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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151767 | Fuel control for direct injection fuel system A method for controlling a direct injection fuel system of a vehicle, the method comprising generating fuel pressure via an electronically controlled lift pump and a second pump, the electronically controlled lift pump actuated responsive to a command during an init... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146569 | Control systems and methods for newly assembled engines An engine control system for a vehicle comprises a combustion control module and an engine startup module. The combustion control module selectively controls a spark timing and airflow into an engine based on a counter value. The engine startup module, when the coun... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141542 | Method for the cold start of an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method for starting an internal combustion engine associated with a starter for driving the engine when starting the latter and to means for adapting the amount of injected fuel. According to the invention, the method comprises the followi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8104452 | Method for carrying out a high-pressure start of an internal combustion engine, control facility and internal combustion engine In known methods for carrying out a high-pressure start of an internal combustion engine, inconvenient starting behavior can sometimes occur. In a method for carrying out a high-pressure start of an internal combustion engine (1), a high-pressure pump (22 | 01/31/2012 |
| 8006671 | Start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine A start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which takes an amount of a fuel vaporized from a heated fuel into consideration to prevent deterioration of startability due to an overrich or overlean condition caused by an excessive or insufficient amou... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7905217 | Electronic fuel injection control device An electronic fuel injection control device of the present invention has at least a fuel injection device for injecting a fuel devoted to a combustion, and a power source circuit for rectifying and stabilizing an alternating-current voltage generated, based on a rot... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7866303 | Direct injection event-based engine starting A method for starting an internal combustion engine having direct fuel injection, comprising of adjusting a number of direct injections per combustion cycle based on a cylinder event number from a first cylinder event. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7798131 | Automotive modular inductive heated injector and system A fuel injection system (60) is provided for an internal combustion engine (62). The engine has a plurality of cylinders (70). The system includes a plurality of fuel injectors (10′) constructed and arranged to receive fuel. One fuel in... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793641 | Model-based fuel control for engine start and crank-to-run transition A fuel control system for regulating fuel to cylinders of an internal combustion engine during an engine start and crank-to-run transition includes a first module that determines a plurality of step-ahead cylinder air masses (GPOs) for a cylinder based on a pluralit... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7765988 | Method for an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine The description relates to an internal combustion engine, and a method for an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder, at each of which at least one spark providing device for ignition being provided. The engine is operated, in connection to a start pr... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7661412 | Method of controlling the start-up of an internal combustion engine A method of controlling the startup of an engine using a sensor having a reference index, commanding the rotation of the crankshaft, detecting the rotation of the crankshaft, selecting a group of cylinders for which the reference index is detected less than a half-t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7562650 | Start-up control apparatus for an internal combustion engine The present invention is directed to a start-up control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that can further improve the start-up characteristics of an internal combustion engine. An ECU is provided that corrects a position at which the crankshaft stops or a... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7549409 | Fuel supply amount control system and boat propulsion unit In a fuel supply amount control system, during a period of engine startup from the time when a crankshaft starts to rotate by a starter motor to the time when the crankshaft stably rotates by fuel combustion, a fuel supply amount is controlled independently before a... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7523744 | Apparatus and method for controlling an internal combustion engine When an internal combustion engine controller determines that an internal combustion engine is experiencing difficulty in starting, the fuel injection amount is corrected according to a first estimated ethanol (alcohol) concentration value that is approximately in t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7478627 | Fuel control apparatus for internal combustion engine When a combustion feedback correction coefficient to which a predetermined value is added in correspondence to half miss firing judgment exceeds a heavy fuel judgment value (K0), heavy fuel judgment is made, and heavy fuel corresponding control for increa... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7472692 | Engine control apparatus An engine control apparatus which can ensure and maintain a stability and constant exhaust emission characteristics even in such a condition that a nature of a fuel used as present is unsure, and which is robust among different fuel natures, comprising a plurality o... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7418946 | Engine start control apparatus and method An engine start control apparatus includes an intake air amount control device for controlling an amount of air supplied to a combustion chamber, a fuel supply device for injecting fuel to be fed into the combustion chamber, and an igniting device for igniting the f... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413043 | Method and system for estimating barometric pressure in a hybrid vehicle Barometric pressure is determined in a hybrid electric vehicle from manifold absolute pressure. During engine operation, wide open throttle is commanded and output torque disturbances are offset by the electric machine. Barometric pressure is estimated based on sens... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412953 | Engine control device An engine control device that controls, using a microprocessor, a fuel injection device including an injector and a fuel pump, and a starter motor that starts an engine, including: first fuel pump driving means for driving the fuel pump only during set time at power... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406942 | Direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the direct-injection internal combustion engine A direct-injection internal combustion engine includes a variable-exhaust-valve control device for controlling value timing of a variable exhaust valve through which the combustion chamber of an engine cylinder communicates with an exhaust path. The variable-exhaust... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395786 | Warm up strategy for ethanol direct injection plus gasoline port fuel injection A system for an engine, comprising of a cylinder of the engine; a first injector configured to inject a first substance to said cylinder; a second injector configured to inject a second substance to said cylinder; and a controller configured to commence combustion i... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395146 | Fuel injection control apparatus for internal combustion engine An operating condition value is acquired at the time of internal combustion engine startup. If the acquired condition value is one of a plurality of reference condition values for which optimum values are defined, the optimum value for the reference condition value ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383820 | Electromechanical valve timing during a start A system and method to control engine valve timing to during the start of an internal combustion engine. Electromechanical valves are controlled in a manner to reduce hydrocarbon emissions during the start of an internal combustion engine. The method controls intake... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380620 | Control device of internal combustion engine and control method of internal combustion engine An engine includes a plurality of cylinders and fuel injection valves provided correspondingly to the plurality of respective cylinders. A vehicle includes a motor generator for forcibly rotating a crankshaft. A control device of an internal combustion engine contro... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373928 | Method for starting a direct injection engine A method for starting an engine having fuel injected directly into cylinders of the engine is presented. The method can use multiple injections of fuel to start the engine even when the absolute position of each piston is not known. Furthermore, once the engine is s... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373929 | Fuel nature measuring device of internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine having the same A fuel nature measuring device for measuring the nature of fuel stored in a fuel tank includes a measurement passage, a gas flow generator, a pressure detector, an concentration operator, a temperature detector, and a volatility calculator. The measurement passage h... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368039 | Distiller employing cyclical evaporation-surface wetting A distillation unit (10) employs a rotary heat exchanger (32) forming a multiplicity of evaporation chambers (56) into which a liquid to be purified is sprayed for evaporation. Spray arms (58) spray at a steady rate into all of the evapor... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367317 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including a step of sensing a coolant temperature TW of an engine, if a start request of the engine is sensed, a step of causing only an intake manifold injector to inject fuel to start engine 10, if coolant temperature TW is ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360527 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine A method for operating an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle, is described. The engine has a number of cylinders (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4), and in each of the cylinders (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4), one mov... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357124 | Multiple capillary fuel injector for an internal combustion engine A fuel injector for vaporizing a liquid fuel for use in an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes a plurality of capillary flow passages, each of the plurality of capillary flow passages having an inlet end and an outlet end; a heat source arranged a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349796 | Apparatus and method for judging a piston position in an engine Detection of which of a plurality of reference angle positions a crankshaft of an engine arrives at is executed to subsequently determine a crank angle region in which an output pattern of a cam angle signal is determined, based on which of the plurality of referenc... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341035 | Device and method for controlling an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for controlling an internal combustion engine upon starting, having a detection means (420) which detects operating parameters of the engine, in which a calculation means (410), taking the detec... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337768 | Multiple capillary fuel injector for an internal combustion engine A fuel injector for delivering fuel to an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes a fuel injector housing, a system for metering vaporized fuel to the internal combustion engine, the system positioned within the fuel injector housing, and a system for... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340330 | Hybrid type vehicle driving controller, hybrid type vehicle driving control method and its program The invention has an engine maximum torque calculating processor for calculating plural engine maximum torques showing a maximum value of engine torque, and an engine limit torque calculating processor for calculating a minimum value of the respective engine maximum... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331315 | Two-stroke engine with fuel injection A two-stroke internal combustion engine is provided with a fuel injector. The two-stroke internal combustion engine may have at least one transfer passage, an air channel, and a fuel injector. The transfer passage is between a crankcase and a combustion chamber of t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322342 | Control device of in-cylinder direct-injection internal combustion engine A requested injection amount of fuel necessary during ignition cut-off at the time of start at an extremely low temperature is calculated (step ST2), injection start timing and injection end timing between which wetting of a spark plug by fuel is less likely ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318414 | Constant-speed multi-pressure fuel injection system for improved dynamic range in internal combustion engine A fuel injection system operates under a substantially constant pump speed and creates multi-pressure levels by diverting the fuel flow. Fuel pressure can be switched from one steady pressure level to another level on-demand instantly. This superimposes and overlaps... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318421 | Startup controller for in-cylinder injection internal combustion engine A startup controller calculates a fuel pressure difference across a discharge stroke of a high-pressure pump at an end of an initial discharge after cranking is started. At the injection setting, the startup controller estimates a fuel pressure increment from an inj... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316218 | Control system for hydrogen addition internal combustion engine Disclosed is a control system for a hydrogen addition internal combustion engine that uses hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen gas as combustion fuel. The control system includes fuel property judgment means for judging the property of hydrocarbon fuel; and addition ratio... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308887 | Controller for direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the direct-injection internal combustion engine After initial combustion at the time of engine startup under very low temperature conditions, a fuel-injection start time point and a fuel-injection end time point are restricted to a period of time during which smoldering of an ignition plug is less prone to occur,... | 12/18/2007 |
