Having Sensor Or Indicator Of Malfunction, Unsafeness, Or Disarray Of Treater (e.g., Fusible Link, Etc.) Patents (Class 60/277)
  • Patent number: 12140098
    Abstract: A system comprises an engine, a torque converter connected to the engine, a transmission connected to the torque converter via an input shaft, a particulate filter connected to the engine, an engine control module connected to the engine, the transmission, and the particulate filter, the engine control module being configured to perform service regeneration operations to lock the input shaft to the transmission and elevate the engine speed to retard the spark in the engine and increase the temperature in the particulate filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: J. Michael Gwidt, Matthew Pruski
  • Patent number: 12116914
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a device for diagnosing coking of a secondary air system of an internal combustion engine. The secondary air system has an intake air line for providing secondary air, a secondary air pump for compressing the secondary air, a secondary air valve for controlling the secondary air injection, a pressure sensor that is arranged in the secondary air system downstream of the secondary air pump and upstream of the secondary air valve, and an injection line for injecting the secondary air into an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Jaroslav Lipa
  • Patent number: 12104510
    Abstract: A method for detecting a urea consumption deviation including: calculating a pump pressure correction factor fac; calculating a urea consumption deviation factor A when the pump pressure correction factor fac is within a calibrated range; calculating the urea consumption deviation factor A multiple times, and calculating an average value of A; and comparing the average value of the urea consumption deviation factor A with a calibrated limiting value range, so as to determine whether there is a great deviation between an actual urea consumption value and a theoretical urea consumption value, the calculating the pump pressure correction factor fac comprises: adjusting a pressure of a urea pump to P1; adjusting the pressure of the urea pump to P2, where P2 is smaller than P1; recording a time T1 during which the pressure of the urea pump is adjusted from P1 to P2; and calculating fac=T1/(P1?P2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinjin Hu, Xianfeng Ren, Yupeng Wang, Libing Yan, Dong Qiu
  • Patent number: 12065954
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system for a vehicle is connectable to an internal combustion engine The aftertreatment system includes an oxidation catalyst, a first NOx sensor arranged upstream the oxidation catalyst, a second NOx sensor arranged downstream the oxidation catalyst, and a control unit comprising a processor device configured to determine a sensor based conversion ratio of nitric oxides to nitrogen dioxides by the oxidation catalyst from data received from first and second NOx sensor, obtain an estimated conversion ratio of nitric oxides to nitrogen dioxides by the oxidation catalyst from a model, and determine a malfunction condition of the aftertreatment system in response to the sensor based conversion ratio being different from the estimated conversion ratio, and perform a responsive action of the aftertreatment system based on the malfunction condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Åsa Högström, Irman Svraka
  • Patent number: 12044155
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a NOx sensor is provided. The method includes receiving data indicative of operating conditions of an engine or an aftertreatment system; determining, during a first period of time, that an amount of NOx output from the aftertreatment system satisfies a low NOx operating mode condition; determining, during a second period of time, that operating conditions for ammonia slip are present based on data regarding operation of the aftertreatment system; responsive to the determination that operating conditions for ammonia slip are present, determining that the amount of NOx output from the aftertreatment system satisfies a high NOx operating mode condition; comparing a difference between a minimum value from the first period of time and a maximum value from a second period of time to a diagnostic threshold; and responsive to the difference being less than the diagnostic threshold, setting an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Arun Shori Sundaravel Damotharan, Sergio M. Hernandez-Gonzalez, Joshua Edward Supplee
  • Patent number: 12031464
    Abstract: Systems and methods for diagnosing at least one component in an exhaust aftertreatment system are provided. The system includes an exhaust aftertreatment system coupled to an engine system, at least one sensor, and at least one processing circuit structured to: receive initial sensor data; determine an initial parameter value based on the initial sensor data; determine that the initial parameter does not satisfy an initial threshold; perform operations to diagnose at least one component of the exhaust aftertreatment system comprising: causing the engine system to operate through a sequence of a plurality of engine outputs; receiving a plurality of sensor data, each of the plurality sensor data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of engine outputs; comparing each of the plurality of sensor data to a corresponding threshold; and diagnosing the at least one component based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Haifeng Shi, Yang Z. Zhou, Chengxiu Huang
  • Patent number: 12002005
    Abstract: A delivery assist apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive power data of at least one facility included in two or more predetermined facilities located in a predetermined area; and a controller configured to determine a procedure of delivering goods to the two or more predetermined facilities, based on the power data. At first timing, the controller executes a first procedure of determining a target area out of two or more delivery areas included in the predetermined area, based on the power data satisfying a first condition based on the first timing. At second timing after the first timing, the controller executes a second procedure of determining a delivery schedule of the goods for two or more target facilities located in the target area, based on the power data satisfying a second condition based on the second timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kanauchi, Takao Oshida, Masaya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11994446
    Abstract: A deterioration estimator for an electronic throttle device allows a throttle valve to be driven by a drive mechanism. The throttle valve is continuously operated to open and/or close. If operated to open, it opens from a first opening position, which is on a closed side from an opener opening position and in which the throttle valve is biased to an open side by an opener mechanism, to a second opening position, the second opening position being on an open side from the opener opening position with the throttle valve being biased to the closed side by the opener mechanism. If operated to close, the throttle valve is operated to close from the second opening position to the first opening position. A deteriorated condition of the electronic throttle device is estimated by detecting a behavior of the drive mechanism when the throttle valve passes by the opener opening position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Nagao, Koki Hirata
  • Patent number: 11988125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically detecting clogging of a sensor pipe extending between a pressure sensor and an exhaust manifold of an internal combustion engine, wherein the pressure sensor enables to record a signal representative of the relative pressure over time. The method includes at least one of the following steps: a) determining, while the engine runs in a steady operation state, an average amplitude of oscillations of the signal over a first period of time, the sensor pipe being considered clogged when said average amplitude is lower than a first threshold; b) monitoring, from the time the engine has been turned off, the signal over a second period of time, the sensor pipe being considered clogged when the integral of the signal is greater than a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: José Luis Martinez Gordon, Hervé Queret, Damien Daulon, Franck Chagnot Auclair
  • Patent number: 11976582
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods for evaluating NOx conversion efficiency of a close coupled SCR unit of an EAS including the close coupled SCR unit and a downstream SCR unit. The determined NOx conversion efficiency of the close coupled SCR unit is used to diagnose the close coupled SCR unit and or EAS and to control operation parameters of the EAS and/or internal combustion engine operably connected to the EAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PACCAR INC
    Inventors: Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Maarten Meijer, Varun Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11933237
    Abstract: A system includes an exhaust aftertreatment system including a particulate filter and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a particulate filter regeneration event trigger; receive information, the information comprising a temperature regarding the particulate filter; determine the temperature regarding the particulate filter is below a temperature threshold associated with a particulate filter regeneration event; and responsive to determining the temperature regarding the particulate filter is below the temperature threshold, command the engine to operate in a cylinder deactivation mode, whereby at least one cylinder of a plurality of cylinders of the engine is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Cummins Inc., Tula Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Steven Kolhouse, David Langenderfer, David Schmidt, Vijay Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11879368
    Abstract: A method (200) for ascertaining an air volume provided by means of an electric air pump (134) in an exhaust system (120) of an internal combustion engine (110), including detecting at least one activation parameter (5) of the air pump and ascertaining (220) a provided air mass flow rate (8) on the basis of a calculation specification from the at least one activation parameter (5) by utilizing an inertia of the air pump (134) and/or an inertia of the air upstream and/or downstream from the air pump (134) and/or a differential pressure from upstream from the air pump to downstream from the air pump. In addition, a processing unit and a computer program for carrying out a method (200) of this type is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Goldeck, Angela Leo, Henrik Smith, Isabell Kathrin Ohrnberger, Jens Reimer, Rouven Leibbrand
  • Patent number: 11719180
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a stop process for stopping the supply of fuel to at least one of a plurality of cylinders and supplying fuel to the other cylinders or cylinder. The abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a catalyst abnormality diagnosis process for diagnosing that there is an abnormality in an exhaust gas control apparatus, based on the value of a first misfire counter indicating the number of times of detection of a misfire during the operation of an internal combustion engine by a prescribed amount. In the catalyst abnormality diagnosis process, the abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that there is an abnormality in the exhaust gas control apparatus with the value of the first misfire counter being smaller when the stop process is performed than when the stop process is not performed during the operation of the internal combustion engine by the prescribed amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Miyahara, Akihiro Katayama, Hirotaka Nakayama, Yuki Ikejiri, Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: 11668224
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses include a circuit structured to receive information indicative of a catalyst health, receive information from a sensor array indicative of a catalyst activity, determine a catalyst health management criteria has been met based on the information, determine a catalyst age based on the information indicative of the catalyst activity and the catalyst health management criteria being met, compare the determined catalyst age to a predetermined age threshold, and provide a notification when the determined catalyst age exceeds the predetermined age threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo Mendoza-Pinon, Atin Tandon, Daniel J. Robinson, Frank Ruggiero, Hasan Mohammed, David L. Hirt, Matthew W. Isaacs
  • Patent number: 11643956
    Abstract: A method for determining a reference value of a presence of at least one substance (NOx) occurring in an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine (101), wherein the at least one substance is subjected to exhaust treatment, the exhaust treatment being carried out in dependence on the reference value (Emref; Emref,1; Emref,2) When the internal combustion engine (101) is started: accumulating the occurrence (EmACC,1; EmACC,2) of the at least one substance (NOx) downstream from the exhaust treatment during a first period, and determining whether to redetermine the reference value (Emref; Emref,1; Emref,2) based on the accumulated occurrence (EmACC,1; EmACC,2) of the at least one substance (NOx).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventor: Martin Lindell
  • Patent number: 11591945
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment arrangement for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas channel leading to a flow path switching unit. The flow path switching unit is configured for changing exhaust gas parts of an exhaust gas stream flowing through the exhaust gas channel, which are conducted into first and second exhaust gas flow paths downstream of the flow path switching unit. The first exhaust gas flow path and the second exhaust gas flow path lead to an exhaust gas outlet. An SCR catalyst unit is in the first exhaust gas flow path upstream of the exhaust gas outlet. A liquid bypass line drains liquid from a liquid collection region in the exhaust gas channel upstream relative to the switching unit. The liquid is drained to a liquid discharge region for discharging liquid into the second flow path downstream of the switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Kohberg, Markus Henzler, Arthur Wieland
  • Patent number: 11566555
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable storage media for controlling oxidation of a particulate filter (PF) are closed. The oxidation of the PF may be controlled using a PF model. The PF model may be utilized to simulate operations of the PF based on various input data and/or derived data to determine an optimum time for initiating an oxidation event at the PF, and an oxidation event may be initiated at the PF based on the simulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: University of Kansas
    Inventors: Christopher Depcik, Matthew Cole
  • Patent number: 11549423
    Abstract: A method that determines a cause for the impaired performance of a catalytic configuration of the exhaust gas of a combustion engine (231), the method including determining (s410) a course of a NOx-conversion ratio; determining (s420) a prevailing temperature of the catalytic configuration; increasing (s430) the temperature of the catalytic configuration from a prevailing temperature below a predetermined temperature value (Te) to a temperature (TSred) above the predetermined temperature value above which sulphur is removed from the catalytic configuration; and/or decreasing (s440) the temperature of the catalytic configuration from a prevailing temperature (TSred) above the predetermined temperature value (Te) to a temperature below the predetermined temperature value so as to impair the performance of the catalytic configuration in case sulphur is present; and determining (s450) one cause out of a set of causes on the basis of the course of the NOx-conversion ratio thus determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventor: Mikael Lundström
  • Patent number: 11506137
    Abstract: A controller is configured to perform a process of obtaining an exhaust pressure upstream of a filter inside an exhaust passage and an intake air amount detected by an air flowmeter, when the filter in which a deposition amount of particulate matter is a specified amount is referred to as a reference filter, a calculation process of calculating an exhaust pressure rate that indicates a ratio of the obtained exhaust pressure to an exhaust pressure at the reference filter for the obtained intake air amount, and a setting process of setting the exhaust pressure rate that is maintained at a specific value during engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Miyazaki, Yasuyuki Takaki, Takahiro Anami
  • Patent number: 11499468
    Abstract: A method includes: interpreting first oxygen data acquired by a first nitrous oxide (NOx) sensor indicative of a first amount of oxygen in an exhaust flow at a location in or proximate to an exhaust aftertreatment system, wherein the exhaust aftertreatment system is in exhaust gas receiving communication with an engine; estimating an amount of oxygen in the exhaust flow entering the exhaust aftertreatment system from the engine based on engine operation data; and, determining that the NOx sensor is faulty based on determining that a difference between the first amount of oxygen and the estimated amount of oxygen is greater than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam W. Kidd, Michael Haas
  • Patent number: 11492940
    Abstract: A transport refrigeration unit (TRU) is provided and includes a power generation unit, a catalytic element, a tubular element fluidly interposed between the power generation unit and the catalytic element and a control System. The control System is disposed and configured to control operations of the power generation unit in accordance with readings of sensed characteristics of fluid flows between the power generation unit and the catalytic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Loic Renault
  • Patent number: 11486327
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine including an electronic control unit configured to execute: a base injection amount calculation process of calculating a base value; an injection valve operation process of operating the fuel injection valve; a feedback process of correcting an injection amount in the injection valve operation process; and a determination process of determining whether or not the amount of fuel flowing into the cylinders other than fuel injected from the fuel injection valve is equal to or larger than a threshold value. When it is determined as a result of the determination that the amount of fuel flowing into the cylinders other than the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve is equal to or larger than the threshold value, the electronic control unit (does not execute the process of injecting fuel from the fuel injection valve with the feedback process stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Ikeda, Yuki Nose, Takanobu Gotoh
  • Patent number: 11473474
    Abstract: An air intake and exhaust system for a marine engine having an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold includes an air compressor configured to compress ambient air into compressed air and a catalytic converter assembly configured to convert pollutants in an exhaust gas stream received from the exhaust manifold. The air compressor is configured to be fluidly coupled to the intake manifold of the engine for directing at least a first portion of the compressed air to the intake manifold of the engine. The air compressor is also selectively fluidly coupled to the catalytic converter assembly for selectively directing a second portion of the compressed air into the exhaust gas stream at a secondary air injection location at or upstream of the catalytic converter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Indmar Products Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Waggoner, Jason C. Stimmel, Jason Vetzel, Derrick W. Lloyd, Timothy G. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11383187
    Abstract: A suction tube filter arrangement includes a suction tube defining a suction tube direction and a filter member extending along the suction tube direction. The suction tube is at least partially arranged inside the filter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: MEAS FRANCE, TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE AS
    Inventors: Maciej Ziemak, Girish Chebbi, Rafael Ferrer Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11352926
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a regeneration scheme in response to ageing of a first catalyst and a second catalyst. In one example, a method may include determining a first ageing of the first catalyst and a second ageing of the second catalyst and updating factors of the regeneration scheme based on the first ageing and the second ageing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Linzen, Christoph Boerensen, Jan Harmsen, Christian Nederlof, Dirk Roemer
  • Patent number: 11345256
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery temperature control system having a simple configuration and capable of immediately raising a battery temperature by actively using heat generated by an internal combustion engine. The battery temperature control system includes: an engine cooling circuit in which a coolant in an internal combustion engine is circulated between a coolant jacket and a radiator by a coolant pump; an exhaust heat recovery circuit in which a coolant in an EGR cooler that recovers exhaust heat of the internal combustion engine flows; a battery cooler-destined branch circuit that is branched from the engine cooling circuit and goes toward an upstream side of the battery cooler in the battery cooling circuit 11; and a channel switching mechanism that selectively connects a downstream side of at least one of the exhaust heat recovery circuit or the battery cooler-destined branch circuit to the upstream side of the battery cooler in the battery cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Akutsu, Shinji Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11339698
    Abstract: A system includes a first heater positioned in or proximate to an exhaust aftertreatment system in exhaust gas-receiving communication with an engine, a second heater positioned downstream of the first heater, and a controller coupled to the first and second heaters. The controller is structured to determine, based on information indicative of a temperature regarding the exhaust aftertreatment system, that the temperature is below a temperature threshold; receive information regarding a characteristic of a battery coupled to the first heater and the second heater; control the temperature regarding the exhaust aftertreatment system without using the first or second heaters in response to determining that the characteristic of the battery is below a first threshold; and control a temperature regarding the exhaust aftertreatment system using the first heater in response to determining that the characteristic of the battery is above the first threshold but below a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher R. Bare, Xing Jin, Jennifer Kay Light-Holets, Sriram S. Popuri, Xiaobo Song
  • Patent number: 11319850
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus calculates an accomplishment ratio parameter based on an actually supplied electrical energy defined as the integrated value of electrical power actually supplied to the electrically heated catalyst over a specific period from the start of supply of electrical power to the electrically heated catalyst to a specific time and a target electrical energy defined as the integrated value of target electrical power over the specific period. The accomplishment ratio parameter is a parameter relating to the ratio of the actually supplied electrical energy to the target electrical energy. The abnormality detection apparatus detects an abnormality of the electrically heated catalyst on the basis of the accomplishment ratio. The specific time is a time after the start of supply of electrical power to the electrically heated catalyst and before or simultaneous with the time when the actually supplied electrical power substantially reaches the target electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shingo Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11306640
    Abstract: The electrically heated catalyst to which the present disclosure is applied is provided in a hybrid vehicle capable of switching its running mode between EV mode and HC mode and supplied with electrical energy before the internal combustion engine is started. An abnormality detection apparatus calculates an electrical energy parameter relating to the integrated value of electrical power actually supplied to the electrically heated catalyst (actually supplied electrical power) over a specific period of time from the time when supply of electrical power to the electrically heated catalyst is started and detects an abnormality of the electrically heated catalyst by comparing the electrical energy parameter with a threshold. The threshold is set according to the rate of decrease of the charge level of a battery (charge level decrease rate) during a period in which electrical power is supplied to the electrically heated catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigemasa Hirooka, Tsuyoshi Obuchi, Shingo Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11306641
    Abstract: The controller adjusts a voltage applied to the electrically heated catalyst in such a way as to make the electrical power as the product of the applied voltage and the catalyst current equal to a target electrical power and to apply a voltage substantially equal to a specific upper limit voltage to the electrically heated catalyst when the electrical power that can be supplied to the electrically heated catalyst by applying a voltage equal to or lower than the specific upper limit voltage is lower than the target electrical power. The controller calculates an actually supplied electrical energy defined as the integrated value of the electrical power actually supplied to the electrically heated catalyst over a specific period. The controller determines that the electrically heated catalyst is abnormal if the actually supplied electrical energy is smaller than a specific electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Obuchi, Shigemasa Hirooka, Shingo Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11300032
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus calculates an actually supplied electrical energy defined as the integrated value of electrical power actually supplied to the electrically heated catalyst over a specific period from the time when the supply of electrical power to the electrically heated catalyst is started and a target electrical energy in the specific period, and further calculates, from these integrated values, an accomplishment parameter relating to the ratio of the actually supplied electrical energy to the target electrical energy. The abnormality detection apparatus detects an abnormality of the electrically heated catalyst by comparing the accomplishment parameter with a specific threshold. The abnormality detection apparatus is configured to set the specific threshold according to the temperature of the electrically heated catalyst at the time when the supply of electrical power is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Obuchi, Shigemasa Hirooka, Shingo Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11293322
    Abstract: A method of recognizing deactivation of an exhaust gas catalytic converter is disclosed. For this purpose, coverage of storage sites of the exhaust gas catalytic converter with rich gas components is modeled (60) and the deactivation is recognized from a proportion of the occupied storage sites in a total number of storage sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Fey
  • Patent number: 11286839
    Abstract: A method for reusing a vehicular catalyst that ensures effective reuse of a catalyst discarded when a vehicle is discarded is provided. A catalyst deterioration level of a catalytic converter is diagnosed, a catalyst that has a value of the deterioration level diagnosed to be smaller than a predetermined value is determined as a reusable catalyst, and the catalytic converter that includes the catalyst determined as the reusable catalyst is removed from a discarded vehicle. The removed catalytic converter is stored in association with a vehicle type and a manufacturing time of the discarded vehicle. When an abnormality occurs in a catalyst of a drivable vehicle corresponding to the vehicle type and the manufacturing time, a catalytic converter that includes the abnormal catalyst is replaced with the stored catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11268416
    Abstract: A method includes providing electric power to an electrically heated catalyst of an exhaust aftertreatment system. The method includes obtaining an impedance value of the electrically heated catalyst in response to providing the electric power. The method includes determining an oxygen storage capacity of the electrically heated catalyst based on the impedance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Edward Szczepanski
  • Patent number: 11268465
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (1) is provided with an exhaust particulate filter (6) disposed in an exhaust passage (4). When the particulate deposition amount and the temperature of the exhaust particulate filter (6) meet a predetermined excessive temperature rise condition, fuel cut during deceleration is prohibited. When a predetermined release condition is satisfied during the prohibition of the fuel cut, the fuel cut is temporarily permitted to perform the regeneration of the exhaust particulate filter (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11268414
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes a first aftertreatment substrate configured to receive exhaust gases from an engine and a second aftertreatment substrate downstream of the first aftertreatment substrate, wherein the first aftertreatment substrate is smaller than the second aftertreatment substrate. A bypass valve is configured to direct exhaust gas through the first aftertreatment substrate prior to entering the second aftertreatment substrate when an exhaust gas temperature is below a predetermined temperature and is configured to allow exhaust gas to bypass the first aftertreatment substrate and enter the second aftertreatment substrate when the exhaust gas temperature is above the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Chapman, Mark Robinson
  • Patent number: 11249061
    Abstract: A system includes: a NOx sensor; and a controller configured to: increase an amount of O2 in a chamber of the NOx sensor; interpret one or more values of a parameter indicative an amount of O2 and/or NOx measured by the NOx sensor; determine if the one or more values of the parameter exceed a threshold value; and indicate a failure of the NOx sensor responsive to the one or more values of the parameter do not exceed the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinqian Gong, Sergio Manuel Hernandez-Gonzalez, Ruqiat O. Shifatu-Badru
  • Patent number: 11203963
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for diagnosing functionality of dosing units of a fluid dosing system comprising at least two dosing units, a tank unit for holding a fluid, and a pump unit for pressurizing the fluid for the dosing units. The method comprises determining a first hydraulic stiffness value on the basis of first pressure variations and determining a second hydraulic stiffness value on the basis of said second pressure variations. The first hydraulic stiffness value and second hydraulic stiffness value are compared. In a case where the first hydraulic stiffness value and second hydraulic stiffness value differ to a certain extent, concluding that malfunction of at least one of said dosing units is at hand, and in a case where the first hydraulic stiffness value and the second hydraulic stiffness value do not differ to said certain extent, concluding that the first and second dosing units function as intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Kurt Källkvist, Christer Lundberg
  • Patent number: 11181061
    Abstract: A control apparatus performs a diagnosis process for determining whether or not catalyst warm-up control is abnormal by determining whether or not an ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control is a timing advanced by a threshold or more. The threshold is a value that is set to a timing more advanced than the ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control by a predetermined margin. The control apparatus performs a setting process for setting the threshold based on a start-up coolant temperature such that the margin becomes larger when the start-up coolant temperature is low than when the start-up coolant temperature is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Chisa Watanabe, Yuki Ikejiri
  • Patent number: 11174769
    Abstract: A work machine is capable of detecting an abnormality in the amount of soot in exhaust gas in an exhaust pipe upstream of an exhaust gas aftertreatment device. The work machine includes: an exhaust gas sensor which detects the amount of soot contained in exhaust gas between an engine and an exhaust gas aftertreatment device and generates a soot amount detection signal; and a controller into which the detection signal is input. The controller includes an abnormality judgment section that makes an abnormality judgment on whether or not the detected soot amount is abnormal, and a threshold setting section that sets a soot amount threshold that is a threshold for making the abnormality judgment. The abnormality judgment section judges an abnormality when the value of the soot amount corresponding to the soot amount detection signal is larger than the soot amount threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Hirozawa, Masayuki Kagoshima
  • Patent number: 11174810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, system, and computer program product for diagnosing an exhaust gas processing configuration for a combustion engine of a vehicle, said configuration comprising two SCR-units, two NOx-sensors and two reducing agent dosing units suitably arranged, comprising the steps of: performing a series of reducing agent dosing operations by a first reducing agent dosing unit; comparing measured NOx-contents measured by a first NOx-sensor and a second NOx-sensor related to said operations; and if the respective NOx-content measured by the respective NOx-sensors during the performed reducing agent dosing operations are substantially equal, determining that the respective NOx-sensors provide a proper performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Joakim Sommansson, Fredrik Strååt
  • Patent number: 11168599
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method of operating a diesel engine having an exhaust tract and an SCR-combined diesel particulate filter in the exhaust tract, wherein an aqueous urea solution is introduced into the exhaust tract, and an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus having an exhaust gas recirculation conduit branching off downstream of the SCR-combined diesel particulate filter for performing a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation comprising: measuring an NH3 concentration in exhaust gas downstream of the SCR-combined diesel particulate filter; and upon exceeding a threshold value of the measured NH3 concentration, reducing the low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation rate based at least in part on the measured NH3 concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11157346
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for facilitating anomaly detection. During operation, the system determines, by a computing device, a set of testing data which includes a plurality of data points, wherein the set includes a data series for a first variable and one or more second variables, and wherein the one or more second variables are dependent on the first variable. The system divides the set of testing data into a number of groups based on a type of the data series. The system determines an inter-quartile range for a respective group. The system classifies a first testing data point in the respective group as an anomaly based on the inter-quartile range for the respective group, thereby enhancing data mining and outlier detection for the data series for multiple variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ajay Raghavan, Ryan A. Rossi, Jungho Park
  • Patent number: 11149616
    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: calculate a temperature of exhaust flowing into an exhaust after-treatment system as a first exhaust temperature, calculate a temperature of exhaust flowing out from the exhaust after-treatment system as a second exhaust temperature, calculate a rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and a rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature, and judge if the exhaust after-treatment system is in a removed state removed from the exhaust passage based on a difference between the rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and the rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumasa Katoh, Takahiko Fujiwara, Kenji Igawa, Kentaro Mineo
  • Patent number: 11149615
    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: calculate a temperature of exhaust flowing into an exhaust after-treatment system as a first exhaust temperature, calculate a temperature of exhaust flowing out from the exhaust after-treatment system as a second exhaust temperature, calculate a rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and a rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature, and judge if the exhaust after-treatment system is in a removed state removed from the exhaust passage based on a difference between the rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and the rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumasa Katoh, Takahiko Fujiwara, Kenji Igawa, Kentaro Mineo
  • Patent number: 11149672
    Abstract: A control system includes a knock sensor and a controller. The knock sensor is configured to generate a notification signal by sensing a plurality of engine cylinder events in an engine. The controller is electrically coupled to the knock sensor and configured to detect a plurality of stochastic pre-ignition events in response to the plurality of engine cylinder events, calculate a real-time rate of the plurality of stochastic pre-ignition events, calculate a ratio of the real-time rate to an allowable rate of the engine, and adjust a current allowable torque of the engine in response to the ratio and a rotational speed of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Cedric D. Armand
  • Patent number: 11143077
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a reductant storage tank and a SCR system including a catalyst for reducing constituents of an exhaust gas. A reductant insertion assembly is fluidly coupled to the reductant storage tank and the SCR system. A controller is communicatively coupled to the reductant insertion assembly. The controller is configured to: determine an initial pressure of the reductant, determine a first pressure at which the reductant is to be delivered to the selective catalytic reduction system and adjust an operating parameter of the reductant insertion assembly. The adjustment of the operating parameter results in an at least selective delivery of the reductant at the first pressure to the SCR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Friedrich J. Zapf, Stephen M. Holl, John D. Crofts
  • Patent number: 11136929
    Abstract: A device and method for controlling an internal combustion engine having a catalytic converter. At least one actuating variable for the internal combustion engine is determined as a function of a system model of the catalytic converter and/or the internal combustion engine. The system model, a setpoint variable for the control and/or the actuating variable is adapted. Information about a modeled residual oxygen content in the exhaust gas downstream from the catalytic converter is determined using the system model. Information about an acquired residual oxygen content in the exhaust gas at the output of the catalytic converter is acquired. The information about the modeled residual oxygen content is compared with the information about the acquired residual oxygen content. A measure for an adaptation requirement is determined as a function of the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Martin Knopp, Matthias Eckart, Michael Fey
  • Patent number: 11136911
    Abstract: Determining the presence of a particle filter in the exhaust gas tract of an engine, with the steps of determining a first exhaust gas temperature curve which occurs in the exhaust gas tract upstream of the particle filter; measuring a second exhaust gas temperature curve by a first temperature sensor arranged downstream of the particle filter; determining a first heat quantity by integration over a specific time of a first heat flow curve determined by a first exhaust gas mass flow, a first specific heat capacity and the first exhaust gas temperature curve; determining a second heat quantity by integration over the specific time of a second heat flow curve determined by a second exhaust gas mass flow, a second specific heat capacity and the second exhaust gas temperature curve, evaluating the first heat quantity and the second heat quantity to determine the presence of the correct particle filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Nienhoff, Hao Chen, Paul Rodatz
  • Patent number: 11098628
    Abstract: A clogging determination device includes a first antenna disposed at one of a side of a first end and a side of a second end of a filter disposed internally of a case, a second antenna disposed at the other of the side of the first end and the side of the second end of the filter, a multi-tone signal generator that has an output terminal coupled to the first antenna, outputs from the output terminal a multi-tone signal obtained by compositing a plurality of signals having different frequencies, and moves a position of an envelope of the multi-tone signal emitted to the filter from the first antenna, a detector that is coupled to the second antenna, and detects an intensity of the multi-tone signal received by the second antenna, and a determinator that determines a degree of clogging of the filter based on an intensity of the multi-tone signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hirose