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7623953 Integrated regeneration and engine controls  
A method to integrate engine and exhaust aftertreatment control may include connecting an engine controller to an aftertreatment controller using a common data link protocol to provide a...
7617040 Ignition apparatus for internal combustion engine  
An ignition apparatus which allows for an accurate diagnosis of a spark plug in an internal combustion engine provided with plural spark plugs for each cylinder is provided for an internal...
7611567 Exhaust gas purifying apparatus for internal combustion engine  
An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a particulate filter for trapping particulates found in the exhaust gases of the engine. The regeneration process for...
7610139 In-cylinder pressure detection device and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit  
An in-cylinder pressure detection device for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of detecting an in-cylinder pressure accurately without being adversely affected by changes in the...
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...
7606654 Oxygen sensor output correction apparatus for internal combustion engine  
A correction apparatus for correcting an error in an output of an oxygen sensor such as an A/F sensor installed in an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine to measure the concentration of...
7603980 Sensor abnormality detecting method and electronic throttle control apparatus  
An electronic throttle control apparatus includes first and second throttle position sensors that detect an opening of a throttle valve for adjusting an amount of supply air to an internal...
7603252 Method and apparatus for calculating effective volume of diesel particulate filter  
A method for calculating the effective volume of a diesel particulate filter invention may include: determining whether regeneration efficiency exists; determining, if regeneration efficiency...
7599786 Power output apparatus, vehicle equipped with power output apparatus, and control method of power output apparatus  
A vehicle is equipped with a planetary gear mechanism including a sun gear, a carrier, and a ring gear that are respectively connected to a first motor, an engine, and a driveshaft. A second motor...
7596992 Fuel injection control apparatus designed to compensate for deviation of quantity of fuel sprayed from fuel injector  
A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller directs a fuel injector to spray a learning injection quantity of fuel and determines a resulting...
7596447 Control apparatus for internal-combustion engine  
Provision is made to avoid a fuel discharge timing and a fuel injection timing during the ordinary operation of the engine from being limited, by, upon the activation of an engine, making a...
7596446 Control device  
A change in a torque request for an internal combustion engine during a prediction period is predicted as a change in a target torque. Further, a change in an outputtable upper-limit torque during...
7594495 Electronic throttle valve control system and two-wheeled motor vehicle  
An electronic throttle valve control system prevents rapid rotation of a throttle valve when the control system has a failure. A throttle valve controls the amount of intake air to an internal...
7593808 Apparatus and method for engine performance evaluation  
A system that measures the density of the air in the intake of an internal combustion engine and calculates the gain or loss in performance provides a display to an operator in real time in a...
7587269 Power output apparatus, control method of power output apparatus, and vehicle equipped with power output apparatus  
In response to the driver's depression of a brake pedal in requirement of catalyst deterioration control with a catalyst deterioration control flag Fc set equal to 1, the braking control of the...
7584310 Signal processing device  
A signal processing device includes a start time obtaining part that obtains a start time when a predetermined process is started in response to an interrupt request associated with a valid edge of...
7581534 Internal combustion engine ignition device  
An internal combustion engine ignition device is provided in which an ECU ( 200 ) includes a pulse generation circuit ( 201 ) that outputs pulse signals (Igt 1 and Igt 2 ) and an ion-signal...
7578288 Method for operating an internal combustion engine, computer program product, computer program, and control and/or regulating device for an internal combustion engine  
In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, a sensor for detecting and/or an actuator for setting a performance quantity of the internal combustion engine is/are monitored for the...
7577512 Method for switching between operating modes of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of control units  
A method for switching between operating modes of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of control units, in particular a switchover between full-engine operation and half-engine...
7572305 Exhaust gas purification for internal combustion engines and method for operating the same  
The present invention relates to an exhaust emission control apparatus for an internal combustion engine and a process for operating it. The exhaust emission control has a particulate filter for...
7571047 Detection of valve deactivation failure by monitoring exhaust temperature  
An internal combustion engine having valve deactivation capability for at least one cylinder, or for an entire bank of cylinders in a multiple-bank engine, is provided with a temperature probe in...
7568467 Crank position correction using cylinder pressure  
A method of correcting a crankshaft position may include determining first, second, and third crankshaft positions, determining first, second, and third cylinder pressures, determining first,...
7567867 Method and device for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation of an internal combustion engine  
A method and device for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation of an internal combustion engine, which enable a diagnosis of a malfunction of an actuator of the crankcase ventilation. The internal...
7558668 Exhaust system having temperature sensor verification  
An exhaust system is disclosed. The exhaust system has a first sensor disposed to sense a first temperature of an exhaust flow and a second sensor disposed to sense a second temperature of the...
7558667 Method for detecting assembled state of gas sensors and apparatus for detecting assembled state of gas sensors  
A vehicle including plural gas sensors assembled in plural exhaust systems, detecting an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas, where an air-fuel ratio feedback control is carried out together...
7552007 Calibration systems and methods for scheduled linear control algorithms in internal combustion engine control systems using genetic algorithms, penalty functions, weighting, and embedding  
A method for calibrating an engine control system includes identifying engine calibration sub-problems for an engine calibration; seeding an initial generation for one of the engine calibration...
7542865 Abnormality determination device of cylinder pressure sensor  
An abnormality determination device of a cylinder pressure sensor calculates a gain (sensing sensitivity coefficient) and an offset (bias) indicating an output characteristic of the cylinder...
7529616 Analysis of fuel combustion characteristics  
Some embodiments of a system for determining combustion characteristics may be capable of automatically determining and displaying a plurality of combustion characteristics on a multiple-axis plot....
7519467 Cylinder air-fuel ratio controller for internal combustion engine  
An air-fuel ratio of each cylinder is estimated on the basis of the detection value of an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust confluent portion. An air-fuel ratio correction quantity is...
7516009 Intake charge deficit method for engine real-time diagnostics application  
The present invention relates to a method of engine operation to provide a real time engine diagnostic to detect EGR, turbocharger or compressor malfunctions and to prevent such malfunctions from...
7509940 Marine engine  
A marine engine is arranged such that it compares a detected ion current value with a predetermined sea water-ingress current value, which is indicative of sea water being present in the combustion...
7509210 Abnormality determination apparatus and method for blow-by gas feedback device, and engine control unit  
An abnormality determination apparatus and method for a blow-by gas feedback device, and an engine control unit are provided for improving the accuracy of abnormality determination even when an...
7505847 Configurable electronic control system and diagnostic method  
A configurable electronic controller system used for signal acquisition of input sensors and control of output loads, connected respectively to the configurable controller, can be re-configured to...
7505836 Inspection system for watercraft  
A watercraft propelled by an outboard motor includes an inspection system. The inspection system includes a terminal computer that conducts an inspection of an engine control device and a control...
7499793 System for discrimination of spurious crank encoder signals  
A system for discrimination of spurious crankshaft encoder signals. A position encoder connected to an engine crankshaft sends a pulsed signal indicative of crankshaft rotational performance to an...
7499792 Diagnostic method for an exhaust gas probe and diagnostic device for an exhaust gas probe  
An exhaust gas probe is disposed downstream of a catalytic converter in an exhaust gas tract of an internal combustion engine. A first quality value which is representative of a signal dynamic of...
7497204 Drive circuit for an injector arrangement and a diagnostic method  
The invention relates to a drive circuit for an injector arrangement comprising a first fuel injector in parallel with a capacitive component. The drive circuit comprises: a selector means (SQ 1 ,...
7497201 Control system and method for improving fuel economy  
A control system is provided for controlling the fueling system ( 402 ) of a combustion engine. The control system includes a sensing arrangement for measuring a plurality of engine and vehicle...
7489997 Diagnostic apparatus for internal combustion engine  
A diagnostic apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising an adjusting device for adjusting a burning condition, a correction device for estimating or detecting an input or an output to...
7487035 Cylinder abnormality diagnosis unit of internal combustion engine and controller of internal combustion engine  
It is determined whether an engine operating state is within a specified operating range. When the engine operating state is within the specified operating range, the air-fuel ratio of an i-th...
7487034 Device and method for reducing the contamination of a sensor  
With devices and methods for reducing the contamination of a sensor, a sensor or sensor element—preferably a hot film air-mass meter—is deactivated when a software function integrated in the...
7487032 Engine control system  
An engine control system, which is adaptable for individual differences among engines, changes with time, environmental changes, etc., and which can control engine torque with high accuracy and...
7480559 Calibratable fault reactions in heavy-duty diesel engines  
A method to operate an internal combustion engine by derating the engine in response to sensed emissions levels as compared to engine speed and engine torque and logging a fault.
7477983 Exhaust gas diagnosis system and vehicle control system  
An exhaust gas diagnosis system and a vehicle control system for automotive vehicles to reduce the communication lines and the power lines connected to the antiweatherability-required exhaust gas...
7469173 Voice notification system for a vehicle  
A notification system for a vehicle includes at least a first and a second power source. The notification system also includes a controller that is operable with the first and second power sources...
7467042 Method and control unit for diagnosing a valve lift adjustment system of an internal combustion engine  
A method assesses the functional capability of a gas exchange valve lift adjuster of an internal combustion engine as a function of a measure of rotational oscillation amplitudes of a camshaft. The...
7463970 Torque based engine speed control  
A method of achieving a desired engine speed of an internal combustion engine includes determining the desired engine speed, calculating a slow response torque value based on the desired engine...
7463969 Control device and control method for engine  
An estimated quantity of soot deposited near a movable part of a variable capacity mechanism and an estimated quantity of soot burnt off therefrom are determined in advance in accordance with...
7461632 Method for operating an internal combustion engine  
A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a first fuel injection system for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and having a...
7454284 Method and apparatus for remote communication and control of engine performance  
An apparatus for remote identification of combustion performance of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus comprises a vehicle with a throttle device for control of fuel into a multiple cylinder...