347 results about "Post injection" patented technology

A showerhead that injects two process gases into the processing chamber via separate sets of holes. The showerhead is constructed of upper plate and lower plate. Upper plate has a first set of holes. The lower plate has two sets of holes: one set is aligned with the holes in the upper plate, while the second set has no corresponding holes in the upper plate. Both sets of holes in the lower plate are made to have two different diameters: a larger diameter extending from the top surface of the lower plate, while a smaller diameter extends from the bottom surface and meets with the larger diameter. A set of pipes are inserted through the holes in the upper plate and the corresponding holes in the lower plate, and are sealingly brazed to both plates. Cooling channels may be provided in the lower plate.

According to the present invention, there is disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine a filter that traps particulate matter In an exhaust gas, and a catalyst with a three-way function is carried on the filter. At the filter regeneration, by controlling such as an injection amount of post injection, an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas at an outlet of the filter is controlled to a stoichiometric ratio, and also by controlling such as an intake air throttle valve, an oxygen concentration of the exhaust gas at an inlet of the filter is controlled. Hence, at the filter regeneration, the particulate can be reliably burned and removed, and at the same time, NOx in addition to HC and CO can be purified.

Provided are a vacuum-sealing-type flexible-film primary battery and a method of manufacturing the same. The primary battery includes a battery assembly comprising a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode collector having a first conductive carbon layer disposed on a surface-treated inner surface of a first pouch and a positive electrode layer disposed on the first conductive carbon layer of the positive electrode collector, a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode collector having a second conductive carbon layer disposed on a surface-treated inner surface of a second pouch and a negative electrode layer disposed on the second conductive carbon layer of the negative electrode collector, and an adhesion/post-injection polymer electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, wherein the battery assembly is completely sealed. The flexible-film primary battery may employ the pouch as a collector film to improve flexibility. Also, the flexible-film primary battery may be completely sealed using the pouch to improve a retention period and cell performance. Furthermore, the flexible-film primary battery may be manufactured using a screen printing technique, thereby facilitating a roll-to-roll sequential process.

An exhaust gas heating system and method of a direct injection compression ignition internal combustion engine which has a plurality of combustion chambers, an exhaust passage, and one or more direct fuel injection devices, each operable to inject fuel directly into a corresponding one of the combustion chambers. The system also includes a fuel injection controller which is operable to provide to at least one of the direct fuel injection devices, a post fuel injection signal during a corresponding cylinder cycle of the corresponding one of the plurality of combustion chambers. The post fuel injection signal is timed so as to provide exhaust gas heating from a resultant post fuel injection, and the fuel injection controller dynamically determines the particular one or more of the plurality of direct fuel injection devices to which the post fuel injection signal will be applied based on a temperature related engine operating parameter such as a desired amount of exhaust gas heating. The post fuel injection may also be timed and/or shaped such that it does not produce a substantial amount of mechanical energy but instead produces heated exhaust gasses.

A method using exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine. The engine has at least one “dedicated EGR cylinder”, whose entire exhaust is recirculated back to all the engine cylinders. The dedicated EGR cylinder is operated at a rich air-fuel ratio, and the other cylinders are operated stoichiometrically so that a conventional three way catalyst may be used to treat the exhaust. A fuel injector is used to inject fuel into the combustion chamber of the dedicated EGR cylinder after initiation of the main combustion event. This post injection method overcomes flammability limits of a dedicated EGR cylinder, and increases the hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in its exhaust.

An exhaust gas purification device of a diesel engine having a DPF (diesel particulate filter) for collecting particulate matters such as soot and unburned components from exhaust gas of the diesel engine calculates an oil dilution quantity as a quantity of fuel diluting engine oil from a regeneration time of the DPF and an operation state. The exhaust gas purification device alleviates an increase in the oil dilution quantity by using a regeneration device that causes the oil dilution quantity less than the oil dilution quantity caused by another regeneration device when the oil dilution quantity exceeds a predetermined value. Thus, both of suppression of the oil dilution quantity and inhibition of deterioration of fuel consumption due to post-injection can be achieved.

An exhaust gas purification system has an exhaust gas purification device (12) for purifying components in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine (10) such as a diesel engine. In order to recover the purification ability of the exhaust gas purification device (12), and in order to prevent oil dilution occurring when post injection is conducted as part of an in-cylinder fuel injection control during an exhaust gas temperature raising control that raises the temperature of exhaust gas, the system performs the following. In a regenerative control for recovering purification ability of the exhaust gas purification device (12), injection quantities (Qp) of post injections are calculated based on previously set map data (Mp), accumulated to calculate a post injection accumulated injection amount (ΣQp), and, when the accumulated injection amount (ΣQp) exceeds a predetermined determination value (Cp), the post injection is stopped to cease the regenerative control.

An apparatus and method for identifying the flexor retinaculum of the carpal tunnel, injecting an effective amount of an agent into at least a portion of flexor retinaculum or tissue adjacent thereto, wherein the agent is configured to weaken the flexor retinaculum. The system may further include means for increasing the tensile stress in the flexor retinaculum post-injection using hand exercises, thereby weakening its structural integrity and decreasing the pressure within the carpal tunnel that impairs median nerve function.

An internal combustion engine has a particulate filter for collecting exhaust particulate matters included in exhaust gas. An oxidization catalyst is supported on the particulate filter. A fuel injection control system for the engine has injection quantity setting means. The injection quantity setting means sets an injection quantity for a post-injection so that the injection quantity is increased toward a basic injection quantity corresponding to a heating value, which is suitable for eliminating exhaust particulate matters collected by a particulate filter. The injection quantity is gradually increased to the basic injection quantity while maintaining temperature of the particulate filter including the oxidization catalyst above a lower limit temperature for inhibiting generation of white smoke. The lower limit temperature is determined in accordance with the injection quantity.

Removal of fine particles by oxidation or/and sulfur poisoning recovery control may be required when an internal combustion engine has been in an extremely low load state for a predetermined period or more. In this case, the engine speed of the internal combustion engine (1) is adjusted to a range where the temperature of a filter (20) can be raised by heat-up control. The heat-up control is then executed by a filter temperature control means to raise the temperature of the filter (20) to a predetermined value. When the filter (20) reaches the predetermined temperature by means of low-temperature combustion, post-injection, VIGOM-injection, addition of 10 fuel to an exhaust system and the like, removal of fine particles by oxidation or/and sulfur poisoning recovery control for eliminating sulfur poisoning of a NOx absorbent are conducted. Removal of PMs captured by the filter and sulfur poisoning recovery control of the NOx absorbent can thus be conducted even if the internal combustion engine is left in an extremely low load operational state.

In an exhaust gas temperature raising control for recovering purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device (12) of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas temperature is efficiently raised to a target level with white smoke prevented from being produced. To achieve this, in the exhaust gas temperature raising control in recovery control of the exhaust gas purification device (12), when the temperature (Tg1) of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust gas purification device (12) is lower than a predetermined judgment value (Tp), a first exhaust gas temperature raising control that does not include post injection but includes intake air restriction is performed, and when equal to or higher than the predetermined judgment value (Tp), a second exhaust gas temperature raising control that includes both the post injection and the intake air restriction is performed to set an intake air restriction amount (α) in the first exhaust gas temperature raising control greater than an intake air restriction amount (β) in the second exhaust gas temperature raising control.

in a method for operating a supercharged internal combustion engine and an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas treatment system which comprises a catalytic converter arranged close to the engine, an exhaust gas turbocharger which is arranged downstream of the catalytic converter, and a post-injection device for introducing additional fuel into the exhaust gas flow upstream of the catalytic converter, wherein the heat energy of the exhaust gas mass flow which acts on the exhaust gas turbocharger is varied by controlling the fuel quantity which is additionally introduced into the exhaust gas flow by means of the post-injection device resulting in an improvement in the response behavior of the internal combustion engine, excess energy which is generated by the exhaust gas turbocharger by means of a motor generator connected to the exhaust gas turbocharger is stored in a storage device and is returned to the motor generator for rapidly accelerating the turbocharger when an increased power output is demanded from the engine.

Disclosed herein, the parental antibodies from the hybridomas YTS 169.4.2.1 (YTS169) and 2.43 were engineered into minibody and diabody fragments. Both the YTS and 2.43 antibodies bind mCD8+. However, they differ in that the YTS 169 antibodies bind both Lyt2.1 and Lyt2.2 while the 2.43 antibodies bind an epitope that is Lyt2.2 specific. These novel minibodies and diabodies retained their antigen specificity as shown by flow cytometry and ImmunoPET imaging. Most importantly, both the 2.43 and YTS169 minibodies and diabodies produced high contrast ImmunoPET images of CD8+ lymphoid organs at only four hours post-injection.

The present invention, provides a strategy or method for injecting fuel in two distinct fuel injection events per engine cycle. The first injection event is main fuel injection, which occurs when the crankshaft is near top-dead center. The main injection event delivers a majority of the fuel needed to provide a majority of the power produced during combustion. The second injection event is post injection, which occurs shortly after the main fuel injection event. The post injection event provides a supplemental amount of fuel to the combustion chamber to reduce the rate of pressure rise while increasing, turbulence, mixing and cylinder pressure within the combustion chamber to reduce the formation of soot. In addition, the combination of the main fuel injection event and the post fuel injection event reduces engine noise by reducing heat release rates and the rate of combustion chamber pressurization.