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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441541 | Internal combustion engine stop and start method Fuel injection is controlled to cause one of multiple cylinders to receive fuel injection and to stop in a predetermined range over an intake stroke to a compression stroke in an operation stop of the internal combustion engine. At the time of stopping the engine, f... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441547 | Method of feeding fuel to an engine, fuel feed amount control system of an engine, and motorcycle comprising fuel feed amount control system A method of feeding fuel to an engine, comprising the steps of determining whether or not the engine is decelerating based on a time-lapse change rate of an engine speed of the engine, and reducing an amount of the fuel to be fed to air taken into the engine from ou... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7395808 | Control system of internal combustion engine There is provided a control system for controlling an internal combustion engine with an exhaust system provided with a catalyst, comprising a fuel cut means for stopping the supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine when the vehicle in which the internal com... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383813 | Method and device for controlling the transition between normal operation and overrun fuel cut-off operation of an Otto engine operated with direct fuel injection The problem during overrun fuel cut-off operations, i.e. cut-off of fuel injection during trailing throttle conditions of the vehicle, is that the transition entails an undue torque jump, resulting in the smooth operation of the engine and the driving comfort of the... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377256 | Method for operating a drive unit A method for operating a drive unit, in which, given the use of a vehicle-speed controller, the actual speed is prevented from exceeding the setpoint speed too significantly. In the method, a setpoint value for an output variable of the drive unit is predetermined. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7331332 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes multiple combustion chambers. The supply of fuel into at least one subset of the combustion chambers can temporarily be interrupted. It is provided that the fuel be injected into the combustion chambers directly and during a sw... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328686 | System and method to control cylinder activation and deactivation Engine cylinder reactivation from a fuel-cut state is controlled based on a calculated future engine speed and a minimum allowable engine speed. The future engine speed is calculated based on the current rate of change of engine speed and a duration required to reac... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299784 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine is provided in which fuel pressure is changed and fuel injection is controlled in accordance with engine operating conditions. The internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder, a direct injection injector, a detection unit, and a con... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296561 | Engine control apparatus In order to prevent the generation of surge noise or other abnormal phenomena during deceleration of a vehicle, the present engine control apparatus comprises a turbo-supercharger driven by exhaust energy of the engine, at least one of an NOx trap catalyz... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290387 | Control device of internal combustion engine A control device of an internal combustion engine suppressing catalyst deterioration by prohibiting fuel cuts, wherein the generation of odor from the catalyst after deceleration is suppressed. The control device is provided with a fuel cut executing device for stop... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285073 | Engine fuel supply control device An engine fuel supply control device is configured to stop supplying fuel to an engine when specific fuel cut-off condition has been met. The timing of the fuel cut-off is delayed depending on an operating state of the vehicle. Preferably, the engine fuel supply con... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7263977 | Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine in overrun conditions A method is provided for operating an internal combustion engine 10 in overrun condition, which method includes the steps of: release of a monitoring of a control signal for a power actuator of the internal combustion engine when predetermined release conditi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7235987 | Sensor device using pair of resistive sensor controlled beat oscillators A sensor device is disclosed that includes a sensor, in which a resistance value is changed in accordance with a change in an environment of the sensor. The sensor device also includes a beat oscillator having plural oscillators of different oscillating frequencies.... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7182066 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and method of calculating intake air quantity for same An internal combustion engine (1) generates power by burning a mixture of fuel and air in each combustion chamber (3). The internal combustion engine (1) is provided with an in-cylinder pressure sensor (15) disposed in the combustion cham... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171944 | High-pressure fuel pump control device for internal combustion A high-pressure fuel pump control device for an internal combustion engine includes a feedback quantity calculating unit (602) for calculating a fuel discharge feedback quantity (QFB) of a high-pressure pump according to a proportional integral operation base... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168414 | Marine vapor separator with bypass line In a fuel supply system, liquid fuel is supplied to a marine engine from a fuel tank (10). The fuel first passes through a water filter (14), a lift pump (18) and is temporarily deposited in a vapor separator (20) where vapors given off f... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7140348 | Fuel injection control system A fuel injection valve control to correctingly increase the fuel amount appropriately for realizing a favorable acceleration performance at the time of accelerating after a throttle full closure period is finished. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134984 | Fuel cut control system for internal combustion engine A fuel cut control system for an internal combustion engine is arranged to generate a fuel cut command when a predetermined engine operating condition is satisfied, to start a fuel cut of stopping a fuel supply to engine when a delay time elapses from a moment at wh... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7118435 | Outboard motor A system for replenishing a lubricant pan with the lubricant comprises a lubricant tank provided separately from the lubricant pan. A lubricant replenishing pump is provided in the lubricant tank for replenishing the lubricant pan with the lubricant. A lubricant lev... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117853 | Fuel injection controller of engine An electronic control unit compulsorily stops supply of a fuel injection quantity, which is calculated based on various parameters including a throttle opening degree, performed by an injector in accordance with a crank angle signal if a series of operations, of rap... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7093587 | Method and device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle A method and a device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle make possible an effective kinesthetic signaling of an event. Based on a detection of the event, an output variable of the drive unit is changed in a stepwise manner, as a function of whether the vehi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089738 | System for controlling turbocharger compressor surge A system for controlling turbocharger compressor surge includes a turbocharger compressor fluidly coupled to an engine intake manifold, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve disposed in-line with an EGR conduit fluidly coupled between the engine intake and exhaus... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089103 | Control system for cylinder cutoff internal combustion engine In a system for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and connected to the automatic transmission and mounted on a vehicle and the operation of the engine is switched between full-cylinder operation during which all of the cylinde... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086387 | Control apparatus of internal combustion engine The invention provides a control apparatus of a cylinder injection of fuel type internal combustion engine executing a dilute combustion, which can satisfy a requirement of rapidly changing an engine torque while restricting a deterioration of a driving property and... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7051516 | Method for controlling a working mode of an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method for controlling a temperature of a catalyst system (14, 16) located in an exhaust duct (12) of an internal combustion engine (10) in a motor vehicle. Said system comprises at least one primary catalyst (16 | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051704 | Intake air control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine An intake air control apparatus method and apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which the engine includes a variably operated valve mechanism for making at least one of an operating angle of an intake valve and a valve lift thereof variable. A determinatio... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7010413 | Cylinder mass air flow prediction model A vehicle system includes a throttle position sensor that generates a current throttle position signal (TPS), a MAF sensor that generates a current actual MAF signal, and a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensor that generates a current actual MAP signal. A control... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010414 | Method for reducing computational time for calculating a noise-filtered average approximation of throttle position A method for reducing computational time for calculating a noise-filtered average approximation of a throttle position in an automotive environment. During controller initialization, an initial average value for N samples is established by conventional averaging. Th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004149 | Internal combustion engine intake pressure detecting device An internal combustion engine (18) has an intake pipe (34) which extends from an internal combustion engine main body (19) and an intake passageway (33) formed in the interior thereof communicates with an intake passageway (27) for... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6978597 | Flame detecting apparatus for gas turbine A gas turbine apparatus is provided wherein a turbine is driven or rotated by burning a mixture of a fuel and compressed air and supplying a combustion gas generated by the combustion. A flameout determination unit is provided in the apparatus which is adapted to ca... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969341 | Engine deceleration control system An engine deceleration control system for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle is arranged to prohibit correcting an air quantity supplied to the engine when an elapsed time period from a moment of turning off of an accelerator of the engine is within a first ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6959241 | Engine control device An engine control device capable of improving engine efficiency by operating the engine in an area where fuel consumption is small (good) while allowing high responsivity of the engine to be maintained. The object can be achieved by operating to match at a point on ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6934619 | Engine transient detection and control strategy Engine speed data (N) and engine fueling data (MFDES) are processed to develop rate-of change data values for both engine fueling (FUELING_DIFFERENCE_FILTERED) and engine speed (ENGINE SPEED_DIFFERENCE_FILTERED). The latter are processed according to a look-up table... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6883493 | Method and device for operating the drive motor of a vehicle A method and an arrangement for operating a drive unit of a vehicle are suggested. Starting from a driver command torque which is converted into a resulting desired torque while considering additional torques, a correction of the resulting desired torque is undertak... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6857421 | Method for operating a diesel engine, and diesel engine In a method for operating a diesel engine and a diesel engine, wherein engine emission control is provided by switching between a lean mode with superstoichiometric combustion air ratio λ>1 and a rich mode with substoichiometric combustion air ratio λ | 02/22/2005 |
| 6854444 | Method and device for controlling a drive unit A method and an arrangement for controlling a drive unit are suggested wherein a maximum permissible value of an output quantity is determined. This maximum permissible value is compared to the actual value and, when the permissible value is exceeded by the actual v... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6845761 | System and method for combustion engines The invention relates to a method for improving combustion in a combustion chamber of a combustion engine. The method comprises the first step of receiving a measured air-to-fuel ratio value. Further, the method comprises the step of receiving at least one estimated... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6843230 | Control apparatus and control method of internal combustion engine In an internal combustion engine provided with a variable valve mechanism that varies a valve operating characteristic (valve lift amount and valve operating angle) of an intake valve, the valve operating characteristic of the intake valve is detected and an intake ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6830038 | Fuel cut control method To provide a fuel cutoff control method for an engine including a secondary air introducing system, capable of preventing afterburning in an exhaust pipe at the time of fuel being cut off in a decelerating state of the engine. A fuel cutoff control method dur... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6785603 | Operation stop control method of internal combustion engine for vehicle When a control determination is made that an operation of an internal combustion engine should be stopped, a fuel adherence reduction operation for reducing the amount of fuel adhered to a wall surface extending from an intake port to a combustion chamber is execute... | 08/31/2004 |
