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7111454 Fuel control compensation for secondary air system flow variation  
An engine control system and method maintains an optimum exhaust fuel to air ratio in an internal combustion engine. A secondary air injection (SAI) pressure is measured in an SAI system. The SAI...
7111450 Method for controlling the temperature of an emission control device  
A method is disclosed for controlling operation of an engine coupled to an exhaust treatment catalyst. Under predetermined conditions, the method operates an engine with a first group of cylinders...
7111591 Method of improving the operation of combustion particulate filters  
A method is disclosed that improves the operation of fuel combustion systems utilizing particulate filters. The method includes the combustion of a fuel emulsion in a fuel combustion system having...
7111456 Exhaust emission control apparatus for internal combustion engine  
In an exhaust emission control apparatus having an NOx catalyst disposed on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, the present invention is intended to suppress deterioration in...
7111453 Emissions control  
A cost-effective solution to remove particulates from diesel, especially light-duty diesel engines incorporates an oxidation catalyst ( 2 ) effective to convert NO in the exhaust from the engine to...
7107761 Exhaust control apparatus of internal combustion engine and exhaust gas flow amount estimating method  
An exhaust control apparatus applied to an internal combustion engine in which intake sides of a plurality of cylinder groups are connected to a common intake passage and exhaust sides thereof are...
7107764 Exhaust treatment system  
An exhaust treatment system of a power source includes a filter having a housing with an inlet and an outlet, and a regeneration device disposed outside of the housing of the filter. The...
7104042 Supercharged four-stroke internal-combustion engine with variable-volume exhaust gas exhaust device and method of operation of such an engine  
A four-stroke supercharged internal-combustion engine includes at least two cylinders with a combustion chamber ( 14 ), an air intake ( 16 ) including a pipe ( 20 ) associated with a shutoff ( 21...
7104044 Method for reducing the exhaust emissions from an engine system  
The invention relates to a method for reducing the exhaust emissions during the cold start of an internal combustion engine ( 3 ). According to the method, a starter motor ( 4 ) is operated in...
7104043 Closed loop cold start retard spark control using ionization feedback  
This feature of the present invention comprises a method and apparatus to retard the spark time. As a result, the catalyst heats up quickly during the cold start. The retard spark control method of...
7104051 Exhaust gas purification device  
The invention provides an exhaust gas purification device that can prevent deterioration of the emission during a regeneration process for a particular filter for trapping particulates contained in...
7104049 Exhaust gas purifying system and regeneration end determining method  
An exhaust gas purification system includes an oxygen mass flow rate detecting unit for detecting or calculating a mass flow rate of oxygen fed to a filter and a regeneration end determining unit...
7104045 System and method for removing hydrogen sulfide from an emissions stream  
In an apparatus having a combustion engine and an emissions system including a catalytic converter and a metal oxide catalyst disposed downstream of the catalytic converter, a method of controlling...
7104048 Low emission diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration  
A diesel engine system includes a diesel engine having a first exhaust segment and a second exhaust segment. A filter filters exhaust gas from the first and second exhaust segments. A flow control...
7101531 Fuel reforming system and control therefor  
A fuel reforming system has a reformer ( 4 ) for reforming a fuel to produce a reformate gas; a shift converter ( 5 ) for reacting carbon monoxide (CO) contained in a reformate gas with water to...
7100362 Vehicle and method for operating a vehicle to reduce exhaust emissions  
A method for operating a vehicle to reduce exhaust emissions is provided. The vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a battery for operating the motor, and a catalyst for reducing exhaust gas...
7100364 Open loop fuel controller  
This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling the air-fuel ratio demanded by a fuel controller in order to maintain optimum performance of a catalytic converter. Provided is an open loop...
7100367 Device for exhaust gas treatment of a combustion system  
A device is provided for the exhaust gas treatment of a combustion system, e.g., a diesel combustion system. The device has a first storage unit for storing at least one urea-water solution, and an...
7100363 Method for operating an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle  
The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, with a first operating range as the lean operating range, to discharge the...
7093430 Method and device for implementing a method for ascertaining the load condition of a component arranged in an exhaust-gas region of an internal combustion engine  
A method and a device for implementing a method for ascertaining the load condition with an exhaust-gas component of a component arranged in an exhaust-gas region of an internal combustion engine...
7093426 Starting apparatus, starting method, control method and exhaust filtration apparatus of internal combustion engine  
To improve startability and reduce the amount of HC emission at start-up with the aid of a construction where vaporized fuel is supplied to the bypass passage that bypasses the main passage. The...
7089730 Exhaust gas purification method for internal combustion engine  
To obtain an exhaust gas purification method for an internal combustion engine for detecting timing at which an inflow NOx amount flowing into an NOx absorption catalyst exceeds an NOx amount...
7086220 Regeneration control method for continuously regenerating diesel particulate filter device  
A regeneration control method for regenerating a continuously regenerating diesel particulate filter device capable of regenerating a filter by efficiently removing PM while suppressing the...
7086221 Method for increasing an exhaust gas temperature of a spark-ignition, direct injection internal combustion engine  
The invention relates to a method for at least temporarily increasing an exhaust gas temperature of a spark-ignition, direction injection internal combustion engine ( 10 ) involving at least one...
7082751 Gas compressor pollution control system and method  
A pollution control system and method for a compressor for compressing gas, according to which a combustion engine is connected to the compressor for driving the compressor, and the products of...
7082752 Method and device for monitoring an exhaust gas treatment system  
A method and a device for monitoring an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, in particular an oxidation catalytic converter, are described. An error is recognized if an operating parameter does not...
7082754 Regeneration of diesel particulate filter  
This invention relates to regeneration of a filter ( 41 ) which traps particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine ( 1 ) for a vehicle. A programmable controller ( 31 )...
7080506 Exhaust gas recirculation system for internal combustion engine  
An exhaust gas recirculation system is configured to recirculate a large amount of exhaust gas to an engine intake passage while reducing contamination inside the intake passage caused by the...
7080505 Vehicular atmosphere cleansing method  
A vehicular atmosphere cleansing system utilizes a regenerative wheel having flow channels extending through the wheel coated with an adsorbant. An atmosphere stream passes through a first position...
7081231 Method and system for the combination of non-thermal plasma and metal/metal oxide doped γ-alumina catalysts for diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment system  
The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for treatment of oxygen rich exhaust and more specifically to a method and system that combines non-thermal plasma with a metal doped...
7081154 Device and method for determining a malfunction in a filter  
A device for detecting a failure of a filter used to clean a gas stream, in particular an exhaust gas stream, of soot particulates, including a chamber which is insertable into the gas stream to be...
7076945 Method and system for controlling temperatures of exhaust gases emitted from an internal combustion engine to facilitate regeneration of a particulate filter  
Method, system, and controller for increasing exhaust gas temperatures through controlled operation of a radiator fan in order to facilitate regeneration of a particulate filter. The method,...
7076943 System and method for determining set point location for oxidant-based engine air/fuel control strategy  
The invention relates to a new method and system for optimizing the efficiency of an automotive catalytic converter by adjusting the engine air/fuel ratio based on estimates of the actual amount of...
7073323 Secondary air supply apparatus and method for detecting abnormality thereof  
A secondary air supply apparatus controls emissions from an engine through secondary combustion of combustible matters in exhaust gas accomplished by supplying air to an exhaust pipe upstream of an...
7073324 Device and method for determining the need for regeneration in a NOx storage catalyst  
The invention relates to a device and method for determining the need for regeneration in a NO x storage catalyst ( 18 ) arranged in the exhaust train ( 12 ) of an at least periodically...
7073465 Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine  
A method and device for operating an internal combustion engine, which diagnose and/or adapt the exhaust-gas recirculation system for, in particular, multibranch internal combustion engines. In...
7073327 Exhaust emission control system, method of calculating pressure loss of filter, and method of manufacturing filter  
There are disclosed an exhaust emission control system including an internal combustion engine, a filter, and an exhaust pipe, a method of manufacturing a filter suitable for the system, and a...
7073480 Exhaust emission control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine  
An exhaust emission control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve placed substantially at a midpoint above a combustion chamber of the engine; a piston having...
7073326 Diesel particulate matter reduction system and a method thereof  
A diesel particulate matter reduction system includes a diesel particulate filter (DPF), an electric power supply device, a heater, an air blower, and a control unit. The DPF is configured to...
7073321 Controller for internal combustion engine  
A controller for an internal combustion engine that accurately diagnoses heating control of a catalytic device as having or not having an abnormality. The controller increases speed of the engine...
7073325 Exhaust emission control method and system  
An emission control device stores SOx when the air/fuel ratio of exhaust gas is lean, and releases the stored SOx when the temperature of the emission control device is raised to a desulfurization...
7073322 System for emission device control with cylinder deactivation  
Various systems and methods are disclosed for carrying out combustion in a fuel-cut operation in some or all of the engine cylinders of a vehicle. Further, various subsystems are considered, such...
7069718 Engine system and method for injector cut-out operation with improved exhaust heating  
Various systems and methods are disclosed for carrying out combustion in a fuel-cut operation in some or all of the engine cylinders of a vehicle. Further, various subsystems are considered, such...
7067319 System for diagnosing reagent solution quality and emissions catalyst degradation  
A system for determining a reagent solution quality indicator includes a reagent solution source for supplying the reagent solution to an emissions catalyst configured to receive a NOx-containing...
7065960 Method for activation of the regeneration of a particulate filter based on an estimate of the quantity of particulate accumulated in the particulate filter  
Method for activation of the regeneration of a particulate filter for a motor vehicle engine, comprising the steps of calculating an estimated value (x M ) of a quantity of particulate accumulated...
7065962 Exhaust gas purifying system  
An exhaust gas purifying system and a method for purifying exhaust gas of combustion engines. The system includes a hollow casing, a converter chamber disposed within the casing, spray nozzles for...
7062904 Integrated NOx and PM reduction devices for the treatment of emissions from internal combustion engines  
One aspect of the invention relates to a particulate filter useful in treating exhaust from a diesel-power vehicle. The particulate filter comprises filter elements for removing particulate matter...
7062907 Regeneration control system  
The regeneration control system is provided that conducts a regeneration processing for oxidizing particulate matter collected in the diesel particulate filter (DPF) whereby the regeneration...
7062906 Regeneration of particulate filter  
A regeneration device for a filter ( 13 ) which traps particulate matter in an exhaust gas of an engine ( 1 ) is disclosed. The regeneration device has a sensor ( 25 ) which detects an engine...
7063072 Diesel engine with catalytic converter  
Diesel engine with unit injectors and a catalytic converter arranged in the engine exhaust system, for reaction with uncombusted fuel. The injectors have spill valves, which in their closed...