Exhaust Gas Or Exhaust System Element Heated, Cooled, Or Used As A Heat Source Patents (Class 60/320)
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Patent number: 10934911Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder case forming a plurality of coolant outlets, and an exhaust log structure disposed on the cylinder case and including inner and outer walls defining a coolant jacket therebetween, a plurality of coolant inlets extending through the outer wall and being fluidly connected to the coolant jacket, and a plurality of transfer housings. Each transfer housing includes an inner housing wall forming a gas passage, an outer housing wall disposed at an offset distance around the inner housing wall such that a cooling passage is defined in a space between the inner and outer housing walls, and a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet in fluid communication with the cooling passage. The plurality of coolant inlets is fluidly connected to the plurality of coolant outlets via the cooling passages in the plurality of transfer housings.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Byrd, Aaron L. Robinson, Craig P. Hittle, Keith W. Mellencamp
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Patent number: 10823111Abstract: An energy recovery unit (8) for use in a vehicle exhaust system (6), the energy recovery unit (8) comprising an inlet (24) for receiving exhaust gas from the exhaust system (6) and an outlet (26) for returning exhaust gas to the exhaust system (6). The energy recovery unit (8) further comprises a plurality of thermoelectric generators (20) disposed between the inlet (24) and the outlet (26), and a plurality of flow directing members (39). Each flow directing member (39) is configured to direct exhaust gas flow across at least one thermoelectric generator (20).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventor: William Hutchins
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Patent number: 10738674Abstract: An apparatus and method for improving warm-up of a catalytic aftertreatment device is disclosed in which the flow to a catalyst brick is controlled using a flow control device so as to restrict the flow of exhaust gas to only a central core of the catalyst brick when rapid heating of the catalyst brick is desired to reach a light-off temperature and to otherwise allow the flow of exhaust gas to the entire front face of the catalyst brick. By restricting the area of the catalyst brick to which exhaust gas can flow the energy density of the exhaust gas flowing to the central core is higher than it is when there is no restriction of flow thereby reducing the time needed to warm-up the catalyst brick to a minimum light-off temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: William Gerald Barr
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Patent number: 10731608Abstract: A heat exchanger disposed in an exhaust heat recovery device exchanges heat between exhaust and cooling fluid. An inner shell of the heat exchanger externally surrounds an exhaust pipe and forms a heat exchange space between the inner shell and the exhaust pipe to accommodate arranged plates. An outer shell of the heat exchanger includes an EGR opening that leads the exhaust to an inlet system of an internal combustion engine. The outer shell forms an external space leading to the EGR opening between the outer shell and the inner shell. The inner shell includes at least one aperture area that communicates the heat exchange space with the external space.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiki Tsuji
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Patent number: 10669909Abstract: An exhaust purification system is provided with a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and a NOx purge rich control unit that executes NOx purge of reducing and purifying the occluded NOx by putting the exhaust into a rich state by fuel injection control, in a case where a catalyst temperature of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value and a NOx occlusion amount of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than an NOx occlusion amount threshold value, and executes the NOx purge even when the NOx occlusion amount is less than the NOx occlusion amount threshold value, in a case where the catalyst temperature is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value which is greater than the catalyst temperature threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventors: Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka
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Patent number: 10665768Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion module package includes: a thermoelectric conversion module including a first and a second substrate opposed to each other, a plurality of thermoelectric elements arranged between the first and second substrates, and a first and a second lead wire drawn out from one of the first and second substrates; and a package including a first metal foil covering the first substrate of the thermoelectric conversion module, a second metal foil covering the second substrate of the thermoelectric conversion module, a resin portion hermetically connecting the first metal foil and the second metal foil along an outer edge portion of the thermoelectric conversion module, and an insertion portion for hermetically passing the first and second lead wires through the resin portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignees: YAMAHA CORPORATION, TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsutsugu Hamano, Takahiro Hayashi, Yuma Horio, Tomoaki Taniguchi, Yuki Muroi, Takashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10605145Abstract: An assembly includes a heat exchanger, a bypass conduit defining a path for passage for the exhaust gases and bypassing the heat exchanger, and a valve adjusting the amounts of exhaust gases circulating through the heat exchanger and through the bypass conduit respectively. The valve has a driving shaft, and the assembly further comprises a fluid box that is in fluid communication with a heat transfer fluid circulation side of the heat exchanger and arranged around the driving shaft to cool the driving shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Faurecia Systemes D'EchappementInventor: Frederic Greber
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Patent number: 10519838Abstract: Described herein is a unit for conversion of thermal energy designed in particular for installation along an exhaust-gas line of a motor vehicle and configured for exchange and conversion of the thermal energy of the exhaust gases.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per AzioniInventors: Alex Rinaldi, Silvano Sandri, Paolo Graziano
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Patent number: 10502118Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device includes: a first pipe through which exhaust gas from an engine flows; a second pipe that communicates with the first pipe and bypasses the first pipe; a heat recovery unit that is disposed at an interior of the second pipe, and that exchanges heat between the exhaust gas and cooling water that circulates at an interior of the heat recovery unit, and that recovers heat of the exhaust gas; and a heat transfer suppressing mechanism that is provided at a portion connecting the first pipe with the second pipe, and that suppresses transfer of heat from the first pipe to the second pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Murata, Tadashi Nakagawa, Kazunari Matsuura
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Patent number: 10465595Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling an engine exhaust generated by an engine of a work machine having a hydraulically operated implement. The work machine includes an emission control system and a cooling system having an oil cooling system configured to cool an oil of a hydraulic system and an engine cooling system configured to cool an engine coolant circulating through the engine. An exhaust pipe, coupled to the emission control system and configured to direct engine exhaust, includes an outlet disposed in a space located between an oil cooler of the oil cooling system and a radiator of the engine cooling system. An air displacement device is configured to draw air into and away from the oil cooler and the radiator and to draw the exhaust from the exhaust pipe. Exhaust from the exhaust pipe is drawn past the oil cooler and the radiator to cool the exhaust.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Thomas Kennedy, Kevin W. Campbell, Paul A. Wantschik, Travis Graber, Kal J. Airey
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Patent number: 10428722Abstract: A temperature management method for a hybrid vehicle which includes: a flow rate control valve controlling flow of coolant to an engine, a heater, a heat exchanger, and a radiator; and an exhaust heat recovery device coupled to the flow rate control valve via the heater, the exhaust heat recovery device performing heat exchange between the coolant received from the heater and exhaust gas received from the engine, and supplying the heat-exchanged coolant to the engine, includes: identifying whether the heater is on or off; and identifying at least one of an outside air temperature, a coolant temperature, or an oil temperature and operating the flow rate control valve in a flow stop mode to prevent the coolant of the engine from discharging.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Seung Bum Kim
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Patent number: 10415444Abstract: An exhaust conduit for a marine exhaust system includes an inlet end portion connectable to an exhaust manifold, an outlet end portion that directs exhaust gases toward an exhaust system outlet, a catalytic converter assembly arranged between the inlet and outlet end portions, and inner and outer tubes. The inner tube directs exhaust gases from the exhaust manifold to the catalytic converter assembly, and the outer tube surrounds the inner tube to define a cooling liquid passage between the inner and outer tubes. A flange is secured to the inner and outer tubes at inlet ends thereof, the flange being connectable to an outlet of the exhaust manifold. The inner tube has a uniform diameter between the flange and the catalytic converter assembly, and is welded to the flange independently of the outer tube. First and second welds join the inner and outer tubes to the flange at radially inner and outer faces, respectively, of a flange rim.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Indmar Products Company Inc.Inventors: Jason C. Stimmel, Richard J. Waggoner, Kevin J. Kimball, Rachel M. Mashburn, Timothy G. Anderson, Timothy G. Maher
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Patent number: 10330033Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for exhaust gas heat recovery using a bottoming cycle comprising an exhaust heat exchanger. In one example, a method may include maintaining a target thermal energy input to the heat exchanger by opportunistically flowing exhaust through the heat exchanger after storing a portion of thermal energy from the exhaust in a thermal storage device or prior to flowing exhaust through the heat exchanger, heating the exhaust by drawing thermal energy from the thermal storage device.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Quazi Ehtesham Hussain
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Patent number: 10260396Abstract: An exhaust system for a motor vehicle, with an exhaust pipe for discharging exhaust of a device that produces an exhaust. A heat accumulator, which surrounds the exhaust pipe in the peripheral direction with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the exhaust pipe, is present, at least in regions thereof, and, in the radial direction between the exhaust pipe and the heat accumulator over at least a portion of the longitudinal extension the heat accumulator, a cross-section adjusting element for adjusting a passage cross section is arranged between the exhaust pipe and the heat accumulator. The cross-section adjusting element has a first holed pipe, which surrounds the exhaust pipe, and a second holed pipe, which surrounds the first holed pipe. The first holed pipe and the second holed pipe can be shifted in position relative to each other for adjusting the passage cross section.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Karl Jägle, Thomas Hoffmann, Markus Störmer, Alexander Berringer
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Patent number: 10138760Abstract: A working fluid collecting apparatus for a Rankine cycle waste heat recovery system includes a storage tank for storing a working fluid circulated in a Rankine cycle therein, and a collection means for collecting the working fluid into the storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: Jung Min Seo
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Patent number: 10082059Abstract: A system for recovering electrical energy and water from exhaust gasses. The system includes a thermoelectric generator to produce electricity from the waste heat of the exhaust gasses of internal combustion engines and the like. The exhaust is cooled by the thermoelectric generator, air cycle machine and other heat absorbing devise which, through work, reduce the exhaust gas temperature and promote condensation of the water.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Borla Performance Industries, Inc.Inventor: Alexander Borla
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Patent number: 10077703Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery device structure that includes: an exhaust heat recovery device main body that is disposed at an inner side of a floor tunnel formed at a vehicle transverse direction central portion of a floor panel, the exhaust heat recovery device main body carrying out heat exchange between cooling water and gas that is generated at an internal combustion engine of a vehicle; and a metal pipe that extends-out from the exhaust heat recovery device main body, the metal pipe being connected to one end of a resin hose whose another end is connected to the internal combustion engine, the connected portion that connects the metal pipe with the resin hose being provided to the metal pipe further toward a vehicle lower side than the exhaust heat recovery device main body, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshio Murata, Masakazu Shinkai, Takeshi Oya
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Patent number: 9733029Abstract: A cooling system for a vehicle may include a cooling water temperature sensor, a cooling circulation fluid passage including first, second and third fluid passages, wherein the cooling water exhausted from the engine may be branched into the first fluid passage provided with a heater core, the second fluid passage provided with a radiator, and the third fluid passage provided with an exhaust heat recovery apparatus, a fluid flow adjusting valve provided on a point at which the cooling water passing through the cooling water temperature sensor may be branched into the first fluid passage to the third fluid passage to adjust a flow of the cooling water, and a controlling part controlling the first fluid passage to the third fluid passage to be selectively opened or closed by operating the fluid flow adjusting valve depending on the temperature of the cooling water, in a heating mode and a non-heating mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jun Yong Lee
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Patent number: 9702292Abstract: In an exhaust heat recovery device, exhaust gas flows out from a heat exchange outflow port into a heat exchange passage. The exhaust gas having flowed out into the heat exchange passage flows in a radial direction from an inner side to an outer side of a heat exchanger to reach a second heat exchange passage from a first heat exchange passage. A heat exchange is performed in the heat exchanger while the exhaust gas flows.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Arata Kobayashi, Hirohisa Okami
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Patent number: 9562454Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust-gas treatment device for processing exhaust gas from a combustion aggregate, especially a diesel engine. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for processing exhaust gas from a combustion aggregate by means of selective catalytic reaction, and it also relates to a motor vehicle in which the method according to the invention is implemented or which has the exhaust-gas treatment device according to the invention. It is provided that the exhaust-gas treatment device comprises an exhaust-gas system and, arranged in it, an oxidation catalyst, a reduction catalyst for selective catalytic reduction, and a particle filter, whereby the oxidation catalyst is arranged upstream from the reduction catalyst and the reduction catalyst is arranged upstream from the particle filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Jörg Sprute
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Patent number: 9328657Abstract: Various systems and method for heating an engine in a vehicle are described. In one example, intake air flowing in a first direction may be heated via a gas-to-gas heat exchange with exhaust gases. The heated intake air may then be used in a subsequent gas-to-liquid heat exchange to heat a fluid circulating through the engine. In another example, intake air flowing in a second direction may be heated via a heat exchange with exhaust gases in order to cool an exhaust catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Thomas G. Leone
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Patent number: 9194267Abstract: Arrangement for introducing a liquid medium into exhaust gases from a combustion engine, comprising a mixing duct, a first flow guide for creating a first exhaust vortex in the mixing duct such that the exhaust gases in this first exhaust vortex rotate in a first direction of rotation during their movement downstream in the mixing duct, an injector for injecting the liquid medium in the form of a finely divided spray into exhaust gases which are led into the liquid medium in an exhaust flow at the center of the first vortex, and a second flow guide for creating a second exhaust vortex in the mixing duct concentrically with and externally about the first vortex, such that the exhaust gases in this second vortex rotate in a second direction of rotation, which is opposite to said first direction of rotation, during their movement downstream in the mixing duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SCANIA CV ABInventor: Peter Loman
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Patent number: 9169756Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for cooling combustion exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine having a cooling medium, wherein the exhaust gas cooler has an exhaust gas inlet for introducing hot combustion exhaust gas into the exhaust gas cooler. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has an exhaust gas outlet for directing cooled combustion exhaust gas out of the exhaust gas cooler, wherein the exhaust gas outlet is fluidically connected to the exhaust gas inlet. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has at least one coolant inlet for fluidically connecting the exhaust gas cooler to at least one coolant outlet of the internal combustion engine. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has an interface for fluidically connecting a water collecting adapter, wherein the interface is designed to carry the coolant out of the exhaust gas cooler.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Bucher, Oliver Grill
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Patent number: 9163548Abstract: An exhaust system for an engine is provided herein. The exhaust system includes an emission control device and an exhaust manifold having a plurality of runners merging at a confluence section positioned upstream of the emission control device. The exhaust system further includes a mixer plate positioned in the confluence section, the mixer plate including a central opening and a plurality of louvered vents positioned axially around the central opening, the louvered vents having angled openings facing a common rotational direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Cornelius Langston Henderson, IV, Ray Host, Michael Collareno, George I. Tapos, Christopher Oberski
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Patent number: 9115619Abstract: A thermoelectric generator of a vehicle converts thermal energy of exhaust gas of an engine into electric energy by using a thermoelectric phenomenon, and may include: a high-temperature part heated by exchange heat and a plurality of pairs of heat transfer plates mounted on an outer peripheral surface of an exhaust pipe at a predetermined interval; pairs of thermoelectric modules acquired by bonding a P-type semiconductor and an N-type semiconductor, interposed between the pairs of heat transfer plates to generate electricity, and electrically connected to each other; and a low-temperature part interposed between the pairs of thermoelectric modules and cooling inner surfaces of the pairs of thermoelectric modules. The plurality of thermoelectric modules generates electricity by a difference in temperature between heated outer surfaces and cooled inner surfaces. Thermoelectric efficiency is improved and a small-sized thermoelectric generator of a vehicle may be implemented.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, SEJONG IND. CO. LTD.Inventors: Ho-Chan An, Jong-Ho Seon, Ho-Cheol Seo, Sung-Ool Jang
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Patent number: 9091203Abstract: An apparatus to use waste heat from an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, wherein the apparatus has an exhaust gas line to remove exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas line is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of a thermoelectric generator, and a latent heat accumulator is thermally connected to the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric generator.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Karlheinz Geradts, Werner Sonnleitner
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Publication number: 20150135689Abstract: A heat exchanger (7) for an exhaust gas system (5) of an internal combustion engine (1) includes a thermoelectric generator (13) with plural thermoelectric elements (15) that each have a hot side (16) and a cold side (17). A heating channel (18) conducts a heating medium on the hot sides and a cooling channel (19) conducts cooling medium on the cold sides (17). The thermoelectric generator (13), the heating channel (18), and the cooling channel (19) are arranged adjacent in a stacking direction (20) and form a channel stack (21). A housing (8) that encloses an interior (22) accommodates the channel stack (21) and has medium inlets (9, 11), outlets (10, 12) and electrical connections (14). The thermoelectric elements are arranged in a double-walled intermediate bottom (15) that separates the cooling channel (19) from the heating channel (18), adjacent to said cooling channel, in regard to fluid flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Andreas Resch
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Publication number: 20150135690Abstract: The invention relates to a system for recovering energy in an exhaust gas circuit (3) of a heat engine (1) of a vehicle, said system comprising an exhaust gas bypass duct (15) comprising a heat exchanger (18). An energy recovery system according to the invention is mainly characterised by the fact that the part of the exhaust circuit arranged downstream of the connection point (17) of the bypass duct (15) for connecting to said circuit (3) is provided with a valve (16) that can at least partially close the exhaust circuit (3), and the by-pass duct (15) comprises, at the outlet of the exchanger (18), a first pipeline (20) running into the admission circuit (2, 6) and a second pipeline (21) running into the exhaust circuit (3) downstream of the valve (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Grégory Hodebourg, Samuel Leroux
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Patent number: 9032715Abstract: A method and device for controlling emissions of VOC's comprises transporting VOC's to an engine and transporting the exhaust from the engine into a manifold. Supplemental air is transporting into the manifold and heat is transferred from the exhaust to the supplemental air within the manifold. The supplemental air is mixed with the exhaust and the mixture is transferred to a pollution abatement device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BRB/SHERLINE, INC.Inventor: Bernhardt R. Bruns
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Publication number: 20150128578Abstract: A cooling system for actively cooling an exhaust gas system, comprises an exhaust pipe which conducts an exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine and an air-conducting element. The air-conducting element surrounds the exhaust pipe and forms an air-conducting channel. The exhaust pipe is cooled by an air flow which flows through the air-conducting channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventor: Bernd Helferich
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Patent number: 9027326Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle exhaust heat recovery system including a first exhaust line fluidically connected to a heat exchanger, a second exhaust line fluidically connected to the first exhaust line, and an inanimate flow regulator in the first exhaust line configured to limit exhaust flow under predetermined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Kenneth J. Jackson, Nimrod Kapas
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Patent number: 9027334Abstract: A trough filter integrated with a thermoelectric generator includes annular filter modules having a support structure at its inner circumference, a filter element, and a support structure at its outer circumference. The filter elements may be configured to form troughs. An annular exhaust gas outlet channel or gas inlet channel may be formed between filter modules. The thermoelectric generator may be positioned in the exhaust gas outlet or inlet channel. A vehicle includes the trough filter integrated with a thermoelectric generator downstream from an internal combustion engine. A method of treating exhaust gas uses a trough filter with an integrated thermoelectric generator.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Thomas Dale Ketcham
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Publication number: 20150121846Abstract: The invention relates to a system for recovering energy from an exhaust gas circuit (3) of a heat engine (1), including an exhaust gas by-pass pipe (12) that includes a heat exchanger with two compartments, and has a first manifold (14) leading into one compartment (16) and a second manifold (15) leading into the other compartment (17), said system comprising a first valve (18) installed in the exhaust circuit (3) and capable of controlling the flow of gases into each of said manifolds (14, 15), and a second valve (20) intended to control the flow of gases at the outlet of the heat exchanger (13). The main technical feature of a system for recovering energy according to the invention is that the first valve (18) can only be used in two positions, a first position wherein same seals the first manifold (14), and a second position wherein same seals the exhaust circuit (3) and only allows the exhaunt gases to flow into the first manifold (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Grégory Hodebourg, Samuel Leroux
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Patent number: 9021795Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat transfer device, more preferably for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, preferentially of a motor vehicle, with at least one warm tube for conducting a fluid emitting heat, with at least one cold tube for conducting a fluid absorbing heat and with at least one thermoelectric generator for generating electric energy from a temperature difference, wherein a thermoelectric generator each is arranged between a warm tube and a cold tube. The efficiency of the heat transfer device is improved if the respective thermoelectric generator is in contact with the respective tube via a heat conducting material and if the respective heat conducting material is configured as shaped body.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Eberspaecher Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Arnulf Spieth, Anika Bürkle, Ming Dong, Jörg Oesterle, Angela Hettel
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Publication number: 20150114366Abstract: Systems and method for extracting energy from a gas are disclosed herein. In particular, systems and methods for implementing a series of thermodynamic transformations by means of which it is possible to extract useful work from a gas carrying thermal energy due its thermodynamic state are disclosed. An example system for extracting energy from a cycle gas can include an expander for expanding the cycle gas, a heat exchanger in fluid connection with the expander for cooling the expanded cycle gas while maintaining the expanded cycle gas at an approximately constant pressure, and a compressor in fluid connection with the heat exchanger for compressing the cooled cycle gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Codrin-Gruie Cantemir, Fabio Chiara, Marcello Canova
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Patent number: 9016047Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for controlling nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas received by an exhaust system, the exhaust system including a first selective catalytic reduction device, an exhaust gas heat recovery device and a second selective catalytic reduction device is provided. The method includes flowing the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into the first selective catalytic reduction device, receiving the exhaust gas from the first selective catalytic reduction device into the exhaust gas heat recovery device and directing the exhaust gas to a heat exchanger in the exhaust gas heat recovery device based on a temperature of the internal combustion engine proximate moving engine components. The method includes adsorbing nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas via a nitrogen oxide adsorbing catalyst disposed in the heat exchanger and flowing the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas heat recovery device into the second selective catalytic reduction device.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technologies Operations LLCInventors: Eugene V. Gonze, Chang H. Kim, Michael J. Paratore, Jr., George M. Claypole
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Patent number: 9016048Abstract: An exhaust arrangement for an internal combustion engine. The exhaust arrangement includes a diffuser duct including a wall surface which diverges between an inlet and a first outlet. The arrangement further includes an auxiliary duct extending from a second outlet of the diffuser duct. The second diffuser duct outlet being located on the wall surface between the diffuser duct inlet and the first outlet. The auxiliary duct includes a heat recovery device configured to convert heat energy from exhaust gases passing through the auxiliary duct in use to mechanical or electrical energy.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Stephen Gallimore
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Publication number: 20150107242Abstract: An exhaust system with post-operation cooling for a vehicle is provided. The vehicle generally has a heat generating device that generates exhaust gas. The exhaust system includes an exhaust gas conduit through which at least a portion of the exhaust gas is flowable and dischargeable, and at least one exhaust gas component in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit. The exhaust system also includes an air intake conduit through which outside air is flowable, and an air pump in fluid communication with the air intake conduit. The air intake conduit is in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit upstream of the at least one exhaust gas component. The air pump is configured to draw the outside air into the air intake conduit such that the outside air is supplied to the exhaust gas conduit to cool the at least one exhaust gas component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Michael G. Long, Gerald M. Simon, Kulbir S. Dhuga
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Publication number: 20150101321Abstract: An exhaust flap device for an internal combustion engine includes a flap housing and an actuator. The flap housing comprises an exhaust gas duct arranged in the flap housing. The exhaust gas duct is configured to have an exhaust gas flow there-through. An exhaust flap is arranged in the exhaust gas duct and is mounted in the flap housing. The exhaust flap is configured to rotate. A coolant duct is arranged in the flap housing so as to at least partially surround the exhaust flap. The actuator comprises an electric motor and an actuator housing which comprises an actuator coolant duct. The actuator is configured to drive the exhaust flap. The coolant duct arranged in the flap housing is configured to be in a direct fluid communication with the actuator coolant duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: PIERBURG GMBHInventors: Hans-Ulrich Kuehnel, Peter Corbach, Elina Sovva
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Publication number: 20150101309Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an energy recovery system for a vehicle powered by an engine. The energy recovery system includes a thermoelectric module which is interfaced with a heat source of the vehicle. The heat source generates waste heat. Further, the waste heat provides a high temperature heat source for the thermoelectric module. A low temperature heat source is also interfaced with the thermoelectric module. A temperature difference between the high temperature heat source and the low temperature heat source generates thermoelectric power. A controller is configured to control a parameter of the engine to maintain an optimal value of the temperature difference between the high temperature heat source and the low temperature heat source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.Inventor: Harinder S. Lamba
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Patent number: 9003784Abstract: A module for a thermoelectric generator includes first and second ends, at least one inner tube and one outer tube disposed around the outside of the inner tube and at least one thermoelectric element disposed between the inner and outer tubes. The inner and outer tubes are each electrically insulated from the at least one thermoelectric element. At least one electrically conductive first contact is provided on each of the first and second ends, for electrically conductively connecting the at least one thermoelectric element to an electrical conductor. The module can conduct a fluid or coolant flow through the module from the first end to the second end. An electrical conductor, a thermoelectric generator, a motor vehicle and a method for producing a module, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Sigrid Limbeck, Rolf Brück
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Patent number: 9003779Abstract: A wheel loader includes an engine, a selective catalyst reduction device, and an injection device accommodated in an engine room defined by a vehicle body cover. The wheel loader further includes a partition plate, a reducing agent tank, a reducing agent pump, and a reducing agent pipe. The selective catalyst reduction device is for treating exhaust gas from the engine. The injection device is for injecting reducing agent into the exhaust gas fed from the engine toward the selective catalyst reduction device. The partition plate is disposed between the selective catalyst reduction device and the vehicle body cover. The reducing agent tank stores reducing agent. The reducing agent pump supplies the reducing agent from the reducing agent tank to the injection device. The reducing agent pipe connects the reducing agent pump and the injection device, and extends between the vehicle body cover and the partition plate inside the engine room.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Shirou Kanamori
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Patent number: 8997464Abstract: A waste heat recovery system with an integrated hydrocarbon adsorber for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine that generates exhaust gas containing hydrocarbons, and a catalytic converter, includes an exhaust gas conduit, an exhaust gas heat exchanger, a heat exchanger bypass valve, a coolant circuit with a coolant bypass and a coolant bypass valve, and a controller. The exhaust gas heat exchanger includes at least one channel through which the exhaust gas is flowable, the channel having an interior surface coated with a hydrocarbon adsorbing material configured to adsorb hydrocarbons. The heat exchanger and coolant bypass valves are configured to selectively direct at least a portion of the exhaust gas and the coolant, respectively, to the exhaust gas heat exchanger or to bypass it. They are controlled by the controller such that the hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas are selectively adsorbable by and desorbable from the coating.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Halim G. Santoso, Eugene V. Gonze, Chang H. Kim
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Patent number: 8997470Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device for an internal combustion engine, including: an electrically heated catalyst which has a catalyst carrier supporting a catalyst and a carrier retention unit which is provided on an outer periphery of the catalyst carrier, which retains the catalyst carrier, and which has an electrical insulation property; and a cooling unit which cools the carrier retention unit. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the temperature of the carrier retention unit from becoming high, and it becomes possible to appropriately ensure the insulation property of the electrically heated catalyst. Hence, it becomes possible to expand a condition range in which the current can be applied to the electrically heated catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Noriaki Kumagai, Naoya Takagi
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Publication number: 20150089922Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine that includes an exhaust gas heat recovery system are described. The system may reduce engine warm-up time and increase an amount of time an engine of a hybrid vehicle is deactivated while the hybrid vehicle is powered by a motor. In one example, a phase change material selectively stores and releases exhaust gas energy from and engine to improve vehicle operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Quazi Ehtesham Hussain, William Samuel Schwartz, David Richens Brigham, Mark John Jennings, Furqan Zafar Shaikh, Michael Levin, Donald Masch, Danrich Henry Demitroff, James Patrick O'Neill
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Patent number: 8991165Abstract: Energy recovery systems can utilize waste heat from an internal combustion engine or other base energy conversion system in the operation of hydrogen processors. Some energy recovery systems can utilize more than one source of waste heat from the energy converting system for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Inventor: Lyle Bates
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Publication number: 20150082774Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a guiding pipe, a first heating section, and a second heating section. The vehicle body has a partition wall that partitions a space in an inner section into a first region and a second region. The guiding pipe is configured to guide a reducing agent. The guiding pipe has a first pipe section and a second pipe section. The first pipe section is positioned inside the first region. The second pipe section is positioned in the second region. The first heating section heats the first pipe section. The second heating section heats the second pipe section and adjusts the temperature independently from the first heating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Kiichirou Kouno, Ken Itou, Jin Yogita, Kozo Okuda, Yasuyuki Onodera, Hideo Oguri, Shouhei Nagasaka, Minato Tomuro
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Publication number: 20150082777Abstract: This burner is disposed at the upstream side of a DPF and raises the temperature of exhaust by combusting an air-fuel mixture of air and fuel in a combustion region within a flame holder. The burner is provided with: an upstream-side cover enclosing the peripheral wall of the flame holder; and a partition wall that partitions the gap between the flame holder and the upstream-side cover into a prior-stage exhaust chamber and a latter-state exhaust chamber. An exhaust tube through which exhaust from an engine flows is connected to the upstream-side cover; a through hole that interconnects the prior-stage exhaust chamber and the latter-stage exhaust chamber is formed at the partition wall; exhaust flows in from the exhaust tube at the prior-stage exhaust chamber; and exhaust flows in from the prior-stage exhaust chamber through the through hole to the latter-stage exhaust chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Ichiro Tsumagari, Ryo Shibuya, Atsushi Koide
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Patent number: 8984869Abstract: An exhaust gas emission control system for a diesel engine, having an oxidation catalyst (DOC) (7) and a diesel particulate filter (DPF) (9) in an exhaust passage, wherein a late post-injection control unit (62), which injects fuel into a combustion chamber at a timing not contributing to combustion in DPF regeneration control, feedback controls a late post-injection amount such that a regeneration amount of soot regenerated by the DPF (9) becomes a target soot regeneration amount per unit time.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ko Takayanagi, Keisuke Okuda
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Patent number: 8984864Abstract: An exhaust system for treating exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The system comprises a three-way catalyst (TWC), a fuel reformer catalyst located downstream of the TWC, and a fuel supply means located upstream of the fuel reformer catalyst. The exhaust gas is split into two portions. The first portion of the exhaust gas bypasses the TWC and contacts the fuel reformer catalyst in the presence of fuel added from the fuel supply means, and is then recycled back to the engine intake. The second portion of the exhaust gas is contacted with the TWC and is then utilized to heat the fuel reformer catalyst before being expelled to atmosphere. The exhaust system allows for maximum heat exchange from the exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Kirsty Ellen Cockle, Paul James Millington, Edward James Richard Moss, John Frederick Pignon