Condition Responsive Control Of Heater, Cooler, Igniter, Or Fuel Supply Of Reactor Patents (Class 60/286)
  • Patent number: 10392983
    Abstract: A normal suction pipeline (27) through which urea water that is sucked from a urea water tank (22) toward a urea water pump (25) flows and a heater-equipped return pipeline (29) through which the urea water that is returned from the urea water pump (25) toward the urea water tank (22) flows are connected between the urea water tank (22) and the urea water pump (25). A supply pipeline (28) through which the urea water that is supplied toward a urea water injection valve (14) by the urea water pump (25) flows is connected between the urea water pump (25) and the urea water injection valve (14). The heater-equipped return pipeline (29) is equipped with a heating wire (29B) adapted to heat the urea water therein. The normal suction pipeline (27) is formed as a pipeline that is not equipped with the heater. The heater-equipped return pipeline (29) and the normal suction pipeline (27) are disposed in a state of contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Abe, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10392990
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a stored reductant determination circuit structured to determine an amount of stored reductant in a component of an exhaust aftertreatment system, and a fuel mode economy circuit structured to control an amount of reductant added to the exhaust aftertreatment system during an engine idle mode of operation based on the amount of stored reductant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Minming Zhao, Josh Si Shao, Sriram Madhavan, Matthew John Zanker
  • Patent number: 10392988
    Abstract: A system for diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) pressure relief for a vehicle that includes a DEF pump assembly in an interior of a DEF storage tank is described. The system includes a DEF shear structure fixed to a top interior portion of the DEF storage tank. The DEF shear structure includes a plurality of expansion channels extending from the top interior portion of the DEF storage tank into stored DEF in the storage tank. When the DEF storage tank experiences a freeze event the plurality of expansion channels have smooth walls configured to guide a frozen DEF away from the DEF pump assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: David Simpson
  • Patent number: 10378407
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control system of an engine including a NOx catalyst for storing NOx within exhaust gas when an air-fuel ratio thereof is lean, and reducing the NOx when the air-fuel ratio is approximately stoichiometric or rich, the NOx catalyst also functioning as an oxidation catalyst for oxidizing HC, is provided. The system includes a SCR catalyst for purifying NOx by causing a reaction with NH3, a urea injector, and a processor configured to execute a fuel injection controlling module, and a NOx reduction controlling module for performing a NOx reduction control to enrich the air-fuel ratio to a target ratio. When the urea injection is abnormal, the NOx reduction controlling module performs an NH3-supplied NOx reduction control in which the NOx catalyst supplies NH3 to the SCR catalyst, by performing the NOx reduction control, a lean air-fuel ratio operation control, and then the NOx reduction control again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Kanno, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Masayuki Tetsuno
  • Patent number: 10378403
    Abstract: A controller alternately repeats a desorption process of desorbing sulfur compound deposited on an NSR catalyst by supplying fuel from a direct injection valve to exhaust gas, and a pausing process of pausing fuel supply from the injection valve to the exhaust gas. The controller executes a cooling fuel addition for adding engine fuel from the addition valve of the exhaust passage to cool the addition valve during execution of the pausing process, and prohibit the cooling fuel addition during execution of the desorption process. The controller calculates a target temperature of the addition valve at the time of start of the desorption process such that the temperature of the addition valve during execution of the desorption process does not exceed an allowable upper limit temperature and calculates the addition amount at the time of cooling fuel addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Suzuki, Tomihisa Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10378413
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a urea mixer. In one example, a urea mixer may include a tube for mixing exhaust gas with urea outside of a main exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10378463
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for an emissions control system for a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine. The emissions control system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) device, an NOx sensor, and a controller for ammonia slip detection. The ammonia slip detection includes comparing an NOx measurement from the NOx sensor with a predicted NOx value. In response to the NOx measurement exceeding the predicted NOx value by a threshold value, the threshold value being calibrated to a first predetermined value, the threshold value is calibrated to a second predetermined value, a timer is initiated to a predetermined duration, and during the predetermined duration of the timer, in response to a second NOx measurement from the NOx sensor exceeding the predicted NOx value by the threshold value set to the second predetermined value, a reductant dosing rate of the SCR device is adapted according to the second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: David P. Quigley, Sarah Funk
  • Patent number: 10358962
    Abstract: Unit (11) for feeding a reducing solution from the tank to the exhaust duct of an endothermic engine is provided. The unit comprises a supporting head (13) arranged for being associated to an aperture provided in a reducing solution tank and a heating device (15) for heating the reducing solution contained in the tank. The heating device (15) extends from the supporting head (13) and is provided with a duct (17) for a heating fluid. The duct (17) is defined by a side wall (31) which, when the unit (11) is in use, is internally in contact with the heating fluid passing through the duct (17) and externally in contact with the reducing solution present in the tank. At least one portion of the wall (31) of the duct (17) is non-smooth inside and/or outside the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Officine Metallurgiche G. Cornaglia, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Umberto Cornaglia, Giorgio Rocca, Giorgio Villata
  • Patent number: 10350545
    Abstract: A contaminated gas stream can be passed through an in-line mixing device, positioned in a duct containing the contaminated gas stream, to form a turbulent contaminated gas stream. One or more of the following is true: (a) a width of the in-line mixing device is no more than about 75% of a width of the duct at the position of the in-line mixing device; (b) a height of the in-line mixing device is no more than about 75% of a height of the duct at the position of the in-line mixing device; and (c) a cross-sectional area of the mixing device normal to a direction of gas flow is no more than about 75% of a cross-sectional area of the duct at the position of the in-line mixing device. An additive can be introduced into the contaminated gas stream to cause the removal of the contaminant by a particulate control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ADA-ES, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Hanson
  • Patent number: 10344645
    Abstract: The disclosure is intended to oxidize PM deposited in a filter in a suitable manner. Provision is made for a filter of wall flow type, a temperature raising unit to raise the temperature of the filter from a downstream side thereof, an exhaust gas shut-off valve, and a controller. The controller controls a flow of exhaust gas in the filter by once fully closing the exhaust gas shut-off valve and then fully opening it when the flow rate of the exhaust gas is equal to or larger than a predetermined flow rate, so as to cause PM to move to a downstream side portion in the filter in the direction of flow of exhaust gas, and carries out regeneration processing which oxidizes the PM by using the temperature raising unit after the controller has caused the PM to move to the downstream side portion of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10337379
    Abstract: A mixer assembly includes an outer housing having an inlet area that receives exhaust gas from an upstream exhaust component and an outlet area that directs exhaust gas to a downstream exhaust component. The outer housing includes an outer wall extending outwardly from the base wall about a periphery of the base wall and a deflector wall that directs exhaust gas from the inlet area to the outlet area. The deflector wall has a portion spaced from the outer wall to define a flow guide path that first directs exhaust gas flow from the inlet area in a first direction against a first portion of the outer wall and then directs exhaust gas flow in a second direction against a second portion of the outer wall that is transverse to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FAURECIA EMISSIONS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Philip M. Dimpelfeld, Eduardo Alano
  • Patent number: 10337373
    Abstract: The invention provides an exhaust purification device capable of suppressing the temporal decrease in NOx catalyst removal efficiency due to soot accumulation. The invention provides an exhaust purification device using an air injection nozzle to inject pressurized air into a casing of a catalyst reactor containing an NOx catalyst as a catalyst and removing soot adhering to the NOx catalyst, wherein it is determined and externally notified that there is abnormal deterioration in the NOx catalyst when the pressure difference ?P in exhaust between the upstream and downstream sides of the NOx catalyst has increased by at least a first reference pressure difference increase ?Pt1, which is the allowable amount of pressure difference increase, above the pressure difference ?Pi in exhaust between the upstream and downstream sides of the catalyst in the initial state at the same exhaust flow rate Ve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Fukui
  • Patent number: 10337391
    Abstract: A device for cooling and heating a urea solution to be injected into exhaust gas discharged from an engine in order to reduce nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas includes an engine including a cooling fan, a coolant pump, and a main cooler; a urea solution tank storing the urea solution and having an embedded heat exchange pipe through which first coolant and second coolant circulates; an additional coolant tank storing the second coolant; a water pump supplying the second coolant from the additional coolant tank to the heat exchange pipe; a valve configured to be opened or closed in order to supply the first coolant and the second coolant to the heat exchange pipe through a supply line, and to move the first coolant and the second coolant, which are discharged from the heat exchange pipe through a discharge line, to rise coolant pump and the additional coolant tank, respectively and a controller for supplying the second coolant to the heat exchange pipe through the supply line when the urea solution temperatu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventors: Dong-Myoung Choi, Yu-Hee Lee, Eun-Geon Yuk, Sung-Hwan Shin, Min-Su Choi
  • Patent number: 10337465
    Abstract: A hydrogen producing device is mounted at an exhaust gas port of a vehicle to receive exhaust gas and waste heat as a heat source necessary for a reforming reaction with a catalyst member in a reaction chamber. The hydrogen producing device includes a heating chamber in which the reaction chamber is received, a fuel introducing tube disposed to introduce fuel to the reaction chamber, an air introducing tube disposed in the heating chamber to exchange heat with a reaction air thereinto and introducing the reaction air into the reaction chamber for the reforming reaction, and a product discharging tube disposed to discharge a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas generated in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Ming-Pin Lai, Ke-Wei Lin, Chien-Te Lee
  • Patent number: 10329995
    Abstract: A coolant control system of a vehicle includes a coolant pump that pumps coolant to a heat exchanger. A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injector injects a DEF into an exhaust system and receives coolant output from the heat exchanger. A fuel heat exchanger transfers heat between coolant and fuel flowing through the fuel heat exchanger. An engine control module is configured to determine a first requested speed for DEF injector cooling, determine a second requested speed for fuel cooling, and based on at least one of the first and second requested speeds, selectively increase at least one of: opening of a valve that controls a flow rate of fuel flowing from the fuel rail to the fuel tank, a flow rate of fuel from fuel injectors of an engine to the fuel tank, and a target speed of the coolant pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Larose, Jr., Nicholas Girardi, Douglas C. Sarsen, Michael A. Smith
  • Patent number: 10330579
    Abstract: A particulate amount determination section of a particulate measurement system corrects a measurement signal or the amount of particulates determined from the measurement signal based on one or a plurality of three operating condition parameters selected from speed of the vehicle, rotational speed of the internal combustion engine and torque of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sugiyama, Masayuki Motomura, Toshiya Matsuoka, Keisuke Tashima
  • Patent number: 10329158
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an ammonia storage structure in particular for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gases of combustion vehicles, where the structure includes at least one element for storing a gas such as ammonia, in the form of a porous matrix, with which an irrigating device the storage element are associated. The disclosure also relates to an ammonia storage and removal system of a vehicle that includes a storage chamber receiving such a storage structure, a selective catalytic reduction system for internal combustion engine exhaust gases, including such an ammonia storage system and to a module for feeding ammonia into the exhaust gases, and, finally, to a monolithic porous matrix for storing a gas, where the matrix contains the irrigation device in the interior thereof, in order to promote the sorption/desorption of the gas in the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AAQIUS & AAQIUS SA
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Dementhon
  • Patent number: 10329981
    Abstract: An emissions control system for an engine system includes an input device that is configured to provide a plurality of user-selectable operational modes for the engine system in which each operational mode corresponds to an emission regulation standard. The emissions control system also includes a control module that is communicably coupled to the input device. The control module is configured to optimize engine fueling and selectively optimize reductant dosing for the engine system based on the operational mode selected from the plurality of operational modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Lane Slabaugh, Jason W. Spear
  • Patent number: 10329982
    Abstract: A method, control system, and vehicle system configured to control a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) system subtracts an amount of NOx present in a tailpipe upstream of the SCR system from an amount of NOx present in the tailpipe downstream of the SCR injector. A cumulative difference may be determined based on integrating the subtracted NOx value. The method, control system, and vehicle system are configured to determine whether the cumulative difference exceeds a control threshold, and to set a selected upstream NOx value as a predetermined model upstream NOx amount if the cumulative difference exceeds the control threshold, but to set the selected upstream NOx value as the determined upstream NOx amount if the cumulative difference does not exceed the control threshold. Thus, the system is reset to the model when downstream NOx values exceed upstream NOx values above a threshold, to bring the system back within control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael A Smith, Giuseppe Mazzara Bologna, Giulio Binetti
  • Patent number: 10322373
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling an exhaust gas treatment system, wherein the system includes an exhaust gas stream supplied by an exhaust gas source to a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) device and a particulate filter device. The method comprises detecting a threshold level of reductant deposits proximate the SCR device, and initiating a selective catalytic reduction device service in response thereto. A threshold level of reductant deposits is detected using a reductant deposit model comprising determining an actual SCR NOx conversion using measured process variables; and comparing the actual SCR NOx conversion to a calibrated NOx conversion value. The calibrated NOx conversion value is determined using exhaust gas flow and system temperature values which substantially correspond to the process variables under which the actual SCR NOx conversion was determined. The device service can include increasing the exhaust gas temperature or initiating an active regeneration of the particulate filter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jon C. Miller, Michael A. Smith
  • Patent number: 10323561
    Abstract: Methods for monitoring thermal characteristics of oxidation catalyst (OC) catalytic composition(s) (CC) are provided, and comprise communicating exhaust gas to the OC, and determining a temperature change of the CC for the time frame based on a plurality of heat sources including heat imparted to the CC from exhaust gas enthalpy, heat imparted to the CC via oxidation of HC and/or CO in exhaust gas, heat imparted to the CC via water present in the exhaust gas condensing on the CC or heat removed from the CC via water evaporating from the CC, and optionally heat exchanged between the CC and the ambient environment. Heat imparted to the CC via water condensing on the CC can be determined using an increasing relative humidity proximate the CC, and heat removed from the CC via water evaporating from the CC can be determined using a decreasing relative humidity proximate the CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Smith, Charles E. Dean, Raffaele Esposito
  • Patent number: 10323594
    Abstract: A method for controlling exhaust gas aftertreatment in an exhaust gas aftertreatment system having at least one nitrogen oxide storage catalyst and at least one catalyst for selective catalytic reduction is provided, wherein, in phases of a high load, a combustion engine is operated with a substoichiometric fuel/air mixture, and nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas are reduced in the nitrogen oxide storage catalyst to ammonia, which is stored in the catalyst for selective catalytic reduction, and, when the storage capacity of the catalyst for selective catalytic reduction is exceeded, the combustion engine is operated with a superstoichiometric fuel/air mixture, thus allowing nitrogen oxides in the catalyst for selective catalytic reduction to be reduced by the stored ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Boerensen, Dirk Roemer, Frank Linzen, Felix Goebel, Brendan Patrick Carberry, Evgeny Smirnov
  • Patent number: 10323559
    Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction device (SCR) system performs intrusive steady state dosing correction (SSDC) when a NOx error between a predicted and measured downstream NOx value exceeds a threshold. In SSDC, if NOx breakthrough or NH3 slip is detected above a SSDC threshold, a short term reductant dosing adaptation occurs. Optionally long term dosing adaptations occur if the magnitude of previous short term adaptations exceed a short term adaptation threshold. If SSDC is insufficiently improving SCR performance based on the number of intrusive events occurring within a period of time and the change in NOx error during the time period, a method includes modifying the SSDC protocol by one or more of increasing the duration of short term adaptations, decreasing the SSDC threshold, and reducing the short term adaptation threshold. The method further includes subsequently inhibiting intrusive events from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Funk, Charles E. Dean, Po-I Lee, David P. Quigley
  • Patent number: 10323558
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises an ammonia supplier which includes a storage unit configured to store a precursor of ammonia or ammonia (reducing agent or the like), and a controller programmed to carry out output restriction control as such control that an output of the internal combustion engine is restricted to be not more than a predetermined output such that a NOx purification rate brought about by the storage reduction NOx catalyst is within an allowable range if an amount of the reducing agent or the like stored in the storage unit is less than a predetermined storage amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shigeki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10316716
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: a NOx reduction catalyst for reducing and purifying NOx in an exhaust gas; a catalyst regeneration control module for executing a catalyst regeneration process of restoring a NOx purification capacity of the NOx reduction catalyst by switching an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas from a lean state to a rich state by using in parallel an air system control to reduce an intake air amount and an injection system control to increase a fuel injection amount; an exhaust gas temperature sensor that is provided on a downstream side of the NOx reduction catalyst on an exhaust passageway; a catalyst temperature estimating module for estimating a catalyst temperature of the NOx reduction catalyst; a temperature sensor value estimating module for estimating a sensor value of the exhaust gas temperature sensor; and an abnormality determination module for determining on an abnormality of a catalyst regeneration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 10316720
    Abstract: A reducing agent is supplied to an NOx selective catalytic reduction catalyst in a suitable manner, while suppressing NOx from being produced by oxidation of ammonia in the NOx catalyst. In cases where the temperature of the NOx catalyst is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature at which ammonia is oxidized, an amount of the reducing agent to be supplied to the NOx catalyst is made larger, when an air fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NOx catalyst is small, than it is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Arifumi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10316719
    Abstract: A method and a control assembly for operating an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle is disclosed. Measuring values are evaluated, which indicate a content of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas downstream of a catalytic device. The catalytic device is adapted to diminish the content of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas produced by an engine of the motor vehicle. Based on the measuring values a quality of a reducing agent supplied to the catalytic device is assessed. The method includes determining whether reducing agent has been filled into a storage tank. A plurality of measuring values is captured during a predetermined period of time, and a magnitude and a frequency of the plurality of measuring values are taken into account to assess the quality of the reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Zhiping Han, Bryant Pham, Justin Kosik, Charles-Benoit Chaumette
  • Patent number: 10309282
    Abstract: A reduction-causing agent supply device includes a tank to store a reduction-causing agent, a pumping unit to pump the reduction-causing agent, a reduction-causing agent supply passage to supply the reduction-causing agent, an injection nozzle to inject the reduction-causing agent into an exhaust pipe, a drawing-back unit to draw the reduction-causing agent toward the tank, and a controller. After stop of an engine, the controller performs: reduction-causing agent drawing-back process of drawing the reduction-causing agent toward the tank and introducing exhaust gas from the injection nozzle into the reduction-causing agent supply passage; and gas discharge process of supplying the reduction-causing agent to compress the exhaust gas inside the reduction-causing agent supply passage, discharging the compressed exhaust gas from the injection nozzle, and closing a valve of the injection nozzle before the reduction-causing agent reaches the injection nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kizawa
  • Patent number: 10302034
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment is a method of operating a system comprising an internal combustion engine system, and an exhaust aftertreatment system comprising an SCR catalyst, and an electronic control system. The method comprises operating the electronic control system to perform the acts of determining a predicted temperature value indicative of a predicted future temperature of the SCR catalyst, determining a temperature profile value using the predicted temperature value and a current temperature value indicative of a current temperature of the SCR catalyst, operating a controller to provide an output indicating a difference between the temperature profile value and a temperature target, determining a heat request using the output of the controller, filtering the heat request using a prediction horizon, and controlling operation of the engine system using the filtered heat request to increase a temperature of the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Adam W. Kidd, Hoseinali Borhan, Bibin N. Pattel, Edmund P. Hodzen, Michael Haas, Jeffrey Diwakar Abraham, Bryon D. Staebler
  • Patent number: 10301996
    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: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Friedrich J. Zapf, Stephen M. Holl, John D. Crofts
  • Patent number: 10294841
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement includes a mixing tube having a constant diameter along its length. At least a first portion of the mixing tube includes a plurality of apertures. The arrangement also includes a swirl structure for causing exhaust flow to swirl outside of the first portion of the mixing tube in one direction along a flow path that extends at least 270 degrees around a central axis of the mixing tube. The arrangement is configured such that the exhaust enters an interior of the mixing tube through the apertures as the exhaust swirls along the flow path. The exhaust entering the interior of the mixing tube through the apertures has a tangential component that causes the exhaust to swirl around the central axis within the interior of the mixing tube. The arrangement also includes a doser for dispensing a reactant into the interior of the mixing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Korneel De Rudder, Corine Chauvin
  • Patent number: 10287954
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust component includes a first exhaust component, a second exhaust component downstream of the first exhaust component, and a mixer that connects an outlet of the first exhaust component to an inlet to the second exhaust component. The mixer includes a first housing portion with a first connection interface and a second housing portion with a second connection interface. The first housing portion is attached to the outlet of the first exhaust component and the second housing portion is attached to the inlet of the second exhaust component. The first and second connection interfaces are connectable to each other in one of a plurality of different connection orientations such that the first and second exhaust components can be positioned at any of a plurality of different mounting orientations relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Chapman, Robin Willats
  • Patent number: 10287959
    Abstract: A method for determining the aging of an oxidation catalyst in an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine, having the following steps: ascertaining a soot burn rate of a particle filter of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system; adapting a function having at least one adaptation parameter to the soot burn rate dependent on at least one variable, a value of the adaptation parameter depending on an aging of the oxidation catalyst; and determining the aging of the oxidation catalyst using the adaptation parameter value ascertained by adapting the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Boban Maletic, Gerald Fast, Jens Niemeyer, Tim Späder, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 10287939
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment unit includes a first catalytic converter, a particle filter arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter, and a second catalytic converter arranged downstream of the particle filter and which is a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter. The first catalytic converter is a combination catalytic converter including a first catalytic converter part which is an SCR catalytic converter, a second catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the first catalytic converter part which is an ammonia slip catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a first noble metal content, a third catalytic converter part arranged downstream of the second catalytic converter part which is an oxidation catalytic converter and has a noble metal layer with a second noble metal content, and an SCR layer arranged on the noble metal layers and extending over the entire length of the second and third catalytic converter parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johannes Bleckmann, Claudia Essmann, Uwe Gaertner, Alexander Massner, Michael Stiller
  • Patent number: 10273855
    Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas output from a combustion engine comprises a mixer housing including a wall defining an exhaust passageway having a longitudinal axis. A tubular swirling device housing extends along a first axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis. The tubular swirling device includes a plurality of openings through which exhaust gas enters. The exhaust gas within the tubular swirling device swirls about the first axis and exits at an outlet end of the tubular swirling device. A mixing plate is positioned immediately downstream of the tubular swirling device. The mixing plate swirls the exhaust about a second axis extending parallel to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Noren, IV, Daniel J. Owen, Jeffrey W. Denton, Attila Kovacs, Eric A. Hein, Meng-Huang Lu, Manoj K. Sampath
  • Patent number: 10273856
    Abstract: An engine device includes an engine, an exhaust gas purification device arranged on an exhaust path of the engine, and an engine control device that controls drive of the engine. The engine control device executes a plurality of regeneration controls with which particulate matter accumulated in the exhaust gas purification device is combusted and removed. As the plurality of regeneration controls, at least non-work regeneration control, in which an exhaust gas temperature is raised in combination of post-injection and a predetermined high rotational speed, is included. The engine control device drives the engine so as to solely combust and remove the particulate matter in the non-work regeneration control and compulsorily executes isochronous control in which a rotational speed of the engine is maintained constant, irrespective of variation in load of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Shiomi, Taiki Hori
  • Patent number: 10253675
    Abstract: An exhaust postprocessing component comprises an exhaust pipe, a first support installed on the exhaust pipe, a common rail installed on the first support, an inlet pipeline and an outlet pipeline that are connected to the common rail, a sensor, and a bundle that is connected to the sensor. The common rail comprises a shell and a pressure detection apparatus and a pressure adjustment apparatus that are installed on the shell. The shell comprises an inlet passage and an outlet passage. The pressure detection apparatus is connected to the inlet passage. The pressure adjustment apparatus is connected between the inlet passage and the outlet passage, so as to connect or disconnect the inlet passage and the outlet passage. The engine exhaust postprocessing component further comprises a second support. The bundle, the inlet pipeline, and the outlet pipeline are all gathered at the second support. In this way, the exhaust postprocessing component is easy to be installed with another component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: TENNECO (SUZHOU) EMISSION SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaofeng Fan, Zhenqiu Yang, Haitao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10253667
    Abstract: Described are exhaust gas treatment systems for treatment of a gasoline engine exhaust gas stream containing NOx, particulate matter, and sulfur. The exhaust gas treatment system comprises: one or more catalytic articles selected from a three-way conversion catalyst (TWC), a lean NOx trap (LNT), and an integrated LNT-TWC; a platinum-containing catalytic article downstream from the one or more catalytic articles; and one or more selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic articles immediately downstream from the platinum-containing catalytic article, the one or more SCR catalytic articles including a molecular sieve. The system stabilizes the SCR catalytic article from poisoning by sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaofan Yang, Wen-Mei Xue, John K. Hochmuth, Matthew J. Schladt, Yuejin Li
  • Patent number: 10253668
    Abstract: A urea SCR system includes a tank that stores urea water, an injector that injects urea water to exhaust gas, a connection passage that connects the tank and the injector, an electric pump that is arranged at the connection passage and delivers urea water from the tank toward the injector or from the injector toward the tank, and a control device that controls the electric pump and the injector. The control device executes a suction-back operation for driving the electric pump so that urea water contained in the injector is suctioned back to the tank. Further, the control device determines whether or not the injector is stuck closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kimura, Yugo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10233812
    Abstract: In a method for diagnosing an SCR catalyst system of an internal combustion engine, the SCR catalyst system comprises at least one first SCR catalyst device (20) and at least one second SCR catalyst device (30). A first injection position upstream of the first SCR catalyst device (20) in the form of a first metering device (40) is provided for injecting liquid reducing agent for the SCR catalyst devices (20, 30). A second injection position between the two SCR catalyst devices (20, 30) in the form of a second metering device (50) is furthermore provided. Both SCR catalyst devices (20, 30) are monitored in a differentiated way by means of active and passive diagnostic methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Franz, Cornelia Nagel, Tobias Pfister
  • Patent number: 10233810
    Abstract: A device includes at least one ammonia storage cartridge comprising an outlet orifice for ammonia intended to be connected to an ammonia transport circuit towards an exhaust line. The device includes an obturator to obturate the outlet orifice, and which is capable of changing between an obturation configuration of the outlet orifice and a configuration for clearance the outlet orifice. The device includes a detector to detect at least one predefined situation, and a controller to control the obturator, and which is capable of controlling the transition of the obturators towards their obturation configuration when the detector detects the predefined situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventors: Sebastien Guinehut, Alice Devinat Pigeon, Christophe Baverel, Christophe Viault
  • Patent number: 10233805
    Abstract: A first fuel addition valve disposed in a portion of a first exhaust passage upstream from a first upstream purification device, a first urea addition valve disposed in a portion of the first exhaust passage between the first upstream purification device and a first downstream purification device, and a first valve cooling passage configured such that i) refrigerant passes the first urea addition valve and the first fuel addition valve in order, and ii) the refrigerant cools the first fuel addition valve after the refrigerant cools the first urea addition valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Asaura, Masaaki Sato, Ryohei Ono, Yuji Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10196952
    Abstract: An exhaust system directs flow of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust system includes an exhaust pipe, a first exhaust treatment device configured to introduce a first substance into the exhaust pipe and a second exhaust treatment device configured to introduce a second substance into the exhaust pipe. A switch is operably connected to the first and second exhaust treatment devices and is positionable in a first position and a second position. An injector is operably connected to the switch and the exhaust pipe. With the switch in the first position, the injector is configured to inject the first substance into the exhaust pipe. With the switch in the second position, the injector is configured to inject the second substance into the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Francesco Concetto Pesce, Giovanni Gallo, Isadora Ricci
  • Patent number: 10190464
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment device for aftertreatment of exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes an SCR catalyst for selective catalytic reduction, a feeding apparatus for adding a reductant at an entry point upstream of the SCR catalyst to the exhaust gas, and a mixing apparatus arranged in a flow direction of the exhaust gas between the entry point and the SCR catalyst. The mixing apparatus includes a mixing element and a catalyst element, with the catalyst element having in the flow direction of the exhaust gas a cross sectional area which is smaller than a cross sectional area of the mixing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Henning Lörch, Wolfgang Keicher
  • Patent number: 10190463
    Abstract: An exhaust system, especially for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, includes an exhaust gas-carrying duct (14) and a reactant injection device (20) for injecting reactant (R) into exhaust gas (A) flowing in the exhaust gas-carrying duct (14). Downstream of the reactant injection device (20), a mixer device (22) supports the mixing of reactant (R) injected by the reactant injection device (20) with exhaust gas (A) flowing in the exhaust gas-carrying duct (14). Downstream of the reactant injection device (20) and upstream of the mixer device (22), a reactant heating device (24) extends in the exhaust gas-carrying duct (14). The exhaust gas (A) flows in and reactant (R) injected through the reactant injection device (20) flow around the heating device (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Enver Kurpejovic, Bernd Westerhoff, David Binder, Anika Bürkle, Gita Feyl-Narrain, Steffen Glaser, Ruben Hass, Oleksandr Semenov, Krishna Kumar Vempati
  • Patent number: 10190461
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine, addition valves which add an additive toward a first selective reduction NOx catalyst are provided in an exhaust passage on both of an upstream side and a downstream side of the SCR catalyst. In a case where a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust passage is equal to or lower than a predetermined flow rate, the additive is added from both addition valves to allow ammonia to be adsorbed onto the first selective reduction NOx catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Arifumi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10190471
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust-gas after-treatment device for an internal combustion engine, in particular for a ship's diesel internal combustion engine that is operated with heavy oil, including: a housing through which exhaust gas flows; exhaust-gas purification chambers formed in the housing, which chambers hold catalysts and/or particulate filters in order to purify the exhaust gas; and muffler chambers formed in the housing, which chambers have a defined depth for muffling sound in the flow direction. The exhaust-gas purification chambers and the muffler chambers are arranged spatially in series and parallel to one another on the flow side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 10184379
    Abstract: A particulate filter for trapping the particulate matter which is contained in the exhaust gas is provided inside an engine exhaust passage. Additional fuel is secondarily injected from a fuel injector in an engine expansion stroke or exhaust stroke or hydrocarbons are secondarily added from an addition valve which is provided upstream of the particulate filter in the exhaust pipe. An amount of hydrocarbons which come from the fuel injector or addition valve and then adhere in the form of a liquid to the inflow end of the particulate filter, and an amount of particulate matter which reaches the inflow end of the particulate filter are respectively estimated. A degree of clogging at the inflow end of the particulate filter is estimated based on the amount of hydrocarbons and the amount of particulate matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Umemoto, Kohei Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10174657
    Abstract: A plasma selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an exhaust pipe connected to an engine to communicate exhaust gas; a plasma burner installed in a first bypass line connected to the exhaust pipe, and configured to supply fuel to discharged plasma and form flame; a urea solution injector installed in the first bypass line at a rear side of the plasma burner, and configured to inject a urea solution to exhaust gas heated by the flame and generate ammonia; and an SCR catalyst installed in the exhaust pipe at a rear side of the urea solution injector, and configured to reduce a nitrogen oxide included in the exhaust gas with the ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: Dae-hoon Lee, Younghoon Song, Kwan-Tae Kim, Sung Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 10166509
    Abstract: A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) delivery system and method for operating same. The method includes determining, by an electronic processor, an operating pressure, and receiving, from a pressure sensor of the DEF delivery system, a system pressure. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a dosing request and a pressure disturbance based on the dosing request. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a control request based on the system pressure and the operating pressure, and a feed forward control value based on the pressure disturbance. The method further includes generating, by the processor, an adjusted control request based on the control request based and the feed forward control value. The method further includes controlling, by the processor, a dosing valve of the DEF delivery system based on the dosing request, and a pressure adjustment component of the DEF delivery system based on the adjusted control request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andres Murube Lindahl