Supercharging Means Driven By Engine Exhaust Actuated Motor Patents (Class 60/605.1)
  • Patent number: 8726657
    Abstract: A power plant includes an engine configured to receive charge air and produce exhaust. A first turbo machine is configured to be driven by the exhaust and drive a compressor that receives air. The compressor is configured to produce the charge air. A second turbo machine is configured to receive the charge air and rotationally drive a pump in response thereto. The pump is configured to receive an EGR from the exhaust and introduce the pumped EGR to the charge air. The power plant also includes an exhaust gas recirculation passage. The second turbo machine includes a turbine rotationally coupled to the pump. The turbine has an expanded air passage, and the pump is arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation passage. A pre-cooler is arranged in the expanded air passage and in the exhaust gas recirculation passage upstream from the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Hunter
  • Patent number: 8720402
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and an air intake system, with the air intake system formed from at least one distributor pipe, a plurality of intake pipes and at least one plenum, and with the plenum positioned between the distributor pipe and the intake pipes. Here, the combustion air is fed to the air intake system via an air guiding duct which opens out into the distributor pipe, with the charge pressure of the combustion air reduced between the outlet out of the compressor and the inlet into the combustion chamber. A distributor pipe length is dimensioned as a function of an equivalent distributor pipe diameter such that it is possible for a reduction in the charge pressure to be obtained within the air intake system by expansion taking place partially in the plenum in the respective intake pipe and/or within the distributor pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludwig Theilemann, Joachim Scheiba, Friedrich Seiler
  • Publication number: 20140127004
    Abstract: A charging device for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine may include at least one variable turbine and compressor geometry and an adjusting device for adjusting the at least one variable turbine and compressor geometry. The adjusting device may include a minimum set limit, which defines a minimum set flow of the at least one variable turbine and compressor geometry for an exhaust gas driving the charging device, and a maximum set limit, which defines a maximum set flow of the at least one variable turbine and compressor geometry for the exhaust gas driving the charging device. The adjusting device may be designed such that at least one minimum set limit of the adjusting device and the maximum set limit of the adjusting dive are variably adjustable and readjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Schaeflein, Dirk Naunheim
  • Patent number: 8713937
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a boosted engine having a split intake system coupled to a split exhaust system. Aircharges of differing composition, pressure, and temperature may be delivered to the engine through the split intake system at different points of an engine cycle. In this way, boost and EGR benefits may be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Norman Ulrey
  • Publication number: 20140116374
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbocharged internal combustion piston engine system that includes a waste-heat recovery system. The waste-heat recovery system involves injecting heated water into the cylinders during combustion to increase engine power and efficiency and to reduce emissions. The engine can be a spark or compression ignition type of engine, and can utilize fuels including but not limited to diesel, natural gas, gasoline, and ethanol. The engine also includes a turbocharger that utilizes a turbine in the exhaust gas flow to provide power to a compressor in the intake air flow to pressurize the intake air and provide additional charge flow to the engine to increase engine output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Jared William Brown
  • Publication number: 20140116043
    Abstract: A drive train having an internal combustion engine which includes an output shaft feeding drive power into the drive train. A first turbo charger includes a first exhaust-gas turbine arranged in an exhaust-gas flow and mounted rotatably in a turbine housing that drives a first fresh-air compressor via a first turbine shaft. A turbo-compound system includes a power turbine arranged in the exhaust-gas flow and can be drive connected via a power turbine shaft to the output shaft, with the power turbine shaft mounted rotatably in a power turbine housing and extending parallel to the turbine shaft. The turbine housing and power turbine housing can be supported in or on or integrated into a transmission housing. The first turbocharger is arranged radially outside the turbo-compound system. The first turbocharger and turbo-compound system are arranged on a common side or on different and adjoining or opposite sides of the transmission housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Hirzel, Thomas Figler
  • Publication number: 20140109570
    Abstract: A control device and method for the air system of a diesel engine is disclosed. The feature of the diesel engine is characterized by transfer function. During the control process, a decoupling transfer function is computed according to the transfer function and the steady working parameters of the diesel engine. By the decoupling transfer function acting on the processed state parameters of the air system, driving signals for controlling the exhaust gas recirculation system and the turbocharge system can be individually generated from one another, in order to realize decoupling of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangdi Hu, Shaojun Sun, Dehui Tong, Shenggang Guo, Yingli Gong
  • Patent number: 8701408
    Abstract: A connecting device, comprising: a linearly driving drive member; an actuating member driven in a rotating manner by an internal combustion engine charging device with at least one pivot arm connected to the actuating member in a fixed manner, wherein the actuating member transmits rotational moments about a pivot axis, with a slide element connected to the driving member in a fixed manner, and wherein the driving member transmits linear forces oriented obliquely to the pivot axis, with at least one bearing arrangement, which moveably couples the slide element to the pivot arm such that the slide element is displaceably mounted along a displacement axis running parallel to the pivot axis and rotatably mounted about the displacement axis and about a rotary axis running perpendicularly to the displacement axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Dettmann, Frank Neumann
  • Patent number: 8695340
    Abstract: An arrangement for a supercharged combustion engine includes a first compressor compressing air in the engine air inlet line as a first stage and a second compressor compressing the air in the inlet line as a second stage, a first coolant-cooled charge air cooler cooling the air after it has been compressed in the first stage and before it is compressed in the second stage, and an air-cooled charge air cooler cooling the compressed air when it has been compressed by the first stage, a second coolant-cooled charge air cooler cooling the compressed air after it has been compressed in the second stage and before it is compressed in the air-cooled charge air cooler. Exhaust gases in an exhaust line from the engine drive turbines which operate the compressors. A return line from the exhaust line and connected into the inlet line has a cooler for the exhaust gases before mixing the gases with the inlet air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Zoltan Kardos, Erik Söderberg, Hans Wikström
  • Patent number: 8695339
    Abstract: A flow control system is provided having an engine, a turbocharger, and positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) line, and a flow regulating device. The engine has an air-oil separator and an intake manifold. The air-oil separator separates oil droplets and oil mist from a blowby gas. The turbocharger has an air inlet and an air outlet, where the air outlet is connected to the intake manifold of the engine. The positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) vent line has a first end connected to the air-oil separator and a second end connected to the air inlet of the turbocharger. The PCV vent line delivers the blowby gas from the air-oil separator to the air inlet of the turbocharger. The flow regulating device is located in the PCV vent line. The flow regulating device selectively limits the flow of blowby gas from the air-oil separator to the air inlet of the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Thomas A. Spix
  • Patent number: 8689552
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor is provided with: a housing which houses a compressor wheel therein; a spiral scroll arranged in an outer periphery of the compressor wheel; and a diffuser portion provided as a path space communicating with the scroll from an outlet side of the compressor wheel and formed by a compressor housing and a center housing. The centrifugal compressor is also provided with a movable vane which is movable between a projecting position where the movable vane projects from the compressor housing and a housing position where the movable vane houses in a housing portion provided in compressor housing, and an actuator which drives the movable vane between the projecting position and the housing position. The actuator is provided in the center housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akitoshi Iwata
  • Publication number: 20140090373
    Abstract: Artificial aspiration methods and systems for increasing engine efficiency and or power. The methods include determining an engine operation status, determining an artificial aspiration goal value based on the engine operating status, determining an artificial aspiration system configuration based on the artificial aspiration goal value and the engine operating status, and configuring the artificial aspiration system to obtain the determined artificial aspiration system configuration. The system includes a plurality of sensors for sensing characteristics of an operating engine, and an artificial aspiration control unit comprising a processor connected to receive the sensed characteristics of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Adam Timmons
  • Patent number: 8683800
    Abstract: A vacuum source arbitration system is disclosed. In one example, vacuum is supplied to a vacuum reservoir via an ejector during a first condition, and vacuum is supplied to the vacuum reservoir via an engine intake manifold during a second condition. The approach may provide a desired level of vacuum in a reservoir while reducing engine fuel consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph Wayne Cunningham, Moses Alexander Fridman, Todd Anthony Rumpsa, Mansour Beshay, Cliff Maki, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 8683987
    Abstract: Otto intake-cycle controlled-air (throttled) internal combustion engines suffer from parasitic pumping losses associated with partial vacuums developed in their intake manifolds and in the cylinders above their pistons. To solve this problem, there is provided individually partitioned dry-sump crankcases dynamic pneumatic coupling pressure reduction cycle system and method that reduce the damaging parasitic effects of the differential pressure about a piston head during an intake cycle which is a source of part-load pumping-loss friction. This closed loop system includes an independent supplemental mechanical fail-safe system of a turbo-compound engine variant for pneumatic coupling of individual cylinder-crankcase volumes. It does not alter the cylinder homogeneous mixture charge integrity and stability. The system is applicable to several engine configurations, such as controlled air intake or uncontrolled air intake combustion engines, using different fuel types, either in liquid or in gazeous state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: R & D Machma Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Marcil
  • Patent number: 8677748
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an operating conditions module that interprets a number of compressor operating parameters; a compressor flow module that determines a compressor inlet flow in response to the number of compressor operating parameters; and a fresh air flow module that provides a fresh air flow value in response to the compressor inlet flow. The operating conditions module further interprets a current mass air flow value, and the apparatus further includes a mass air flow sensor trimming module that adjusts a mass air flow sensor drift value in response to the current mass air flow value and the fresh air flow value. The apparatus includes a diagnostics module that determines a mass air flow sensor is failed in response to the current mass air flow value and the fresh air flow value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Indranil Brahma, Ashwin Vyas, Vivek Anand Sujan, Phanindra Garimella, John N. Chi, Abdoul Karim Abdoul Azizou
  • Patent number: 8677749
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine has at least a first and a second exhaust port, which are decoupled downstream of the combustion chamber. The first exhaust port is opened before the second exhaust port during an expansion stroke of the piston. The first exhaust port is coupled to a high-pressure turbine and the second exhaust port is coupled to a low-pressure turbine. By directing exhaust gases at higher pressure to the high-pressure turbine and gases at lower pressure to the low-pressure turbine, the overall energy recovery from the exhaust gases is greater than a system with one or more exhaust turbines coupled in series with all of the exhaust ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: EcoMotors International
    Inventors: Franz Laimboeck, Peter P. Hofbauer
  • Publication number: 20140075935
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbo-compound system, in particular of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine which has an output shaft; having an exhaust-gas power turbine which is arranged in the exhaust-gas flow of the internal combustion engine and has an impeller wheel which is mounted fixedly on a turbine shaft so as to rotate with it; the exhaust-gas power turbine is drive-connected via a step-up gear mechanism to the output shaft of the internal combustion engine, in order to transmit drive power via the step-up gear mechanism to the output shaft; having a hydrodynamic coupling which has an impeller and a turbine wheel which form, with one another, a toroidal working chamber which can be filled with working medium via an inlet, in order to transmit torque hydrodynamically from the impeller to the turbine wheel; wherein at least one gearwheel of the step-up gear mechanism is lubricated with working medium of the hydrodynamic coupling, and the step-up gear mechanism is arranged in the drive co
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Kley
  • Patent number: 8671682
    Abstract: Multi-stage turbocharging, and more particularly, an advanced multi-stage turbocharging system using the variable turbine power of one or more variable turbine geometry (VTG) turbochargers to adjust compressor boost and exhaust back pressure to engine operating demands. The invention further relates to a turbocharged internal combustion engine, in particular a turbocharged internal combustion engine with at least one high-pressure turbine stage and one downstream low-pressure turbine stage, wherein the high-pressure turbine may be a single-flow or double-flow type, wherein the high pressure or low pressure compressor may be variable geometry, wherein the high pressure or low pressure compressor may be variably bypassed, and wherein the high pressure or low pressure turbine may be provided with an active control variable bypass or wastegate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc
    Inventors: Eric Parlow, Patrick Sweetland, Matt Rice
  • Publication number: 20140069095
    Abstract: An engine system includes a plurality of turbochargers each including a compressor outlet fluidly connected to an intake manifold of an engine. A plurality of intake conduits are configured to each convey incoming combustion air to one of the turbochargers, and each includes a casing, and a duct within the casing having a surge inhibitor mounted thereon which includes a flow-directing surface oriented obliquely to an axis of the duct to direct combustion air leaked back out of the compressor inlet away from a discharging stream of combustion air exiting the duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Jed W. Nixon, Keith G. Rochford
  • Patent number: 8667795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbocharged internal combustion engine having at least one intake for supplying the internal combustion engine with fresh air or fresh mixture on an inlet side, a cylinder head having at least two cylinders which are arranged along a cylinder head longitudinal axis and each of which has at least one outlet opening which is adjoined by an exhaust line for discharging the exhaust gases out of the cylinder, the exhaust lines of at least two cylinders being merged on an outlet side, so as to form an integrated exhaust manifold within the cylinder head, to form an overall exhaust line. Also disclosed is at least one exhaust-gas turbocharger which comprises a turbine arranged in the overall exhaust line and a compressor arranged in the at least one intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Steiner, Kai Sabastian Kuhlbach
  • Publication number: 20140060040
    Abstract: Embodiments for heating an emission control device are provided. In one example, a method for a turbocharged engine comprises during an engine cold-start, delivering boosted air from downstream of a compressor into a wastegate duct coupled across a turbine and exothermically reacting a reductant with the boosted air upstream of an exhaust emission control device. In this way, boosted air may be used to initiate an exothermic reaction to heat the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Jianwen James Yi, Wen Dai, Paul M. Laing, John Hedges
  • Publication number: 20140060009
    Abstract: A vehicle system operation method is provided. The method comprises, during a first operating condition, increasing back pressure in a first exhaust conduit positioned upstream of a turbine and downstream of a first emission control device and during a second operating condition, reducing back pressure in the first exhaust conduit and flowing boosted air from downstream of a compressor into a second exhaust conduit positioned upstream of a second emission control device and downstream of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Jianwen James Yi, Wen Dai, Paul M. Laing, John Hedges, Julia Helen Buckland, Harold Huimin Sun
  • Patent number: 8661815
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Thomas G. Leone
  • Publication number: 20140053552
    Abstract: Provided are an adiabatic compressed air energy storage for an automotive vehicle and an energy storage method using the same, whereby a new vehicle function is provided by using available energy from the discharged and expelled energy generated from a driven automotive vehicle or available energy source outside an automotive vehicle, and transforming the generated energy to convenient electric power and efficiently storing the energy, so that electric power can be supplied regardless of space or time constraint during the automotive vehicle in operation or parked or vehicle engine stop in view of the increase demands of electric power in automotive vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Yong Hoon IM, Byung Sik PARK, Dae Hun CHUNG, Sae Byul KANG, Jae Yong LEE, Dong Hyun LEE, Kyu Sung CHOI
  • Patent number: 8650874
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes an engine structure and an intake assembly. The engine structure defines a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a first intake port in communication with the first cylinder, and a second intake port in communication with the second cylinder. The intake assembly includes a first throttle valve, a second throttle valve and a boost mechanism. The first throttle valve is in communication with the first and second intake ports. The second throttle valve is in communication with an air source and the first throttle valve and located in a series flow arrangement between the air source and the first throttle valve. The boost mechanism is in communication with the air source and the first throttle valve and located in a series flow arrangement between the air source and the first throttle valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: James E. Force
  • Publication number: 20140041383
    Abstract: A pressure generating device (1), such as a boost pressure generator of an internal combustion engine, includes a housing (2), in which a rotor (3) is axially and radially supported by a bearing assembly (5). A gap (4) extends in the radial direction (4) between the housing (2) and the rotor (3) at at least one axial position of the rotor (3). In order to ensure a minimal and constant gap between the housing and the rotor, an axial bearing (5?) is provided exclusively for supporting axial forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Helmut Hauck, Thomas Heege, Hubert Herbst, Sandra Kamm
  • Publication number: 20140033704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a construction vehicle comprising a main drive for driving work equipment of the construction vehicle, which main drive comprises at least one internal combustion engine, wherein the construction vehicle comprises an energy converter, which is adapted to convert off gas heat energy from the internal combustion engine to mechanical kinetic energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: BOMAG GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Laux, Marco Reuter
  • Publication number: 20140026562
    Abstract: A turbine may include a turbine housing having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and defining a housing interior space configured to be subjected to a through-flow of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. A turbine rotor may be rotatably mounted in the turbine housing about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction. An exhaust gas sensor may be arranged in a measurement space of the turbine housing the exhaust gas sensor configured to determine at least one part of a gas component of the exhaust gas carried in the turbine housing. A feed line may be arranged in the turbine housing having a feed opening and a discharge line arranged in the turbine housing having a discharge opening for feeding and discharging exhaust gas at least one of in and out of the measurement space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marc Brueck, Sascha Klett, Martin Rauscher, Hartmut Weiss
  • Publication number: 20140026538
    Abstract: A turbo charger for an internal combustion engine includes a turbo charger housing defining a spool axis and including an exhaust chamber having an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet. The turbo charger housing also defines an air compressor chamber having an air inlet and an air outlet. A spool is mounted within the turbo charger housing for rotation about the spool axis. The spool includes a spool shaft with an exhaust turbine wheel mounted at one end and an air compressor wheel coaxially mounted for common rotation at the opposite end of the spool shaft. A compressed gas injector is mounted to the exhaust chamber of the turbo charger housing for providing a compressed gas flow to the exhaust turbine wheel from a source external to the turbo charger housing in order to supplement power from the exhaust to rotate the spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: JATechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Hauser, Andrew Ross
  • Publication number: 20140020380
    Abstract: A compound cycle engine having at least one rotary unit defining an internal combustion engine, a velocity turbine in proximity of each unit, and a turbocharger is discussed. The exhaust port of each rotary unit is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the velocity turbine upstream of its rotor. The rotors of the velocity turbine and of each rotary unit drive a common load. The outlet of the compressor of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the inlet port of each rotary unit, and the inlet of the pressure turbine of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the velocity turbine downstream of its rotor. A method of compounding at least one rotary engine is also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Jean THOMASSIN
  • Publication number: 20140020381
    Abstract: A compound cycle engine having an output shaft; at least two rotary units each defining an internal combustion engine, a velocity turbine, and a turbocharger is discussed. The velocity turbine includes a rotor in driving engagement with the output shaft between two of the rotary units. The exhaust port of each rotary unit is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the velocity turbine upstream of its rotor. The outlet of the compressor of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the inlet port of each rotary unit. The inlet of the pressure turbine of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the velocity turbine downstream of its rotor. A method of compounding at least two rotary engines is also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Sébastien BOLDUC, Mike FONTAINE, Luc LANDRY, Jean THOMASSIN
  • Patent number: 8627661
    Abstract: The present concepts relate to turbocharger exhaust arrangements. One example involves a system that includes an internal combustion engine configured with a turbocharger. The system also includes an exhaust arrangement comprising a post-turbocharger (PT) exhaust pipe connected to the turbocharger and positioned proximate to the internal combustion engine, the PT exhaust pipe extending away from the turbocharger along the internal combustion engine. The PT exhaust pipe includes a first portion extending above at least one part of a set of header exhaust pipes connecting the internal combustion engine with the turbocharger. The PT exhaust pipe also includes one or more additional connected and contiguous portions extending below at least one other part of the set of header exhaust pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Inventor: Steve Berg
  • Publication number: 20130333380
    Abstract: An arrangement for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy in a vehicle (1). A working medium is vaporised by a heat source (3) in the vehicle (1) and is thereafter expanded through a turbine (13) generating mechanical energy. A control unit (31) receives information indicating the vehicle (1) is to be braked and connects the cooling system (21, 39) of the vehicle to the vehicle's power train (2, 5-9) to cool a refrigerant to a low temperature. The control unit (31) receives information that the vehicle (1) requires extra propulsive force and, uses the cooled refrigerant to subject the working medium in the line circuit (10) to a second step of cooling before it is led to the evaporator (12). The condensation temperature of the working medium may thus be lowered and more mechanical energy may be generated in the turbine (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Zoltan Kardos, Ola Hall
  • Patent number: 8601690
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a variable capacity exhaust gas turbine whereby, a gap in a tongue section allowing exhaust gas to flow into an inner circumferential scroll section can be formed at a minimum, and a cover section near a ring can be mounted with high precision. In the method: exhaust gas turbine component members comprise a cover section and a reduced-diameter plate section extending the inner diameter side towards the shaft following the gap between a bearing housing and the turbine rotor; the cover section and the reduced-diameter plate section are integrally formed; a molded surface of the cover section is protruded to form a protrusion corresponding to the tongue section and formed in an intake equivalent portion of the inner circumferential scroll section of the cover section; and the protrusion undergoes cutting, and a cut surface and the tongue section are assembled maintaining the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoki Ebisu, Shingo Yokota
  • Publication number: 20130318965
    Abstract: A supercharging system for a gas turbine system having a compressor, a combustor, a turbine and a shaft includes a prime mover and a fan assembly that provides an air stream at an air stream flow rate. A hydraulic coupler is coupled to the prime mover and the fan assembly and a second torque converter may couple the supercharger prime mover to an electrical generator. The supercharging system also includes a subsystem for conveying a first portion of the air stream to the compressor, and a bypass subsystem for optionally conveying a second portion of the air stream to other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Sanji Ekanayake, Gordon Raymond Smith, Alston Ilford Scipio, Timothy Tah-teh Yang, Julio Enrique Mestroni, Kurt Waldner, Tedd Sellers
  • Patent number: 8596064
    Abstract: A method for operating a turbocharged engine is disclosed. In one example, an engine operation is adjusted in response to a turbocharger expansion ratio. Degradation of the engine may be reduced under some engine operating conditions by adjusting engine operation in response to the turbocharger expansion ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brien Lloyd Fulton, Gopal Krishna Chamarthi, Dean Pennala, David Curtis Ives, David Robert Nader, Paul Martin Niessen, Jason Ronald Smith
  • Patent number: 8596063
    Abstract: A reductant delivery system for an exhaust treatment system of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The system includes a turbocharger fluidly coupled to, and configured to receive exhaust gas from, the internal combustion engine. An exhaust gas driven turbine wheel is disposed for rotation in a turbine housing of the turbocharger. A reductant injection device is fluid communication with the exhaust gas driven turbine wheel, a reductant tank having a reductant stored therein and a conduit system fluidly connecting the reductant tank with the reductant injection device. Reductant is delivered to the reductant injection device for delivery of the reductant to the exhaust gas driven turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: David B. Brown, Shuguang Lu, Jong H. Lee
  • Publication number: 20130312407
    Abstract: Embodiments for controlling exhaust air-fuel ratio are provided. In one example, an engine method comprises adjusting upstream exhaust air-fuel ratio to maintain a first emission control device at or below a threshold temperature, and when the upstream exhaust air-fuel ratio is below a threshold, injecting air into an exhaust passage between the first emission control device and a second emission control device to maintain downstream exhaust at a different, higher air-fuel ratio. In this way, excess emissions may be converted while maintain the emission control devices below a maximum temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Giovanni Cavataio
  • Publication number: 20130312408
    Abstract: A gas-fired engine that supplies high-pressure liquefied gas (e.g., LNG) as fuel by a reciprocating pump. A gas fuel supply device includes: a reciprocating pump driven by a hydraulic motor to boost an introduced liquefied gas pressure to a desired pressure and discharge the liquefied gas; a hydraulic oil introduction line that introduces a portion of high-pressure hydraulic oil from a hydraulic oil line and supplies the high-pressure hydraulic oil to the hydraulic motor; a hydraulic oil return line that returns the high-pressure hydraulic oil to the hydraulic oil line; a heating unit that heats and gasifies the boosted liquefied gas; a control section that adjusts a rotational speed of the hydraulic motor to maintain constant a gas fuel outlet pressure of the heating unit; and an engine inlet gas pressure-reducing valve that regulates a gas fuel pressure injected into a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Satoru Murata, Masaru Oka
  • Patent number: 8584458
    Abstract: A power plant includes an engine configured to receive charge air and produce exhaust. A first turbo machine is configured to be driven by the exhaust and drive a compressor that receives air. The compressor is configured to produce the charge air. A second turbo machine is configured to receive a portion of the exhaust and rotationally drive a pump in response thereto. High temperature and low temperature EGR heat exchangers are arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation passage serially relative to one another upstream from the pump. A heat exchanger arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation passage upstream from the pump. A water separator is arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation passage fluidly between the heat exchanger and the pump. An EGR catalyst is arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation passage upstream from the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Teng, Gerhard Regner, Gary Hunter
  • Patent number: 8589084
    Abstract: Ethanol emissions from a direct ignition spark ignition are measured using mass spectrometry. The method exploits specific fragment ions from ethanol. Ethanol contributes ions of mass number 31, and no other gas species produces ions at this mass number. The method and a device for implementing the method can be used for online detection of ethanol in emissions from engines burning E85 or other ethanol/gasoline mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kenneth Kar, Wai K. Cheng
  • Publication number: 20130298554
    Abstract: A system for conditioning the intake air to an internal combustion engine includes a means to boost the pressure of the intake air to the engine and a liquid cooled charge air cooler disposed between the output of the boost means and the charge air intake of the engine. Valves in the coolant system can be actuated so as to define a first configuration in which engine cooling is performed by coolant circulating in a first coolant loop at one temperature, and charge air cooling is performed by coolant flowing in a second coolant loop at a lower temperature. The valves can be actuated so as to define a second configuration in which coolant that has flowed through the engine can be routed through the charge air cooler. The temperature of intake air to the engine can be controlled over a wide range of engine operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Mark C. SELLNAU
  • Publication number: 20130298551
    Abstract: A fitting portion structure of a device for post-processing exhaust gas in an agricultural operation vehicle is provided. The device is arranged in parallel to the lengthwise direction of an engine at the upper portion of an exhaust manifold of the engine, an exhaust gas inlet is coupled to the exhaust manifold or to a turbo charger and a flange pipe which are located at the lower portion of the exhaust gas inlet, and a fixing means is arranged between the engine and the device to support the load of the device. The fixing means includes a frontal bracket arranged between a cylinder head on the front side of the engine and a DPF canning of the device, and a rear bracket arranged between a cylinder head on the rear side of the engine and a flange coupling portion of the flange pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: DAEDONG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Shin
  • Publication number: 20130291540
    Abstract: An engine cylinder head and turbocharger assembly includes a turbocharger having a turbine housing, wherein part of the turbine housing is integrated into a casting of the engine cylinder head. The turbocharger is arranged with respect to the engine cylinder head such that the rotational axis of the turbocharger is transverse to the engine axis along which the engine cylinders are spaced. A compressor housing of the turbocharger is oriented toward an air intake side of the engine cylinder head, and the turbine housing is oriented toward an exhaust side of the engine cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Nicolas Serres, Alain Lombard, Manuel Marques, Jean-Jacques Laissus
  • Patent number: 8572963
    Abstract: A supercharged internal combustion engine includes a motor unit having a head and an exhaust manifold. A turbocharger assembly is fluid dynamically connected to the exhaust manifold, wherein the turbocharger assembly includes a turbine, a central body and a compressor. The turbocharger assembly includes a lubrication channel for the passage of a lubricating fluid hydraulically connected to a lubrication circuit of the motor unit of said internal combustion engine. The turbine includes a jacket, provided at least in part in a body thereof, arranged for the passage of a cooling fluid and in hydraulic communication with an inlet channel and an outlet channel hydraulically connected to a cooling circuit of the motor unit of said internal combustion engine. The inlet channel, outlet channel and lubrication channel are integrated in said turbocharger assembly in correspondence of a connection interface between said turbocharger assembly and the motor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Cuniberti, Roberto Saretto, Damiano Micelli
  • Publication number: 20130283785
    Abstract: A compressor(s), mounted to any combustion engine, removes exhaust. The compressor is constructed of high temperature tolerant materials. The compressor is root, vain, pinwheel or screw design driven by belt, gear, hydraulic motor, crankshaft, camshaft, or pump. This compressor removes exhaust and gases by creation of vacuum on exhaust ports or manifolds. Vacuum is stored and maintained by the motion of the driven compressor. The process starts at the crankshaft, camshaft, or pump, spinning the compressor to create vacuum on one side and boost on the other. As exhaust valves open on any combustion engine of any fuel, exhaust must leave the engine. This compressor removes that exhaust through vacuum, cooling the exhaust, expediting the revolution of the engine and improving the combustion capabilities, increasing horsepower, torque, fuel consumption, cleanliness of exhaust. Using this compressor with any conventional turbo charger will eliminate turbo lag and improve intake levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Timothy E. Coulter
  • Publication number: 20130283787
    Abstract: In a multicylinder internal combustion engine including a turbocharger, the turbocharger employs a twin-entry turbo where a turbine includes two exhaust gas inflow ports. A first exhaust passage guides an exhaust gas discharged from a first cylinder group of the internal combustion engine to one exhaust gas inflow port of the turbocharger. A second exhaust passage guides an exhaust gas discharged from a second cylinder group of the internal combustion engine to the other exhaust gas inflow port of the turbocharger. An exhaust gas collecting portion of the first exhaust passage and an exhaust gas collecting portion of the second exhaust passage each include an air-fuel ratio sensor. This configuration allows efficiently contact of the exhaust gas on an element portion of the air-fuel ratio sensor, thus accurately detecting an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas at an upstream side of a catalyst for each cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Sakata, Akihiro Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130283781
    Abstract: A first stage turbocharger configured to receive an ambient intake air stream. A compressor of the first stage turbocharger coupled to a first intercooler. The first intercooler coupled to a turboexpander stage. The turbine of the turboexpander discharging an expanded air stream to an intake manifold of an engine. The expanded airstream having a temperature of less than the ambient intake air stream, thereby reducing enabling operation of the engine under high load conditions while maintaining reduced emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Thomas Michael Lavertu
  • Publication number: 20130283786
    Abstract: A turbocharger for use in an internal combustion engine has at least one turbocharger housing, at least one compressor situated inside the turbocharger housing, and at least one turbine situated inside the turbocharger housing. In addition, the turbocharger has at least one sensor device for detecting at least a portion of a gas component of an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine. The sensor device is at least partially integrated into the turbocharger housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: Bosch Mahle Turbosysteme GmbH & Co. KG, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Muenz, Juergen Ganser, Klaus Winkler, Christopher Holzknecht, Christoph Peters, Lothar Diehl, Sascha Klett, Johannes Misselwitz
  • Patent number: 8571783
    Abstract: A method for controlling differences in exhaust gas residual amount for a two cylinder bank engine having at least one turbocharger is presented. In one example, the description includes a method for adjusting valve timing to reduce cylinder exhaust gas residual variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Julia Helen Buckland, Mrdjan J. Jankovic