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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127744 | Cold start engine control diagnostic systems and methods An engine control module includes a spark control module, an engine speed module, a residual determination module, and a metric determination module. The spark control module actuates spark plugs based on a commanded spark timing. The engine speed module determines ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8028678 | Direct injection alcohol engine with boost and spark control Boosted engine operation and spark timing of an engine may be adjusted with alcohol content of the fuel in a direct injection engine. Further, various adjustments may be performed in numerous related systems to account for increased maximum engine torque, such as tr... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7934486 | Internal and external LP EGR for boosted engines A method for controlling combustion in a combustion chamber of a turbocharged engine is described. The method includes admitting to the combustion chamber prior to ignition a first amount of exhaust from an intake manifold of the engine, the first amount changing at... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7926466 | Engine control device, engine control method, and motorcycle An engine control device includes an engine revolution speed information acquisition device for acquiring the revolution speed of an engine, an accelerator opening sensor for detecting the opening of an accelerator operated by a rider of a vehicle mounted with the e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7909019 | Direct injection alcohol engine with boost and spark control Boosted engine operation and spark timing of an engine may be adjusted with alcohol content of the fuel in a direct injection engine. Further, various adjustments may be performed in numerous related systems to account for increased maximum engine torque, such as tr... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7891336 | Differential torque operation for internal combustion engine A method adjusts a torque differential between firing cylinders based on engine speed such that greater torque differentials are provided at higher engine speeds. Further, the torque differential may be adjusted based on the firing pattern of the cylinders. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7878175 | Torque reserve and emission control system for coordinated torque control A coordinated torque control system includes a catalyst module that generates a multi-mode enable signal based on a catalyst light off enable signal. A torque reserve module generates a torque reserve signal based on the multi-mode enable signal, an engine speed sig... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7748362 | Managing lean air/fuel transients in coordinated torque control An engine control system includes an air control module, a spark control module, a torque control module, a transient detection module, and a launch torque module. The air control module controls a throttle valve of an engine based on a commanded predicted torque. T... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7594496 | Method and device for operating a drive unit of a vehicle A method and a device for operating a drive unit of a vehicle are provided, which result in reduced fuel consumption in the overrun condition. An output variable of the drive unit is set, in this context, according to a preset driving strategy in the overrun conditi... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7451739 | Ignition timing control system and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of reducing the capacity of a memory that stores data used in controlling ignition timing, thereby reducing manufacturing costs. An ignition timing control system that controls ign... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7433775 | Engine torque control at high pressure ratio A method of controlling a torque output of an internal combustion engine includes determining a pressure ratio, determining a reference torque based on the pressure ratio and a torque request, calculating a desired throttle area based on the reference torque and reg... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424882 | Engine method A method for controlling an engine airflow, the engine having at least one cylinder, the engine also having an intake manifold and an outlet control device for controlling flow from the intake manifold into the cylinder, comprising of generating a desired engine tor... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418943 | Spark advance foe engine idle speed control An engine idle speed control system for regulating an idle speed of an internal combustion engine includes a first module that determines an indicated torque of the engine based on a current spark timing and a second module that determines a desired indicated torque... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7387108 | Ignition timing control system and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of reducing the capacity of a memory that stores data used in controlling ignition timing, thereby reducing manufacturing costs. An ignition timing control system that controls ign... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7377260 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders having combustion chambers and each being associated with a spark plug designed for igniting a mixture of air and fuel in the combustion chamber, and at least two adjusting devices for adjusting the air supp... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376505 | Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular a motor vehicle having a plurality of cylinder banks are described, making it possible to eliminate fluctuations in a time trend in an output quantity of the internal combustion engine ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369934 | Predictive engine combustion management A system, apparatus, and method for predicting an engine operating condition and providing a component in accordance with the prediction. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367311 | Control system for compression ignition internal combustion engine A compression ignition internal combustion engine includes injectors, each of which injects fuel into a corresponding cylinder. An ECU determines target ignition timing based on engine operational information and adjusts fuel injection start timing and a fuel inject... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7347184 | Controller and controlling method for internal combustion engine A base engine torque generated with an estimated intake air amount is estimated. An engine torque is corrected by correcting an ignition timing based on a difference between a required engine torque and the base engine torque. A torque correction amount is calculate... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334549 | Multi-stroke cylinder operation in an internal combustion engine A method to control valves during multi-stroke cylinder operation. Valves are controlled to improve emissions and engine torque resolution. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325532 | Method for the torque-oriented control of an internal combustion engine A method for the torque-oriented control of an internal combustion engine, in which a sum torque (MSUM) is calculated from a set torque value (MSW) and a friction torque (MF). A set injection quantity (mSL) for driving the internal combustion engine is calculated fr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328097 | Vehicle behavior estimating device and vehicle behavior controlling device While a driving torque TD outputted to a driving shaft via an AT from an engine is detected, a road-surface transmitting torque Td_tire is detected based on rotation speeds Vwdr, Vwdl of vehicle driving wheels, a vehicle body speed Vd, and driving torques Tdr, Tdl, ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320306 | Engine revolution controller of working machine In an engine of a working machine having no governor mechanism, the engine revolution speed is controlled such that the revolution speed can stably be maintained irrespective of the variation in load without adjusting the throttle opening to exploit the full potenti... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318411 | Adaptive ignition dwell based on ionization feedback A system for determining a minimum ignition coil charge duration of an internal combustion engine to meet a desired level of combustion stability includes a sensor in communication with a controller. The sensor is configured to measure the ionization current of a cy... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305298 | Charge motion control valve fuzzy logic diagnostic A method of diagnosing a malfunction of a charge motion control valve coupled to an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes: commanding the valve to at least one of close and open; determining a pressure range using fuzzy lo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293406 | Engine control for low emission vehicle starting A method for rapidly heating an emission control device in an engine exhaust uses excess air added to the exhaust via an air introduction device. After an engine cold start, the engine is operated to raise exhaust manifold temperature to a first predetermined value ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295918 | Automobile and control method of automobile When an automobile moves in a reverse direction opposite to an expected driving direction according to the current setting of a gearshift position SP, the automobile of the invention sets an adjustment torque Ta corresponding to a measured road surface gradient θ a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290442 | Method and system of estimating MBT timing using in-cylinder ionization signal A robust multi-criteria minimum timing for the best torque (MBT) timing estimation method and apparatus utilizes different ionization signal waveforms that are generated under different engine operating conditions. The MBT timing criteria is calculated based upon bo... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7275518 | Torque-based powertrain control for vehicles A system and method for controlling a vehicle powertrain having an internal combustion engine include determining a difference between a desired engine torque and a current engine torque, adjusting the difference based on a stored torque offset corresponding to a cu... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7267103 | Ignition timing control system for internal combustion engine An ignition timing control system for internal combustion engines, which is capable of preventing occurrence of variation in engine speed and vibrations which can be caused due to variation in combustion state between the cylinders, to thereby improve drivability. T... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246599 | Method for determining the ignition angle A method for determining the ignition angle is provided, in which modifications of manipulated variables which have an influence on the knock limit, and therefore on the optimum ignition angle as well, are dynamically taken into account. To this end, a base ignition... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225074 | Engine control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders An engine control system comprises a first control device which is associated with a first section of the cylinders, and a second control device which is associated with a second section of the cylinders. The first control device is designed in order to determine an... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213573 | System and method of controlling engine dilution rate using combustion stability measurer derived from the ionization signal This feature of the present invention comprises a system and method of controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) based on a measure combustion stability measure. The combustion stability measure is obtained by determining the integration duration of the engine ion... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209823 | Controller A control system which is capable of enhancing the accuracy of control, when the output of a controlled object is controlled with a control algorithm to which is applied a modulation algorithm based on one of a Δ modulation algorithm, a ΔΣ modulation algorithm, a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198029 | Extension of DOD operation in torque control system An engine control system for regulating a torque output of a variable displacement engine includes a first module that calculates a torque modification term based on an engine operating parameter and a second module that determines a desired engine torque and an est... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188594 | Apparatus and method for controlling variable valve actuation mechanism In an internal combustion engine equipped with a variable valve actuation mechanism, which varies a lift amount of an intake valve, when the lift amount is forcedly controlled at the minimum to learn a detection result of the lift amount at that time, a throttle ope... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182064 | Method for regulating the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine A method for closed-loop speed control of an internal combustion engine that is provided as a generator drive or a marine propulsion unit, including the steps of: computing a first control deviation (dR1) from a speed variance comparison; computing a first se... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7120536 | Method of diagnosing the operating state of a motor vehicle diesel engine In the method of diagnosing the operating state of a motor vehicle diesel engine of the invention, the engine includes a pressure acquisition system associated with each cylinder of the engine to acquire the pressure in that cylinder, an engine shaft angle acquisiti... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111611 | Torque sensor-based engine and powertrain control system A system for controlling a vehicle that includes an engine comprises a controller having an input for receiving an engine torque input command indicative of a desired amount of torque to be generated by the engine, and an output for providing an engine torque output... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104244 | Control system for variable-cylinder internal combustion engine A control system for a variable-cylinder internal combustion engine, which is capable of attaining excellent fuel economy by executing a partial-cylinder operation mode as long as possible, while suppressing vibration and noise during the partial-cylinder operation ... | 09/12/2006 |
