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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900605 | Fuel injector and method for controlling fuel injectors A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising an injector body, a fuel supply passage defined in the injector body, the fuel supply passage containing fuel under high pressure in use of the injector, a pressure sensor for measuring ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7866302 | Method and system for starting or restarting an internal combustion engine via selective combustion A selective combustion starting system and method selectively provides a proper amount of fuel to one or more combustion chambers in an internal combustion engine. The particular combustion chambers selected depend upon the state of the piston of the combustion cham... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7827965 | Techniques for delivering fuel to a piston aircraft engine A piston aircraft engine assembly includes a piston aircraft engine, a fuel source, and a control system adapted to deliver fuel from the fuel source to the piston aircraft engine. The control system includes a mass airflow sensing apparatus adapted provide a pressu... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7637253 | Method and apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine In an arrangement and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine including a control unit, an injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of the engine, connecting lines interconnecting the engine control unit and the injector for transmitti... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7556023 | Control device for high-pressure fuel system The present invention reduces exhaust emissions at startup, provides improved fuel pressure control performance in a low-load region, and detects high-pressure fuel system abnormalities. Disclosed is a high-pressure fuel system control device which includes a high-p... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552717 | Fuel injector and method for controlling fuel injectors A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising an injector body, a fuel supply passage defined in the injector body, the fuel supply passage containing fuel under high pressure in use of the injector, a pressure sensor for measuring ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7421330 | Adaptive load balancing system An an internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders for providing the necessary energy used for the work performed by the engine. Cylinder specific knock monitoring is used in order to distribute the load automatically among the cylinders of the engine. Wh... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418335 | Method and system for estimating injector fuel temperature A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system has a source of pressurized fuel, a plurality of fuel injectors, and a common manifold configured to distribute pressurized fuel from the source to the plurality of fuel injectors. The fuel system also has a ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412965 | Exhaust control system for an internal combustion engine An exhaust control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of actuators wherein each actuator controls a predetermined engine parameter. A plurality of sensors are also associated with the engine and each sensor provides an output representative ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415348 | Multiple injection blend for direct injected engines A fuel injection system for a direct fuel injection engine includes an injection mode module. The injection mode module selects a fuel injection mode to be one of a single injection mode and a dual injection mode. A fuel injection command module transitions between ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406948 | Internal combustion engine controller An engine ECU executes a program including: the step of outputting a fuel-cut instruction when conditions that an accelerator position PA is not higher than a threshold value and a rate of increase DNE of engine speed NE is not lower than a determination value DNE( | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401604 | Engine control device and control method thereof An engine control device and method that prevents fuel injection quantity from becoming unstable due to a rapid change of a correction quantity even in a predetermined operation state such as acceleration time and thus stabilizes an air-fuel ratio. Under a predeterm... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395807 | Fuel injection control system designed to eliminate overlap between multiple fuel injection events A fuel injection control system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle is provided. The system works to schedule execution of a sequence of multiple injections of fuel into each of cylinders of the engine and determines whether events o... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392129 | Method for controlling combustion in an internal combustion engine and predicting performance and emissions This disclosure teaches a method of controlling a direct injection internal combustion engine and predicting the behaviour of a direct injection internal combustion engine. An estimation of initial cylinder pressure, air flow and EGR flow (if applicable) is used to ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383820 | Electromechanical valve timing during a start A system and method to control engine valve timing to during the start of an internal combustion engine. Electromechanical valves are controlled in a manner to reduce hydrocarbon emissions during the start of an internal combustion engine. The method controls intake... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379810 | Engine control system and engine control method An engine control system and an engine control method are disclosed wherein a combustible component quantity of intake air, reflecting combustible components in a crankcase of an engine, is calculated on the basis of a deviation between basic injection quantity for ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373238 | Control system of internal combustion engine A cylinder air filling amount is divided into a first amount of air and a second amount of air, the first amount of air and the second amount of air are calculated, and the first amount of air and the second amount of air are totaled to calculate a cylinder air fill... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370643 | Internal combustion engine having compressed air supply passages therein for routing compressed air to charge injectors A V-type internal combustion engine includes cylinder heads having respective compressed-air supply channels extending therein for providing fluid communication between an air compressor and charge injectors. Formation of condensation in the compressed-air supply ch... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369934 | Predictive engine combustion management A system, apparatus, and method for predicting an engine operating condition and providing a component in accordance with the prediction. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366603 | Method of decoding a CAM signal for an internal combustion engine The CAM signal of a four-stroke internal combustion engine that also includes a CRANK signal having a sync feature is decoded by defining an observation window of predefined duration with respect a pulse transition of the CAM signal. The CAM signal is uniquely decod... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363141 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing fuel injection control systems A method is provided to manufacture a fuel injection control system controlling fuel injection in an internal combustion engine with a fuel injection valve. A fuel injection valve is trial-manufactured. Using this valve, correcting amounts for an injection period ar... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357123 | Electromagnetic actuator, fuel injection valve, method of controlling fuel injection valve, and method of driving the same Information storage element 102 and transmitter-receiver 103 are molded in resin connector part 101 of fuel injection valve 100 which projects outside of the engine by molding. The precise control of an injection amount is enabled by usin... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359792 | Method and apparatus for initializing injectors In an apparatus for initializing injectors based on pieces of correction data each corresponding to one of the injectors, an obtaining unit obtains injection characteristics of the injectors using temporally-input pieces of data as the pieces of correction data. The... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356989 | System for providing assistance in regenerating depollution means The invention provides a system for providing assistance in regenerating depollution means included in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle engine, the system comprising means for controlling the operation of the engine in order to switch the engine between operatio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353804 | Method and arrangement for achieving an adjusted engine setting utilizing engine output and/or fuel consumption A method and associated arrangement for achieving an adjusted engine setting utilizing engine output and/or fuel consumption. An engine that consumes fuel is run. Fuel consumption and/or engine operation output is determined. A value is determined utilizing the dete... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343240 | Fuel injection controller In a case that actual values of a fuel injection quantity and fuel pressure are not in consistent with a representative point, an interpolation process is conducted by used of a learn value of a plurality of representative points. During the interpolation process, a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343244 | Vehicle tracker including input/output features and related methods A vehicle tracking unit for a vehicle of a type including at least one vehicle sensor may include a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller connected to the wireless communications device and the vehicle position deter... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337768 | Multiple capillary fuel injector for an internal combustion engine A fuel injector for delivering fuel to an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes a fuel injector housing, a system for metering vaporized fuel to the internal combustion engine, the system positioned within the fuel injector housing, and a system for... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337767 | Device and method for controlling engine In a device for controlling an engine, comprising combustion noise suppressor for suppressing combustion noise of a combustion chamber and controller for controlling the combustion noise suppressor, the device further includes control amount setter for setting a con... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331171 | Control system and method for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine that executes post injection, which is capable of accurately estimating the state of dilution of engine oil, thereby properly controlling the amount of oil dilution such that it does not become too large. In an inte... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333886 | Method for estimating quantity of fuel injected In a method for estimating an injected quantity of fuel of an isolated injection, the segment time of the cylinder in which the isolated injection takes place is evaluated numerically by forming the second temporal derivation. With the aid of the second temporal der... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328691 | Multi-cylinder engine A multi-cylinder engine wherein a direction in which a crank shaft spans is a front and rear direction and a widthwise direction of a cylinder head (1) perpendicular to the front and rear direction is a lateral direction, the multi-cylinder engine comprising ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328689 | Method for monitoring a fuel supply pertaining to an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a fuel supply device pertaining to an internal combustion engine. Said fuel supply device has a regulating device comprising a first regulator, which is provided with at least one integral part and which produces, in a first mode of operatio... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321820 | Model-based inlet air dynamics state characterization An engine control system that having an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve includes a first module that determines an EGR error and a second module that calculates a fuel injection timing based on the EGR error. Operation of an engine is regulated based on the fu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318419 | Method for determining the actuator energy required for the different injection types of an actuator of an internal combustion engine In a method for determining the actuator energy required for the different injection types of an actuator of an internal combustion engine, the actuator is impinged by a control signal in such a way that an actuator signal is generated and an injection parameter of ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315778 | System and method for detecting and responding to fugitive fueling of an internal combustion engine A method and system for detecting and responding to fugitive fueling of a reciprocating internal combustion engine use a controller to determine the actual power output of an engine, as well as a predicted power output based on fuel provided by the engine's fuel sys... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305970 | Circuit configuration and method for generating a control signal for an engine control unit designed to control fuel injectors A circuit configuration for generating a control signal for an engine control unit, designed to control at least one fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, enables an improved control signal course during the control of the injectors. The configuration incl... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305967 | Control apparatus for an internal combustion engine In throttle control, a throttle opening is set with sufficient control accuracy in accordance with the operating state of an engine despite variations in a throttle body and various kinds of sensors. A target effective opening area is calculated from a target amount... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305293 | Vehicle tracker including input/output features and related methods A vehicle tracking unit preferably includes a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller connected to the wireless communications device and the vehicle position determining device. The controller preferably cooperates wi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302941 | Air-fuel ratio control apparatus for internal combustion engine An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention includes a control unit that makes a correction to the fuel injection amount using the air-fuel ratio learned value when calculating the fuel injection amount, and that ... | 12/04/2007 |
