Internal-combustion engines inventions 01/07

20070017459 - Oil scraper ring ring groove arrangement for pistons of internal combustion engines: The invention relates to an oil scraper ring groove ring arrangement for pistons of internal combustion engines. The inventive arrangement comprises a disk that is provided with parallel flanks and a bearing surface having an asymmetrical crowned form with a vertex line extended over the periphery of the disc, with... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070017460 - Cylindrical engine: The invention is directed to an improved internal combustion engine, having a symmetric cylindrical arrangement and using a bevel gear train to join multiple crankshaft sections. It provides for a naturally smoother operation with less vibration than in-line engines. Better efficiency is expected with the engine than with comparable in-line... Agent: Saint Louis University Office Of Innovation And Intellectual Property

20070017462 - Variable lift valve operating system for internal combustion engine: In a variable lift valve operating system for an internal combustion engine, an actuator for rotatably driving a control shaft of a variable lift mechanism is mounted on an engine body. The actuator includes an electric motor, a deceleration mechanism, a transmission mechanism interposed between the control shaft and the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070017463 - Control mechanism for cam phaser: A VCT phaser having a mechanical feedback in which no elaborate sensors and its concomitant electronic control loop is required. The phaser has center mounted spool valve controlling the flow of control fluid such that when a command positions the same at a predetermined position, passages within the phaser adjusts... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20070017464 - Traction mechanism drive: Traction mechanism drive for an internal combustion. engine, having a crankshaft gear wheel, at least one gear wheel which is arranged on a driven shaft, a wrap-around means and an electric machine which can be actuated in order to reduce rotational non-uniformities, the electric machine (9, 10) having a rotor... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070017465 - Push rod removal tool: A tool useful for engaging and pivoting the rocker arm of an internal combustion engine in order to enable removal of a push rod from the engine by virtue of positioning the rocker arm in a manner that disengages the rocker arm from the push rod includes a pair of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070017461 - Valve train and cam lobe: A camshaft for an internal combustion engine includes a cam lobe for actuating a valve. The cam lobe has an opening ramp profile that acts to loft the valve gear away from contact with the cam lobe to a maximum lift of the valve, with the valve gear returning to... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070017466 - Starter assembly for a motorcycle engine: A motorcycle power transmission assembly including an engine, a transmission, a drive assembly, and a starter assembly. The engine includes a crankcase, and the transmission includes a transmission case coupled to the crankcase to define an engine-transmission assembly. The drive assembly includes a drive housing coupled to the engine-transmission assembly... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070017467 - Intake manifold blade to runner alignment: An intake manifold assembly includes a housing, a shaft assembly, an intake insert, and a flange seal. The shaft is a shaft manufactured from metal, preferably aluminum. Bushings are located at each end of the shaft and spaced along the shaft to absorb vibrations and provide a low friction surface... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017468 - Intake manifold cross talk sealing: A flange seal molded as a single piece from a synthetic material which can withstand the high heat and pressure produced by the engine. The flange seal is shaped to correspond the intake manifold housing. Connecting portions on the flange seal separate the individual port openings. The flange seal is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017470 - Intake manifold shaft and blade attachment: An arrangement for attaching a blade to a shaft for use in intake manifolds, uses fasteners that create a load on the blade. Fasteners are inserted through fastener holes in the blade and through shaft holes in the shaft. Once inserted outward pressure by the fastener on the shaft and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017469 - Intake manifold with low chatter shaft system: An intake manifold assembly includes a housing, a shaft assembly, and an intake insert. The shaft assembly has a metal shaft with bearings located at each end to provide hard mounting surfaces for the shaft assembly when assembled in the housing. The bearings support the shaft within the housing and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017471 - Engine air intake apparatus: An air cleaner chamber is configured such that a filtering member is held between an air cleaner cover and an air cleaner case. A low-speed operation air intake passage and a high-speed operation air intake passage share an outlet passage portion near a dusty space, and are molded integrally on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070017472 - Active intake and induction system: An air inlet is mounted adjacent to an actuator and an intake manifold. A valve shaft extending from the actuator to the air inlet rotates the inlet valve from an open position to a closed position, or vice versa. The actuator senses revolutions per minute of an engine to control... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017473 - Air intake control system: An air intake control system includes valve elements disposed in intake passages for varying the cross-sectional area of each intake passage, a valve shaft for transmitting a driving force to the valve element, an actuator including a motor for producing the driving force for turning valve shaft, a worm gear... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070017474 - Valve spring plate with radial supporting force reinforcement: A spring plate for a valve spring of an internal combustion engine, which spring plate can be connected directly to the valve stem of a charge changing valve while engaging an annular groove in the valve stem. An annular disc 12 is arranged on the valve spring and two supporting... Agent: Wyatt, Gerber & O'rourke, LLP

20070017475 - Valve guide structure: The valve guide structure is such that the stem 2 of the valve 1 is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the valve guide 16 to restrict moving directions of the valve 1. A recess 18 is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the valve guide 16 and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070017476 - Rotary valve system and engine using the same: Rotary valve system for controlling communication with a port in an internal combustion engine which, in one disclosed embodiment, has a crankshaft, compression and expansion pistons connected to the crankshaft for reciprocating movement within compression and expansion chambers, a combustion chamber in which air from the compression chamber is combined... Agent: Edward S. Wright

20070017477 - Rotary valve system and engine using the same: Rotary valve system for controlling communication with a port in an internal combustion engine which, in one disclosed embodiment, has a crankshaft, compression and expansion pistons connected to the crankshaft for reciprocating movement within compression and expansion chambers, a combustion chamber in which air from the compression chamber is combined... Agent: Edward S. Wright

20070017478 - Tandem-piston engine: The piston rod of the tandem-piston engine was modified to include a crosshead that slides in a crosshead guide that is machined into the lower part of the charger piston for better lateral support. The lower surface of the motor piston was changed to a simple conical surface to allow... Agent: Ronald D. Noland

20070017479 - Engine and transmission case assembly: The present invention provides a motorcycle including a front wheel, a rear wheel, a frame supported by the front and rear wheels, a crankcase including a first interface portion and a first passageway exposed to the first interface portion, a reservoir located remotely from the crankcase adapted to contain a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070017480 - Apparatus for controlling engine: An engine has variable-valve mechanisms. An engine control system has an engine control unit for executing automatic stop and start control. At an automatic-stop, the variable-valve mechanisms are controlled to obtain a valve operation characteristic suitable for a restart of the engine. When a catalyst is in an inactivated state,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070017481 - Engine governor system: A governor system for limiting the ground speed of a vehicle and maintaining an idle speed of the engine. The governor system includes a first feedback shaft operably coupled with a transmission of the vehicle to provide a first feedback torque in response to a ground speed of the vehicle.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070017482 - Control apparatus of internal combustion engine: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine, for preventing a throttle valve from freezing when the internal combustion engine is stopped. A control unit is constructed to receive power from a battery ancillary to an internal combustion engine when the internal combustion engine is stopped and perform a probability... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070017483 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: when the port fuel injection ratio is 100% (YES at S200), sensing the engine coolant temperature THW (S210); when the engine coolant temperature THW is higher than a threshold value (YES at S220), monitoring fuel pressure P in a high-pressure... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070017484 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and engine system: For an internal combustion engine having an in-cylinder injector and an intake manifold injector, setting of the ratio of fuel injection (DI ratio) between these injectors is changed depending on whether the intake manifold injector is in a high temperature state or a non-high temperature state (normal state). Specifically, when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070017485 - Pressure accumulation fuel injection controller: A pressure pattern estimation device of a fuel injection controller of an engine estimates a pressure transition of fuel in a common rail. A surplus pressure range calculation device of the fuel injection controller calculates a surplus pressure range in which pressure pattern data provided by the pressure pattern estimation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070017486 - Air dynamic steady state and transient detection method for cam phaser movement: An air dynamic steady state detection system for movement of a cam phaser of an internal combustion engine includes a cam position sensing device and a control module. The cam position sensing device generates a position signal based on a position of the cam phaser of the engine. The control... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070017487 - Engine control to compensate for fueling dynamics: A method for calculating transient fuel wall wetting characteristics of an operating engine is described. The method accounts for cylinder valve deactivation of cylinders in the engine in calculating the dynamic fueling compensation. In one example, fuel vaporization effects from fuel puddles in deactivated cylinders are considered when calculating the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070017488 - 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. A value... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070017489 - Gas circulating apparatus: In a gas circulating apparatus, a bypass pipe extends in parallel with an EGR gas cooler. The aperture end of the bypass pipe is inserted to inside of a housing of a valve device and is positioned adjacent to a valve in the housing. Accordingly, the high-temperature EGR gas heat... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070017490 - Internal combustion engine intake device: An internal combustion engine intake device is configured to improve the uniformity with which purge gas or other introduced gas is distributed to the cylinders of an engine. The intake device basically has a throttle chamber, an intake air collector, an air induction pipe, a partitioning part and a gas... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070017491 - Exhaust gas recirculation device: An electric motor is placed on an upstream side of an exhaust gas recirculation passage of a housing in a direction that is parallel to an intake air flow direction. A first heat release part on a motor housing part of the housing is placed on an upstream side of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070017492 - Intake manifold plate adapter: A nitrous oxide plate system having a plate adapted to fit in an intake pathway of an internal combustion engine. The plate has at least one central passage therethrough, and this passage forms a portion of the intake pathway when the plate is installed in the engine. The plate system... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070017493 - Process to detect the ignition phase of a cylinder in an internal-combustion engine with voltage limiting: n

20070012264 - Water fuel convertor: Process to use water, methyl alcohol, and baking soda to make hydrogen and oxygen to increase fuel mileage on gasoline, diesel and LP gas engines using the process generally known as “Electrolysis” with many modifications. A device and method for producing hydrogen and oxygen gases from Water Solutions and simultaneously... Agent: Cecil G. Holt

20070012265 - Multi-stroke cylinder operation in an internal combustion engine: A method to control valves during multi-stroke cylinder operation. Valves are controlled to improve emissions and engine torque resolution.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070012266 - Cord starter: A recoil starter comprising a housing (1) that is stationary mounted relative to an engine; a moving unit rotatable about a stationary axis (8) of rotation in the housing, the moving unit comprising a line pulley (2) onto which a pulling line (3) is winded, an inner end of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070012267 - Combustion powered fastner-driving tool with interconnected chambers: A combustion tool has a housing with an air intake end and an opposite bumper end, a combustion-powered power source in the housing including a cylinder encircling a reciprocating piston associated with a driver blade, and having at least one air port located at the bumper end below the piston.... Agent: Lisa M. Soltis Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070012268 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine is provided with a plurality of valves, including a main driving valve and a driven valve, each of which can be lifted in response to an instruction from a control apparatus, and a lift sensor which detects a lift amount of the main driving valve. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070012269 - Variable stroke valve drive for an internal combustion engine: A variable stroke valve drive for an internal combustion engine, including an intermediate lever which is slidingly arranged on a crank path of a crank arm the intermediate lever has a working cam with null lifting cam and lifting cam portions. The working cam contacts a gas exchange valve via... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012270 - Valve timing controller: A valve timing adjusting device includes: a first rotary body which rotates in synchronization with one of a crankshaft and a camshaft and into which lubricating fluid is supplied; a second rotary body which rotates in synchronization with the other; a torque producing unit for producing control torque; and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070012271 - Cylinder head cover for a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine: A cylinder head cover for a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine having a gasket element between the cylinder head and the cylinder head cover in which the gasket element includes a vacuum chamber which is open on at least one side and produces a seal between the cylinder... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012272 - Valve drive: According to the invention, the manufacturing costs of the steel sheet rocker arms are reduced by the fact that the outer pistons (9) of the hydraulic elements (6) are guided in blind bores (8) of the rocker arm frame (2), and by the fact that a steel disk (11) is... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070012273 - Force transmitting arrangement for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine: A force transmitting device (4) for a valve drive (1) of an internal combustion engine (2) with a hydraulic valve lash compensating device (6) is provided. The force transmitting device (4) has a hollow cylindrical compensating piston (13), which on one end defines a working chamber (35) of the valve... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070012274 - Air cleaner in all terrain vehicle: An air cleaner is provided in an all terrain vehicle in order to improve the control performance for effecting optimal combustion in an engine by accurately measuring the temperature of air introduced into the engine. The air cleaner includes an air cleaner case disposed behind an engine, a throttle valve... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070012275 - Intake module for an internal combustion engine: An intake module (1) for an internal combustion engine including a plurality of intake tracts (2, 3, 4, 5) in each of which two intake pipe openings (21, 22; 31, 32; 41, 42; 51, 52) are formed. One of the intake pipe openings (21, 31, 41, 51) in each intake... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012276 - Intake system of engine: The purpose of the intake system, which is disposed in a limited space above the engine, is to improve engine performance by preventing increase in both temperature and resistance of intake air, and also to reduce noise of the intake air. In the intake system, a rear wall extending downwardly... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070012278 - Bearing system and balancer: The present invention provides a bearing system that can reduce the relative velocity between a bearing member and a rotation shaft and a rotating member to decrease a load on the bearing member although the rotation shaft and the rotating member rotate in opposite directions with the bearing member therebetween.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070012277 - Torsional damper for balance shafts: A drive system for an internal combustion engine including an endless chain connecting a drive sprocket on a crankshaft to a driven sprocket on a camshaft. The drive system is comprised of at least one balance shaft and a torsion bar. The balance shaft has a first end for connection... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20070012279 - Motorcycle oil filtering system: A filtering system provides an oil flow to a filter carried by a support offset from a down tube of a motorcycle frame. An engine mounted bracket directs oil flow to be filtered to a cap assembly which is attached to an oil conduit. A threaded tubular member of the... Agent: James D. Givnan, Jr.

20070012280 - Method for reorienting a horizontal shaft diesel engine to vertical operation: A method for modifying a small diesel engine from a horizontal drive or crankshaft orientation into a vertical crankshaft orientation incorporates blocking of existing oil flow paths to rocker arms of the engine and replacement with pressurized low volume oil flow. In one form, tubing is added to direct oil... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070012282 - Air intake apparatus: An air intake apparatus configured to combine air filtered separately through a plurality of air cleaners and lead it to a single throttle body suppresses or prevents variation in the pressure of airflow introduced from a plurality of intake paths to the single throttle body. Outside air is introduced to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070012281 - Filter housing and method for manufacturing the same: A filter housing, in particular for an air filter for the air intake tract of an internal combustion engine, in which the filter housing (16) includes at least one upper housing section (12) and at least one lower housing section (11) which can be assembled to each other in a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012283 - Internal combustion engine start-up operating mode and engine using same: A method of initially operating an internal combustion engine including operating the engine in a start-up mode is provided. The start-up mode includes injecting at least two fuel pre-shots wherein a first of the fuel pre-shots is smaller in quantity than a last of the fuel pre-shots. An engine is... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070012284 - Coil failure detection system for general-purpose engine: In a failure detection system of coils that produce outputs in response to rotation of a crankshaft of a general-purpose engine (including a power coil that produces an output indicative of the engine speed), the outputs produced by the coils are inputted to determine whether the coils produce the outputs,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070012285 - Internal combustion engine control apparatus: An internal combustion engine control apparatus controls an air intake mass at an idle state after a start of an internal combustion engine based on a correction mass of the air intake mass calculated based on a desired value of the air intake mass and a measured value of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070012286 - Idle air control valve stepper motor initialization technique: A system for controlling idle air flow for an engine. The system includes an idle air control valve, a stepper motor, and a controller. The idle air control valve has a first hard stop and a second hard stop. The stepper motor is coupled to the idle air control valve... Agent: Visteon

20070012287 - Automatic choke control system for general-purpose engine: In an auto-choke system for a general-purpose engine, it is determined whether the operator has operated a combination switch to enable ignition in the engine and based on the result of this determination, the operation of a choke motor (actuator) is controlled to regulate the opening of the choke valve,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070012288 - 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 ahs... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012289 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system used with an engine determines a fuel injection timing according to a detected engine operating condition and fuel injection is executed through a fuel injection valve. The target ignition timings of the fuel are set according to the detected engine operating condition and stored in a memory.... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070012290 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel injector located in a combustion chamber of the engine for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber. The fuel injection timing stored in a fuel injection timing map is retrieved according to the detected engine operating condition to determine the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070012291 - Internal combustion engine and method: Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the compression chamber and the combustion chamber, means for introducing fuel into the combustion... Agent: Edward S. Wright

20070012292 - Valve mechanism, especially fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine: A fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine, includes a valve element whose switched position depends at least indirectly on the switched state of a piezoelectric actuator that is acted on by a tubular, largely cylindrical prestressing device, which is manufactured out of a plate-shaped starting material and has... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070012293 - Fuel injection system for internal combustion engines: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines having a plurality of fuel injectors, in which the fuel injectors each have one high-pressure connection and one low-pressure connection, and the low-pressure connections discharge into at least one manifold line. The system has a means, located between the manifold line and... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070012294 - Common fuel rail fuel system for locomotive engine: A common rail fuel injection apparatus (1) for a multi-bank, diesel locomotive engine (10). A common rail (20,22) is disposed proximate each bank (20,22) of cylinders (12) of the engine to provide high pressure fuel (30) to a fuel flow control apparatus (14) associated with each respective cylinder. A plurality... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070012295 - Control device of in-cylinder direct-injection internal combustion engine: A requested injection amount of fuel necessary during ignition cut-off at the time of start at an extremely low temperature is calculated (step ST2), injection start timing and injection end timing between which wetting of a spark plug by fuel is less likely are set (step ST3), and the number... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070012296 - Fuel supply control method and apparatus of internal combustion engine: The invention provides a fuel supply control method and apparatus in which an air fuel ratio does not become rich even if an acceleration and deceleration operation is repeated for a short time in the case that a time lag with respect to a response from a detection of an... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070012297 - Horizontal control surface for a fuel injector: Disclosed is a fuel injection mechanism having a horizontal control surface formed within a plunger for regulating the start of fuel injection. The horizontal control surfaces are formed within one or more of the two opposed ridges formed within the plunger defining a recessed channel there between. The horizontal control... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20070012298 - Canister having absorbent and fuel vapor treatment apparatus: A canister includes a casing that has a tank port connected to a fuel tank, an atmospheric port connected to an atmospheric passage communicating with atmosphere, and a purge port connected to an intake passage of an engine. An adsorbent is charged in the casing for adsorbing fuel vapor. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070012299 - Device combining two-way valve and carbon canister and fuel tank with the same: A device combining a two-way valve and a carbon canister includes a hollow can, which can be further combined with a fuel tank. The device has a first chamber for regulating inner pressure of the fuel tank and a second chamber containing active carbon. The first chamber is installed with... Agent: Yi-wen Tseng

20070012300 - Apparatus for improving efficiency and emissions of combustion: An apparatus increases the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process by producing sufficient amounts of ozone in the air flow to the combustion chamber to enable more complete and cleaner combustion of the fuel. Embodiments of the invention include a plurality of cell elements disposed within a housing that... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070012301 - Ignition coil and method for manufacturing an ignition coil: An ignition coil is disclosed. The ignition coil includes an insulative material, a body, and a head coupled to the body. A portion of the insulative material is included in the body, and a portion of the insulative material is included in the head. The head includes a casing, a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070012302 - Control system for supplying fuel vapour at start-up and method for using the system: The invention relates to a method and an injection control system for supplying fuel vapour to an internal combustion engine, which system comprises a fuel tank connected to a purge vapour canister and at least one fuel vapour injector disposed in an air intake manifold via a controllable valve. The... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

20070006825 - Casing for a handheld device: A casing for a handheld device providing a face for providing an input region having defined viewing and audio axes. The casing provides speaker and microphone outlets spaced along the audio axis. The audio axis is aligned with a greatest span of the face.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070006824 - Controlling system for cooling fan: A controlling system for a cooling fan according to the present invention includes a fluid-pressure motor for driving the cooling fan; a fluid-pressure pump functioning as a driving source for the fluid-pressure motor; and a controller. The controller determines a target motor speed value by selecting a higher one of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070006826 - Propulsion system and method for optimising power supply to the cooling system thereof: A drive train system having a driving engine that has a cooling system for cooling the driving engine is provided. The cooling system has a coolant circuit, a cooling device, and a fan that is associated with the cooling device and that is in driveline connection with the driving engine.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070006827 - Sump for cooling package air intake housing of an agricultural machine: An apparatus is configured for supplying air to a cooling package for an internal combustion engine that powers an agricultural machine. The apparatus includes an air intake housing defining an air intake opening and a sump. The sump has a wall and a port. A gating device is positioned in... Agent: Deere & Company

20070006829 - Velocity control of exhaust valve actuation: An exhaust valve assembly includes a valve body supported on a shaft for rotation within an exhaust component. The shaft is coupled to a solenoid with a linkage assembly. A controller controls the solenoid to rotate the shaft via the linkage assembly. The solenoid includes a plunger that moves between... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070006830 - Intake airvolume controller of internal combustion engine: An intake air amount control system for an internal combustion engine, which controls respective amounts of intake air drawn into four cylinders #1 to #4, independently of each other, by variable inter-intake cam phase mechanisms 80, identifies intake air amount variation coefficients Φ#i, based on a model [equation (43)] defining... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070006832 - Method and system to avoid piston-valve collision: A method and system to avoid collision of piston and engine valves is provided. This facilitates use of a fully flexible variable valve actuation system over its operating range, without arbitrary constraints. Included is actuation control of the engine valve, determination of a crank angle at which to initiate engine... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070006831 - Method for controlling a variable event valvetrain: A method for controlling a variable event valvetrain during engine start and stop is presented. According to the method, valve lift and/or timing can be adjusted to reduce the amount of oxygen pumped into an exhaust gas after treatment system. The method can reduce engine emissions, at least during some... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

20070006833 - Valve-moving device for engine: In an engine in which a lift amount of a valve can be changed continuously, an engine valve operating system including a valve lift-changing mechanism is capable of increasing and decreasing the lift amount of the valve without changing an opening angle for the valve and capable of decreasing a... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070006834 - Camshaft and method for producing a camshaft: In a camshaft for an internal combustion engine having a cam disk support shaft, to which a plurality of cam disks and a drive wheel are attached, the outer radius of the cam disk support shaft varies continuously in those sections in which the cam disks are attached. The cam... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070006835 - Desmodromic valve system and retrofit kit for conventional pushrod engines including replaceable cam lobes for adjusting lift and duration and hydraulic lifters for increased reliability: A desmodromic valve and cam system is provided which is adapted to be installed into an internal combustion pushrod engine. The system includes a camshaft assembly having a plurality of removably attached cam lobes installed onto a main camshaft; a valve connector assembly installed onto a distal tip of each... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070006836 - Traction mechanism drive having vibration damping: Traction mechanism drive for internal combustion engines, in which traction mechanism drive additional consumers are present in addition to the driving wheel and the driven wheel, said wheels being non-circular for the purposes of vibration damping, wherein only deflecting rollers which run without load are present in the tension strand... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070006837 - Finger lever of a valve drive of a combustion engine: A finger lever (1) that can be switched for different cam lifts is provided. The finger lever includes an outer arm (2), between whose limbs (3) an inner arm (4) is pivotally mounted. Inside the inner arm (4), starting form one end (9), a blind borehole (16) is provided with... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070006838 - Deactivation roller hydraulic valve lifter: A deactivation valve lifter includes a lifter body. The lifter body has a first end configured for engaging a cam of an engine and at least one annular pin chamber. A pin housing includes a pin housing bottom. The pin housing bottom defines at least one pin stop aperture and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070006828 - Cam lobe material, camshaft using the same and method for producing cam lobe member: The present invention provides a cam lobe material that is excellent in sliding characteristics, such as wear resistance, scuffing resistance and pitting resistance, and can be advantageously used in engines to which high loads are applied, and a method of manufacturing the cam lobe material. The above-described task is fulfilled... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070006839 - Electric start mini-cultivator: An electric starter for a walk-behind, powered, rotary cultivator having a gasoline engine having a crankshaft and a recoil starter connected to the gasoline engine. The electric starter includes an electric motor connected to the crankshaft between the recoil starter and the engine so that activation of the electric motor... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20070006840 - Operating apparatus for controlling a vibratory rammer: An operating apparatus (1) controls working revolutions of a vibratory rammer. The operating apparatus (1) includes an operating lever (4) movable between an idle position (2) and a stop position (3) and an engine switch-off function (5) and a fuel shut-off function (6). The engine switch-off function (5) and fuel... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20070006842 - Method of transitioning between operating modes in an internal combustion engine: A method of operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes injecting a first fuel charge into at least one cylinder of the engine. The method further includes determining a value indicative of at least one of a cylinder pressure and a rate of change in cylinder pressure.... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070006841 - Mixed mode control method and engine using same: A method of mixed mode operation of an internal combustion engine includes the steps of controlling a homogeneous charge combustion event timing in a given engine cycle, and controlling a conventional charge injection event to be at least a predetermined time after the homogeneous charge combustion event. An internal combustion... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070006843 - Fuel injection system: A fuel-injection system including a fuel injector, having a plurality of spray-discharge orifices, which meters fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, has an ignition device, which projects into the combustion chamber, this ignition device having at least one first pole and one second pole. The fuel... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070006845 - Electronic throttle control system with integrated controller and power stage: One embodiment includes an apparatus comprising a closed loop feedback controller and a power output stage to couple to the closed loop feedback controller. The closed loop feedback controller and the power output stage are combined to form a single element.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC

20070006846 - Final control element for a control unit: A final control element for a control unit, for a throttle body located in a conduit carrying a gaseous medium in an internal combustion engine, is disclosed which has a control shaft, supporting the control unit in a manner fixed against relative rotation; a power takeoff member of a final... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070006847 - Haptic throttle devices and methods: An apparatus includes a sensor configured to be coupled to a throttle interface. The sensor is configured to output a sensor signal associated with a condition of the throttle interface. A first brake element has a first friction surface and a second brake element has a second friction surface. The... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20070006844 - Throttle valve adjusting device: The invention relates to a throttle valve adjusting device (1) which comprises a throttle valve housing (2) linked with a drive unit (6). According to the invention, the electric motor (7) of said drive unit (6) is disposed both outside the housing (9) of the drive unit (6) and outside... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070006848 - Device for connection between a rail for fuel under pressure and at least one injector, for an internal-combustion engine: The device comprises a connection tube (13) in communication with a hole (11) of a rail (7) for fuel under pressure, the tube (13) being provided with an end swelling (16). The device comprises a first threaded element (18) fixed to the rail (7) in a position corresponding to the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070006849 - Control device of fuel system of internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the step of detecting an engine speed NE and an engine load, the step of determining whether fuel can be injected at normal feed pressure from an in-cylinder injector during idling, the step of detecting or estimating a fuel temperature T in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070006850 - Connection system for a tubular rail for high-pressure fluid and a system for reducing the size of the rail: In order to reduce the size of a tubular rail for a high-pressure fluid, the rail is obtained from a hollow body with an external diameter and an internal diameter, and has two terminal portions, each provided with an external milling to favour gripping thereof. The millings have an external... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070006851 - Engine fuel control system: A fuel control method and system is provided for delivering fuel to an engine that employs an engine controller that is configured to the fuel injection quantity delivered to the engine. The engine controller is configured to: calculate a fuel injection quantity based on at least one operating condition of... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070006852 - Fuel vapor management for stored fuel using floating particles: A system, method, and article of manufacture for reducing the rate of fuel vapor formation within a fuel storage tank include a plurality of discrete independent floating particles or elements to reduce exposed evaporative surface area of fuel in the fuel storage tank while conforming to a changing fuel tank... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20070006853 - System for improving motor vehicle performance: A system for improving motor vehicle performance includes an air intake heat exchanger placed in-line with the air intake of the motor vehicle. The air intake heat exchanger is coupled to a source of pressurized media for selective application of the pressurized media to the air intake heat exchanger for... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20070006854 - Fuel vaporizer: The present invention is a fuel vaporizer that will greatly increase power and economy in fuel powered engines while producing far less pollution. The present invention has a fuel chamber, air inlet and heating element that aerate fuel while vibrating and heating the fuel from a liquid to a more... Agent: Michael Ries

20070006855 - Egr equipped diesel engines and lubricating oil compositions: Soot induced kinematic viscosity increase of lubricating oil compositions for diesel engines, particularly heavy duty diesel engines, equipped with EGR systems, particularly EGR systems operating in a condensing mode, can be ameliorated by addition of a phenylenediamine compound.... Agent: Infineum Usa L.p.

20070006856 - Internal combustion engine intake device: An internal combustion engine intake device is configured to suppress the occurrence of freezing in a portion thereof where blow-by gas or another gas is introduced into an intake passage. The intake device basically has a throttle chamber, an intake air collector, an air induction pipe, a partitioning part, a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070006857 - Breathing system in combustion engine: A breathing system in a combustion engine includes an air cleaner (3) for purifying air to be supplied to the engine. The air cleaner (3) includes a cleaner casing (30) having a blow-by gas inlet port (33) and an intake air discharge port (34). The breathing system also includes a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070006859 - Internal combustion engine ignition coil apparatus: An internal combustion engine ignition coil apparatus includes: a case; a center core disposed in the case; a primary coil and a secondary coil disposed outside the center core inside the case; a high-voltage cord having: a first end portion electrically connected to the secondary coil; and a second end... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070006858 - Method for producing an individual ignition coil and coil thus obtained: According to the invention, it includes a step for overmolding the tubular body (11)/secondary winding assembly (15) with a dielectric material providing impregnation of the secondary winding and formation of a primary coil tubular body (21) adapted for allowing during a subsequent step, the coiling of the primary winding (23)... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070006860 - Abnormality detecting apparatus and abnormality detecting method for an air/fuel ratio sensor: An abnormality detecting apparatus includes an air/fuel ratio sensor that detects an air/fuel ratio within a range including the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio, an admittance detector for detecting an admittance of the sensor, and a temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the sensor. This apparatus detects an abnormality of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070000454 - Hydrogen fuel supply system: A hydrogen fuel supply system comprising a methanol aqueous solution particulates generator, spark-plasma heater, catalytic reactor, hydrogen separation unit, hydro-evaporating cooler, hydrogen compressor, hydrogen injection system, etc. By properly mixing methanol and water to form a methanol aqueous solution, then vibrated by a methanol aqueous solution particulates generator to form... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070000455 - Noncontact rotation angle sensor, manufacturing method for the same, and throttle valve control device for internal combustion engine having the same: After the periphery of the magnetic sensitive element is surrounded by an elastic member, the magnetic sensitive element is mold-formed with resin material. Soft epoxy or gel resin is employed as the elastic member, poured in an element-mounting space and solidified. The magnetic sensitive element is surrounded by silicone rubber.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070000456 - Method and apparatus for controlling transition between operating modes in a multimode engine: At least one engine operating parameter other than total fuel energy content is taken into account when transitioning between operating modes in a dual fuel or other multimode engine (20) in order to maintain a smooth transition between modes. The parameter preferably comprises at least one of primary fuel excess... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070000457 - System for cooling a piece of equipment to a low temperature, such as a piece of motor vechicle equipment, and associated heat exchangers: The invention relates to a system which is used to cool at least one piece of motor vehicle equipment to a low temperature, comprising a heat transfer fluid circulation loop. According to the invention, a low-temperature heat exchanger (60) and at least one equipment exchanger (102) are mounted to the... Agent: Valeo Inc Intellectual Property Department

20070000458 - Combustion-operated setting tool: A combustion-operated setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes a device (30) for adjusting setting energy applied to a setting piston (15) axially displaceable in a guide space (4) of a piston guide (13). The adjusting device (30) has a separation member (31) adjustably arranged between... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070000460 - Switchable drag lever of a valve timing mechanism of an internal combustion engine: A switchable drag lever (1) of a valve timing mechanism of an internal combustion engine is proposed, having an outer lever (3) and an inner lever (4) which is arranged between the said outer lever (3). The drag lever (1) has a rest (7) for a gas exchange valve on... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070000461 - Device for the variable actuation of gas exchange valves of internal combustion engines and method for operating said device: The invention is characterized in that the gas exchange valves of a cylinder are displaced in a displacement unit (15, 34) jointly and independently of the displacement of the displacement devices of the other cylinders. Every displacement unit (15, 34) is associated with separate actuators for actuating the same. Angle... Agent: Max Fogiel

20070000462 - Method and apparatus for setting bias spring load during assembly of a camshaft phaser: A camshaft phaser includes a rotor, a stator, a torsional rotor bias spring, and a spring retainer wherein the spring retainer is fixed to either the rotor or stator when the nominal spring preload is reached to retain the nominal spring preload in said phaser. In one embodiment, the rotor... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070000463 - Deactivation roller hydraulic valve lifter: A deactivation valve lifter includes a lifter body. The lifter body has a first end configured for engaging a cam of an engine and at least one annular pin chamber. A pin housing includes a pin housing bottom. The pin housing bottom defines at least one pin stop aperture and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070000464 - Deactivation roller hydraulic valve lifter: A deactivation valve lifter includes a lifter body. The lifter body has a first end configured for engaging a cam of an engine and at least one annular pin chamber. A pin housing includes a pin housing bottom. The pin housing bottom defines at least one pin stop aperture and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070000459 - Deactivating element for a valve train of an internal combustion engine: The invention proposes a deactivating element (1) for a valve train of an internal combustion engine. The deactivating element (1) comprises a housing (2) and an inner element (4) that is axially displaceable in the bore (3) of the housing (2). According to the invention, the pistons (7) arranged in... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070000465 - Distributor for engine with laser ignition: A distributor is described for a multi-cylinder laser ignited internal combustion engine. The distributor includes a shaft rotatable by the engine and a plurality of flat reflective surfaces on the shaft. The surfaces lie in planes normal to the axis of rotation of the shaft and are axially staggered from... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

20070000466 - Handheld electric starter for engines and method of use: An apparatus for starting an internal combustion engine having a manual recoil starter and starter rope comprises a casing that houses a motor, a source of power, a gear reducer assembly and a spool assembly. The spool assembly includes a spool that adapted to receive the handgrip of the starter... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070000467 - Noise attenuation device for an air induction system: An air induction system for a motor vehicle, having a pair of conduits fluidly connecting an engine to the ambient air and a housing located between the pair of conduits. The housing includes side walls and a top wall defining a chamber. A baffle plate for attenuating noise is positioned... Agent: Visteon

20070000468 - Coated power cylinder components for diesel engines: A diesel engine piston assembly comprises a piston body having a top wall with a combustion bowl formed in the top wall and having a combustion bowl edge, an outer ring belt formed with a plurality of ring grooves including a top ring groove with an upper wall of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070000469 - Primary housing assembly for a motorcycle engine: A primary housing for a motorcycle engine includes an inner housing that defines internal coupling apertures, transmission coupling apertures, and external coupling apertures. Internal fasteners extend through the internal coupling apertures and the transmission coupling apertures to couple the inner housing to the crankcase and the transmission. An outer housing... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070000471 - Crankcase with bottom plate: In a crankcase for an internal combustion engine, including a lubricant chamber for the collection of lubricant, and a bottom plate for providing dry sump lubrication closing the crankcase and being sealingly joined to the bottom end of the crankcase, wherein the crankcase includes auxiliary equipment comprising pumps for pumping... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070000470 - Oil pump for a motorcycle: An oil pump for an engine having a first cam shaft and a second cam shaft. The oil pump includes a housing and a first pump assembly at least partially disposed within the housing. The first pump assembly includes a rotating element that is adapted to be directly driven by... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070000472 - Egr system for spark-ignited gasoline engine: An internal combustion engine has at least one combustion chamber and a piston configured to reciprocate within the at least one combustion chamber between a top-dead-center position and a bottom-dead-center position. The internal combustion engine also has a pre-combustion chamber, an air induction system, a fuel system, a spark plug... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070000473 - Control apparatus of engine: In an engine having a premixed combustion mode, an EGR flow rate estimating precision is deteriorated at a transient time, and a torque fluctuation and an exhaust gas deterioration are caused. In an engine control apparatus having a premixed combustion mode and a diffusion combustion mode, a sensor detecting an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070000475 - Engine control system with fuel injection timing control method: A fuel control system for a cylinder direct injection internal combustion engine. A predetermined portion of the fuel spray is appropriately ignited regardless of the correction of the ignition timing, thereby always securing stable, satisfactory combustion. In the case where the ignition timing is corrected, the fuel injection timing is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070000476 - Fuel inection valve for internal combustion engine: A fuel injection valve for an engine includes a nozzle located in the vicinity of a cylinder head of the engine. The nozzle has nozzle holes each being opposed to an in-cylinder space defined in a cylinder of the engine. Each nozzle hole has an imaginary injection line that extends... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070000474 - Internal combustion engine with direct gasoline injection and controlled ignition: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine with direct gasoline injection and controlled ignition, comprising at least one cylinder (1), a cylinder head (6), sealing the cylinder (1), a piston (7), arranged to run in the cylinder (1), a combustion chamber (2), defined by the piston (7) and the... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20070000477 - Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine in overrun conditions: A method is provided for operating an internal combustion engine 10 in overrun condition, which method includes the steps of: release of a monitoring of a control signal for a power actuator of the internal combustion engine when predetermined release conditions have been satisfied, which include the exceeding of a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070000478 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an engine speed NE, engine load, and engine coolant temperature (S100, S110, S115); when determination is made of being in an idle region (YES at S120), determining whether in a cold idle region, a transitional region, or a warm... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070000479 - Accumulator fuel system: An accumulator fuel system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of engine cylinders, includes an accumulator fuel volume (12; 112) for supplying high pressure fuel to one or more of a plurality of injectors (10) of the fuel system, each of which is arranged to supply fuel to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070000480 - Fuel injecton valve: A fuel injector for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having external ignition includes a valve housing formed by a nozzle body, and a seal which seals the fuel injector from a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The seal... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070000481 - Device for compressing combustion air: The invention relates to a device for compressing combustion air, in particular a device for compressing charge air for an automotive combustion engine, with at least one electrically operated charge-air compressor (12, 14), which features at least one compressor impeller (24) that is arranged in a compressor space (22) and... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070000482 - Exhaust emission control device of internal combustion engine: The air/fuel ratio of exhaust flowing into a catalytic converter is forcibly modulated, between a lean air/fuel ratio leaner than a target average air/fuel ratio and a rich air/fuel ratio richer than the target average air/fuel ratio, with a specific period, a specific amplitude, a specific modulation ratio and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch