Reactor Plus A Washer, Sorber Or Mechanical Separator Patents (Class 60/297)
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Patent number: 10987658Abstract: A three-way catalyst article, and its use in an exhaust system for internal combustion engines, is disclosed. The catalyst article for treating exhaust gas comprising: a substrate; and a single catalyst layer deposited directly on the substrate; wherein the single catalyst layer comprises a first platinum group metal (PGM) component, an oxygen storage component (OSC) material, and an inorganic oxide; and wherein the single catalyst layer has a total washcoat loading of less than 2.4 g/in3.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Kenneth Camm, Hsiao-Lan Chang, Hai-Ying Chen, Michael Hales, Kwangmo Koo
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Patent number: 10989093Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for adaptive regeneration of aftertreatment system components. The system may include an aftertreatment system and a controller. The controller is configured to access one or more parameters indicative of an ambient condition, determine a regeneration type of a regeneration process for a component of the aftertreatment system, determine an application in condition, and modify a parameter for the regeneration process for the component of the aftertreatment system. In some instances, the controller initiates the regeneration process. In some instances, the one or more parameters include an ambient air temperature, a reductant tank temperature, or a particulate matter sensor temperature. In some instances, the modified parameter includes a target regeneration temperature, a regeneration duration, a dwell time between regeneration process, a threshold value for the regeneration process, or a minimum regeneration temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yinghuan Lei, Todd A. Corbet, Robert Edward Cochran, Sergio M. Hernandez-Gonzalez, Uma Vajapeyazula, Weichao Wang, Marc A Greca, Joseph M. Brault
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Patent number: 10982578Abstract: An after treatment method is disclosed. The after treatment method may include: operating an engine at a lean air/fuel ratio; calculating an amount of NH3 stored in an SCR catalyst; calculating an amount of NOx which will flow into the SCR catalyst; determining whether conversion to a rich air/fuel ratio is desired; calculating, when the conversion to the rich air/fuel ratio is desired, a rich duration for which the rich air/fuel ratio is maintained and a target air/fuel ratio; and operating the engine at the target air/fuel ratio for the rich duration.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Nahm Roh Joo, Chang Hwan Kim, ChangHo Jung
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Patent number: 10960366Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Bruce Bernard Hoppenstedt
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Patent number: 10954872Abstract: An exhaust gas controller for an engine is equipped to appropriately regenerate a filter while restraining a deterioration in fuel efficiency. An oxidation catalyst and a filter capable of collecting particles in an exhaust passage, such that a regenerative injection in which fuel is injected for regenerating the filter is performed, even when a main injection is stopped. Under a first operating condition, in which the main injection is performed and a regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, the regenerative injection is performed after the main injection. Under a second operating condition, in which the main injection is stopped and the regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, a fuel injector is controlled to perform a former injection Q1 during a compression stroke and latter injections Q2, Q3 during an expansion stroke, as the regenerative injection.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10947889Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment module support assembly for supporting an exhaust gas aftertreatment module above a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine includes a first mounting bracket, a second mounting bracket, and a cradle assembly. The first mounting bracket is configured to be coupled to the cylinder block. The second mounting bracket is configured to be coupled to the cylinder block. The cradle assembly is selectively coupled to the first mounting bracket and the second mounting bracket. The cradle assembly includes a first cradle bracket and a second cradle bracket. The first cradle bracket has a first cradle bracket cradle surface that is configured to interface with the exhaust gas aftertreatment module.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Atin Tandon, Timothy Mallett, Andris J. Maldups, Ninad S. Shrotriya, Jithin Joseph, Steve Halas, Daniel Coppola, Alexander Nazarov
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Patent number: 10865675Abstract: This particulate matter (PM) sensor is provided with a porous body that has a partition disposed in a passage for exhaust gas including particulate matter, at least a pair of electrodes that oppose each other in a prescribed direction so as to sandwich the porous body, and a deposition part that includes the surface of the partition on the upstream side of the passage, has the particulate matter deposited thereon, and has, formed therein, pores having an average pore diameter smaller than the average pore diameter of the portion of the partition other than the deposition part.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki Furukawa, Kenji Fujii, Tadashi Uchiyama, Kazuo Ohsumi, Keisuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 10830120Abstract: A heating system that heats the reducing agent supplier for supplying an urea aqueous solution to an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine in a vehicle includes: a block heater that is provided in a housing formed with a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine and can be supplied with power of an external power supply; a coolant circulation passage that is branched from the coolant circuit, is disposed in at least a part of the reducing agent supplier, and merges with the coolant circuit again; an on-off control valve that is provided in the middle of the coolant circulation passage; a bypass passage that connects an upstream side and a downstream side of the on-off control valve; and an on-off valve that is provided in the bypass passage.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Osami Sekine
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Patent number: 10730011Abstract: A multi-functional composition of matter that is useful for injection into a flue gas stream to rapidly and efficiently remove mercury from the flue gas stream. The multi-functional composition of matter may include a fixed carbon sorbent and minerals, halogens in the form of halide salts, as well as other physical and chemical properties to enhance (1) the oxidation reaction kinetics for the oxidation of mercury species and (2) the mass diffusion kinetics of the mercury species.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ADA Carbon Solutions, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Wong, Christopher Vizcaino, Robert B. Huston, Frederick S. Cannon
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Patent number: 10718248Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system, which includes an engine and an exhaust pipe that is connected to an exhaust manifold of the engine, includes: a catalyst converter disposed at a rear side the engine on the exhaust pipe; a selective catalytic reduction on diesel particulate filter (SDPF) disposed at a rear side of the catalyst converter on the exhaust pipe; a reducing agent injector disposed between the catalyst converter and the SDPF on the exhaust pipe and injecting a reducing agent; and a controller controlling an amount of the reducing agent injected from the reducing agent injector.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, FEV EUROPE GMBHInventors: Myung Jong Lee, Jin Woo Park, Ki Hyung Joo, Waldemar Josef Kansy, Arun Palaniappan Muthukaruppan
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Patent number: 10710572Abstract: A method for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle having a combustion engine and a further machine, the two drives proportionally supplying a torque for the motor vehicle, and a temperature of an exhaust gas of the motor vehicle is ascertained and the shares of the generated torque by the combustion engine and the further machine are adapted as a function of the temperature of the exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alper Goek, Matthias Ege
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Patent number: 10697345Abstract: A method to determine the actual quantity of metal powders or ashes trapped in a particulate filter, which involves determining an estimated value of the quantity of metal powders trapped in the particulate filter based on an estimation model; determining a measured value of the quantity of metal powders trapped in the particulate filter; updating the estimated value of the quantity of metal powders trapped in the particulate filter as a function of the measured value; and determining the actual quantity of metal powders or ashes trapped in a particulate filter as a function of the update of the estimated value of the quantity of metal powders trapped in the particulate filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: MAGNETI MARELLI S.p.A.Inventors: Umberto Di Martino, Lorenzo Francia, Daniele Benassi
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Patent number: 10695752Abstract: An exhaust-gas purifying catalyst includes a lower layer containing ceria-based oxide particles and an upper layer containing metal oxide particles and a precious metal supported on the metal oxide particles, wherein the exhaust-gas purifying catalyst is characterized in that the Rh content of the lower layer is equal to or less than 0.25 g/L, and also that the particle-size distribution of the ceria-based oxide particles in the lower layer, which is obtained by scanning electron microscopy, has a first peak in which the peak top thereof is in a region of 0.90-6.50 ?m and a second peak in which the peak top thereof is in a region of 9.50-34.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Takara Misumi, Satoshi Matsueda
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Patent number: 10690031Abstract: A method for treating exhaust gas emitted by an internal combustion engine (ICE) in a hybrid architected motor vehicle with an electric motor. The method includes disposing a heater in the exhaust, disposing a first Lean NOx Trap (LNT) downstream of the heater, disposing a second LNT downstream of the first LNT, disposing a passive selective catalytic reduction (SCR) downstream of the second LNT, disposing a hydrocarbon oxidation catalyst downstream of the SCR. The method also includes connecting a controller to the heater, the controller executes a method of controlling the NOx emissions of the ICE, the method includes monitoring a torque demand for the vehicle, determining if the torque demand is large enough to cause the ICE to generate excessive NOx, operating the ICE at a torque less than the torque demand, and operating the motor with the ICE to provide sufficient torque to satisfy the torque demand.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Eduardo Jose Barrientos Betancourt, Roberto Romanato, Francesco Bechis, Francesco Concetto Pesce, Jaime Andres Cespedes Garcia
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Patent number: 10677122Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for regenerating and purging a particulate filter of an exhaust treatment system for a combustion engine. In one example, a method may include flowing exhaust gas in a reverse direction through the particulate filter to purge particulate matter to an intake manifold of the engine for combusting. The duration of purging may be based on a regeneration achieved during a previous regeneration of the particulate filter during a deceleration fuel shut-off event.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Tyler Kelly, John Eric Rollinger
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Patent number: 10584624Abstract: A method for correcting for aging in particulate matter sensors for a diesel engine includes calculating calculated particulate matter values for a modeled diesel engine exhaust system over a period of time, measuring measured test particulate matter values with a test particulate matter sensor over the period of time in a test diesel engine exhaust system, determining differences between the calculated particulate matter values and the measured test particulate matter values from the test particulate matter sensor over the period of time, and correcting measured particulate matter values in at least one other particulate matter sensor over a same period of time based on the determined differences to obtain a corrected particulate matter value. A particulate matter sensor arrangement and a vehicle including a particulate matter sensor arrangement are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Volvo Truck CorporationInventor: Heath Morris
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Patent number: 10563556Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas arrangement. In one example, a system includes a lean-NOx trap arranged upstream of a selective-catalytic reduction device with an air supply device positioned to inject air therebetween, wherein the air supply device is activated in response to an exhaust gas being rich and an exhaust gas temperature exceeding a limit temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Maria Armiento, Jan Harmsen, Mario Balenovic, Robert Ukropec, Christian Nederlof
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Patent number: 10550781Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a change in exhaust particulate filter (PF) soot load during an engine non-combusting condition. In one example, a method may include, responsive to a higher than threshold PF temperature immediately prior to an engine shutdown, estimating a rate of soot burn when the engine is no longer combusting, and estimating a soot load on the PF during and at an onset of immediately subsequent engine start based in part on the rate of soot burn.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nikodem Suchta, Jacqueline A. Lymburner
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Patent number: 10538236Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid construction machine includes an engine, a motor generator driven by the engine and capable of generating electric power, a hydraulic pump driven by total torque of the engine and the motor generator, a power storage device, an inverter, a filter that collects a particulate material in exhaust gas of the engine, and a control section outputting a command signal for controlling powering operation or regeneration operation of the motor generator. The control apparatus further includes a powering operation limitation section that inputs thereto an ordinary torque command calculated by a torque command value calculation section and a demand signal for regeneration of the filter decided by a filter regeneration decision section and calculates the command signal in response to the input signals. When a filter regeneration demand signal is available, a command signal for limiting the powering operation of the motor generator is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Masatoshi Hoshino
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Patent number: 10502119Abstract: Methods of operating an internal combustion engine that has two exhaust paths, the first path having an aftertreatment system. One method includes: operating the engine at idle; directing the exhaust flow through the first exhaust path; detecting an exhaust temperature below a predetermined temperature and/or operation of the engine at idle; and diverting all, or some, of the exhaust flow through the second exhaust path, based on the detecting. Another method includes detecting an engine condition that is indicative of an oil accumulation above a threshold and diverting the exhaust flow through the second exhaust path, based on detecting this engine condition. An exhaust subsystem that includes a controller that employs these methods is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLCInventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
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Patent number: 10465623Abstract: The hybrid vehicle is provide with the control device configured to permit fuel cutoff of the engine when the SOC of the power storage device is greater than a first predetermined ratio, an amount of particulate matter deposited on the filter is less than a first predetermined amount, or a temperature of the filter is lower than a predetermined temperature. The control device is configured to set the allowable upper-limit ratio of the SOC: to a second predetermined ratio greater than the first predetermined ratio when the PM amount is less than a second predetermined amount less than the first predetermined amount, and to a third predetermined ratio equal to or less than the first predetermined ratio when the PM amount is equal to or greater than the second predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Rina Yokoi, Takashi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10436087Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a heat exchanger phase change material installed as a component of a variable exhaust tuning system. In one example, a method may include absorbing excess heat energy from exhaust gases during and after an engine-on event within a heat exchanger material, releasing heat energy stored in the heat exchanger material during and after an engine-off event, and heating an adjustable exhaust valve with the heat energy stored in the heat exchanger material.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert Roy Jentz, Sanyam Sharma, Sumanth Dadam
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Patent number: 10436097Abstract: An aftertreatment system includes a filtration and reduction unit. The filtration and reduction unit comprises a housing defining an internal volume. A filter is disposed in the internal volume and is configured to substantially remove particulates from the exhaust gas. A selective catalytic reduction system is disposed in the internal volume downstream of the filter and is configured to selectively reduce a portion of the exhaust gas. A first catalyst is formulated to oxidize at least a portion of the exhaust gas. An intake pipe is disposed upstream of the filtration and reduction unit and configured to communicate the exhaust gas to the filtration and reduction unit. The first catalyst is disposed in the intake pipe. An exhaust pipe is disposed downstream of the filtration and reduction unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yi Liu, Qiang Liu, Arvind V. Harinath, Changsheng C. Su, Behnam Bahrami, A. Carl McDonald, Stephen M. Holl
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Patent number: 10378411Abstract: The present disclosure is directed at a dosing method and apparatus for treatment of reductant urea solutions with water soluble organometallic catalyst precursors which convert to active catalyst compounds in diesel exhaust gas systems. The active catalysts then promote hydrolysis of isocyanic acid into ammonia and/or decomposition of relatively high molecular weight deposits which deposits may otherwise reduce selective catalytic reduction efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Cary A. Henry, Ryan C. Hartley
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Patent number: 10352220Abstract: The exhaust gas stirring device comprises a cylindrical frame on an inner surface of a flow path member forming an exhaust flow path; supporting parts arranged to radially reach across the frame; a shielding part shielding a central axis of the frame and its circumference in the axis direction of the frame. One of the supporting parts comprises a pair of first skeletons extending radially outwardly from the central axis of the frame. The frame and the supporting parts are configured by assembling assembling members. One of the assembling members comprises the pair of first skeletons, and second skeletons respectively extending in an arc shape from one end of each of the first skeletons and constituting a part of the frame. Each of the first skeletons and the second skeletons in the assembling members comprises a vane part formed to protrude respectively from each of the first and second skeletons.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshinobu Nagata
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Patent number: 10344458Abstract: A hydraulic drive system 100A for a work machine includes: a boom cylinder 4; an arm cylinder 8; a hydraulic pump device 51; a control valve 5; a regenerative device 61; a first operation device 41; a second operation device 42; a sensor device 71; and a controller 27. The sensor device 71 includes at least one of pressure sensors 23, 24, 25, and 26. The controller 27 includes an abnormality detection part 142 and a first control part. The abnormality detection part 142 determines whether or not the sensor device 71 is abnormal. If the sensor device 71 is abnormal, the first control part controls the regenerative device 61 such that the hydraulic fluid returning from the boom cylinder 4 is not supplied to the arm cylinder 8 even if the values measured by the sensor device 71 satisfy regenerative conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Kouji Ishikawa, Shinya Imura
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Patent number: 10344647Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for treatment of an exhaust stream, from a combustion engine comprising nitrogen oxides. An estimate of at least one future operating condition for the exhaust treatment system is determined based on a road section ahead of the vehicle. A first additive is input into the exhaust stream to cause a first reduction of nitrogen oxides in a first reduction catalyst device. A second additive is input into the exhaust stream to cause a second reduction of a second amount of nitrogen oxides in a second reduction catalyst device, arranged downstream of the first reduction catalyst device. The first supply of additive is controlled based on the estimated at least one future operating condition, such that the first reduction catalyst device is exposed, over time, to a substoichiometric condition, with respect to the first additive and the first amount of nitrogen oxides.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Scania CV ABInventor: Magnus Nilsson
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Patent number: 10337381Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas aftertreatment device for an internal combustion engine, where the device comprises: an exhaust duct allowing a through-flow of exhaust gas; a catalytic NOx converter arranged in the exhaust duct; and a fluid inlet arranged to introduce a liquid reductant into or onto a structure in the exhaust duct upstream the catalytic NOx converter. The invention is characterized in that the structure is a sorption structure having pores configured to retain the liquid reductant in liquid form until it evaporates. The invention also relates to a vehicle provided with such a device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATIONInventors: Marie Stenfeldt, Peter Sandberg, Rakshith Ramachandra
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Patent number: 10309285Abstract: An exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine, before execution of a filter regeneration process, executes a pre-regeneration process that is a process of raising a temperature of a filter to a second target temperature lower than a first target temperature and increasing the concentration of NO2 contained in exhaust gas flowing into the filter for a predetermined period. The first target temperature during execution of the filter regeneration process in the case where a speed of change in a detected value of a differential pressure sensor during execution of the pre-regeneration process is high is set so as to be lower than the first target temperature in the case where the speed of change is low.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daichi Imai, Hiromasa Nishioka, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Yoshio Yamashita, Kouta Tanaka
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Patent number: 10302000Abstract: An exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine, before execution of a filter regeneration process, executes a pre-regeneration process that is a process of raising a temperature of a filter to a second target temperature lower than a first target temperature and increasing the concentration of NO2 contained in exhaust gas flowing into the filter for a predetermined period. An execution time of the filter regeneration process when a physical quantity that correlates with a speed of change in a detected value of a differential pressure sensor during execution of the pre-regeneration process is large is shorter than an execution time of the filter regeneration process when the physical quantity is small.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daichi Imai, Hiromasa Nishioka, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Yoshio Yamashita, Kouta Tanaka
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Patent number: 10280824Abstract: An exhaust system includes a particulate filter, a variable valve, and a controller communicatively connected to the variable valve. The controller is operative to determine a backpressure caused by the particulate filter in the exhaust system, and control a position of the variable valve as a function of the backpressure caused by the particulate filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Glenn Pietila, John Pierce, III, Gerald J. Clark
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Patent number: 10273858Abstract: A system can include an engine, an aftertreatment system with a particulate filter, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a time value since a last delta pressure soot load estimate process to a predetermined time threshold. Responsive to the time value being greater than or equal to the predetermined time threshold, the controller decreases a flow threshold value to a lower flow threshold value. If the flow amount is greater than or equal to the lower flow threshold value, then the controller activates a delta pressure soot load estimation process. A combined soot load estimate is then calculated using a delta pressure soot load estimation of the delta pressure soot load estimate process responsive to the lower flow threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tony J. Hall, Yinghuan Lei, Weiwen Wang, Daniel D. Wilhelm
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Patent number: 10222303Abstract: A dual spray chamber apparatus is described. In one or more implementations, the dual spray chamber apparatus includes a first cyclonic spray chamber for receiving an aerosol and conditioning the aerosol to separate a first conditioned portion of the aerosol from a second portion of the aerosol. The first cyclonic spray chamber defines a first chamber interior and comprises an input port in fluid communication with the first chamber interior. The dual spray chamber apparatus also includes a second spray chamber coupled with the first cyclonic spray chamber for receiving the first conditioned portion of the aerosol and further conditioning the first conditioned portion of the aerosol. The second spray chamber defines a second chamber interior and comprises an output port for expelling a first further conditioned portion of the first conditioned portion of the aerosol from the second chamber interior.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ELEMENTAL SCIENTIFIC, INC.Inventors: Daniel R. Wiederin, Kyle W. Uhlmeyer, James W. Harris
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Patent number: 10221740Abstract: An exhaust gas post treatment system for an internal combustion engine, in particular a heavy fuel oil-powered engine, including an SCR catalyst, using ammonia as a reducing agent for the denitration of the exhaust gas, and a device positioned upstream of the SCR catalyst by which ammonia or an ammonia precursor substance, which is converted to ammonia, is introduced upstream of the SCR catalyst. Downstream of the SCR catalyst an exhaust gas scrubber is positioned, by which excess ammonia, contained in the exhaust gas leaving the SCR catalyst, together with sulfur oxides, can be scrubbed out of the exhaust gas forming ammonium salts while maintaining a pH value of approximately 6. For the control thereof, a bypass around the SCR catalyst can be provided as a westgate, or comprising an additional SCR catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SEInventor: Andreas Döring
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Patent number: 10161281Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust purification system including: an engine; a lean NOx trap (LNT) mounted on an exhaust pipe and enable to absorb nitrogen oxide (NOx) contained in an exhaust gas at a lean air/fuel ratio, or to release the absorbed NOx at a rich air/fuel ratio; a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst provided downstream of the LNT so as to reduce the NOx contained in the exhaust gas; a controller to perform denitrification (DeNOx) by using the LNT and/or the SCR catalyst based on a driving condition of the engine; a first oxygen sensor disposed between the engine and the LNT to detect an oxygen amount in the exhaust gas; a second oxygen sensor disposed between the LNT and the SCR catalyst to detect an oxygen amount in the exhaust gas exhausted from the LNT; and an air injection device selectively injecting air into the exhaust pipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: Jin Woo Choung
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Patent number: 10138834Abstract: A diesel engine system comprises a particulate filter interposed in an exhaust line and a plurality of fuel injectors associated with an engine. When a quantity of particulate accumulated within said filter is estimated to be greater than a threshold, a control mode of the injectors is activated causing an automatic regeneration of the filter, by increasing a temperature of exhaust gases fed to the filter sufficient for burning the particulate within the filter. A statistical model is applied which estimates the quantity of particulate accumulated in the filter per time unit The estimation of the particulate accumulated in the filter is corrected after each regeneration of the filter, on a basis of a comparison between the real variation of said temperature during the regeneration as detected by a sensor and a stored reference variation of said temperature previously detected empirically during a regeneration with the filter being empty.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.Inventor: Danilo Garombo
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Patent number: 10138777Abstract: Methods for evaluating a soot quantity accumulated in a selective catalytic reduction wash-coated particulate filter (SCRF) of an exhaust gas treatment system are provided, and include injecting reductant proximate the SCRF, determining one or more mapping values, computing a correction value of a soot quantity using a map correlating the one or more mapping values, detecting an apparent soot burning operating temperature, and correcting an estimated value of the soot quantity using the correction value in order to obtain an evaluated value of the soot quantity. The one or more mapping values can include a reductant injection quantity value, a NOx quantity value, a temperature value, and a mass flow value of an exhaust gas. The apparent soot burning operating temperature can comprise a temperature at which a ?P across the SCRF improperly implies an actual soot burning. Further provided are apparatuses for performing the disclosed methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Inventors: Luciano Nunziato Di Perna, Stefano Pellegrino, Isadora Ricci
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Patent number: 10138788Abstract: A lattice board is obliquely arranged in a bent portion halfway in an exhaust pipe where exhaust gas flows curvedly so as to bisect an angle made by inflow and outflow directions the exhaust gas entered upstream of and discharged downstream of the bent portion, respectively. An injector is arranged in the outflow direction of the exhaust gas to inject urea water to an entry side of the lattice board such that flow passage walls of the lattice board on which hit is the exhaust gas from upstream has rear surfaces on which hit is a spray of urea water from the injector.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Tongu, Tomoyuki Tsuruta
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Patent number: 10125654Abstract: An exhaust control system for an internal combustion engine comprises: a trapping capability acquisition part that obtains information regarding a PM trapping capability, based on a detection value of an exhaust sensor provided to detect a predetermined parameter relating to an exhaust gas flowing out of an SCRF; and a NOx reduction capability acquisition part obtains information regarding a NOx reduction capability, based on an amount of NOx in the exhaust gas flowing out of the SCRF. The exhaust control system determines and distinguishes between a trapping abnormal state in which a PM trapping function by the SCRF is failed and a sensor abnormal state in which a detection function of the predetermined parameter by the exhaust sensor is failed, based on the NOx reduction capability obtained by the NOx reduction capability acquisition part, when the trapping capability obtained by the trapping capability acquisition part is in a predetermined low trapping capability state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taiga Hagimoto, Tomoyuki Kogo, Arifumi Matsumoto, Kenji Furui, Akifumi Uozumi
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Patent number: 10087809Abstract: A system and method for preventing a failure of an exhaust heat recovery device are provided. The method includes operating a sole exhaust heat recovery mode when cooling water has a temperature less than a warm-up reference temperature to introduce all exhaust gas flowing from a DPF into the exhaust heat recovery device where the exhaust gas exchanges heat with the cooling water. Additionally, a passage through which the exhaust gas bypasses the exhaust heat recovery device is opened when the exhaust gas at a rear of the DPF has a temperature greater than the warm-up reference temperature during the sole exhaust heat recovery mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Myung Jun Lee, Jun Yong Lee
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Patent number: 10072548Abstract: A method for injecting a reductant into an exhaust gas of a power system. The method includes oscillating injections of the reductant between a higher reductant injection rate and a lower reductant injection rate. The higher injection rate is high enough to result in storage of a decomposed form of the reductant on a selective catalytic reduction on-filter (“SCR+F”), and the lower injection rate being low enough to result in depletion of the decomposed form of the reductant on the SCR+F. The SCR+F includes a diesel particular filter and a selective catalytic reduction catalyst applied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Josh C Schmitt, Scott A Chase, Taner Tuken
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Patent number: 10041391Abstract: An apparatus includes a catalytic converter on an exhaust pipe and provided with a lean NOx trap (LNT) device coated with an LNT catalyst, and a catalyzed particulate filter (CPF) coated with a catalyst. The LNT device and CPF are sequentially disposed in the catalytic converter. The CPF includes at least one inlet channel, extending in a longitudinal direction, having a first end into which fluid flows and a blocked second end; at least one outlet channel, extending in the longitudinal direction, having a blocked first end and a second end through which the fluid flows out; at least one porous wall defining a boundary between neighboring inlet and outlet channels and that extends in the longitudinal direction; and a support coated with the catalyst and located within at least one among the at least one inlet channel and the at least one outlet channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: ChangHo Jung, Pyung Soon Kim
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Patent number: 10030560Abstract: An exhaust purification device for purifying exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust gas flow passage of an engine includes: a cylindrical casing; a pipe that is disposed on a downstream side of the casing and inserted in the casing so as to extend in a direction substantially orthogonal to an axial direction of the casing, the pipe being provided with a through-hole communicating with the casing; and an injector configured to inject a reducing agent from an upstream end of the pipe into the pipe, in which a contracting flow passage portion narrowing in an axial direction of the pipe from an upstream side toward the downstream side is formed in the exhaust gas flow passage in the casing.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniharu Tobe, Hirofumi Tongu, Tomoyuki Tsuruta
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Patent number: 10029209Abstract: An exhaust gas purification material according to the present invention is provided with a particulate filter that traps particulate matter in exhaust gas and contains an SCR catalyst for adsorbing ammonia and reducing NOx in the exhaust gas. A maximum allowable adsorption amount of ammonia adsorbable by the filter differs between an upstream portion of the filter including an exhaust gas inlet-side end, and an downstream portion of the filter including an exhaust gas outlet-side end. A maximum allowable adsorption amount of ammonia A in the upstream portion is smaller than a maximum allowable adsorption amount of ammonia B in the downstream portion (A<B).Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Tsuji, Hiroto Imai, Shintaro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10024265Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for estimating exhaust pressure based on an exhaust air/fuel ratio sensor. In one example, a method may comprise estimating an exhaust pressure based on periodic waveform outputs of an exhaust air/fuel ratio (AFR) sensor, and adjusting at least one engine operating parameter based on the estimated exhaust pressure. The exhaust pressure may be estimated based on one or more of the standard deviation and frequency of the periodic waveform outputs.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, John Eric Rollinger, Richard E. Soltis, Jennifer Helen Chang
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Patent number: 10018089Abstract: A diesel particulate filter system comprising: a temperature sensor on the inlet side of the diesel particulate filter; a temperature sensor on the outlet side of the diesel particulate filter; a pressure sensor on the inlet side of the diesel particulate filter; and a control module in communication with the temperature sensors and the pressure sensor, and the control module is loaded with a look-up table that correlates the amount of soot loaded in the diesel particulate filter to a change in pressure measured by the pressure sensor; wherein the control module Initiates a regeneration cycle when soot loading of the diesel particulate filter achieves a predetermined soot load.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventor: Ashish Kotnis
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Patent number: 9982584Abstract: A device for aftertreatment of exhaust gas includes: a prechamber having an exhaust gas inlet; a main chamber; a mixing device, in which the exhaust is mixable with an additive; and an intermediate device, via which a partial exhaust gas flow is deliverable from the prechamber to the mixing device. The intermediate device has swirl elements configured to reverse the direction of swirl of swirled exhaust gas flow generated in the prechamber as the exhaust gas overflows into the interior of the intermediate device, and/or the prechamber is configured to impel a first partial exhaust gas flow in a direction of swirl, and the main chamber is configured to impel a second partial exhaust gas flow from the prechamber in a direction of swirl, the direction of swirl of the exhaust gas in the prechamber being opposed to the direction of swirl of the exhaust gas in the main chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AGInventors: Maximilian Püschel, Herbert Albert
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Patent number: 9962653Abstract: A catalyzed particulate filter that includes: at least one inlet channel extending in a longitudinal direction, one end of which lets fluid in, and the other end of which is blocked; at least one outlet channel extending in the longitudinal direction, one end of which is blocked and the other end of which lets the fluid out; at least one porous wall that defines the boundary between neighboring inlet and outlet channels and that extends in the longitudinal direction; and a support with a catalyst coating thereon.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Pyung Soon Kim, Chang Ho Jung, Chang Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 9920676Abstract: A mixer for an emissions cleaning module is provided. The mixer having an elongate body configured for location within a flowhood and a downstream conduit of an emissions cleaning module. A plurality of apertures are included in the mixer and configured to permit passage of exhaust gas therethrough, to promote mixing, in use of an injected additive and a flow of exhaust gas. An emissions cleaning module including such a mixer is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Perkins Engines Company LimitedInventors: Susannah Freeman, Anton Zimmermann, Andrew Keen, David Heaton, Christopher Petto
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Patent number: 9890684Abstract: A method and a device for operating an exhaust gas aftertreatment, wherein a diesel particulate filter is regenerated during the operation, in particular passively regenerated, wherein a corrected differential pressure is calculated from a current differential pressure across the diesel particulate filter at a current exhaust gas volumetric flow rate and with a current correction factor. The current correction factor is determined by determining a lower differential pressure in a predetermined time interval at a defined exhaust gas volumetric flow rate, in particular in a specified exhaust gas volumetric flow rate interval around the defined exhaust gas volumetric flow rate, and comparing the lower differential pressure with a specified current reference value and, depending thereon, calculating a new correction factor or retaining the previous correction factor as the current correction factor.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBHInventors: Andrea Prospero, Tim Späder, Stefan Merk