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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404392 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine The invention relates to an internal combustion engine which is provided with a manifold from which an intake tube extends to an intake of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, with a gas inlet valve, disposed at the intake of the cylinder, an intermittent c... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7372188 | Method and apparatus for controlling a fuel-injection valve A fuel injection valve is controlled, the valve includes a piezoelectric actuator as the valve member, which opens up or closes a connection to a space arranged downstream, an electric actuating element for actuating the valve member and a prestressing element which... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360523 | Method and apparatus to control operation of a homogeneous charge compression-ignition engine The invention provides a method for operating a multi-cylinder, spark-ignition, direct-injection, four-stroke internal-combustion engine adapted to operate in a controlled auto-ignition mode selectively operative at stoichiometry and lean of stoichiometry. The metho... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357127 | Method for determining the air mass in a cylinder The method for determining an air mass in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine with a supercharging device and with a device for variably controlling the valve overlap of the gas exchange valves is characterized by a reference characteristic curve for the air... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7328673 | Valve timing correction control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine A valve timing correction control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a plurality of banks and variable valve operating mechanisms disposed at the respective banks for variably controlling valve timings of intake valves separ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320309 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine are provided. A first quantity characterizing the actually injected fuel amount and a second quantity characterizing the desired amount of fuel to be injected are determined on the basis of performanc... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7278414 | Diagnostic tool for sensing oxygen sensor heater operation A diagnostic testing system for a vehicle comprising an oxygen sensor having a heating element for heating the oxygen sensor to its minimum operational temperature, an analyzer having a user interface, a communications link between the analyzer and the vehicle to ob... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275374 | Coordinated multivariable control of fuel and air in engines Methods and systems for controlling a diesel engine using a combined fuel and air-side controller are disclosed. An illustrative method may include the steps of providing a combined fuel and air-side controller adapted to coordinate both the fuel and air-side contro... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273046 | Air-fuel ratio controller for internal combustion engine and diagnosis apparatus for intake sensors A computer calculates an estimated cylinder-intake-air amount based on outputs from an airflow meter and a throttle position sensor, and then calculates a reference cylinder-intake-air amount based on an air-fuel ratio in an exhaust gas and fuel injection amount. An... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260462 | Method for controlling an electromagnetic valve, in particular for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle A method for controlling an electromagnetic valve, in particular for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle. With known methods, electromagnetic valves are triggered with a pulse-width-modulated signal having a constant clock frequency. The object is to provid... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249882 | Method for determining integration initial value of PID controller A method for determining integration initial value of PID controller is applied to obtain an integration initial value for temperature control and to fast eliminate stability error. This method uses a set temperature value and temperature error setting to perform on... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7189365 | Liquid treating equipment including a storage vessel and a discharge vessel In a liquid treating equipment to maintain a small amount of liquid to a desired liquid level with constantly supplying an additional liquid into a small capacity vessel, a storage vessel 13 to store the small amount of liquid, an injection tube 16 to ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184867 | Watercraft network A network for a vehicle correlates network addresses with functions. The network can be used to connect control devices and an outboard motor mounted to a watercraft. Each physical node on the network can include one or plurality of functional nodes. The network can... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7161258 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine In a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, an amount of electricity to be generated by an alternator (a target charging voltage) is set based on a vapor concentration of vaporized fuel when a purge execution condition is met for purging the vaporized ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155899 | Method for heating an exhaust gas catalyst for an internal combustion engine operating with direct fuel injection The invention relates to the heating of an exhaust gas catalyst arranged on an internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, variable valve drive and a blower device, whereby, after recognition of a cold start for the internal combustion engine, by means of... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140356 | Engine throttle opening degree area estimation method, as well as engine acceleration detection method and device and engine fuel injection control method and device using the estimation method An engine fuel injection control device including: means for detecting an amount of change per minimal time in intake pipe pressure of an engine as an intake pipe pressure change amount; means for performing an arithmetical operation of calculating an opening area o... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134429 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine A device and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine in which, starting from the comparison between a measured and an expected value for a lambda signal, a correction value is specified for a fuel signal characterizing the fuel quantity, or an air sig... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7124015 | Control apparatus for plant The present invention provides a control apparatus for a plant, which can suppress excessive correction for a spiky disturbance being applied and maintain a good controllability, when controlling the plant, which is a controlled object, with the self-tuning regulato... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7082924 | Internal combustion engine speed control A method of operating an internal combustion engine is provided which includes the step of determining a desired intake manifold pressure or gas density, based at least in part on a value indicative of a difference between a desired engine speed and an actual engine... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082935 | Apparatus and methods for closed loop fuel control A method of controlling fuel input to an engine of a vehicle. A feedback signal is received from a sensor that senses engine exhaust. A dither signal having the same frequency as the feedback signal is applied to a fuel control signal controlling fuel to the engine.... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7051726 | Control device for internal combustion engine A target value of an engine load ratio is calculated. A target throttle opening required for making the actual engine load ratio equal to the target engine load ratio is calculated on the basis of an intake pipe pressure which is a pressure in the intake passage dow... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051709 | Control device for internal combustion engine A target value of an engine load ratio is calculated. A target throttle opening required for making the actual engine load ratio equal to the target engine load ratio is calculated on the basis of an intake pipe pressure which is a pressure in the intake passage dow... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047799 | Thermostat malfunction detecting system for engine cooling system A malfunction of a thermostat in a coolant circulating path is detected from an engine side coolant temperature in consideration of the following behavior of the coolant temperature. When an open-malfunction occurs, the coolant temperature becomes different consider... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031824 | Multivariable actuator control for an internal combustion engine A system and method for controlling a plurality of control-coupled charge-handling actuators for an internal combustion engine has a multivariable controller responsive to a plurality of engine parameter inputs and effective to provide a plurality of position contro... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021292 | Pressure sensor device of internal combustion engine A pressure sensor device of an internal combustion engine includes: a pressure sensor detecting a pressure in an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine, a pressure sensor failure determination device determining a failure of the pressure sensor, an idle determ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6935169 | Tire pressure sensor array A tire pressure sensor array includes a control module to which a receiver is connected. Four tire pressure sensors communicate with the control module via the receiver. Each tire pressure sensor includes a pressure switch that is electrically connected to a digital... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6915788 | Engine controller To provide a method of processing intake air pressure signals for accurately detecting the engine load including the accelerating state and the intake air flow rate from the intake air pressure. Intake air pressure signals detected with an intake air pressure... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6868327 | Device for estimating an amount of intake air of an internal combustion engine A device for estimating the amount of intake air of an internal combustion engine comprising intake pipe pressure calculation means for calculating an intake pipe pressure, at this time, downstream of the throttle valve, and intake air amount calculation means for c... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6840237 | Method for auto-ignition operation and computer readable storage device The invention relates to an internal combustion engine comprising a fuel injector (2) for each cylinder; a fuel injection control unit (4) for controlling fuel injection quantity and a piston (5) in each cylinder whose compression action causes ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837231 | Cylinder bank work output balancing based on exhaust gas A/F ratio A system for balancing first and second work outputs between first and second cylinder banks of an engine includes a first intake camshaft associated the first cylinder bank and a first fuel injector associated with the first cylinder bank. A controller trims a puls... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6615812 | Method and arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine wherein at least one control quantity of the engine is influenced in dependence upon a signal representing the fresh air charge. The throttle flap angle and t... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6460514 | Method and apparatus for controlling fuel injection quantity for an internal combustion engine equipped with a turbocharger It is checked whether or not a supercharged pressure Pb becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value P0 to judge whether or not a mechanism for adjusting the supercharged pressure is failed. When it is judged that the mechanism for ad... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457467 | Internal combustion engine with air/fuel ratio control One embodiment of the present invention includes sensing speed or an internal combustion engine that includes a manifold coupled to an air pathway and a gaseous fuel line, sensing manifold pressure, and sensing manifold temperature. Air mass flow rate is ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6453897 | Intake air pressure sensor for engine An engine includes an electronic controller which samples the pressure in the induction system once per rotation of the crankshaft. The controller is configured to determine the minimum voltage signal output by the pressure sensor. The controller then use... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6397830 | Air-fuel ratio control system and method using control model of engine An internal combustion engine is simulated as a control model that covers from a fuel injection point to an air-fuel ratio detection point. A response time constant of the control model is calculated as a continuous function of the amount of intake air, a... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6286492 | Fuel injection control An engine includes an electronic controller which samples the pressure in the induction system once per rotation of the crankshaft. The controller is configured to determine the minimum voltage signal output by the pressure sensor. The controller then use... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6148809 | Oxygen sensor controlled continuous flow fuel system A continuous flow fuel system includes an oxygen sensor for analyzing the exhaust gases of an engine. The output from the oxygen sensor, representing the oxygen content in the exhaust gases, is transmitted to an electronic control module, which in turn co... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6041758 | Fuel injection amount controller for engines A fuel injection amount controller for engines capable of decreasing the shocks caused by the correction of increasing or decreasing the amount of fuel at the time of changing over the operation mode. The fuel injection amount controller includes an opera... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6041765 | Internal combustion engine with air/fuel ratio control Engine (60) has manifold (62) and includes an air pathway (20) and a fuel line (30) coupled to the manifold (62) for supplying a fuel charge. Fuel line (30) has a controllable valve (40) for regulating fuel flow and a first sensor (38) providing a fuel si... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5904131 | Internal combustion engine with air/fuel ratio control Engine (60) has manifold (62) and includes an air pathway (20) and a fuel line (30) coupled to the manifold (62) for supplying a fuel charge. Fuel line (30) has a controllable valve (40) for regulating fuel flow and a first sensor (38) providing a fuel si... | 05/18/1999 |
