Reactor Plus A Washer, Sorber Or Mechanical Separator Patents (Class 60/297)
  • Patent number: 10987658
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Camm, Hsiao-Lan Chang, Hai-Ying Chen, Michael Hales, Kwangmo Koo
  • Patent number: 10989093
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 10982578
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nahm Roh Joo, Chang Hwan Kim, ChangHo Jung
  • Patent number: 10960366
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Bruce Bernard Hoppenstedt
  • Patent number: 10954872
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10947889
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Atin Tandon, Timothy Mallett, Andris J. Maldups, Ninad S. Shrotriya, Jithin Joseph, Steve Halas, Daniel Coppola, Alexander Nazarov
  • Patent number: 10865675
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Furukawa, Kenji Fujii, Tadashi Uchiyama, Kazuo Ohsumi, Keisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10830120
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Osami Sekine
  • Patent number: 10730011
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ADA Carbon Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph M. Wong, Christopher Vizcaino, Robert B. Huston, Frederick S. Cannon
  • Patent number: 10718248
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, FEV EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Myung Jong Lee, Jin Woo Park, Ki Hyung Joo, Waldemar Josef Kansy, Arun Palaniappan Muthukaruppan
  • Patent number: 10710572
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alper Goek, Matthias Ege
  • Patent number: 10697345
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNETI MARELLI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Umberto Di Martino, Lorenzo Francia, Daniele Benassi
  • Patent number: 10695752
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takara Misumi, Satoshi Matsueda
  • Patent number: 10690031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Jose Barrientos Betancourt, Roberto Romanato, Francesco Bechis, Francesco Concetto Pesce, Jaime Andres Cespedes Garcia
  • Patent number: 10677122
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Tyler Kelly, John Eric Rollinger
  • Patent number: 10584624
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventor: Heath Morris
  • Patent number: 10563556
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Maria Armiento, Jan Harmsen, Mario Balenovic, Robert Ukropec, Christian Nederlof
  • Patent number: 10550781
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nikodem Suchta, Jacqueline A. Lymburner
  • Patent number: 10538236
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Masatoshi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10502119
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
    Inventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
  • Patent number: 10465623
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rina Yokoi, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10436087
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Roy Jentz, Sanyam Sharma, Sumanth Dadam
  • Patent number: 10436097
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Qiang Liu, Arvind V. Harinath, Changsheng C. Su, Behnam Bahrami, A. Carl McDonald, Stephen M. Holl
  • Patent number: 10378411
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cary A. Henry, Ryan C. Hartley
  • Patent number: 10352220
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Nagata
  • Patent number: 10344458
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Kouji Ishikawa, Shinya Imura
  • Patent number: 10344647
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventor: Magnus Nilsson
  • Patent number: 10337381
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marie Stenfeldt, Peter Sandberg, Rakshith Ramachandra
  • Patent number: 10309285
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daichi Imai, Hiromasa Nishioka, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Yoshio Yamashita, Kouta Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10302000
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daichi Imai, Hiromasa Nishioka, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Yoshio Yamashita, Kouta Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10280824
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Glenn Pietila, John Pierce, III, Gerald J. Clark
  • Patent number: 10273858
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tony J. Hall, Yinghuan Lei, Weiwen Wang, Daniel D. Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 10222303
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ELEMENTAL SCIENTIFIC, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Wiederin, Kyle W. Uhlmeyer, James W. Harris
  • Patent number: 10221740
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 10161281
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Jin Woo Choung
  • Patent number: 10138834
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.
    Inventor: Danilo Garombo
  • Patent number: 10138777
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventors: Luciano Nunziato Di Perna, Stefano Pellegrino, Isadora Ricci
  • Patent number: 10138788
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tongu, Tomoyuki Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 10125654
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taiga Hagimoto, Tomoyuki Kogo, Arifumi Matsumoto, Kenji Furui, Akifumi Uozumi
  • Patent number: 10087809
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Myung Jun Lee, Jun Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10072548
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Josh C Schmitt, Scott A Chase, Taner Tuken
  • Patent number: 10041391
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ChangHo Jung, Pyung Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 10030560
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniharu Tobe, Hirofumi Tongu, Tomoyuki Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 10029209
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Tsuji, Hiroto Imai, Shintaro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10024265
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, John Eric Rollinger, Richard E. Soltis, Jennifer Helen Chang
  • Patent number: 10018089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ashish Kotnis
  • Patent number: 9982584
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Püschel, Herbert Albert
  • Patent number: 9962653
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Pyung Soon Kim, Chang Ho Jung, Chang Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9920676
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventors: Susannah Freeman, Anton Zimmermann, Andrew Keen, David Heaton, Christopher Petto
  • Patent number: 9890684
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Andrea Prospero, Tim Späder, Stefan Merk