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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125295 | ENGINE CONTROLLER An ECU detects a shaft torque in a specified torque detection range defined for each cylinder. The shaft torque is generated due to a combustion of the fuel and is applied to a crankshaft of the engine. The ECU computes a crank angle position as an actual peak position ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125296 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a booster, a first controller, and a second controller. The booster is configured to increase an output voltage of a battery to a drive voltage of a fuel injection unit of the internal combustion engine. The... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110315123 | PIEZOELECTRIC FUEL INJECTOR HAVING A TEMPERATURE COMPENSATING UNIT The present invention provides a fuel injector, comprising a housing having a sealable injector seat; a fuel injector pin disposed within the housing proximate to the injector seat such that the injector seat may be sealed and unsealed by displacing the fuel injector pi... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110308499 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Each cylinder bank of the internal combustion engine is assigned in each case one injection event memory (EES), an injection determining process (EEP) and an injection execution process (EAP). In the respective injection determining process (EEP), desired injection even... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110308498 | Method and control device for operating an internal combustion engine In a method for controlling operation of an internal combustion engine using a control device, a setpoint value of a first fuel injection quantity is specified for a first combustion cycle, and the first fuel injection quantity is injected. A combustion pressure is asce... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110283975 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTROLLING AN INJECTION VALVE A circuit arrangement controls at least one injection valve, in particular a solenoid injection valve, for an internal combustion engine. The circuit includes a supply potential connection, a reference potential connection; one or more solenoids; a controllable voltage ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110232601 | COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE WITH BLENDED FUEL INJECTION An engine includes an electronically controlled mixing ratio control valve with a first inlet fluidly connected to a source of gasoline, and a second inlet fluidly connected to a source of compression ignition fuel, such as distillate diesel fuel. An outlet from the mix... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110220067 | Fuel Injection System for Internal-Combustion Engine and Method of Controlling Fuel Injection System for Internal-Combustion Engine Disclosed is a fuel injection system that is used with an internal-combustion engine to reliably perform a requested fuel injection operation a requested number of times even when a boost voltage is lowered. The fuel injection system monitors the boost voltage immediate... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110203553 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A control device which can reduce an exhaust amount of unburned HC at a time of start of an internal combustion engine using a fuel containing alcohol is provided. The control device controls closing timing of an exhaust valve and opening timing of an intake valve so as... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110197857 | FUEL INJECTION DEVICE [Object] To ensure that the flow rate required during high-speed operation can be adequately provided in a fuel injection device for injecting/supplying fuel to an engine. [Means] There is provided a fuel injection device (3) compris... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110197851 | METHOD FOR METERING A FUEL MASS USING A CONTROLLABLE FUEL INJECTOR A method for controlling a direct-injection fuel injector for an internal combustion engine includes identifying linear and non-linear fuel mass delivery regions corresponding to predefined ranges of injection duration, monitoring an operator torque request, determining... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110180040 | SWITCH-MODE SYNTHETIC POWER INDUCTOR A fuel delivery system for a vehicle includes a fuel injector that meters fuel flow and provides for pre-heating fuel to aid combustion. A control circuit including a synthetic inductor drives a heated element within the fuel flow.... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110180043 | GENSET ENGINE WITH AN ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM INTEGRATING ELECTRICAL SENSING AND CRANK POSITION SENSING An open or closed loop EFI system, integrated on a genset engine or any internal combustion engine, with an electrical sensor and crank position sensor is described. Since a genset engine's exhaust emissions and general performance are a function of spark timing, integr... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110180042 | GENSET THAT USES AN OPEN LOOP ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM AND OPERATES ON GASEOUS FUELS A genset engine that operates on an open loop EFI system and runs on gaseous fuels is described. The integration of various air sensors, including for example a manifold air temperature (MAT) sensor, a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensor, or an air flow sensor(s), c... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110180041 | GENSET ENGINE USING AN ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM INTEGRATING AN ALCOHOL SENSOR An open or closed loop EFI system integrating an alcohol sensor is provided on a genset engine. The EFI system provides acceptable engine performance and efficiency when using fuels or fuel blends over a wide band and when starting from a cold state, i.e., starting the ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110180044 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CORRECTING A TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT LENGTH CHANGE OF AN ACTUATOR UNIT DISPOSED IN THE HOUSING OF A FUEL INJECTOR A method and a device correct a temperature-dependent length change of an actuator unit (3) disposed in a housing (2) of a fuel injector (1). A known method of maintaining an idle stroke (L) formed between the actuator unit (3) and a control ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110155105 | Control Unit of Fuel Injector An injection control unit of a fuel is provided, which prevents generation of a nozzle deposit of a fuel injector. In a control unit of a fuel injector capable of controlling a lift height that is a distance between a valve body and a valve seat, after start of fuel inj... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110139124 | Method for operating at least one injector of an internal combustion engine A method for operating at least one injector of an internal combustion engine, in which a voltage applied to the injector is varied, and a rotational speed pattern of the internal combustion engine is ascertained as a function of the voltage, a setpoint voltage, suitabl... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110132321 | Fuel Injector Diagnostic for Dual Fuel Engine Various systems and methods are described for controlling fuel injection of a dual fuel engine which includes first and second fuel rails and first and second fuel pumps. In one example, while pumping is suspended in the second fuel rail, the first fuel is injected to a... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132285 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ENGINE A method for operating an engine with a fuel reformer is presented. In one embodiment a first fuel is reformed into a gaseous fuel comprising H, CO, and CH4 or the fuel may change state to vaporized alcohol. The present method provides for ramping injection o... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132331 | VACUUM SUPPLY SYSTEM A method of operating a boosted engine system is described in which an ejector coupled with a fuel vapor purging system can generate vacuum during both purging and non-purging conditions, and during both boosted and non-boosted conditions. The vacuum can therefore be us... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132284 | Method for Operating an Engine with Variable Charge Density A method for operating an engine with a fuel reformer is presented. In one embodiment a first fuel is reformed into a gaseous fuel comprising H, CO, and CH4. The engine is operated by injecting the gaseous fuel and a second fuel to a cylinder of the engine in... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132330 | System and Method for Injecting Fuel to a Gaseous Fueled Engine A method for controlling injection timing for a gaseous fuel injector is described. In one example, the fuel injector is opened with a saturating fuel injector at a predetermined crankshaft angular position. In one embodiment, the predetermined crankshaft angular positi... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132286 | Method for Operating a Charge Diluted Engine A method for operating an engine with a fuel reformer is presented. In one embodiment a first fuel is reformed into a gaseous fuel comprising H, CO, and CH4. The engine is operated by injecting the gaseous fuel and a second fuel to a cylinder of the engine in... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110120420 | Method for determining a characteristics map of the injection quantity via an electric variable of an electrically triggered fuel injector A method for determining a characteristics map of the injection quantity (Q) via an electric variable (UB) of an electrically triggered fuel injector. The electric variable (UB) is varied during operation of the internal combustion engine, from an ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110100330 | FUEL INJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS A fuel injection control apparatus for controlling a fuel injection valve including an arithmetic processing section that determines whether a necessary fuel amount is injectable or not within a fuel injectable range from a first fuel injection start timing, computes a ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110100331 | FUEL INJECTION CONTROLLING SYSTEM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A fuel injection controlling system includes an accelerator manipulator. An accelerator manipulated variable detection sensor is configured to detect a manipulated variable of the accelerator manipulator. A rotation speed sensor is configured to detect a rotation speed ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110088655 | Fuel Injection Control Method For A Direct Injection Gaseous-Fuelled Internal Combustion Engine The method comprises receiving from the vehicle controller, values associated with the engine speed and of another parameter indicative of the engine operating conditions, such as the total fuelling amount, and controlling the fuel injection parameters according to the ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087422 | Internal Combustion Engine Having Common Power Source For Ion Current Sensing and Fuel Injectors An electrical power system for an engine powered at least in part by a battery having a battery voltage and including a fuel injector and at least one ionization sensor includes at least one common power supply connected to the fuel injector and the ionization sensor an... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110079199 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DEVIATIONS OF INJECTION QUANTITIES AND FOR CORRECTING THE INJECTION QUANTITY, AND INJECTION SYSTEM A method provides for detecting deviations of injection quantities for injections into internal combustion engines, as carried out for example by common-rail systems. At least one deviation of at least one injection quantity is detected by determining at least one devia... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110060515 | FUEL INJECTION DEVICE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A learning value for correcting a basic injection pulse such that an actual air-fuel ratio approximates to a target air-fuel ratio is calculated individually for each injection time number, which is decided according to an operation state of an engine. Thus, even if the... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110048372 | System and Methods for Stoichiometric Compression Ignition Engine Control The present invention relates to a diesel engine control system and methods for substantially operating a diesel engine at stoichiometric fuel to air ratios. The system may include a fuel processor which receives instructions for a desired engine output and current oper... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110040475 | MISFIRE DETECTION THROUGH COMBUSTION PRESSURE SENSOR A method is provided for controlling an internal combustion engine. The method includes, but is not limited to the step of measuring in-cylinder pressure of an expansion phase of a combustion cycle of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine and measuring in-cylinde... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110017173 | ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM FOR BALANCING THE CYLINDERS OF A GAS-BURNING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE The invention relates to balancing the cylinders of an internal combustion engine. The invention comprises cylinder-specific pressure sensors (1) installed in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine for measuring the cylinder pressures as well as an adjust... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110005495 | PIEZOELECTRIC FUEL INJECTOR HAVING A TEMPERATURE COMPENSATING UNIT The present invention provides a fuel injector, comprising a housing having a sealable injector seat; a fuel injector pin disposed within the housing proximate) the injector seat such that the injector seat may be sealed and unsealed by displacing the fuel injector pin;... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005496 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR A CYLINDER DIRECT-INJECTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A control apparatus is provided for a four stroke cylinder direct-injection internal combustion engine having a cylinder and a piston disposed within the cylinder. The control apparatus includes a variable compression ratio mechanism for variably controlling the engine ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110000465 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN INJECTION SYSTEM OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A method for controlling an injection system of an internal combustion engine, a fuel injection being performed using at least one piezoelectric actuator which acts directly or transmittedly on a nozzle needle of an injector, and an activation voltage determining the ac... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110000466 | Multi-Layer Piezoelectric Element, Method for Manufacturing The Same, Injection Apparatus and Fuel Injection System A multi-layer piezoelectric element that has high durability with capability to operable continuously under higher voltage and higher pressure over a long period of time, a method for manufacturing the same, an injection apparatus and a fuel injection system are provide... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100307456 | METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT FOR ELECTRIC CONTROL OF AN ACTUATOR OF AN INJECTION VALVE A method for the electric control of an actuator of an injection valve in an injection facility for an internal combustion engine has the following steps: specifying a target value for a controlled variable (E) of the actuator, pilot controlling the controlled variable ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100307457 | FUEL INJECTION CONTROLLER A fuel injection controller includes an ECU controlling an operation of a fuel injector based on a characteristic data of the fuel injector, an EEPROM provided to the injector, and an EEPROM provided to the ECU. Identification information by which the fuel injector is i... | 12/09/2010 |
