Exhaust Gas Cooled During Recirculation Patents (Class 123/568.12)
  • Patent number: 12085046
    Abstract: Provided are an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system and a vehicle. The EGR system includes a cooler, a first end of the cooler is provided with an air inlet for connecting to an exhaust system of the vehicle, and a second end of the cooler is provided with an air outlet, an air passage is connected between the air inlet and the air outlet in the cooler, and the air outlet is at a position higher than the air inlet in a vertical direction. The cooler is further provided with at least one water inlet for a cooling liquid to enter and at least one water outlet for discharging waste cooling liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunyan Dong, Chengbo Lin, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12055108
    Abstract: A control method and a control device for controlling a spark-ignition internal combustion engine that is equipped with a turbocharger and an exhaust gas recirculation device. The operation of the engine is carried out to perform a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio by performing exhaust gas recirculation even in a high-load range including a maximum-output operation point. When the maximum output operation point is required, intake air information such as atmospheric pressure and outside air temperature is used as a basis to calculate intake air density, which is compared with a predetermined density threshold. When the intake density is equal to or less than the density threshold at a high-altitude location or the like, an exhaust gas recirculation rate is set to 0. As a result, the maximum output can be higher than when exhaust gas recirculation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhito Takahashi, Hirofumi Tsuchida, Mitsuhiro Akagi
  • Patent number: 12012907
    Abstract: An engine includes an exhaust manifold, an intake manifold, and an EGR device configured to supply EGR gas from the exhaust manifold to the intake manifold. A longitudinal direction of the EGR cooler is in an up-down direction of the engine in a used state. The exhaust manifold has an EGR pipe that is connected to an EGR cooler, and a part of the EGR pipe extends in left-and-right directions. The part of the EGR pipe is provided at a side where a flywheel housing is provided. An upper end of the EGR cooler has a supply port into which the EGR gas is supplied from the exhaust manifold. The part of the EGR pipe and the flywheel housing are located in an up-down directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Matsui, Masato Kishiura
  • Patent number: 11976615
    Abstract: A fuel supplying device for an internal combustion engine includes a tank configured to store a gaseous fuel, a fuel injection valve configured to supply the gaseous fuel to a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a fuel passage configured to supply the gaseous fuel in the tank to the fuel injection valve, and a pressure reduction valve provided in the fuel passage. The fuel passage has a double-walled pipe structure including an inner pipe through which the gaseous fuel flows and an outer pipe that has an inner diameter larger than the inner pipe and covers the inner pipe. The fuel passage is configured such that a coolant is supplied to a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Suzuki, Tomihisa Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11754007
    Abstract: A system and method of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine are provided. The EGR system includes a first EGR flow path and a second EGR flow path independent of the first EGR flow path that are each configured to recirculate high pressure exhaust from the exhaust system back to the engine intake system. The system includes a controller in operable communication with the EGR system configured to selectively control an amount of EGR flow through at least one of the first and second EGR flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Olumayokun Ogunbekun, Sriram S. Popuri, Scott Robert Bardakjy, Avra Brahma, Yongsoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11732681
    Abstract: An EGR device includes an inlet portion into which EGR gas is introduced, a first outlet portion, a second outlet portion, and a passage portion. The first outlet portion and the second outlet portion each conduct, to the corresponding branch passage portion, the EGR gas that has been introduced through the inlet portion. The passage portion allows gas to flow between the inlet portion and the first outlet portion and between the inlet portion and the second outlet portion. The passage portion includes: a main passage that connects the inlet portion to the first outlet portion and to the second outlet portion; and an expansion chamber that is expanded outward from the main passage. The main passage includes a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to the second outlet portion and extends in a first direction. The expansion chamber is expanded outward from the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Ohashi, Yasuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 11629674
    Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream side of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream side of the second upstream passage, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage, rotates around an EGR valve axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Yuichiro Moritani, Shogo Tateishi
  • Patent number: 11512672
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine system. The system includes a mixing unit comprising a four-way valve. The four-way valve having a first inlet connected to the EGR line, a second inlet connected to the air inlet line, a first outlet connected to the first intake manifold and a second outlet connected to the second intake manifold. The four-way valve is designed so that, in said normal operating mode, the intake gases supplied to the first intake manifold and to the second intake manifold have approximately the same proportion of exhaust gas and fresh air and so that, in said cylinder deactivation mode, the intake gas supplied to the first intake manifold only includes exhaust gas and the fresh air is directed exclusively to the second intake manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurent Bauvir, Raphael Bost
  • Patent number: 11499509
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes an exhaust manifold connected to a cylinder head, a catalyst connected to a downstream end of the exhaust manifold in terms of an exhaust gas flow, an EGR gas outlet provided downstream of the catalyst, an in-head EGR passage penetrating the cylinder head, and an EGR pipe extending from the EGR gas outlet and directly connected to an inlet of the in-head EGR passage to lead EGR gas thereto. The catalyst is disposed so that the exhaust gas flows therein from a first side to a second side in an engine cylinder lined-up direction. The EGR gas outlet is located on the second side with respect to the center of the engine in the cylinder lined-up direction, and the inlet of the in-head EGR passage is located in the first side with respect to the engine center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Nishida, Yuji Kojima, Noriaki Fujita, Ken Yoshida, Takashi Kariya, Takayuki Tominaga, Naoya Matsumoto, Yusaku Matsumura, Yuki Koda, Takuya Nishihara, Hiroyuki Ohmura, Arashi Imura, Fusatoshi Tanaka, Takuya Yamada, Shintaro Umesaki
  • Patent number: 11499508
    Abstract: A system and method operate by, while an engine is operating, automatically determining whether the engine is in a designated state for EGR cooler cleaning. The EGR cooler is operably coupled to the engine to receive hot EGR from an exhaust of the engine and to provide cooled EGR to an intake of the engine. The system and method also include, responsive to the engine not being in the designated state, automatically preventing a water pump system from introducing a cleaning liquid into a gas inlet of the EGR cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David Wright, David Baldwin, Justin Iacovetto, Scott Moore, Jody Motichka, Eric David Peters, Paul Gerard Nistler
  • Patent number: 11486337
    Abstract: An integrated exhaust system apparatus to be mounted on an engine is provided. The apparatus includes an apparatus housing; an engine interface; an exhaust system interface with a first exhaust apparatus outlet configured to direct a first portion of exhaust through the housing wall; an EGR interface with a second exhaust apparatus outlet configured to direct a second portion of exhaust through the apparatus housing wall; and an exhaust manifold arranged within the apparatus interior. The exhaust manifold includes a first manifold outlet configured to direct the first portion of exhaust out of the manifold interior and a second manifold outlet configured to direct the second portion of exhaust out of the manifold interior. An EGR cooler is arranged within the apparatus interior with passages fluidly coupled such that the second portion of exhaust is directed out of the apparatus housing via the second exhaust apparatus outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric J. Haaland, Veeresh Nagathan
  • Patent number: 11346266
    Abstract: An engine exhaust aftertreatment device includes a first exhaust treatment unit and/or a second exhaust treatment unit; the first exhaust treatment unit includes a first bypass pipeline and a first connection pipe provided between a DPF and an SCR; the second exhaust treatment unit comprises a second bypass pipeline and a second connection pipeline provided between a DOC and the DPF, one end of the second bypass pipeline being in communication with the turbine front exhaust pipe, and the other end of the second bypass pipeline being in communication with the second connection pipeline; when it is detected that an engine satisfies a starting condition of the first exhaust treatment unit, the first exhaust treatment unit starts; and when it is detected that the engine satisfies a starting condition of the second exhaust treatment unit, the second exhaust treatment unit starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoliang Chu, Haihao Feng, Dong Qiu, Youqiang Xiao, Xinzheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11339731
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine system (2), wherein the internal combustion engine system (2) is provided with an air intake duct (3), an exhaust gas duct (4) and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system (5), wherein the EGR system (5) comprises an EGR conduit (6) that fluidly connects the exhaust duct (4) and the intake duct (3), and wherein a gas feeding device (7) configured to feed exhaust gas from the exhaust duct (4) to the intake duct (3) is arranged in the EGR conduit (6). The method is characterized in that it comprises the step of: providing a flushing liquid in the EGR conduit (6) upstream of the EGR gas feeding device (7) so as to flush and clean the EGR gas feeding device (7). The invention also relates to an internal combustion engine system (2) configured for being operated by such a method and to a vehicle (1) provided with such an engine system (2). The invention further relates to means for controlling the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fredrik Rahm, Johan Carlén Andersson
  • Patent number: 11339747
    Abstract: An engine device including an exhaust manifold provided on an exhaust side surface of a cylinder head, and an exhaust pressure sensor configured to detect an exhaust gas pressure in the exhaust manifold. The exhaust pressure sensor is attached to the cylinder head. The exhaust pressure sensor is connected to the exhaust manifold through an exhaust pressure bypass path provided in the cylinder head and an exhaust pressure detection pipe connecting the exhaust pressure bypass path to the exhaust manifold. A cooling water passage is provided nearby the exhaust pressure bypass path, in the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ippei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11286888
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having an exhaust duct through which pass exhaust gases; and a water-based operating liquid system which includes a tank, and a heating device, which is coupled to the tank and is designed to heat water-based operating liquid. The heating device includes a heating chamber having an inlet opening designed to receive ambient air and that allows heat to be transferred from the walls of the exhaust duct to the air received from the environment and comprises an outlet opening for the heated air; and a heat exchanger, which receives the heated air and is thermally coupled to the tank so as to release part of the heat of the heated air to the water-based operating liquid contained in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MARELLI EUROPE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Zito, Antonio Barbuto
  • Patent number: 11255300
    Abstract: A diesel engine is provided with an EGR line G3 configured to recirculate a portion of exhaust gas, discharged from an engine body 11, to the engine body 11 as combustion gas, an EGR cooler 16 provided in the EGR line G3 and configured to cool exhaust gas by coolant, a coolant supply device configured to supply coolant to the EGR cooler 16, and a control device 30 configured to activate the coolant supply device when the engine body 11 is in operation and a temperature of the engine body 11 is lower or equal to a preset prescribed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 11220967
    Abstract: New and/or alternative approaches to determine mass flow using a flow measurement device in a pulsatile flow context. The flow measurement device is configured to generate a delta-pressure measurement. A semi-physical valve model is generated for the flow measurement device, and the delta-pressure measurement is then is isolated using the model. A discharge coefficient map is determined for the flow measurement device by testing using sets of operating parameters for a system. The operating parameters of the system are then used to determine the discharge coefficient for use in estimating mass flow with the semi-physical valve model. The resultant estimated mass flow can be used to control the system, and a Factor of Effective Area estimate generated using the valve model can be used to determine the status of the flow measurement device and identify or predict a need for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomas Poloni
  • Patent number: 11149624
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system including a cylinder block, a cylinder head attached to the cylinder block, an EGR cooler, and a coolant collector bracket configured to vertically support the EGR cooler is provided. The cylinder head includes a lateral surface including a plurality of fasteners positioned along a bottom edge of the lateral surface. The cylinder head also includes a plurality of coolant passages. The coolant collector bracket is horizontally coupled to the cylinder head and perpendicularly coupled to the EGR cooler. The coolant collector bracket includes a plurality of mounting legs directly coupled to the lateral surface of the cylinder head. The plurality of mounting legs include a plurality of slots. The plurality of mounting legs are slidably inserted onto the plurality of fasteners of the cylinder head via the plurality of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dean W. Walters, Allen Y. Chen, DeForest C. Gould, III, Jason L. Van Farowe, Quinton M. Burcar
  • Patent number: 11111886
    Abstract: An engine EGR system is provided. An EGR passage includes an EGR cooler, an EGR internal passage passing through a cylinder head on an upstream side of the EGR cooler, and a relay passage extending outside the cylinder head and connecting the EGR internal passage to the EGR cooler. The EGR cooler formed in a columnar shape is arranged above an intake manifold so as to locate a gas inflow port on a first end surface side and a gas outflow port on a second end surface side, and the relay passage communicates with the EGR internal passage on an external side of the engine compared to a head EGR gas exit. The EGR cooler inclines downward from the gas outflow port toward the gas inflow port, and the relay passage is connected to the gas inflow port while being bent downward toward the upstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Fujihira, Hiroshi Kinoshita, Takashi Kariya, Takayuki Tominaga, Ken Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11092069
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery (WHR) system and method for regulating exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooling is described. More particularly, a Rankine cycle WHR system and method is described, including an arrangement to improve the precision of EGR cooling for engine efficiency improvement and thermal management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Nelson, Timothy C. Ernst
  • Patent number: 11085406
    Abstract: A cooling control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of efficiently driving an electric water pump, thereby improving fuel economy as much as possible while properly performing cooling of supercharged intake air by an intercooler. The engine to which the present invention is applied includes a turbocharger for supercharging intake air and is configured such that electrical power is generated by a generator using the engine as a motive power source, during a decelerating fuel-cut operation in which fuel supply is stopped. The cooling control system of the present invention includes the intercooler of water-cooled type which cools the intake air supercharged by the turbocharger by using coolant circulating through an intake air cooling circuit and an electric pump for circulating the coolant through the intake air cooling circuit, and drives the electric pump during the decelerating fuel-cut operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Daicho, Jyo Ishimasa
  • Patent number: 11047275
    Abstract: A device for treating exhaust gases includes at least one purification member with a substrate for purifying the exhaust gases, a heat exchanger axially located beyond an axial end of the substrate, a body, a valve comprising a flap arranged in an internal volume of the body. An exchanger inlet and exchanger outlet open into the internal volume. At least 45% of a volume of the body is in a virtual space located in an axial extension of one or more purification substrate(s). The body comprises at least one first orifice in fluid communication with a purification member outlet, and a second orifice defining an outlet for the exhaust gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Brunel
  • Patent number: 11028804
    Abstract: The present invention provides an EGR cleaning station and method of use for efficiently cleaning EGR from soot and debris. The gas recirculation cleaning station is primarily comprised of: a cleaning tank; a water tank; a heating system; a pump; an inlet hose; an outlet hose; and, exterior housing. The EGR cleaning station isolates the EGR while mounted onto the internal combustion engine. The method of cleaning the EGR through the use EGR cleaning station in a stepwise manner, first cleaning the EGR by circulating the cleaning solution, then rinsing the EGR with circulating water. The cleaning of the EGR occurs without the need to remove the EGR from the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Fleet Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Storey
  • Patent number: 11002174
    Abstract: An engine device including a cylinder head provided with a plurality of air-intake passages for taking fresh air into a plurality of air-intake ports and a plurality of exhaust gas passages for emitting exhaust gas from a plurality of exhaust gas ports. An air-intake manifold which aggregates the air-intake passages is formed integrally with one of left and right side portions of the cylinder head. An EGR cooler is coupled to a front surface of the cylinder head; and EGR gas passages and cooling water passages communicating with the EGR cooler are provided in a coupling portion of the cylinder head with the EGR cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Onodera
  • Patent number: 10995705
    Abstract: A convergent nozzle is in a mixer housing and in a flow path from an air inlet of the mixer to an outlet of the mixer. A convergent-divergent nozzle is in the mixer housing and includes an air-exhaust gas inlet in fluid communication to receive fluid flow from the convergent nozzle and from the interior of the exhaust gas housing. A first nozzle module is configured to be received in the mixer housing and, when received in the mixer housing, define at least a portion of the convergent nozzle or the convergent-divergent nozzle. A second nozzle module is configured to be received in the mixer housing separate from the first nozzle module. The second nozzle module, when received in the mixer housing, is configured to define at least a portion of the convergent or the convergent-divergent nozzle. The second nozzle module has a different flow characteristic than the first nozzle module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Mastbergen, Domenico Chiera, Gregory James Hampson, Yi Han, James Po-Chang Chiu, Doug Leone, Henry David Gemmill Knutzen, Samuel James McCreery
  • Patent number: 10920718
    Abstract: A turbo compressor of an exhaust gas recirculation of an internal combustion engine, with a compressor housing, a compressor rotor, a shaft that is coupled to the compressor rotor and mounted in the compressor housing, a piston ring seal to prevent an exhaust gas blow-by flow in the direction of bearings, and a labyrinth seal, which seen in the direction of the exhaust gas blow-by flow, is positioned upstream of the piston ring seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Jiri Klima, Ondrej Tomek, Klaus Bartholomä
  • Patent number: 10865745
    Abstract: An air intake heater system for a combustion engine, comprising; a turbocharger, a high pressure EGR conduit, a low pressure EGR conduit, and an air intake conduit, where the system comprises a heat exchanger arranged upstream of the turbocharger, where the heat exchanger comprises a first flow channel connecting an air inlet to an inlet of the turbocharger and a second flow channel, where the second flow channel is part of the high pressure EGR conduit. The advantage of the invention is that intake air and low pressure EGR gas can be heated by the high pressure EGR gas, and that high pressure EGR gas can be cooled by intake air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Karsten Rohrssen, Peter Svensson, Richard Sebestyen, HĂĄkan Persson
  • Patent number: 10815867
    Abstract: A method for controlling a cooling system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes an engine, an EGR cooler, an oil cooler, a heater, a radiator, and a controller. The engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator are respectively connected through a coolant line and coolant circulates through the engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator by operation of a water pump. The controller receives the coolant from the engine and operates a control valve connected with the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator. The method includes sensing driving conditions and operating the control valve when a warm mode is required to rapidly warm up the engine based on the sensed driving conditions. The control valve is operated based on modes that are controlled depending on a coolant temperature, and among modes, one is iteratively performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Han Sang Kim, Seong Sik Kim, Dongho Lee, Sun Gyu Park
  • Patent number: 10808658
    Abstract: Provided is a connection state determination device. The connection state determination device for the breather pipe determines the connection state of a breather pipe in an internal combustion engine having a supercharger, and the breather pipe is connected between an engine body including a crank case and an intake passage on the upstream side of a compressor of the supercharger, and communicates the crank case and the intake passage. The connection state determination device includes a pipe internal pressure sensor that detects the pressure inside the breather pipe, a pulsation waveform obtaining part for obtaining pulsation due to the variation of pressure inside the breather pipe as a pulsation waveform based on the detected pressure, and a connection state determination part that determines the connection state of the breather pipe based on the pulsation waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Sekiguchi, Masahiro Fujii, Atsuhiro Miyauchi, Takashi Konomoto
  • Patent number: 10808651
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine with a combustion chamber, an intake line in which external air flows, and an exhaust line in which exhaust gas flows. A compressor is disposed in the intake line and rotated with a turbine to compress external air. A first recirculation line is branched off from the exhaust line and merged into the intake line. An EGR cooler cools exhaust gas flowing through the first recirculation line. A second recirculation line is branched off from the first recirculation line. A bypass line is branched off from the first recirculation line between an electric supercharger and the EGR cooler. A three-way valve is disposed where the bypass and first recirculation lines join. An intake valve is disposed in the intake line between where the first recirculation line and intake valve join and where the bypass line and intake valve join.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Heechang Oh, Yeongseop Park, Kwanhee Lee, Jonghyeok Lee, Jaegu Kang, Dong Hee Han, Seungwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 10767539
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a tempering circuit. A system comprises where the tempering circuit is fluidly coupled to each of an engine cooling circuit, an EGR cooler, and an EGR valve. The tempering circuit comprising a plurality of control valves for selectively adjusting tempering medium flow to various portions of the tempering circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Christian Winge Vigild
  • Patent number: 10731607
    Abstract: In this air intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine, an external gas passage includes external gas introduction nozzles that introduce external gas into air intake pipes, and a length of each of the external gas introduction nozzles in a direction in which the external gas introduction nozzles extend is larger than an equivalent diameter of an exit of each of the external gas introduction nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Sakurai, Masaki Makihara
  • Patent number: 10731573
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, an intake valve timing, exhaust valve timing of a first set of exhaust valves coupled to the first exhaust manifold, and a position of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve in an EGR passage may be adjusted in coordination with one another in response to a condition at a compressor. The EGR passage may be coupled between the intake passage, upstream of the compressor, and the first exhaust manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Daniel Paul Madison, Brad Alan Boyer, James Leiby
  • Patent number: 10712042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a heat exchanger configured to circulate a working fluid therethrough, a valve configured to regulate a flow rate of the working fluid through the heat exchanger, and a valve controller configured to modify a valve position control signal received from an external controller, separate from the valve controller, based on a temperature differential of the working fluid entering and exiting the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Marcello Passoni, Alejandro Gonzalez Pozo, Gabriele Francesco Giuseppe Andreoni
  • Patent number: 10704506
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an EGR valve diagnostic. In one example, a method may include actuating an EGR valve between first and second positions. The method may further includes determining one or more characteristics of the EGR valve during the diagnostic to determine if an EGR valve cleaning is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Halleron, Andres Arevalo, Jon Dixon, Oliver Gee, Sean Harman, Zoltan Szilagyi
  • Patent number: 10669928
    Abstract: A cooling device for a motor vehicle may include: a liquid-cooled turbocharger arranged on an internal combustion engine; a coolant feed line; a coolant discharge line; and a heat exchanger arranged at least partially within an oil container. The coolant discharge line is connected by an oil preheating line to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Sven-Eric Wiegemann, Lena Ebner, Tobias Dausch, Thomas Grossner
  • Patent number: 10648432
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for attaching a control unit, preferentially an electronic engine control unit, to a component of an internal combustion engine. The device includes a first connecting component which is designed in order to be attached to the component of the internal combustion engine the first connecting component comprising a first fluid duct. The device further includes a second connecting component, which, via at least one damping element, is attached, spaced from the first fluid duct, to the first connecting component and is designed for mounting the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventor: Armin Berner
  • Patent number: 10619601
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation arrangement is provided for a power system, the power system including an internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas system and an intake system including an inlet air compressor, the exhaust gas recirculation arrangement including a first exhaust gas recirculation path and a second exhaust gas recirculation path for recirculating exhaust gas from the exhaust gas system to the intake system. The first and second exhaust gas recirculation paths are adapted to recirculate exhaust gas to the same side of the inlet air compressor, in an intended direction of flow of inlet air in the power system, wherein the exhaust gas recirculation arrangement includes a flow controller, preferably the flow controller includes a valve connected to the second exhaust gas recirculation path, for controlling the flow volume through at least one of the first and second exhaust gas recirculation paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sergi Yudanov
  • Patent number: 10605208
    Abstract: An engine system with exhaust gas recirculation includes a combustion engine, a flow mixer, and a turbocharger. An exhaust flow path and a charge air flow path each extend to an inlet of the flow mixer, and a mixed gas flow path extends between the outlet of the flow mixer and an intake manifold of the engine. A charge air heat exchanger is arranged along the charge air flow path to cool the charge air, and a mixed gas heat exchanger is arranged along the mixed gas flow path to cool mixed charge air and recirculated exhaust gas. The exhaust gas recirculation flow path does not extend through any heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventor: Tony Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10577989
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle oil warmer and a heat exchange system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a vehicle oil warmer and a heat exchange system, which enable a heat exchange between a coolant and oil to be automatically controlled according to the temperature of the coolant discharged from an engine, without a separate bypass valve for controlling the flow rate of the coolant, to thereby secure a heating performance of the vehicle interior while simultaneously heating the oil at the time of an initial start of the engine, and when the vehicle is running, lower the temperature of the oil by using an oil cooler in which low-temperature coolant flows, so that the temperature of the oil can be adjusted appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Dong-Hee Ye
  • Patent number: 10578058
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine, an intake line, an exhaust line, a turbocharger, an intercooler, a high-pressure Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system, a low-pressure EGR system, a radiator which cools a coolant, a low-pressure EGR cooling line, an intercooler cooling line, a low-pressure EGR cooling valve, an intercooler cooling valve, an electric water pump, a driving information detector detecting driving information of a vehicle including an outside air temperature, a temperature of the intake gas supplied to the engine, and a coolant temperature. The engine system further includes a controller controlling the low-pressure EGR cooling valve, the intercooler cooling valve, the high-pressure EGR valve, and the electric water pump based on the driving information. With such an engine system, it is possible to prevent condensate water from being produced due to low-temperature outside air and EGR gas recirculated by the EGR systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: MinSu Kim
  • Patent number: 10563623
    Abstract: An EGR cooler in the disclosure includes: a gas path configured to allow an EGR gas to flow; a refrigerant path configured to perform heat exchange between the EGR gas circulating along the gas path and a refrigerant; an exothermic body containing portion configured such that an exothermic body to generate heat by adsorbing a predetermined working gas is contained within the EGR cooler and at least a part of the exothermic body contacts with a wall surface of the gas path; a working gas tank in which the working gas is stored; and a gas moving apparatus configured to move the working gas stored in the working gas tank, from the working gas tank to the exothermic body containing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinagawa, Takashi Hotta, Takeo Yamaguchi, Yoshio Ohashi, Taizo Yoshinaga, Yuji Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10539070
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a supercharged internal combustion engine having staged boosting devices. In one example, a system may include an engine coupled to an intake system for receiving charge air and an exhaust system for discharging exhaust gases, an electrically driven compressor arranged in the intake system upstream of a turbocharger compressor, a bypass line, including a bypass valve, coupled across the electrically driven compressor, a throttle arranged at an inlet of the electrically driven compressor, and an exhaust gas recirculation system that couples the exhaust system downstream of the exhaust turbine to the intake system upstream of the electrically driven compressor via a first recirculation branch and between the electrically driven compressor and the turbocharger compressor via a second recirculation branch. In this way, the electrically driven compressor may be operated to reduce condensate formation at an inlet of the turbocharger compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
  • Patent number: 10533525
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle includes a housing having an interior space through which exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) gas passes, a first heat exchange core disposed in the interior space of the housing, a second heat exchange core disposed in the interior space of the housing and disposed on a downstream side of the first heat exchange core, and a bypass valve configured to allow the EGR gas to selectively detour the second heat exchange core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jung Min Seo
  • Patent number: 10495035
    Abstract: A dedicated exhaust gas recirculation configuration that provides reduced exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) backflow and reduced fresh air backflow. One-way valves are positioned in the EGR loop to reduce or avoid fresh-air backflow into the dedicated exhaust gas recirculating cylinder and/or positioned in the engine intake passage to reduce or avoid dedicated cylinder exhaust gas backflow into the intake passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Raphael Gukelberger, Steven H. Almaraz
  • Patent number: 10487781
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a main flow path, a secondary flow path, a plurality of heat exchangers, and a communication portion. Exhaust gas flows in the main flow path. The secondary flow path is a flow path branched from the main flow path, and at least a portion of the exhaust gas flows in the secondary flow path. The plurality of heat exchangers are arranged in the secondary flow path. The communication portion communicates with the plurality of heat exchangers and constitutes a portion of the secondary flow path. The communication portion is provided with an exhaust gas outlet which is an outlet for exhaust gas used for exhaust gas recirculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishikawa, Naohiro Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10480460
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for a gasoline engine, including an exhaust gas line, which can be connected to an exhaust manifold of the gasoline engine and which includes a turbine, and an inlet line, which can be connected to an intake manifold of the gasoline engine and which includes a compressor. A main exhaust gas catalytic converter is provided in the exhaust gas line, and at least one exhaust gas recirculation line_I is provided which branches off from the exhaust gas line upstream of the turbine and opens into the inlet line downstream of the compressor. At least one particle filter_I is provided which is placed in the exhaust gas recirculation line_I or in the exhaust gas line upstream of the exhaust gas recirculation line_I. The particle filter_I has a 3/Ox coating, and at least one cooler_I is provided within the exhaust gas recirculation line_I downstream of the at least one particle filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TENNECO GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Fischer
  • Patent number: 10473063
    Abstract: In an engine, an intake duct is provided with an intercooler disposed downstream of an intake air compressor. An EGR pipe is provided with an EGR valve and an EGR cooler. An ECU determines a generation of a condensed water in the EGR cooler, the generation of the condensed water in a merging portion where a fresh air and an EGR gas merge with each other, and the generation of the condensed water in the intercooler. When it is determined that the condensed water is generated in any of these portions, the ECU performs a corresponding countermeasure for restricting the generation of the condensed water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitarou Minami, Hideaki Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10465635
    Abstract: Exhaust gas recirculation systems and methods are provided for an internal combustion engine. The system includes a first conduit configured to receive at least a portion of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine; a cooling circuit selectively fluidly coupled to the first conduit; a bypass circuit selectively fluidly coupled to the first conduit and including a bypass conduit; and a second conduit fluidly coupled to receive the exhaust gas flowing through the cooling circuit and through the bypass circuit. A cooling valve has a bypass position to direct the exhaust gas from the first conduit through the bypass circuit, a cooling position to direct the exhaust gas from the first conduit through the cooling circuit, and a closed position to prevent the exhaust gas from flowing into either of the bypass or cooling circuits. The system further includes a heating device for selectively heating the bypass conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Alberto Racca
  • Patent number: 10450973
    Abstract: A system includes an internal combustion engine having a number of cylinders, with at least one of the cylinders plumbed to have a complete recycle of the exhaust gases from the cylinder. The system further includes the completely recycled cylinder having an EGR stroke cycle, and the non-recycled cylinders of the engine having an exhaust stroke cycle. The system includes the EGR stroke cycle being distinct from the exhaust stroke cycle. An amount and composition of the exhaust gases from the recycled cylinder are distinct from the amount and composition of the exhaust gases from the non-recycled cylinders, at least at certain operating conditions of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel C. Geckler, Madhuri Gandikota, Rajkumar Subramanian, Axel Otto zur Loye