing flag to ON, and then detect a purge concentration based on a pump downstream pressure or a pump differential pressure at a predetermined timing elapsed by a predetermined time from setting of the concentration sensing flag to ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11174820
    Abstract: A canister includes a plurality of activated carbon layers for adsorbing vaporized fuel and a purge pump for introducing purge air into the canister to cause purge gas containing the vaporized fuel to flow out of the canister. At least a part of the purge pump is placed in the chamber defined between the activated carbon layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yoshihiko Honda, Shota Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11149694
    Abstract: Provided is a canister whose performance is enhanced while achieving the advantage of suppressing changes in temperature by using a heat storage material and overcoming the disadvantage of a reduction in the adsorption amount. A canister for treating evaporated fuel includes: a tank port that is in communication with an upper air chamber of a fuel tank of an internal combustion engine; a purge port that is in communication with an air intake path of the internal combustion engine; an atmospheric air port that is open to atmospheric air; and an adsorbent material chamber R that contains an activated carbon that adsorbs evaporated fuel that flows from the tank port to the atmospheric air port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Seki
  • Patent number: 11092115
    Abstract: A canister includes a filling chamber and a partition. The filling chamber is filled with activated carbon. The partition is arranged in the filling chamber, and has plate-like members extending in a flow direction that is a direction where the evaporated fuel flows. Also, the partition forms at least three flow paths defined by the plate-like members, and the partition includes an opening portion communicating with the at least three flow paths and allowing the evaporated fuel to be transferred to other flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Ajiki, Koji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11060465
    Abstract: A fuel supply system with a fuel pressure sensor includes a failure detection part which sets a first threshold value and a second threshold value which are deviated by first (smaller) and second (larger) predetermined values with respect to a target fuel pressure respectively; immediately detects a possibility of failure in the case where an absolute value of a difference between an output value of the fuel pressure sensor and the target fuel pressure exceeds an absolute value of a difference between the second threshold value and the target fuel pressure; and determines a failure of the fuel pressure sensor in the case where the absolute value of the difference between the output value of the fuel pressure sensor and the target fuel pressure has been exceeding an absolute value of a difference between the first threshold value and the target fuel pressure for a specified time or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kosaka, Katsuji Wada
  • Patent number: 11002200
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel processing device includes a relationship learning unit that, during a learning operation, learns the relationship between a valve opening start amount and a pressure difference. In particular, the relationship learning unit learns this relationship when a valve opening detection unit detects a plurality of different valve opening start amounts and a pressure difference detection unit detects a plurality of different pressure differences. Then, the relationship learning unit creates a relationship map between the valve opening start amount and the pressure difference. The evaporated fuel processing device then corrects the valve opening start amount based on this relationship map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuichirou Miura
  • Patent number: 10975809
    Abstract: When a purge control valve is in a supply state of supplying purge gas from a canister to an intake pipe and a pump is in operation, a concentration detector is configured to detect a concentration of the purge gas when the purge control valve is open in a case where a duty cycle of the purge control valve is not less than a predetermined value, and detect a concentration of the purge gas when the purge control valve is closed in a case where the duty cycle of the purge control valve is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisaku Asanuma
  • Patent number: 10960342
    Abstract: An evaporative emission control canister system comprises an initial adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of greater than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane, and at least one subsequent adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of less than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane. The evaporative emission control canister system has a two-day diurnal breathing loss (DBL) emissions of no more than 20 mg at no more than 210 liters of purge applied after the 40 g/hr BETP butane loading step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: INGEVITY SOUTH CAROLINA, LLC
    Inventors: Laurence H. Hiltzik, Peter D. Mccrae, James R. Miller, Roger S. Williams
  • Patent number: 10954896
    Abstract: A canister includes a charge port, a purge port, an atmosphere port, a main chamber, a sub chamber, activated carbon, and additional activated carbon. The sub chamber communicates with the main chamber. The atmosphere port is connected to the sub chamber directly or via an additional chamber. The activated carbon is stored in a main volume (Vmain) in the main chamber. The additional activated carbon is stored in a sub volume (Vsub) in the sub chamber. A ratio of a length L in a gas flow direction to an equivalent diameter D in a section perpendicular to the gas flow direction is 2 or more for the sub chamber. A ratio of a volume of the activated carbon stored in the main chamber to a volume of the activated carbon stored in the sub chamber (Vmain/Vsub) is more than 7 and equal to or less than 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10940755
    Abstract: An exhaust after-treatment system associated with a diesel engine includes a diesel exhaust fluid storage unit. The storage unit includes a diesel exhaust fluid tank and a vent system coupled to the tank and configured to regulate flow of air into the tank and fluid vapor out of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Stant USA Corp.
    Inventors: Jan Nimrichter, Nuno Bras
  • Patent number: 10907556
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel processing device may be provided with a canister configured to adsorb evaporated fuel evaporated in a fuel tank; a purge passage through which purge gas sent from the canister to the engine passes; a pump configured to send the purge gas from the canister to the intake passage; a control valve configured to switch between a communication state communicating the canister and the intake passage and a cutoff state cutting off the canister from the intake passage; a branch passage including one end connected to the purge passage on a downstream side relative to the pump and other end connected on an upstream side relative to the pump; and a concentration detector provided on the branch passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kato, Daisaku Asanuma
  • Patent number: 10907584
    Abstract: A vaporized fuel treatment device mounted on a vehicle includes a canister configured to adsorb and desorb fuel vaporized in a fuel tank; and a filter case having an air inlet through which air is introduced into the canister. The filter case houses a filter to purify the air. The canister and the filter case are arranged in a wheel well outer edge portion of the vehicle. The filter case is disposed outside with respect to the canister in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Honjo, Masanori Nishimura
  • Patent number: RE49587
    Abstract: A cylindrical column-shaped honeycomb adsorbent has a plurality of cell passages extending along an axial direction of the honeycomb adsorbent. The plurality of cell passages are configured so that a pitch of adjacent cell passages is within a range of 1.5 mm˜1.8 mm, and so that a thickness of a wall between the cell passages is within a range of 0.45 mm˜0.60 mm. With this configuration, the honeycomb adsorbent exhibits BWC (Butane Working Capacity) of 6.5 g/dL or greater. By mixing fibrous meltable core melting away during baking, the honeycomb adsorbent has macropores configured to have a volume of 0.15 mL/g˜0.35 mL/g with respect to an overall weight of the honeycomb adsorbent and metal oxide particles having a proportion of weight of 150˜250% with respect to the activated carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Hasumi, Junpei Omichi, Koji Yamasaki