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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116967 | Control system for internal combustion engine A control system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. In the control system, an engine state parameter is calculated using a self-organizing map for calculating a predetermined output parameter according to at least one engine operating parameter which in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8050852 | Abnormality detection device for internal combustion engine and air/fuel ratio control apparatus for internal combustion engine An abnormality detection device for an internal combustion engine capable of performing abnormality detection with accuracy, and an air/fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine capable of performing air/fuel ratio control with accuracy. An esti... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046157 | Control system and work method for a control system A control system (and a method of operating the system for an internal combustion engine. The control system has a trigger circuit for supplying trigger signals and an output stage having a plurality of output channels which supply actuating signals. The trigger cir... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036819 | Internal combustion engine for vehicles, in particular a diesel engine The invention relates to an internal combustion engine for vehicles on which a device is mounted and has a semiconductor-based read-only memory, which contains data which are destined to be used for a given purpose of the device, and has an interface enabling an acc... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7974770 | Engine-controlling unit and engine-controlling method for an internal-combustion engine An engine-controlling unit/method for an internal-combustion engine with first and second combustion-chamber groups having a first and second catalytic exhaust-gas converter, respectively, having (a) a master control device that controls a combustion-air ratio for t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7957892 | Condition-sensitive exhaust control A method and exhaust control system for controlling a vehicle, including adjusting a vehicle parameter in response to a determined ambient condition or to local time. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957891 | Electronic control device for remote control and teleoperation system using same An ECU for a main remote control has a termination resistance having a first terminal connected to a high level signal line CAN of a CAN cable and a second terminal connected to an external terminal of a connector. The CAN cable also has a low level signal line CAN ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7912625 | Portable memory automobile ignition system A portable memory device consisting of a cell phone used in substitution of an automobile key and interfaced with an automobile onboard computer and ignition system. The portable memory device contains data that, when read by the onboard computer, enables the igniti... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912626 | Motorcycle provided with engine setting system A motor vehicle includes an engine and an external setting unit configured to set an engine control amount. A control unit is configured to store a basic control map having a preset engine control amount contained therein. The control unit is also configured to comm... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899610 | System and method for reconfiguring an electronic control unit of a motor vehicle to optimize fuel economy System and method for modifying the operation of an engine comprising an engine control unit coupled to the engine, a command module coupled to the engine control unit, wherein the command module is operable to modify operating characteristics of the engine by recon... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894978 | Diagnostic system and method for detecting tampering of vehicle software or calibrations A tamper detection system for a control module of a vehicle comprises first nonvolatile memory that stores N rewriteable components including at least one of calibration and software that is used to operate a controlled device of the vehicle, wherein N is an integer... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877195 | Method for the estimation of combustion parameters Method for combustion engine control comprising an engine, at least one sensor and at least one engine control unit (200) arranged to control the engine (100) by the use of real time sensor data S(k) characterized in that a prior (P1(k, j; z... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853401 | Device for switching on and off a vehicle engine as a function of the traffic situation A device for switching on and switching off an engine of a motor vehicle having a sensor for locating a preceding vehicle and a control unit for switching on and switching off the engine as a function of the state of motion of the preceding vehicle, wherein the cont... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7809495 | Portable hand-held power tool having a data connection for diagnostic purposes A power tool has a drive unit arranged in a tool housing. The drive unit has an internal combustion engine with a cylinder provided with a combustion chamber. A spark plug is arranged at the cylinder. A piston is connected to a crankshaft and reciprocates within the... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7774382 | Method and apparatus for configuring a control device, and corresponding control device The invention relates to a method for configuring a control device and to a corresponding control device. The control device comprises a main memory and a variant memory. A main data record is created in accordance with an identification from a base data record that... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761224 | Drive train A drive train, for a motor vehicle that has a drive unit controlled by a control device, a driveshaft and an element, which is operatively connected to the drive shaft and is driven by the same. At least one state value of the driven element is read into the control... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751967 | Control systems and methods associated therewith One embodiment of the invention includes a method for managing a system. The method includes providing a plurality of system values and generating an event signal if one of the plurality of system values is logically related to a compare value. At least two of the p... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739028 | Method of operation of internal combustion engine with permanent fault code implementation The present invention is directed to a method to operate an internal combustion engine with electronic control wherein fault codes indicative of emissions levels may be stored in permanent memory. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725248 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine The procedure is used for the operation of an internal combustion engine (1) with several cylinders (2, 3, 4, 5) into each of which fuel is injected. For a current operating point (15), the current correction factor (KM) for the injec... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7693649 | Monitoring unit state chart and a debounce logic A method of logging faults in an electronic controlled internal combustion engine that passes any fault readings through a debounce logic to determine whether the fault indication is real. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684926 | Electronic control apparatus having first microcomputer which forwards externally supplied updating data to a second microcomputer having a lower data receiving performance than the first microcomputer An electronic control apparatus such as an ECU of a motor vehicle contains first and second microcomputers, with the first microcomputer having a substantially higher data receiving performance than the second microcomputer. Data for updating a ROM of the second mic... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7630827 | Method for the characteristic map-based obtention of values for a control parameter of an installation Disclosed is a method for the characteristic map-based obtention of values for at least one control parameter of an installation, particularly an internal combustion engine. According to the inventive method, support points for the control parameter, which provide a... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623955 | Method for estimation of indicated mean effective pressure for individual cylinders from crankshaft acceleration A method for inferring Indicated Mean Effective Pressure as total transient indicated engine torque in an internal combustion engine, comprising the steps of acquiring at least one crankshaft time stamp for use in determining a cylinder-specific engine velocity; cal... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7558669 | Engine controller system and method employing high speed angular position sensor A control system and method for controlling a vehicle system, such as an engine, is taught. The controller uses the angular position of a rotating component, and in particular the angular phase of the rotating component to another rotating component, as an input. Th... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552007 | Calibration systems and methods for scheduled linear control algorithms in internal combustion engine control systems using genetic algorithms, penalty functions, weighting, and embedding A method for calibrating an engine control system includes identifying engine calibration sub-problems for an engine calibration; seeding an initial generation for one of the engine calibration sub-problems with known/good individuals; optimizing free parameters in ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546200 | Systems and methods for determining and displaying volumetric efficiency A system for determining and displaying a volumetric efficiency of an engine of an automobile includes an aftermarket display unit configured for installation into the automobile and a controller, the controller including a first memory configured to store calibrati... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7472017 | Method and control device for triggering solenoid valves assigned to gas-exchange valves A method for triggering solenoid valves assigned to gas-exchange valves in an electrohydraulic valve activation of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of combustion chambers. The solenoid valves assigned to the gas-exchange valves may be activated indep... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7444228 | Data processor for processing pieces of data being successively sampled at intervals In a data processor for processing pieces of input data successively sampled, a memory unit and a plurality of data transferring units for transferring data are provided. Each of the plurality of data transferring units has an upper limit number of data items succes... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440840 | Ecological driving system There is a need for making a user fully conscious about environmentally friendly driving. In an ecological driving system, a CPU allows a display apparatus to distinctively display fuel consumption according to the following idling states. One idling state results f... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437236 | Method for customizing the properties of a drive assembly in motor vehicles The object of the invention is to customize the properties of the drive assembly of motor vehicles comprising an intake system, an exhaust system, and/or an internal combustion engine. For this purpose, the mechanical properties of a serial drive assembly, the engin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433777 | Engine protection system and method for construction machine An engine protection system for a construction machine can individually diagnose the exhaust temperature specific to each cylinder of an engine corresponding to an engine revolution speed in order to find an abnormal condition of each engine cylinder in advance. A r... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430470 | Method for managing a transportation fleet A portable memory device used in substitution of an automobile key and interfaced with an automobile onboard computer and ignition system. The portable memory device contains data that, when read by the onboard computer, enables the ignition system. The portable mem... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424362 | Apparatus and method for reading adaptive values out of motor vehicle control devices A device and a method for reading out adaptation values of self-adapting functions from a motor vehicle control unit to an external readout unit are provided. The device consists of a motor vehicle control unit, an external readout unit, and a communication interfac... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415343 | Engine controller Respective positive terminal electric potentials of exhaust gas sensors are sequentially selectively inputted to an analog input terminal of a multi-channel AD converter through a multiplexer. An offset voltage is applied to respective negative terminals of the exha... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409285 | Homogeneous charge compression ignition engine operation An HCCI engine is operated by controlling a plurality of engine operating parameters in accordance with a calibration data set representing equilibrium set-points of engine operation characterized by combustion phasing that is relatively least sensitive to cylinder ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392128 | Method and device for bidirectional single-wire data transmission A device and a method are described for bidirectional single-wire data transmission of information between a control unit and at least one peripheral unit, having the following steps: generating a first current flow from the control unit to the peripheral unit durin... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389177 | Signal transfer system for distributing engine position signals to multiple control modules A signal transfer system for regulating operation of an internal combustion engine includes a shaft that is rotatably driven within an engine. A sensor is responsive to the rotation of the shaft and generates a data signal based on the rotation. A communications bus... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386389 | Method and system for determining the driving situation A method and a system for ascertaining the driving situation of a motor vehicle by using data provided in the vehicle indicating the value of at least one state variable of the vehicle are provided. To relieve the burden on the driver a data record providing the his... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383120 | Methods and apparatus for adjusting frequency and/or PWM-based sensors A sensor module adjustment circuit includes a device have a position between minimum and maximum positions. First and second position sensors sense the position of the device and generate first and second position values, respectively. A sensor module includes first... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373241 | Airflow correction learning using electronic throttle control A correction system and method for an electronic throttle control includes a generator module that generates a learned-correction value corresponding to a first air-learn index. The learned-correction value is used to compensate a throttle position. A correction mod... | 05/13/2008 |
