US Patent Issued to PACCAR on Jan. 13 for "Cylinder deactivation expanded operational range with additional air source integrated with turbocharger" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,184, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Cylinder deactivation expanded operational range with additional air source integrated with turbocharger" was invented by Trevor Ott (Anacortes, Wash.), Maarten Meijer (Anacortes, Wash.), Stephen Ciatti (Bellingham, Wash.) and Brandon Rouse (Anacortes, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing additional mass air flow to an engine of a vehicle to expand an operating range of cylinder deactivation (CDA) is provided. Aspects of the present disclosure describe a method and system to provide additional mass air flow to an engine using an auxiliary air source coup...