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6885933 Signal correcting device  
An arrangement for correcting a signal (S) is suggested which contains a signal evaluation ( 28 ), which determines a characteristic variable of the input signal (US) of a controller ( 26 ) and/or...
6882926 Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine  
A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine using at least two control units. One engine rotation is divided into a predefined number of subsegments of equal length. One or...
6879902 Accelerator opening setting apparatus, method thereof and motor vehicle equipped with the apparatus  
When the vehicle speed is within a range equal to or greater than a threshold value in which the vehicle is often cruised, a cruising accelerator opening is set as an accelerator opening needed to...
6877480 Idle speed compensation in a pedal map  
A method of controlling torque output of an engine including receiving an acceleration pedal position signal and receiving an engine speed signal. The method also includes calculating a modified...
6876919 Cylinder specific performance parameter computed for an internal combustion engine  
A method for estimating a cylinder specific performance parameter for a specific cylinder of an internal combustion engine for each firing attempt, which relies on production sensors commonly...
6876918 Method and apparatus for estimating engine torque  
An engine torque estimating apparatus is connected to an automatic transmission and an internal combustion engine. A control unit of the engine torque estimating apparatus is arranged to stop a...
6868926 Hybrid electric vehicle and a method for operating a hybrid electric vehicle  
A hybrid electric vehicle 10 and a method for operating the hybrid electric vehicle 10 is provided. Combustion is made to occur within the internal combustion engine 24 only after the...
6871132 Engine limiter for powered vehicles  
A vehicle control unit is disclosed which can be coupled between a tachometer sensor and an electronic ignition system on a vehicle. The unit is also coupled to a speedometer sensor to measure the...
6866024 Engine control using torque estimation  
Torque estimation techniques in the real-time basis for engine control and diagnostics applications using the measurement of crankshaft speed variation are disclosed. Two different torque...
6850835 On engine trim for fuel injectors  
A method and apparatus for trimming a fuel injector located on an engine. The method and apparatus includes modifying an engine speed control, interrupting at least one injection event, monitoring...
6847882 Misfire detection system and method of median filtering  
A processor having an embedded median filter routine, a method of median filtering using a vehicle's CPU, and a misfire detection system for an internal combustion engine with crankshaft...
6845750 Method and device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle  
A method and a device for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle. In this context, at least one correction variable of the drive unit is set as a function of a setpoint value for an output...
6847879 Method of controlling torque converter clutch slip  
A method for controlling slip in an EMCC equipped torque converter is provided. The method determines whether an EMCC slip rate exceeds a predetermined RPM, determines whether a crankshaft RPM...
6842689 System for dynamically controlling power provided by an engine  
A method and system may be provided to perform a process for controlling power provided by an engine in a machine. In an embodiment of the present invention, a process for controlling power...
6839619 System for controlling a fueling governor for an internal combustion engine  
A system for controlling a fueling governor for an internal combustion engine includes a fueling governor responsive to a throttle command value and current engine speed to produce a fueling signal...
6834226 Multiple control loop acceleration of turboalternator after reaching self-sustaining speed previous to reaching synchronous speed  
A method of operating a turboalternator when the turbine engine speed is between synchronous speed and self-sustaining speed.
6820002 Moving direction detection method, moving direction detection apparatus, and program code  
A walking direction detection apparatus has an azimuth detection unit and acceleration detection unit. After a vertical direction with respect to the ground of an apparatus is corrected based on...
6816775 Method for detecting misfiring in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine  
A method for detecting combustion misses in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine. The control units of the engine use an engine control program which is interrupted by interrupt routines, in...
6816777 Electronic control system expediting floating point processing  
A computation processing is repeatedly executed in a control program. In the processing, a preceding computation result RamA that is represented as a floating point mode is used for computation of...
6807939 Control system for protecting an internal combustion engine from overloading  
A control system for protecting an internal combustion engine from overloading. The output of the internal combustion engine is adjusted with an output-determining signal according to an input...
6805094 On-vehicle engine control apparatus  
An on-vehicle engine control apparatus carries out engine drive control and throttle control using one single CPU and improves safety. The apparatus includes a load relay for feeding a power to a...
6807476 Driving apparatus and automobile  
In response to an operation stop instruction of an engine, the technique of the invention carries out control to make the engine stop at a specific position that is far from a first compression...
6804588 System for detecting malfunction of internal combustion engine radiator  
A system for discriminating malfunction of a radiator of an internal combustion engine, in which conditions for execution of malfunction discrimination of the radiator are decided to be...
6799565 Method and system for controlling fuel for an engine  
The present invention relates to a method and system for preventing a lean Air/Fuel ratio that may occur when accelerating an engine. An engine is supplied with a base amount of fuel that is...
6799113 Method and arrangement for controlling the drive unit of a vehicle  
A method and an arrangement control the drive unit of a vehicle. In this method and arrangement, an rpm limiting to a reference rpm takes place when the demand of the driver is withdrawn. The...
6795764 Method and device for inputting speed limiting values for a speed limiter of a vehicle  
The invention relates to the input of speed limiting values into a speed limiter in a vehicle. The speed limiting value which is to be complied with is set by activating a key ( 7 ) on an input...
6789009 Method and device for controlling the limiting of the speed of a vehicle  
The invention relates to a speed limiter in a vehicle. The speed limiting value which is to be complied with is set by activating a key ( 7 ) on an input device ( 8 ) one or more times. That speed...
6785602 Method for magnifying torque during the operation of a motor vehicle  
In a method for setting torque in the operation of a motor vehicle, especially in the case of a small engine torque change in the lower to medium load range, the driver-selected torque is magnified...
6775610 Engine testing system using speed controller designed by m&mgr synthesis method  
An engine testing system has a speed control system which controls at least one of an engine speed and a dynamo speed. The control system comprises a mechanical transfer function which receives an...
6772061 System, method, and apparatus for controlling vehicle performance  
In a system according to one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus mounted onto a vehicle receives a control signal from a key. The control signal indicates one among a plurality of discrete...
6763296 Method and system for alternator load modeling for internal combustion engine idle speed control  
A method is directed to controlling idle speed for an internal combustion engine. The method provides for monitoring a plurality of vehicle system signal inputs, determining a baseline load control...
6757606 Method for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine  
A method for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine includes the storing of two or more sets of operational relationships which are determined and preselected by calibrating the...
6755179 Fuel injection system  
A fuel injection system for multi-cylinder engine has an ECU for controlling respective fuel injection amount for cylinders. The ECU adjusts each of fuel injection amounts to suppress engine...
6751544 Vehicle engine control device  
Escape running performance at the time of the occurrence of an abnormality in an electronic throttle control system is improved. At the time of the occurrence of a severe abnormality, an...
6745119 Ignition timing control system and method, and engine control unit for internal combustion engine  
An ignition timing control system and method, and an engine control unit for an internal combustion engine, which are capable of setting optimum timing for execution of retardation of ignition...
6742498 Apparatus and method for controlling internal combustion engine  
An apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine calculates a target indicated torque and determines operating degree for engine control actuators such as an air system, a fuel system and...
6741925 User interface for electronic controller and timing sensor  
A programmable electronic ignition system is provided including a hand-held programmer, or in the alternative a computer, for controlling engine control parameters including revolutions per minutes...
6741923 Vehicle driving force control apparatus  
The vehicle driving force control apparatus includes a target driving force computing component that is configured to calculate a target driving force. The vehicle driving force control apparatus...
6738708 Engine speed controller for a marine propulsion engine  
An electronically controlled engine speed system for an outboard motor regulates the speed of the engine to ensure proper watercraft speed. A remote input device can program the preferred...
6732042 Apparatus and method for detecting misfire in internal combustion engine  
An ECU defines consecutively ignited three cylinders as first, second and third subject cylinders. The ECU first adds up the rotation fluctuation amount at the second subject cylinder and the...
6728624 Method for estimating the filling of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine  
Method for estimating the filling of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine provided with cam stroke variation system. A theoretical induction efficiency which the cylinder would have if it...
6721648 Method and apparatus for controlling a motorcycle engine  
A programmable electronic ignition system is provided including a hand-held programmer, or in the alternative a computer, for controlling engine control parameters including revolutions per minutes...
6718254 Intake air quantity control system for internal combustion engine  
Intake air quantity control system, for internal combustion engine, ensuring improved response behaviors incorporates an abnormality supervisor and a fail-safe controller in a duplex CPU system...
6718255 Method and system for matching engine torque transitions between closed and partially closed accelerator pedal positions  
A method and system for controlling an electronically controlled throttle of an internal combustion engine. Driver demanded torque, τ dd is determined. From said determined driver demanded...
6705285 Air flow target determination  
A method for characterizing an air flow target within an internal combustion engine. The method includes determining an air mass flow rate target, determining an engine speed term, and processing...
6708104 Engine control based on exhaust back pressure  
A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine monitor exhaust back pressure and take remedial action when the exhaust back pressure exceeds a corresponding threshold. The system...
6704641 Automotive integrated control system  
Automotive control system designed to control a plurality of controlled elements installed in the vehicle is provided. The control system includes control circuits and a manager circuit. The...
6704638 Torque estimator for engine RPM and torque control  
An engine toque estimator according to the invention includes a vehicle data bus that provides a plurality of engine operating inputs including at least one of engine RPM, spark and a dilution...
6701891 Throttle control system and method for internal combustion engine as well as engine control unit  
There is provided a throttle control system and method for an internal combustion engine as well as an engine control unit, which are capable of controlling a throttle valve without any trouble...
6701246 Engine torque determination for powertrain with torque converter  
A system and method for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine include determining a driver-demanded torque, determining a first torque based on the driver-demanded torque and a...