Having Means For Regenerating, Replacing, Or Feeding Liquid Or Solid Reagent Or Catalyst Patents (Class 60/295)
  • Patent number: 10408142
    Abstract: Methods and systems for starting and stopping a diesel engine are presented. In one example, a cetane enhancer is selectively mixed with diesel fuel to provide a cetane enhanced diesel fuel. A diesel engine may be supplied the cetane enhanced diesel fuel after an engine cold start to improve catalyst light off time and engine emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Eric Matthew Kurtz
  • Patent number: 10400644
    Abstract: A method of adjusting reductant injection for a selective catalyst reduction device with a soot filter (SCRF) includes calculating, through a processor, an amount of soot in the SCRF, determining, through the processor, a shrinking core model of the SCRF based on the amount of soot, calculating, with the processor using the shrinking core model, an amount of reductant to inject into the SCRF, and injecting the amount of reductant into the SCRF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Smith, Luca Lauritano, Luis Daniel Guerrero Cruz, Claudio Ciaravino, Gongshin Qi
  • Patent number: 10393045
    Abstract: A method and system for initiating regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) within a diesel engine system comprising the DPF, a data link connector (DLC), and an electronic control unit (ECU) such as an engine control unit includes an engine communication interface (ECI) device and a communication device that request and transmit DPF inhibit parameters that indicate whether initiation of regeneration of the DPF can be performed. The ECI device can comprise two connectors that are connectable to different types of DLC. The communication device can comprise a smart-phone. The ECI device can determine which DPF inhibit parameter are to be requested from the ECU and which vehicle communication protocol is required to communicate with the ECU. The communication device can receive the DPF inhibit parameters, determine whether initiation of regeneration of the DPF can be performed, and transmit a communication to request initiation of regeneration of the DPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: IDSC Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David P. Shock, Thomas L. Kotenko, Dan O. Morris, Robert J. Hoevenaar, Daniel L. Doss
  • Patent number: 10371036
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring filtering condition in an aftertreatment system comprises measuring a first pressure upstream of a first particulate filter in the aftertreatment system. A second pressure downstream of the first particulate filter and upstream of a second particulate filter in the aftertreatment system is measured. A third pressure downstream of the second particulate filter is also measured. A difference in pressure between the second pressure and the third pressure is determined which corresponds to a filtering condition of the first particulate filter. The difference in pressure is compared with a predetermined threshold. If the difference in pressure exceeds the predetermined threshold the failure of the first particulate filter is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nassim Khaled, Michael Haas
  • Patent number: 10364724
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment system comprising: a first oxidation catalyst to oxidize nitrogen compounds and/or hydrocarbon compounds in said exhaust stream; a first dosage device downstream of said first oxidation catalyst to supply a first additive into said exhaust stream; a first reduction catalyst device downstream of said first dosage device for reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream using said first additive; a particulate filter, comprising a catalytically oxidizing coating downstream of said first reduction catalyst device to catch soot particles and oxidize one or several of nitrogen oxide and incompletely oxidized carbon compounds in said exhaust stream; a second dosage device downstream of said particulate filter to supply a second additive into said exhaust stream; and a second reduction catalyst device downstream of said second dosage device for a reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream, using at least one of said first and second additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Magnus Nilsson, Henrik Birgersson
  • Patent number: 10364731
    Abstract: A method for asynchronously delivering a reductant to a first selective catalytic reduction system and a second selective catalytic reduction system of an aftertreatment system via a reductant insertion assembly, the reductant insertion assembly comprising a first injector fluidly coupled to the first selective catalytic reduction system and a second injector fluidly coupled to the second selective catalytic reduction system, the method including: activating the first injector; maintaining the first injector activated for a first delivery time, thereby inserting a first amount of reductant into the first selective catalytic reduction system; deactivating the first injector; activating the second injector; and maintaining the second injector activated for a second delivery time, thereby inserting a second amount of reductant into the second selective catalytic reduction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nassim Khaled
  • Patent number: 10363920
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine that has a particulate matter filter, a motor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the engine and the motor such that an intermittent operation of the engine is permitted and the hybrid vehicle travels with required power when a vehicle speed is lower than a first predetermined vehicle speed. The electronic control unit is configured to inhibit the intermittent operation of the engine when a deposition amount of particulate matters is equal to or greater than a first deposition amount and a state in which the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a second predetermined vehicle speed and is lower than the first predetermined vehicle speed is continued for a first predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Otsuka, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10352222
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: execute increasing a temperature of an exhaust gas control apparatus at a second temperature increase speed as a regeneration control when the temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus is in a second temperature range; control the temperature of an exhaust gas control apparatus during an idle operation so as to be equal to or smaller than the temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus when the internal combustion engine enters an idle operation state as a temperature increase suppression control when the temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus during a regeneration control is in the second temperature range and the internal combustion engine is in the idle operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isamu Goto
  • Patent number: 10352218
    Abstract: A catalyst activation method and a catalyst activation device are provided which can activate a NOx catalyst efficiently in an ensured fashion. A plurality of accessories are connected to an internal combustion engine, and a control mechanism is provided on each of the accessories for controlling a load to be exerted on the internal combustion engine by driving the corresponding accessory. Then, a temperature of a NOx catalyst is acquired, and when the acquired temperature of the NOx catalyst is lower than a catalyst activation temperature, in order to drive additionally a certain number of accessories in the plurality of accessories which correspond to the temperature difference, the controlling mechanism(s) which corresponds to the accessory(ies) to be driven additionally is controlled to drive the corresponding accessory(ies) so as to increase a load to be exerted on the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshitsugu Wakamatsu, Yoshihisa Ueda
  • Patent number: 10337433
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: an NOx reduction type catalyst, which is provided in an exhaust passage; an intake air amount sensor, which detects an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine; and a controller, which executes a regeneration treatment that recovers an NOx purification capacity of the NOx reduction type catalyst by switching an exhaust air fuel ratio from a lean state to a rich state by using: an air-system control to reduce the intake air amount; and an injection-system control to increase a fuel injection amount, wherein, in response to a detection value of the intake air amount sensor, the controller changes at least one of a fuel injection timing and the fuel injection amount in the internal combustion engine, in at least one period of switching of: a period of starting the regeneration treatment; and a period of ending the regeneration treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishito, Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka, Masashi Gabe
  • Patent number: 10337380
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system includes an outer housing defining an internal cavity surrounding an axis, an inlet baffle configured to direct engine exhaust gas into the internal cavity, and an injector that is configured to spray a fluid into the internal cavity to mix with engine exhaust gas. An inner wall is spaced radially inward of an inner surface of the outer housing to define a gap. The inner wall has an impingement side facing the axis and a non-impingement side facing the gap. At least one heat transfer element is positioned within the gap and in is contact with at least one of the inner surface of the outer housing and the non-impingement side of the inner wall to transfer heat through the inner wall to the impingement side to reduce spray deposit formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Willats, Jerome Brian Hornback, Tony Parrish, John G. Rohde, Eric Ker
  • Patent number: 10329976
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes a diesel internal combustion engine and an aftertreatment system coupled to the diesel internal combustion engine. The aftertreatment system includes a diesel oxidation catalyst coupled to the diesel internal combustion engine such that the diesel oxidation catalyst receives exhaust gases from the diesel internal combustion engine. The aftertreatment system includes a plasma generator in fluid communication with the diesel oxidation catalyst, wherein the plasma generator is upstream of the diesel oxidation catalyst and downstream of the diesel internal combustion engine, and the plasma generator is configured to generate oxidizers to at least partially oxidize hydrocarbons in the exhaust gases exiting the diesel internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Gongshin Qi, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 10329990
    Abstract: An exhaust gas flow after-treatment (AT) system includes first and second AT devices. The first AT device includes cone with an inlet defined by a surface area having a first geometric center and an outlet defined by a surface area having a second geometric center. The AT system also includes an exhaust passage for carrying the exhaust gas flow from the first AT device cone outlet to the second AT device, and includes an injector for introducing a reductant into the exhaust gas flow within the exhaust passage. The first geometric center is arranged at a predetermined distance from the second geometric center and the inlet surface area is greater than the outlet surface area by a predetermined ratio. The predetermined distance and the predetermined ratio are together configured to induce swirl in and mix the reductant with the exhaust gas flow within the exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC.
    Inventors: Ivan Flaminio Cozza, Claudio Ciaravino, Andrea Arnone
  • Patent number: 10309288
    Abstract: Disclosed is a water ingress preventive structure for a tailpipe which discharges exhaust gas outside of a vehicle at a terminal of an exhaust passage system. A curved shape is imparted to the tailpipe. A partition is mounted on an inner periphery of a curved portion outward of a curved direction so as to be gradually spaced apart from the inner periphery toward downstream in a direction of flow of the exhaust gas. Thus, a dead end portion is defined by the partition and the inner periphery of the curved portion outward of the curved direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Hiroshi Tsukisaka
  • Patent number: 10301994
    Abstract: Tank for an operating liquid for a motor vehicle. Tank (1) for an operating liquid for a motor vehicle (2) with a tank wall (3) made of plastic, having an opening (4) and an insert (5), made of metal, arranged at the opening (4), and a flexible sealing element (6) for interconnecting, in a liquid-tight manner, the tank wall (3) and the insert (5), wherein, on account of thermal expansion of the tank wall (3) and of the insert (5), relative displacements (7) arise between the tank wall (3) and the insert (5) and the flexible sealing element (6) is configured such that sealing faces (8, 16) are formed both on the insert (5) and on the tank wall (3), against which faces the sealing element (6) bears independently of the relative displacements (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Brück
  • Patent number: 10253672
    Abstract: A vehicle control system vehicle control system to remove deposition from the purification system without generating noises and vibrations is provided. The vehicle control system comprises a controller that operates the vehicle having an engine autonomously, and that removes deposition from a purification system. The controller is configured to: obtain an amount of deposition on the purification system; determine a presence of a passenger in the vehicle; and execute the removal control when an amount of the deposition on the purification system exceeds a threshold value. The threshold value includes a first threshold value used when the vehicle is propelled while carrying a passenger, and a second threshold value used when the vehicle is propelled autonomously without carrying a passenger that is smaller than the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Oshiumi, Kensei Hata, Takahito Endo, Yushi Seki, Katsuya Iwazaki, Yasuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 10227941
    Abstract: A vehicle propulsion system includes an internal combustion engine configured to output a primary output torque and at least one fuel injector arranged to supply fuel to a combustion chamber of the engine. The propulsion system also includes at least one exhaust aftertreatment device to capture combustion byproducts within an exhaust flow. The propulsion system also includes an electric machine coupled to the engine to exchange torque. A controller is programmed to supply a baseline fuel injection corresponding to a first engine output to satisfy a driver torque demand and to periodically supplement the baseline target fuel injection quantity to increase engine output torque to overshoot the first engine output thereby increasing combustion byproducts to regenerate the at least one exhaust aftertreatment device. The controller is also programmed to apply a resistive torque from the electric machine such that an overall propulsion system torque remains at the driver torque demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Venkata Prasad Atluri, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Alberto Lorenzo Vassallo
  • Patent number: 10215076
    Abstract: A mixer mixes exhaust gas (A) flowing in an exhaust gas-carrying duct of an internal combustion engine with reactant (R) injected into the exhaust gas-carrying duct. The mixer includes a mixer body (32) with a reactant receiving duct (48), an exhaust gas inlet opening arrangement (70) with a plurality of exhaust gas inlet openings (72, 74, 76, 78, 80) leading to the reactant receiving duct, and at least one release duct (62, 66) leading away from the reactant receiving duct (48) with a release duct opening (64, 66) for the release of a reactant/exhaust gas mixture from the mixer body (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Vijaya Bhaskar Solipuram, Krishna Kumar Vempati, Enver Kurpejovic
  • Patent number: 10184433
    Abstract: An exhaust gas mixer arrangement for mixing exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine with an additive comprises an exhaust gas flow duct (28) with an inlet area (24) arranged upstream and with a discharge area (26) arranged downstream. The exhaust gas flow duct (28) is bent in a coil-like manner at least in some areas between the inlet area (24) and the discharge area (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hervé Ferront, Wei Sang, David Binder
  • Patent number: 10174694
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of controlling input torque of a powered vehicle. The vehicle includes a transmission having an input shaft, an output shaft, and a countershaft. The method includes providing input torque to the input shaft, determining a rotational acceleration of the countershaft, and measuring vehicle speed. The method also includes determining a threshold based on the measured vehicle speed. The measured countershaft acceleration is compared to the threshold and the input torque is controlled based on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ALLISON TRANSMISSION, INC.
    Inventors: John P. Kresse, Avery T. Sheets
  • Patent number: 10151229
    Abstract: A method for controlling an exhaust gas treatment system is provided. The exhaust gas treatment system includes an exhaust gas stream supplied by an exhaust gas source to a selective catalytic reduction device, and a reductant supply source utilizing a volumetric pump. The exhaust gas source can include an internal combustion engine (ICE), such as a gasoline or diesel ICE. The method for controlling an exhaust gas treatment system includes commanding a reductant dosing quantity, determining a volumetric pump energizing time, determining an energizing time correction, and energizing the pump. The volumetric pump can comprise pump logic, and the volumetric pump energizing time can be determined by the pump logic. The energizing time correction can be determined using a calibration table. The calibration table can prescribe an energizing time correction based on a current pump pressure and the commanded dosing quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas LaRose, Jr., Giovanni David, Jose Marcelino Garcia
  • Patent number: 10132219
    Abstract: An emission control system and method execute a regeneration control such that a catalyst device recovers from poisoning, in a first control mode in which a temperature raising operation and a releasing operation are alternately repeated and in a second control mode in which the temperature raising operation and the releasing operation are alternately repeated. In the first control mode, the temperature raising operation is performed by post injection from a fuel injector. In the second control mode, the temperature raising operation is performed by adding fuel into exhaust gas from an addition valve such that the HC concentration in exhaust gas oscillates with an amplitude within a first specified range and a cycle within a second specified range. The control mode is switched from the first control mode to the second control mode during the regeneration control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahide Iida, Itsuya Kurisaka
  • Patent number: 10125648
    Abstract: Various embodiments for an exhaust gas treatment device for a vehicle system are provided. In one example, the vehicle system includes an engine with a longitudinal axis, where a crankshaft of the engine is parallel to the longitudinal axis and an exhaust gas treatment device mounted on the engine, vertically above the engine such that a longitudinal axis of the exhaust gas treatment device is aligned in parallel with the longitudinal axis of the engine, the exhaust gas treatment device configured to receive exhaust gas from an exhaust manifold of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul Lloyd Flynn, James Edward Arner, Shishir Tiwari, Shashi Kiran
  • Patent number: 10119489
    Abstract: A diagnostic device for a sensor 100 provided in an exhaust passage 11 of an internal combustion engine 10 of a vehicle and detecting nitrogen compounds in exhaust gas, the diagnostic device including an offset diagnosis unit 42 which diagnoses, during deceleration of the vehicle in which the internal combustion engine 10 stops fuel injection, an offset amount of a sensor value of the sensor 100 from a zero point based on the sensor value of the sensor value, and a diagnosis prohibition unit 44 which prohibits the diagnosing of the offset amount when a flow rate of the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine 10 rapidly increases while the offset amount is diagnosed by the offset diagnosis unit 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ken Hasegawa, Hirotaka Takahashi, Masanobu Minezawa
  • Patent number: 10107168
    Abstract: Operation of the direct-injection internal combustion engine includes executing a particulate filter service routine in response to a regeneration command, wherein the particulate filter service routine includes a warm-up phase and a steady-state phase. The service routine includes determining a first temperature in the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the oxidation catalyst and a second temperature in the exhaust gas feedstream downstream of the oxidation catalyst and upstream of the particulate filter, and determining an exhaust gas flowrate and a soot level in the particulate filter. A preferred warm-up temperature gradient in the particulate filter is determined based upon the exhaust gas flowrate and the soot level. The warm-up phase of the particulate filter service routine is determined based upon the preferred warm-up temperature gradient. Operation of the engine is controlled to achieve the preferred warm-up temperature gradient in the particulate filter during the warm-up phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Luca Gatti
  • Patent number: 10072542
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes a partially-plugged filter, a pressure difference sensor, a PM sensor, a first estimation portion estimating a diagnosis amount of PM from the partially-plugged filter, according to a running condition of the internal combustion engine, a second estimation portion estimating the diagnosis amount of PM according to an output of the pressure difference sensor, a third estimation portion estimating the diagnosis amount of PM according to an output of the PM sensor, and an abnormality diagnosis portion distinctly determining an abnormality of the internal combustion engine, an abnormality of the partially-plugged filter, and an abnormality of the PM sensor by comparing the diagnosis amount of PM estimated by the first estimation portion, the diagnosis amount of PM estimated by the second estimation portion, and the diagnosis amount of PM estimated by the third estimation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujii, Shingo Nakata
  • Patent number: 10005450
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a filter, an electrical storage device, a rotating electric machine, and a controller. The filter is configured to trap particulate matter in exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine. The rotating electric machine is configured to generate electric power using power from the internal combustion engine so as to charge the electrical storage device, and drive the internal combustion engine using electric power from the electrical storage device. The controller is configured to control the internal combustion engine and the rotating electric machine, so as to warm up the electrical storage device when regeneration control needs to be performed and when the temperature of the electrical storage device is lower than a reference value. The regeneration control is control for raising the temperature of the filter to a predetermined temperature so as to burn the particulate matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Nawata, Toshio Inoue, Keita Fukui, Tomoaki Honda, Yuta Niwa, Taichi Osawa
  • Patent number: 9988999
    Abstract: A system and method for regeneration of an aftertreatment component are described. The disclosed method can employ any one or combination of operating modes that obtain a target condition of the exhaust gas to support or initiate regeneration of the aftertreatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Ancimer, Axel Otto zur Loye, Arvind Suresh, Colin L. Norris
  • Patent number: 9964016
    Abstract: The aftertreatment device has a casing (10), which has an inlet opening (12) for the inflow of the exhaust gas, an outlet opening (14) for the outflow of the exhaust gas and a feed hole (16) for dispensing reactive substance to the casing. The reactive substance can be for example fuel, ammonium or urea/water solution. As an extension of the outlet opening there is a mixing tube (18) directed outwards from the casing for mixing the exhaust gas and the reactive substance. Inside the casing there is a feeding channel (20) for guiding the exhaust gas to the mixing tube. The feeding channel has an open first end extending to the outlet opening, the cross-sectional area of which first end is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the outlet opening. The wall (22) of the feeding channel has holes (24) for the inflow of the exhaust gas. Preferably, the wall of the feeding channel has at least along a part of its length a conical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: PROVENTIA EMISSION CONTROL OY
    Inventors: Jukka Kurikka, Tuomas Tyni
  • Patent number: 9932870
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine is disclosed. The device includes an exhaust pipe element having an exhaust duct through which exhaust gas of the combustion engine is flowable and a dosage device which opens into the exhaust duct at a feed point, where the dosage device is configured to introduce a reduction agent into the exhaust pipe element at the feed point. A baffle is arranged in the exhaust duct which divides the exhaust duct at least partially into a first passage and a second passage where the first and second passages have a respective inlet opening and are fluidically arranged in parallel. The feed point is disposed in the first passage and is shielded from the second passage by the baffle where the inlet opening of the second passage is disposed upstream of the feed point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Peng Quan
  • Patent number: 9925493
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storing and delivering a liquid additive for catalytic exhaust gas NOx removal in a motor vehicle, the device comprising a storage vessel (2), in which a delivery line (5), heated filter elements (7) and a combined sensor (12) are arranged. A delivery pump (8) is arranged outside the storage vessel (2). The filter elements (7), the combined sensor (12) and the delivery pump (8) are configured as subassemblies which are connected electrically and/or hydraulically to one another and are separated from one another spatially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Volker Treudt, Thomas Wagner
  • Patent number: 9890683
    Abstract: It is an object to make it possible to burn and remove particulate matter without generating runaway even if the particulate matter is excessively accumulated at the time of regeneration of an exhaust gas purification device. A common rail engine and the exhaust gas purification device placed in an exhaust gas path of the engine are provided. A plurality of regeneration controls for burning and removing the particulate matter accumulated in the exhaust gas purification device can be executed. The plurality of regeneration controls include at least non-operation regeneration control for raising exhaust gas temperature by combining post injection (E) and predetermined high speed rotation speed, and recovery regeneration control which can be executed when the non-operation regeneration control fails. In the non-operation regeneration control and the recovery regeneration control, the engine is driven exclusively for burning and removing the particulate matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Shiomi, Tomohiro Fukuda, Atsushi Ohta
  • Patent number: 9890680
    Abstract: A dosing unit for a diesel exhaust treatment system eliminates heat from the exhaust stream using an electrically operated fluid injector inside a cavity, sized and shaped to receive the electrically operated injector therein and surround the fluid injector in the cavity with engine coolant flowing through the cavity. Continuous welds aid heat transfer between the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Wayne McFarland, Keith Aaron Shaw, Randolph W Carnell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9879581
    Abstract: An after-treatment system includes, in series along an exhaust gas flow direction through the after-treatment system: a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) delivery device, a soot-reducing device and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony C. Rodman, J. Josh Driscoll, Bogdan Balea, Wade J. Robel
  • Patent number: 9878288
    Abstract: An ammonia gas generator for producing ammonia from a solution of an ammonia precursor substance, comprising a catalyst unit that comprises a catalyst for the decomposition and/or hydrolysis of ammonia precursor substances into ammonia and a mixing chamber provided upstream of the catalyst; an injection device for injecting the solution of the ammonia precursor substance into the mixing chamber; at least one inlet for the carrier gas; and an outlet for the formed ammonia gas, said ammonia gas generator also comprising a perforated disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ALZCHEM AG
    Inventors: Christian Gerhart, Henning Middelmann
  • Patent number: 9873084
    Abstract: A reducing agent pyrolysis system for a selective catalytic reduction apparatus includes an elbow duct that is installed on an exhaust duct at a front end of a reactor, allows exhaust gas to flow into the elbow duct, and allows the inflow exhaust gas to be discharged toward the reactor. An inner pipe unit is disposed in the elbow duct, and allows a part of the exhaust gas to flow into and be discharged from the inner pipe unit. A heating device is installed in the inner pipe unit, and heats the exhaust gas flowing into the inner pipe unit. A nozzle is installed in the inner pipe unit, is disposed at a rear end of the heating device based on a flow of the exhaust gas, and injects a reducing agent into the inner pipe unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Doosan Engine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Moon Lee, Sang Jin Kim, Jong Tae Choi, Chang Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9863348
    Abstract: A system for filtering and oxidizing particulate matter produced by a gasoline direct injection engine is disclosed. In one embodiment, engine cylinder air-fuel is adjusted to allow soot to oxidize at an upstream particulate filter while exhaust gases are efficiently processed in a downstream catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Carolyn Parks Hubbard, Robert Walter McCabe, Eva Thanasiu, David Karl Bidner, James Michael Kerns, Nian Xiao, Helmut Hans Ruhland, Moritz Klaus Springer, Thomas Lorenz, Georg Louven, Jeffrey Scott Hepburn
  • Patent number: 9844754
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a housing having an inlet, an outlet and a sidewall. The housing defines an internal volume structured to receive an exhaust gas via the inlet. The sidewall defines an access opening. An access panel is operatively coupled to the sidewall and covers the access opening. The access panel defines a plurality of throughholes. Each of the plurality of throughholes are configured to receive a fastener therethrough for removably coupling the access panel to the sidewall. An injection port is also defined in the access panel. An injector is positioned on the access panel. The injector is removably coupled to the access panel via a coupling assembly so that the injector is in fluidic communication with the internal volume via the injection port. A SCR system is disposed in the internal volume and includes at least one catalyst formulated to decompose constituents of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler K. Lorenz, Vipin Iyer, Jason D. Meier
  • Patent number: 9821282
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a diesel engine, includes an exhaust passage adapted to be attached to the diesel engine. A diesel oxidation catalyst is provided in the exhaust passage along with a selective catalyst reduction device disposed downstream from the diesel oxidation catalyst. A diesel exhaust fluid mixing system includes a diesel exhaust fluid injection nozzle and a mixing device defining a single inlet opening and a single outlet opening connected to one another by a partial spiral flow passage. The diesel exhaust fluid injection nozzle injects diesel exhaust fluid directly into the inlet opening of the partial spiral flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jianwen Li, Chijou Wang, Rahul Mital, Luciano Nunziato Di Perna, James B. Rodgers
  • Patent number: 9810118
    Abstract: This catalyst system simultaneously removes ammonia and enhances net NOx conversion by placing an NH3-SCR catalyst formulation downstream of a lean NOx trap. By doing so, the NH3-SCR catalyst adsorbs the ammonia from the upstream lean NOx trap generated during the rich pulses. The stored ammonia then reacts with the NOx emitted from the upstream lean NOx trap-enhancing the net NOx conversion rate significantly, while depleting the stored ammonia. By combining the lean NOx trap with the NH3-SCR catalyst, the system allows for the reduction or elimination of NH3 and NOx slip, reduction in NOx spikes and thus an improved net NOx conversion during lean and rich operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Haren Sakarai Gandhi, John Vito Cavataio, Robert Henry Hammerle, Yisun Cheng
  • Patent number: 9803530
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid reservoir (1), in particular for an aqueous urea solution, comprising a buffer storage means (2) arranged on the bottom of the liquid reservoir (1) in the installation position, a liquid delivery unit (3), at least one, preferably a plurality of first filter elements (4) arranged on the bottom in the installation position outside the buffer storage means (2), each of which first filter elements is connected to the liquid delivery unit (3) via a liquid line (5), the first filter elements (4) being constructed such that the filter fabric of the first filter elements (4) is permeable to the liquid located in the liquid reservoir (1) and impermeable to air, a second filter element (6) being arranged between the interior of the buffer storage means (2) and the liquid delivery unit (3), which second filter element is constructed such that the filter fabric of the second filter element (6) is permeable to the liquid located in the liquid reservoir (1) and impermeable to air, the bre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Volker Treudt
  • Patent number: 9784223
    Abstract: The condensed water treatment device increases the EGR quantity (S16, S17) so as to be larger than the EGR quantity (Qe) calculated based on the operating state, when within a specific time period (S13) from a moment when execution of filter regeneration control is started to a moment after predetermined time has elapsed following the end of the execution, and also in a case where (S15) the storage water quantity (Qw) of a condensed water tank storing condensed water generated in an EGR cooler is smaller than a normative water quantity (Qwt).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Takada, Takeshi Hashizume
  • Patent number: 9776135
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment system for a work vehicle, which has an exhaust conduit transmitting an exhaust flow from an engine and to a DOC system, is disclosed. The DOC system has a reductant introduced and mixed into the exhaust flow, and a DOC conduit connects the DOC to a center inlet of an SCR. The SCR includes at least two exhaust chambers. When the exhaust flow enters the SCR at the center inlet, the exhaust flow enters a central chamber where it is split into at least two separate exhaust flows which are moved in at least two different directions away from each other. Each separate exhaust flow is moved through a separate exhaust chamber and substrate. A conduit moves at least one of the separate exhaust flows into an area holding another exhaust flow, and the two separate exhaust flows are combined and expelled through an outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: James Boeshans, Jay Larson, David Tveito, Russell Stoltman
  • Patent number: 9759110
    Abstract: A method for cleaning an SCR system, wherein reducing agent is supplied to an exhaust flow upstream of an SCR catalyst (260), NOX contents of the exhaust flow are determined upstream and downstream of the SCR catalyst (260) and reducing agent crystals are removed by a high-temperature procedure. The steps are determining (s430) a ratio (K1) between NOX contents downstream and upstream of the SCR catalyst (260), raising the temperature (s440) of the exhaust flow to vaporize reducing agent crystals with a view to cleaning, determining (s450) a ratio (Kn) between respective NOX contents determined downstream and upstream of the SCR catalyst (260) at a temperature (T2) of the SCR catalyst (260) at which reducing agent crystals vaporize, comparing (s460) the ratios (K1, Kn) and using this comparison as a basis for deciding whether reducing agent crystals have been removed to an intended extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SCANIA CV AB
    Inventors: Anders Simon, Mikael Lundström
  • Patent number: 9732654
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for storage and delivery of an additive for catalytic denitrification of exhaust gasses on a motor vehicle. The device comprises a storage container (1) of thermoplastic material, with at least one component selected from a group comprising a delivery pump (7), a heating device, a filter element, a quality sensor and a fill level sensor, wherein the component is arranged inside the storage container (1) above an opening (9) and/or above an outer recess in a container floor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Volker Treudt, Thomas Wagner
  • Patent number: 9719446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of different regeneration strategies for nitrogen oxide storage catalysts (NOx storage catalyst, LNT or NSC), depending on the exhaust gas temperatures, to reduce in the total exhaust gas the greenhouse gas N2O (nitrous oxide) that is produced as a secondary emission during the regeneration of the storage catalyst. If the exhaust gas temperature is below 275° C.-290° C., regeneration takes place using a strategy with short pulses of around 2 seconds and ? Lambda 0.95 rich.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frank Adam, Stephan Eckhoff, Sebastian Mueller
  • Patent number: 9719397
    Abstract: A mixer for a vehicle exhaust system includes an outer housing having an upstream end and a downstream end. An upstream baffle has an inlet opening configured to receive exhaust gas and is mounted at the upstream end of the outer housing. A downstream baffle has an outlet opening configured to conduct exhaust gases to a downstream exhaust component and is mounted at the downstream end of the outer housing. A doser opening is formed within the outer housing at a location between the upstream and downstream baffles. A cone has a narrow end with an inlet opening and a wide end with an outlet opening. A tapered body portion extends from the narrow end to the wide end, with the cone being aligned with the doser opening. An extension portion extends outwardly from the wide end of the cone and provides a wall that surrounds the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Alano, Blake Lee McPeek
  • Patent number: 9714593
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for a vehicle operated by a combustion engine, in particular for a watercraft, includes a turbine of an exhaust turbocharger in an exhaust line, and at least one storage device, by which at least some of the sulphur pollutants contained in the exhaust gas can be stored and/or put into intermediate storage, at least for a defined period of time. According to the invention, particularly for storing the sulphur pollutants in the high-pressure region, the at least one storage device is arranged in the exhaust line upstream of the at least one turbine in a high pressure region of the exhaust line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 9695720
    Abstract: In a continuous regeneration type exhaust gas post-processing apparatus equipped with an oxidation catalyst (DOC) and a diesel particulate filter (DPF), reliably removing particulate matter (PM) deposited to the DOC for maintaining the activity performance of DOC. The present invention relates to a method of forcibly regenerating a continuous regeneration type exhaust gas post-processing apparatus installed in an engine-driven generator equipped with a generator body driven by a diesel engine. When the engine is in a predetermined light load running state during forced regeneration in which intake gas to the engine is restricted to increase a temperature of exhaust gas, a heater actuated with electricity generated by the generator body switches ON in order to increase a load on the engine and thus a DOC inlet temperature of the exhaust gas post-processing apparatus to a burning temperature of PM deposited in the DOC or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HOKUETSU INDUSTRIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shinichiro Takahashi, Isao Masuda
  • Patent number: 9683473
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes an exhaust passage, a urea water tank, a urea adding valve, a urea pump, a pipe, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to drive the urea pump to perform a filling control when a condition requiring an execution of urea water addition to the exhaust gas in the exhaust passage by the urea adding valve is satisfied so that the pipe is filled with the urea water. The electronic control unit is configured to execute the filling control when an exhaust pressure of the exhaust passage is equal to or less than a specified value. The electronic control unit is configured to stop the filling control when the exhaust pressure of the exhaust passage exceeds the specified value during the execution of the filling control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirohiko Ota