Exhaust Gas Temperature Or Pressure Repsonsive Patents (Class 123/676)
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Patent number: 12228485Abstract: The apparatus for diluting exhaust gas according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a stagnant air forming unit configured to form stagnant air by decelerating a flow velocity of introduced exhaust gas, an ejector unit connected to a front end of the stagnant air forming unit and configured to discharge the exhaust gas to a front, and a dilution unit coupled to a front end of the ejector unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALSInventors: Bangwoo Han, Gunhee Lee, Inyong Park, Sang Bok Kim, Keejung Hong, Hak Joon Kim, Yeawan Lee, Yong-Jin Kim
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Patent number: 12012881Abstract: A method determines a sensor error of a sensor in an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle. One step of the method involves determining at least one actual sensor signal of the sensor. Another step of the method involves determining at least one target sensor signal of the sensor by means of a model. A further step of the method involves determining the sensor error of the sensor according to a deviation between the actual sensor signal of the sensor and the target sensor signal of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Marius Becker, Daniel Brueckner, Klemens Schuerholz
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Patent number: 11807241Abstract: A system is provided for controlling engine fueling and includes an internal combustion engine, a fuel source, means for delivering fuel from the fuel source to the engine, and a controller configured to control the fuel delivering means according to a first operational mode so that, upon attaining a predetermined operational state of the engine, an amount of fuel delivered to the engine per unit time is kept constant. The system will typically but not necessarily be provided in a vehicle such as a truck or a passenger automobile. A method for controlling engine fueling is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Jan van den Berg
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Patent number: 11781944Abstract: An engine system includes a delta pressure sensor configured to sense a pressure difference across an engine exhaust handling component and an electronic control system configured to determine a cold sensor condition permitting icing of the delta pressure sensor, determine a sensed pressure deviation condition indicative of deviation of the pressure difference sensed by the delta pressure sensor from a deviation limit, dynamically model a sensor heat transfer condition indicative of heating or cooling of the delta pressure sensor, determine that the sensor heat transfer condition is indicative of insufficient heating of the delta pressure sensor to mitigate icing of the delta pressure sensor, and determine an icing condition of the delta pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Jesse Kurt Magnuson, Soumya Nayyar, Mostafa S. Raihan
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Patent number: 11702917Abstract: A turbine fracturing system and a controlling method thereof, a controlling apparatus and a storage medium are provided. The turbine fracturing system includes: N turbine fracturing apparatuses, wherein each of the N turbine fracturing apparatuses comprises a turbine engine, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; a fuel gas supply apparatus connected to the N turbine engines, wherein the fuel gas supply apparatus is configured to supply fuel gas and distribute the fuel gas to the N turbine engines as gaseous fuel; and a fuel liquid supply apparatus connected to at least one of the N turbine engines and configured to supply liquid fuel to at least one of the N turbine engines in a case that at least one of a flow rate and a pressure of the fuel gas decreases.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhuqing Mao, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jianwei Wang, Jihua Wang, Xiaolei Ji
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Patent number: 11578677Abstract: In exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for controlling emissions for a drive system for a vehicle. In one embodiment, the system includes: one or more first sensors configured to measure an engine temperature pertaining to an engine of the vehicle; one or more second sensors configured to measure an ambient temperature surrounding the vehicle; one or more third sensors configured to detect an amount of running time in which the engine has been running; and a processor coupled to the one or more first sensors, the one or more second sensors, and the one or more third sensors and configured to at least facilitate controlling emissions for the drive system based on the engine temperature, the ambient temperature, and the amount of running time in which the engine has been running.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATINS LLCInventors: J. Michael Gwidt, Erika L Pruski
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Patent number: 11293384Abstract: This engine includes an EGR device. The engine is provided with: an EGR gas temperature sensor; an EGR valve; an EGR control unit; an EGR valve position detection unit; a diagnosis unit; a first timer; a second timer; and a diagnosis control unit. The diagnosis unit diagnoses whether the EGR gas temperature sensor has failed, on the basis of a detected value from the EGR gas temperature sensor. The first timer, when the EGR valve is open, performs counting in accordance with the passage of time. The second timer, if a count value of the first timer is greater than or equal to a first threshold value set in advance, and if a predetermined condition is satisfied, performs counting in accordance with the passage of time. The diagnosis control unit prohibits diagnosis by the diagnosis unit if a count value of the second timer is less than a second threshold value set in advance, and permits the diagnosis if the count value is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Kakichi, Shohei Sasaki
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Patent number: 11236685Abstract: A method of adjusting operation of an internal combustion engine includes injecting fuel into cylinders of the internal combustion engine (first fuel operation); obtaining a first fuel exhaust temperature profile during the first fuel operation; injecting two fuels into the cylinders in a duel fuel operation; obtaining a duel fuel exhaust temperature profile; and adjusting the injection quantity and/or an injection timing of one fuel in a cylinder(s), based on a difference between the first fuel exhaust temperature profile and the duel fuel exhaust temperature profile. Other methods of operating with single fuel and using sensors other than exhaust temperature sensors are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
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Patent number: 11193451Abstract: The utility model provides a gas idling transition passage structure for oil and gas dual-purpose carburetor, comprising a carburetor body 1 and a mixing chamber 4; a choke valve 5 and a throttle valve 9 are disposed in the mixing chamber 4 in the order of the air flow direction; a gas intake pipe 2 for supplying gas to the mixing chamber 4 is disposed on the carburetor body 1; a first air inlet pipe 7 and a second air inlet pipe 8 are disposed in the carburetor body 1 in parallel; an opening of an outlet end of the second air inlet pipe 8 is located in the mixing chamber 4 and the position of the outlet end of the second air inlet pipe 8 is at the intersection of an outer circle and the mixing chamber 4 when the throttle valve 9 is closed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Inventor: Qi'an Chen
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Patent number: 10895203Abstract: A general purpose engine includes: a cooling fan fixed to an engine rotary shaft; a muffler to silence exhaust gases; a muffler covering to cover the muffler; and an auto choke device to control an opening of a choke valve in an air intake passage by the utilization of heat evolved from the muffler. The auto choke device includes: a drive source, which is fitted to the muffler covering in a non-contact fashion to the muffler and exposed to an outer surface of the muffler covering; and a link member to connect between the drive source and the choke valve. The drive source includes a bracket, which is fitted to the muffler covering, and a bimetal fitted inside the bracket. The bracket includes a heat shield extending towards an inner side of the muffler covering, and the heat shield blocks out a cooling wind then flowing towards the bimetal.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Inventors: Shozo Tokunaga, Toru Minami, Masahiro Ueno
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Patent number: 10871111Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake channel with an inlet and an outlet, a control element, an exhaust gas recirculation channel with an opening, a recirculation channel, and a shaft having the control element eccentrically mounted thereon. The exhaust gas recirculation channel enters the intake channel. The opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel is a valve seat for the control element. The shaft acts as an axis of rotation for the control element. A rotation of the shaft moves the control element between a first end position where the control element throttles the intake channel and a second end position where the control element contacts the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel. The axis of rotation is arranged in a plane which passes through the valve seat at the opening of the exhaust gas recirculation channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBHInventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Patrick Sutty, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
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Patent number: 10794304Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for estimating fresh intake air flow. In one example, a system comprises an engine having an intake manifold to receive fresh intake air and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system to supply EGR to the intake manifold, where flow of EGR through the EGR system is controlled by one or more exhaust valves. The system further includes a controller configured to adjust a position of the one or more exhaust valves based on an estimated fresh intake air flow rate, where during a first set of operating conditions, the fresh intake air flow rate is estimated based on a total gas flow rate into the engine and further based on a current position of the one or more exhaust valves, intake manifold pressure, air-fuel ratio, and fuel flow to one or more cylinders of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Luke Michael Henry, James Robert Mischler, David Zielinski, Samuel Lyle Hazen, Ralph Wheeland
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Patent number: 10767604Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine that includes an EGR device equipped with an EGR cooler bypass passage and a flow-rate-ratio control valve equipped with a valve disc and capable of controlling a flow rate ratio. The control device is configured, when an opening degree control execution condition is met, to execute a vibration reduction control for controlling the flow-rate-ratio control valve such that the opening degree of the valve disc becomes greater than or equal to a vibration reduction opening degree that is greater than a minimum opening degree within an opening degree control range of the valve disc. The opening degree control execution condition includes a requirement that a parameter (pulsation level value) that becomes greater when exhaust pulsation acting on the valve disc is greater is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Morishima
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Patent number: 10677182Abstract: In a method for controlling an engine, based on a control map of an engine speed N and a fuel injection amount Q of a common-rail fuel injection unit, a controller calculating the fuel injection amount Q depending on the engine speed N, calculating an injection amount deviation ?Qn as a fuel injection amount increase, and determining that an engine is in a transient state if the injection amount deviation ?Qn exceeds a reference transient injection amount deviation A2 or if a transient injection amount deviation count Xq is larger than or equal to a reference transient injection amount deviation count X2. If it is determined that the engine is in the transient state, the controller controls an EGR unit and a boost controller according to an excess air ratio ? that is an indicator indicating the state of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsuhito Iwase
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Patent number: 10648413Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining a dilution of recirculated gases, including blowthrough air, combusted exhaust gas, and fuel vapor, in a split exhaust engine. In one example, the dilution rate may be calculated using a steady state model based on temperature measurements from an intake region of the engine. The steady state model may be further used in combination with a feedforward model adapted to estimate engine dilution during engine transients as a correction factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel Madison, Joseph Ulrey, Gopichandra Surnilla, Mohannad Hakeem, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
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Patent number: 10473039Abstract: An exhaust purifying device mounted in a working vehicle includes: an exhaust passage through which an exhaust gas discharged from an engine flows; a throttle valve configured to change a passage area of the exhaust passage; an exhaust aftertreatment device disposed downstream of the throttle valve; and a valve controller configured to control an open degree of the throttle valve. The valve controller is configured to control the open degree of the throttle valve to be larger in a low load region below a predetermined load range and in a high load region exceeding the predetermined load range than in a medium load region that is the predetermined load range.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Inventor: Genki Ichikawa
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Patent number: 10443535Abstract: A system and method for detection, reduction of combustion resonance and engine control is provided. The system senses ion current within one or each cylinder of a multi-cylinder engine and determines combustion resonance from the ion current signal. In addition, the system may determine an engine control strategy to reduce combustion resonance based on the feedback from the ion current signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Wayne State UniversityInventors: Tamer H. Badawy, Naeim A. Henein
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Patent number: 10393069Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus for a general purpose engine includes a carburetor provided in an air intake line extending from an air cleaner to the general purpose engine, a pressure reduction connection channel connected to a float chamber of the carburetor and the air cleaner, a control valve provided in the pressure reduction connection channel, a pressure reduction pump provided in the pressure reduction connection channel and sucking the float chamber to reduce the pressure therein, an air fuel ratio sensor detecting the air fuel ratio of an exhaust gas discharged from the general purpose engine, and a control unit controlling the opening degree of the control valve based on a detection signal of the air fuel ratio sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomohiro Miyauchi
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Patent number: 10232852Abstract: A travel control apparatus is provided with: a speed controller that controls speed of a vehicle having an internal combustion engine; and a determination part that determines an emission deterioration state of the internal combustion engine. The speed controller is configured to execute burn-and-coast control that repeatedly executes burn control in which the vehicle is accelerated by driving force of the internal combustion engine, and coasting control in which the vehicle is driven by inertia, by stopping the generation of the driving force or rotation of the internal combustion engine. The speed controller is configured to execute emission suppression control that suppresses emissions by adjusting the burn-and-coast control when the emission deterioration state of the internal combustion engine is determined by the determination part.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Youhei Morimoto, Noriaki Ikemoto, Yuutarou Itou, Masuhiro Kondo, Takahiro Narita
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Patent number: 10221802Abstract: An engine controlling apparatus controls a cylinder injected volume of fuel injected from a cylinder injection valve of an engine into a cylinder, and a port injected volume of fuel injected from a port injection valve into an intake port. The engine controlling apparatus includes an adhesion volume calculator to calculate a cylinder adhesion volume of fuel adhering to the cylinder, the fuel being injected from the cylinder injection valve, and a port adhesion volume of fuel adhering to the intake port, the fuel being injected from the port injection valve. The engine controlling apparatus further includes a controller to control the cylinder injected volume and the port injected volume based on both the cylinder adhesion volume and the port adhesion volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Toda, Toshiyuki Miyata
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Patent number: 10208655Abstract: An internal combustion engine is described, and includes a method for operating that includes determining an observed carbon monoxide (CO) ratio in an exhaust gas feedstream, determining an observed in-cylinder scavenging based upon the observed CO ratio in the exhaust gas feedstream, and controlling, by a controller, control states for the variable cam phasing system to control opening times of engine intake valves in relation to closing times of engine exhaust valves based upon the observed in-cylinder scavenging.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Jim Liu, Yongsheng He
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Patent number: 10202945Abstract: Embodiments are provided herein for controlling a motor-vehicle internal combustion engine fitted with a fuel injection system and an exhaust gas recirculation system. In one example, in a deceleration phase a closed exhaust gas recirculation circuit is formed, a mass (mcirc) of an air quantity enclosed therein is determined, a first oxygen content (O2,exh1, O2,man1) of the air quantity is detected, a test injection is carried out with an injection valve, a second oxygen content (O2,exh2, O2,man2) of the air quantity is detected, and the fuel mass (mfuel) injected in the test injection is determined from the mass (mcirc) of the air quantity and the first and the second oxygen content (O2,exh1, O2,man1, O2,exh2, O2,man2). The disclosure also relates to a corresponding device for controlling a motor-vehicle internal combustion engine fitted with a fuel injection system and an exhaust gas recirculation system.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christian Winge Vigild, Frederik De Smet, Daniel Roettger
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Patent number: 10145283Abstract: A diesel engine system includes a diesel engine, a NOx control device downstream of the engine, an exhaust line between the engine and the NOx control device, a bypass line connected to the exhaust line at a first end upstream of the NOx control device, and a bypass valve connecting the exhaust line and the bypass line, the bypass valve permitting flow through the exhaust line to the NOx control device when in an open position and preventing flow through the exhaust line to the NOx control device and permitting flow through the exhaust line to the bypass line when in a closed position. A controller can arranged to control opening and dosing of the bypass valve, such as when an operating condition of the engine reaches a predetermined operating condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnar ABInventor: Stephen Geyer
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Patent number: 10054067Abstract: A system and method is provided for the use of the ion current signal characteristics for onboard cycle-by-cycle, cylinder-by-cylinder measurement. The system may also control the engine operating parameters based on a predicted NOx emission level, CO emission level, CO2 emission level, O2 emission level, unburned hydrocarbon (HC) emission level, cylinder pressure, or a cylinder temperature measurement according to characteristics of the ion current signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Wayne State UniversityInventors: Tamer H. Badawy, Fadi A. Estefanous, Naeim A. Henein
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Patent number: 9964056Abstract: A method includes controlling an engine speed based on: intake manifold air temperature and/or intake manifold pressure one, or more, of the following data parameters: an engine load as a function of a fuel level, a fuel injecting timing, an intake oxygen concentration, a constituent concentration from the exhaust gas flow, an engine power, and an engine torque. The method also recirculates a portion of the exhaust gas flow to the combustion cylinders of the engine via a recirculation channel, as a function of intake manifold temperature and/or intake manifold pressure at which the engine is operated. An engine system, other methods, and a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a program, to enable a processor-based control unit to control aspects of the engine are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Roy James Primus, Omowoleola Chukwuemeka Akinyemi, Thomas Michael Lavertu, James Robert Mischler, Venu Gummadavelli Gupta
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Patent number: 9927348Abstract: Various embodiments include a system having: a computing device configured to monitor a gas turbine (GT) by: determining a moisture content and/or an oxygen content of inlet air entering the inlet of the GT compressor section; determining a corresponding one of the moisture content and/or the oxygen content of exhaust gas from the GT turbine section; calculating a flow rate of the exhaust gas from the turbine section and a flow rate of the inlet air entering the inlet of the compressor section based upon the moisture content and/or the oxygen content of the inlet air and the exhaust gas; and calculating a temperature of the exhaust gas and an energy of the exhaust gas from the turbine section based upon the flow rate of the exhaust gas from the turbine and the flow rate of the inlet air entering the inlet of the compressor section.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daili Zhang, Constantin Dinu
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Patent number: 9926872Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for leveraging the pressure dependency of an oxygen sensor for estimating an engine ambient pressure. An intake or exhaust oxygen sensor is used for ambient pressure estimation by applying a reference voltage to the sensor while the engine is being pulled-down in a hybrid vehicle, and correcting an output of the sensor for dilution effects due to ambient humidity. The estimated ambient pressure is used to correct or confirm pressure estimated by other sources, such as other pressure sensors or a pressure model, as well as to tune the performance of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel A. Makled, Michael McQuillen, Gopichandra Surnilla, Richard E. Soltis
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Patent number: 9915197Abstract: A method of setting actuator position of a variable geometry turbine linked to drive a compressor for a compression ignition engine using exhaust gas recirculation. The method includes detecting an engine transient event; determining current mass air flow through the compressor and exhaust temperature; resetting variable geometry turbine position to maximize mass air flow through the compressor; adding the maximum allowable quantity of fuel; determining exhaust temperature increase; adjusting exhaust pressure to allow an increase in mass air flow and exhaust temperature; and returning to the resetting step until a limit is reached.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.Inventors: Luis C. Cattani, Michael Uchanski, Rogelio Rodriguez, James R. Cigler, Jeremy G. Schipper, Jer Sheng Chen, Dileep Khadilkar, Shree C. Kanchanavally, John R. Zagone, Daniel Cornelius
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Patent number: 9874162Abstract: A system for controlling an engine includes a driving information detector detecting driving information. At least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve open and close the combustion chamber. A variable valve lift (VVL) system adjusts opening timing of the intake valve and the exhaust valve. A compressor rotates by a rotational force of a turbine and compresses intake air, and a vane adjusts the amount of exhaust gas supplied to the turbine. A controller controls opening of the vane using a high pressure EGR valve, when the exhaust valve is open during a suction stroke by the VVL system, the vehicle accelerates or decelerates, and an air/fuel ratio is beyond reference ratio range.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: JangSu Lee, Hyo Sang Cho
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Patent number: 9850796Abstract: An apparatus includes a dosing module structured to suspend dosing in an exhaust aftertreatment system; a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) inlet NOx module structured to interpret SCR inlet NOx data and an SCR inlet temperature; a SCR outlet NOx module structured to interpret SCR outlet NOx data; and a system diagnostic module structured to determine an efficiency of a SCR system based on the SCR inlet and outlet NOx data over a range of SCR temperatures, wherein the system diagnostic module is further structured to determine a state of at least one of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), a diesel particulate filter (DPF), and the SCR system based on the SCR efficiency at an elevated SCR temperature range and the SCR efficiency at a relatively lower SCR temperature range relative to a high SCR efficiency threshold and a low SCR efficiency threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: Andrew W. Osburn, Mark N. Bays, Krishna Kamasamudram, Aleksey Yezerets
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Diagnosis device for internal combustion engine, and diagnosis method for internal combustion engine
Patent number: 9850833Abstract: A diagnosis device for an engine, the diagnosis device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute EGR diagnosis processing to diagnose whether or not the EGR device operates normally while a vehicle is being decelerated, execute air flow meter diagnosis processing to diagnose whether or not the air flow meter is normal while the vehicle is decelerated, execute the EGR diagnosis processing after starting the air flow meter diagnosis processing, and execute the EGR diagnosis processing when the air flow meter diagnosis processing has not been completed and predetermined conditions that a duration of deceleration of the vehicle being shorter than a diagnosis time that is required to execute the air flow meter diagnosis processing are fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Miyahara, Kenichiro Kawase -
Patent number: 9777646Abstract: A method for operating an engine, comprising port injecting a first quantity of a first gaseous fuel in a cylinder cycle and direct injecting a second quantity of a secondary injectant in the cylinder cycle as a function of a desired air-to-fuel ratio (AFR), the desired AFR based on a temperature of an engine cylinder valve. The desired AFR may be outside the AFR range available during natural gas combustion alone and thus allows for cooler engine operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Karl Bidner, Mark Allen Dearth, Gopichandra Surnilla
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Abnormality diagnosing apparatus of intake air temperature sensor, and abnormality diagnosing method
Patent number: 9670860Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus applied to an internal combustion engine, including a supercharger, a communication path, an opening/closing valve, and a downstream intake air temperature sensor and not having a cooling device on the upstream side of the downstream intake air temperature sensor and conducting abnormality diagnosis of the downstream intake air temperature sensor diagnoses that the downstream intake air temperature sensor is abnormal if an operation state of the internal combustion engine is a low load and a low rotation region and a detected value of the downstream intake air temperature sensor is at a predetermined high temperature or more and prohibits the subsequent abnormality diagnosis if the operation state of the internal combustion engine becomes a higher load or a higher rotation than the low load and low rotation region.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Mitsuhiko Kubota -
Patent number: 9546613Abstract: A control device of a compression-ignition engine is provided. The control device includes the engine having a cylinder, an exhaust gas recirculation system for introducing exhaust gas into the cylinder, and a controller for operating the engine by compression-ignition combustion of mixture gas inside the cylinder within a predetermined compression-ignitable range on a low engine load side. Within the compression-ignitable range, the controller sets an EGR ratio higher as the engine load becomes lower, and the controller sets the EGR ratio to a predetermined highest EGR ratio when the engine load is at a specific load that is on the low engine load side within the compression-ignitable range. When the engine load is lower than the specific load, the controller sets the EGR ratio to be lower than the highest EGR ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Junichi Taga, Takashi Youso, Atsushi Inoue, Mitsunori Wasada, Keiji Araki
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Patent number: 9488118Abstract: In a method of controlling the combustion of a combustion engine from an estimation of the burnt gas mass fraction in the intake manifold, a measurement relative to a fresh air flow rate or to a burnt gas flow rate is performed upstream from the mixing space where fresh air and burnt gas mix. The burnt gas mass fraction present in the mixing space is then estimated from the measurement and from a model of the mixing dynamics in this space. A transport delay between the space and the intake manifold is estimated. The mass fraction of burnt gas in the intake manifold is then deduced in real time. Finally, combustion is controlled from the burnt gas mass fraction in the intake manifold.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Delphine Bresch-Pietri, Thomas Leroy, Jonathan Chauvin
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Patent number: 9470600Abstract: A method for diagnosing a differential pressure sensor situated in an air duct of an internal combustion engine, including: selecting a tolerance range for an output signal of the differential pressure sensor, within which a predetermined pressure difference is to be interpreted; and ignoring an error, in which the output signal of the differential pressure sensor falls out of the tolerance range, if, first of all, a predetermined operating situation prevails, in which the predetermined pressure difference is considered to be applied to the differential pressure sensor, and secondly, a disturbance pressure is detected in the air duct.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Soenke Mannal, Berthold Burk, Horst Mueller, Michael Bachner
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Patent number: 9441526Abstract: A regeneration device that performs regeneration treatment of a particulate matter removing filter estimates a trapping amount of particulate matter trapped in the filter by two systems. Specifically, there are provided an estimating unit that estimates a first estimated trapping amount based upon a rotational speed of an engine and a fuel injection quantity and an estimating unit that estimates a second estimated trapping amount based upon a differential pressure across the particulate matter removing filter. The regeneration device determines whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed based upon whether or not at least one of the two estimated trapping amount is equal to or more than a preset trapping amount threshold value. Further, the regeneration device determines that there is a malfunction in the regeneration device in a case where the second estimated trapping amount is larger than the first estimated trapping amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuuhei Noguchi, Hajime Yoshida
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Patent number: 9394847Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for fuel injection at optimum timing in correspondence with level of gas flow velocity in an intake port upon intake stroke injection. A fuel injection valve is controlled so as to set a large majority (more than half) of an injection period to inject fuel during an intake stroke in respective cylinders within a period where intake port gas pressure is increased. Upon intake stroke injection, the fuel is injected at optimum timing in correspondence with the direction and the level of gas flow velocity in the intake port. Accordingly, the status of air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber is excellent. It is possible to improve fuel consumption and to reduce exhaust emission.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kohsuke Kanda, Yoshitatsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 9354213Abstract: A method and device for correcting a voltage-lambda characteristic curve of a two-step lambda oxygen sensor in an exhaust tract relative to a reference-voltage lambda characteristic curve of the oxygen sensor; a deviation in the characteristic curve relative to the reference characteristic curve at lambda=1 being corrected; based on a value pair on the reference-voltage lambda characteristic curve, the composition of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine being changed toward lambda=1; the actual value of lambda being inferred from the change in the composition of the air-fuel mixture. The adaptation of the operating parameters of the oxygen sensor is intended to eliminate the cause of a deviation. Efforts are not merely directed to adapting the deviation to the reference characteristic curve by shifting the voltage-lambda characteristic curve. Effects, which may lead to tolerance- or aging-induced falsifications of the voltage-lambda characteristic curve, can be fully compensated.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Michael Fey
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Patent number: 9353668Abstract: A regeneration device burns particulate matter trapped in a filter in an exhaust gas purifying device to execute regeneration treatment of the filter. The regeneration device performs a determination whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed using a first estimated trapping quantity (H1) estimated based upon a differential pressure (?P=P1?P2) as a difference between pressure (P1) in an inlet side and pressure (P2) in an outlet side of the filter and a second estimated trapping quantity (H2) estimated based upon a rotational speed (N) of an engine, a fuel injection quantity (F) and an exhaust gas temperature (GT). In this case, the determination whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed is performed using only the second estimated trapping quantity (H2) when the engine is in a predetermined low rotational condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuuhei Noguchi, Hajime Yoshida
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Patent number: 9260996Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling an exhaust system includes determining an air to fuel ratio within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, measuring a temperature of an exhaust gas flow from the internal combustion engine into the exhaust system and determining a specific heat for the exhaust gas flow in a first segment of the exhaust system based on the temperature of the exhaust gas flow from the internal combustion engine and the air to fuel ratio, wherein the first segment is upstream of the particulate filter. The method also includes determining a first temperature of the exhaust gas in the first segment based on the specific heat for the exhaust gas flow and selectively controlling a regeneration process for the particulate filter using the determined temperature of the exhaust gas at the selected location.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Scot A. Douglas, Patrick Barasa
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Patent number: 9212627Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for draining water separated from diesel fuel into an EGR system. In response to the water volume in the fuel system and EGR flow at pre-determined levels, water may be introduced into the EGR system. EGR flow may also be controlled in response to introducing water into the EGR system and engine operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brien Lloyd Fulton, Carlos Armesto, Larry Castleberry, Brad Allen Brown, Armando Chacon
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Patent number: 9175616Abstract: Various embodiments related to controlling EGR in an engine are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first EGR amount is supplied to a cylinder at a first temperature and a first engine speed and load. Further, at the first engine speed and load, as engine temperature increases from the first temperature to a second temperature, a first fuel amount is injected after exhaust valve closing and before intake valve opening while a second EGR amount is supplied to the cylinder that is greater than the first EGR amount.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jianwen James Yi, Steven Wooldridge, Brad Alan VanDerWege, Shiyou Yang, Thomas A. McCarthy
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Patent number: 9175624Abstract: A system and method for controlling an exhaust gas recirculation valve during transient cycles of engine operation to improve fuel consumption efficiency. The system and method includes first determining a flow rate of total mass out of the intake manifold of the combustion engine and the current mass fraction of exhaust gas in the intake manifold of the combustion engine, calculating a mass flow rate for exhaust gas into the intake manifold that is based on the flow rate of total mass out of the intake manifold and the current mass fraction of exhaust gas in the intake manifold, and actuating a control valve to a position based on the calculated mass flow rate for exhaust gas into the intake manifold.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: FCA US LLCInventors: Gang Chen, Drushan Mavalankar, Hussein Dourra
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Patent number: 9169790Abstract: A method for controlling a compressor of a turbocharger is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises varying a maximum permitted compressor outlet temperature based upon a function of compressor outlet temperature and operating time, and controlling the operation of the compressor so that the maximum permitted compressor outlet temperature is not exceeded. In this way a higher boost pressure can safely be used during the early life of the compressor but excessive coking of the compressor with a resultant loss of efficiency later in the life of the compressor is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Jon Dixon
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Patent number: 9062577Abstract: A method for controlling emissions in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine, the engine having an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The engine's exhaust aftertreatment system need have only an oxidation catalyst and a particulate filter (with no NOx reduction or adsorption device). In “normal” engine conditions, the engine is operated with a lean air-fuel ratio, with “normal” engine conditions being engine conditions other than transient load increase engine conditions. Also, during normal engine conditions, the EGR system is used to reduce engine-out NOx. During transient load increase engine conditions, the engine is operated stoichiometrically or near stoichiometrically and the use of EGR is interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chad P. Koci, Vlad L. C. Ulmet, Stefan Simescu, Magdi K. Khair, Gary D. Neely
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Publication number: 20150144116Abstract: A control system executes failure detection of a direct injector when a port injector stops injection and the direct injector injects, and executes the failure detection when a recirculation passage is closed by an EGR valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
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Publication number: 20150136100Abstract: A fuel injection device is provided with an injection instruction unit that instructs multiple fuel injection valves that inject fuel into respective multiple cylinders of an engine to perform fuel injection while the engine is stopped. The injection instruction unit instructs the multiple fuel injection valves to perform the fuel injection while the engine is stopped on the basis of at least one of an amount of heat from combustion gas with respect to at least one of the multiple fuel injection valves and an amount of heat radiated therefrom. The injection instruction unit refers to an EGR rate before the engine is stopped and reduces the fuel injection while the engine is stopped as the EGR rate is lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Ikemoto
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Publication number: 20150136099Abstract: A valve (4, 4?) for a fuel system for a combustion engine: A ball retainer (26) is provided with a cavity (28) to accommodate a ball (22). The ball (22) has a first seal surface (30) to cooperate with and abut sealingly against a seat (32). The ball retainer (26) has a secondary seal surface (34) to cooperate with and abut sealingly against the seat (32) when the ball (22) is not in the ball retainer (26). Also, a method for controlling a fuel system for a combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventor: Kim Kylström
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Publication number: 20150128921Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust manifold that comprises an exhaust gas passage, an EGR passage, and a coolant passage. The exhaust gas passage extends fluidly between an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet positioned downstream thereof. The EGR passage extends fluidly between an EGR inlet and an EGR outlet positioned downstream thereof. The EGR inlet is defined by the exhaust gas passage. A coolant passage extends fluidly between a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet positioned downstream thereof. The coolant passage overlaps the exhaust gas passage and the EGR passage. The exhaust gas passage is configured to cool the exhaust gas, and EGR passage is configured to cool the recirculated portion of the exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Deere & CompanyInventor: ADAM J. PAULL