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7610892 System and method for starting a vehicle  
The present invention provides a system and method for starting a vehicle in a cold temperature environment and minimizing the time spent by the vehicle within a resonance frequency zone during...
7612352 Material activating device  
There is provided a material activating device capable of being formed in any one of various shapes and having an improved material activating effect. A material activating device formed by...
7610887 Valve-deactivating hydraulic lifter having a contoured pin housing bottom surface  
A valve-deactivation hydraulic valve lifter including a recessed face on the pin housing for making contact with the a crowned surface region of a roller follower. The lifter includes a pin housing...
7610893 Plastic cover having metal reinforcement for internal combustion engine applications and method of construction  
A cover assembly for an internal combustion engine application and method of construction therefore provides one construction for a valve cover assembly, and another construction for an end cover...
7610884 Valve timing control system  
A first-side check valve prevents a hydraulic fluid from being discharged out of a retard chamber, and a second-side check valve prevents the hydraulic fluid from being discharged out of an advance...
7610894 Self-compensating cylinder system in a process cycle  
The efficiency of a multi-cylinder engine is optimized by coupling the volume change in each cylinder to a common coordinate under conditions such that, at each point in the engine's cycle, the...
7610885 Variable drive for camshafts  
A rotor ( 2 ) and/or rotor housing ( 1 ) for a camshaft adjuster for a motor vehicle engine and a method for manufacturing the same.
7610904 Hydrocarbon adsorber for air induction systems  
An inlet conduit for an engine air induction system, comprising: a plurality of openings located about the inlet conduit; a hydrocarbon vapor-adsorbent member disposed on an exterior surface of the...
7610906 Fuel vapor treatment system  
A fuel vapor treatment system which has adsorbent, a purge passage for introducing a mixture gas of air and the fuel vapor desorbed from the adsorbent into the internal combustion engine, a...
7613558 Differential limiting control apparatus for a vehicle and the method thereof  
The differential limiting control apparatus having a clutch unit interposed between one rotational shaft and the other rotational shaft for variably transmitting a driving force between the one...
7613526 Control system for a reciprocating object  
The present invention is related to a control system of the reciprocating object comprising a microprocessor ( 01 ), a reciprocating mode control circuit ( 02 ), a reciprocating travel control...
7610891 Method for controlling the start-up phase of a motor vehicle  
The invention relates to a method for controlling the start-up phase of a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine ( 12 ). The internal combustion engine ( 12 ) is started by an...
7613562 Signal processing device and control unit for cooperating with a signal processing device  
A signal processing device and a control unit for cooperating with a signal processing device are described, the signal processing device being designed for processing knocking signals of an...
7610889 Camshaft assembly including a target wheel  
A camshaft assembly including a target wheel is manufactured using an assembly process in which the camshaft is formed from a hollow tube. After the cam rings and a target wheel ring have been...
7610905 Passive evaporative emission control module  
An emission control module ( 14 ) includes a housing ( 52 ) that includes an atmospheric air opening ( 102 ) and a vapor emission inlet ( 104 ) for communication with a vapor region ( 32 ) of a...
7610758 Supercharged internal combustion engine  
In a supercharged internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders which are arranged in at least one cylinder bank, preferably a V-type engine with an exhaust gas turbocharger including...
7610903 Multicylinder internal combustion engine  
A multicylinder internal combustion engine, which can simplify its control and is advantageous against thermal loads or vibrations includes a cylinder head with intake valves and exhaust valves...
7610890 Camshaft with cams that can be rotated in relation to each other, especially for motor vehicles  
The aim of the invention is to provide a reliable and inexpensive camshaft wherein the inner shaft and the outer shaft can be adjusted in a low-friction manner. For this purpose, a camshaft with...
7610900 Method and apparatus for operating a spark-ignited direct fuel injection engine  
A method and article of manufacture are provided to operate a spray-guided, spark-ignition, direct fuel injection engine, including injecting a first fuel pulse during a combustion cycle, and...
7610883 Valve timing control apparatus  
A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving side rotational member, a driven side rotational member arranged coaxially to the driving side rotational member, a fluid pressure chamber...
7610898 Apparatus and method for controlling idle speed of internal combustion engine  
An engine has a variable valve actuation mechanism that varies lift characteristics of an intake valve. An idle speed control apparatus has a control section for controlling an intake air amount of...
7610888 Non-guided tappet and fuel injector using same  
A fuel injector includes an injector body having an internal surface and an external surface. A tappet assembly includes a non-guided tappet and a plunger assembly, and is mounted on the injector...
7610896 Control device for internal combustion engine  
An internal combustion engine system, including a primary fuel tank that stores a fuel, a fuel reformer that reforms the fuel from the primary fuel tank, a secondary fuel tank that stores the fuel...
7610882 Default device of actuator for variable lift valve operating mechanism  
In a default device of an actuator for a variable lift valve operating mechanism, in the event of failure of the actuator, a pressed portion of a lever pivotably supported on a support shaft is...
7610899 Control apparatus for internal combustion engine  
An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: calculating a fuel injection ratio of an in-cylinder injector; calculating an amount of spark advance using a first map employed when the...
7610881 Apparatus for an internal combustion engine  
A valve actuation system for providing added motion in the valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine with at least one inlet valve and at least one exhaust valve is provided. The valve...
7610902 Low noise fuel injection pump  
A fuel pump assembly has a bushing defining a pumping chamber, a plunger, a cam follower piece, and a compliance device for absorbing noise by increasing either or both of a hydraulic and/or a...
7607417 Method and system for controlling an internal combustion engine  
A method and system for controlling an internal combustion engine is provide. The engine has a fuel-supply device, a low-pressure circuit and a high-pressure pump, to which a control valve for a...
7607409 Carbide supercell for dry acetylene generation and an internal combustion engine using the same  
Novel carbide supercells for dry acetylene generation are disclosed herein, along with methods of use and internal combustion engines incorporating the carbide supercells. A carbide supercell...
7607206 Method for forming layered heating element for glow plug  
A monolithic, multi-layer heating element forms the high temperature tip of a glow plug assembly. The heating element includes a conductive core which is surrounded by an insulator layer, which in...
7607419 Fuel delivery unit  
A fuel delivery unit for delivering fuel from a fuel container to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a plurality of components, with the components being a flange for...
7610141 Control apparatus for direct injection type internal combustion engine  
An apparatus controls the quantity of fuel injection of an injector in accordance with the fuel pressure in the fuel rail of a direct injection type internal combustion engine. A reference value...
7607301 Exhaust gas heat exchanger, exhaust gas recirculation system, and exhaust gas heat exchanging method  
In an exhaust gas heat exchanger for a system where a compressing means is located upstream of an internal combustion engine, and a part of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flows...
7607503 Operating a vehicle with high fuel efficiency  
High vehicle fuel efficiency is achieved by reducing fuel consumption during driving both in the city and on the highway. During driving in the city, the system accumulates the energy derived from...
7607293 Intake manifold pressure control apparatus and method for a hybrid propulsion system  
Provided is an intake manifold pressure control apparatus, or vacuum pump, for a hybrid propulsion system. The vacuum pump is operable to evacuate the intake manifold of an internal combustion...
7610140 Vehicular ejector system and control method thereof  
A vehicular ejector system having an ejector that generates a negative pressure that is greater than the intake manifold negative pressure that is to be extracted from an intake manifold, a VSV...
7607414 Member for internal combustion engine and production method thereof  
A member for an internal combustion engine, such as a piston, a valve and a fuel injection valve. The member includes a substrate. A carbon-based coating film is formed on the substrate to cover at...
7607422 Methods of flexible fuel engine conversions  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for converting and optimizing the fuel system of an internal combustion engine in a pre-existing (used) vehicle to be fuel flexible and thus to operate on a...
7607345 Misfire detection apparatus for internal combustion engine  
In an internal combustion engine including a flywheel damper, an operation range in which misfire detection is affected by the flywheel damper is set in advance. Whether or not an operation state...
7607410 System and method of controlling fuel delivery during positive valve overlap operation of an engine start  
An approach is provided for compensating engine fueling during starting conditions in which positive valve overlap is enabled early in the start. In one example, the valve timing is adjusted to...
7607418 Fuel injection nozzle and method of holding the same  
A fuel injection nozzle for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine is inserted in a connecting pipe extending from a fuel rail and is fixed to the connecting pipe...
7607420 Fuel-evaporated gas processing system and electromagnetic valve device  
A fuel-evaporated gas processing system includes an input port taking in evaporated gas evaporated in a fuel tank; output ports supplying the evaporated gas taken in through the input port to an...
7607638 EGR valve having rest position  
During normal operation of diesel engines the EGR valve poppet often becomes stuck to the valve seat in the closed position, due to excessive build up of exhaust gas debris, which renders the valve...
7607415 Method of crank signal disturbance compensation  
An engine system that compensates for disturbances in a crankshaft signal is provided. The system includes: an error module that computes an error between an ideal period and an actual period of a...
7607411 Vehicular power supply apparatus  
A vehicular power supply apparatus includes a capacitor, an idling stop means for stopping an engine at a halt of the vehicle and restarting the engine at driver's preset driving operation by...
7607416 Engine control device  
To improve power performance while avoiding or suppressing surging, an engine control device comprises a VVT mechanism for varying the open/close timing of an intake valve, and the occurrence of...
7607421 Pulsation-dampening fuel trim strategy for air/fuel ratio control of propane-fueled, spark-ignited engines  
A trim system for controlling an equivalence ratio in a fuel system is provided. The fuel system includes an air duct, a mixer disposed in the air duct, and a converter. The mixer has a reference...
7607412 Air supply distributor for an internal combustion engine  
An air distributor including a cylindrical tubular body including connecting channels supplying cylinders of an internal combustion engine, branches of which open in an aligned manner along a...
7607413 Induction system for an internal combustion engine  
An induction system for an internal combustion engine, having a combustion chamber and an intake port in periodic communication with the combustion chamber, includes an intake tube having a lower...
7606656 Process for automatically controlling the rail pressure during a starting operation  
A process for automatically controlling the rail pressure (pCR) in an internal combustion engine with a common-rail system during the starting operation, the process including: calculating control...