Internal-combustion engines inventions 12/06

20060288966 - Control of autoignition timing in a hcci engine: Method and system embody a valve timing strategy to control the autoignition timing of a four stroke internal combustion engine (10) operated in an HCCI mode at different engine operating conditions such as different engine speed and torque. A particular valve timing strategy varies lift timing of the intake valve... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20060288967 - Method of engine cooling: This invention relates to a method of cooling an engine for an automobile. The method operates using a predictive, feed-forward element combined with a fuzzy logic feedback controller to achieve accurate control over engine temperature. The fuzzy logic feedback is only utilized in the event that the predictive control results... Agent: Visteon

20060288968 - Tamper evident connector for an engine radiator: The present invention includes a system and method for providing assurance and evidence that a particular part has been installed and properly maintained. In particular, automotive sensing systems may be incorporated into two-part sensor assemblies that are disposable within a vehicle. The sensor assemblies are adapted to provide evidence of... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20060288969 - Engine accessory drive using the outside of a two-sided belt to operate a shrouded cooling fan: A method of installing an endless accessory drive belt (28) in a motor vehicle powerplant. With a ring shroud (40) in place encircling a fan (16), the belt is trained around a crank pulley (32), a fan pulley (22), and at least one additional pulley (30, 34, 38) without passing... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20060288970 - Combustion engine having unitary structure of cooling fan and starter pulley: A combustion engine according to the present invention has a unitary fan-pulley assembly (F), in which a cooling fan (8) and a starter pulley (9) are formed integrally with each other. The cooling fan (8) is fixed to a crankshaft (1). The pulley (9) receives a starting force when engaged... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20060288971 - Engine in box shape: New Engine in Box Shape is made up of four cylinders arranged in one plane, in opposition, with their axes two by two coaxial and parallel, the motor main shaft (2) arranged between two cylinders C1 and C2, the obelisk (6), pivoted both at the eccentric pivot (3) and at... Agent: Hektor Tasi

20060288972 - Valve operating apparatus of internal combustion engine: In a valve operating apparatus of an engine capable of varying a valve lift characteristic, rotary motion of a drive cam is converted through a motion-conversion linkage including a rocker arm into oscillating motion of a valve actuation member for operating an engine valve. Also provided is a control shaft... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060288973 - Valve lash adjustment and inspection apparatus: An apparatus and method for automatically adjusting the valve lash of an internal combustion engine is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, a probe is employed for verifying and/or setting valve lash settings in an automated manner. A further aspect of the present invention does not require determination... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060288974 - Fastening of a bearing bolt to a roller tappet: A connection of a bearing bolt (6) in a cylindrical housing (1) of a roller tappet (2) that is actuated in a direction of a longitudinal axis (Z) is provided, especially for a tappet push-rod valve drive of an internal combustion engine. The bearing bolt (6) is supported in bore... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20060288975 - 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 engine, and an engine accessory laid out at an upper portion of an engine and a lower portion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060288976 - Lubricating system of engine: The invention relates to a dry sump type or semidry sump type lubricating system of an engine in which a lubricating method executes an operation while keeping an inner side of a crank chamber in a dry state. An oil drain port is formed in a bottom surface of each... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060288977 - Free-planetary gear moderated nutating (athena) engine: In a nutating engine (or more generally a rotary displacement device) the cycling of combustion occurs between inner and outer spherical surfaces. The combustion chambers are additionally defined only by the surfaces of teeth of specially designed gears. These gears are the Rotator (2), two consecutive of some number of... Agent: John Stark

20060288978 - Limp home operating method for internal combustion engines: A method of operating an internal combustion engine is provided, which includes the step of operating the engine with a mixed mode fuel injector in at least one of a homogeneous charge mode and a conventional mode. The method also includes the step of selectively operating the engine in the... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20060288979 - Method and apparatus for controlling combustion quality of a gaseous-fuelled internal combustion engine: A method and apparatus for controlling to a target heat release rate (HRR) uses an HRR control lever, namely, pilot fuel timing and/or pilot fuel quantity, used in a gaseous-fuelled compression ignition internal combustion engine. The mechanism to control HRR to a target HRR improves engine performance and emissions. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060288980 - Internal combustion engine: Enhanced combustibility by increasing the difference in intake gas velocity between a low flow velocity region and first and second high flow velocity regions in an intake port. An intake port of an internal combustion engine has an intake flow control port portion provided with first and second projecting portions.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060288981 - Ignition timing control device of internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: comparing a vibration waveform of an engine and a knock waveform model stored in advance to calculate a correlation coefficient K; prohibiting correction when a correction prohibiting condition of a determination value V(KX) is satisfied, the determination value V(KX) compared... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288982 - Ignition timing control device of internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including a step of calculating intensity values LOG(V), a step of detecting vibration waveforms, a step of calculating a correlation coefficient K based on vibration waveforms, a step of preparing frequency distribution of intensity values LOG(V) smaller than a threshold V(1) and intensity values... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288983 - Internal combustion engine start-up control: A variable valve mechanism (12a, 12b) varies a lift amount and an opening/closing timing of an intake valve (10) of an internal combustion engine (1). During a first period in an engine start operation, wall flow is suppressed by setting the lift amount of the intake valve (10) to be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060288984 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine, fuel system, and volume flow control valve: The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine comprising a fuel pressure accumulator, in order to provide fuel at a nominal pressure, pressure in a fuel pressure accumulator being generated by means of a high-pressure pump. According to said method, the high-pressure pump is supplied with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060288986 - Fuel reservoir of a motor vehicle fuel injection system: The invention relates to a fuel reservoir of a fuel injection system of a motor vehicle, having at least one fastening portion and one connecting element for fastening to an internal combustion engine, in which the connecting element has at least one first bearing face, which in the installed position... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20060288985 - Internal combustion engine, an engine head and a fuel distribution line: It is described an internal combustion engine, preferably an engine that operates according to the Diesel cycle, comprising at least one engine head (1) with a valve cover (2) and at least one fuel distribution line (4), associated with the engine head (1) through at least one through aperture (8)... Agent: Mwm International Industria De Motores Da America Do Sul Lida

20060288987 - Control unit for an internal combustion engine: A control unit calculates a quantity of air that is taken into an engine from an output current from an air flow meter that is located downstream from a throttle valve. The control unit then determines the quantity of fuel to be injected for this quantity of air. The control... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060288988 - Pump vapor deflector for fuel pump module assembly: A fuel pump module assembly includes a fuel pump 10 having an inlet 16 and an outlet 17. The fuel pump 10 is constructed and arranged to send fuel from the outlet to an engine of a vehicle. The fuel pump has a vapor purge port 13 therein constructed and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060288989 - Auxiliary device for engine spark plug ignition: An auxiliary device for sparkplug ignition is provided having a case, and provided therein, electrolytic capacitors C1 to C4 connected in parallel between ground terminals GND 1 to GND 4 and positive terminals (V1 to V4) of primary coils L1 to L4 of ignition coils K1 to K4, which are... Agent: Townsend & Banta C/o Portfolioip

20060283407 - Rotary engine employing undulating ramp driven by paired reciprocating pistons: A rotary gasoline engine has two sets of pistons, which move reciprocally. The reciprocal output of said pistons is coupled to an undulating ramp, which converts the reciprocal motion to rotary motion. The engine casing has a hollow center though which no shaft runs. Dual rotary outputs are provided, one... Agent: Edward A Sokolski

20060283409 - Hyrdaulic cam for variable timing/displacement valve train: A hydraulic fluid cam providing variable valve actuation in an engine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the hydraulic fluid cam is adapted to vary valve timing while holding valve displacement constant. In another embodiment, the hydraulic fluid cam is adapted to vary valve displacement, while holding valve timing constant. Some... Agent: Jaquez & Associates

20060283408 - Variable valve actuator: Actuators, and corresponding methods and systems for controlling such actuators, provide independent lift and timing control with minimum energy consumption. In an exemplary embodiment, an actuation cylinder in a housing defines a longitudinal axis and having first and second ends in first and second directions. An actuation piston in the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20060283410 - Variable valve actuator: Actuators, and corresponding methods and systems for controlling such actuators, provide independent lift and timing control with minimum energy consumption. In an exemplary embodiment, an actuation cylinder in a housing defines a longitudinal axis and having first and second ends in first and second directions. An actuation piston in the... Agent: John G. Posa Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle,

20060283411 - Variable valve actuator: Actuators, and corresponding methods and systems for controlling such actuators, provide independent lift and timing control with minimum energy consumption, while supplying sufficient supplemental energy to overcome friction. In an exemplary embodiment, an actuation cylinder in a housing defines a longitudinal axis and having first and second ends in first... Agent: John G. Posa Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle,

20060283413 - Assembly for actuating apparatus: A rotary shaft is formed with an external screw thread; a movable nut is engaged with the rotary shaft, and arranged to move axially in accordance with rotation of the rotary shaft; and a link member is swingablly connected with the movable nut to transmit motion from the movable nut.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060283414 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for controlling the engine while compensating for a deviation of an intake air amount from the proper value, caused by the thermal expansion and contraction of a variable intake mechanism thereof, which makes it possible to improve the control accuracy, make the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC Suite 400

20060283412 - Valve actuation device of internal combustion engine: For an internal combustion engine, there is provided a valve actuation device which comprises a cam shaft having thereon at least first and second cams that are different in profile; a first rocker arm that is in contact with the first cam to be swung, the first rocker arm being... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060283415 - Variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine: A variable valve apparatus of an internal combustion engine adopts a structure in which, a transmission arm is laid out such that, when a distance from a contact point where a cam contacts a transmission arm to an oscillating fulcrum of the transmission arm is defined as A, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060283416 - Engine motion active control: An engine active motion control system for controlling engine dynamic torque includes an engine that generates a first dynamic torque. A first module selectively initiates generation of a second dynamic torque about an axis of rotation of a crankshaft of the engine in a direction opposite that of the first... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20060283417 - Piston and piston apparatus: A piston reciprocating in a cylinder includes a piston top portion receiving pressure from working fluid in the cylinder; a skirt portion opposed to an inner surface of the cylinder; an accumulation chamber partition which is provided in an inner space of the skirt portion in non-contact manner as a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060283418 - Engine for leisure vehicle: An engine for a leisure vehicle including a crank chamber in which a crankshaft is disposed, a transmission chamber in which a transmission unit of the vehicle is disposed, the transmission unit having an input shaft that is coupled to the crankshaft and configured to be driven by the crankshaft,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20060283419 - Continuous internal combustion engine: A continuous internal combustion engine, which has a combustion chamber, a fuel system that delivers a fuel-air mixture to the chamber and ignites the mixture, and a drum with plates that closes the combustion chamber, converting the energy in the expanding combustion gases into rotary motion before discarding the gases.... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20060283420 - Continuous internal combustion engine and rotary machine: A continuous internal combustion engine having a combustor operative to produce combustion gases in a combustion chamber and having a fuel and air system for delivering a mixture of fuel and air to the chamber and an ignition device. A cylindrical rotor is mounted outside the combustor for rotation about... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20060283421 - Control system and method for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine that executes post injection, which is capable of accurately estimating the state of dilution of engine oil, thereby properly controlling the amount of oil dilution such that it does not become too large. In an internal combustion engine having an injector that... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060283422 - Method and device for monitoring the functioning of a valve stroke adjusting device of an internal combustion engine during cold starts: A method and device for monitoring the functionality of a valve stroke adjusting device of an internal combustion engine in a cold start phase. The internal combustion engine includes an electronically controllable throttle, the control utilizing an integral component to control the throttle, and the functionality is monitored by determining... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060283423 - Control system for hydrogen addition internal combustion engine: Disclosed is a control system for a hydrogen addition internal combustion engine that uses hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen gas as combustion fuel. The control system includes fuel property judgment means for judging the property of hydrocarbon fuel; and addition ratio increase means that, when the hydrocarbon fuel is found to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060283424 - Fuel injection valve: A valve body surrounds a first passage connecting with a cylinder of an engine. A valve member is adapted to be seated on and lifted from the valve seat. An injector body connects with the valve body. The injector body has a pressure control chamber for controlling hydraulic pressure applied... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060283425 - Fuel injection system of internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine provided with a common rail (13) and fuel injectors (3) connected to the common rail (13). When pilot injection is performed, the injection pressure pulsates. At this time, the injection amount of the main injection fluctuates by a certain fluctuation pattern. If indicating on an abscissa... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060283426 - Fuel adsorbent member and air cleaner: A housing 11 accommodates a pleated filter element 14. A fuel adsorbent member 16 is arranged in the housing 11 at a position downstream from the filter element 14. The fuel adsorbent member 16 adsorbs evaporative fuel leaking from an engine. The fuel adsorbent member 16 includes holding pleats 16g.... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20060283427 - Fuel vapor treatment apparatus: A concentration-detecting unit detects concentration of fuel vapor flowing in a concentration-detecting passage branched from a purge passage. The concentration-detecting passage communicates with a communicating passage of a canister. Air including the fuel vapor of which concentration is detected by a concentration-detecting unit is returned to the communicating passage of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060283428 - System for improving the fuel efficiency of an engine: A fuel system for improved fuel efficiency may include a fuel injector to transmit fuel in droplet form to a reaction region. A reaction rod may be positioned in the reaction region, where the reaction rod may have a convex end and a concave end. The fuel system may be... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20060283429 - Air-intake duct system for a combustion engine: The invention relates to an air-intake duct system (1) in which a throttle valve (40), an exhaust gas recirculating valve (29), a bypass valve (19), an exhaust gas cooler (11), against which exhaust gas flows via the bypass valve (19), and, optionally, an air mass sensor are integrated. A complete... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20060283430 - Throttle and recirculation valves having a common planetary drive: A valve arrangement for a power source is disclosed. The valve arrangement has a first valve element and a second valve element. The valve arrangement also has an actuator configured to drive the first and second valve elements. The valve arrangement further has a planetary gear arrangement interconnecting the actuator... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20060278180 - Piston for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising an essentially cylindrical basis member made of forged aluminum and a ring element that is disposed in the radially outer edge area of the bottom of the piston and forms an annular cooling channel along with the basic... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20060278181 - Internal combustion engine with freewheeling mechanism: A four stroke internal combustion engine having two or more crankshafts, the crankshafts being separated by one or more freewheeling mechanisms so that when the engine is idling or not delivering full power, the freewheeling mechanism(s) enables one or more of the crankshafts with accompanying pistons to idle, thereby conserving... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20060278182 - Connection assembly for converting between reciprocal and rotary motion: A connection assembly for converting between reciprocal and rotary motion including opposed members (1) arranged for reciprocating motion. Each opposed member (1) have a guide surface (5) for guiding a drive block transversely of a direction of the (6, 11) to allow the members (1) to be clamped together and... Agent: Abelman Frayne & Schwab

20060278183 - Stratified scavenged two-stroke engine: A two-stroke internal combustion engine includes dual transfer passages in gaseous communication between a crankcase chamber and a combustion chamber of the engine, an air passage through the crankcase to the crankcase chamber and in gaseous communication with a carburetor of the engine. A rotatable circular disk or crank-web is... Agent: Steven J. Rosen

20060278185 - Method for the operation of an internal combustion engine: In a method of operating a 4-stroke internal combustion engine selectively in a compression ignition operation, in which an outlet valve of the internal combustion engine is closed at a comparatively early closing time point with respect to a crank angle (α) and in spark ignition operation, in which the... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20060278186 - Variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine: A variable valve apparatus is employed a configuration in which, at a high valve lift and high speed operation of an internal combustion engine, an oscillating fulcrum of a transmission arm and a rotation center of a control shaft are arranged between a direction of a component rotating a control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060278187 - Camshaft adjuster: An internal-combustion engine with a device for adjusting the rotational angle (camshaft adjuster (1)) of a camshaft (2) relative to a crankshaft is provided. The device comprises a driving wheel (3) connected in a rotationally locked way to the crankshaft, a driven part (6) connected in a rotationally locked way... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20060278189 - Rotor for vane-type motor with reduced leakage: A camshaft adjuster which operates according to the vane-type motor principle, which means being able to move to and fro within a certain angle, generally comprises a stator and a rotor. The rotor itself is provided as a composite system of at least two components. One of the components is... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20060278188 - Target wheel pre-assembly for a camshaft phaser: A target wheel/rotor pre-assembly for a camshaft phaser. A phaser rotor includes a central bore. A target wheel axial extension having a plurality of barbs is entered into the bore to fix the target wheel to the rotor, both axially and rotationally, prior to assembly of the rotor into a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20060278190 - Electric valve drive with a rotating actuator: Valve drive for an internal combustion engine having a valve which is axially displaceable between an open position and a closed position and is prestressed by a locking spring in the direction of its closed position, in which a control shaft driven by an electric motor to pivot about a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060278184 - Guide gib for the valve operating mechanism of an internal combustion engine: In a guide gib for the valve operating mechanism of an internal combustion engine, having holding spaces (12, 13), which are arranged in the gib (8) at intervals one behind the other, for valve tappets, wherein to prevent a valve tappet from rotating about its central longitudinal axis in each... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20060278191 - Method for engine speed control: A method for engine speed control for an internal combustion engine generating unit (1) is disclosed, whereby a first time point is set when the actual speed (nM(IST)) exceeds a threshold value and a second time point set when the actual speed (nM(IST)) exceeds a start speed. A time span... Agent: Klaus P Stoffel

20060278192 - Air horn for efficient fluid intake: A method, device, and system for controlling a flow of a fluid moving through a pipe are presented. The device includes a truncated cone having a first diameter at an inlet and a second diameter at an outlet and a bracket attached to the truncated cone. The first diameter of... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20060278193 - Gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine: To this end, such a valve is characterized in that the upper shaft part (2) develops on its outside circumference into the adjacent outside circumference of the valve cone (6) in a flush manner, to which end the upper shaft part (2) and the adjacent area of the valve cone... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20060278194 - Finely machined surface of the pin holes of a piston: Piston pinholes in a skirt section of a combustion engine piston have a surface formed with circular crater-shaped indentation. The indentations are introduced into the piston pinhole surfaces at room temperature by a blasting medium, such as a shot-peening medium, with a definite grain.... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20060278195 - Internal combustion engine with auxiliary combustion chamber: An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber, a fuel reforming unit, and a control unit. The auxiliary combustion chamber is configured and arranged to communicate with the main combustion chamber. The fuel reforming unit is configured and arranged to reform a fuel to produce... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20060278196 - Method for controlling an internal combustion engine operating with direct fuel injection: Disclosed is a method, according to which the air fed to the combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine is pre-compressed by means of a boosting device, particularly an exhaust gas turbocharger. The valve overlap of the gas exchange valves of the internal combustion engine is adjusted by variably displacing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060278197 - Vehicle control apparatus and throttle trouble handling method: For setting a predetermined target control amount concerning running of a vehicle according to an operation amount for a predetermined operation member for running the vehicle, an operation amount obtaining part obtaining the operation amount for the operation member; a trouble determining part determining whether or not a trouble occurs... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060278198 - Fluid pumping apparatus, system, and method: A fluid pumping apparatus, system, and method are disclosed in which an apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention comprises a housing, an inlet through which the fluid enters the housing, an outlet through which the fluid leaves the housing, a valve comprising a valve member and a valve... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060278199 - Fuel injection device of internal combustion engine: A fuel injection device has a two-way control valve driven by a two-position actuator. The control valve directly controls oil pressure in a back pressure chamber to control an injection operation of an injection nozzle. A two-position three-way flow passage switching valve operated by control pressure of the control valve... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060278200 - Engine start control device and start control method: An engine start control device capable of starting upon receiving generated power from a generator which is driven by a starter, includes a fuel injection timing setting device which makes a power generation waveform of the generator correspond to a crank pulse signal, and outputs a fuel injection signal to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060278201 - Fuel vapor treatment apparatus having absorbent and motor: A fuel vapor treatment apparatus connects a fuel tank with an intake port. The fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a canister, a pump device, and a motor. The canister accommodates an absorbent for absorbing fuel vapor evaporated in the fuel tank. The pump device is located in an atmospheric passage... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060278202 - Method and device for improving the starting response of an internal combustion engine: The present invention relates to methods for charging at least one combustion chamber (12) of a spark-ignition combustion engine (10) with fuel and air. At least one combustion chamber charge is produced during a shutoff phase of the internal-combustion engine (10) and is ignited when the internal-combustion engine (10) is... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20060278203 - Charge air cooler having refrigerant coils and method for cooling charge air: An apparatus and a method for cooling charge air, comprising the steps of introducing a cooling agent into at least one cooling agent conduit whereby said at least one cooling agent conduit is cooled (Step 401), Flowing thermally charged air through a plurality of charge air conduits positioned in proximity... Agent: Len Taylor, Patent Attorney

20060278204 - Exhaust gas recirculation apparatus: An exhaust gas recirculation device includes: an exhaust gas recirculation passage of an engine; an EGR cooler provided within this exhaust gas recirculation passage; a bypass passage connected between the upstream and the downstream sides of the EGR cooler in the exhaust gas recirculation passage; an EGR valve provided within... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060272597 - Gel additives for fuel that reduce soot and/or emissions from engines: An additive gel for fuels that reduces the soot content in lubricating oil and/or emission in an engine. Further a process employing an additive gel for fuel in a fuel system to decrease the amount of soot in the lubricating oil of an engine and/or decrease the emissions from an... Agent: The Lubrizol Corporation Attn: Docket Clerk, Patent Dept.

20060272598 - Modulated combined lubrication and control pressure system for two-stroke/four-stroke switching: A switching mechanism capable of switching between a two-stroke operation and a four-stroke operation of an engine as desired, wherein the switching mechanism is switchable between engagement with a first cam lobe for four-stroke operation and a second cam lobe for two-stroke operation.... Agent: Butzel Long Docketing Department

20060272599 - Multi-location fuel injection system: A two-stroke engine having both a direct injector and an indirect injector. The direct injector injects fuel into the cylinder without passing through the crank case. The indirect injector is in fluid communication with the crank case. It provides fuel delivery through the crank case and through a transfer channel... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20060272600 - Two-stroke internal combustion engine: A two-stroke internal combustion engine (1) includes one pair or two pairs of scavenging passageways (31, 32) of reverse flow system where scavenging outlet ports (31b, 32b) are opened to the cylinder bore (10a); the internal combustion engine being characterized in that an external air inlet port (42, 44, 46)... Agent: Baker & Botts

20060272602 - Electromagnetically driven valve: The electromagnet includes a valve-opening side coil portion supplied with a current to thereby generate a first magnetic flux and generate electromagnetic force in a direction moving the valve-opening side moving element toward a valve-opening position, and a valve-closing side coil portion supplied with a current to thereby generate a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060272603 - Electromagnetically driven valve: An electromagnetically driven valve includes a valve-opening side moving element and a valve-closing side moving element having rotatably supported support portions and carrying out oscillating movement between a valve-opening position and a valve-closing position around the support portions respectively, and an electromagnet having a coil implemented by a monocoil and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060272604 - Apparatus for the relative adjustment of two parts: An apparatus for enabling relative adjustment of two parts has, on the first part, a chamber filled with balls. The second part engages between the balls, by which it is held fast to the first part. For adjustment of the two portions, the chamber volume can be increased in size... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20060272601 - Valve lifter guide: A valve lifter guide (100, 900, 1100) includes at least one conduit (101, 901, 1101). The conduit (101, 901, 1101) has a first inwardly-curved surface (103) opposed to a second inwardly-curved surface (105) such that the conduit is capable of holding a valve lifter (200) between the first inwardly-curved surface... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060272605 - Electric coolant heater assembly: An electric coolant heater assembly (10) has a coolant gallery (12) connected at each end to a fluid line of an engine's (E) coolant system (C). The gallery defines a fluid flow path through the assembly and includes baffles (24) for inducing turbulent flow to the fluid. A housing (20)... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20060272606 - Engine cold start aid malfunction alert: A motor vehicle engine (10) has a glow plug system (14) for aiding combustion of fuel in combustion chambers of the engine when the engine is cold and an ignition switch (16) is operated to crank the engine. A first circuit signals the cold start aid to commence operation of... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20060272608 - Compression ignition engine: In a compression ignition engine employing a variable valve actuation mechanism variably adjusting an intake valve characteristic including at least one of an intake valve lift and an intake valve closure timing, a control system operates to temporarily lower an effective compression ratio of the engine by controlling the intake... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060272607 - Mechanical compression and vacuum release mechanism: Mechanical compression and vacuum release mechanisms which are of simple construction and which significantly reduce the effort required to start an internal combustion engine. In several embodiments, the compression and vacuum release mechanisms include a centrifugally responsive flyweight pivotally mounted to the camshaft, the flyweight coupled to a pair of... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20060272609 - Internal combustion engine with torque converter: An internal combustion engine with a torque converter for extending the temperature range of a hydraulic fluid allowing the function of the torque converter toward lower temperatures. A crankshaft is formed with an oil passage extending there along, an inlet hole for supplying a hydraulic fluid to the torque converter... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060272610 - Rotary heat engine: A rotary internal combustion engine with two opposing rotary discs, each having a half-cylindrical chamber located around its perimeter. An outer casing encompasses both rotary discs. Intake and exhaust ports and necessary engine controls are formed in said outer casing. Pistons formed in each said disc. Half of said piston... Agent: Ronald Francis Murawsky

20060272611 - System and process for controlling the fuel injection of a diesel engine of a motor vehicle: A system for controlling the operation of a diesel engine of a motor vehicle equipped with means for supplying fuel to the cylinders thereof in accordance with at least one main injection and a delayed injection of fuel as a function of a predetermined desired value for the crank angle... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20060272612 - System for controlling the operation of a diesel engine of a motor vehicle: A system for controlling the operation of a diesel engine of a motor vehicle comprising means for supplying fuel to the cylinders thereof, the system comprising means for acquiring the pressure of a reference cylinder and means for controlling the supply means as a function of the pressure acquired and... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20060272613 - Tumble system for the intake manifold of an internal-combustion engine provided with an actuator made with shape-memory material: A tumble system for the intake manifold of an internal-combustion engine is provided with a number of cylinders. The tumble system is provided with at least one throttle valve for varying the section of passage of air through an intake pipe, which connects a cylinder with the intake manifold. The... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20060272614 - Vehicle and method for controlling an engine: A vehicle and method for controlling an engine in a vehicle are provided. A temperature of a lubricating fluid in the engine is determined, as are first and second engine speed limits. Operation of the engine at the first engine speed limit is limited to a predetermined time period when... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20060272615 - 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 throttle opening degree can be obtained. The throttle valve control apparatus of an internal combustion engine has... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060272616 - Homogeneous charge compression ignition internal combustion engine: An engine includes cylinders, a sensor for detecting information related to combustion states of the cylinders. Each cylinder is provided with an ignition device, an intake valve, and an exhaust valve. The engine also includes a control apparatus that obtains the information from the sensor. Based on the information from... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060272618 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an engine speed NE and an engine load (S100, S110); when determination is made of being in an idle region based on the engine speed NE and engine load (YES at S120), determining whether in a high load idle... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060272617 - Pressure control valve for a fuel injection system provided with an accumulator: A pressure regulating valve for a reservoir-type fuel injection system for internal combustion engines serves to regulate the pressure in a fuel reservoir (common rail). The pressure regulating valve is designed in simplified form; the fuel reservoir is embodied as a closed reservoir and its supply and return lines are... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20060272619 - Fuel feed apparatus: A fuel feed apparatus includes a lid module that includes a canister accommodated in a fuel tank. The canister defines a space in the vicinity of a lateral periphery of the canister in the fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus further includes a pump module that is located in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060272620 - Injection unit for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a process for the injection of fuel into an internal combustion engine, wherein the fuel is firstly enriched in a gas enrichment device (20) with a gas or a gas mixture, in particular oxygen or air. The fuel is atomized and the gas or gas mixture... Agent: Stephan A. Pendorf, P.A.

20060272621 - Cold air induction system, apparatus and method: A cold air induction system, apparatus and method for effectuating a decrease in the air temperature entering the point of ignition in at least an internal combustion engine to increase the volume and efficiency of the air. The cold air induction system and apparatus comprises a cold air induction device... Agent: Henry T. Acuna, Sr

20060272622 - Dual cold air induction system, apparatus and method for diesel engines: A dual cold air induction (“DCAI”) system, apparatus and method for decreasing the intake air temperature, which increases the air's volume and efficiency, at the diesel internal combustion engine's point-of-ignition. The DCAI system comprises a dual air cooling unit defined by primary and secondary compartments. The primary compartment ingests ambient... Agent: Henry T. Acuna, Sr.

20060272623 - Method of controlling scavenging of the burnt gas of an indirect-injection engine, notably a supercharged engine, and engine using such a method: d

20060272624 - Device for whirling water: Devices and Methods are disclosed for whirling a liquid including water, and further for different uses of such a device. The device includes a vortex unit including seven essentially parallel elongate helical elements, of which six are positioned around the seventh. The device may be used, for instance, for improving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060272625 - Egr control apparatus and method for operating the same: An ECU calculates a foreign-matter accumulation index base on a total flow rate of EGR gas integrated since the previous execution of a last foreign-matter removal operation until the present execution of the foreign-matter removal operation. The ECU controls an actuator for operating an EGR valve and a number of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060272626 - Apparatus for removing contaminants from crankcase emissions: A separator for separating liquids in a fluid stream generated by blow-by gases produced in a crankcase of an internal combustion engine wherein the fluid stream includes both gasses and liquids. The separator including an inlet in fluid connection with the engine for receiving the fluid stream and an outlet... Agent: Gregory S. Vickers, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP