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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7726284 | Fuel supply system of internal combustion engine The fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit (ECU) for transferring the engine from a state in which a high-pressure fuel pump does not deliver any pressurized fuel to a state in which the high-pressure fuel pump begins... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7559313 | Controlling apparatus of variable capacity type fuel pump and fuel supply system A controlling apparatus of a variable capacity type fuel pump, for preventing noises caused due to drive of the fuel pump and noises caused due to drive of injectors from overlapping or duplicating each other in the timing thereof, wherein signals for driving the pu... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7406953 | Fuel injection valve having a mechanical positive-control valve gear The invention relates to, in particular, a fuel injection valve and to a method for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. According to the invention, a mechanical positive-control valve gear is provided for a nozzle needle of the... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7360525 | Control system for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine wherein fuel injection timing is determined according to a detected engine operating condition. An actual ignition timing of the fuel is detected and an ignition delay correction amount is calculated wherein the act... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350508 | Advance arrangements An advance arrangement for use in controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump for use in an engine comprises an advance piston (12) which is slidable within a first bore (14) and which cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350503 | Fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump 100 comprises a thermoelement CSD 47 for advancing injection timing in a cold temperature condition. The CSD 47 uses a piston 46 for opening and closing a sub port 42 formed in a plunger barrel 8. An el... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334561 | Internal combustion engine According to the invention, noise of an internal combustion engine is reduced by dynamically correcting the moment of injection when the engine is in the transient mode. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328690 | Apparatus and method for accurate detection of locomotive fuel injection pump solenoid closure The invention relates to a system and method for detecting a closing of a solenoid. The system includes a capacitive charge circuit electrically coupled to the solenoid. The capacitive charge circuit conditions the current flow through the solenoid to increase the c... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322341 | Control system for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel injection valve. A fuel injection timing is determined according to the detected engine operating condition. A target ignition timing of the fuel is calculated using a plurality of maps that store the ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316220 | Actuator drive system and fuel injection system A control device of a fuel injection system of an engine calculates command injection timing for starting an injection at target injection timing, and a command injection period for obtaining a target injection quantity. The control device monitors a charging voltag... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311086 | Low emission fuel efficient diesel locomotive engine including a piston having a toroidal surface A diesel locomotive engine having a piston with a unique bowl geometry. The bowl is defined in part by a center portion having a partial spherical shape. A cone portion (22) is located adjacent the central portion. An annular toroidal surface (24) is c... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308888 | Cam arrangement and fuel pump arrangement incorporating a cam arrangement A cam arrangement for use with a high pressure fuel pump arrangement for delivering fuel to an associated engine, the cam arrangement including at least two cams (28) that are mounted, in use, upon an engine camshaft and each of which is arranged to drive a r... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310574 | Electronic architecture of an automatic system for driving an internal combustion engine An architecture of an ignition and/or injection managing system for an internal combustion engine, of the type structured to cooperate with an electronic engine control unit. Also included is an electronic device architecture for determining the operating phase of a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290530 | Fuel injection device A fuel injection system having an injection valve, a line supplying fuel at high pressure to the injection valve a control valve controlling the pressure in a control chamber communicating with the line. The control valve has a movable valve part is actuatable by an... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287967 | High-pressure pump having small initial axial force of a clamping bolt A high pressure pump for preventing distortion of a sealing surface or a cylinder form. The high pressure pump has an intermediate member including a cylinder body having a pressurizing chamber communicated with a cylinder accommodating a plunger. Fluid in the press... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281527 | Internal combustion engine and working cycle The invention is concerned with a method of deriving mechanical work from a combustion gas in internal combustion engines and reciprocating internal combustion engines for carrying out the method. The invention includes methods and apparatuses for managing combustio... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275520 | Fuel injection device A fuel injection device has an injection valve, a line that supplies highly pressurized fuel to the injection valve during operation, a control valve that controls the pressure in a control chamber of the injection valve, which chamber is connected to the line, and ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7257994 | Measuring device and method for determining the position of an electrically conductive test object Measuring device and method for determining the position of an electrically conductive test object (1) with a noncontacting sensor, in particular an eddy current sensor (2), wherein the test object (1) is adapted for linear reciprocal movement i... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258106 | Control system for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine having fuel injection valves provided in a combustion chamber and an exhaust gas recirculation mechanism. Target maximum cylinder pressure change rates are set according to the operating condition of the engine. The... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252073 | Engine timer for cold-start advance Each of paired centrifugal weights are interlockingly connected to an advancing spring, which is interlockingly connected to a temperature-sensing operation device. When cold-starting the engine, the advancing spring is maintained extensible based on a state of the ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252074 | Advance arrangements An advance arrangement for controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump in an engine comprises an advance piston which is movable in either an advance or a retard direction to advance or retard, respectively, the timing of fuel pump delivery, wherein a surface... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249590 | Control system for an internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel engine An injection control method for controlling a “common rail” fuel injection system in a diesel engine is described. The method includes the following steps: an initializing step for acquiring engine control parameters; and a main adjustment cycle for adjusting op... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246605 | Method and system for controlling fuel injection timing to maintain desired peak cylinder pressure for high altitude operation An algorithm for use in an engine control module to control peak cylinder pressure in a diesel engine under high altitude operating conditions, including an initiation and entering routine configured to determine whether conditions are met for advancing a start of i... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7237537 | Compression-ignition engine configuration for reducing pollutants and method and system thereof In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method of reducing pollutant emissions from a compression-ignition engine is provided. The method includes adjusting timing of fuel injection into a combustion chamber of a piston-cylinder assembly of the com... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222608 | Injector for high-pressure injection An injector has a housing, a command piston, a control chamber, a needle, a nozzle chamber, a fuel inflow passage, a fuel discharge passage and an electric valve. The housing slidably supports the command piston and the needle. The housing and one end face of the co... | 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 |
| 7201148 | Pressure accumulation fuel injection controller A pressure pattern estimation device of a fuel injection controller of an engine estimates a pressure transition of fuel in a common rail. A surplus pressure range calculation device of the fuel injection controller calculates a surplus pressure range in which press... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201150 | Energy-saving high-pressure fuel supply control device for internal combustion engine In an energy-saving high-pressure fuel supply control device for sucking a low-pressure fuel via a flow rate control valve and supplying high-pressure fuel acquired by pressurizing the sucked fuel to a fuel rail, at a time point that is logically decided from a bott... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198203 | Fuel injector with and without pressure ampification with a controllable needle speed and method for the controlling thereof A fuel injector in injection systems for internal combustion engines having a valve body containing a control chamber that can be pressure-relieved and can be acted on with fuel via an inlet throttle and can be pressure-relieved via an outlet throttle. A first actua... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198033 | Fuel supply system of internal combustion engine A high-pressure pump is formed with a secondary suction passage, which branches from a fuel suction passage and communicates with a pump chamber. Check valves for preventing a backflow of fuel are disposed respectively in the secondary suction passage and a discharg... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191766 | Methods of retarding injection timing of mechanical unit injectors using a modified pump follower A modified pump follower device (2) and method of retarding injection timing of EMD-type unit injectors by a desired amount of crank degrees includes the steps of providing a modified pump follower (2) whose plunger engagement location, also known as t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7167790 | Engine control system A control system for controlling a control target apparatus provided to an engine includes a main ECU and a sub-ECU. The main ECU calculates at least one operational command value according to an operational state of the engine. The at least one operational command ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155330 | Cam sensor elimination in compression-ignition engines A method for controlling start of a compression ignition engine having a plurality of cylinders is provided without a cam sensor is provided. Each cylinder includes a respective piston reciprocally movable between respective top and bottom positions along a cylinder... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146964 | Engine control system When a combustion mode of an engine is a diffuse combustion mode in which an initial rising inclination of a heat-release-rate is steep, an electronic control unit (ECU) calculates an ignition timing in which the heat-release-rate exceeds an ignition determining val... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134281 | System and method for operating a compression-ignition engine A method of operating a compression-ignition engine includes adjusting timing of fuel injection if a sensed parameter indicative of a maximum pressure within a combustion chamber varies relative to a selected pressure and if fuel injection timing is greater than a p... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133761 | Method and apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine using accelerometers A method for processing an accelerometer data set generated from an operating internal combustion engine is disclosed. The processed accelerometer data is cepstrally filtered and a heat release trace is pulled from the accelerometer data set. That heat release trace... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124746 | Method and apparatus for controlling a fuel injector Controlling fuel injectors to create varying injection rates and injection rate shapes typically involves using multiple control valves to control fuel pressure and check valve opening pressure independently. The fuel injector of this application uses a single contr... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121810 | High-pressure pump having small initial axial force of a clamping bolt A high pressure pump for preventing distortion of a sealing surface or a cylinder form. The high pressure pump has an intermediate member including a cylinder body having a pressurizing chamber communicated with a cylinder accommodating a plunger. Fluid in the press... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114928 | High-pressure fuel pump and assembly structure of high-pressure pump A high pressure pump for decreasing an initial axial force of a clamping bolt and preventing distortion of a sealing surface and a cylinder form. The high pressure pump has an intermediate member including a cylinder body. The cylinder body has a pressurizing chambe... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7093579 | Method and apparatus for adjusting fuel injection timing A method and apparatus for adjusting fuel injection timing detects (401) a change in the number of fuel injections for a combustion chamber (105). During a timing adjustment period, the timing for fuel injection(s) may be adjusted (405) incremen... | 08/22/2006 |
