Having Heater, Igniter, Or Fuel Supply For Reactor Patents (Class 60/303)
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Patent number: 8504278Abstract: A system and method for controlling engine operation includes a timer module that determines a time period from when a catalyst light-off mode is entered to when an oxygen sensor signal reaches an oxygen sensor threshold and a comparison module that generates an error signal and determines when the time period is above a time threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Inventors: Douglas R. Verner, Jonathan T. Shibata, Allen B. Rayl, Halim G Santoso, Kenneth J. Buslepp
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Patent number: 8499545Abstract: In an operating and diagnostic method for an SCR exhaust gas aftertreatment system which has an SCR catalytic converter with ammonia storage capacity, a signal of an exhaust gas sensor that is sensitive to nitrogen oxide and ammonia and is arranged downstream of the SCR catalytic converter, is measured. In a normal operating mode, ammonia is supplied to the SCR catalytic converter corresponding to a filling level model for ammonia stored in the SCR catalytic converter, in such a way that the ammonia filling level of the SCR catalytic converter is held at least approximately at a predefinable nominal value (or value range). The normal operating mode is interrupted if an exhaust gas sensor signal that exceeds a predefinable first limit value, is registered, and the set urea dosing rate is increased by a predefinable degree in relation to the value provided in the normal operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Michael-Rainer Busch, Dirk Herbstritt, Uwe Hofmann
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Patent number: 8495866Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing and/or evaporation device for an exhaust system, an internal combustion engine, having a tubular body on whose one axial end are arranged several blades adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction, protruding radially inward and leaving free a central passage such that the blades are set at an angle to the axial direction. For inexpensive manufacturing, the tubular body may be manufactured from a single sheet metal body by shaping together with the blades.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Georg Wirth
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Patent number: 8495867Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system includes a heating module for heating exhaust gas upstream of a main catalytic converter. The heating module includes a first heating core having a first core volumetric size and a second heating core having a second core volumetric size that is less than the first core volumetric size. The first heating core with the larger first core volumetric size is configured to optimize pre-crank heating, while the second heating core with the smaller second core volumetric size is configured to optimize post-crank heating. The first heating core and the second heating core may be arranged in series with each other or in parallel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Karthik Ramanathan, Se H. Oh
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Patent number: 8495860Abstract: An engine system having a reductant delivery and storage system is described. In one example, a physical condition associated with a reductant storage device is correlated with a characteristic of a fluid stored in the reductant storage device to determine the availability and make-up of the stored fluid. In response, engine operation may be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Bradley Dane Gresens
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Publication number: 20130186074Abstract: The present invention provides an internal combustion engine includes: a turbocharger arranged in exhaust passage; EGR passage branching off from the exhaust passage downstream of a turbine of the turbocharger and connected to intake passage; a burner device arranged in the exhaust passage between the turbine and the portion where the EGR passage branches off to increase exhaust temperature; a bypass passage branching off from the exhaust passage between the turbine and the burner device and connected to the EGR passage; and a bypass valve to adjust flow rate of exhaust gas passing through bypass passage. When flow rate of the exhaust gas is increased, the bypass valve is open, and part of the exhaust gas is guided to the bypass passage. The flow rate of the exhaust gas to be supplied to the burner device is reduced, and the ignition performance of the burner device is ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2010Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chika Kanba, Eiji Hashimoto, Taiichi Mori, Koki Uno, Masahiro Fujiwara, Shunichi Hanada
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Patent number: 8490390Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exhaust gas after-treatment apparatus includes an exhaust tube through which a main exhaust gas stream is flowable. The exhaust tube defines an exhaust flow channel. The apparatus also includes an exhaust flow segregator positioned within the exhaust tube. The exhaust flow segregator separates the exhaust flow channel into a first channel through which a first portion of the main exhaust gas stream is flowable and a second channel through which a second portion of the main exhaust gas stream is flowable. Additionally, the apparatus includes an injector coupled to the exhaust tube. The injector is communicable in reductant injecting communication with the first portion of the main exhaust gas stream flowing through the first channel. The apparatus also includes at least one exhaust gas heater communicable in heat supplying communication with the first portion of the main exhaust gas stream flowing through the first channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Cummins IP, Inc.Inventors: Cary Henry, Aleksey Yezerets
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Patent number: 8490389Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an engine includes a bubble generation device, the bubble generation device for mixing nano-sized to micro-sized bubbles into a liquid reducing agent or a precursor thereof injection-supplied from an injection nozzle is disposed in a reducing agent supply system running from a reducing agent tank to the injection nozzle. When the liquid reducing agent or the precursor thereof is injection-supplied from the injection nozzle, the liquid reducing agent or the precursor thereof is divided by bubbles, and the bubbles are radically inflated and burst by a pressure change and a temperature change at the time of injection-supplying, so that microparticulation of the liquid reducing agent or the precursor thereof is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: UD Trucks CorporationInventors: Masakazu Yano, Kiminobu Hirata, Nobuhiko Masaki
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Patent number: 8490385Abstract: A catalyst deterioration diagnosis system performs a diagnosis of deterioration of the oxidation catalyst based on a high-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature and a low-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature. The high-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor while the temperature of the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst is in a high temperature region H while the reducing agent is supplied from the reducing agent supply means into the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst. The low-temperature-inflow-condition exhaust gas temperature is a temperature detected by the temperature sensor while the temperature of the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst is in a low temperature region L while the reducing agent is supplied from a reducing agent supply means into the exhaust gas that flows into the oxidation catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Miyoshi, Hiroshi Sawada, Daisuke Shibata
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Patent number: 8484956Abstract: A regeneration control system for use with a diesel engine having a diesel particulate filter is provided. This regeneration control system utilizes a wide band oxygen sensor placed in the exhaust stream upstream of a regeneration device, as well as an engine speed sensor, to determine when to initiate the regeneration event, and for controlling the regeneration device to ensure proper regeneration of the diesel particulate filter. The after treatment controller utilizes the oxygen percentage signal to calculate or otherwise determine the percentage load at which the diesel engine is operating. This information along with the engine speed information allows the after treatment controller to calculate or otherwise determine exhaust parameters necessary for proper control of the regeneration device.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Woodward, Inc.Inventor: Daniel B. Mastbergen
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Patent number: 8484950Abstract: A configuration for purification of an exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine includes at least one exhaust gas line having an element for exhaust gas purification with a first end face and a second end face. The exhaust gas flows through the element from the first end face to the second end face. An adding device is provided downstream of the element for adding a reactant to the exhaust gas flow. The adding device is positioned at a distance of no more than 30 mm from the second end face of the element in such a way that at least part of the added reactant strikes the second end face of the element. A method for adding a reactant into an exhaust line during the operation of an internal combustion engine is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Olaf Witte-Merl, Jan Hodgson, Rolf Brück
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Patent number: 8484947Abstract: A fluid injector for an exhaust treatment system is disclosed. The fluid injector may have a body, a pin member, and a heater. The pin member may be disposed within the body and have a fluid receiving end and a fluid injecting end. The heater may be disposed about the fluid injecting end of the pin member.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Roger Leroy Urven, Jr., Stephan Donald Roozenboom, James Richard Weber, Glenn Brian Cox, Stephen Michael Wiley
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Patent number: 8484959Abstract: An object is to provide a technology with which the temperature of exhaust gas can be raised with improved efficiency in cases where a catalyst apparatus including a catalyst having an oxidizing ability is provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. According to the present invention, a catalyst apparatus 6 that is provided in the exhaust passage 1 of the internal combustion engine and to which reducing agent is supplied from upstream when the temperature of the exhaust gas is to be raised is equipped with at least first and second catalysts 4, 5 having an oxidizing ability. The first catalyst 4 is configured in such a way that the exhaust gas flows through a gap between its outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface of the exhaust passage. The second catalyst 5 is disposed downstream of the first catalyst 4 with a space 10 having a specific width Ws between it and the first catalyst 4.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Tsujimoto, Shinya Hirota
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Patent number: 8484953Abstract: An exhaust system that processes exhaust generated by an engine is provided. The system generally includes a particulate filter (PF) that filters particulates from the exhaust wherein an upstream end of the PF receives exhaust from the engine. A grid of electrically resistive material is applied to an exterior upstream surface of the PF and selectively heats exhaust passing through the grid to initiate combustion of particulates within the PF. A catalyst coating is applied to the PF that increases a temperature of the combustion of the particulates within the PF.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Inventors: Eugene V. Gonze, Michael J. Paratore, Jr., Frank Ament
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Patent number: 8484957Abstract: A method for selectively heating a reducing agent line of an SCR device during operation of an exhaust gas purification system of an internal combustion engine and a device for exhaust gas purification, include a supply tank for a reducing agent for SCR applications, a device for introducing the reducing agent into an exhaust line of an internal combustion engine and at least one reducing agent line for fluidically connecting the supply tank to the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie GmbHInventors: Jan Hodgson, Rolf Brück
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Patent number: 8484948Abstract: A fixed auger assembly (10) comprises a pair of identical auger blades (12, 14) mounted within an auger casing (16). The auger casing (16) includes two end sections, (18, 20) which are substantially identical, with the exception that one end section (20) is formed with a flared edge (38) to partially receive the other end section. The auger blades (12, 14) include a peripheral annular lip (24) which is used to affix the auger blades within the auger casing. The auger blades (12, 14) and the end sections (18, 20) are preferably assembled using a welding process.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Pridgeon & Clay, Inc.Inventor: Michael D. Kozal
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Patent number: 8479496Abstract: An exhaust system includes N heating elements and a particulate matter (PM) filter. The N heating elements heat N portions of an exhaust gas. At least one of the N heating elements is coated with a first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst. The PM filter has an inlet that receives the N portions of the exhaust gas heated by the N heating elements. Each of the N portions of the exhaust gas heats a corresponding region of the inlet. N is an integer greater than 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Inventors: Eugene V. Gonze, Michael J. Paratore, Jr.
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Patent number: 8479497Abstract: The invention provides for a method for operating an SCR catalytic converter for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, wherein a reducing agent tank (1) with reducing agent and a reducing agent metering device (8) are provided. The reducing agent tank (1) has at least one tank heater (3) having PTC characteristics. A variable characterizing the heater current is acquired for detecting cavities (10) in the reducing agent tank (1) when the reducing agent is frozen. The presence of cavities is suggested from a deviation of the acquired value or values for the variable characterizing the heater current from a predeterminable reference value, which represents a reducing agent tank without cavities.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Georgios Lolas, Wolfgang Klenk, Andreas Wagner
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Publication number: 20130167515Abstract: An exhaust heating apparatus has a housing defining a firing chamber jointed to an exhaust pipe, a fuel supply valve for injecting fuel to the firing chamber communicated with the exhaust passage through a junction port, a glow plug for igniting the injected fuel. A part of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust passage flows into the firing chamber and again flowing out to the exhaust passage together with a combustion gas generated in the firing chamber. An angle between a wall surface in the exhaust pipe positioned upstream of the junction port and an upstream wall surface in the housing, and an angle between a wall surface in the exhaust pipe positioned downstream of the junction port and a downstream wall surface in the housing, are set to an obtuse angle, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Tsujimoto, Mikio Inoue
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Patent number: 8475754Abstract: An engine exhaust gas purification device comprising control unit having successively arranged switching device (1), counter-current heat exchanger (3) and at least one exhaust gas purification component (2). The switching device (1) has a first position where a flow path (6) of the exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification component (2) is opened and a second position where a flow path (6) of the exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification component (2) is blocked and the exhaust gas flows along a further flow path (7) where the exhaust gas is heated and conveyed, via a flow path (20) of the exhaust gas purification component (2), and exits the exhaust gas purification unit (5) through outlet channels (4) of the counter-current heat exchanger (3). The switching device, the exhaust gas purification component, the counter-current heat exchanger and the flow paths are integrated in a compact exhaust gas treatment unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Universitaet Stuttgart Institut fuer ChemischeInventors: Gerhart Eigenberger, Ulrich Nieken, Matthias Rink, Stefan Matschke
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Patent number: 8474248Abstract: A method to control NH3 slippage and NOx conversion in an electronic controlled internal combustion engine exhaust system equipped with a selective catalyst reducer, a diesel particulate filter, a diesel oxidation catalyst and a urea doser.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Detroit Diesel CorporationInventors: Min Sun, Sathish Sankara-Chinttoanony, Bryant Chan Pham, Amr Mohamed Radwan, Zhiping Han, Wolfgang Krueger
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Patent number: 8468810Abstract: An NOx injection system for treating a vehicle exhaust system comprises an injector for injecting a select material into the vehicle exhaust system and including an electrical coil. An impedance element is connected in series with a flyback diode across the coil. An injector firing control circuit is electrically connected to the injector for driving the coil, the switching circuit operating in an on mode to fire the injector and in an off mode to turn off the injector. The impedance element increases reverse voltage to increase injector turn off response.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Stephen Thomas, James Reynolds, Sean Keidel, Michael Shovels
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Patent number: 8468802Abstract: An exhaust gas system for combustion engines is provided having at least one exhaust gas duct, in particular an exhaust pipe, and having an exhaust gas treatment device such as an oxidation catalyst, an SCR catalyst or a diesel particulate filter downstream of the exhaust gas duct, wherein, to improve the efficiency of downstream gas treatment devices, at least one secondary flow duct, in particular a secondary flow pipe, is provided in the exhaust gas duct with a cross-section reduced with respect to the exhaust gas duct which imparts coerced guidance of some of the exhaust gas flow differing from the actual exhaust gas flow.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Friedrich Boysen GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Michael Mueller
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Patent number: 8473177Abstract: Some exemplary embodiments include hybrid vehicle systems including an engine operable to output exhaust, an exhaust aftertreatment system configured to receive the exhaust from the engine, the exhaust aftertreatment system including an SCR catalyst operable to reduce NOx in the exhaust and an electrical heater operable to heat the SCR catalyst, a motor/generator operable in a braking mode to receive torque to slow the vehicle and output electrical power, an energy storage device operable to output electrical power to drive the motor/generator and receive electrical power from the motor/generator, and a controller operable to control the electrical heater to heat the SCR catalyst using electrical power from the motor/generator in the braking mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Cummins, Inc.Inventors: Mahesh Madurai Kumar, Morgan M. Andreae, Neal W. Currier
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Patent number: 8464516Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device includes an inlet housing having an inlet opening for receipt of an exhaust flow from an engine aligned along a first axis. A main housing includes a cylindrical body portion defining a treatment zone and an exhaust outlet aligned along a second axis extending parallel to the first axis. The inlet housing is in fluid communication with and fixed to an outer surface of the main housing. The inlet housing includes a contoured wall including an end portion positioned opposite the inlet opening, an aperture extending through the wall transverse to the first axis, divergent side wall portions on opposite sides of the inlet opening, and a necked portion having a reduced cross-section positioned downstream of the inlet opening and upstream of the aperture. A component is coupled to the main housing for treating exhaust flowing through the treatment zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Charles Bell, Megan Wikaryasz, Douglas Otrompke
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Patent number: 8464517Abstract: Method to reduce NOx contained in an exhaust gas by including an oxidation catalyst device and a selective reduction type NOx catalyst device, which are arranged in this order from an upstream side, and a NOx purification system. Whether a volume of NO2 adsorbed in the oxidation catalyst device increases or decreases is estimated, and a flow rate of exhaust gas which bypasses the oxidation catalyst device on a basis of the increase or decrease in the estimated volume of adsorbed NO2 is controlled. This avoids incorrect supply of ammonia.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Isuzu Motors LimitedInventor: Tetsuya Fujita
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Patent number: 8464515Abstract: An ammonia burning internal combustion engine in which, in addition to ammonia, a reformed gas reformed at a reformer is fed into a combustion chamber. When a reforming ability of the reformer is less than a predetermined reforming ability, an ammonia ratio is increased to a ratio more than the ammonia ratio after completion of engine warmup set in advance in accordance with an operation state of the engine, and secondary air is fed from a secondary air feeding device into an engine exhaust passage upstream of an exhaust purification catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Aso, Takahiko Fujiwara, Hiroshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8459009Abstract: A method for controlling an SCR-exhaust gas after-treatment system (1) of an internal combustion engine (8), in particular of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, has one or more steps for determining the quality of the reducing means.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Tino Arlt, Peter Bauer, Joris Fokkelman, Ingo Koops
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Patent number: 8459010Abstract: A catalyst composition is provided that includes a catalytic metal secured to a substrate, and the substrate is mesoporous and has pores that are templated. A catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal secured to a mesoporous substrate. The mesoporous substrate is a reaction product of a reactive solution, a solvent, a modifier, and a templating agent. A method for controlling nitrous oxide emissions including the catalyst composition comprising introducing a regeneration fuel into an exhaust stream upstream relative to the catalyst composition and heating the exhaust stream upstream relative to the catalyst composition. When the regeneration fuel is introduced the air/fuel ratio ? of an air/fuel mixture of a lean burn exhaust is greater than 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dan Hancu, Larry Neil Lewis, Benjamin Hale Winkler, Daniel George Norton
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Patent number: 8453433Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device for an internal combustion engine, in which a catalyst installed in an exhaust passage is quickly heated to the activation temperature of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuji Wada, Shinya Ishimaru, Tomoko Tsuyama, Jun Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20130133314Abstract: An apparatus for fuel preparation (100) for a burner (18) for regenerating a particle filter (16) of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system comprising an exhaust gas passage (14) for discharging a hot exhaust gas flow from an internal combustion engine (12), in particular a compression-ignition internal combustion engine, is proposed. The apparatus for fuel preparation (100) has an atomizing device (110) for preparing the fuel, a combustion chamber (116), an ignition device (26) and a combustion air supply (24). The combustion air supply (24) provides a primary air feed line (112) for preparing the fuel and a secondary air feed line (114) for feeding combustion air in order to produce an ignitable fuel/air mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Bjoern Damson
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Patent number: 8452518Abstract: An exhaust control system comprises a total loss determination module and a fuel control module. The total loss determination module determines a total energy loss rate of exhaust upstream of a location in an exhaust system based on a convective energy loss rate upstream of the location, a conductive energy loss rate upstream of the location, and an oxidation energy gain rate upstream of the location. The fuel control module receives a target temperature for the exhaust at the location and determines a target input energy rate based on the target temperature, a temperature of exhaust input to the exhaust system, and the total energy loss rate. The fuel control module controls a rate of fuel injection into the exhaust system upstream of an oxidation catalyst based on the target input energy rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Inventor: Patrick Barasa
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Patent number: 8438838Abstract: A fuel-fired burner in a vehicle exhaust system is used to heat up a frozen NOx reducing agent supply tank within a predetermined target amount of time. A method and apparatus are used to identify when a supply of agent is below a predetermined temperature, and the fuel-fired burner is activated for a sufficient amount of time to raise a temperature of the agent to at least the predetermined temperature with the predetermined target amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control TechnologiesInventor: Navin Khadiya
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Patent number: 8438837Abstract: The present invention involves a method for maintaining temperature in an exhaust gas treatment device for an internal combustion engine in a hybrid vehicle. The engine has a crankshaft and at least one cylinder. The hybrid vehicle has a fuel storage device and a fuel supply device. An exhaust gas treatment device is located downstream of the cylinder. The method comprises, in an engine off mode, pumping air to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device controlling the fuel supply device so that fuel is allowed to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device. Air flow to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device can be controlled by a throttle in an inlet duct to the engine and/or the fuel supply device to control the combustion and air-fuel ratio in the exhaust gas treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Jonas Hermansson, Anders Holger Johnsson, Niklas Vollmer
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Patent number: 8438839Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system for reducing emissions from an engine includes an exhaust conduit adapted to supply an exhaust stream from an engine to an exhaust treatment device. An injector injects a reagent through an aperture in the conduit into the exhaust stream. A vortex breaker includes a mount having a cylindrical sleeve extending through the aperture as well as a flared tube fixed to and positioned within the cylindrical sleeve. A window extends through an upstream portion of the cylindrical sleeve exposing the flared tube to the exhaust stream. The sleeve includes a downstream aperture in fluid communication with the window.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.Inventors: Ryan A. Floyd, Joseph G. Ralph, Christopher J. Kleinfeld, James J. Reynolds, III, Larry J. Greer, Manoj K. Sampath, Michael L. Shovels, Robert P. M. Cloudt, Rik S. G. Baert, Johannes P. M. Smeulers, Erik van den Tillaart
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Patent number: 8434296Abstract: Provided is an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine capable of preventing NOx purification performance from degrading according to the operating condition. The exhaust emission control device comprises a NOx purification catalyst, a catalytic converter for continuously reducing the NOx in the exhaust emissions, a fuel reformer for reforming fuel to manufacture a reformed gas and supplying the reformed gas as the reducing gas from the upstream side of the NOx purification catalyst and the catalytic converter of the exhaust pipe, an operating condition detecting means for detecting the operating condition of an engine, and an enriching means for enriching the exhaust air-fuel ratio. The enriching means enriches the exhaust air-fuel ratio by supplying the reducing gas into the exhaust pipe by using the fuel reformer when the operating condition detected by the operating condition detecting means is a high-load operating condition.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuji Wada, Shinya Ishimaru, Jun Iwamoto, Nobuhiro Komatsu
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Patent number: 8429901Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device 1 is equipped with a plurality of branch exhaust passages 2 and 3; a junction exhaust passage 110; a shutoff valve 4 switching between allowing and shutting off the flow of exhaust gas to the respective branch exhaust passages 2 and 3; a nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 temporarily adsorbing nitrogen oxides in an excess air atmosphere and detaching the adsorbed nitrogen oxides in a reducing atmosphere and reducing the nitrogen oxides in the reducing atmosphere to produce ammonia; a first combustion device 6, disposed on the exhaust upstream side of the nitrogen oxide adsorbing material 5 and having an air supply unit, changing the air supplied from the air supply unit into the reducing atmosphere; and a selective reduction catalyst 19, provided inside the junction exhaust passage 110, selectively reducing the nitrogen oxides by using ammonia as a reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taisuke Ono, Toshihisa Kanda
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Patent number: 8429903Abstract: An exhaust treatment system for machine is disclosed that includes a burner body having an inlet for receiving a flow of exhaust, an outlet for the exhaust flow to exit, an opening and a receiving mount disposed around the opening. A fuel injector head is mounted over the opening in any one of a plurality of angular positions relative to the body. The burner body includes a plurality of mounting pads extending at least partially and circumferentially around the burner body for coupling a support bracket to the burner body in any one of a plurality of positions relative to the burner body. The support bracket may be used to couple the burner to a fixture device such as a cradle for supporting other exhaust treatment system components.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Eric J. Charles, Jack A. Merchant, David L. Demeny, Govind S. Madaiah, Naseer A. Niaz, Eric J. Blankenship, Thomas R. McClure
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Patent number: 8429900Abstract: A liquid container for motor vehicles, especially for an aqueous urea solution, is provided. The container has an interior space into which the liquid can be fed, and also has an upwardly disposed wall to close off the interior space of the container in a fluid type manner. Provided between a maximum liquid level at a maximum filling state in the interior space of the container, and an inner side of the upwardly disposed container wall, is a free space that corresponds to an increase in volume, including the “blooming”, of the liquid that has frozen in the interior space of the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AGInventors: Holger Knetsch, Josef Kreutmair, Robert Zenz, Reinhard Eckert
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Patent number: 8429898Abstract: A dosing control system for a vehicle includes an adaption triggering module, a dosing management module, and an adaption ending module. The adaptation triggering module triggers performance of an adaptation event when a first amount of nitrogen oxides (NOx) measured by a first NOx sensor located downstream of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst is greater than a predicted value of the first amount of NOx. The dosing management module disables dosing agent injection during the adaptation event. The adaptation ending module selectively delays ending the adaptation event after a predetermined number of phases of the adaption event have been completed based on a comparison of the first amount of NOx with a second amount of NOx measured by a second NOx sensor located upstream of the SCR catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Inventors: Rebecca J. Darr, James M. Perrin, Paul Jasinkiewicz, Jason Daniel Mullins, Kyle E. Crawford
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Patent number: 8429905Abstract: A vehicle engine exhaust gas treatment system (10) for use on a tractor comprising storage means (11) for storing urea, injector means (13) for injecting urea into a catalytic converter (21) located in an exhaust (22) of an engine (23), an air duct (29;30) via which air is drawn into the engine, and cooling means for cooling the urea on its passage from the storage means to the injector means, the cooling means comprising a heat exchanger which includes an inner pipe (15; 17) through which the urea flows on its way to the injector means, the inner pipe extending within the air duct (29;30) to cool the urea.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: AGCO GmbHInventors: Thorsten Capelle, Georg Frank
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Publication number: 20130098008Abstract: An exhaust gas heating apparatus (31) according to the present invention comprises an expansion chamber (37) having an inflow port (42) and an outflow port (43), a fuel supplying element (38) for supplying fuel into the expansion chamber, a fuel diffusing plate (39) for dispersing the fuel in the expansion chamber, and ignition means (40) for igniting the fuel in the expansion chamber, wherein an exhaust passage (28) communicated with the inflow port is connected tangentially to a circular peripheral surface (37a) of the expansion chamber, an axis (A) thereof is deviated from an axis (B) of the exhaust passage communicated with the outflow port, and the fuel diffusing plate extends along the peripheral surface of the expansion chamber from close proximity of the inflow port in such a manner as to form a partition between the inflow and outflow ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taiichi Mori
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Patent number: 8424286Abstract: Modification of reductant (e.g., diesel exhaust fluid, DEF) tank location, for example during vehicle up-fitting may result in less than optimal operation of the DEF system due to inaccurate DEF system calibration. In one example approach, the above issue can be at least partially addressed by adjusting control system parameters for system control and diagnostics based on an input indicative of, or any modification to, the DEF tank location. In this way, DEF tank location flexibility is maintained, while also maintaining emission control and diagnostic accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Bret Alan Zimmerman, Dwayne Pollitt, John Paul Bogema, Christopher Oberski, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt
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Patent number: 8424291Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame glow plug having a combustion chamber which has an outlet opening for the flame, a fuel supply, in particular a blockable fuel supply, for the provision of a fuel flow to the combustion chamber, an air supply for the provision of an air flow to the combustion chamber and an ignition device, in particular an electrically operated heating element, which is arranged in the combustion chamber or which extends into the combustion chamber and which is made to ignite the air/fuel mixture arising from the provided fuel flow and the provided air flow. The air supply is made controllable in quantity to selectively operate the flame glow plug as a torch or as a secondary fuel injection apparatus. The invention furthermore relates to a regeneration apparatus for a particulate filter of an exhaust gas system, to an exhaust gas system for a combustion engine as well as to a method for the operation of a regeneration apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignees: Friedrich Boysen GmbH & Co. KG, Beru AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hayri Winter, Christian Muschik, Volker Brichzin, Martin Eller
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Patent number: 8424292Abstract: A system for the monitoring and/or controlling emission levels of nitrogen oxide and a reductant from a stream of combustion exhaust, wherein the internal combustion engine includes a SCR unit disposed in the stream of combustion exhaust between an upstream conduit and a downstream conduit, the SCR unit having a catalyst that is configured to catalytically reduce nitrogen oxides contained in the combustion exhaust to elemental nitrogen in the presence of a reductant and oxygen, and wherein the internal combustion engine further includes a reductant injector; the system comprising: a laser absorption spectroscopy unit that is disposed in the downstream conduit and configured to measure the concentration level of at least nitrogen oxide and the reductant in the exhaust; and a control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Scott M. Hoyte, Vivek V. Badami, Chayan Mitra, Ayan Banerjee
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Patent number: 8424287Abstract: An internal combustion engine vehicle or hybrid-electric vehicle is provided with a vehicle-mounted solar cell array capable of generating electrical power. The solar cell array and other elements, including a metal substrate catalytic convertor form a system for reducing exhaust gas emissions from the vehicle in which the power from the array is applied to minimize exhaust emissions. A primary application of the solar cell array-generated power is to preheat the catalytic convertor to a preferred operating temperature prior to engine start. But the power from the solar cells, directed by a controller, may also be applied to charge the battery or to power electric power receiving devices, for example, to control cabin temperatures. The preferred allocation of the solar power available depends on a number of factors including the state of charge of the batteries, and the time of anticipated next use of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Venkata Prasad Atluri, Yongsheng He, Madhusudan Raghavan
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Patent number: 8424777Abstract: A reducing agent heating system. The reducing agent heating system provides a dual energy heating strategy using both an electric heater and an engine coolant line such that emission control may be promoted efficiently. The electric heater and engine coolant line are disposed in close proximity to the reducing agent such that efficient and quick thawing of frozen or freezing reducing agent is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Mahesh K. Mokire, Rishabh Sinha
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Patent number: 8418444Abstract: Temperature range enabling combustion of high concentration hydrocarbon is enlarged, or high temperature gas is rapidly supplied to a latter part catalyst. Provided is a method for purification of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, by using a catalyst for increasing temperature of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, wherein hydrocarbon from 1,000 to 40,000 ppm by volume, as converted to methane, to the exhaust gas, is introduced at the upstream side of the catalyst for increasing temperature, along flow of the exhaust gas inside a passage of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd., Umicore Shokubai USA IncInventors: Masanori Ikeda, Naohiro Kato
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Patent number: 8418440Abstract: A pump component is removed from a port of a suction-side fluid cavity of a high-pressure fluid pump. The pump component performs a pump function for the high-pressure fluid pump. A primary coupler connects to the port. The pump component connects to the primary coupler. A diverter fluid passage diverts a low-pressure fluid from the primary coupler to an auxiliary fluid delivery system. The primary coupler communicates the low-pressure fluid through the pump component and primary coupler to the port.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Inventors: John T. Carroll, III, Laszlo D. Tikk
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Patent number: 8418441Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling temperature and total hydrocarbon slip in an exhaust system are provided. Control systems can comprise an oxidation catalyst, a particulate filter, a fuel injector, and a processor for controlling a fuel injection based on an oxidation catalyst model. Example system includes a virtual sensor comprising a controller for calculating and providing the total hydrocarbon slip to subsystems for after-treatment management based on modeling the oxidation catalyst. Example methods for controlling the temperature and the total hydrocarbon slip in an exhaust system include the steps of providing an oxidation catalyst model, monitoring a condition of the exhaust system, calculating a hydrocarbon fuel injection flow rate and controlling a fuel injection. The example methods further include the steps of determining an error in the oxidation catalyst model based on the monitored condition and changing the oxidation catalyst model to reduce the error.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Suhao He, Achim Karl-Erich Heibel, Wenbin Qiu