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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8447502 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for mitigating engine pre-ignition based on a feed-forward likelihood of pre-ignition and feedback from a pre-ignition event. In response to an indication of pre-ignition, a cylinder may be enriched while an engine load is limited. T... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442746 | Ignition control device In order to provide an ignition control device 30 which can efficiently control timing of thermal ignition of gaseous mixture in a combustion region 10, the peak estimation part 32, the ignition timing determination part 33, the control t... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8406984 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder-to-cylinder imbalances in the incidence of pre-ignition and/or knock. Engine cylinders are fueled based on each cylinder's pre-ignition count to balance the incidence of pre-ignition in each cylinder. The fuel... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8401767 | Enhanced powertrain performance during knock control Various systems and methods are described for controlling combustion stability in an engine driving a transmission. One example method comprises limiting airflow to the engine in response to a spark timing retarded beyond a spark retard threshold, the limiting airfl... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8396649 | Method and apparatus for reconstructing in-cylinder pressure and correcting for signal decay A method comprises steps for reconstructing in-cylinder pressure data from a vibration signal collected from a vibration sensor mounted on an engine component where it can generate a signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio, and correcting the vibration signal for e... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8396648 | Method for regulating the combustion position in an internal combustion engine A method for the closed-loop control of the combustion position in an internal combustion engine with several cylinders, especially in a diesel engine, with at least one engine operating parameter being detected, wherein a cylinder-selective combustion position mode... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8392096 | Cylinder combustion performance monitoring and control An engine control system includes a disturbance module, a misfire threshold determination module, a disturbance ratio module, and a spark control module. The disturbance module determines a disturbance value for a past combustion stroke of a cylinder based on rotati... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8370050 | Instantaneous interruption detection apparatus and internal combustion engine control apparatus including the same The instantaneous interruption detection apparatus includes a noise removing section to remove a noise component from an in-cylinder pressure signal inputted thereto, and output a noise-removed in-cylinder pressure signal, a derivative signal calculating section to ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8352164 | Vehicle surge and spark timing control A method is described for operating an engine of a vehicle, the engine having a combustion chamber. The method may include controlling a stability of the vehicle in response to a vehicle acceleration; and adjusting spark timing in the combustion chamber of the engin... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8346460 | Active vibration isolating support apparatus and method for controlling the same When a revolution speed of the engine (crankshaft) changes faster or slower, the vibration from the engine is propagated to an occupant in the vehicle, and the occupant may feel a sense of discomfort. For this reason, the present invention provides an active vibrati... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8326518 | Knocking detecting apparatus for internal combustion engine A knocking detecting apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which can more accurately perform the knocking determination based on frequency components of the output signal of the knock sensor, is provided. A frequency spectrum analysis of the knock sensor outp... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8301360 | Knock determining device An output signal of a knock sensor is filtered with a plurality of band-pass filters to extract vibration waveform components of a plurality of frequency bands (f1-f4). Weighting coefficients (G1-G4) which multiply the vibration waveform ... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8265859 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for mitigating engine pre-ignition based on a feed-forward likelihood of pre-ignition and feedback from a pre-ignition event. In response to an indication of pre-ignition, a cylinder may be enriched while an engine load is limited. T... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8260530 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for mitigating engine pre-ignition based on a feed-forward likelihood of pre-ignition and feedback from a pre-ignition event. In response to an indication of pre-ignition, a cylinder may be enriched while an engine load is limited. T... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8255142 | Enhanced powertrain performance during knock control Various systems and methods are described for controlling combustion stability in an engine driving a transmission. One example method comprises limiting airflow to the engine in response to a spark timing retarded beyond a spark retard threshold, the limiting airfl... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8255143 | Diagnostic systems and methods for sensors in homogenous charge compression ignition engine systems An engine control system for a homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine includes an airflow determination module and a sensor diagnostic module. The airflow determination module generates a first plurality of estimates of airflow into the HCCI engine whe... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8239122 | Vehicle surge and spark timing control A method is described for operating an engine of a vehicle, the engine having a combustion chamber. The method may include controlling a stability of the vehicle in response to a vehicle acceleration; and adjusting spark timing in the combustion chamber of the engin... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8229655 | Fuel injection and combustion fault diagnostics using cylinder pressure sensor Systems and methods useful for detecting a combustion fault in a combustion engine include determining cylinder power density values for cylinders present on the engine during its operation and determining cylinder imbalance parameters for the cylinders, based on th... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8219303 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine for a hybrid powertrain system A hybrid powertrain system includes an internal combustion engine operatively connected to a second torque machine to transmit torque to an output member. A method for operating the hybrid powertrain system includes monitoring an operator torque request, determining... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8219304 | Vehicle, controller for the vehicle, and method of controlling the vehicle An ECU includes: a feedforward torque calculation unit for calculating a feedforward term of torque which reduces vibrations of a vehicle, by inputting a sum of a first requested driving force, which is identified as torque requested by a driver, and brake force int... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8209111 | Device and method for processing knock signals of an internal combustion engine, with reduced influence of interfering noise A device dedicated to processing analog knock signals delivered by a sensor of an internal combustion engine coupled to an engine monitoring unit, includes processing elements for converting values of the analog signals acquired by the sensor at known instants into ... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8204673 | Method for controlling the air system in an internal combustion engine A method for closed loop controlling the air system in an internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel internal combustion engine with a first actuating element for recirculated exhaust gas in the exhaust gas recirculation tract and a second actuating element ... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8200415 | Method and device for controlling the operating mode of an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method for controlling the operating mode of an internal combustion engine (1) comprising several cylinders (3) and an injection system (4) with one injection unit (5) per cylinder (3). According to said ... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8190348 | System and method for damping vibrations in a motor vehicle An engine damping system is disclosed. The engine damping system includes an actuating device that is hydraulically powered using a power steering system of a motor vehicle. The system also includes a steering position sensor to determine a steering mode of the moto... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190349 | Control device of internal combustion engine A control device of an internal combustion engine includes: an air-fuel ratio modulator, performing modulation of an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust which flows in an exhaust purifier provided in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine; a fluctuation detect... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185295 | Multi-cylinder engine A multi-cylinder engine is configured to be able to perform a selected cylinder operation in which combustion is stopped in some cylinders. The multi-cylinder engine includes an ignition-timing adjustment section. This ignition-timing adjustment section retards igni... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170777 | Indicating system and method for determining an engine parameter To reduce the complexity of an indicating system 6 on an internal combustion engine for determining a parameter, the invention provides that on the basis of the measured variable a computing unit 8 for the indicating system 6 computes crank angl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8150604 | Method and apparatus for reducing spark plug fouling A control module and method for controlling an engine operation includes a runtime module that determines a previous run period, a fuel mass module that determines a fuel mass during the previous run period, a spark fouling condition estimation module that determine... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150603 | Engine control system having fuel-based timing A control system for an engine having a cylinder is disclosed having an engine valve movable to regulate a fluid flow of the cylinder and an actuator associated with the engine valve. The control system also has a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145412 | Internal combustion engine system, vehicle having the internal combustion engine system, and engine misfire detection method for internal combustion engine The internal combustion engine system makes detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of a misfire by comparing the 240-degree difference TD240 of the 30-degree rotation time T30 (CA) with the tentative detection reference value A1 and c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145411 | Ignition timing controlling apparatus and ignition timing controlling method for internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: calculating a knock magnitude N by dividing an integrated value lpkknk obtained by integrating the magnitude of vibration in the knock detection gate by BGL; controlling ignition timing according to a result o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145410 | Variable displacement engine operation with NVH management A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine operable with a first cylinder firing frequency and a second cylinder firing frequency to reduce or eliminate transmission of torsional vibrations associated with the second cylinder firing frequency ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8108132 | Component vibration based cylinder deactivation control system and method A method of changing an active cylinder count of an engine may include determining a vehicle vibration limit and a vehicle vibration level. The cylinder count may be modified (increased or decreased) based upon the vehicle vibration limit and the vehicle vibration l... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103432 | Internal-combustion-engine control apparatus Knocking control is performed using a data group of serial segments each including a predetermined number of values obtained by A/D-converting a signal that appears within a knocking detection window and a data group consisting of serial segments each including the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099231 | System and method for detecting fuel injector malfunction based on engine vibration A control system for an engine includes an injection control module, a processing module, and a malfunction detection module. The injection control module commands a fuel injector to operate in a split injection mode. The processing module that measures engine vibra... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099230 | Method to enchance light load HCCI combustion control using measurement of cylinder pressures A method for controlling an amount of fuel reforming in an internal combustion engine configured to selectively operate in a homogeneous charge compression-ignition combustion mode with an exhaust recompression strategy includes monitoring in-cylinder pressures duri... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095297 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder-to-cylinder imbalances in the incidence of pre-ignition and/or knock. Engine cylinders are fueled based on each cylinder's pre-ignition count to balance the incidence of pre-ignition in each cylinder. The fuel... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073613 | Method and system for pre-ignition control Methods and systems are provided for mitigating engine pre-ignition based on a feed-forward likelihood of pre-ignition and feedback from a pre-ignition event. In response to an indication of pre-ignition, a cylinder may be enriched while an engine load is limited. T... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046156 | Control apparatus of internal combustion engine This control apparatus estimates a full combustion correspondence period CP, which is the period from an ignition timing SA to a combustion completion time CAe, and controls a VVT advancement amount (burnt gas quantity, overlap period, intake valve open timing) such... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046155 | Method and apparatus for misfire detection using engine cycles at least subsequent to actual misfire event In a method of monitoring for a misfire event in an internal combustion engine signals representative of engine speed are monitored for successive engine revolutions subsequent to each firing event. The monitored signals are stored (e.g., in a buffer) and processed ... | 10/25/2011 |
