With Condition Responsive Valve Means To Control Supercharged Flow And Exhaust Products Patents (Class 60/600)
  • Patent number: 11835013
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cylinder head for covering a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The cylinder head comprises at least one material recess for heat isolation, which is formed in a main body of the cylinder head and is arranged between a fluid-guide channel and a cooling channel. The material recess can be produced e.g. directly during the shaping (e.g. casting or pressing) of the cylinder head and/or thereafter. For example, in the event that exhaust gas is guided through the fluid-guide channel, a significantly lower heat input occurs from the hot exhaust gas into the cooling fluid. In addition, the thermal decoupling via the material recess leads to the hot exhaust gas cooling to a lesser degree in the fluid-guide channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS SE
    Inventors: Steffen Hirschmann, Thomas Malischewski
  • Patent number: 11795864
    Abstract: A coolant valve for a motor vehicle. The coolant valve includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a valve seat which surrounds a flow cross-section formed between the inlet and the outlet, and a control body which is placeable on and liftable off the valve seat via an actuator. The control body has through-going bores via which the inlet is continuously connected to a chamber on a side of the control body which faces away from the inlet, a first annular protrusion which axially extends towards the valve seat and via which the control body is placed on the valve seat, a wall which extends radially between the first annular protrusion and the through-going bores, and an axial groove which extends in a circumferential direction and which is delimited radially to an outside by the first annular protrusion and radially to an inside by the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PIERBURG GMBH
    Inventors: Besart Sadiku, Dominik Nieborg
  • Patent number: 11512627
    Abstract: An intake system for use with an internal combustion engine having one or more cylinders. The intake system including a compressor assembly having an inlet and an outlet, and where the outlet is configured to be open to and in fluid communication with at least one of the one or more cylinders. The intake system also includes a passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet and configured to direct a first flow of gasses and a controller in operable communication with the compressor assembly. Where the intake system is operable in a first mode in which the majority of gasses of the first flow of gasses flow through the passageway toward the outlet, and a second mode in which the majority of gasses of the first flow of gasses flow through the passageway toward the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Pratir Punjani, Joseph R. Gonsowski, Brian Bratvold
  • Patent number: 11345429
    Abstract: One variation of a system includes: a cam block mounted to a deck of a scooter and defining cam lobes arranged about a pivot feature and cam heels between the set of cam lobes; a pivot block pivotably coupled to the pivot feature and defining followers riding over the cam lobes; a pair of wheel uprights locating a pair of wheel assemblies; a first lateral link extending between and coupled to the pair of wheel uprights and pivotably coupled to the pivot block; a second lateral link extending between and coupled to the pair of wheel uprights, vertically offset from the first lateral link, and coupled to the pivot block between pair of wheel uprights; and a spring element driving the followers of the pivot block into cam heels to bias the second lateral link toward a neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Trio Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul M. Newby, Stephen K. Kershner, Michael Siu Wei Yim, Chris Tacklind
  • Patent number: 11286845
    Abstract: A method for controlling and engine system with a plurality of turbochargers. At least one of the plurality of turbochargers has a turbine valve, a compressor valve, and actuators operable to change the position of the turbine valve. The method comprises controlling the actuator based on the presence of a transient event or a steady state event. During a transient event an engine control module can control the actuators to change the turbine valve to opened and closed positions and the turbine valve to a closed position based on the comparison between a corrected mass flow per turbocharger to a mass flow threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Shivangi Wagle, Liangtao Zhu, Kevin Sergott, Eric Schroeder, Arvind Sivasubramanian, Travis Barnes
  • Patent number: 11268436
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling transient behaviour of an internal combustion engine (10) being provided with a turbocharger (110) and a variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) arranged upstream a compressor (120) of the turbocharger (110). The method comprises determining a current operational condition indicative of transient behaviour, and, if said transient behaviour requires compressor acceleration: determining a desired operational condition of the compressor (120), and controlling the position of the variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) based on the desired operational condition of the compressor (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Krausche, Martin Bauer
  • Patent number: 11149665
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling engine derating of an internal combustion engine (10) being provided with a turbocharger (110) and a variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) arranged upstream a compressor (120) of the turbocharger (110). The method comprises determining a current operational condition requiring engine derating, detecting a current operational condition of the compressor (120), and controlling the position of the variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) based on the detected operational condition of the compressor (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Krausche, Martin Bauer
  • Patent number: 11066977
    Abstract: In one aspect, an engine ignition apparatus for a natural gas engine may include a housing including a drive piston, a floating piston, a controllable hydraulic fluid chamber located between the drive piston and the floating piston, and an ignition chamber acted on by the floating piston, the ignition chamber having an outlet formed by a plurality of orifices, the outlet being in direct communication with a combustion chamber of the engine. In another aspect, an engine ignition apparatus for a natural gas engine may include, among other features, a controllable valve connected to a hydraulic fluid chamber, and configured to open and release a hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid chamber, and to close. In still another aspect, a method for controlling an engine ignition apparatus for an engine includes, among other features, controlling a volume of a hydraulic fluid chamber of an ignition apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: David Y. Chang
  • Patent number: 11041473
    Abstract: A control device includes an injection control unit, an ignition control unit, an idling stop control unit, and a boost control unit. The injection control unit executes a rich reduction control that makes an air-fuel ratio richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio when the engine operation has been resumed by resuming supply of fuel to a combustion chamber. Further, the boost control unit is configured to execute a valve-closing keeping control that keeps a wastegate closed until a condition for cancelling the valve-closing keeping control has been satisfied by the engine operation that was performed after closing the wastegate during execution of a fuel cut-off control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Okubo
  • Patent number: 10974296
    Abstract: A volume flow regulating valve for controlling the volume flow of a fluid medium in two outflow ducts. The volume flow regulating valve is composed of a cylinder with a dual piston mounted axially displaceably in the cylinder, with a central pressure chamber being formed in the region of the barbell-shaped central piece of the dual piston. Aside from an inlet for the fluid medium, it is also the case that the two outlet ducts are provided at the central pressure chamber. The outlet ducts are arranged on the cylinder with such an axial spacing that—when the dual piston is situated in a central position in relation to the two outlet ducts—the first outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the first piston—and the second outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the second piston—each open up an equal opening cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Knie, Johannes Alken
  • Patent number: 10876483
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is configured, where a designated cam switching condition is met, to execute a boost pressure control processing and an air amount control processing. In the boost pressure control processing, the control device controls a boost pressure control device such that a boost pressure control parameter does not increase in synchronization with execution of a cam switching operation and decreases in accordance with an increase of a required engine torque after the execution of the cam switching operation. In the air amount control processing, the control device controls the opening degree of a throttle valve to its closed side in synchronization with the cam switching operation such that a difference of an in-cylinder charge air amount is not produced before and after the execution of the cam switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Takayoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 10830108
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for utilizing the waste heat of combustion gases of an internal combustion engine, wherein the combustion gases are directed to a first turbine, a subsequent second turbine, and a precooling heat exchanger with water separation. Whereby the combustion gases formed as a result of combustion of air and fuel in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine according to an Electric Turbo Compounding (ETC) system are expanded after the first turbine to a pressure of less than 0.45 bar in the second turbine, and wherein said first turbine is connected by a shaft to a combustion gas compressor that pressurizes the combustion gases from the precooling heat exchanger to atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Systematic Power
    Inventor: Ari Löytty
  • Patent number: 10823049
    Abstract: A method of preventing surge for a vehicle may include detecting, by a controller, whether tip-out of an accelerator pedal is detected, comparing, by the controller, a difference value, obtained by subtracting an exhaust pressure from an intake pressure in a combustion chamber of an engine, with a predetermined reference value when the tip-out of the accelerator pedal is detected, driving, by the controller, a supercharger disposed at the rear end portion of a turbocharger at a predetermined number of revolutions per minute, which is lower than a normal number of revolutions per minute, when the difference value is greater than the reference value, and opening a bypass valve, which performs opening or closing operation and is disposed in a bypass line that diverges from an upstream point of the supercharger and is connected to a downstream point of the supercharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp.
    Inventors: Seung Eun Yu, Haeng Pyo Heo, Min Taek Kim
  • Patent number: 10808604
    Abstract: A drive system for driving a motor vehicle is provided. The drive system includes a first turbocharger, a second turbocharger, and an internal combustion engine. The first turbocharger and the second turbocharger are, for the drive of the motor vehicle, operatively connected to the internal combustion engine. The first turbocharger and the second turbocharger are, in a height direction of a crankcase of the internal combustion engine, arranged one above the other in a defined corridor adjacent to the crankcase. The invention also provides a motor vehicle including the drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Sailer, Jan Velthuis
  • Patent number: 10677181
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine with a plurality of deactivating valves for deactivating engine cylinders are presented. In one example, a plurality of different cylinder operating modes may be available to operate the engine. Engine fuel consumption in each of the plurality of different cylinder operating modes is estimated and the engine may be operated in the cylinder mode that provides greatest fuel efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Doering, John Eric Rollinger, Karen Willard, Brett Dryer
  • Patent number: 10662903
    Abstract: A powertrain system is provided and may include a combustion engine, a crankshaft, and a turbo-compounding system. The combustion engine may include an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold. The crankshaft may be driven by the engine. The turbo-compounding system may be configured to drive the crankshaft and may include a first turbine and a drive system. The first turbine may include an inlet fluidly communicating with the exhaust manifold. The drive system may include an input shaft driven by the first turbine, and an output shaft engaged with the crankshaft. The drive system may be configured to drive the output shaft at more than one drive ratio relative to the input shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustav R. Johnson, Gary L. Hunter, Julian Sherborne
  • Patent number: 10648401
    Abstract: In an engine system 10 having a high-pressure stage turbocharger 11 and a low-pressure stage turbocharger 12 provided in series, a control device 40 is configured to perform control such that when switching from multi-stage supercharging Cm to single-stage supercharging Cs, after only the exhaust bypass valve 23 is opened, and thereafter, an intake bypass valve 21 is opened later than at a timing at which the exhaust bypass valve 23 is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Motoki Mitsuyama, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Hotaka Saitou, Hitoshi Takikawa
  • Patent number: 10641164
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine equipped with a turbocharger (5) including a turbine (40) and a compressor (27) that are arranged in a coaxial relationship, the internal combustion engine includes an exhaust pipe (41) extending from an outlet (59) of the turbine along a side of the compressor, an actuator (90) attached to a part of the compressor for controlling a flow path of the turbocharger, and a fluid pipe (76, 79) conducting fluid and extending through a space defined between the exhaust pipe and the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nakada, Azuki Ichikawa, Yuhei Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10590838
    Abstract: A supercharger includes a first introduction part having a first flow channel; a second introduction part having a second flow channel; a chamber into which the exhaust gas is introduced; an outlet part having one or a plurality of outlet flow channels; and a valve member housed in the chamber. The chamber has a first introduction port that leads to the first flow channel, a second introduction port that leads to the second flow channel, and one or a plurality of outlet ports that lead to the outlet flow channel. A main circulation space is secured. The valve member is capable of opening or closing, and allows two or more opened ports among the first introduction port, the second introduction port, and the outlet port to communicate with each other through the main circulation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Rankenberg, Maik Schram, Jochem Hooijer, Rogier Schimmel, Yosuke Dammoto, Motoki Ebisu, Toru Hoshi
  • Patent number: 10570815
    Abstract: A turbocharger system includes a wastegate with a bypass passage and a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes a poppet with an axis. The valve assembly also includes an arm that is attached to the poppet and that supports movement of the poppet between a closed position and an open position. Additionally, the valve assembly includes a plurality of biasing members that are disposed within a joint between the poppet and the arm. The plurality of biasing members provides a biasing force directed in a radial direction relative to the axis. The plurality of biasing members is disposed substantially symmetrically with respect to a first radial line of symmetry and a second radial line of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: John Gong, Henry Guo, Judy Wang, XiaoLei Jin, Xinlei Qiu
  • Patent number: 10533491
    Abstract: A connecting assembly includes an actuator connecting rod defining a rod aperture, configured to be coupled to an actuator, and moveable between first and second rod positions by the actuator. The connecting assembly also includes a lever arm coupled to the actuator connecting rod, defining a lever aperture, configured to be coupled to a wastegate valve, and moveable between first and second arm positions by the actuator connecting rod. The connecting assembly further includes a pin having a first pin portion disposed in one of the rod and lever apertures and having a first diameter, a second pin portion disposed in the other of the rod and lever apertures and having a second diameter larger than the first diameter, and a third pin portion having a third diameter larger than the first and second diameters to allow pivotable movement between the actuator connecting rod and the lever arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander George Milburn
  • Patent number: 10502122
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling boost pressure in a staged engine system comprising a turbocharger and an upstream electric supercharger. In one example, a method may include accelerating an electric supercharger to choke the flow of air to the engine in the event of turbocharger overboost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Baitao Xiao, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Adam Nathan Banker
  • Patent number: 10465600
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which is configured to: acquire an internal combustion engine required opening degree of the waste gate valve based on the operation state of the internal combustion engine. When the internal combustion engine required opening degree is full closing, full closing learning control is carried out by converting the target opening degree of the waste gate valve to a target opening degree for full closing learning so as to bring about a state in which the waste gate valve fully closes the exhaust bypass passage. When a state in which the position of the actuator does not change consequently continues for a set period, it is considered that the fully closed state is brought about and the full closing learning is finished, and a correction amount for the feedback control is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Ono, Junichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10408124
    Abstract: A control method for a turbocharger system may include controlling opening levels of an intake bypass valve, an exhaust bypass valve, and a throttle valve according to a driving condition of a vehicle by a controller, and executing a series of commands by the controller, including determining whether an engine rpm satisfies a set low/medium speed condition, determining whether an acceleration request condition is satisfied when the engine rpm satisfies the set low/medium speed condition, closing the intake bypass valve, and controlling an opening angle of the exhaust bypass valve according to the acceleration request condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yoon Joo Kim, Seung Kook Han, Il Joong Hwang, Dong Ho Chu, Jong Il Park, Dong Hee Han, Hyuk Im, Hyun Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 10393039
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, while both a first exhaust valve and second exhaust valve of a cylinder are open, intake air may be routed through a flow passage coupled between the intake passage and the first exhaust manifold, the first exhaust manifold coupled to the first exhaust valve. The intake air may be further routed through the first exhaust valve, into the cylinder, and out of the second exhaust valve to the second exhaust manifold coupled to the exhaust passage including a turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Corey Weaver
  • Patent number: 10393562
    Abstract: A method for determining a gas consumption of a gas-powered gas engine or a gas-powered dual-fuel engine. The engine is operated under actual operating conditions, and the actual gas consumption of the engine is acquired under the actual operating conditions. A target gas consumption of the engine to be anticipated under target operating conditions is calculated depending on the actual gas consumption and depending on discrepancies between the actual operating conditions and the target operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Stefan Peters, Günter Heider, Thomas Kremser
  • Patent number: 10337422
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger, a bypass passage, a waste gate valve, a turbo bypass valve, an air-fuel ratio sensor and an electronic control unit. The air-fuel ratio sensor is provided in an exhaust passage downstream of a merging point at which the bypass passage merges with the exhaust passage. The electronic control unit is configured to, when a predetermined acceleration request is established and a required opening degree of the turbo bypass valve is larger than a predetermined reference opening degree, execute air-fuel ratio control for changing an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine for a predetermined first period, and close the waste gate valve based on a convergence status of detected air-fuel ratio fluctuations. The detected air-fuel ratio fluctuations are fluctuations in air-fuel ratio that is detected by the air-fuel ratio sensor resulting from the air-fuel ratio control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Hosoya, Yasuyuki Irisawa, Hirofumi Kubota, Takashi Tsunooka
  • Patent number: 10309353
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine provided with a supercharger provided in an intake passage and an exhaust passage, an LPL-type EGR device, an intake manifold placed immediately upstream of the engine, an electric throttle device placed in the intake passage upstream of the intake manifold, a fresh air inflow passage introducing fresh air into the intake passage downstream of the electric throttle device, and a fresh air inflow valve to regulate the fresh air amount. The intake manifold includes a surge tank and branch pipes branching off from the surge tank. The fresh air inflow passage includes an inlet connected to the intake passage upstream of an outlet port of the EGR passage. A fresh air distribution pipe distributing the fresh air to each of the branch pipes of the intake manifold is provided on an outlet side of the fresh air inflow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehide Nakamura, Shinji Kawai, Daigo Oyabu
  • Patent number: 10280855
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device equipped with air cylinders and an EGR mechanism that returns exhaust gas emitted from the air cylinders to the intake side of the air cylinders is provided. The internal combustion engine control device includes an EGR control unit that controls the EGR flow volume of the EGR mechanism, and a humidity detection unit that directly or indirectly detects the humidity of outside air supplied to the air cylinders. The EGR control unit calculates the moisture amount in the outside air and the moisture amount in the recirculated exhaust gas, and controls the EGR mechanism on the basis of: a stable combustion limit air cylinder mass, which is set in accordance with the combustion state in the air cylinders; the mass of the air introduced into the air cylinders; the mass of the fuel; and the moisture amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Yoshihiko Akagi
  • Patent number: 10167804
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing compressor bypass valve degradation. In one example, a method may include indicating degradation of a compressor bypass valve coupled in a compressor bypass based on intake aircharge temperature measured upstream of a compressor inlet via an air charge temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Baitao Xiao, Adam Nathan Banker
  • Patent number: 10167792
    Abstract: An engine system includes an intake line, an exhaust line, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, a turbocharger including a turbine provided in the exhaust line, and a compressor provided in the intake line, wherein the compressor compresses outside air, an intake bypass line which branches off from the intake line at a rear end of the compressor and merges into the intake line at the front end of the compressor, a recirculation valve installed at a point at which the intake bypass line and the intake line merge together, and a controller which controls operations of opening and closing the recirculation valve so that a portion of the intake gas compressed by the compressor is supplied into the intake line at the front end of the compressor through the intake bypass line, or the intake gas is supplied into the combustion chamber through the intake bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Choo Saeng Choi
  • Patent number: 10146192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting at least one control parameter (KP) of an internal combustion engine (200) by means of at least two setting parameters (SP), having the following steps: determining an optimum steady-state combination (110) of the at least two setting parameters (SP) in order to obtain the setpoint value (104) under steady-state boundary conditions, producing a functional dynamic relationship (120) between the control error (100), a setting expenditure (130) for the at least two setting parameters (SP) and the determined steady-state combination (110), optimizing the dynamic relationship (120) in order to determine an optimum dynamic combination (140) of the at least two setting parameters (SP), and using the optimum dynamic combination (140) for the following adjustment step during the adjustment of the at least one control parameter (KP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: FEV GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Nijs, Norman Liberda, Thivaharan Ablin Rajasingham, Dirk Abel
  • Patent number: 10125727
    Abstract: An EGR channel and an EGR valve are provided for introducing EGR gas into an intake channel upstream of a compressor that supercharges intake air. There is provided an intake bypass channel that connects the intake channel downstream of the compressor and the EGR channel immediately downstream the EGR valve along the direction of the flow of the EGR gas to each other, and a bypass valve capable of selecting a configuration of an intake air flow channel from among a first channel in which the intake air having passed through the compressor passes through the intake channel and flows into a cylinder and a second channel in which in the state where the EGR valve is closed, part of the intake air having passed through the compressor passes through the intake bypass channel and the EGR channel and is recirculated to a part upstream of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10094309
    Abstract: An engine device executes the control of the opening degree of a main throttle valve when engine load is in a low load area. In contrast, when the engine load is in a medium-to-high load area, the engine device sets the main throttle valve to a predetermined opening degree and executes the control of the opening degree of an air supply bypass valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hagiwara, Osamu Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10094272
    Abstract: An assembly for an exhaust bypass valve of a two-stage turbocharger can include a first turbocharger stage; a second turbocharger stage; an exhaust bypass valve that includes an open state and a closed state; and a linkage mechanism that links the exhaust bypass valve to an actuator where the linkage mechanism includes a locked state for the closed state of the exhaust bypass valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Groves, Damien Marsal, Stephane Sibille, Andreas Heckner
  • Patent number: 10087827
    Abstract: A valve device for a vehicle may include a pneumatic valve having first and second chambers in which respective pressures thereof are regulated, and a pressure regulation valve coupled to the pneumatic valve, the pressure regulation valve communicating with the first chamber, including a positive pressure side opening and a negative pressure side opening, and selectively opening and closing the positive pressure side opening and the negative pressure side opening to regulate the pressure in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Chu, Yang Geol Lee, Woo Young Choi, Jeong Kyu Lim
  • Patent number: 9890696
    Abstract: A turbocharger system and method for a vehicle, wherein the system comprises a high pressure turbocharger and a low pressure turbocharger. Both the high and low pressure turbochargers are driven by exhaust gas on an exhaust side of the turbochargers. The system further comprises a first bypass conduit that bypasses the low pressure turbocharger during set events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goran Almkvist, Jonas J. Bjorkholtz
  • Patent number: 9890697
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling boost pressure in a staged engine system comprising a turbocharger and an upstream electric supercharger. In one example, a method may include accelerating an electric supercharger to choke the flow of air to the engine in the event of turbocharger overboost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Baitao Xiao, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Adam Nathan Banker
  • Patent number: 9822695
    Abstract: An actuation device (1), in particular electronic actuator, having a housing (2); and having an actuation shank which has a first shank portion guided in the housing (2), and which has a second shank portion (3) projecting out of the housing (2), wherein a shielding cap (4) is provided which is fastened to the housing (2) and which surrounds the second shank portion (3) with the exception of a fastening region (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Jochen Kraemer, Hans-Joerg Fetzer
  • Patent number: 9765714
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine of the present invention is an internal combustion engine equipped with port injectors. Further, the internal combustion engine has an ISC passage that connects an upstream side and a downstream side of a throttle valve in an intake passage, and an ISC valve that regulates an amount of air flowing in the ISC passage. A control device of the present invention performs valve opening control that makes an opening degree of the ISC valve an opening degree larger than a reference opening degree when request torque required by the internal combustion engine is smaller than estimated torque that can be generated in the internal combustion engine, and sets a timing for fuel injection from the port injector at an opening timing of an intake valve of a cylinder in which the port injector is installed during the valve opening control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kuze
  • Patent number: 9765685
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus provide improved turbocharging of an internal combustion engine. A single, discrete turbocharger is affixed to each engine combustion cylinder. Turbochargers can be mounted to their associated cylinders in close proximity, thus harvesting higher energy exhaust gases from each combustion cylinder. Tip in and spool up responses can be further improved using low rotational inertia turbochargers that can operate effectively across a wide range of engine operational speeds. Controlled balancing valves between cylinder exhaust lines can deliver exhaust gases from a single cylinder selectively to multiple turbochargers in appropriate operational conditions. Moreover, multiple turbochargers' compressors can be configured in series to achieve pressurization compounding of combustion air for low RPM operation. Nesting of turbochargers relative to one another permits improved mounting of each turbocharger in close proximity to its corresponding combustion cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Bright Acceleration Technologies LLC
    Inventors: James R. Clarke, Richard J. Fotsch
  • Patent number: 9726035
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining a reference position associated with a variable geometry member. One exemplary method involves actuating the variable geometry member in a first direction with a first reference torque and obtaining a first position associated with the variable geometry member in response to the first reference torque. After actuating the variable geometry member with the first reference torque, the method continues by actuating the variable geometry member in the first direction with a second reference torque that is less than the first reference torque, obtaining a second position associated with the variable geometry member in response to the second reference torque, and identifying the second position as the hard-stop reference position when a difference between the first position and the second position is less than a fault threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Todd Andrew Ratke, Miguel Angel Perez Leal
  • Patent number: 9726074
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes: an inflow passage to guide a fluid to a housing space for a turbine wheel; an exhaust passage to discharge the fluid having rotated the turbine wheel from a turbocharger body; a bypass passage connecting the inflow passage and the exhaust passage; a valve unit having one valve for a communicating portion between the exhaust passage and the housing space, and another valve for the bypass passage; an actuator to turn the valve unit and a stem connected to the valve unit about an axis of the stem; and a controller to operate the actuator. The controller adjusts the opening of the bypass passage by turning the valve unit within a specific range about the axis of the stem when a specific condition is met, and closes the exhaust passage by turning the valve unit beyond the specific range when the specific condition is not met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Onitsuka, Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9726073
    Abstract: An engine system for controlling flow of exhaust gas may include an intake line to receive external air, an engine including a combustion chamber to combust the external air and a fuel supplied through the intake line, to generate driving torque, an exhaust line to exhaust the exhaust gas combusted in the combustion chamber of the engine, a turbocharger including a turbine operated according to exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust line and a compressor to compress the external air flowing through the intake line, a catalyst device to reduce a harmful component included in the exhaust gas passing through the turbine of the turbocharger, a bypass line branched from the exhaust line between the combustion chamber and the turbine and converged in the intake line between the compressor and the combustion chamber, and a bypass valve disposed in the bypass line to selectively open/close the bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Kihoon Nam
  • Patent number: 9631551
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes working cylinders and a fresh gas line for supplying fresh gas to the working cylinders. The fresh gas line has a charge air section. A mechanically driven compressor is disposed in the charge air section of the fresh gas line. An air control/shut-off flap is disposed in the charge air section such that, in dependence on a position of the air control/shut-off flap, a gas mass flow in the charge air section flows completely or partially via the mechanically driven compressor or flows past the mechanically driven compressor. A method for operating an internal combustion engine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Volker Cornelius, Axel Groenendijk
  • Patent number: 9605588
    Abstract: A supercharger (15) is provided with a bypass pathway (17). A backflow preventer (20) is provided to the air intake pathway (8) between an airflow meter (10) and the bypass pathway (17). The backflow preventer (20) has: a casing (41) formed by locally expanding the cross-sectional area of the air intake pathway; and an inner tube (42) substantially constructing a duct for the mainstream of air intake. The inner tube (42) is supported by a flange portion (50) and the downstream end (42a) opens within the casing (41). During backflow when the bypass pathway (17) opens, a portion of the intake air enters into an exit-side space section (55), and the flow is prevented by the flange portion (50). Consequently, reverse flow is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ookawa, Kiyoshi Ikegaya
  • Patent number: 9574489
    Abstract: A turbocharger control system for an internal combustion engine having first and second turbochargers connected in series includes first and second pressure sensors, and a controller. The first and second pressure sensors are disposed in an air intake of the engine, and are configured to sense boost pressure of the first and second turbochargers, respectively. The controller is configured to receive pressure signals from the first and second pressure sensors, and to control operation of at least one of the first and second turbochargers to maintain a desired boost pressure ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: David Paul Schenker, Adrian Rothenbuhler
  • Patent number: 9528430
    Abstract: Systems and methods for compensating for deposits that may accumulate within a compressor recirculation valve positioned in parallel with a turbocharger compressor are presented. The systems and methods adjust actuators to maintain engine operation such that it may be more difficult for a driver to become aware that a compressor recirculation valve diagnostic is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Nathan Banker, Hamid-Reza Ossareh, Baitao Xiao
  • Patent number: 9416725
    Abstract: A turbocharging device of an engine for a vehicle is provided. The turbocharging device includes a turbocharger for turbocharging intake air, an introduction passage connected to an introducing section of a compressor of the turbocharger, a discharge passage connected to a discharging section of the compressor of the turbocharger, a bypass passage connecting the introduction passage to the discharge passage and bypassing the compressor, and a bypass valve for opening and closing the bypass passage. A throttle part throttling a flow passage area of the introduction passage is formed in an inner circumferential surface of a part of the introduction passage, upstream of a connection part of the introduction passage with the bypass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Uehane, Junji Umemura, Atsuhiro Hatabu
  • Patent number: 9322323
    Abstract: A method for correcting the reduced mass flow rate of a compressor in an internal combustion engine turbocharged with a turbocharger provided with a turbine and with a compressor; the internal combustion engine including an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold, and being set up to allow the passage of air from the intake manifold to the exhaust manifold; the method including determining, in a design stage, a control law that provides a target opening of a control actuator of the wastegate as a function of an actual supercharging pressure and of a reduced mass flow rate of the compressor; and correcting the reduced mass flow rate of the compressor as a function of the enthalpy of a gas mixture flowing through the turbine of the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: MAGNETI MARELLI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Marco Panciroli