Electrical Type Patents (Class 422/174)
  • Patent number: 12398666
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a rotating electric machine; a power storage device; first and second electric heating type catalyst for purifying exhaust gas; a bidirectional power converter which converts first AC power into DC power, and convert DC power into a second AC power; a plurality of relays, which are electrically connected to a first power path and a second power path and which at least selects one of and switch between parallel connection and series connection of the first electric heating type catalyst and the second electric heating type catalyst; and a controller configured to control ON and OFF of each of the relays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Nozawa
  • Patent number: 12345190
    Abstract: A support unit for supporting a heating conductor of an exhaust gas heater on a carrier structure includes a supporting sleeve extending in the direction of a longitudinal axis and surrounding the longitudinal axis, a supporting pin having a sleeve connecting area extending in the supporting sleeve and an exhaust gas heater connecting area projecting beyond the supporting sleeve, wherein the supporting pin, at least in the area of its sleeve connecting area, and/or the supporting sleeve, on an inner surface surrounding the sleeve connecting area of the supporting pin, is coated with insulating material, and wherein the sleeve connecting area is held in the supporting sleeve by a force fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Brenner
  • Patent number: 12312986
    Abstract: A connection unit connects an electrical supply line to a connection element of a heatable exhaust gas system. The connection unit has a housing having a connection element receiving region extending in the direction of a first housing axis (G1) and a supply line receiving region extending in the direction of a second housing axis (G2). The connection element receiving region is open in a first axial connection element receiving region end region for receiving the connection element protruding from an exhaust gas system and is closed off in a second axial connection element receiving region end region. The supply line receiving region is open to the connection element receiving region in a first axial supply line receiving region end region and is open in a second supply line receiving region end region for receiving an electrical supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Neumann, Jan Haenisch, Christian Schneider, Veronique Guerin, Johannes Grupp
  • Patent number: 12286916
    Abstract: An electrical heater and method for heating a catalyst. The electrical heater includes a honeycomb body having a central axis extending longitudinally therethrough. The honeycomb body includes a matrix of intersecting walls forming a plurality of cells extending axially through the honeycomb body. A plurality of electrodes are positioned about an outer periphery of the honeycomb body. The plurality of electrodes are arranged into a plurality of pairs of electrodes that comprises at least a first pair of electrodes and a second pair of electrodes. Each pair of electrodes includes a first electrode and a second electrode. An electrode length of the electrodes along the outer periphery is proportional to a central current path length between center points of the electrodes of that pair of electrode. The electrode lengths of the electrodes of the first and second pairs of electrode are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: David Robert Heine, Avinash Tukaram Shinde
  • Patent number: 12286917
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heater system for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a housing and a heating element. The housing includes an outer peripheral wall disposed about a central axis and defining an interior hollow space configured to receive exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe of the exhaust system such that the exhaust gas flows through the interior hollow space. The heating element is positioned within the hollow space and including a first end and a second end. The heating element includes a first section proceeding in a first direction and a second section proceeding in a second direction. The support structure is configured to extend along a path conforming to a path of the first and second sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark D. Everly, Jeremy Ohse, David P. Culbertson, Richard T. Williams, George Jambor, Jacob Wilson
  • Patent number: 12270324
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an exhaust gas treatment unit comprising a housing wall comprising at least one first exhaust gas passage opening and at least one heating element for heating an exhaust gas flow, the heating element being placed upstream or downstream of the exhaust gas passage opening, wherein a hood is provided which serves to be placed in front of the exhaust gas passage opening, the heating element being arranged inside the hood and placed in front of the exhaust gas passage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Tenneco GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Lendle, Ralf Mueller
  • Patent number: 12246286
    Abstract: An electrically heatable catalytic converter with a metal honeycomb body, the honeycomb body being formed by a plurality of wound metal foils and the honeycomb body being received in a casing tube, a device for electrically contacting at least individual foils being led into the casing tube through an opening in the casing tube, the device being formed by an electrode which is electrically insulated from the inside of the casing tube by a connecting layer and mechanically connected to the casing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Schepers, Peter Hirth, Thomas Härig
  • Patent number: 12245339
    Abstract: An electrical heater assembly and an exhaust treatment assembly. The electrical heater assembly includes a heater body including an array of intersecting walls that form a plurality of channels extending in an axial direction. The intersecting walls and channels together define a honeycomb pattern of cells. A plurality of slots extend from an outer periphery of the heater body and terminate within the heater body. Each of the plurality of slots disconnects some of the cells of the heater body from each other to define a serpentine current-carrying path through the heater body. Each slot comprises a receptacle portion located between opposing portions of the slot. A plurality of slot separators located respectively in the receptacle portions. Each slot separator has dimensions greater than the opposing portions of the slot to provide support to the heater body in all directions perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Thomas Adam Collins
  • Patent number: 12173635
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for decreasing harmful emissions is provided. The system includes an aftertreatment system comprising an exhaust conduit that directs exhaust gas from an engine system; a heater coupled to the aftertreatment system and configured to provide heat; and a controller coupled to the heater. The controller is configured to: determine whether the engine system is idling; in response to determining that the engine system is idling, determine whether a conversion efficiency of the engine system is greater than a threshold value; in response to determining that the conversion efficiency is greater than the threshold value, determine whether a temperature regarding the aftertreatment system is greater than a threshold temperature; and in response to determining that the temperature of the aftertreatment system is greater than the threshold temperature, at least one of disable or partially disable the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Xing Jin, Janardhan Kodavasal, Ved Merchant, Sriram S. Popuri
  • Patent number: 12168950
    Abstract: A current feed-through for an electrically heatable catalytic converter, wherein the catalytic converter has in the interior thereof at least one electrical conductor, which is electrically contactable by the current feed-through, having a central electrically conductive element, which is guided from the interior of the catalytic converter through the outer housing wall thereof, having an electrical insulation layer, which surrounds the electrically conductive element on its radial outer face, and having a metallic sleeve, in which the electrically conductive element and the electrical insulation layer is received, wherein at the current feed-through or directly adjacently to the current feed-through there is arranged a device for reducing the heat conduction from the interior of the catalytic converter along the current feed-through to a contact face arranged outside the catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Brück, Philipp Langenfeld, Marc Brugger, Katrin Konieczny, Lorenzo Pace, Stefan Ahlers
  • Patent number: 12168203
    Abstract: A device for exhaust-gas aftertreatment, such as an annular catalytic converter, having a first, tubular flow path, having a diverting chamber and having a second, annular flow path, wherein the tubular flow path is delimited outwardly in the radial direction by an inner pipe and the second, annular flow path is delimited inwardly in the radial direction by the inner pipe and outwardly in the radial direction by an outer pipe, and the diverting chamber is designed to divert the exhaust-gas flow from the tubular flow path (8) into the annular flow path, wherein the annular catalytic converter has at least one annular substrate body which has a catalytically active coating applied to it and which is arranged in the annular flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Brück, Peter Hirth, Sven Schepers, David Odenthal
  • Patent number: 12170192
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure relate to systems for abating F-gases present in the effluent of semiconductor manufacturing processes. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes a water and oxygen delivery system. The water and oxygen delivery system includes a water vapor reagent source fluidly coupled with a chamber foreline via a first conduit; and an oxygen reagent source fluidly coupled with the chamber foreline via a second conduit fluidly coupled with the first conduit. The system further includes a plasma source fluidly coupled with the water and oxygen delivery system via the chamber foreline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin John Dickinson
  • Patent number: 12145733
    Abstract: An ice protection system for an aircraft component includes a plurality of heaters. The aircraft component has at least two section and a junction area. At least one of the heaters is an H-shape carbon allotrope heater designed to apply heat to the junction area and prevent ice accumulation in the junction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casey Slane, Jin Hu, Nathaniel Ching, Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A. Mullen, Mark James Didyk
  • Patent number: 12116918
    Abstract: A heater for an exhaust system that includes a housing having a connector coupled to the exterior thereof, a first terminal and a second terminal that are each disposed to the interior of the housing and electrically coupled to the connector, a heating element coupled to the first and second terminals, a heating wire coupled to the first and second terminals, and a plurality of heating rods inserted into the heating element to conduct heat from the heating wire throughout the heating element, wherein the connector receives power from an external power supply to supply electrical current to the heating element and the heating wire and wherein at least one of the heating rods supports the heating wire. The combination of elements are configured to heat and disrupt the flow of exhaust gases and aid in removing and/or reducing toxic gases and pollutants from the exhaust system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ECC TEC MSJ INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Saban Akyildiz
  • Patent number: 12085003
    Abstract: A device for aftertreatment of exhaust gases, having a flow section which is able to be flowed through by exhaust gas and has at least one honeycomb body, acting as a catalytic converter, and has at least one heating element. The heating element is formed from a ceramic material which is able to be flowed through along a plurality of flow channels from an inflow side to an outflow side. The heating element is electrically conductive along the walls delimiting the flow channels and, by an electrical contact, is connectable to a voltage source, wherein the heating element runs in a meandering manner over a through-flowable cross section of the flow section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Rolf Brück
  • Patent number: 12084999
    Abstract: A heater for an exhaust system that includes a housing having a connector coupled to the exterior thereof, a first terminal and a second terminal that are each disposed to the interior of the housing and electrically coupled to the connector, a heating element coupled to the first and second terminals, a heating wire coupled to the first and second terminals, and a plurality of heating rods inserted into the heating element to conduct heat from the heating wire throughout the heating element, wherein the connector receives power from an external power supply to supply electrical current to the heating element and the heating wire and wherein at least one of the heating rods supports the heating wire. The combination of elements are configured to heat and disrupt the flow of exhaust gases and aid in removing and/or reducing toxic gases and pollutants from the exhaust system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ECC TEC MSJ INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Saban Akyildiz
  • Patent number: 12082312
    Abstract: An electrical heater assembly, an exhaust treatment assembly, and method of manufacture. The electrical heater assembly includes a heater body including a plurality of slots disconnecting portions of the heater body from each other. Each slot includes a first end portion that extends to a second end portion, and a receptacle portion located between the first end portion and the second end portion. Portions of the heater body not disconnected by the plurality of slots form a serpentine current-carrying path through the heater body. The first end portion of each slot has a first width, the second end portion of each slot has a second width, and the receptacle portion of each slot has a third width, and the third width is larger than both the first width and the second width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas Adam Collins
  • Patent number: 12074416
    Abstract: A connecting arrangement electrically connects a heating conductor to an electrical connection line. The heating conductor includes a heating conduction element having an exposed end segment defining a first connecting region and the electrical connection line includes a connection line conductor having an exposed end segment defining a second connecting region. A connector mutually electrically connects the exposed end segments. A shielding sleeve surrounds the first connecting region, the second connecting region and the connector. The shielding sleeve has first and second sleeve end portions and the shielding sleeve is connected to the heating conductor in the first connecting region and is connected to the electrical connection line in the second connecting region and so shields the exposed end segment of the heating conduction element and the exposed end segment of the connection line conductor and the connector against external influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Brenner, Manfred Nicolai
  • Patent number: 12049839
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an exhaust gas heating unit for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas heating unit includes at least one electrically conductive heating conductor element, wherein the at least one electrically conductive heating conductor element is configured from bent flat strip material. The exhaust gas system conducts exhaust gas defining an exhaust gas primary flow direction (H). The heating conductor element can have a plurality of broad sides arranged to be substantially parallel to the exhaust gas primary flow direction (H) and a plurality of end faces arranged substantially orthogonally to the exhaust gas primary flow direction (H).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventor: Gerd Gaiser
  • Patent number: 11994053
    Abstract: An electrically heating converter includes: a pillar shaped honeycomb structure made of conductive ceramics, including: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells penetrating from one end face to other end face to form a flow path; metal electrodes; conductive connecting portions arranged on a surface of the pillar shaped honeycomb structure; and a pressing member configured to press the metal electrodes against the conductive connecting portions, so that the metal electrodes are electrically connected to the pillar shaped honeycomb structure. Each of the conductive connecting portions has an electrical resistivity lower than that of the pillar shaped honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Takahashi, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11986811
    Abstract: A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases from an exhaust-gas source, having a spatially delimited flow path through which flow may pass proceeding from the exhaust-gas source, having a heating catalytic converter which is arranged in the flow path and which, as viewed in a flow direction, firstly has a catalytically active catalytic converter through which flow may pass and, following this in the flow direction, has an electrically heatable heating disk, wherein at least one outlet of a secondary air supply is arranged in the region of the heating catalytic converter such that a gas flow referred to as secondary air is fed into the flow path in the region of the heating catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Stock, Philipp Langenfeld, Peter Hirth, Erwin Achleitner, Gerhard Haft, Florian Kleiner, Paul Rodatz
  • Patent number: 11976890
    Abstract: A heated inlet tube for use in a wet scrubber is disclosed. In one embodiment, the heated inlet tube comprises a heated tube concentric to the inlet tube to which a heated gas is applied thereby maintaining temperature of a waste gas stream as it flows through the inlet tube. In a further embodiment, an insulating tube concentrically surrounds the heated tube to further maintain the temperature of the waste gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Airgard, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Messineo, Husain Lohawala, Mark W. Johnsgard
  • Patent number: 11933210
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment unit for cleaning exhaust gases includes an emission reducing module being a diesel particulate filter, DPF, and/or a diesel oxidation catalyst, DOC, a selective catalyst reduction, SCR, catalyst, an electrical heating element arranged upstream of the emission reducing module, a casing housing at least the emission reducing module and the electrical heating element, and a service lid removably arranged to cover a service opening of the casing through which the emission reducing module may be accessed. The electrical heating element is removably arranged relative the casing and is arranged accessible upon removal of the service lid and the emission reducing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gert-Ove Wahlström
  • Patent number: 11898481
    Abstract: A system includes an aftertreatment system coupled to an engine, a heater, at least one sensor configured to determine an exhaust gas temperature, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is structured to determine whether the exhaust gas temperature is at or below a predefined threshold temperature; provide a first command to control the heater in response to the exhaust gas temperature being at or below the predefined threshold temperature; selectively provide a second command to increase the exhaust gas temperature; and coordinate the first and second commands, where the first command is provided followed by the second command only if the predefined threshold temperature is not attained by the first command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventor: Avra Brahma
  • Patent number: 11879370
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a power converter that receives power, and has first and second outputs, a low voltage battery that receives power from the power converter via the first output, and a heating element that receives power from the power converter via the second output, and provides heat to a catalyst of an exhaust system. The vehicle also includes a controller that commands the converter to provide power to the heating element via the second output according to a temperature of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Cox, Anthemios Philemon Petridis, David Hesketh
  • Patent number: 11795857
    Abstract: A heating system includes at least one electric heater disposed within a fluid flow system and a control device that is configured to determine a temperature of the at least one electric heater based on a model, at least one fluid flow system input, and at least one heater input. The at least one heater input includes at least one physical characteristic of the heating system, the at least one physical characteristic includes at least one of a resistance wire diameter, a heater insulation thickness, a heater sheath thickness, a conductivity, a specific heat and density of the material of the heater, an emissivity of the heater and the fluid flow pathway, and combinations thereof. The control device is configured to provide power to the at least one electric heater based on the temperature of the at least one electric heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: James N. Pradun, Sanhong Zhang, Jeremy J. Quandt, David P. Culbertson, Magdi Khair
  • Patent number: 11781458
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment arrangement for cleaning exhaust gases includes a fluid channel for providing a fluid pathway for the exhaust gases, a selective catalyst reduction, SCR, catalyst, arranged in or downstream the fluid channel, a heating arrangement for heating the exhaust gases, the heating arrangement being arranged upstream of the SCR catalyst and comprising an electrical heating element, a first fluid pathway for guiding the exhaust gases to the electrical heating element, and a second fluid pathway for guiding the exhaust gases to bypass the electrical heating element, wherein the heating arrangement is removably arranged relative the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gert-Ove Wahlström
  • Patent number: 11767814
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heating device includes a housing and a heating element arranged in the housing for heating exhaust gases flowing through the housing. The heating element comprises a first and a second connecting region. A power source for supplying electricity to the heating element, comprises a first connecting element, connected to the first connecting region of the heating element, and intended to supply the heating element (18) with electricity, and a second connecting element. The electrical power source comprises a third connecting element that comprises an electrical connector, electrically connecting the second connecting element to the second connecting region of the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventors: Ting Feng, Christophe Basso, Alain Mercier, Thomas Ferrier, Gaetan Richard, Thomas Sommier
  • Patent number: 11746683
    Abstract: A heating member for a vehicle exhaust gas purification device comprises an electrically conductive peripheral frame having an inner edge, a central support arranged substantially at a geometric centre of the inner edge, and a perforated heating grid formed of a plurality of elongate heating elements each having first and second ends opposite one another. The first end is linked to the electrically conductive peripheral frame and the second end is linked to the central support. Each elongate heating element occupies a respective angular sector of the perforated heating grid, and is arranged in zigzag manner within that angular sector so as to form a succession of strands connected by nodes and being linked by the nodes to the elongate heating elements occupying neighbouring angular sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Sommier, Matthieu Riverain, Nicolas Tur, Sébastien Hanauer, Vincent Lebourgeois
  • Patent number: 11668215
    Abstract: A catalytic converter includes at least one heating element that is configured to disrupt the direction of flow of exhaust gases which contain harmful toxic gases and pollutants and aid in removing and/or reducing said toxic gases and pollutants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ECC TEC MSJ INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Saban Akyildiz
  • Patent number: 11661874
    Abstract: A heating device comprises a heating element, permeable to the exhaust gas, and intended to be traversed by the exhaust gas flowing in a longitudinal direction. The heating element comprises two electrical poles, and two electrodes, each electrode being solidly attached to a respective electrical pole. Each electrode has a generally elongated shape along a respective elongation direction. At least one of the electrodes has a direction of elongation substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Christophe Basso, Yannick Fourcaudot
  • Patent number: 11628401
    Abstract: A composite structure, exhaust aftertreatment system, and method of manufacture. The composite structure includes a body that includes an array of intersecting walls that form a plurality of channels extending in an axial direction through the body such that adjacent channels are located on opposite sides of each wall. A composite material of the body includes a first phase of a porous glass or ceramic containing material. The first phase includes an internal interconnected porosity. A second phase of an electrically conductive material is included that is a continuous, three-dimensional, interconnected, electrically conductive phase at least partially filling the internal interconnected porosity of the first phase, which creates an electrical path through at least some of the walls in a lateral direction perpendicular to the axial direction between the opposite sides of the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Munroe Beall, Vishwanath Ganpat Deshmane
  • Patent number: 11566557
    Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas-carrying component (16) with an outer wall (14), a heat conductor element (12) with a jacket (40) and with a heat conductor device (50) enclosed by the jacket (40). A pass-through device (22) provides a gastight passing of the heat conductor element (12) through the outer wall (14) of the exhaust gas-carrying component (16). The pass-through device (22) includes a pass-through opening (26) in the outer wall (14), which pass-through opening (26) is traversed by the heat conductor element (12), and a connection element (24), which is connected in a gastight manner to the heat conductor element (12), on the one hand, and to the outer wall (14), on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PUREM GMBH
    Inventors: Fatih Uysal, Enver Kurpejovic, Dietmar Uebele
  • Patent number: 11519317
    Abstract: Engine systems use a three-way catalyst followed by air injection and mixing to convert all hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide under various load conditions when exhaust gas temperature is above 500 degrees Celsius. A three-way catalytic converter is disposed in the exhaust system. A nozzle is configured to inject air into the exhaust system downstream from the three-way catalytic converter. A mixing plate with or without catalyst coatings is disposed in the exhaust system downstream from the nozzle. The mixing plate is bow shaped with a concave shaped side facing the nozzle to enhance carbon monoxide conversion. Optional two way catalytic converters are added downstream from the mixing plate to further reduce tailpipe hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chengke Liu, Rafat F Hattar
  • Patent number: 11512620
    Abstract: A device for treating exhaust gases which is designed for electrically contacting a plurality of conductor tracks, which are arranged within an interior space that is surrounded by an outer wall of the device, through the outer wall. One or more electrodes which may be electrically contacted through the outer wall are arranged in the interior space, each of which electrodes electrically contacts two or more of the conductor tracks in the interior space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Florian Rings
  • Patent number: 11498028
    Abstract: A device for treating exhaust gases which has an outer wall which has an opening in order to electrically contact one or more conductor tracks, which are arranged within an interior space that is surrounded by the outer wall, through the outer wall. The opening is arranged in a projection which protrudes outward from the interior space and is integrally formed with the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Florian Rings
  • Patent number: 11499457
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment device includes a catalyst assembly having an electrically conductive carrier matrix and first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes have terminals attached on opposing sides of the catalyst assembly to be electrically connected to each other through the carrier matrix and configured to generate heat. A first elongate heat sink extends axially along the first electrode and is configured to absorb a portion of the heat to mitigate formation of hotspots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xin Liu, Paul M Laing, Douglas Allen Dobson
  • Patent number: 11486289
    Abstract: A mixing assembly for an exhaust system can include an outer body, a front plate, a back plate, a middle member, and an inner member. The outer body defines an interior volume and has a center axis. The front plate defines an upstream portion of the interior volume and the back plate defines a downstream portion of the interior volume. The middle member is positioned transverse to the center axis and defines a volume. The inner member is positioned coaxially with the middle member inside the middle member. The front plate includes inlets configured to direct exhaust to (i) a first flow path into an interior of the inner member, (ii) a second flow path into the volume of the middle member between a sidewall of the middle member and a sidewall of the inner member, and (iii) a third flow path into the interior volume of the outer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Matthew K. Volmerding, Ryan M. Johnson, Jim L. Alonzo, Samuel Johnson, Apoorv Kalyankar, Pranjal Naik, Kartiki Jagtap, Mahendra Mittapalli
  • Patent number: 11486286
    Abstract: A connection unit for an exhaust gas heater in an exhaust gas system of a combustion engine includes an electrically conducting connection element, elongated in the direction of a connection element longitudinal axis (L). The connection element has an inner connection region for connection to a heating conductor and an outer connection region for connection to an electrical supply. A carrier arrangement surrounds the connection element and an insulating arrangement insulates the connection element with respect to the carrier arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Enver Kurpejovic, Fatih Uysal, Holger Prommersberger, Dietmar Kuschel, Sandra Hoeckel
  • Patent number: 11486292
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas purification system of an internal combustion engine includes an electrically heated catalytic device and a three-way catalytic device. The electrically heated catalytic device includes a first honeycomb base having a large number of honeycomb passages and a first catalyst component that is supported on, by a predetermined thin-film treatment, surfaces that define the honeycomb passages and that contains one or more types of noble metals. The three-way catalytic device includes a second honeycomb base having a large number of honeycomb passages and a second catalyst component that is supported on surfaces defining the honeycomb passages and that contains one or more types of noble metals. The total noble metal content per unit volume of the second honeycomb base is higher than the total noble metal content per unit volume of the first honeycomb base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hatakeyama, Hiroki Takeori, Tetsuo Endo, Shun Kato
  • Patent number: 11454152
    Abstract: An electrically heated catalyst device includes a catalyst support, a low-potential-side electrode, and a high-potential-side electrode. In a case in which a current value between two electrodes, which are the low-potential-side electrode and the high-potential-side electrode, is gradually increased from 0, the current value between the two electrodes is referred to as an electrode fusing current value when, in each of the low-potential-side electrode and the high-potential-side electrode, a temperature of any section of the electrode first reaches a melting point of a material of the electrode. The low-potential-side electrode is configured to have a lower electrode fusing current value than the high-potential-side electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Sadamitsu
  • Patent number: 11441469
    Abstract: A catalyst for cleaning exhaust gases, having a honeycomb body which configures a plurality of flow ducts through which a gas from a gas inlet side may flow in the axial direction to a gas outlet side, having an inner casing which encloses the honeycomb body having an outer casing which encloses the inner casing, and having an insulation region which is disposed between the inner casing and the outer casing. The honeycomb body, the inner casing, the outer casing and the insulation region are formed from exactly two tiers formed from metal foils that are stacked on top of one another and wound along a winding direction transverse to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Florian Rings
  • Patent number: 11428136
    Abstract: A heavy duty truck includes a diesel engine, an exhaust after-treatment system, and an engine control unit. The exhaust after-treatment system may include one or more selective catalytic reduction systems, each with a respective heater, and each heater with a respective pair of temperature sensors, one upstream and the other downstream of the heater. Such systems may be used to perform diagnostic methods including populating a lookup table having heat energy supplied to an exhaust gas stream by the diesel engine as a first independent variable, heat energy supplied to the exhaust gas stream by a heater as a second independent variable, and a resulting temperature as an output. Such a lookup table can be used to maintain a temperature of the exhaust gas flow at a constant target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PACCAR INC
    Inventors: Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Maarten Meijer, Varun Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11396851
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, whereby an electrically heated component of an exhaust aftertreatment system being supplied with electrical power via an electric machine driven by the internal combustion engine, a load point shift of the internal combustion engine being carried out by an activation or a deactivation of the component or by a temporary storage of the necessary electrical energy for operating the component in a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sergej Jakovlev, Johannes Bunkus
  • Patent number: 11396009
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including a honeycomb having porous partition walls extending between inflow and outflow end faces to define cells, an outermost peripheral wall, and a pair of electrodes disposed on a side surface of the honeycomb. Each electrode is formed in a strip shape extending in a direction of the cells. In a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cells, one electrode is disposed on a side opposed to the other electrode. The honeycomb has an outer peripheral region including the outer peripheral wall, a central region, and an intermediate region. An average electric resistivity A of a material constituted of the outer peripheral region, an average electric resistivity B of a material constituted of the central region and an average electric resistivity of C of a material constituted of the intermediate region satisfy the relationship: A?B<C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoya Takase
  • Patent number: 11377992
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regenerating a particulate filter in the exhaust gas channel of an internal combustion engine. Here, the particulate filter is divided into several zones for determining the loading state, and, at the same time, a temperature distribution over the cross section of the particulate filter is determined. In order to prevent the soot retained in the edge zones of in the particulate filter from being insufficiently oxidized, when it is ascertained that the edge zones have been sufficiently loaded, the exhaust gas temperature is raised to a temperature which, in spite of the heat losses in the edge areas, lies above the temperature at which oxidation of the soot particles can take place. The invention further relates to an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas channel and a particulate filter arranged in the exhaust gas channel, said internal combustion engine being configured to carry out such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Paukner, Falk-Christian Baron Von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna
  • Patent number: 11371408
    Abstract: An electrically heatable heating disk for use within a device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gas, wherein the heating disk is formed by a layer stack formed from a multiplicity of metal foils which are stacked one on top of the other, the layer stack being wound to form a honeycomb body, wherein the layer stack has alternately arranged, coarsely structured metal foils and finely structured or smooth metal foils, and wherein the honeycomb body has at least one electrical contact at a radial edge region, wherein first metal foils terminate with an offset with respect to one another as a result of the winding in the circumferential direction of the heating disk, wherein finely structured or smooth second metal foils which extend in the circumferential direction extend beyond the respective ends of the terminating first metal foils in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmBH
    Inventors: Peter Hirth, Ferdi Kurth, Thomas Härig
  • Patent number: 11352925
    Abstract: A heating element for a vehicle exhaust gas purification device is provided and is to be disposed in an exhaust gas duct. The heating element extends around a central axis. and comprises a central support defined around the central axis, a heating grid extending radially around the central support, and a liaison element. The liaison element comprises a plurality of mounting brackets comprising at least a first part connecting the mounting brackets to the heating grid, at least a second part connecting the bracket to the duct, intended to be directly or indirectly attached to the duct, and at least one intermediate section connecting the first connecting part to the second connecting part. The connecting element is at least partially radially flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Sommier, Matthieu Riverain, Marc Leroux, Sébastien Hanauer
  • Patent number: 11274584
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ceramic body which can be designed as a catalyst support and/or particulate filter and which has a plurality of channels and a plurality of elongate metal elements for inductive heating arranged in parallel with the channels, the elongate metal elements being arranged in the walls of the ceramic body. In this way, the free frontal area of the ceramic body is preferably reduced or is at least no more than 5%. The invention also relates to a method for producing the ceramic body, an exhaust gas purification device and a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Ekkehard Pott
  • Patent number: 11230953
    Abstract: A heating disk for heating up a stream of exhaust gas and/or a component for exhaust gas aftertreatment has a honeycomb body, wound from a plurality of smooth and corrugated metal layers stacked on top of one another. The honeycomb body is received within a carrier shell and an electrical contact is fed through the carrier shell. The honeycomb body is connected to a current source via the electrical contact. The electrical contact has a contact strip within the carrier shell extending in the circumferential direction of the carrier shell. An insulating region is formed between the carrier shell and the contact strip. A plurality of stacks of layers are electrically insulated from one another. Each of the stacks of layers are formed from the plurality of smooth and corrugated metal layers, and which are arranged directly adjacent to one another and conductively connected to the contact strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Pabst, Peter Hirth, Ferdi Kurth, Lukas Hort