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7370625 Engine accessory layout structure for vehicle  
An engine accessory layout structure for a vehicle by which engine accessories are laid out near the engine without trouble. The structure includes a throttle valve disposed in the periphery of an...
7370624 Piston engine with integrated balance shafts  
A piston engine with a compensation shaft unit, wherein a window surrounded by a flange is provided on the crankcase thereof. The flange forms a separating surface to which the housing of the...
7370623 Engine-powered tool with a tube for guiding a starter pull rope  
A tool with an engine, a shaft, and a recoil starter pulley coupled to the shaft for rotation about an axis. A starter pull rope for winding and unwinding around the recoil starter pulley. An air...
7370622 Active induction system tuning with multiple valves  
An induction system is designed for an engine that includes a manifold having a plenum in fluid communication with primary runners. A plenum valve is arranged between first and second chambers of...
7370621 Intake manifold with air vessel for an internal combustion engine  
An intake manifold for an internal combustion engine having a number of cylinders; for each cylinder, the intake manifold has a respective intake pipe connecting the intake manifold to the cylinder...
7370620 Intake manifold assembly having short compact runners and methods of making same  
An air intake manifold assembly for use with an internal combustion engine includes a plenum portion and a runner assembly mounted to the plenum portion. The runner assembly has a flange disposed...
7370619 Starter system for internal combustion engine  
A starter system for a reciprocating internal combustion engine includes an input gear journaled for rotation upon a crankshaft in the engine, and a starter motor which applies a starting torque to...
7370618 Internal combustion engine with five valves per cylinder  
Otto cycle internal combustion engine, comprising a cylinder block including at least one cylinder having a longitudinal axis, a piston movable within said cylinder and having a recess open on a...
7370617 Variable valve operating mechanism of four-stroke internal combustion engine  
A variable valve operating mechanism of a four-stroke internal combustion engine includes a slide pin energized by a pin spring in a direction while oil pressure acting on the slide pin in the...
7370616 Method for transition between controlled auto-ignition and spark ignition modes in direct fuel injection engines  
A method is provided for control of transition between combustion modes of a direct-injection engine operable in a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) mode at lower loads and a spark...
7370615 Variable valve actuator  
Improved actuators and valve control systems, and methods for controlling actuators and/or engine valves, are disclosed. In addition to the inherent capability of timing control, the ability to...
7370614 Electromagnetically driven valve  
An electromagnetically driven valve includes a driven valve having a stem and carrying out reciprocating motion along a direction in which the stem extends, a disc support base having an abutment...
7370613 Eccentric crank variable compression ratio mechanism  
A variable compression ratio mechanism for an internal combustion engine that has an engine block and a crankshaft is disclosed. The variable compression ratio mechanism has a plurality of...
7370612 Internal combustion engine cooling system  
A check valve having a thermostat function is provided between an engine and a thermal storage tank that stores a portion of the coolant circulating in the engine. The check valve restricts the...
7370611 Apparatus and method for controlling the operation of a cooling system for a marine propulsion device  
A cooling system for a marine propulsion device provides a bypass loop around a cooling pump that allows the flow of cooling water through certain components to be reduced or increased as a...
7370610 On-board fuel fractionation system and methods to generate an engine starting fuel  
A Fuel Fractionation System (FFS) and associated methods to generate and store a fuel for internal combustion engines is provided. FFS provides a distillation column assembly to distill liquid fuel...
7370609 Internal combustion engine system  
An internal combustion engine system uses a blended fuel of gasoline and ethanol, operates with high efficiency, and can inhibit nitrogen oxide and the like from being discharged. The internal...
7370473 Exhaust gas purification device for internal combustion engine  
By performing main fuel injection and sub fuel injection to perform rich operation of an engine, NOx purging of a NOx catalyst is carried out, and in the NOx purging, the ratio between the main...
7370470 Method for increasing the exhaust gas temperature of internal combustion engines  
A method for increasing the exhaust gas temperature of internal combustion engines, particularly for driving a motor vehicle under load in order to reach the necessary regeneration temperature of...
7370388 Air cleaner for portable engine  
An air cleaner for a portable engine, includes an air cleaner case attached to an upper part of an engine body of the engine. Preferably, the air cleaner case is supported on an upper wall of a...
RE40286 System and method for supplying auxiliary power to a large diesel engine  
A system and method for providing auxiliary power to a large diesel engine allowing shutdown of such large engine in all weather conditions. An auxiliary power unit made up of a secondary engine...
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.
7368864 Spark plug  
A spark plug including: an insulator having an axial hole; a center electrode disposed in a tip end side of the axial hole of the insulator; a metal shell surrounding the insulator, a first ground...
7367921 Electromechanically actuated valve control for an internal combustion engine  
A system and method to control engine valve operation in an internal combustion engine. Valves are controlled to improve vehicle drivability and reduce vehicle noise.
7367916 Belt drive for auxiliary units of an internal combustion engine  
A belt drive for a secondary unit of an internal combustion engine includes a friction wheel drive having a friction wheel, a cam device for adjusting the engagement of the friction wheel to the...
7367711 Type identification system for diesel oil and method for identifying type of diesel oil  
Apparatus and method for identifying type and distillation properties of light oil. A pulse voltage is applied for a predetermined period of time to a liquid type identification sensor heater...
7367352 Multiway valve arrangement  
The valve device consists, according to the invention, of (at least) two part valves which are symmetrical in circuit terms with respect to the existing connections and which are designed, in...
7367330 Internal combustion engine controller  
The internal combustion engine controller includes an oxygen concentration sensor outputting an electric signal having a value depending on an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas flowing through...
7367329 Intake device for engine  
An intake device for an engine includes a fuel supply system for supplying fuel to an intake passage and a plurality of plates. The plurality of plates are positioned on an upstream side and a...
7367328 Four-cycle engine and motorcycle comprising four-cycle engine  
A four-cycle engine including an engine case configured to accommodate a crankshaft; a pump configured to suction air from an inner space of the engine case; and an air suction passage through...
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...
7367326 Failure diagnosis apparatus for evaporative fuel processing system  
A failure diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a failure of an evaporative fuel processing system. The system includes a fuel tank, a canister having adsorbent for adsorbing evaporative fuel...
7367325 Fuel feed apparatus having electric connector  
A fuel feed apparatus is provided to a fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus includes a lid member, a pump module, and an electric connector. The lid member plugs an opening of the fuel tank. The pump...
7367324 Fuel feed apparatus having canister  
A fuel feed apparatus is provided to a fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus includes a lid member, a canister, and a fuel pump. The lid member covers a through hole of the fuel tank. The canister...
7367323 Eight-cylinder engine  
An eight-cylinder engine including fuel injection valves provided for each of the eight cylinders. A first valve drive unit for driving four of the eight fuel injection valves to open and close by...
7367322 Controller of an internal combustion engine  
When the first fuel injection is performed after reversion from the fuel cut, the fuel pulse width Ka·INJ.PW is set so that a fuel supply amount is greatly increased in relation to an intake air...
7367321 Erroneous connection detecting method of ignition devices and apparatus of the same  
A method and an apparatus detect an erroneous connection between a plurality of ignition devices and a fuel injection control device. A first time interval is measured from an input of an ignition...
7367320 Fuel control system for internal combustion engine  
A fuel control system for an internal combustion engine having an intake passage, a compressor provided in the intake passage, a throttle valve disposed downstream of the compressor, a bypass...
7367319 Method and apparatus to determine magnitude of combustion chamber deposits  
A control system and method to dynamically determine a parametric value for combustion chamber deposits (CCD), e.g. in a controlled auto-ignition engine, including in-situ evaluation of thickness...
7367318 Control system and control method of internal combustion engine  
An internal combustion engine ( 1 ) provided with a valve mechanism (VM) able to change a valve opening characteristic of at least one of an intake valve (Vi) and exhaust valve (Ve), a cylinder...
7367317 Control apparatus for internal combustion engine  
An engine ECU executes a program including a step of sensing a coolant temperature TW of an engine, if a start request of the engine is sensed, a step of causing only an intake manifold injector to...
7367316 Vehicle control system  
A method for controlling an engine having at least one cylinder, the engine coupled to a vehicle, the engine also having an intake manifold and an outlet control device for controlling flow from...
7367315 Throttle valve control apparatus of internal combustion engine and automobile using the same  
The invention provides a throttle valve control apparatus provided with a throttle sensor which is in trouble at a low possibility and has a long service life, whereby an accurate output of a...
7367314 Governor system for gasoline powered vehicles  
A governor system is provided for limiting a degree of throttle travel of a throttle as a function of rotational speed of a drive axle. The governor system includes a governor shaft rotatably...
7367313 Speed transient control methods for direct-injection engines with controlled auto-ignition combustion  
A direct injection controlled auto-ignition engine is operated at steady state, within a homogeneous charge compression-ignition (HCCI) load range and with fuel-air-diluent mixtures at...
7367312 Control strategy to better usage of fuel in gaseous engine  
A method for operating a fueling system in a vehicle having an engine capable of burning gaseous fuel supplied from at least a first and second source to a direct fuel injector of the engine, the...
7367311 Control system for compression ignition internal combustion engine  
A compression ignition internal combustion engine includes injectors, each of which injects fuel into a corresponding cylinder. An ECU determines target ignition timing based on engine operational...
7367310 Controller for compression ignition engine  
The controller includes combustion mode switching means for decreasing an exhaust gas temperature in the spark ignition combustion immediately before the combustion mode switching based on an...
7367309 Internal combustion engine  
An internal combustion engine is provided which can operate by either the homogeneous charge compression ignition system or the spark ignition system using a single fuel. In the internal combustion...
7367308 Method for load transient control between lean and stoichiometric combustion modes of direct-injection engines with controlled auto-ignition combustion  
A method is provided for control of a direct-injection engine operated with controlled auto-ignition (HCCI) during load transient operations between modes of lean combustion low load (HCCI/Lean)...