US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on March 11 for "Catalyst temperature control apparatus and catalyst temperature control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,509, issued on March 11, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Catalyst temperature control apparatus and catalyst temperature control method" was invented by Atsushi Matsumoto (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst temperature control apparatus includes: a calculation part calculating an amount of heat transfer obtained by adding together i) an amount of heat that transfers from a wall surface of a catalyst to exhaust based on an exhaust temperature, exhaust flow rate, and catalyst wall surface temperature of an upstream side of the catalyst, and ii) an amount of heat that transfers from the wall...