公开(公告)号：US10683796B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US15085724

申请日：2016-03-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Adam Edgar Klingbeil ,  Roy James Primus ,  Edward Joseph Hall

IPC: F02B37/14 ,  F02D41/00 ,  F02B37/10 ,  F02M35/104 ,  F02M35/10 ,  F02D41/08 ,  F02B33/44 ,  F01M13/02 ,  F01M13/00

Abstract: A system in one embodiment includes at least one cylinder, a supplemental boost supply, and a supply line. The at least one cylinder is configured for use in a reciprocating internal combustion engine, and includes a combustion portion and a crank portion on opposite sides of a piston. The at least one cylinder also includes an intake port and an exhaust port in fluid communication with the combustion portion. The supplemental boost supply is configured to provide a supplemental air supply to the combustion portion of the engine when the engine is idling to increase pressure in the combustion portion. The supply line couples the supplemental boost supply to the intake port.

公开(公告)号：US20190218959A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-18

申请号：US16059730

申请日：2018-08-09

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Adam Edgar Klingbeil ,  Roy James Primus ,  John Dowell ,  Victor Manuel Salazar ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu ,  Kevin Bailey ,  Kevin McElhaney ,  Bhaskar Tamma ,  Sreenivasa Rao Gubba

IPC: F02B23/06

CPC classification number: F02B23/0651 ,  F02B23/0654 ,  F02F1/24 ,  F02M31/20 ,  F02M55/00 ,  F02M61/14 ,  F02M61/1806

Abstract: A fuel and gas mixing structure for an engine is provided. This mixing structure includes a body configured to be positioned between a fuel injector and a cylinder of an engine. The body defines an interior volume that is configured to receive gas from outside the body and to receive one or more streams of fuel from the fuel injector in the interior volume. The body also defines one or more mixture conduits configured to conduct plumes of the fuel and gas, while mixing, from the interior volume to one or more exit ports and therethrough to the cylinder.

公开(公告)号：US10337347B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15199260

申请日：2016-06-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： James Robert Mischler ,  Roy James Primus ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu

IPC: F01D15/10 ,  F02B37/16 ,  F02D29/06 ,  F02B37/013 ,  F02M26/02

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for generating exhaust energy and converting exhaust energy to electrical energy while an engine is not running. In one example, a system for an engine comprises: a first turbocharger including a first compressor driven by a first turbine, the first turbine disposed in an exhaust of the engine; a fuel burner fluidly coupled to the exhaust upstream of the first turbine; a generator coupled to one of the first turbine or an auxiliary, second turbine fluidly coupled to the exhaust downstream of the fuel burner; and one or more bypass valves configured to adjust a flow of air that bypasses the engine and is delivered to the fuel burner.

公开(公告)号：US10294846B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-21

申请号：US15670063

申请日：2017-08-07

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Daniel George Norton ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu ,  Roy James Primus

IPC: B60T7/12 ,  F01N9/00 ,  F02D41/30 ,  F01N3/025 ,  F02M26/52 ,  F02D41/26 ,  F02D41/02 ,  F02D41/40 ,  F01N3/00 ,  F02D41/00

Abstract: A system includes one or more processors configured to be operably coupled to a vehicle system configured to travel along a route during a trip. The vehicle system has a vehicle particulate filter (VPF) disposed within an exhaust passage of the vehicle system. The one or more processors are configured to determine, based on trip information about the trip of the vehicle system, one or more regeneration-incompatible (RI) portions of the trip. The RI portions are associated with operating conditions of the vehicle system that are unsuitable for contemporaneous active regeneration of the VPF. The one or more processors are further configured to schedule an active regeneration (AR) event for the vehicle system based on the one or more RI portions of the trip. The AR event occurs during a regeneration portion of the trip.

公开(公告)号：US10183683B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-22

申请号：US15397209

申请日：2017-01-03

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Thomas Michael Lavertu ,  Roy James Primus ,  Jennifer Lynn Jackson

IPC: B61L3/00 ,  B61L15/00

Abstract: A control system includes a communication device onboard a vehicle system approaching or entering an airflow restricted area along a route and one or more processors. The communication device configured to receive status messages that contain data parameters representative of ambient conditions within the airflow restricted area. The processors are configured to monitor the ambient conditions and determine different power output upper limits that a trail propulsion vehicle of the vehicle system can generate within the airflow restricted area based on the ambient conditions and different power outputs generated by a lead propulsion vehicle of the vehicle system. The processors further configured to communicate instructions to control the lead propulsion vehicle within the airflow restricted area to generate the power output of the different power outputs that results in the greatest total available power output of the vehicle system as the vehicle system travels within the airflow restricted area.

公开(公告)号：US20180003070A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15199260

申请日：2016-06-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： James Robert Mischler ,  Roy James Primus ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu

IPC: F01D15/10 ,  F02B37/013 ,  F02M26/02 ,  F02B37/16 ,  H02K7/18 ,  F02D29/06

CPC classification number: F01D15/10 ,  F02B37/013 ,  F02B37/164 ,  F02D29/06 ,  F02M26/02 ,  F05D2220/40 ,  F05D2220/62 ,  F05D2220/76 ,  Y02T10/144

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for generating exhaust energy and converting exhaust energy to electrical energy while an engine is not running. In one example, a system for an engine comprises: a first turbocharger including a first compressor driven by a first turbine, the first turbine disposed in an exhaust of the engine; a fuel burner fluidly coupled to the exhaust upstream of the first turbine; a generator coupled to one of the first turbine or an auxiliary, second turbine fluidly coupled to the exhaust downstream of the fuel burner; and one or more bypass valves configured to adjust a flow of air that bypasses the engine and is delivered to the fuel burner.

公开(公告)号：US20170089278A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US14864984

申请日：2015-09-25

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Chetan Sharadchandra Tulapurkar ,  Manoj Gokhale ,  Roy James Primus ,  Leslie Orin Trask ,  James Robert Mischler ,  Adam Edgar Klingbeil ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu

IPC: F02D41/00 ,  F02B37/16 ,  F02B43/10 ,  F02D41/14

CPC classification number: F02D41/0027 ,  B61C15/00 ,  B61C15/12 ,  F02B37/16 ,  F02B43/10 ,  F02B63/04 ,  F02B2043/103 ,  F02D19/0647 ,  F02D19/081 ,  F02D31/001 ,  F02D35/023 ,  F02D35/027 ,  F02D41/0007 ,  F02D41/0025 ,  F02D41/021 ,  F02D41/023 ,  F02D41/1456 ,  F02D41/1475 ,  F02D2200/1015 ,  F02D2200/50 ,  Y02T10/144 ,  Y02T10/32 ,  Y02T10/36 ,  Y02T30/10

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for adjusting an air-fuel ratio for combustion in an engine. In one embodiment, a method for an engine (e.g., a method for controlling an engine system) comprises responding to a sensed change in a load on the engine, or indications of engine knock or misfire, by one or more of: altering a speed of the engine, adjusting a fueling flow rate into at least one cylinder of the engine, and adjusting a position of a valve in a bypass passage configured to direct compressed intake air away from cylinders of the engine to obtain a determined air-fuel ratio; and thereby maintaining an air-fuel ratio in a determined range.

公开(公告)号：US20150198070A1

公开(公告)日：2015-07-16

申请号：US14155553

申请日：2014-01-15

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Barry Record ,  Roy James Primus ,  Venu Gummadavelli ,  James Henry Yager ,  Omowoleola Chukwuemeka Akinyemi ,  Adam Edgar Klingbeil ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu

IPC: F01N3/10

CPC classification number: F01N3/10 ,  F02B23/0645 ,  F02B23/0669 ,  F02M61/1806 ,  F02M61/184 ,  F02M61/1846

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a combustion system of an engine. In one example, a combustion system comprises a piston crown bowl with a central apex, a combustion chamber operable at a compression ratio in a range of from about 13:1 to about 17:1, the combustion chamber formed at least partially by the piston crown bowl, and a fuel injector with a nozzle extending into a central portion of the combustion chamber that is operable to inject fuel directly into the combustion chamber, the nozzle defining a number of apertures that is in a range of from six to ten.

Abstract translation: 为发动机的燃烧系统提供各种方法和系统。 在一个实例中，燃烧系统包括具有中心顶点的活塞冠碗，燃烧室以约13:1至约17:1的压缩比可操作，燃烧室至少部分地由活塞 冠碗和燃料喷射器，喷嘴延伸到燃烧室的中心部分，其可操作以将燃料直接喷射到燃烧室中，喷嘴限定了六至十个范围内的多个孔。

公开(公告)号：US20140109571A1

公开(公告)日：2014-04-24

申请号：US13655764

申请日：2012-10-19

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Roy James Primus ,  Omowoleola Chukwuemeka Akinyemi ,  Thomas Michael Lavertu ,  James Robert Mischler ,  Venu Gopal Gummadavelli

IPC: F02M25/07 ,  F02D41/26 ,  F02B37/18 ,  F02B47/08

CPC classification number: F02B37/004 ,  F02B29/0412 ,  F02B29/0425 ,  F02B29/0437 ,  F02B37/013 ,  F02B37/18 ,  F02D41/0007 ,  F02D41/0052 ,  F02D2200/0414 ,  F02D2200/703 ,  F02M26/05 ,  F02M26/08 ,  F02M26/10 ,  F02M26/23 ,  F02M26/34 ,  F02M26/43 ,  F02M26/47 ,  Y02T10/144 ,  Y02T10/47

Abstract: A method includes combusting air within a plurality of cylinders of an internal combustion engine by injecting a fuel into the plurality of cylinders. The method further includes expanding a first portion of an exhaust gas generated from the plurality of combustion cylinders via a turbine. The method further includes controlling at least one of feeding a second portion of the exhaust gas via an exhaust channel bypassing the turbine; and recirculating a third portion of the exhaust gas to the plurality of combustion cylinders via a recirculation channel, as a function of an intake manifold air temperature and pressure at which the engine is operated.

Abstract translation: 一种方法包括通过将燃料喷射到多个气缸中来燃烧内燃机的多个汽缸内的空气。 该方法还包括通过涡轮膨胀从多个燃烧缸产生的排气的第一部分。 该方法还包括控制通过绕过涡轮机的排气通道供给废气的第二部分中的至少一个; 并且通过再循环通道将废气的第三部分再循环到多个燃烧缸，作为进气歧管空气温度和发动机运转的压力的函数。

公开(公告)号：US11192458B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16234586

申请日：2018-12-28

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Thomas Michael Lavertu ,  Victor Salazar ,  Roy James Primus

IPC: B60L50/61 ,  B60L50/10 ,  B60W20/20

Abstract: A system for controlling a hybrid propulsion system includes a computer programmed to obtain altitude and terrain information associated with a predetermined route for the hybrid propulsion system comprising a first energy source and a second energy source. The computer is also programmed to obtain current and forecast ambient weather information associated with the predetermined route of the hybrid propulsion system, determine a power requirement and a torque requirement of the hybrid propulsion system associated with the altitude and the terrain along the predetermined route of the hybrid propulsion system, generate a trip plan to optimize at least one of a plurality of performance parameters of the hybrid propulsion system as the hybrid propulsion system travels along the predetermined route, and preferentially select the first energy source and/or the second energy source based on the trip plan.