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- Patent Title: Exhaust heat recovery device for internal combustion engine and exhaust heat recovery method for internal combustion engine
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Application No.: US14441872Application Date: 2013-12-10
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Publication No.: US09657602B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Kazuo Kawai
- Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Current Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Staas & Halsey LLP
- Priority: JP2012-274646 20121217
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/083012 WO 20131210
- International Announcement: WO2014/097923 WO 20140626
- Main IPC: F01K23/10
- IPC: F01K23/10 ; F01K23/06 ; F02G5/02 ; F01K3/10 ; F01K11/02 ; F01K17/04 ; F02B37/00 ; F01N5/02

Abstract:
An exhaust heat recovery device for an engine including a Rankine cycle, including a steam accumulator that stores a surplus of a working medium for driving a turbine, and a leveling line that discharges the stored surplus working medium from the steam accumulator to the turbine, when the turbine cannot output predetermined power only with the working medium flowing out from a boiler, and levels the power outputted from the turbine. Since the power outputted from the turbine can be leveled without reduction of the power, even if the working medium cannot vaporize with the boiler immediately after start-up, immediately before stop, or during a low-load operation of the engine, exhaust heat from the engine can be efficiently used.
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