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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042518 | Multi-component transient fuel compensation A method adjusts fuel injection to account for fuel puddling in the engine intake. The fuel is adjusted based on the ethanol content of the fuel in the puddle, and the make-up of the various fuel components in the puddle. In this way, it is possible to better accoun... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8011348 | Method for igniting, intensifying the combustion or reforming of air-fuel and oxygen-fuel mixtures A method for intensifying combustion of gas-fuel mixtures consists of stimulating the combustion mixture in a combustion chamber by a pulsed high-voltage discharge of nanosecond duration, wherein the discharge amplitude is set up according to a condition of maximisi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7721709 | Fuel injection control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine A fuel injection control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine are provided for appropriately controlling the amounts of fuel supplied from an in-cylinder fuel injection valve and a port fuel injection valve to a cylinder in a simple control approac... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7490591 | Method and apparatus for eliminating spark-knock in an engine An apparatus for minimizing spark-knock within a combustion chamber of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, whereby a control vane mounted inside the intake runner is arranged to direct a fuel-air charge to a region inside the combustion chamber where spark-... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7367316 | Vehicle control system A method for controlling an engine having at least one cylinder, the engine coupled to a vehicle, the engine also having an intake manifold and an outlet control device for controlling flow from the intake manifold into the cylinder, the engine further having an inl... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7270112 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and engine system For an internal combustion engine having an in-cylinder injector and an intake manifold injector, setting of the ratio of fuel injection (DI ratio) between these injectors is changed depending on whether the intake manifold injector is in a high temperature state or... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7185632 | Internal combustion engine and method of operating the same An internal combustion engine (20) has a cylinder (1) wherein a piston (2) is mounted. The piston (2) drives a crankshaft (10) which is rotatably journalled in a crankcase (11). The piston (2) delimits a combustion ch... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7128053 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine The engine ECU executes the program including the step of starting a timer that counts the time elapsed from a start request, the step of detecting a temperature of the engine, and the step of calculating a DI ratio r such that the fuel is injected from the in-cylin... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7100572 | Fuel injection system and fuel injecting method for internal combustion engine A fuel injection system and method for injecting fuel for an internal combustion engine having fuel injection valves arranged on the upstream side and downstream side from the throttle valve respectively which consistently supplies an adequate quantity of fuel into ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7077106 | Spark ignition internal combustion engine Each cylinder is provided with an ignition plug, two intake valves, direct fuel injector, and a port fuel injector. When homogeneous combustion is demanded, the direct fuel injector and port fuel injector inject fuel on the same engine cycle. The port fuel injector ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6938588 | Controllable combustion method and device A method and device for controllably combusting combustible material, including a combustion device comprising an elongate combustion tube having an inlet section including an inlet for combustible material, an ignition section, including an igniter displaced along ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6922612 | Combustion vibration estimating apparatus, plant and gas turbine plant The combustion vibration estimating apparatus comprises an inputting unit for inputting limiting values of plant data, weather data and internal pressure variation, an internal pressure variation characteristic grasping unit for making internal pressure variation of... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6760657 | Engine air-fuel ratio control A fuel injector (5) injects fuel to generate an air-fuel mixture that is burnt in the engine (1), and a sensor (16) detects an air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture from an exhaust gas composition of the engine (1). A controller (11 | 07/06/2004 |
| 6619277 | Engine air-fuel ratio control A state quantity ς(n) of a switching function is calculated based on a predetermined target air-fuel ratio TGABF, a detected air-fuel ratio AFSAF detected by a sensor (16), and a state equation derived from a transfer function Geng(q) of a secondary disc... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6564769 | Method and system for operating a direct injection spark internal combustion engine having variable compression ratio modes A method of operating a variable compression, direct injection spark ignited internal combustion engine includes the steps of determining a demanded torque output of the engine, determining a current combustion mode and a current compression ratio mode of... | 05/20/2003 |
| 5673668 | Method and apparatus for electronic throttle monitoring A method and apparatus for executing a strategy of electronic throttle monitoring of a powertrain system including an electronic powertrain control module, and an electronic throttle control, includes an independent processor receiving signals shared with... | 10/07/1997 |
| 4149497 | Fuel delivery system for internal combustion engines A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine of the compression ignition-fuel injected type, in which the fuel delivery system includes an arrangement for externally vaporizing the fuel before injection, the arrangement comprising a mixing cha... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4114585 | Internal-combustion engines A spark-ignition four-stroke gasoline engine, of the commonly mass-produced type having a plurality of cylinders provided each with two poppet valves mounted in a cylinder-head of the engine and constituting respectively an inlet valve, for passing a fuel... | 09/19/1978 |
