258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-123.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 123 Internal-combustion engines. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:02:53 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120040261/description.html

Application Number:  20120040261

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Hikazudani, Susumu; Nakanishi, Haruyuki; Arikawa, Hidekazu; Mori, Takuma; Inazumi, Chikashi; Araki, Sadao

A hydrogen generating apparatus for effectively generating hydrogen from ammonia and relates to the hydrogen generating apparatus for generating hydrogen from ammonia. The apparatus comprises an ammonia oxidation part having ammonia oxidation catalysts which oxidizes ammonia, and an ammonia decomposition part having an ammonia decomposition catalyst which decomposes ammonia to generate nitrogen and hydrogen. The decomposition part is located downstream of the oxidation part in a direction of ...
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Application Number:  20120037134

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Jankovic, Mrdjan J.; Styles, Daniel Joseph; Karnik, Amey Y.; Buckland, Julie Helen

Methods and systems are provided for adjusting an EGR valve and one or more intake throttles responsive to the output of an intake oxygen sensor to provide a desired amount of EGR flow while maintaining engine torque. The adjustments are coordinated to improve distributed control of the EGR valves and intake throttles, and enable EGR flow even when one actuator is ...
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Application Number:  20120037133

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wittler, Michael

The invention relates to the operation of a supercharged internal combustion engine (2) of a vehicle, wherein an air/volumetric flow current is adjusted by means of an adjustable swirl generator (8) arranged upstream of a supercharge system, taking into consideration an adjustable valve overlap of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine (2). The invention also relates to a vehicle drive comprising a supercharged internal combustion engine (2), a supercharge ...
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Application Number:  20120037132

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Drung, Michael; Menold, Patrick; Heinkele, Matthias

In a method for operating an internal combustion engine having a compressor, the diagnosing of a clutch of the compressor is achieved without an additional sensor system. The compressor is turned on via the clutch, and a variable characterizing the air-mass flow to the internal combustion engine is ascertained. A first value of the variable characterizing the air mass flow before turning on the compressor is compared to a second value of the variable characterizing the air mass flow after ...
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Application Number:  20120037131

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Glitz, Georg; Araszkiewicz, Jan

A pressure wave supercharger for installation on an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a rotor casing having an inner surface, and a rotor received in the rotor casing. A coating is applied on the inner surface of the rotor casing for absorbing heat radiation. The rotor casing is surrounded by an insulation ...
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Application Number:  20120037130

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Fuqua, Kevin B.

An opposed-piston engine with a single crankshaft has a rocker-type linkage coupling the crankshaft to the pistons that utilizes a rotatable pivot rocker arm with full-contact plain bearings. A rocker-type linkage utilizes a rotatable pivot bearing with an eccentric aspect to vary translation of piston linkage along the axial direction of a cylinder, which shifts the top dead center (TDC) and bottom dead center (BDC) locations of a piston so as to change the volume of charge air compressed ...
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Application Number:  20120037129

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Pattakou, Paraskevi; Pattakos, Efthimios; Pattakos, Manousos; Pattakos, Emmanouel

A single-crankshaft single-cylinder fully-balanced opposed piston engine module that provides extra time for the injection and the combustion of the ...
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Application Number:  20120037128

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Tamol, Ronald A.

The present invention relates to a fuel injector configuration that treats a dielectric fluid such as gasoline fuel with strong electric and, optionally, magnetic fields to form a homogeneous charged fuel or fuel/air mixture for combustion in an internal combustion engine. The electric field is supplied by a triboelectric dipole and the magnetic field is supplied by permanent magnets. Small charged fuel particles are produced and combust more readily than untreated particles. Fuel efficiency is ...
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Application Number:  20120037127

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Bright, Charles B.

A programmable diesel fuel injector that increases frequency response and control precision over desired fuel flow rates throughout each injection event. All valve frequency and motional requirements are met by a compensated direct drive, which is enabled by the durable capability of a rare earth alloy to lengthen in a magnetic field. A continuously variable electrical input waveform is predetermined to result in the desired fuel injection rate shape. A magnetostrictive transducer converts ...
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Application Number:  20120037126

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Bright, Charles B.

An apparatus for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes a solid magnetostrictive material with a favored direction of magnetostrictive response formed into a shape with ends that are substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the favored direction of magnetostrictive response. A fuel control valve element is located coaxial to the favored direction of magnetoelastic response of the magnetostrictive material, ...
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Application Number:  20120037125

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Bright, Charles B.

An apparatus for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes a solid magnetostrictive material with a favored direction of magnetostrictive response formed into a shape with ends that are substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the favored direction of magnetostrictive response. A fuel control valve element is located coaxial to the favored direction of magnetoelastic response of the magnetostrictive material, ...
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Application Number:  20120037124

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  PETERS, Lester L.; TOKSOY, John; TIKK, Laszlo

An internal combustion engine is provided including an injector having an injector body including a nozzle assembly having an annular outer surface. A cylinder head includes an injector mounting bore to receive the injector, and a lower sealing portion. The engine also includes an engine coolant passage formed in the cylinder head to receive engine coolant to remove heat from the cylinder head. The engine coolant passage opens into, and is fluidly connected to, the mounting bore to cause ...
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Application Number:  20120037123

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Schimpl, Walter; Rudolf, Markus; Groth, Franz

A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine has an air filter for cleaning intake air comprising a housing and a filter element, an intake unit for supplying the cleaned intake air to combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine and a fuel injection unit comprising a container for pressurized fuel, in particular a fuel distribution rail, and a plurality of injectors connected with the container. The fuel injection unit is integrated in the air ...
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Application Number:  20120037122

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Keller, Stefan; Veit, Guenter

A device and a method for controlling a fuel metering system, the fuel pressure being controlled as a function of the operating state of the internal combustion engine. When the internal combustion engine is switched off, the fuel pressure is controlled at a first value. If a condition is present which is normal when the internal combustion engine is switched off, the fuel pressure is controlled at a second ...
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Application Number:  20120037121

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kajita, Daisuke; Kitagawa, Tomoaki

An engine includes a head cover covering an upper part of a cylinder head to accommodate a valve gear mechanism and an injector. The head cover is separatable into a lower cover body and an upper cover body detachable from and attachable to the lower cover body. The lower cover body includes a fuel pipe and a relay connector. Through the fuel pipe, fuel is supplied to the injector. The fuel pipe penetrates through the lower cover body. The relay connector is configured to relay power supply ...
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Application Number:  20120037120

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Dietl, Franz

In a method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine, with at least one cylinder (Z1-Z4) having a combustion chamber (26), fuel is injected into the cylinder and a logic value (LV_FCUT) is set, in particular for stopping the injection of fuel into the cylinder, The method furthermore has the following steps: depending on a course of the highly time-resolved measurement signal of a rotational speed (N_FAST) of the internal combustion engine, a local maximum ...
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Application Number:  20120037119

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Adler, Christoph

An internal combustion engine has a fuel pressure sensor, the measured value of which represents a fuel pressure in a fuel reservoir of the internal combustion engine. Fuel is metered from the fuel reservoir into a combustion chamber. In a predefined idle operating state (LBZ) of the internal combustion engine, a speed of the internal combustion engine is regulated so as to reach a specific idling speed. During the regulation process, a value of a manipulated variable for metering the fuel is ...
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Application Number:  20120037118

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  MICELLI, Damiano; CUNIBERTI, Marco; CANINO, Gianluca; DURANDO, Mario

A new architecture of a combustion chamber for a diesel engine allows arranging the engine valves according to an axis inclined with respect to the cylinder axis by an angle greater than 8°, without reducing the swirl ratio obtained at the end of the compression ...
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Application Number:  20120037117

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Bertram, Richard; Dowding, Peter; Hartley, Joseph Peter; Watts, Peter

Trunk piston marine engine lubrication, when the engine is fueled by heavy fuel oil, is effected by a composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity containing at least 50 mass % of a basestock containing greater than or equal to 90% saturates and less than or equal to 0.03% sulphur or a mixture thereof, and respective minor amounts of an over-based metal hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate detergent other than such a detergent having a basicity index of less than ...
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Application Number:  20120037116

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Bogdanffy, Constantin; Sturk, Per-Uno; Wickline, Robert; Howell, Michael

An engine arrangement for a vehicle, such as a commercial vehicle such as a truck, includes subsequently arranged and encompassed in a casing an engine block, an engine transmission and a flywheel. A noise shield patch is arranged at a circumferential section of the casing corresponding to the location of the flywheel and/or the engine transmission overlaying not more than 75% of the circumferential section. The patch is arranged predominantly beneath the ...
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Application Number:  20120037115

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  SCHARP, Rainer; SCHNAITER, Frank; BING, Karlheinz

A method for the production of a piston for an internal combustion engine has the following steps: producing an upper piston part having at least one joining surface, b) producing a lower piston part having at least one joining surface, c) producing a direct contact between the at least one joining surface of the upper piston part and the at least one joining surface of the lower piston part, d) heating the upper piston part and the lower piston part by induction or by a direct flow of current ...
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Application Number:  20120037114

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KELLER, Klaus; ULLRICH, Michael; SCHARP, Rainer

A piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper part and a lower part. The upper part has a collar with a ring rib and the lower part has a wall and a contact part radially within the wall. When the upper part is connected with the lower part by friction welding, the face surfaces of the ring rib, the collar, the wall, and the contact part form friction-welding surfaces and form a cooling channel and a cooling cavity between them. To supply the cooling channel and the cooling cavity ...
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Application Number:  20120037113

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Scharp, Rainer; Seifried, Matthias

A method for the production of a piston has the following method steps: (a) providing a blank of a piston base body, having an outer joining surface, an inner joining surface and a circumferential lower cooling channel part that runs between the two joining surfaces, (b) providing a blank of a piston ring element, having an outer joining surface, an inner joining surface and a circumferential upper cooling channel part that runs between the two joining surfaces, (c) forming a circumferential ...
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Application Number:  20120037112

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Muscas, Florin

A piston and method of construction is provided. The piston includes a top part fixed to a bottom part. The top part has an uppermost surface with annular inner and outer upper joining surfaces depending therefrom. The bottom part has a pair of pin bosses with pin bores aligned with one another along a pin bore axis; a pair of upwardly extending annular inner and outer lower joining surfaces and a combustion bowl wall. Inner and outer weld joints fix the inner and outer upper and lower joining ...
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Application Number:  20120037111

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Keller, Klaus; Scharp, Rainer

A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of first and second piston components, has the following steps: (a) providing a blank of the first piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (b) providing a blank of the second piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (c) tempering or precipitation-hardening the blanks, (d) ...
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Application Number:  20120037110

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Perkins, Joseph M.

A spin balanced crank assembly for two-stroke and four-stroke engines, such as those used in snowmobiles and ATVs, is provided. The crank assembly may achieve an overall two-plane balance engine by adding two additional masses to opposing sides of the crank assembly. The additional masses are each unbalanced to a desired amount and angle in order to offset unbalance in the engine and obtain a balanced assembly. The amount of weight to be added or subtracted may be attached to the masses may be ...
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Application Number:  20120037109

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Solfrank, Peter

A mass balancing mechanism is provided for balancing mass forces and/or mass torques of an internal combustion engine. The mass balancing mechanism includes an unbalanced shaft (4) having shaft sections (6, 7) for generating the imbalance, two outer bearing journals (9, 10), and at least one inner bearing journal (5) that connects two of the shaft sections, at which bearing journals the unbalanced shaft is rotatably supported at associated bearing points (2, 1, ...
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Application Number:  20120037108

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Herden, Werner; Weinrotter, Martin; Engelhardt, Joerg; Woerner, Pascal; Raimann, Juergen

A laser spark plug, in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is described. A fixing arrangement is provided in an end region of the laser spark plug facing the combustion chamber. The fixing arrangement allows an optical component to be detachably fixed to the laser spark ...
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Application Number:  20120037107

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Church, Kynan L.

A deactivating rocker arm for use with a cam having at least one no-lift safety lobe is provided. Safety lobe contacting surfaces on the rocker arm are configured for contact with safety lobes during abnormal operation of the rocker arm. When the rocker arm is deactivated, the safety lobe contacting surfaces may come into contact with safety lobes when excessive pump-up of a lash adjuster brings the rocker arm undesirably close to the rotating cam. This contact limits the range of motion of the ...
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Application Number:  20120037106

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Werler, Andreas; Arnold, Thomas

A valve train for an internal combustion engine for actuating gas exchange valves includes a camshaft in the form of a camshaft tube driven by a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. A selector shaft is disposed in the camshaft tube. A surface of the selector shaft includes a shifting contour having an axial gradient. At least one cam carrier is disposed on the crankshaft and axially displaceable but rotationally fixed with respect to the camshaft. Each cam carrier includes an identical ...
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Application Number:  20120037105

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  NAKAMURA, Makoto

A variably operated valve apparatus for use in an internal combustion engine comprises: a variable valve actuator configured to variably adjust at least a closure timing of an intake valve; and a mechanically stabilizing section configured to mechanically stabilize the closure timing of the intake valve at a position more retardation angle side than a most retardation angle position which is a limit of a control range of the stop position of the piston at the time of the stop of the engine. In ...
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Application Number:  20120037104

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Pohl, Angelika; Boelstler, Alfred

A method for powder-metallurgically manufacturing a rotational body, including compacting a first starting body is compacted from a metal powder; forming a second starting body from metal, separately from the first starting body; placing the starting bodies against each other in axial contact via end faces in relation to a longitudinal axis of the rotational body; and permanently and firmly sintered the first starting body and the second starting body to each other by collective sintering. The ...
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Application Number:  20120037103

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kreisig, Michael; Schneider, Falk; Flender, Thomas

A camshaft transport securing mechanism for an internal combustion engine. The camshaft having at least one transport securing mechanism, the transport securing mechanism axially fixing at least one bearing, wherein the transport securing mechanism is one of released by wear or disintegration during operation of the internal combustion ...
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Application Number:  20120037102

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Stolk, Thomas; von Gaisberg-Helfenberg, Alexander; Meintschel, Jens

In a valve drive control device, in particular for an internal combustion engine, for controlling the position of a cam element on a camshaft, the valve drive comprises at least one control armature element and a control element connected to the control armature element for engagement with a control gate of the cam element for controlling axial positioning of the cam element on the camshaft. The valve drive control device has a coupling unit which is provided to couple the control armature ...
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Application Number:  20120037101

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Riegger, John Christopher; Brewer, Todd Jay; Yamada, Shuya Shark

A cylinder head of an engine with an integrated exhaust manifold is provided. In one example, the inner exhaust runners and outer exhaust runners have different cross-sectional areas. This arrangement may be beneficial to maintain exhaust flow rates in the integrated exhaust ...
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Application Number:  20120037100

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Larsen, Melvin J.; McAlister, Roy E.; McAlister, Roy Edward

The present disclosure is directed to various embodiments of systems and methods for cooling a combustion chamber of an engine. One method includes introducing fuel into the combustion chamber of an engine having an energy transfer device that moves through an intake stroke, a compression stroke, a power stroke, and an exhaust stroke. The method further includes monitoring a temperature of the combustion chamber. When the temperature reaches a predetermined value, the method also includes ...
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Application Number:  20120037099

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Gammons, Ricky L.; Henry, Zachary

In one aspect of the present invention, a mixture of conventional gasoline and hydrogen-containing additive, such as ethanol, destined for use as a fuel for an ICE, is processed through a fuel generator interposed between a source of the fuel mixture and an internal combustion engine (ICE). Within the fuel generator, the mixture is subjected to electrolysis and then fed to the ICE, one objective being to more efficiently power the ICE, with a fuel mixture having a minimum, and preferably no ...
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Application Number:  20120037098

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wey, Albert Chin-Tang

This invention relates to a system and a method for achieving efficient combustion of hydrocarbon fuels in internal combustion engines to enhance the engine performance with reduced fuel consumption and emissions, comprising at least an infrared radiation source emitting infrared at wavelengths covering at least a portion of 3-20 micrometers wavelength range for exciting the hydrocarbon fuel and a hydrogen source providing hydrogen gas to be burned along with the infrared-excited hydrocarbon ...
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Application Number:  20120035017

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Nagai, Tadayuki

A power control device includes: an engine control unit and a transmission control unit provided so as to control power of the engine, and configured such that if an actual operating point, which is an operating point indicating a combination of actual revolution speed and torque of the engine, is located in a non-supercharging region and a final target operating point, which serves as a target operating point during acceleration, is located in a supercharging region, the revolution speed of ...
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Application Number:  20120032441

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Engineer, Nayan

Featured is a starter/generator to start a reciprocating engine or generate electrical energy using the engine. The starter/generator includes a plurality of magnetic elements that establish a magnetic flux, each magnetic element being attached to a surface of the crankshaft so the element moves in a prescribed path as the crankshaft rotates; a plurality of stator elements being arranged within the engine so as to be maintained in fixed relation to a corresponding magnetic element as it moves ...
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Application Number:  20120031384

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Wang, Yue-Yun; Haskara, Ibrahim

A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes monitoring oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas feedstream, a mass flowrate of intake air, and a commanded fuel pulse of fuel. A blend ratio of biodiesel fuel and petrodiesel fuel of the fuel is determined. Engine operation is controlled in response to the blend ratio of biodiesel fuel and petrodiesel fuel of the ...
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Application Number:  20120031383

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Stockhausen, Ralf

An internal combustion engine with a crankshaft, at least one compression piston which is housed in a compression cylinder, and at least one working piston which is housed in a working cylinder. Movement of the compression piston and of the working piston are coupled kinematically to movement of the crankshaft, so that the compression piston moves back and forth during a single revolution of the crankshaft in an intake stroke and a compression stroke and that the working piston moves back and ...
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Application Number:  20120031382

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  GSCHIRR, Arno

A method includes determining the moment of extinction of an ignition spark of an ignition device for an internal combustion engine, wherein the ignition device has a high voltage transformer having a primary side and a secondary side, of which the primary side is connected to a high voltage source and the secondary side is connected to a spark path to provide the ignition spark. The time variation in the primary current flowing on the primary side is measured and subdivided at least into a ...
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Application Number:  20120031381

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Dronzkowski, David Joseph; Styles, Daniel Joseph; Kurtz, Eric

A method for charging an intake manifold of an engine comprises adjusting an LP EGR flow rate and an uncooled HP EGR flow rate within first limits to maintain a target dilution level in the intake manifold at steady-state. The method further comprises adjusting the LP EGR and uncooled HP EGR rates within second limits, different from the first, to maintain the target dilution level in the intake manifold during transient ...
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Application Number:  20120031380

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Mai, Wolfgang

A tank venting apparatus for a supercharged internal combustion engine (1) has a fuel tank (18), a fuel vapour reservoir (25) connected to the fuel tank (18) via a connecting line (26) and to an intake pipe (9) of the internal combustion engine (1) via a venting line (27), a tank venting valve (28) which is arranged in the venting line (27), and a safety valve (33) which is arranged in the venting line (27) ...
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Application Number:  20120031379

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  ZHOU, Bo

The horizontally opposed center fired engine improves on the traditional design of the horizontally opposed engines and center fired engines with a better engine geometry. The present invention utilizes four pairs of opposing pistons to compress a larger volume of air-fuel mixture within four different cylinders. The four different cylinders are radially positioned around a center axle in order to achieve a perfectly symmetric engine geometry. The center axle consists of two different shafts ...
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Application Number:  20120031378

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Brandt, Martin

In a method for operating an injection valve having a longitudinal axis, an injection needle, a control valve and an actuator embodied as a solid body actuator, wherein the actuator acts on the control valve and the control valve acts on the injection nozzle, various pre-defined quantities of electrical energy are supplied to the actuator in a plurality of adaptation flows in order to modify an axial length of the actuator. This electrical energy is defined such that an axial position of the ...
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Application Number:  20120031377

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Okada, Yoshihiro; Hayashi, Rikikazu

A spark ignition type internal combustion engine of the present invention is provided with a variable compression ratio mechanism able to change a mechanical compression ratio, a variable valve timing mechanism able to control a closing timing of an intake valve, and a supercharger. At the time of engine low load operation, the mechanical compression ratio is made higher compared with at the time of engine high load operation. At the time of engine medium load operation, the supercharging ...
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Application Number:  20120031376

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Magel, Hans-Christoph

The invention relates to a fuel injector (1) having a high pressure region (32) which contains fuel that is under high pressure during operation, and a low pressure region (38) in which a lower pressure is present during operation than in the high pressure region (32). A sensor (12) is located in the low pressure region (38) and a transmission means (9) is arranged such that a force which is equal to the pressure of the fuel in the high pressure ...
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Application Number:  20120031375

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Heimgaertner, Corren; Fischer, Michael; Elsinger, Andrej; Schoefer, Frank-Holger; Kleindl, Michael

A decoupling element for a fuel injection device provides a low-noise construction. The fuel injection device has at least one fuel injection valve and a receiving bore in a cylinder head for the fuel injection valve as well as the decoupling element between a valve housing of the fuel injection valve and a wall of the receiving bore. The spring rigidity of the decoupling element is so low and the decoupling element is placed between the valve housing of the fuel injection valve and the wall of ...
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