Exhaust Gas Temperature Or Pressure Repsonsive Patents (Class 123/676)
  • Patent number: 11807241
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jan van den Berg
  • Patent number: 11781944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Kurt Magnuson, Soumya Nayyar, Mostafa S. Raihan
  • Patent number: 11702917
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuqing Mao, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jianwei Wang, Jihua Wang, Xiaolei Ji
  • Patent number: 11578677
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATINS LLC
    Inventors: J. Michael Gwidt, Erika L Pruski
  • Patent number: 11293384
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kakichi, Shohei Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11236685
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
  • Patent number: 11193451
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Qi'an Chen
  • Patent number: 10895203
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventors: Shozo Tokunaga, Toru Minami, Masahiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 10871111
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: PIERBURG GMBH, FORD-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Vierkotten, Patrick Sutty, Christian Vigild, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Kindl, Hanno Friederichs
  • Patent number: 10794304
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Michael Henry, James Robert Mischler, David Zielinski, Samuel Lyle Hazen, Ralph Wheeland
  • Patent number: 10767604
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akinori Morishima
  • Patent number: 10677182
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuhito Iwase
  • Patent number: 10648413
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Madison, Joseph Ulrey, Gopichandra Surnilla, Mohannad Hakeem, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 10473039
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Genki Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10443535
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Wayne State University
    Inventors: Tamer H. Badawy, Naeim A. Henein
  • Patent number: 10393069
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 10232852
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei Morimoto, Noriaki Ikemoto, Yuutarou Itou, Masuhiro Kondo, Takahiro Narita
  • Patent number: 10221802
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Toda, Toshiyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 10208655
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jim Liu, Yongsheng He
  • Patent number: 10202945
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Winge Vigild, Frederik De Smet, Daniel Roettger
  • Patent number: 10145283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnar AB
    Inventor: Stephen Geyer
  • Patent number: 10054067
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Wayne State University
    Inventors: Tamer H. Badawy, Fadi A. Estefanous, Naeim A. Henein
  • Patent number: 9964056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Roy James Primus, Omowoleola Chukwuemeka Akinyemi, Thomas Michael Lavertu, James Robert Mischler, Venu Gummadavelli Gupta
  • Patent number: 9926872
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel A. Makled, Michael McQuillen, Gopichandra Surnilla, Richard E. Soltis
  • Patent number: 9927348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daili Zhang, Constantin Dinu
  • Patent number: 9915197
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 9874162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: JangSu Lee, Hyo Sang Cho
  • Patent number: 9850796
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Osburn, Mark N. Bays, Krishna Kamasamudram, Aleksey Yezerets
  • Patent number: 9850833
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Miyahara, Kenichiro Kawase
  • Patent number: 9777646
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Karl Bidner, Mark Allen Dearth, Gopichandra Surnilla
  • Patent number: 9670860
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9546613
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Junichi Taga, Takashi Youso, Atsushi Inoue, Mitsunori Wasada, Keiji Araki
  • Patent number: 9488118
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Delphine Bresch-Pietri, Thomas Leroy, Jonathan Chauvin
  • Patent number: 9470600
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Soenke Mannal, Berthold Burk, Horst Mueller, Michael Bachner
  • Patent number: 9441526
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuuhei Noguchi, Hajime Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9394847
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kohsuke Kanda, Yoshitatsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9354213
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Fey
  • Patent number: 9353668
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuuhei Noguchi, Hajime Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9260996
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Scot A. Douglas, Patrick Barasa
  • Patent number: 9212627
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brien Lloyd Fulton, Carlos Armesto, Larry Castleberry, Brad Allen Brown, Armando Chacon
  • Patent number: 9175624
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Drushan Mavalankar, Hussein Dourra
  • Patent number: 9175616
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jianwen James Yi, Steven Wooldridge, Brad Alan VanDerWege, Shiyou Yang, Thomas A. McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9169790
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jon Dixon
  • Patent number: 9062577
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chad P. Koci, Vlad L. C. Ulmet, Stefan Simescu, Magdi K. Khair, Gary D. Neely
  • Publication number: 20150144116
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Publication number: 20150136099
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Kim Kylström
  • Publication number: 20150136100
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Ikemoto
  • Publication number: 20150128921
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Deere & Company
    Inventor: ADAM J. PAULL
  • Patent number: 9027530
    Abstract: A method of calibration of at least one fuel injector for a fuel burner in an exhaust gas treatment system for an internal combustion engine is provided. The method is adapted for an exhaust gas system having the fuel burner mounted upstream of a diesel particle filter (DPF). The method of calibration is performed during an idle speed of the combustion engine, this to assure a constant temperature of the burner during the calibration. Hence, the method is started when a first steady tempera tore is registered in the fuel burner, wherein the at least one fuel injector, is operated with a first pulse width. A first temperature of an exhaust gas is registered directly downstream of the fuel burner. After this first temperature is registered, the pulse width, of the fuel injector changed into a second pulse width, which is different from the first pulse width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagner AB
    Inventor: Mats Moren
  • Patent number: 9022011
    Abstract: A method of operating an engine is disclosed, which includes determining a peak power condition for the engine, measuring a temperature associated with the engine at said peak power condition, comparing the temperature measured with a previously determined temperature associated with a known peak power condition of the engine, determining an offset value based on the comparison made in step, controlling at least one of an air-fuel mixture delivered to the engine or ignition spark timing based on said offset value. Various engine fuel delivery systems, carburetors, fuel injection and control systems also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Walbro Engine Management, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Martin N. Andersson, Andrew E. Bejcek, Massimo Casoni, William E. Galka, Cyrus M. Healy, Alessandro Pascoli, Ronald H. Roche, Mark S. Swanson, James E. Van Allen, John C. Woody