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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337060 | Method, computer program and control unit for operating an internal combustion engine A method for triggering an internal combustion engine of a certain type according to a state machine is provided, in which a possible operating state of the engine, which is assigned to a layer n of the state machine, is first set. In an additional layer (n+1), sub-... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320308 | Method of cylinder pressure sensor data/angle capture for low and high resolution A method/system for measuring cylinder pressures of an internal combustion engine includes a crank angle sensor utilized to generate pressure readings at known angular intervals. Additional time-based pressure measurements are taken in selected angular windows betwe... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310575 | Apparatus for processing sensor signal from knock sensor of internal combustion engine A knock sensor signal processing apparatus for an engine, which performs a series of A/D conversions of a knock sensor signal during each of successive knock judgement intervals to obtain A/D converted values for use in judging if engine knocking is occurring in a c... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7222606 | Ignition timing control for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (1) causes an air/fuel mixture in a cylinder to combust due to ignition by a spark plug (14). The engine controller (50) calculates a crank angle at knock on the basis of an operating state of the engine (1) ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7191760 | Ignition control method and ignition control device for two-cycle internal combustion engine An ignition control device for a two-cycle internal combustion engine that controls an ignition timing for inhibiting detonation while inhibiting an increase in an exhaust pipe temperature, including: map storing means for storing a map that provides a relationship ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178505 | Diesel engine A diesel engine comprising a fuel injection device (9), an EGR device (19), and a control device (26) for controlling the fuel injection device (9) and EGR device (19) so as to realize a premixed combustion in which a mixture is ig... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7021286 | Ignition timing control for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (1) causes an air/fuel mixture in a cylinder to combust due to ignition by a spark plug (14). An engine controller (50) calculates an ignition delay of the gas in the cylinder on the basis of an operational state of... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6947828 | Knock control system for internal combustion engine A knock control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders. Operation of the engine is switchable between a partial-cylinder operation for operating some of the cylinders and an all-cylinder operation for operating all of the cylinders.... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6925987 | METHOD FOR SETTING A KNOCK DETERMINATION PERIOD IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, METHOD FOR SETTING A FUEL INJECTION TIMING IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Under engine operating conditions in which a default setting for a knock determination period overlaps with a fuel injection period during which fuel is injected by a fuel injector, the fuel injection timing and the knock determination period are set in correlation ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6915783 | Method for the damping of mechanical vibrations in the drive train of an internal combustion engine A method for the damping of mechanical vibrations in the drive train of an internal combustion engine by detection of vibration excitations in the drive train, and adjustment of the ignition angle of the internal combustion engine in the event of the occurrence of a... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6732709 | Dynamic engine timing control A method and apparatus for controlling timing of an internal combustion engine having a piston located in a cylinder. The method and apparatus includes determining a first angular position of a crankshaft at a first location along a longitudinal axis of the cranksha... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6588401 | Method for knock control A method for knock control during KC emergency operation with which, given low application expenditure, a torque gain can be attained, while the application reliability increases. The method for knock control of multi-cylinder internal combustion engines ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6557527 | Knock control apparatus for internal combustion engine Even in the rapid change of a knock sensor output signal level (noise level) at a transition, a knock erroneous judgement due to noise is prevented in a state where knock controllability is secured. It is judged whether or not a transition state occurs, o... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6446601 | Ignition control method A method for ignition control is described in which the load gradient is determined. The load gradient is compared with a first specifiable dynamic threshold and the ignition control variable is additively retarded by application of an adaptable dynamic d... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6311672 | Device for controlling the knocking of an internal combustion engine A device for controlling knocking of an internal combustion engine featuring improved reliability by preventing signals of the knocking level from being erroneously detected as those of the noise level. The device detects an ionic current flowing through ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5265574 | Adaptive acceleration knock control For eliminating acceleration knocking in spark ignition engines, the ignition is retarded when the engine is in dynamic operation by an amount which is optimized for the ambient conditions present at the start of each dynamic operation. The occurrence of ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5206809 | Heat measuring system for detecting knock in internal combustion engine A knock detecting system for internal combustion engines which includes a heat quantity computing unit for deriving a heat quantity produced in every engine cycle, on the basis of the fluctuations in a combustion pressure waveform in which high-frequency ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5158057 | System and method for controlling ignition timing to suppress engine knocking using periodic pseudo random signal A system and method for controlling ignition timing for an internal combustion engine to suppress engine knocking in which a periodic pseudo random signal (for example, M-series sequence signal) is superimposed on an ignition signal provided at an ignitio... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5134980 | Knock generation control system for engines A knock generation control system for engines has a knock sensor for detecting a knocking phenomenon occurring in an engine, a representative value detecting unit for detecting representative values V from output signals of the knock sensor which are effe... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5062402 | Knocking control apparatus of internal combustion engine An engine which determines the occurrence of knocking using the maximum frequency point, which expresses the maximum strength of vibration which occurs with the highest frequency in the engine. The maximum frequency point is updated in accordance with the... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4856480 | Apparatus for controlling ignition timing in internal combustion An apparatus for controlling ignition timing in an internal combustion engine determines the amount of adjustment of ignition timing for preventing knocking with reference to the engine operating state. The amount of adjustment of the ignition timing carr... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4819599 | Device for controlling the ignition timing of an internal combustion engine A system for controlling the ignition timing of an internal combustion engine comprises an anti-knock control device (7), which includes an evaluating circuit (8) and a control circuit (9). If rapid acceleration occurs the anti-knock control is automatica... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4819171 | Engine spark timing control system A basic target spark timing is determined in accordance with an operating condition of an engine. A spark timing knock corrective value is determined in accordance with the presence or absence of a knock in the engine. A spark timing learning corrective v... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4796586 | Method of and apparatus for controlling ignition timing in internal combustion engine A method of and an apparatus for controlling ignition timing in an internal combustion engine. When the ignition timing has been retarded for preventing knocking and the engine operation thereafter moves into a region of operation where knocking control i... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4790281 | Method of and apparatus for controlling ignition timing in internal combustion engine A method of and an apparatus for controlling ignition timing in an internal combustion engine, which determines the ignition timing on the basis of the engine speed and load state, discriminates whether or not knocking has occurred on the basis of the out... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4710881 | Knock control apparatus for internal combustion engine A knock control apparatus for internal combustion engines includes a plurality of sensors for generating signals indicative of the operating conditions of an engine, a plurality of actuators responsive to control signals to control the respective energy c... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4694800 | System and method for controlling ignition timing for an internal combustion engine An ignition timing control system and method for a vehiclular internal combustion engine which effectively avoids an occurrence of engine knocking and improves engine performance. In the ignition timing control system and method, the engine knocking is pr... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4658789 | Ignition timing control system and method for an internal combustion engine A system and method for controlling the ignition timing of an internal combustion engine, in which a predetermined transient state which increase the probability of engine knocking is detected, a basic ignition advance angle value determined by an engine ... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4596217 | Method and system to prevent knocking operation of an internal combustion engine To prevent slow reestablishment of operating conditions which might lead to knocking of an internal combustion engine if the internal combustion engine operates under transient conditions, for example under conditions of rapid acceleration, the reestablis... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4590565 | Ignition timing control for compensating knock in both steady-state and transient state The ignition timing of an internal combustion engine is controlled to an optimum by compensating for engine knock. A microcomputer includes a memory for storing steady-state and transient-state ignition timing variables which are derived as a function of ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4530328 | Ignition timing controller for internal combustion engine The present invention relates to an ignition timing controller for an internal combustion engine comprising: an acceleration sensor for detecting the vibration acceleration of the engine, means for sorting knocking signal component by removing the other n... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4523567 | Ignition timing control system for internal-combustion engine An ignition timing control system for suppressing the knocking of an internal-combustion engine by delaying the ignition timing in proportion to the magnitude of the knocking, which includes a phase delay limiter for limiting a controlled phase delay belo... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4513718 | Apparatus for controlling ignition timing for internal combustion engines An ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine wherein an ignition timing θ of at least one cylinder of the engine is retarded (or advanced) by a little amount Ɗ to intentionary check the generation sensitivity of a knock ... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4513716 | Ignition timing control system with knock control for internal combustion engines An internal combustion engine ignition timing control system with knock control detects the knocking in an engine and the acceleration of the engine speed to control the ignition timing of the engine. The ignition timing of the engine is retarded in respo... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4508079 | Knocking control system for internal combustion engine A knocking control system for an I.C.E. includes a knock detector, and an apparatus for retarding the timing in response to the detection of knocking. This apparatus includes an arithmetic device and a memory map for storing retard values and accessed acc... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4489692 | Ignition timing control system for internal combustion engine with knock sensor A spark timing control apparatus controls the spark timing to retard or advance in accordance with the output signal from a knock sensor. An accelerating condition of the engine is determined depending on a particular knock occurence patterns including; w... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4458646 | Spark timing control system for an internal combustion engine A spark timing control system for an internal combustion engine features an ignition device, a power increase detector, a control device, and a temperature detector. The ignition device produces a spark in a combustion chamber of the engine. The power inc... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4448163 | Ignition timing control device for internal combustion engines An ignition timing control device for an internal combustion engine, which avoids excessive knocking during sudden acceleration. There is provided means responsive to the manipulation of the engine to generate a signal. The signal thus generated is passed... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4428344 | Engine knock anticipation An engine operating parameter which anticipates knock, such as throttle angle position, is used in combination with a knock sensor to generate a control signal to retard engine spark. For example, the relatively slow response of a low noise sensed knock s... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428343 | Tip-in knock eliminating spark timing control A spark timing control system for an internal combustion engine is responsive to a changing engine operating parameter signalling an engine tip-in event to retard spark timing by an amount sufficient to eliminate tip-in knock and for a predetermined time ... | 01/31/1984 |
