Having Auxiliary Device Mechanically Driven By Exhaust Gas Patents (Class 60/280)
  • Patent number: 11480090
    Abstract: This exhaust structure for a vehicle-mounted engine has an air intake channel 3 disposed on one side of an engine main body and an exhaust channel disposed on the other side thereof, the exhaust structure for the vehicle-mounted engine comprising: a turbine of a turbocharger disposed on the other side of the engine main body and connected to the exhaust channel; a first exhaust gas purification device connected to the exhaust channel downstream of the turbine; and a second exhaust gas purification device connected to the exhaust channel 4 downstream of the first exhaust gas purification device. The first exhaust gas purification device is disposed so as to be near the rear of the turbocharger, and the second exhaust gas purification device is disposed so as to be near a cylinder hock on the other side of the engine main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Keisuke Kasuya
  • Patent number: 11359565
    Abstract: When it is determined that control of warm-up of a catalyst is necessary at the time of start of an engine, an ECU starts warm-up control. Initially, the ECU performs first processing for a first set time period. In the first processing, the ECU sets the engine to an idle state and fully opens a waste gate valve. When the first set time period has elapsed since the first processing was started, the ECU performs second processing. In the second processing, the ECU sets the engine to a prescribed rotation speed and fully closes the waste gate valve. When a second set time period has elapsed since the second processing was started, the ECU quits the second processing and quits warm-up control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Yonezawa, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Osamu Maeda, Daigo Ando, Yoshikazu Asami, Kenji Itagaki, Shunsuke Oyama, Koichiro Muta
  • Patent number: 11111834
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a mixing chamber in a turbine. In one example, a system comprises a mixing chamber integrally formed within a turbine with an injector positioned to inject reductant directly into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Hanno Friederichs, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Andreas Kuske, Frank Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 11015511
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing an active exhaust valve in an exhaust system based on thermal data. In one example, a method may include indicating degradation of a first active exhaust valve positioned in a first exhaust pipe of a first engine bank based on a difference between a first temperature of exhaust downstream of the first active exhaust valve and a second temperature of exhaust downstream of a second active exhaust valve positioned in a second exhaust pipe of a second engine bank. Degradation of the valve may be confirmed based on thermal image data acquired at outlets of the first and second exhaust pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Ravi, Sumanth Dadam, Robert Roy Jentz
  • Patent number: 10920661
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine bypass for an engine with a driven turbocharger. During engine cold start, or periods of idle or low load engine operation, the bypass can be utilized to direct hot exhaust gasses directly to an exhaust aftertreatment. This provides higher temperatures to the exhaust aftertreatment, increasing the ability to eliminate harmful emissions such as NOx. The driven turbocharger can still provide boost to the engine through supercharging, so that engine torque and power can be maintained while the turbine bypass is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUPERTURBO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jared William Brin, Thomas Waldron, Ryan Sherrill
  • Patent number: 10815873
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a supercharged, direct-injection internal combustion engine having an intake system for the supply of charge air and having an exhaust-gas discharge system for the discharge of exhaust gas and having at least two series-connected exhaust-gas turbochargers which each comprise a turbine arranged in the exhaust-gas discharge system and a compressor arranged in the intake system and of which a first exhaust-gas turbocharger serves as a low-pressure stage and a second exhaust-gas turbocharger serves as a high-pressure stage, a first bypass line being provided which branches off from the exhaust-gas discharge system between the first turbine and the second turbine so as to form a first junction point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Michael Forsting, Hanno Friederichs, Vanco Smiljanovski, Andreas Kuske
  • Patent number: 10807041
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment system arranged for treatment of an exhaust stream is presented. The exhaust treatment system comprises a first reduction catalyst device arranged for reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream through the use of compounds comprising one or several of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, which are comprised in said exhaust stream when said exhaust stream reaches said first reduction catalyst device; a particulate filter which is arranged downstream of said first reduction catalyst device to catch and oxidize soot particles in said exhaust stream; a second dosage device arranged downstream of said particulate filter and arranged to supply an additive comprising ammonia or a substance from which ammonia may be extracted and/or released into said exhaust stream; and a second reduction catalyst device, arranged downstream of said second dosage device and arranged for reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream through the use of said additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Magnus Nilsson, Henrik Birgersson
  • Patent number: 10704436
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system includes a cylinder block with a plurality of cylinders, a gas intake manifold for providing at least air to the cylinder block and an exhaust gas manifold for exiting the exhaust gas from the cylinder block, wherein the exhaust gas manifold includes at least a main exhaust gas outlet and a waste gate exhaust gas outlet, wherein the main exhaust gas outlet is connected to a main exhaust gas pipe for guiding the exhaust gas to a main exhaust gas after treatment system and the waste gate exhaust gas outlet is connected to a waste gate exhaust gas pipe, and wherein the waste gate exhaust gas pipe is reconnected to the main exhaust gas pipe upstream of the main exhaust gas after treatment system and includes at least one waste gate exhaust gas after treatment unit, such as an oxidation catalyst such as a diesel oxidation catalyst, for catalytically treating the exhaust gas streaming through the waste gate exhaust gas pipe, and to a method for increasing the temperature in an i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Mårdberg Jozsa, Arne Andersson
  • Patent number: 10590837
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a housing, a turbine wheel, a bypass channel formed in the housing, a wastegate assembly having a valve and configured to selectively allow a flow of exhaust gas to bypass the turbine wheel via the bypass channel, and a wastegate outer housing having an aperture fluidly coupled to the bypass channel, and an outer valve seating surface, the valve configured to selectively seat against the outer valve seating surface over the aperture. A shroud extends outwardly from the wastegate outer housing and is configured to direct the bypass exhaust gas flow toward a catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Srikanth Jonnalagedda, Lurun Zhong
  • Patent number: 10443525
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control system of an engine, including an NOx catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage for storing NOx within exhaust gas when an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is lean, and reducing the stored NOx when the air-fuel ratio is approximately stoichiometric or rich, is provided. The system includes an SCR catalyst disposed in the exhaust passage downstream of the NOx catalyst and for purifying NOx within exhaust gas by causing a reaction with ammonia, a controller executing a NOx reduction controlling module for executing a control in which the air-fuel ratio is controlled to a target air-fuel ratio so that the stored NOx is reduced, and an ammonia adsorption amount acquiring module for acquiring an ammonia adsorption amount of the SCR catalyst by detection or estimation. The NOx reduction controlling module controls the target air-fuel ratio to be leaner as the ammonia adsorption amount increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Kanno, Masayuki Tetsuno, Takayuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10415459
    Abstract: A warm-up system for an exhaust gas apparatus includes the exhaust gas apparatus having a turbocharger provided with a turbine, a first exhaust gas control catalyst provided downstream of the turbine, a bypass passage bypassing the turbine, and an adjustment unit adjusting a turbine inflow exhaust gas flow rate and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform a warm-up control which warms the turbine by controlling the turbine inflow exhaust gas flow rate, by using the adjustment unit, to reach a flow rate higher than zero and lower than the post-warm-up flow rate when an operating state of the internal combustion engine remains constant, such that a warmed state of the first exhaust gas control catalyst is maintained after the first exhaust gas control catalyst is warmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Hosoya, Yasuyuki Irisawa, Hirofumi Kubota, Takashi Tsunooka
  • Patent number: 10400697
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an engine including an intake valve, an exhaust valve, and a variable valve timing mechanism for varying open and close timings of at least one of the intake and exhaust valves, is provided. The control apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a valve controlling module for performing, via the variable valve timing mechanism, a valve overlap in which the intake and exhaust valves are both opened on intake stroke of the engine, and a temperature estimating module for estimating a temperature of exhaust gas at a given location in the exhaust system by estimating a temperature increase of the exhaust gas caused by afterburn and accounting for the temperature increase, the afterburn occurring due to fresh air blowing through a cylinder of the engine to an exhaust system during the valve overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Miura, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Takuo Hirano, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10393008
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for adjusting an amount of intake airflow diverted away from an intake manifold and to atmosphere in response to a temperature of exhaust entering a turbocharger turbine and a target pre-turbine temperature. In one example, an amount of intake airflow entering engine cylinders, and thus an air-fuel ratio entering the engine cylinders, may be controlled to maintain the temperature of exhaust entering the turbocharger turbine at the target pre-turbine temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Yerace, James Robert Mischler, Nathan Synnott Music
  • Patent number: 10288004
    Abstract: A direct injection diesel engine is provided with a fuel injection nozzle which is capable of performing a multistage injection. In a middle-or-high load region, in order to reduce soot, an after-injection is performed immediately after a main injection. An injection timing of the after-injection is set from a map in accordance with a driving condition. During a transient time, the injection timing of the after-injection is corrected on a basis of a difference ?P between an actual rail pressure rPrail and a target rail pressure tPrail. In a case where the injection timing after the correcting is more retardation angle side than a threshold value, the after-injection is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isshou Uehara
  • Patent number: 10227909
    Abstract: A turbocharged engine exhaust system mounted with a gasket having a difference in cross section height includes a turbocharger rotatable by exhaust gasses discharged from an engine, and able to supply the engine with intake air through turbocharging, a warm-up catalytic converter (WCC) for removing hazardous substances in exhaust gasses discharged from the engine, and the gasket located between a turbocharger flange of the turbocharger and a WCC flange of the WCC, receiving a bolting force of stud bolts which pass through the turbocharger flange and the WCC flange, and operating such that the amount of compression strain of a sealing mass around a portion to which the bolting force is directly applied is greater than the amount of compression strain of the sealing mass in the remaining portion to which the bolting force is not directly applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, WOLVERINE KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Soon Jang, Sang-Beom Kim, Myoung-Hurn Lee, Myung-Jin Cha
  • Patent number: 10208661
    Abstract: When it is detected that an exhaust cut valve is stuck in a closed state, a control device stops feedback control and maintains a wastegate valve in a completely open state in each of an open operation range and a closed operation range. When it is detected that the exhaust cut valve is stuck in an open state, the control device stops the feedback control and maintains the wastegate valve in the completely open state in the closed operation range, whereas the control device performs the feedback control in the open operation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi Nishio
  • Patent number: 10065618
    Abstract: A system and method for increasing brake line pressure after brake booster vacuum has been exhausted is presented. In one example, brake line pressure is increased at a same rate after brake booster vacuum is exhausted as before brake booster vacuum is exhausted so that a driver experiences a continuous braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph Wayne Cunningham, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 10006342
    Abstract: A supercharged engine and operating methods thereof are described for adjusting an extent of fluidic coupling between separate channels of a two-channel turbine. In one particular example, a longitudinally displaceable flow transfer valve is arranged for movement lateral to the exhaust airflow that provides coupling between the channels, a position of the flow transfer valve within a flow transfer duct controlling the extent of fluidic coupling in addition to the rate of exhaust-gas flow through a blow-off line that conducts airflow past a rotor of the two-channel turbine. In this way, the flow transfer valve according to the present disclosure advantageously allows for adjusting a mode of supercharging based on one or more engine conditions to control the extent of fluidic coupling using a simplified valve arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Joerg Kemmerling, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Jens Dunstheimer, Ludwig Stump
  • Patent number: 9945327
    Abstract: A method of controlling turbine efficiency in a turbo unit provided on an internal combustion engine includes providing a flow of gas in an area upstream a turbine at a direction different to the flow of exhaust gases in the same area, regulating the flow by a valve, and controlling the valve from a control unit having at least boost pressure and/or EGR flow as input parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnar AB
    Inventors: Per Andersson, Martin Bauer
  • Patent number: 9863337
    Abstract: A system includes a soot module, a coordinator module, a regeneration module, and actuator modules. The soot module determines a current amount of soot mass in a particulate filter of a gasoline engine, where the particulate filter is downstream from the gasoline engine and receives an exhaust gas from the gasoline engine. The coordinator module generates an enable signal, a torque reserve signal, and an equivalence ratio. The regeneration module, based on the current amount of soot mass and the enable signal, generates a regeneration signal to regenerate the particulate filter. The actuator modules, based on the regeneration signal, the torque reserve signal and the equivalence ratio, retard spark and increase an amount of air flow to the particulate filter. The actuators maintain a same amount of torque out of the gasoline engine during regeneration as output from the gasoline engine prior to the regeneration of the particulate filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Ramappan, Jan Fritzsche, Martino Casetti, Jeremy J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9863304
    Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device of the present invention has: a first pipe through which exhaust from an engine flows; a second pipe that branches-off from the first pipe, and at which is disposed a heat recovery apparatus that carries out heat exchange with the exhaust and recovers exhaust heat; a valve member that adjusts an amount of flow of the exhaust that flows-in from the first pipe to the second pipe; and plural driving members that drive the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Shinpo, Yukihisa Matsuda, Takato Ishihata, Toshio Murata
  • Patent number: 9702296
    Abstract: An engine includes: a turbocharger including a turbine and a compressor; an EGR passage connecting an exhaust passage on an upstream side of the turbine and an air intake passage on a downstream side of the compressor; an EGR valve provided in the EGR passage; a bypass passage that bypasses the turbine; and a waste gate valve provided in the bypass passage. In the engine, when a boost pressure is increased to a limit pressure, a first boost pressure control is executed, in which the EGR valve is opened and the waste gate valve is closed. After the first boost pressure control starts, when an engine speed is increased to a prescribed value, a second boost pressure control is executed, in which the waste gate valve is opened in addition to the EGR valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamagata, Shuhei Tsujita
  • Patent number: 9617898
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine, wherein a hydrocarbon supply valve (15) and an exhaust gas purification catalyst (13) are disposed inside an engine exhaust gas passage. When an increase in the temperature of the exhaust gas purification catalyst (13) caused by hydrocarbons supplied from the hydrocarbon supply valve (15) is smaller than a predetermined increase amount, and a decrease in the pressure of fuel supplied to the hydrocarbon supply valve (15) when the hydrocarbons have been injected from the hydrocarbon supply valve (15) is larger than a predetermined decrease amount, the present invention determines that a blockage is occurring in a hydrocarbon injection channel (69) when the hydrocarbons have been injected from the hydrocarbon supply valve (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Bisaiji
  • Patent number: 9593614
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system includes a previous-stage oxidation catalyst device, an ammonia-based solution feeder, a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) device, a turbine of a turbocharger, and a NOx selective reduction catalyst device in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine in this order from an exhaust port side. The NH3 production rate is improved, thereby improving the NOx removal rate; the temperature of the DPF device is kept high to increase the time and frequency of continuous regeneration, thus decreasing the frequency of forced regeneration of the DPF device and the amount of discharge of CO2 produced during the forced regeneration; and also corrosion of the turbine of the turbocharger by SOx is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuo Osumi
  • Patent number: 9587591
    Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The exhaust system comprises a particulate filter, one or more NOx reduction catalysts, and a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) circuit for connecting the exhaust system downstream of the filter and the one or more NOx reduction catalysts to an intake of the engine. The EGR circuit comprises a N2O-producing catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Alexander Nicholas Michael Green, Paul Richard Phillips
  • Patent number: 9587547
    Abstract: An engine system for controlling an exhaust gas flow includes an intake line arranged to draw in outdoor air, an engine combusting the outdoor air supplied through the intake line and fuel in a combustion chamber of the engine to generate torque, an exhaust line for exhausting exhaust gas from the combustion in the combustion chamber of the engine, a turbocharger having a turbine operated by the exhaust gas passing through the exhaust line and a compressor for compressing the outdoor air in the intake line, a catalyst unit arranged on a downstream side of the turbocharger for reducing harmful components of the exhaust gas, a bypass line branched from the exhaust line on the downstream side of the turbocharger and joined to the exhaust line on a downstream side of the catalyst unit, and a bypass valve arranged on the bypass line for selectively opening/closing the bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Kihoon Nam
  • Patent number: 9551262
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining degradation of a particulate filter in an exhaust conduit. In one example, a method may include diverting exhaust gas to a secondary soot sensor assembly downstream of a first filter, comprising a second filter and determining degradation based on time intervals between subsequent filter regenerations of the second filter in the secondary soot sensor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9494076
    Abstract: An engine system may include a first intake line configured to supply external air to an intake manifold mounted in a cylinder block of an engine, an intake bypass valve disposed on the first intake line, a second intake line configured to bypass the intake bypass valve, a first exhaust line, through which exhaust gas discharged from an exhaust manifold mounted in the cylinder block flows, an exhaust bypass valve disposed on the first exhaust line, a second exhaust line configured to bypass the exhaust bypass valve, a turbo charger operated by exhaust gas passing through the second exhaust line, and configured to pump intake air flowing in the second intake line, a controller configured to control the intake bypass valve and the exhaust bypass valve, and a turbine housing configured to surround a turbine of the turbo charger. The turbine housing may be made of a material the same as that of a cylinder head of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jong Il Park, Joowon Lee, Nahm Roh Joo, Yoon Joo Kim, Dong Hee Han, Il Joong Hwang, Hyun Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 9488090
    Abstract: An engine block arrangement includes an engine block and an exhaust gas system. The exhaust gas system, viewed in the flow direction of an exhaust gas flow, includes an exhaust gas turbocharger, an oxidation catalytic converter, a feed device for a urea-water solution, a particle filter, and an SCR catalytic converter arranged one behind the other. The exhaust gas turbocharger, the oxidation catalytic converter, the feed device for the urea-water solution, the particle filter, and the SCR catalytic converter are situated together on the engine block along one side thereof, the side being oriented essentially perpendicularly with respect to an output side of the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Christoph Spengel, Antonio Pepe, Peter Raitschev, Jutta Elisabeth Mueller, Clemens Schubert
  • Patent number: 9441524
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for an engine system with an exhaust gas treatment system including a particulate filter. In one example method, accumulated hydrocarbons are removed from the exhaust gas treatment system by increasing an exhaust gas temperature to a first temperature responsive to a particulate filter regeneration request during extended cold idle operation. After a predetermined duration, the exhaust gas temperature is increased to a second, higher temperature to regenerate the particulate filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shikui Kevin Chen, Kirk Andrew Parrish, Joseph Goode, Jeffrey Malcolm Travis, Norman Hiam Opolsky
  • Patent number: 9394820
    Abstract: A previous-stage oxidation catalyst device, a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) device, a turbine of a turbocharger, a previous-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device, and a subsequent-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine in this order from an exhaust port side. An ammonia-based solution feeder is on an inlet side or outlet side of the DPF device. The previous-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device is a rare earth composite oxide catalyst, and the subsequent-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device is a zeolite catalyst. The NOx removal rate is improved in wide ranges from low to high temperatures and to high flow rates, and the temperature of the DPF device is kept high to increase the time and frequency of continuous regeneration, thereby reducing the frequency of forced regeneration and an amount of discharge of CO2 during the forced regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuo Osumi
  • Patent number: 9322312
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method of regenerating an exhaust gas particulate filter in a vehicle having an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes determining a soot accumulation in the particulate filter, determining a soot humidity and temperature correction factor, and adjusting, using the soot humidity and temperature correction factor, the soot accumulation to determine a corrected soot accumulation in the particulate filter. The method further includes performing a regeneration of the particulate filter when at least one of the following occurs: the corrected soot accumulation reaches a predetermined threshold, and the corrected soot accumulation indicates a contorted soot mass to flow resistance relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John A. Catalogna, Rebecca J. Darr, Rahul Mital
  • Patent number: 9302579
    Abstract: A flush mounted tractor exhaust outlet includes a plastic tractor hood panel sandwiched between an outlet ring and a support plate. Spacers are provided between the outlet ring and the support plate. An air passage is provided between the support plate and an outlet plate that does not contact the plastic tractor hood panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Nicholas M Toomey, Prakash Sahoo
  • Patent number: 9254838
    Abstract: A hybrid diesel-electric powertrain includes an electric motor in electrical communication with a traction battery, a diesel engine in power-flow communication with the electric motor and with an automatic transmission, and a controller. The diesel engine and electric motor are configured to provide a combined torque to the automatic transmission. The powertrain further includes an exhaust aftertreatment device in fluid communication with the diesel engine. The controller is configured to: receive a regeneration request from the exhaust aftertreatment device; determine if a state-of-charge of the fraction battery is within a predetermined range of a target value; initiate a regeneration event if the state-of-charge of the traction battery is within the predetermined range of the target value; receive an immediate torque request from the automatic transmission; and provide a torque command to the electric motor in response to the immediate torque request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Christopher E. Whitney, Luca Scavone, Anthony H. Heap
  • Patent number: 9228479
    Abstract: In a marine conversion of a “Duramax” V8 diesel engine, each bank of cylinders has a jacketed exhaust manifold including a solid elongated casting including coolant galleries and a central exhaust duct. Recirculating coolant cools each cylinder then enters the exhaust manifold through separate apertures aligned with openings made by removal of a frost plug. Each manifold coolant aperture has a controlled diameter, ensuring most of the coolant passes along the length of the engine then along the manifold yet enough coolant cools each cylinder. The coolant then traverses and cools a manifold extension and a turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: MARINE PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Murray Noel Bunn, Clinton Bert Keith Wishart
  • Patent number: 9217349
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an SCR system disposed on an exhaust passage and a particulate matter sensor disposed downstream of the SCR system, the particulate matter sensor for producing an output that corresponds to an amount of particulate matter deposited on an element section. A control apparatus for the internal combustion engine includes: means for detecting a condition of the element section being deposited with a urea-related substance; and means for controlling to bring a temperature of the element section to a first temperature range when the condition of being deposited with the urea-related substance is detected. The first temperature range is higher than a temperature at which the urea-related substance vaporizes and lower than a temperature at which the particulate matter burns. This prevents the urea-related substance from being deposited on an electrode of the particulate matter sensor and limits variations in an output of the particulate matter sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Hashida, Hiroki Nishijima
  • Patent number: 9180774
    Abstract: In a work vehicle, a second processing device, disposed over a hydraulic pump, is configured to process the hydraulic gas from an engine. A first processing device is disposed closer to the engine than the second processing device is. Further, the first processing device is positioned higher the second processing device. The first processing device is partially overlapped with the second processing device in a top plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizuno, Tomomi Ueda
  • Patent number: 9163555
    Abstract: Embodiments for a turbine-generator position in a compressor bypass flow path are presented. In one example, a method for an engine having a compressor comprises generating energy via a turbine-generator positioned in a bypass flow path of the compressor. In this way, the energy of the recirculated intake air may be recovered by the turbine-generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Patrick McConville, Karen Elizabeth Maceroni
  • Patent number: 9157363
    Abstract: An engine receiving boost from a supercharger and/or a turbocharger compressor is provided, along with methods for its operation. The engine may include inline cylinders arranged on an engine block and an integrated exhaust manifold (IEM), where exhaust flow from inner cylinders is kept separate from exhaust flow from outer cylinders within the IEM and where exhaust flow from the inner cylinders but not the outer cylinders flows through a turbine of the turbocharger. The supercharger and turbocharger compressor may be arranged in parallel upstream of an intake manifold of the engine, and throttles upstream of each of the supercharger and compressor may be controlled to direct intake air through one or both of the supercharger and the compressor based on engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Wade, John Christopher Riegger
  • Patent number: 9140157
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is arranged in an exhaust gas route of a common rail type engine. At least one of an intake air throttle device and an exhaust gas throttle device are arranged in intake and exhaust systems of the engine. In the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, an auxiliary renewing mode which raises the temperature of an exhaust gas from the engine by actuating at least one of the intake air throttle device and the exhaust gas throttle device is executed, and in the case that the clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device is not improved even by executing the auxiliary renewing mode, a forced renewing mode which supplies a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device by a post injection is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi, Tomohiro Fukuda, Atsushi Ohta, Katsunari Jounouchi
  • Patent number: 9103273
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting the opening of a scroll valve of a binary flow turbine. Scroll valve adjustments are used at different engine operating conditions to improve engine performance and boost response. Scroll valve adjustments are coordinated with wastegate and EGR valve adjustments for improved engine control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Julia Helen Buckland, Amey Y. Karnik, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Brad Alan Boyer
  • Patent number: 9051867
    Abstract: A method of determining a malfunction in a hydrocarbon injection system for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system with a diesel particulate filter and a diesel oxidation catalyst, is provided. An efficiency of a diesel oxidation catalyst to convert hydrocarbons injected for regeneration of a diesel particulate filter into heat is estimated based upon an input temperature of the diesel oxidation catalyst, an output temperature of the diesel oxidation catalyst, and an output temperature of a diesel particulate filter. The estimated efficiency is compared to a predetermined stored efficiency value. An indication of a malfunction is generated when the comparison of the estimated efficiency to the predetermined stored efficiency exceeds a threshold amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Massimo Fontana
  • Patent number: 9003792
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, an internal combustion engine includes an oxidation catalyst configured to receive an exhaust gas flow from the internal combustion engine, a urea injector positioned downstream of the oxidation catalyst to inject a urea flow into the exhaust gas flow and a mixer positioned downstream of the urea injector to mix the exhaust gas flow and the urea flow to form a mixed exhaust gas and urea flow. The engine also includes a particulate filter and catalytic reduction assembly positioned downstream of the mixer to receive the mixed exhaust and urea flow from the mixer to form a treated exhaust gas flow and an exhaust gas recirculation system coupled to the particulate filter to receive a portion of the treated exhaust gas flow and recirculate the portion of the exhaust gas flow to be mixed with a fresh air flow for the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Manuel Angel Gonzalez Delgado, Julian C. Tan, Joshua Clifford Bedford, Yong Miao, Naser I. Hineiti, Steven M. Yocum
  • Patent number: 9003781
    Abstract: Embodiments of a pre-turbo catalyst positioned within a turbine in a turbocharger of an engine are disclosed. In one example approach, a turbocharger for an engine comprises a turbine and a catalyst substrate mounted directly within the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Murphy
  • Patent number: 8997462
    Abstract: An engine system comprising: an exhaust gas system for removing exhaust gas from the engine; a turbocharger comprising a compressor for inducing air towards the engine and a turbine provided along the exhaust gas system and driven by removed exhaust gas for powering the compressor; a hydrogen delivery apparatus adapted to deliver hydrogen to the exhaust gas system such that the hydrogen can combust and expand, thereby increasing the speed of the turbine. The increased speed of the turbine operation decreases turbo lag and increases engine responsiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Edward Caine
  • Patent number: 8997456
    Abstract: An electronically controlled compression ignition engine includes an electronic engine controller in control communication with fuel injectors, a high pressure exhaust recirculation system and a variable geometry turbocharger. The controller is configured to execute a low load rapid warm up algorithm that generates control signals to reduce turbine efficiency, set an air fuel ratio in a predetermined range, set the exhaust gas recirculation in a predetermine range and supply fuel in a split injection in each engine cycle that includes a main injection initiated before top dead center and a post injection initiated after top dead center. These settings allow for rapid warm up to the aftertreatment inlet in excess of 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Wolk, Gurudutt Nayak
  • Patent number: 8991149
    Abstract: A power generation system capable of eliminating NOxcomponents in the exhaust gas by using a 3-way catalyst, comprising a gas compressor to increase the pressure of ambient air fed to the system; a combustor capable of oxidizing a mixture of fuel and compressed air to generate an expanded, high temperature exhaust gas; a turbine that uses the force of the high temperature gas; an exhaust gas recycle (EGR) stream back to the combustor; a 3-way catalytic reactor downstream of the gas turbine engine outlet which treats the exhaust gas stream to remove substantially all of the NOx components; a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG); an EGR compressor feeding gas to the combustor and turbine; and an electrical generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashok Kumar Anand, James Anthony West, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Hasan Ui Karim, Sam David Draper, Jonathan Dwight Berry
  • Patent number: 8984864
    Abstract: An exhaust system for treating exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The system comprises a three-way catalyst (TWC), a fuel reformer catalyst located downstream of the TWC, and a fuel supply means located upstream of the fuel reformer catalyst. The exhaust gas is split into two portions. The first portion of the exhaust gas bypasses the TWC and contacts the fuel reformer catalyst in the presence of fuel added from the fuel supply means, and is then recycled back to the engine intake. The second portion of the exhaust gas is contacted with the TWC and is then utilized to heat the fuel reformer catalyst before being expelled to atmosphere. The exhaust system allows for maximum heat exchange from the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Kirsty Ellen Cockle, Paul James Millington, Edward James Richard Moss, John Frederick Pignon
  • Patent number: 8978359
    Abstract: A turbocharged internal combustion engine disclosed that may comprise an engine block with a first end side opposing a second end side and a two-stage turbocharged system. The two-stage turbocharged system may comprise a low-pressure turbocharger with a first turbine and a first compressor and a high-pressure turbocharger with a second turbine and a second compressor. A turbine connection may fluidly connect the first turbine and the second turbine and a compressor connection fluidly connects the first compressor and the second compressor. The low-pressure turbocharger is mounted at the first end side of the engine block and the high-pressure turbocharger is mounted at a second end side of the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schlemmer-Kelling
  • Patent number: 8943822
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for use with an engine. The system may have an intake manifold configured to direct air into combustion chambers of the engine. The system may also have an auxiliary device and an exhaust manifold configured to direct exhaust from the combustion chambers of the engine through the auxiliary device to the atmosphere. The system may additionally have a conduit associated with fewer than all of the combustion chambers of the engine and extending to the auxiliary device in parallel with the exhaust manifold, and an auxiliary valve disposed within the conduit and selectively movable between a flow-passing position and a flow-blocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.
    Inventor: Teoman Uzkan