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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8312713 | Internal combustion engine, vehicle, marine vessel, and exhausting method for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes a structure that increases the velocity of exhaust gas. The internal combustion engine includes a branch section arranged to branch a shock wave propagating at a higher velocity than exhaust gas and to guide the branched shock ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8281579 | Exhaust system having thermophoretic particulate agglomerator An exhaust system for use with a combustion engine is disclosed. The exhaust system may have a passage connected to receive exhaust from the combustion engine, and a cooling device located external to the passage to create a thermal gradient across a flow area of th... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8281580 | Method and apparatus for monitoring a particulate filter A method to monitor a particulate filter includes determining an equivalent bypass area corresponding to a difference between a mass flowrate of an exhaust gas feedstream flowing to the particulate filter and a mass flowrate of the exhaust gas feedstream flowing thr... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8234858 | Particulate matter concentration measuring apparatus A particulate matter concentration measuring apparatus configured to measure a particulate matter concentration in exhaust gas includes an exhaust gas extraction line that is branched from an exhaust line and has a flow passage cross-sectional area smaller than that... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8205442 | Low restriction hydrocarbon trap assembly A hydrocarbon adsorption assembly for an air induction system is disclosed. The hydrocarbon adsorption assembly includes a fluid conduit having an outer surface and a spaced apart inner surface to form a fluid path therein, the conduit including a recessed area form... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8186153 | Engine compartment arrangement for cleaning diesel particulate filter An engine compartment arrangement for an agricultural harvester comprises an engine (10), a diesel particulate filter (12) coupled to the engine (10) to receive and filter hot exhaust gases therefrom, a fan (14), a radiator (16) di... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8136351 | System and method for filtering diesel engine exhaust particulates A diesel particulate filtering system that includes a filter configured to capture exhaust particulates from a diesel engine, a regeneration device configured to heat exhaust gases from the diesel engine prior to the exhaust gases reaching the filter, and a controll... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7877989 | Filter for vehicle exhaust system A vehicle exhaust system includes a catalytic converter connected to an exhaust pipe. An exhaust filter is connected to the exhaust pipe downstream from the catalytic converter. The exhaust filter is a charcoal filter that filters particulates from the air flow in t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7866146 | Exhaust gas purifying apparatus, exhaust gas purifying method, and particulate matter measuring method An exhaust gas purifying apparatus includes a primary diesel particulate filter provided in an exhaust line of a diesel engine, a secondary exhaust line branched from the exhaust line from an upstream side of the primary diesel particulate filter, and a secondary di... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7866145 | Particulate emission reducing device Particulate emission reducing devices reduce particulate emissions from a vehicle. A housing is attached to a vehicle's exhaust pipe downstream of its muffler by an intake funnel having a desiccant bed and check valve. An ionizer is connected to the intake funnel. A... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7757483 | Device for reducing particles of an exhaust gas, exhaust gas purification system and vehicle having the device or the system A device for reducing particles of an exhaust gas includes at least one carrier structure having a predefinable volume and a plurality of channels which can be traversed by a flow. The channels at least partially have measures for deflecting the exhaust gas within t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7442354 | Treatment of engine exhaust using molecular sieve SSZ-56 The present invention relates to new crystalline molecular sieve SSZ-56 prepared using a N,N-diethyl-2-methyldecahydroquinolinium cation as a structure-directing agent and its use in minimizing cold start emissions from engines. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441403 | Method and system for determining temperature set points in systems having particulate filters with regeneration capabilities Method, system, and controller for determining a temperature set point for use in controlling regeneration of a particulate filter. The method, system, and controller being applicable in systems having an engine which emits exhaust gases having particulates which ar... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442218 | Exhaust gas treatment apparatus The present invention is characterized in that a casing 2 connected to an exhaust system 8, a honeycomb filter 3 placed in the inside of the casing 2, the honeycomb filter having a plurality of cells partitioned by partition walls, and pl... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438739 | Catalyzed soot filter An improved catalyzed soot filter is comprised of a porous ceramic having, on at least a portion of the porous ceramic, an amorphous catalytic phase comprised of an alkali containing oxide glass having therein Si, Al or combination thereof. The improved catalyzed so... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434387 | Integrated DPF-reformer A method of operating a power generation system involves operating a diesel engine to produce exhaust that is passed first through a combined DPF-fuel reformer and then a LNT. In response to the control signal to regenerate the LNT, fuel is injected into the exhaust... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434389 | Engine system and method of providing power therein An engine system includes an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system, and an air supply passage connecting therewith. The engine system includes an auxiliary regeneration device coupled with the exhaust system, and an auxiliary power turbine coupled with... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434388 | Method and system for regeneration of a particulate filter Method, system, and controller for regeneration a particulate filter as a function of fuels emitted with exhaust gases from an engine to an oxidation catalyst. The method, system, and controller being applicable in systems having an engine which emits exhaust gases ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430858 | System to generate inert gas from exhaust gas An inert gas production and compression system for extracting and compressing an inert gas from an exhaust gas of an engine includes a power and inert gas generator, an inert gas processing system, and an inert gas compressor. The inert gas processing system include... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431749 | Catalytic filter for removing soot particulates from diesel engine exhaust and method of preparing the same Disclosed is a catalytic filter for removing soot particulates from diesel engine exhaust, which is comprised of monolithic oxidation catalyst upstream of the catalytic filter, which effectively oxidize gaseous pollutants and volatile organic fractions, and a cataly... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430857 | Emissions control A cost-effective solution to remove particulates from diesel, especially light-duty diesel engines incorporates an oxidation catalyst (2) effective to convert NO in the exhaust from the engine to NO2 and a particulate trap (4) which traps no... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427309 | Honeycomb filter and ceramic filter assembly A ceramic filter assembly having improved exhaust gas processing efficiency. The ceramic filter assembly (9) is produced by adhering with a ceramic seal layer (15) outer surfaces of a plurality of filters (F1), each of which is formed from a sin... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421839 | Exhaust emission control device Attained is a heat generative exhaust emission control device with less electric power consumption and with no harmful gas discharged to atmosphere. A porous filter body 7 for capturing particulates in exhaust gas 2 through passing of the exhaus... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418815 | Particulate trap with electrostatic precipitator A particulate trap has a housing with an inlet and an outlet. The particulate trap also has a plurality of filters disposed within the housing in parallel relation. The particulate trap further has at least one electrode disposed within the housing and configured to... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412822 | Regeneration control for diesel particulate filter for treating diesel engine exhaust A method and system for controlling exhaust gas temperature at a diesel particulate filter during regeneration. The temperature rise is controlled at a rate that will prevent harm to the filter caused by high temperatures and rapid increases. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410528 | Method and system for testing the integrity of green plugged honeycomb structure A method for testing integrity of a plugged honeycomb structure includes forming a condenser at a first end of the honeycomb structure, passing a vaporous stream into a second end of the honeycomb structure, wherein a column of the vaporous stream emerges at the fir... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410521 | Filter service system and method A system for removing matter from a filtering device includes a flow receiving device having a plurality of blocking portions. Each of the plurality of blocking portions is configured to substantially block a flow directed by a corresponding at least one of a plural... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406822 | Particulate trap regeneration system and control strategy A particulate trap regeneration system is provided. The system may include a particulate trap configured to remove one or more types of particulate matter from an exhaust flow of an engine. The system may also include a regeneration device configured to reduce an am... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396389 | Abnormality detection apparatus for exhaust gas purification apparatus for internal combustion engine Unless an abnormality exists in piping introducing a pressure from front and rear of DPF 22 into a differential pressure sensor 45, pulsations of pressure propagation through an exhaust passage 21 is offset in a detection value of a pressure dif... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395661 | Method of estimating soot accumulation amount of exhaust gas purification filter, and computer program product therefor A soot accumulation amount estimation method for an exhaust gas purification filter according to the present invention includes: a first step of burning soot collected in pores of the exhaust gas purification filter (22) to regenerate the filter (22); ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393377 | Honeycomb filter and exhaust gas treatment apparatus In a honeycomb filter in which a plurality of cells are formed by porous partition walls, and a predetermined cell whose one end portion is plugged, and a remaining cell whose other end portion is plugged are alternately arranged in such a manner as to form checked ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393386 | Exhaust aftertreatment filter with residual stress control An exhaust aftertreatment filter has a pre-stressed layer bonded to the filter body at the outer periphery and compressively axially pre-stressed in an opposite axial direction to separational axial tensile stress to counteract the latter during regenerative heating... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392796 | Method and apparatus for operating an internal combustion engine with an adelshin aggregate phase thermodynamic cycle The invention relates to vehicle engines, in particular to improvements to the thermodynamic cycle that forms the operating method for an internal combustion engine. An aggregate-phase thermodynamic cycle consists in sequential and interrelated changes in the thermo... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393376 | Ceramic filter for exhaust gas emission control A ceramic filter assembly that resists cracking. The ceramic filter assembly is formed by integrating a plurality of columnar honeycomb filters made of a porous ceramic sintered material with a ceramic sealing material layer and formed to have a substantially ellipt... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392652 | System and method for diesel particulate trap regeneration in a motor vehicle with an auxiliary power unit Diesel engine particulate trap regeneration is obtained by concurrently supplying two exhaust gas streams to a particulate trap requiring regeneration. One stream is produced in a reactor/diesel engine operating an efficient stoichiometric ratio. The second stream i... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390338 | Method and apparatus for regenerating engine exhaust filters Internal combustion engine exhaust filter devices and the like are regenerated by placement in a reclamation or burn-off furnace, raising the temperature to at least about 800° F. to 900° F. and conducting relatively low volumes of low pressure air through the fil... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7387657 | Honeycomb structural body A honeycomb structural body is constituted with a ceramic block comprising a plurality of through-holes arranged in a longitudinal direction and separated from each other through partition walls, either end portions of which through-holes being sealed. The ceramic b... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384441 | Honeycomb filter There is provided a honeycomb filter obtained by bonding, into one piece, a plurality of honeycomb segments comprising partition walls having filtering function, and a number of through-holes divided from each other by the partition walls and extending in an axial d... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384442 | Ceramic wall-flow filter including heat absorbing elements and methods of manufacturing same A ceramic wall-flow filter for filtering particulate matter from gases and methods for manufacturing such wall-flow filters are disclosed. The filter includes an array of porous ceramic walls defining a pattern of end-plugged inlet and outlet cells, and heat absorbi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380395 | Exhaust gas system An exhaust gas system for converting harmful substances of an exhaust gas of a mobile internal combustion engine includes at least one reducing agent feed, a catalytic converter, a filter element and an exhaust pipe. The reducing agent feed opens into the exhaust pi... | 06/03/2008 |
