Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Jianwen James Yi

Xiaogang Zhang

Steven Wooldridge

Eric Warren Curtis

Brad Alan VanDerWege

Mark Meinhart

Zheng Xu

Joseph F Basmaji

David Bruce Reiche

Joseph Norman Ulrey

Michael Howard Shelby

Eric Matthew Storhok

Leon Hu

Claudia Olivia Iyer

Gopichandra Surnilla

Harold Huimin Sun

Liangjun Hu

Zhiyu Han

John Eric Rollinger

Alex O'Connor Gibson

Cindy Zhou

Brad Alan Boyer

James Alfred Hilditch

Jialin Yang

George Carver Davis

Eric Krengel

Benjamin Richard Petersen

Thomas A McCarthy

Ben Zhao

Sangjin Hong

Foo Chern Ting

Eric Matthew Kurtz

Stephen George Russ

Paul Matthew Laing

Peter Charles Moilanen

Daniel William Kantrow

Richard Walter Anderson

John Edward Hedges

Neal James Corey

Dave R Hanna

Christopher Polonowski

Gary Alan Coulson

Steven Paul Penkevich

Wen Dai

Nizar Trigui

Jizhong Zhang

Eric Krengal

FooChern Ting

Thomas George Leone

Chris Paul Glugla

William Charles Ruona

Julia Helen Buckland

Alexander O'Connor Gibson

Michael Damian Czekala

Garlan J Huberts

David John Kubinski

Nelson William Morrow, Jr

David Hanna

Steven Schwochert

George Aristidis Papaioannou

David Curtis Ives

Ray Host

Hao Wu

Jeffry Gerard Sczepanski

Shiyou Yang

Jim Hilditch

Claudia Olivia Lyer

Huiyu Fu

Xinlei Zhou

Xiangdong Chen

Shengqi Wu

Ruben Humberto Munoz Pascua

A battery pack venting assembly includes a battery pack vent that communicates a flow of vent byproducts from a battery pack. The battery pack vent has a coolant passage that communicates a coolant to manage thermal energy levels within the flow of vent byproducts. The coolant can be a liquid coolant. The battery pack vent can be configured to communicate the flow to impinge on areas of the battery pack vent.

Battery pack venting assembly and venting method

Methods and systems are provided for injecting gaseous fuel during an engine start. In one example, a method comprises generating gaseous fuel via a fuel gasification device and injecting the gaseous fuel via a fuel injector. The fuel injector is configured to inject adjacent to an ignition device.

Methods and systems for engine cold-start

Systems and methods for reducing heat loss to a turbocharger during cold engine starting are described. In one example, a turbocharger bypass pipe and a turbocharger turbine pipe are oriented at forty five degrees relative to a longitudinal axis of a catalyst so that a turbocharger turbine may be completely bypassed, thereby increasing the amount of energy that may be transferred to the catalyst.

Method and systems for reducing heat loss to a turbocharger during cold engine starting

Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector. In one example, a system may include an injector comprising two or more passages shaped to flow a mixture in opposite directions before injecting the mixture.

Methods and systems for a fuel injector

Methods and systems are provided for increasing a temperature of a catalyst of an engine by operating the engine in a split lambda catalyst heating mode. In one example, a method may include, while operating an engine in a split lambda catalyst heating mode, adjusting a magnitude of a lambda split between a rich set of combustion events and a lean set of combustion events based on soot formation in the rich set of combustion events. In this way, catalyst temperature may be increased while maintaining engine efficiency and preventing soot formation in the cylinders.

Systems and methods for split lambda catalyst heating

Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector. In one example, a system comprises an injector spool valve having a fuel outlet shaped to flow fuel to different portions of a nozzle inlet based on an actuation of the injector spool valve, thereby adjusting a fuel injection angle of a fuel injection.

Methods and systems are provided for preventing compressor surge while improving compressor efficiency and performance. In one example, a method may include a recirculation passage in a compressor configured with a casing treatment and the recirculation passage being cooled by a cooling jacket within the compressor housing wall. In another example, the recirculation passage includes guide vanes.

Water-cooled casing treatment

Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system to reduce and balance axial thrust load on the turbine shaft and the associated bearing system and sealing. In one example, a partial back plate compressor may be used in combination with an axial turbine to reduce axial thrust load and to improve turbocharger transient response time. In another example, a regenerative turbocharger system with back-to-back turbo pump may be used to reduce and balance axial thrust load.

Axial thrust loading mitigation in a turbocharger

A fuel delivery system and a direct injector for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder are provided. In one example, a direct fuel injector includes a nozzle in fluidic communication with a fuel source, the nozzle includes at least one fuel flow path that divides into two exit flow paths within the nozzle defining a plurality of exit orifices stemming from a common inlet orifice thereby improving the atomization and mixing of the fuel as it enters the cylinder. A plurality of spaced-apart divided fuel flow paths may be positioned within the nozzle to further optimize mixing and reduce wall and piston wetting.

Fuel injector with divided flowpath nozzle

Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector. In one example, a system may include an injection nozzle having a venturi shape with an upstream twisted fin arranged in a venturi inlet. The system may further include a downstream twisted fin arranged in a venturi outlet.

Methods and systems are provided for a multi-hole nozzle of a fuel injector. In one example, a nozzle for a fuel injector may include multiple nozzle holes arranged at a nozzle tip, where each nozzle hole has a straight flow axis and a cross-section that twists around the straight flow axis, from an inlet to an outlet of the nozzle hole. Additionally, a long side of the cross-section may increase in length, along the nozzle hole, from the inlet to the outlet.

Multi-hole fuel injector with twisted nozzle holes

Methods and systems are provided for a urea mixer. In one example, a urea mixer may include a plurality of outlets located adjacent a throat of a venturi passage.

Urea mixer

A fuel delivery system and a direct injector for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder are provided. In one example, a direct fuel injector includes a nozzle in fluidic communication with a fuel source, the nozzle includes a first set of orifices, each of the orifices in the first set arranged at a first orifice angle on an intake side of the nozzle. The direct fuel injector further includes a second set of orifices, each of the orifices in the second set arranged at a second orifice angle greater than the first orifice angle on an exhaust side of the nozzle.

Direct fuel injector

Methods and systems are provided for a noise mitigating device for a turbocharger compressor. In one example, the noise mitigating device includes a set of perforated rings arranged in a recirculation passage of a compressor casing treatment. The rings of the set of perforated rings may be oriented so that apertures of one ring are offset from apertures of one or more adjacent rings, forcing air to flow through the apertures via a non-linear path while deflecting at least a portion of sounds waves generated in the compressor.

Noise mitigating compressor

Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector for an engine. In one example, the injector may be adapted with a plurality of nozzles configured to enhance atomization of fuel. The plurality of nozzles may have geometries that increase turbulence and rotation of fuel flow therethrough. In some examples, the injector may also include a multi-stage counterbore that reduces a likelihood of coking at the injector.

Fuel injector nozzle

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