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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096289 | Apparatus and method for separating air compressor supply port from the EGR gas Separation of an air compression supply port from exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in internal combustion engines. In one aspect, an air intake connector includes an entry port for an EGR gas, and an air intake elbow is connected to the air intake connector, the elbo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8069846 | Exhaust gas recirculation valve An exhaust gas recirculation valve is fabricated by fitting a valve head 24 and a cover 32 enclosing a valve rod 25 into a supporting section 31 provided at the tip of the valve rod 25, and caulking the supporting section 31... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065990 | Low emission dimethyl ether (DME) engine A compression ignition internal combustion engine system combusts DME as fuel using high fuel injection pressures (e.g., above 800 bar) and low oxygen concentrations (e.g., below 17%, through high levels of EGR), thereby resulting in simultaneously very low NOx and ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7980231 | Outboard motor with an exhaust gas recirculation system and an idle exhaust relief system A control system for an outboard motor provides an EGR valve and an idle exhaust relief valve which are under the control of a controller that opens and closes the valves as a function of the rotational speed of a crankshaft of the engine. The EGR valve controls the... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7958872 | Airless engine with gas and water recycling An internal-combustion engine receives no air from outside atmosphere. Instead, combustion gas expelled from the engine is cooled and recycled back into the engine. That gas contains no nitrogen and consists mostly of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Oxygen and fuel ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7823570 | Process for operating a compression ignition internal combustion engine in combination with a catalytic reformer A process for operating a compression ignition internal combustion engine in combination with a catalytic partial oxidation reformer and, optionally, an exhaust gas aftertreater, wherein: (a) a mixture of a first fuel and air, wherein the first fuel com... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7757677 | EGR pulse attenuation A pulse attenuator for the EGR line of an internal combustion engine in which a main flow path has a pair of branch flow paths extending from the upstream portion of a venturi. The branch flow paths have a precisely determined length so as to reintroduce pulses back... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7757676 | Reforming of GTL for marine applications A process for operating a marine engine (1) in combination with a catalytic partial oxidation reformer (2) and, optionally, an exhaust gas aftertreater (3), wherein: (a) a mixture of a first fuel and air, is introduced in the combustion chamber ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7726287 | Method and device for controlling a valve for recycling gases burned during an engine starting phase A method carried out by a control device, the method holding a valve EGR completely opened during a determined short time after a starting phase of a diesel engine, which is provided with an EGR recirculation, and controlling the valve EGR in a partially closed stat... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7681560 | Exhaust gas recirculation system The present invention prevents an EGR sensor installed in an engine's EGR path from being soiled by soiling substances in exhaust. A catalyst is positioned upstream of the EGR sensor to purify the soiling substances in EGR gas. The status of the EGR sensor is proper... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7628145 | Control method of compression self ignition internal combustion engine An engine 1 provided with a fuel injection mechanism (a fuel injection system 18 and an FI control unit 41) that supplies fuel of arbitrary quantity into a combustion chamber 9 and a variable valve mechanism (an intake valve 14, an... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7540278 | Fluid control valve A fluid control valve includes a housing defining therein a fluid passage. The fluid control valve further includes a valve member for controlling a fluid flow in the fluid passage by communicating and blocking by the fluid passage. The fluid control valve further i... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533657 | Open/close controller of intake and exhaust communication circuit In an open/close control device 40 installed in a diesel engine 1, when a rotational speed N of the diesel engine 1 is equal to or higher than an intermediate rotational speed and a fuel injection amount is equal to or less than an idling inject... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7513245 | Engine torque control apparatus and method for adjusting engine torque control apparatus An engine torque control apparatus is applied to an engine control system comprising an engine for rotating an output shaft by using torque generated through combustion in cylinders. In the apparatus, exhaust gas passing through an exhaust passage of the engine is p... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7503316 | Anti-coking bushing assembly for an exhaust recirculation control valve An anti-coking bushing assembly for sealing a pintle shaft of an EGR control valve, comprising a bushing carrier disposed in the valve body and supportive of close-fitting pintle shaft bushing liners formed of a polyimide such as Vespel. The bushing carrier and bush... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7455056 | Valve device A valve device includes a valve housing body having a passage for fluid, a valve guide formed in the valve housing body, a valve stem sliding in the valve guide for opening and closing the valve, a hydraulic actuator for opening and closing a valve, and a hydraulic ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444999 | Control system and method for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of positively preventing a misfire or knocking during a compression ignition combustion mode by switching from the compression ignition combustion mode to a spark ignition combustion mode in approp... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438061 | Method and apparatus for estimating exhaust pressure of an internal combustion engine A method and apparatus are provided, comprising an internal combustion engine equipped with a variable geometry intake air compressing device and a control module operative to estimate exhaust gas pressure during ongoing engine operation. The control module is adapt... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428897 | Controllable two way valve device The invention relates to a controllable two-way valve (1), in which a valve rod (3) is connected in a permanent manner to at least two valve members (4, 5, 6, 24, 25; 39, 40), the valve rod (3) being actuated by means of an actuator (2... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7406959 | Engine control system An engine control system includes an EGR device 10 which connects an exhaust passage Ex and an intake passage I and has an EGR valve; an intake throttle valve 41 placed in the intake passage I; and an engine control unit which is provided with an engin... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392796 | Method and apparatus for operating an internal combustion engine with an adelshin aggregate phase thermodynamic cycle The invention relates to vehicle engines, in particular to improvements to the thermodynamic cycle that forms the operating method for an internal combustion engine. An aggregate-phase thermodynamic cycle consists in sequential and interrelated changes in the thermo... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7380400 | System and method for high pressure and low pressure exhaust gas recirculation control and estimation A system for a diesel engine having an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold is described. The system may include both a high pressure and low pressure exhaust gas recirculation system, as well as a turbocharger. Further, in one example, the system may include two... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377270 | Exhaust gas recirculation in a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine A homogeneous charge compression ignition engine operates by injecting liquid fuel directly in a combustion chamber, and mixing the fuel with recirculated exhaust and fresh air through an auto ignition condition of the fuel. The engine includes at least one turbocha... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370645 | Variable stiffness flow control valve A flow control valve is provided. According to one aspect of this disclosure, the flow control valve includes a valve element and a support element. The valve element is configured to deflect responsive to a change in pressure difference across the valve element. Th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370644 | EGR control apparatus and method for operating the same An ECU calculates a foreign-matter accumulation index base on a total flow rate of EGR gas integrated since the previous execution of a last foreign-matter removal operation until the present execution of the foreign-matter removal operation. The ECU controls an act... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367327 | Device and process for overfeeding compressed gas to an intake pipe of a turbocharged engine Method and device (1) for boosting an intake pipe (4) of a turbocharged engine (5) with compressed gas. The method includes storing gases in a vessel (12) at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and, afterwards in injecting the ga... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367542 | Electromagnetic valve An electromagnetic valve with improved performance includes a solenoid coil 4, and a rod arranged on an axis of the solenoid coil 4 for movement in an axial direction thereof. A plunger 18 is fixedly attached to an intermediate portion of the ro... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357125 | Exhaust gas recirculation system A flow control mechanism connected to the intake and exhaust systems of an engine. The mechanism may achieve recirculation of exhaust gases despite varying differential pressures or pulses of pressures. The control mechanism may be connected to a storage device. The... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357126 | Corrosive resistant heat exchanger A heat exchanger for an air handling system is disclosed. The heat exchanger has an inlet, an outlet, and at least one passageway fluidly connecting the inlet and the outlet. The at least one passageway has a corrosive resistive feature that varies along a length of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356987 | Exhaust gas recirculation system having an electrostatic precipitator An exhaust gas recirculation system for a power source, has at least one inlet port configured to receive at least a portion of a flow of exhaust produced by the power source. The exhaust gas recirculation system also has an electrode disposed upstream of the at lea... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353812 | Vehicle engine with integral vacuum generator An integral vacuum generator system for an internal combustion engine includes a throttle body and intake manifold defining a bypass passage which is connected with a vacuum manifold by both a venturi and a direct vacuum supply passage. Vacuum flow through the ventu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353783 | Exhaust gas recirculation device for engine An exhaust gas recirculation device for an engine having a cylinder head with a suction port and an exhaust port, provided with a mechanism for recirculating a portion of exhaust gas to the suction side of the cylinder head, comprises a connection hole is opened thr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347185 | Unit and method for controlling internal combustion engines An internal combustion engine (1) generates power by burning a mixture of fuel and air in a combustion chamber (3). The internal combustion engine (1) is provided with a crank angle sensor (14), an in-cylinder pressure sensor (15) ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343906 | Water jet propulsion boat A watercraft can include an engine having a crankshaft with its output end extending rearward of a crankcase and a supercharger for compressing air feeding it to the engine. The supercharger can be located forward of a rear end of the crankcase. An exhaust pipe, des... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7328692 | Intake device for internal combustion engine According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided an intake device for an internal combustion engine, including a gas passage unit defining therein a secondary gas supply passage for supplying a secondary gas to an intake of the engine, and a thermal insul... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325529 | Method and apparatus for controlling combustion quality of a gaseous-fuelled internal combustion engine A method and apparatus for controlling to a target heat release rate (HRR) uses an HRR control lever, namely, pilot fuel timing and/or pilot fuel quantity, used in a gaseous-fuelled compression ignition internal combustion engine. The mechanism to control HRR to a t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322321 | Engine valve assembly having holding tank with return valve and discharge valve in the valve assembly An Elevated Expansion-Ratio Internal Combustion Engine has a substantially standard repeating four-stroke sequence for each of a plurality of cylinders. The head of each cylinder has an intake valve, a combustion-gas exhaust valve, and a vapor return valve. A return... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322192 | Exhaust gas recirculation system An internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system includes an air-to-gas EGR cooler, an air inlet line communicating cooling inlet air to the EGR cooler, an EGR supply line communicating exhaust to the EGR cooler, a ven... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322194 | System and method for reducing surge A method for controlling an engine having an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold, where an exhaust gas recirculation path with a valve is provided between said intake and exhaust manifold, and the engine has a turbocharger; the method comprising during at least ... | 01/29/2008 |
