Internal-combustion engines inventions 09/07

20070221163 - Internal combustion engine system: The present invention provides an internal combustion engine system which uses a blended fuel of gasoline and ethanol, operates with high efficiency, and can inhibit nitrogen oxide and the like from being discharged. The internal combustion engine system comprises: a fuel tank 3 that accommodates a blended fuel having an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070221145 - System and method for split-cycle engine waste heat recovery: A waste heat recovery system for a split-cycle engine includes a heat exchange unit. An air compressor device is in communication with the heat exchange unit. A waste heat input receives waste heat from the engine and is in fluid communication with the heat exchange unit. An ambient air intake... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070221151 - Control device for engine valve and control system for engine: A rotational phase difference of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft in a variable valve timing mechanism is controlled by an operation of an oil control valve. That is, in the oil control valve, there is outputted an operational signal which is defined by adding a feedback correction amount corresponding... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070221150 - Variable valve timing apparatus with reduced operation sound and control method thereof: In a variable valve timing apparatus in which a phase of an intake valve is changed at an amount of change according to a rotational speed of relative rotation between an electric motor as an actuator and a camshaft, the set upper limit value of the rotational speed of relative... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070221152 - High stiffness low mass rocker arm: A rocker arm is provided that includes a body which is comprised of a single vertical wall having an I-shape cross section and an axle that extends perpendicular from the vertical wall area for making contact with a valve and a pivot point. The pivot point for the rocker arm... Agent: Arthur J. Plantamura General Chemical Performance Products LLC.

20070221153 - High profile rocker arm assembly with offset valve lash adjuster: A high profile rocker arm assembly increases rocker arm strength, minimizes rocker arm weight and enables improved valve lash adjustment. The rocker arm assembly comprises a rocker arm, a cross shaft, and an externally mounted roller tip. The cross shaft incorporates certain offset structure so that when adjustment thereof is... Agent: William P. Curtis

20070221155 - Cam follower: There is provided a cam follower in which a surface roughness of an outer surface of a roller of a cam follower which is in rolling contact with a cam of an engine is obtained individually in an axial direction and a circumferential direction, a skewness Rsk of a profile... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070221146 - Snow vehicle: A snow vehicle includes an engine, a track belt arranged on a rear side of the engine, and a cooling water path for cooling the engine, in which the engine includes a cooling water inlet portion and a cooling water outlet portion provided on a front surface side of the... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070221147 - Vehicle cooling fan: A cooling fan for a vehicle. Many engine compartments of motor vehicles are small in size, and contain numerous components. Electric cooling fans are used to draw air through a radiator. Given the cramped conditions within the engine compartment, the exhaust of the fan cannot be directed into open air,... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070221148 - Induction tuning using multiple intake valve lift events: A tuned induction control system for an engine at or near full load having a piston that is reciprocally disposed in a cylinder includes a first module that actuates an intake valve associated with the cylinder and a second module that determines a second intake valve open timing based on... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070221149 - Auxiliary cam phaser hydraulic circuit and method of operation: Provided is an auxiliary cam phaser hydraulic circuit for an internal combustion engine having an engine driven hydraulic pump and at least one cam phaser in fluid communication with a cam phaser control valve. The auxiliary cam phaser hydraulic circuit includes a reservoir containing fluid and an auxiliary hydraulic pump... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070221154 - Anti-tipping roller follower: An anti-tipping feature for a roller follower is provided that is positioned at the socket end of a Type II roller follower. The anti-tipping feature is designed to fit around the plunger of a lash adjuster. The feature has legs that extend down around the plunger to provide stability for... Agent: Arthur J. Plantamura General Chemical Performance Products LLC.

20070221156 - Plasma-jet spark plug and ignition system: A plasma-jet spark plug includes a metal shell, an electrical insulator retained in the metal shell, a center electrode held in an axial hole of the electrical insulator to define a cavity by a front end face of the center electrode and an inner circumferential surface of the insulator axial... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070221157 - Plasma-jet spark plug and ignition system: p

20070221158 - Carburetor arrangement for an internal combustion engine: A carburetor (1) for an internal combustion engine has an intake channel section (3) wherein a throttle element and a choke element are supported to pivot about respective rotational axes (34, 35). The carburetor (1) has a starter unit which has an operating position, an off position and at least... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20070221159 - Damped windage tray and method of making same: A damped windage tray for an engine including a windage tray formed from a laminate. The laminate operates to damp vibrations of the windage tray. The laminate includes a first constraining layer, a second constraining layer and a viscoelastic damping layer disposed between the first and second constraining layer. The... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20070221160 - Integrated power unit including split crankcase with reinforced fastening arrangement, and vehicle including same: An integrated power unit for a small vehicle is configured to permit a compact engine design in a power unit having a crankcase that is split into upper and lower portions. The power unit includes a crankshaft supported by the crankcase and oriented transverse to the running direction of the... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070221161 - Automobile over-bulkhead air intake system: An automobile air intake system is provided that channels air from outside the automobile engine compartment to the engine. The automobile air intake system according to an embodiment of the invention includes an intake enclosure coupled to a bulkhead across the front of the engine compartment. The automobile grille, radiator,... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070221162 - High-pressure pump for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine: The high-pressure pump has at least one pump element with a pump piston driven in a reciprocating motion and defining a pump work chamber into which fuel is aspirated from a fuel inlet via an inlet valve in the intake stroke and from which fuel is positively displaced in the... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070221164 - Auxiliary combustion chamber type internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber, a partition wall that separates the main and auxiliary combustion chambers, a first igniter disposed in the auxiliary combustion chamber, a second igniter disposed in the main combustion chamber, and a controller electrically coupled to the first... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070221165 - Direct-injection engine, method of controlling the same, piston used in the same and fuel injection valve used in the same: In an injector having three concentrated fuel spray bands, one of the fuel spray bands is directed to an spark plug, and the others are directed to curved grooves on a piston. The sprays that enter each groove advance along each groove, mutually collide substantially under the spark plug, and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070221166 - Multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and method for operation thereof: The cylinders are assigned an exhaust line and in each case a gas inlet valve (E) and a gas outlet valve (A) which are used for the charge cycle. In addition, at least one of the cylinders (1-6) of the internal combustion engine (B) has an additional outlet valve (Z)... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070221167 - Secured operation of electronic throttle control (etc) in dual module system: An engine control system that regulates first and second throttles of an internal combustion engine includes a primary control module that generates a throttle area based on an operator input and a second control module that determines a second throttle position based on the throttle area. The second control module... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070221168 - Engine control system with user-commanded engine speed adjustments in varying increments: An engine control system includes an engine with an output shaft. A power take-off device interfaces with the output shaft and provides rotational power to an auxiliary device. A user input device includes a first engine speed control that commands an increase in engine speed by a first amount to... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070221169 - Electric component support structure for motorcycle: A mounting structure on motorcycle for protecting a capacitor from vibration and heat. In an engine having an upright cylinder a throttle body is connected to an intake path of the cylinder via an insulator, and the throttle body is connected to an air cleaner via a connecting tube. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070221170 - Air-fuel ratio controlling apparatus for an engine: An air-fuel ratio controlling apparatus includes an internal pressure detector for detecting an internal pressure of a combustion chamber of the engine. The apparatus estimates a motoring pressure of the engine and determines a start-of-combustion time, a time point when a difference between the internal pressure and the motoring pressure... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070221171 - Fuel injector: A fuel injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines includes a valve-closure element cooperating with a valve seat, and a restoring spring which is situated in a spring pocket opening and acts upon the valve-closure element by a restoring force in the direction of the valve seat. The restoring... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070221172 - High-pressure fuel pump control device for engine: A high-pressure fuel pump control device is capable of reducing current consumption, increasing pump durability, and promoting a rise of fuel pressure from startup. The high-pressure fuel pump control device comprises a fuel injector valve for directly injecting fuel in a common rail into a combustion chamber and a high-pressure... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070221173 - Fluid apparatus having pumps and method for controlling the same: A fluid apparatus, which is provided for supplying fluid into an internal combustion engine, includes an upstream pump, which is electrically driven, having an outlet port. The fluid apparatus furtehr includes a downstream pump, which is electrically driven, having an inlet port that is connected with the outlet port in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070221174 - Fuel injection controller: A fuel injection controller calculates a fuel pressure-feeding start angle of a fuel pump as a valve opening start angle of a metering valve, which regulates a discharge amount, by adding a base angle and a feedback correction value. The base angle is calculated in accordance with a command injection... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070221175 - Fuel injection system: A fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine includes at least one fuel injector which communicates via a fuel inlet with a fuel supply line that communicates with a source of fuel that is at high pressure; the fuel injector includes a valve control unit and a nozzle unit,... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070221176 - Injector mounting arrangement: An injector mounting arrangement for use in an engine, the injector mounting arrangement including: a fuel injector having one or more resonant modes of vibration, an engine cylinder housing, and a clamping arrangement including a clamping member for applying a clamping load to the injector so as to clamp the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070221177 - Common rail injector: A common rail injector having an injector housing having a fuel supply line which communicates with a central high-pressure fuel source outside the injector housing and with a pressure chamber inside the injector housing, from which pressure chamber, as a function of the position of a 3/2-way control valve, fuel... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070221178 - Actuating mechanism for hydraulically driven pump-injector for internal combustion engines: Actuating mechanism for hydraulically driven pump-injectors for internal combustion engines specifically for diesels, which in order to reduce dimensions of pump-injector body, comprises pressure intensifier with several power pistons and a pumping plunger.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070221179 - Fuel line check valve system and method: Prior art fuel line check valves remain closed after engine off and cool down. Diurnal heating and the resultant pressure increase in the fuel line causes fuel vapor emissions through small openings in the fuel line (e.g., at the injector tips). The invention provides a check valve for a vehicle... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070221180 - Fuel system for internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine is supplied with combustion air via an inlet manifold. A throttle valve controls the amount of air admitted to the combustion chamber. A fuel injector is provided for injecting liquid fuel into the airflow in the inlet manifold downstream of the throttle valve. A vaporiser is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070221181 - Device and method for cooling exhaust gas: A device for cooling exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine comprises a plurality of flow ducts which are connected to an exhaust gas recirculation system of the internal combustion engine, a heat exchanger for a coolant to flow around the flow ducts in order to dissipate the exhaust gas... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070221182 - Engine equipped with air-intake device for personal watercraft and personal watercraft: An engine equipped with an air-intake device for a personal watercraft, includes a cylinder head cover attached to an upper surface of a cylinder head, a plug cap with ignition coil configured to protrude upward from an upper surface of the cylinder head cover; and an air box for the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070221183 - Apparatus for and method of controlling air-fuel ratio of engine: A technique of controlling an air-fuel ration for an engine, in which an air-fuel ratio feedback correction coefficient α to correct an amount of fuel injection into the engine is computed based on an output from an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed on an upstream side of a catalytic converter. A... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070215073 - Surge tank: A surge tank comprises a liquid inlet portion designed to dissipate the energy of coolant flowing into the surge tank. Desirably, fluid is delivered into a pool of liquid in an initial chamber rather than into an air gap above a pool of liquid such that the pool of liquid... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070215075 - Cylinder head of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a cylinder head (1) of an internal combustion engine with a camshaft bearing mechanism (2) situated thereon in which a hollow camshaft (3) is rotatably mounted, forming an outlet for discharging blow-by gases laden with oil droplets out of the crankcase and is designed as an... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070215076 - V-engine with rotatable cylinder heads: A V-engine (10) having two banks of cylinders (30) each comprising at least one cylinder (20) and a cylinder head (40) is envisaged, wherein the banks of cylinders (30) each comprise at least one inlet valve (12) and also at least one outlet valve (14) for each cylinder (20), while... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP Suite 600

20070215132 - Internal combustion engine piston crank mechanism: A piston crank mechanism has an upper link coupled to a piston by a piston pin, a lower link having a crankpin journal, wherein the crankpin journal is coupled to a crankpin of a crankshaft and is coupled to the upper link by an upper pin, and a control link... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070215082 - Variable valve device for internal combustion engine: A variable valve device includes a camshaft which is rotatably provided in an internal combustion engine while having a cam, a rocker shaft which is arranged next to the camshaft, a valve which is driven by the cam, a cam follower rocker which is rotatably provided in the rocker shaft,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070215085 - Valve timing control apparatus: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driven shaft for actuating an intake valve and/or an exhaust valve of an engine. A housing member rotates together with a driving shaft of the engine. A rotor member is accommodated coaxially in the housing member for rotating together with the driven shaft.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070215087 - Device for hydraulic lash adjustment: A device (1) for the hydraulic lash adjustment for several identically acting gas-exchange valves per cylinder of a valve train of an internal combustion engine is provided, the device (1) including a common housing (2) with directly adjacent pressure pistons (3) provided corresponding to the number of identically acting gas-exchange... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070215069 - Control for knock suppression fluid separator in a motor vehicle: A system for an engine of a vehicle, comprising of a cylinder located in the engine, a delivery system configured to deliver fuel and a fluid to at least an engine cylinder while the vehicle is traveling, said fluid comprising alcohol and/or water, and a control system for varying an... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215071 - Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel: In an apparatus comprising a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and a separator positioned fluidically between the fuel tank and the internal combustion engine, a method of operating the apparatus is disclosed, wherein the method comprises inputting a mixed fuel containing a hydrocarbon component and an oxygenated component into... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215070 - Hydrogen and oxygen production and accumulating apparatus including an internal combustion engine and method: An apparatus, including an internal combustion engine; for powering the engine the apparatus produces hydrogen fuel from water, and comprises water supply means; fuel storage means; controlling means; a collector, receiving combustion products output from engine's operation; a transformer, utilizing thermo-impact of the combustion products and converting supplied water into... Agent: Yuriy Yatsenko

20070215072 - Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel: In an apparatus having an internal combustion engine, a fuel tank, and an extractor disposed fluidically between the fuel tank and the engine, a method of operating the apparatus is disclosed, wherein the method comprises adding a volume of a mixed fuel into the extractor from the fuel tank, wherein... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215074 - Cylinder head with integral tuned exhaust manifold: Provided is a cylinder head including a head casting defining a plurality of exhaust ports. A tuned exhaust manifold is internally defined by the head casting. The tuned exhaust manifold includes a plurality of exhaust runners in communication with the plurality of exhaust ports and a collector volume in communication... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070215077 - Electromechanical valve actuator beginning of stroke damper: An electromechanical valve actuator having a beginning of stroke damper to damp the impact between the armature stem and the valve stem as the valve is opened. The beginning of stroke damper includes an armature stem defining a stem passage and a valve stem including a lash compensator defining a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070215078 - Methods and apparatus to use engine valves as both intake and exhaust valves: Methods and apparatus to selectively use engine valves as both intake and exhaust valves and to selectively operate the engine as a 2 cycle or as a 4 cycle engine. In a disclosed embodiment, the intake valves and the exhaust valves, are manifolded together through a small manifold, with the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070215079 - Camshaft position sensing for dual overhead cam variable valve timing engines: A position sensing system uses two sensing elements to sense the rotary position of target wheels mounted on two camshafts. The two sensing elements are mounted in a common sensor housing and preferably the two sensor elements share power and ground wires, and each sensor element has its own signal... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070215080 - Variable valve actuation: A variable valve actuation mechanism actuates a valve of an internal combustion engine. The mechanism includes an actuator with a housing and a piston each moveable along a longitudinal axis in the engine. A cavity is defined between the piston and the housing. A body of fluid is disposed in... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070215081 - Cylinder deactivation apparatus incorporating a distributed accumulator: A variable displacement internal combustion engine having a cylinder block and a cylinder head attached thereto. The variable displacement internal combustion engine includes at least one switching hydraulic lash adjuster. A lash adjuster oil feed passage is at least partially defined by one of the cylinder block and the cylinder... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070215083 - Device for controlling the lift of a gas exchange valve in an internal combustion engine: A device and a method are provided for regulating the lift characteristic of a charge cycle valve of an internal combustion engine. The device comprises a controllable drive unit having an actuator element for actuating the charge cycle valve, two energy storage means acting on the charge cycle valve in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070215084 - Variable chamber volume phaser: A variable cam timing phaser including a housing, a rotor coaxially located within the housing, a phase control valve, a switching valve, and a passage connecting the first advance and retard chambers. The housing and the rotor define at least two chambers, a first chamber separated by a first vane... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Brown & Michaels, PC

20070215086 - Connection element for the captive mounting of a lever-like cam follower: A connection element (9, 10) is provided for the captive mounting of a lever-type cam follower (1), which is used to actuate a gas-exchange valve (5) of an internal combustion engine, on a support element (2). The support element (2) has a spherical end (7) on which the cam follower... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070215088 - Adjustable engine: A switchable cam follower (1) is proposed which serves to transmit a cam stroke in a variable manner from a cam to valve timing mechanism elements of an internal combustion engine. The cam follower (1) comprises substantially a cylindrical inner part (5) and a cylindrical outer part (2) which can... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070215089 - Internal combustion engine starte comprising a cylinder head and speed reducer centering means on this case: The invention relates to a starter comprising an electric engine (11) which is connected to a starter drive assembly (30) with a planetary gear speed reducer (45) inserted therebetween. According to the invention, the reducer is housed inside a fixed ring gear (46) which comprises a centering (73) having a... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish

20070215090 - Arrangement in air-cooled internal combustion engine: Arrangement in an internal combustion engine, said arrangement comprises a fan for supplying combustion air to a carburetor. The fan comprises a fan housing (11) and a fan wheel (12) provided with a number of wings (13) extending in substantially radial direction from the axle (15) of rotation for the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070215091 - Noise suppressing mechanism for balance gear of engine crankshaft: A noise suppressing mechanism for balance gear system of an engine crankshaft is disclosed. The balance gear system includes a primary gear, a secondary gear, and a torsional spring and is fit on a balance shaft. The noise suppressing mechanism includes a circular flange formed on the primary gear and... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070215092 - Cylinder sleeve support for an internal combustion engine: The disclosed multi-cylinder, poppet-valved engine, has replacement cylinder sleeves larger than the original sleeves, and laterally supported near their upper ends by an aluminum alloy plate having a continuous flange or boss projecting into the cylinder block. The flange has an inner perimeter surface having a profile fittingly engaging upper... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070215093 - Opposed piston internal-combustion engine with hypocycloidal drive and generator apparatus: An opposed piston, internal-combustion engine including a cylinder with a bore and opposed pistons disposed within the bore is provided with one or more hypocycloidal drives that convert the linear motion of a piston to rotary output motion. An electrical generator includes an opposed piston, internal-combustion engine with a coil... Agent: Terrance A. Meador Incaplaw

20070215094 - Nagata cycle rotary engine: An internal combustion rotary engine using vanes to create separate combustion chambers within the engine and capable of performing all four strokes of the Otto cycle (intake, compression, combustion and exhaust) in each separate combustion chamber. Each Otto cycle is completed in a 180-degree rotation with all four strokes of... Agent: Ryan Cobb

20070215095 - Controller for compression ignition engine: The controller includes combustion mode switching means for decreasing an exhaust gas temperature in the spark ignition combustion immediately before the combustion mode switching based on an estimated exhaust gas temperature immediately before the combustion mode switching, or for decreasing an EGR amount in the HCCI combustion immediately after the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070215096 - Engine controller: An engine controller controls an actuator for selectively executing spark-ignited combustion and compression-ignited combustion of an internal combustion engine in accordance with an engine operational state. The controller is comprises of a deterioration recognition section for recognizing a deterioration state of the engine or the actuator during the spark-ignited combustion.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070215097 - Fuel injection control system designed to eliminate overlap between multiple fuel injection events: A fuel injection control system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle is provided. The system works to schedule execution of a sequence of multiple injections of fuel into each of cylinders of the engine and determines whether events of any two of the injections scheduled to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070215098 - Internal combustion engine: The present invention provides an internal combustion engine which can produce several types of fuels from a single fuel as needed. The internal combustion engine comprises reforming means 3 for reforming a first fuel to be used in homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion into a second fuel having high ignitability,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070215099 - Fuel injector nozzle for an internal combustion engine: A direct injection fuel injector includes a nozzle tip having a plurality of passages allowing fluid communication between an inner nozzle tip surface portion and an outer nozzle tip surface portion and directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. A first group of the passages have inner... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070215101 - First and second spark plugs for improved combustion control: A method of operating an internal combustion engine having at least one combustion chamber including a first spark plug and a second spark plug, wherein the first spark plug is configured to operate at a higher temperature than the second spark plug, the method comprising of varying at least a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215102 - First and second spark plugs for improved combustion control: An engine system, comprising of a combustion chamber; a first spark plug configured to perform a spark within the combustion chamber, said first plug configured to have a first heat range; a second spark plug configured to produce a spark within the combustion chamber, said second plug configured to have... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215100 - Ignition control apparatus for an engine: An ignition control apparatus for an engine; in particular, an engine having two or more igniter plugs per cylinder energized by a electric power source, comprises a voltage detector for detecting a voltage of the electric power source, and a controller configured to effect initial combustion using both igniter plugs,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070215103 - Valve timing control apparatus: In a guide groove of a guide rotator of a valve timing control apparatus, a stopper surface is planar and is positioned in an end of the guide groove. The stopper surface is engageable with a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of a movable body, which is received in the guide... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070215104 - Combustion control system for an engine utilizing a first fuel and a second fuel: A system for an engine of a vehicle, comprising of a combustion chamber, a delivery system configured to deliver a fuel and a fluid to the combustion chamber, an ignition system including a spark plug configured to deliver a spark to the combustion chamber, and a control system configured to... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215105 - Internal combustion engine control apparatus: An internal combustion engine control apparatus is provided with a hydraulically operated variable valve operating mechanism for varying the valve timing of air intake valves, and a water temperature sensor for sensing engine coolant temperature to estimate the degree of engine warm-up. The valve operating mechanism is controlled to switch... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070215106 - System and method for controlling auto-ignition: A method controlling combustion modes of an engine with at least a first and second cylinder, the engine having a first actuator configured to control at least intake valves of the first and second cylinder and a second actuator configured to control at least exhaust valves of the first and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215107 - Pre-ignition detection and mitigation: A system and method for detecting and mitigating preignition for a multi-cylinder engine is provided. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a method is provided including identifying a preignition event at an affected cylinder; deactivating the affected cylinder during a deactivation period; initiating an accommodation system for one or... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215108 - Device and method for controlling ignition timing of internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: calculating a magnitude value LOG(V) from a magnitude V detected using a knock sensor; calculating a median value V(50) and a standard deviation a of calculated magnitude values LOG(V); calculating a knock determination level V(KD) that is a value obtained... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070215109 - Device and method for controlling ignition timing of internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including a step of, when an absolute value of a difference between median value V(50) of magnitude values LOG(V), which is obtained by logarithmically converting a magnitude V detected based on a signal sent from a knock sensor, and a determination value V(KX) used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070215110 - Control strategy for engine employing multiple injection types: A system for an engine, comprising a cylinder, a first injection subsystem for injecting a first substance into the cylinder, a second injection subsystem for injecting a second substance into the cylinder, and an electronic engine controller configured to control a plurality of operating parameters of the engine, where the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215112 - Engine having multiple injector locations: A method for controlling a first and second injector of an engine, the first injector located in a first cylinder of the engine and the second injector located upstream of, and configured to inject fuel into, the first and a second cylinder of the engine, the method comprising of decreasing... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215111 - System and method for reducing knock and preignition in an internal combustion engine: A system for an engine of a vehicle, comprising of a combustion chamber located in the engine; a delivery system configured to deliver a fuel and a fluid to at least the combustion chamber in varying ratios, wherein the fluid includes at least an alcohol; wherein the delivery system includes... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215114 - Fuel injection valve: A fuel injection valve is provided in which a funnel-shaped fuel collecting depression (35) is provided between a valve seat (8) and an outlet hole (7) of a valve seat member (3), the depression (35) collecting fuel that has passed through the valve seat (8) and guiding it to the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070215113 - High-pressure pump for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine: A high-pressure pump has at least one pump element, with a pump piston which is guided displaceably in a cylinder bore of a housing part of the high-pressure pump and is driven in a reciprocating motion and defines a pump work chamber in the cylinder bore, into which chamber fuel... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070215115 - Fuel feed apparatus having control unit for fuel pump: A fuel feed apparatus is provided for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine, which is controlled using an engine control unit. The fuel feed apparatus includes a pump module that is provided to the fuel tank. The pump module includes a fuel pump that is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070215116 - Common rail injector: A common rail injector having an injector housing that has a fuel inlet, which communicates with a central high-pressure fuel source outside the injector housing and with a pressure chamber inside the injector housing, from the latter of which, depending on the pressure in a control chamber, highly pressurized fuel... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070215117 - Electromagnetic fuel injection valve: In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve including a resin molded part of a synthetic resin which integrally has a coupler to which a connecting terminal connecting to a coil of a coil assembly is faced, and in which at least part of the solenoid housing is embedded, the resin molded... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070215118 - Fuel control system for internal combustion engine: A fuel control system for an internal combustion engine having an intake passage, a compressor provided in the intake passage, a throttle valve disposed downstream of the compressor, a bypass passage connecting an upstream side of the compressor to a downstream side of the compressor, and an air bypass valve... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070215119 - Method of controlling the intake and/or the exhaust of at least one deactivated cylinder of an internal-combustion engine: f

20070215120 - Method for an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine, and a method for an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder, at each of which at least one spark providing device for ignition being provided. The engine is operated, in connection to a start procedure of the engine, in a... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070215122 - Fuel supply apparatus for motor cycle: To provide fuel supply apparatus for motor cycle can execute rapid jump traveling and accelerated drive just after the jump traveling. A fuel pump (P) and a fuel filter (F) connected to a pump suction path (Pa) of the fuel pump (P) are attached to a lid member (1) closing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070215121 - Fuel pump module anti-siphon valve: A fuel pump system for a fuel tank having a first and a second section has a fuel pump and a jet pump disposed in the first section. The jet pump draws fuel from the second section of the fuel tank through a transfer line and delivers it to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070215123 - Drain pipe in canister system: In order to discharge air cleaned free from evaporated fuel vapor in a canister installed under the front seat floor, have none of the air coming inside a passenger room and inhibit water, dirt and dust from being absorbed in a drain pipe in a canister, the following drain pipe... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070215124 - Engine and personal watercraft: An engine for a personal watercraft that is equipped with a supercharging machine, including a pressure release device that is configured to, when a pressure in a region of an air-intake passage of the engine that is located upstream of a throttle valve in an intake-air flow direction exceeds a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070215125 - Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel: In an apparatus having an internal combustion engine, a method of operating the engine is disclosed, comprising providing a mixed fuel from a fuel tank to a separator, separating at least a portion of the hydrocarbon fuel component from the mixed fuel by transporting a hydrocarbon fuel component through a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215126 - Nox emission reduction apparatus: A NOx emission reduction apparatus includes high-temperature EGR gas supply means for supplying a high-temperature EGR gas into an engine cylinder, low-temperature EGR gas supply means for supplying a low-temperature EGR gas into the engine cylinder and very-low-load operation control means for, as an engine load decreases in a very-low-load... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070215127 - Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel: An apparatus comprising an internal combustion engine, a fuel tank, a fuel separator disposed fluidically between the fuel tank and the engine, wherein the fuel separator comprises first and second passageways separated at least partially by a selective barrier that selectively transports a first fuel in a fuel mixture at... Agent: Ford Global Technologies. LLC Fairlane Plaza South, Suite 800

20070215128 - Oil separator for blowby gas: There is provided an oil separator for blowby gas exhibiting excellent oil separation performance in a stable manner. In a common flow path section of a gas flow passage in which the blowby gas flows and an oil passage provided with a bottom of the common flow path section where... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070215129 - Induction regulator for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to an induction regulator (201) for an internal combustion engine which comprises one or more features selected from: at least one perforated element (203) for allowing the passage of fuel/air mixture therethrough, at least one open-topped reservoir (205) for retaining excess unvapourised fuel and means (204) for... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070215130 - Spark control for improved engine operation: A system for an engine of a vehicle, comprising of at least one combustion chamber located in the engine, a delivery system configured to deliver a fuel and a substance to the combustion chamber, an ignition system including a spark plug configured to ignite the fuel within the combustion chamber,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070215131 - Air-fuel ratio control apparatus and method of internal combustion engine: An air-fuel ratio feedback control range is enlarged to improve exhaust purification performance and output stability. In one aspect, an air-fuel ratio control apparatus of an internal combustion engine comprises an air-fuel ratio sensor capable of detecting an air-fuel ratio across both lean and rich ranges with a theoretical air-fuel... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070209609 - Engine system: An object of the invention is to provide an engine system driving an engine by using a hydrogen rich gas generated from a medium chemically repeating a hydrogen absorption and a hydrogen desorption as one of fuels, in which the engine system can efficiently generate a hydrogen rich gas from... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070209616 - Diesel aircraft engine: The present invention is an engine, including two banks of cylinders in a flat, opposed cylinder arrangement and a crankshaft having a plurality of paired throws, the two throws of each respective pair of throws being disposed adjacent to each other and coplanar with respect to each other.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070209622 - Valve timing controller with a stopper: A valve timing controller is disclosed that includes first and second rotating elements, and a phase changing mechanism including arm members coupling the first and second rotating elements. The valve timing controller also includes a cam plate and a stopper to restrict rotation of the cam plate. A concave part... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070209621 - Valve timing controller with separating member: A valve timing controller includes a first rotating element and a second rotating element. The controller further includes a link mechanism part including arm members for coupling the first and second rotating elements. The controller also includes a gear part including a first gear and a second gear to convert... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070209607 - Fuel additive injection system: A fuel additive injection system includes a fluid additive supply tank, a fluid additive quantity sensor, a flowmeter, remotely controllable valves and a controller including a microcontroller, a visual display and a keypad interface for establishing operation of the system to blend or inject a fuel additive for an internal... Agent: Ip Section Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20070209608 - Energy conversion system for hydrogen generation and uses thereof: The present invention relates to a system capable of using kinetic/inertial and renewable energy to generate hydrogen for use as a fuel in vehicles and other applications. In certain embodiments, this invention relates to a system in which hydrogen is generated during vehicle braking and which is operable with an... Agent: Hall, Vande Sande & Pequignot, LLP

20070209610 - Method and device for a proactive cooling system for a motor vehicle: A proactive cooling system and method improve the cooling of a motor vehicle apparatus, such as an engine or transmission, in a motor vehicle. The proactive cooling system boosts the primary cooling system connected to the motor vehicle apparatus by using an electronic controller, an information collecting module for collecting... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20070209611 - Multicylinder internal combustion engine with individual cylinder assemblies: An internal combustion engines includes a cylinder carrier with a deck surface, and a crankshaft and a camshaft mounted within the cylinder carrier. A number of valve lifter sleeves are mounted in a depending orientation within bores formed in the deck surface. The lifter sleeves are maintained in contact with... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070209612 - Cooling device for vehicle: A cooling device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle comprising an engine control unit which stops an engine due to establishment of engine stoppage conditions and restarts the engine due to establishment of engine restart conditions. The cooling device for a vehicle is able to cool a coolant... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070209613 - Cooling system: The invention relates to a cooling system for a motor vehicle comprising a radiator (1) through which a coolant for, in particular, cooling an engine (2) flows, and which is flowed through by a cooling air flow (7) that is influenced by a fan (4) according to the velocity of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070209614 - Cooling channel cover for a piston of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a cooling channel covering for a piston of an internal combustion engine in the form of a spring metal sheet which is measured in such a manner that wear and tear in the region of the surface is prevented, in such a manner that a peripheral... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070209615 - Monocylindrical hybrid two-cycle engine, compressor and pump, and method of operation: The monocilindrical hybrid comprises a boosted by the reciprocating air compressor two-cycle engine and a hydraulic pump. The pump plunger fastened to engine piston and located coaxially with the compressor piston and pump rotor comprised stabilizer hydraulic motor and two diametrically opposite axial rods associated with the plunger, compressor piston... Agent: Grigoriy Epshteyn

20070209618 - Hybrid vehicle system having engine with variable valve operation: A system for a vehicle with an engine having at least one cylinder with at least an intake valve and an exhaust valve, comprising of a hydraulic variable valve actuator system configured to vary a timing of the intake valve in a first range and a timing of the exhaust... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070209619 - Hybrid vehicle system having engine with variable valve operation: A system for a vehicle, comprising of an internal combustion engine coupled in the vehicle, the engine having at least one cylinder with an intake and exhaust valve, where the opening and closing timing of the intake valve is adjustably retardable and the opening and closing timing of the exhaust... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070209620 - Device and method for controlling the lift of an outlet gas exchange charge cycle valve of an internal combustion engine: A device and a method for regulating the lift characteristic of an exhaust charge cycle valve of an internal combustion engine. The device comprises a controllable electric motor having an actuator element for actuation of the exhaust charge cycle valve, a regulating device for controlling the electric motor and two... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070209623 - Lifter retainer: A lifter retainer including a central body portion connected to both a left bank of lifter retaining arms and a right bank of lifter retaining arms. The lifter retainer may be adapted to engage a key portion of one or more lifters to prevent the lifters from rotating during engine... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070209617 - Assembly process for hydraulic valve lifters to reduce variation in valve lift: Valve lift variation associated with a deactivation roller hydraulic valve DRVHL (DRHVL) can result in unacceptable valve overlap and idle conditions for an internal combustion engine. Two sources of length variation in a DRHVL are leakdown and residual mechanical lash. Total length variation is the sum of these two factors,... Agent: Jimmy L. Funke, Esq. Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070209624 - Sheathed-element glow plug having an elastically mounted glow element: The sheathed-element glow plug (1) has at least one elastic element (4; 204, 204′; 304) that is situated between the inner surface (10) of the plug shell (2) and the glow element (3), this element forming an electrical contact both to a part of the inner surface (10) of the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070209625 - Glow plug head and corresponding piezo-electric pressure sensor: A glow plug includes a pressure sensor mounted within a tubular member (8) and held in the tubular member (8) by a bearing member. The bearing member is held in the tubular member (8) by plastic deformation (52) of the wall of the tubular member.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070209626 - Piston assembly for air pump: A piston assembly of an air pump is provided herein. The piston of the piston assembly has a through exhaust channel along the direction of the piston's back-and-forth movement. The exhaust channel is made up of two aligned exhaust holes, and a space is preserved at where the two exhaust... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070209627 - Cylinder sleeve for an internal combustion engine: Disclosed is a cylinder sleeve for an internal combustion engine. The outer surface of said cylinder sleeve is provided with a flat zone (61) that extends along the entire axial length thereof. The inventive cylinder sleeve is embodied as a rough cast sleeve whose outer surface comprises a rough zone... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070209628 - Crank shaft support assembly: A crank shaft support assembly for increasing stiffness and reducing thermal mismatch distortion in a crank shaft bore of an engine comprising different materials. A cylinder block comprises a first material and at least two crank journal inserts are insert-molded into respective crank journal regions of the cylinder block and... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070209629 - Connecting rod and method for production thereof: A method for producing s connecting rod, wherein the vicinity of the bottom portion of a notch, which is planed to be broken in a pre-formed article for the connecting rod, is irradiated with a laser light, a plasma or the like, and when the irradiated bottom portion is allowed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070209630 - Variable expansion-ratio engine: A variable expansion-ratio engine includes an expansion-ratio adjuster configured to adjust an expansion ratio; a load detector configured to detect an engine load; and a controller configured to control the expansion-ratio adjuster. The controller controls the expansion ratio such that the expansion ratio at the time when the load is... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070209631 - Fuel system for an internal combustion engine: A fuel system, and a method for manufacturing such a fuel system, for an internal combustion engine operating with a liquid fuel and including a fuel reservoir intended for the fuel and an additive reservoir including a chamber formed in a concave recess of the wall of the fuel reservoir.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070209632 - Rotary-piston engine and vehicle comprising an engine of this type: The invention relates to a rotary-piston engine comprising at least two rotary pistons (6, 7), which are located in an essentially spherical housing (1) and which rotate in common about a rotational axis (8) running through the center of said housing, each of said rotary pistons comprising two pistons (13-16)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070209633 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: A method retains exhaust gas in the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine and compresses the exhaust gas during a charge change. A first fuel quantity is injected into the retained exhaust gas by direct fuel injection. A second fuel quantity is subsequently fed to the combustion chamber so... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070209634 - Multipoint ignition engine: A multipoint ignition engine (1) includes a central electrode pair (9), disposed in the center of a combustion chamber (2), for forming a central spark gap (10), and a plurality of peripheral electrode pairs (12) held in a head gasket (15), which has an opening portion having a substantially identical... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070209635 - Apparatus and method for adjusting air-to-fuel ratio for small gasoline engine: An apparatus and method for use with a carbureted internal combustion engine that accurately controls the amount of fuel that passes through the carburetor into the combustion chamber of the engine. A controlled triggering system controls the activation and deactivation of a solenoid. The solenoid, in turn, operates a plunger... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070209636 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular an auto-ignition internal combustion engine, having at least one combustion chamber in which an air/fuel mixture is formed, and recirculated exhaust gas is admixed to the combustion air, a base setting of the exhaust gas recirculation rate is established... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070209637 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle. The internal combustion engine has a combustion chamber and an injection valve by which fuel is able to be supplied to the combustion chamber, directly or via an intake manifold. In the method, a maximum combustion chamber... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070209638 - Fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine: A fuel injection system having a high-pressure side which includes at least one high-pressure reservoir, in which fuel is stored at injection pressure, and at least one injector communicating with the high-pressure reservoir for fuel injection at a cylinder of the engine. The fuel injection system moreover has a low-pressure... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070209639 - Target fuel pressure setting apparatus for engine and method for setting the target fuel pressure: A fuel control apparatus and a method for setting a target fuel pressure are disclosed. A fuel delivery conduit accumulates fuel provided from a fuel pump. In turn, a fuel injector injects the fuel accumulated in the fuel delivery conduit while a fuel pressure regulator regulates fuel pressure in the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070209640 - Injector: The invention relates to an injector for a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine, having an injector housing, a valve element disposed in the injector housing, a sealing ring acting as a seal between a high-pressure region and a low-pressure region of the injector, and a support... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070209641 - Fuel feed apparatus having fuel pump: A fuel feed apparatus includes a fuel pump for pumping fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine. A pressure-control valve controls pressure of fuel, which is discharged from the fuel pump, to be equal to or less than a first pressure. A jet pump generates suction pressure... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070209642 - Method and apparatus for supply of low-btu gas to an engine generator: A carburetion system and method for adapting a low-Btu gas source with a low-Btu gas consumer. Pressure-based air-gas mixers geometrically appropriate for the carburetion system and method. The carburetion system comprises a low-Btu gas inlet, a gas outlet, a zero-pressure regulator, and at least one pressure-based air-gas mixer capable of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070209643 - A compact inline magnetic fuel conditioner for improving fuel efficiency: A compact, inline magnetic fuel conditioner is disclosed for improving fuel efficiency of a fuel combustion engine. The fuel conditioner has a magnetic manifold having a built-in magnetic field for interacting thus conditioning the fuel as it flows by. The magnetic field is produced by several pairs of magnets arranged... Agent: Chein-hwa S. Tsao

20070209644 - Charge air heater: The objective of the present invention is a charge air heater belonging to the field of vehicle equipment, which was developed to have a simple system for gasifying fuels and, in this manner, increase the efficiency and yield of internal combustion engines. It is made up of a tee (1)... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070209645 - Twin spark ignition coil with provisions to balance load capacitance: A twin spark ignition apparatus having two high-voltage (HV) outputs incorporates features for balancing load capacitance on each HV output. The ignition apparatus provides a first high-voltage (HV) connection configured for direct mounting on a first spark plug, and a second HV connection for coupling to a second spark plug... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070204814 - Split-cycle engine with disc valve: A split-cycle engine with disc valve includes a crankshaft, a power cylinder and a compression cylinder. A gas crossover passage interconnects the compression cylinder and the power cylinder. An air intake port circumscribes a periphery of the compression cylinder and defines an outer valve seat. An annular ring having a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070204821 - Intake control apparatus for an engine and method: An engine intake control apparatus for an engine that comprises at least one combustion chamber operatively connected to an intake port and an intake valve associated with each intake port, wherein the intake valve is adapted to open and close the intake port is disclosed herein. The intake control apparatus... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070204823 - valve timing controller: A valve timing controller is provided with a first rotary element that rotates in response to a crankshaft, a second rotary element that rotates in response to a camshaft. Multiple link mechanisms are arranged adjacently in the rotational direction of the first rotary element to change a relative rotation phase... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070204813 - Reforming apparatus, internal combustion engine with reforming apparatus, and fuel cell system with reforming apparatus: A heat engine system includes a fuel reforming system for supplying a reformed gas to be combusted in an internal combustion engine or used to generate electricity in a fuel cell. An alcohol-containing fuel and water are mixed in a tank and separated into a hydrocarbon based fuel and the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070204815 - Air intake porting for a two stroke engine: A two stroke engine of a particular configuration can have its power output increased by running bigger pistons and using ports in the piston skirt through which to conduct compressed air within the skirt through short passages in the cylinder housing that conduct the air from within the skirt to... Agent: Cooper Cameron Corporation

20070204817 - Hydraulic actuation system for improved engine control: A system for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a hydraulic pump configured to be powered at least partially by a source other than the engine; an adjustable hydraulic engine actuator configured to be adjusted by hydraulic fluid of the pump; a control system... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070204816 - Hydraulic actuation system for improved engine start: A method of starting an internal combustion engine for a vehicle having at least a hydraulic pump configured to be powered at least partially by a source other than the engine and an adjustable hydraulic actuator configured to be adjusted by hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic pump is provided. The... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070204819 - Valve engine: A valve drive for an internal combustion engine having at least one camshaft which has a toothed shaft (2) and at least one cam part (3) with a plurality of different cam paths (13, 14) arranged adjacent to one another for the variable actuation of gas exchange valves (8) by... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070204818 - Valve lash adjuster having electro-hydraulic lost-motion capability: In a Type 2 engine, a valve deactivation hydraulic lash adjuster (DHLA) in accordance with the invention replaces a conventional hydraulic lash adjuster in the train of a gas-exchange valve in a compression-ignited engine. In a Type 3 engine, a similar DHLA is disposed within an articulated rocker arm which... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070204820 - Valve train device for engine: A valve train device for an engine for driving a valve which opens and closes a valve opening of a combustion chamber comprises: a valve drive device comprising a drive member and driving force transmission mechanism. The drive force transmission mechanism is configured to transmit a driving force from the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070204824 - Camshaft adjuster: A device for changing the control times of an internal combustion engine (camshaft adjuster) having a pressure medium distributor arranged within a camshaft is provided. The pressure medium distributor is provided at its front end with a radially extending shoulder, this shoulder forming part of the camshaft axial mounting.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070204825 - Valve timing control device for internal combustion engine: A valve timing control device includes a drive pulley driven by a crankshaft of an engine, and a driven camshaft. The camshaft has a cam that serves to open and close an intake port. An engine valve is spring-loaded by a valve spring, whereas the cam opens or closes the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070204822 - Valve timing controller: A valve timing controller is provided with a first rotary element that rotates in response to the movement of a crankshaft, a second rotary element that rotates in response to the movement of a camshaft. A link mechanism changes a relative rotation phase between the first and second rotary elements.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070204826 - Engine and valvetrain with compact rocker arm and fulcrum assembly for internal combustion engines: An internal combustion engine having a plurality of intake and/or exhaust valves associated with each cylinder includes a valvetrain having a fulcrum with a plurality of pivot ball sockets each associated with a rocker arm and pivot ball disposed between the fulcrum and the rocker arm with the fulcrum extending... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20070204827 - Engine starting device: An engine starting device which makes fuel injected in preparation for ignition performed in a cylinder of an engine after starting drive of a starter motor in a forward rotational direction so as to start the engine, and makes ignition performed in a suitable ignition position at the time of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070204828 - Accessories arrangement structure of internal combustion engine for motorcycle: An accessories arrangement structure for an internal combustion engine for securing a banking angle, increasing a degree of the freedom of the layout, concentrating heavy accessories and an overhanging part of the internal combustion engine, enhancing the maneuverability of the vehicle and reducing the size of the engine. An accessories... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070204829 - Crankshaft of piston crank mechanism: A crankshaft mechanism is disclosed that takes advantage of component makeup and orientation to cancel out inertial force. A crankshaft of the crankshaft mechanism includes at least one counterweight that is arranged in combination with the rest of the mechanism to cancel out the inertial force particularly at a timing... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070204830 - System and method for operation of an engine having multiple combustion modes and cylinder deactivation: A method of operating an engine having a plurality of combustion cylinders configured to produce an engine output, comprising of adjusting a condition of the engine to achieve combustion by each of spark ignition and homogeneous charge compression ignition, and varying the engine output by at least varying a number... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070204831 - Internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine operates on a four-stroke cycle and includes a housing defining: one or more generally wedge-shaped combustion chambers, and an internal cavity in which a wheel is mounted for rotation on a crankshaft. Arranged inside each combustion chamber is a gate, with each gate having a corresponding... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20070204832 - Method and device for detecting the idle stroke of injectors: In a method and device for characterising the return stroke of injectors, in particular piezo-injectors of an internal combustion engine provided with a common rail system, when the internal combustion engine is switched off, a constant pressure is dropped in the rail, thereby making it possible to measure the rail... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070204833 - Engine start control apparatus: Oil level detection sensor detects an oil level in a crankcase. First charging circuit includes a serial connection of a first charging capacitor for charging a reverse voltage produced in a primary coil, the detection sensor, and a first diode. Thyristor is turned on, in response to voltage-charging of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070204836 - Fuel injection equipment, internal combustion engine, and control method of fuel injection equipment: A fuel injection equipment to control the instability of combustion when the airflow is weak, and improve the fuel cost. A fuel injection equipment for an cylinder injection type and spark ignition type internal combustion engine that injects gasoline directly to a combustion chamber, wherein the top angle at the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070204835 - Fuel injection nozzle: A fuel injection nozzle, generally relating to the field of internal combustion engine, comprises a nozzle body, a fuel valve and a guide cap, wherein when the fuel pressure in said nozzle body exceeds the predetermined level, said fuel valve opens and the fuel therein is injected out via said... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070204834 - Fuel injection valve: In a fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having at least one valve member that is axially displaceable in a valve body and is guided on a guide sleeve and on its end toward the combustion chamber of the engine has a valve sealing face which cooperates with a... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070204837 - Fuel injector with multi-part, directly-controlled injection valve member: A fuel injector for a common rail injection system for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes an injector body and a nozzle body with an injection valve member embodied in multiple parts received in the nozzle body. A hydraulic booster assembly connected downstream of... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070204838 - System and method for controlling vehicle operation in response to fuel vapor purging: A hybrid vehicle propulsion system, comprising of an engine having at least one combustion cylinder configured to selectively operate in one of a plurality of combustion modes, wherein a first combustion mode is a spark ignition mode and a second combustion mode is a homogeneous charge compression ignition mode, an... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070204839 - Fuel processor apparatus and method for a diesel engine: The present invention provides a diesel engine and methods and apparatus for premixing diesel fuel and oxidant for combustion. The methods and apparatus may include a two stage vortex, each stage accommodating different flow rate ranges. The vortex pulverizes diesel fuel and optimally mixes the diesel fuel with an oxidant... Agent: L. Grant Foster Holland & Hart LLP

20070204840 - Vehicle control method and vehicle control apparatus: A vehicle control apparatus and methodology relate to an exhaust gas sensor and sensor heater associated with an exhaust passage of a vehicle engine. The exhaust gas sensor is selectively heated to an applicable activation temperature by the heater so that the sensor may output a normal and accurate sensing... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC