Internal-combustion engines inventions 10/07

20070245994 - Hydraulic camshaft phaser with mechanical lock: Hydraulically operated camshaft phasers are described which comprise a drive member and a driven member having a fixed range of angular adjustment and a means for mechanically locking the position of the driven member relative to the drive member when there is insufficient hydraulic pressure to operate the phaser. In... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20070245982 - Low emission high performance engines, multiple cylinder engines and operating methods: Low emission high performance engines, multiple cylinder engines and operating methods based on compression ignition of a combustion chamber charge already containing at least some fuel and air. Air is injected into the combustion chamber after top dead center is reached to maintain combustion until all fuel is consumed. Various... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070245984 - Regulating device of the water outlet chamber type: A water outlet chamber-type regulating device includes a chamber component having an inlet and an outlet for a fluid to be regulated, and including a member for regulating the flow, the member having a valve component translatingly movable and configured to close a passage cross-section between the inlet and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070245983 - Crankcase of internal combustion engine: To prevent dew condensation in a crankcase in a lower part of the crankcase, wherein an oil pan is an integral part of an internal combustion engine, to prevent lubricating oil from being diluted. A crankcase cover covers at least an oil pan out of a crankcase and is provided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070245985 - Vehicle including heat guard for control module: A vehicle, such as a motorcycle or ATV, includes a frame, an internal combustion engine, a radiator, a control module and a heat guard. The radiator is configured for receiving fresh air and for expelling heated air. The control module includes an engine control unit for the internal combustion engine.... Agent: Ulmer & Berne, LLP

20070245986 - Engine: In an engine having a cylinder head which forms a portion of an engine body and is provided with an intake valve operated for opening and closing operations by an intake valve operating device having an intake camshaft and an exhaust valve driven for opening and closing operations by an... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070245987 - Internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder and at least one gas exchange valve (1; 1a, 1b) controlled by a first cam (14) on a first camshaft (16) and by a second cam (15) on a second camshaft (17), at least one camshaft (16, 17) having an adjustable... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070245988 - Variable-valve-actuation apparatus for internal combustion engine: A VVA apparatus includes a control shaft arranged rotatable in accordance with the engine operating conditions, an alteration mechanism for changing a lift amount and an operating angle of an engine valve in accordance with rotation of the control shaft, and a drive mechanism for rotating the control shaft and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070245990 - Bearing between two coaxial camshafts for automotive engines in particular: V

20070245991 - Hydraulic camshaft adjuster: A camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine with a locking element is provided. For adjusting the camshaft adjuster (1) in the direction of a locking position, for example, when the internal combustion engine is switched off or when the hydraulic pressure drops, a mechanical spring element (23) is located... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070245989 - Method for adjusting the position of the angle of rotation of the camshaft of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine in relation to the crankshaft: In a method for setting the rotary-angle position of the camshaft of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine relative to the crankshaft, in which the crankshaft has a drive connection to the camshaft via an adjusting gear which is embodied as a triple shaft gear with a drive shaft which... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070245992 - Variable displacement/compression engine: An internal combustion engine with improved efficiency provides continuous variable displacement and/or compression ratio tuning to one of a number of fuel types to be used by the engine. By varying displacement without changing the compression ratio, the engine can be tuned to operate on a given fuel more efficiently... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070245993 - Variable valve type internal combustion engine and control method thereof: The operation modes of plural intake valves 7a and 7b provided in one cylinder is independently changed according to the drive region of the internal combustion engine. In the low air amount region, the intake airflow is controlled only with intake valve 7a which operates in the low air amount... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070245995 - Smoldering determination method of internal combustion engine: According to the present invention, in a spark ignition-type internal combustion engine which has a spark plug and mounted in a vehicle, an ion current generated in a combustion chamber through the spark plug after ignition is detected and smoldering of the spark plug is determined on the basis of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070245996 - Straddle-type vehicle: A straddle-type vehicle that omits a main switch without requiring a special operation to start the engine when battery power is supplied to engine-related electrical components. An electrical circuit has a pickup sensor that detects that the engine is in a start preparation state. An ECU connects an ignition coil,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070245998 - Power management device, control system, and control method: A power management device comprises a start management control unit having a starter hold control function for actuating a starter motor and holding the actuation based on an operating signal from a button switch, a first terminating unit for terminating cranking hold when receiving a starter stop instruction signal sent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070245997 - Method of inhibiting the automatic stop control system of the heat engine of a vehicle in congested traffic: The invention relates to a method of controlling the stopping and starting of a heat engine (2) of a vehicle. The invention is of the type in which (i) it is necessary for the vehicle to be in an engine stop request phase, and not in pre-defined operating conditions that... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20070246000 - Lubrication structure of engine: The lubrication structure of an engine is provided with a crankcase having a crank chamber that houses a crankshaft. A first oil reservoir is in communication with the crank chamber and is formed adjacent a bottom of the crank chamber. A second oil reservoir is in communication with the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070246001 - Oil return device: An engine oil return device for an engine having a cylinder head and a cylinder block is disclosed. The oil return device comprises an oil pan and an oil return path. The oil return path includes at least one oil return main path and at least one oil return extension... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070245999 - Engine for saddle ride type vehicle: An engine for vehicle includes an oil hydraulic automatic transmission for changing the change gear ratio by control of an oil pressure. The oil pressure control unit of the transmission includes a plurality of control valves for controlling the oil pressure, and is mounted to an upper portion of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070246002 - Compressor for fuel cell: A bearing device supporting a rotation shaft of a fuel cell compressor includes a pair of radial foil bearings and mounted in concentric relation to the rotation shaft and supporting the rotation shaft in a radial direction, and an axial magnetic bearing opposed to the rotation shaft in an axial... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070246003 - Injector for diesel engine: An injector for a diesel engine that controls an injecting angle of a fuel in accordance with a driving type of the diesel engine. A nozzle body defines first and second injection holes for injecting a fuel into a combustion chamber and first and second needles selectively open and close... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070246004 - Method for controlling fuel injection in a compression ignition engine: A method for controlling operation of an internal combustion engine operating lean of stoichiometry is described. The engine comprises a multi-cylinder direct-injection engine, the engine operative in repetitive cycles each cycle comprising intake, compression, expansion, and exhaust strokes. The method comprises adapting a plurality of fuel injectors to directly inject... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070246005 - Method for selecting fuel to both optimize the operating range and minimize the exhaust emissions of hcci engines: Operation of a DI HCCI engine is optimized for maximizing load capability and load ranges via matching fuel ignitability with the compression ratio of the engine.... Agent: Kenneth Watov Watov & Kipnes

20070246006 - Method of operating an internal combustion engine: A method is disclosed for operating an internal combustion engine of the type having an engine cylinder with a reciprocating piston, first and second intake ports for admitting gas from an ambient air supply into the engine cylinder, first and second intake valves each arranged between a respective one of... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20070246007 - Engine valve assembly having holding tank with return valve and discharge valve in the valve assembly: An Elevated Expansion-Ratio Internal Combustion Engine has a substantially standard repeating four-stroke sequence for each of a plurality of cylinders. The head of each cylinder has an intake valve, a combustion-gas exhaust valve, and a vapor return valve. A return manifold for vapor connects from respective ones of the cylinders... Agent: David M. Warren

20070246008 - Method and device for increasing the torque of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, in particular of a diesel engine: A method and apparatus for increasing the torque of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, is described. The method and device includes compressing air from a charge air line or from a second air inlet by using the charge air compressor, storing the air compressed by the charge air compressor... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070246009 - Air-intake device for internal combustion engine: An air-intake device includes a throttle valve pivotally movable around a shaft connected to one end of the throttle valve and an airflow passage formed in the intake air passage above an upper end of the throttle valve. In a region where an amount of intake air is small (i.e.,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246011 - Continuous throttle regulation device: A continuous throttle regulation device employs a motor throttle body located proximate to a motor or engine, and an accelerator pedal located remote from the motor or engine. A return switch (RS) is responsive to the motor throttle body, and a pressure sensitive switch (PSS) is responsive to the accelerator... Agent: L. Zale Patent Law Office

20070246010 - Remote control system of an internal combustion engine for a boat: An electronic control device on an internal combustion engine side connected to an abnormal internal combustion engine detects an abnormality and outputs the abnormal signal; the target throttle opening angle signal is transmitted to the electric throttle actuator to set a throttle opening angle of an abnormal internal combustion engine... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070246012 - Engine control apparatus and related engine control method: An engine control apparatus and related control method for an engine are disclosed wherein cylinder discrimination is executed based on a crank signal and a cam signal under a normal signal mode. If a failure occurs in either the crank signal or the cam signal, the cylinder discrimination is executed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246013 - Method of operating an internal combustion engine: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine including a control device and having a cylinder including a combustion chamber formed in the cylinder between a cylinder head and a piston and in which a first combustion chamber pressure (p1) is measured before the start of the combustion, a... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20070246014 - Direct needle control fuel injectors and methods: Direct needle control fuel injectors and methods disclosed. The preferred embodiment injectors have a needle within a needle chamber for movement between a closed position preventing injection of fuel and an open position allowing injection of fuel, a source of high pressure fuel coupled to the needle chamber to provide... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070246015 - Solenoid-operated valve with coil for sensing plunger position: A valve has a plunger that is moved by an actuating solenoid. The actuating solenoid surrounds a large diameter segment of the plunger. A smaller position sensing coil surrounds a smaller diameter segment of the plunger (and is thus coaxial with the larger actuating solenoid) for outputting a signal representative... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070246016 - Connector system: A connector system, free of transverse forces, for a fuel injection valve to be inserted into a receiving orifice into a cylinder head for connection to a fuel distributor line that encompasses a connector to a tubing line leading to a fuel reservoir, has a connecting part for connection to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070246017 - Fuel injector: A fuel injector has a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator, which actuates a valve-closure member cooperating with a valve-seat surface to form a sealing seat. A hydraulic coupler includes a master piston, a slave piston, and a coupler volumeformed in-between. The master piston and the slave piston are axially displaceable with... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070246019 - Fuel injector with variable actuator boosting: The invention relates to a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector has an injection valve member that can be actuated directly by a piezoelectric actuator. This injection valve member is contained in a nozzle body of the fuel injector... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070246018 - Pulsation-dampening fuel trim strategy for air/fuel ratio control of propane-fueled, spark-ignited engines: A trim system for controlling an equivalence ratio in a fuel system is provided. The fuel system includes an air duct, a mixer disposed in the air duct, and a converter. The mixer has a reference pressure port and an air valve vacuum port. The converter has an outlet port... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20070246020 - Fuel supply apparatus of engine: The invention can avoid an energy dissipation and a consumption of an apparatus by minimizing a driving amount of a fuel pump and maintain an improved fuel supply state, in a fuel supply system injecting a liquefied gas fuel by an injector and supplying to an engine. In a return-less... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070246021 - Fuel supply apparatus for engine and control method of same: A fuel supply apparatus for an engine in which calculation of a manipulated variable of a fuel pump in response to a deviation between a fuel pressure detected by a fuel pressure sensor and a target value is carried out, is configured in a manner such that when the fuel... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070246022 - Fuel supply system with a cooling plate: A fuel supply system is disclosed that includes an electric fuel pump, a controller for controlling operations of the fuel pump, and a cooling plate that is disposed in the fuel tank and cools the controller by contacting the controller. Moreover, the system includes a fuel outlet device that allows... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246023 - Evaporated fuel adsorbing mechanism for internal combustion engine: An evaporated fuel adsorbing mechanism for an internal combustion engine includes an adsorbing member provided in an intake passage of the internal combustion engine to adsorb evaporated fuel that flows back through the intake passage when the engine is stopped. The adsorbing member includes a connecting portion connected to an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070246025 - Fuel property determining apparatus, leakage detecting apparatus, and injection control apparatus: A fuel property determining apparatus is provided to a fuel vapor treatment apparatus. The fuel vapor treatment apparatus controls purging of mixture containing fuel vapor, which is generated in a fuel tank and temporarily adsorbed in a canister, into an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine when the internal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246024 - Leak diagnosis device: Concentration measurement is performed multiple times from a period in which pressure in a purge device increases due to generation of fuel vapor after operation of an engine is stopped. A concentration stabilization period, in which a change in the fuel vapor concentration is equal to or less than a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246026 - Cylinder liner and methods construction thereof and improving engine performance therewith: A cylinder liner for an internal combustion diesel engine and corresponding method of construction and method of improving engine performance therewith has a cylindrical inner wall providing a bore extending along a central axis for reciprocation of a piston therein. The inner wall has an axial lower portion and an... Agent: Robert L. Stearns Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070246027 - Fuel filter for automobile: In a fuel filter for an automobile, a filter element for filtering fuel is accommodated in a tubular filter case having a bottom surface and a side surface. A fuel heater is mounted on the side surface of the filter case. Therefore, the filter case and the filter element can... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070246028 - Exhaust recirculation apparatus for engine and method for controlling the same: An exhaust recirculation apparatus is provided to an engine. A high-pressure EGR passage branches from upstream of a turbine of a turbocharger in an exhaust system for recirculating exhaust gas to downstream of a compressor of the turbocharger in an intake system. A high-pressure EGR regulating unit controls exhaust gas... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070246029 - Ignition coil and ignition device for internal combustion engine: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes: an iron core; a primary coil wound around the iron core via a primary bobbin; a secondary coil provided to externally surround the primary coil; a ground terminal fitting placed with a part thereof being held between the primary bobbin and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070240683 - Combustion-engined setting tool: A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements such as, e.g., nails, bolts, or pins in a workpiece, includes a plate-shaped member (17) axially displaceable in the tool combustion chamber (14), a member (33) for displacing the plate-shaped member (17), a holding device (30) for retaining the plate-shaped member (17)... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070240696 - Poppet valve and engine using same: One embodiment of the present invention provides a poppet valve offering an increased valve area, comprising an outer valve head having an outer valve port and an inner valve head having an inner valve port. The inner valve head is rotatable relative to the outer valve head to align the... Agent: Jason S. Jackson

20070240656 - Valve timing controller: A valve timing controller includes a housing which is biasedly assembled in such a manner that the housing is previously moved in a direction where a rotor knocks the housing. A camshaft rotatably extends through a through-hole provided in a sprocket and is engaged with a camshaft-inserting hole provided in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240649 - Controlled liquid injection and blending apparatus: A liquid injection and ratio control system is provided for blending an additive into a main flow line at a controlled ratio. The system automatically detects variances in temperature, pressure, and additive concentration and provides compensation thereto. The system also provides for automatic flow detection, calibration responsive to a level... Agent: William H. Freeman Economy Controls Corp.,

20070240650 - Engine reversing and timing control mechanism in a heat regenerative engine: In an engine having at least one cylinder with a reciprocating piston and a connecting rod for driving rotation of a crank disk and a crankshaft, a cam sleeve is moved along the crankshaft in response to a change in engine speed. The cam sleeve is coupled to a cam... Agent: Robert M. Downey, P.A.

20070240651 - Combustion-type power tool having cooling arrangement: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder, a cylinder head, a combustion chamber frame, and a rotatable fan. The combustion chamber frame including a base section, a head section abuttable on the cylinder head to provide a combustion chamber when the combustion chamber frame is at a first... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070240652 - Cylinder liner for insert casting and method for manufacturing thereof: A cylinder liner for insert casting and a method for manufacturing the cylinder liner are provided. The cylinder liner and the method are applied to cylinder blocks and improve the adherence and the bonding strength with a cylinder block material in a favorable manner. The cylinder liner satisfies the following... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070240654 - Lift-variable valve-operating system for internal combustion engine: A lift-variable valve-operating system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: subsidiary cams which are swingably supported on a movable support shaft capable of being displaced within a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of a valve-operating cam, and which are swung following the valve-operating cam; and rocker arms each operatively... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070240655 - Lift-variable valve-operating system for internal combustion engine: A lift-variable valve-operating system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: subsidiary cams which are swingably supported on a movable support shaft capable of being displaced within a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of a valve-operating cam, and which are swung following the valve-operating cam; and rocker arms each operatively... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070240653 - System and method for adaptive control of variable valve lift tappet switching: A method of controlling cylinder valve switching between a first valve condition and a second valve condition for transitioning between combustion modes of an engine comprises adjusting timing of a signal to switch between said valve conditions in response to information from a combustion sensor, wherein said combustion modes include... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070240657 - Adjustable camshaft, in particular for internal combustion engines for motor vehicles having a hydraulic adjusting device: m

20070240658 - Toothed belt: Toothed belt for use in contact with oil and comprising a body and a number of teeth extending from at least one surface of the body; the teeth are coated by a fabric; a resistant layer comprising a plastomer based on fluorine with the addition of elastomeric material, in which... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook C/o Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20070240659 - Cylinder deactivation apparatus: An internal combustion engine having a cylinder block defining a plurality of cylinders at least half of which are selectively deactivatable by a plurality of switching hydraulic lifters. A source of pressurized oil is provided. Additionally, at least one solenoid-actuated hydraulic control valve operates to selectively communicate pressurized oil from... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070240660 - Method for igniting combustion of fuel in a combustion chamber of an engine, associated device and engine: The invention relates to a method which is used to ignite the combustion of fuel in a combustion chamber (5) of a engine (2), by introducing microwave radiation into the combustion chamber (5), said microwave radiation being produced in a microwave source (7) on the outside of the combustion chamber... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070240661 - Device for detecting the combustion-chamber pressure in an internal combustion engine: A device for detecting the pressure in a combustion chamber of an engine is designed in such a way that the combustion-chamber pressure can be detected reliably and reproducibly. For this purpose, a glow element in a glow plug, exposed to the combustion-chamber pressure, is fixedly mounted in a housing... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070240664 - Device for use in starting a model airplane engine: A device for starting a model airplane engine from a starter motor, electric drill or other drive means. The device for starting a model airplane engine comprises a cylindrical hub having an open end and a closed end, the hub having tubular sidewalls attached to periphery edges of the base... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070240662 - Control apparatus-integrated generator-motor: The control apparatus-integrated generator-motor has: a generator-motor; and a control apparatus that is constituted by an inverter, a control circuit, a temperature sensor, etc. The control circuit determines whether or not switching element temperature will exceed the maximum permissible temperature when a command for an automatic engine stopping operation is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070240663 - Energization control apparatus and method for glow plug during the period from preglow to afterglow steps: A control apparatus for controlling to supply of electric power to both a glow plug and a starter from a power source, the starter assisting start of the engine by using the glow plug, is provided. The control apparatus comprises a starter switch, starter, a detecting device detecting a state... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240665 - Outboard motor: An outboard motor is mounted on a hull and has an engine disposed in an upright position in a cowling so that a crankshaft thereof extends generally vertically during cruising. An embodiment of the motor includes a first surge tank disposed on the opposite side of a cylinder head of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070240666 - Outboard motor: An outboard motor mounted to a hull of a watercraft includes a V-type engine having right and left cylinder banks positioned in a cowling and having a crankshaft generally vertically disposed when the watercraft is under a running condition. A surge tank is disposed in the cowling. Right and left... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070240667 - Vehicle with variable air intake arrangement: A vehicle, such as a motorcycle, includes an engine having at least one intake port. An air intake assembly introduces air into the intake port. In one arrangement, the air intake assembly includes a stationary funnel and a movable funnel positioned on the inlet side of the fixed funnel and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070240668 - Inlet valve having high temperature coating and internal combustion engines incorporating same: An inlet valve is partially coated with a protective coating to resist corrosion and gas impingement when used in an internal combustion engine. The inlet valve has a hard cladding that is shaped to function as a valve seat. The hard cladding forms an interface with the valve head body,... Agent: John M. Guynn Workman Nydegger

20070240669 - Cylinder crankcase comprising a cylinder liner: The invention relates to a cylinder crankcase (4) comprising at least one cylinder liner (2) which is integrally cast in the cylinder crankcase (4). The cylinder liner (2) runs in the cylinder crankcase (4) from a cylinder-head side (6) to an oil-chamber side (8) and has an inner side (10)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070240670 - Engine cylinder head: A cylinder head of an engine is disclosed, the cylinder head including an upper deck, a lower deck, and a sidewall extending between the upper deck and the lower deck. The lower deck defines a block-engaging portion and a combustion chamber flame deck. The combustion chamber flame deck is spaced... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070240671 - Internal combustion engine provided with camshaft-driven accessory: An internal combustion engine has a camshaft holder 20 attached to a cylinder head 1, and two camshafts 11 and 12 are rotatably supported by the camshaft holder 20. A high-pressure pump 60 has a driving shaft 63 rotatively driven by the camshaft. An accessory holder 30 provided with a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070240672 - Crankcase of an engine: A crankcase of an engine having a crankshaft therein comprises a skirt part formed in the circumferential direction of the crankshaft and a stiffening rib provided on a wall surface of the skirt part as inclined at a predetermined degree angle to the axis of the crankshaft.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070240673 - Internal combustion engine: A power transfer assembly (2000) for transferring energy within a combustion engine (1010) externally of the engine. The power transfer assembly includes a crankshaft (2006) adapted to convert reciprocating motion to rotating motion. The power transfer assembly further includes an outdrive (2004, 2020, and/or 2026) adapted to transfer the rotating... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070240674 - Multilobe rotary motion asymetric compression/expansion engine: A rotary engine with multiple pivotally mounted lobes desmodromically extendible and retractable from a rotor to trace asymmetric volumes for inlet and compression and expansion and exhaust based on the contour of the engine case which the lobes sealingly engage.... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070240675 - Fuel injection control apparatus designed to minimize combustion noise of engine: A fuel injection control apparatus for a diesel engine is provided which works to determine the number of a sequence of injection events to inject fuel into the engine in each operating cycle of the engine and increase it based on the temperature of an injector drive circuit. When the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240676 - Throttle control apparatus and method for throttle control: A throttle control apparatus includes a valve. A motor is provided for generating driving force to rotate the valve. Gears transmit the driving force to the valve. A biasing unit generates biasing force to bias the valve in a close rotative direction. A control unit is provided for supplying electricity... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240677 - Throttle control apparatus and method for throttle control: A throttle control apparatus includes a housing defining therein a fluid passage. A motor is provided for generating driving force to rotate a valve. The valve blocks the fluid passage when the valve is in a full close position. A throttle position detecting unit detects a throttle position of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240678 - Throttle valve unit: A throttle valve unit is disclosed that includes a main body having a cylinder portion defining a fluid passage. The main body also includes a fastening portion projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder portion for fastening to a separate member. The cylinder portion defines an axis. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240679 - Control apparatus and control method for engine: For accurately estimating an air quantity flowing into a cylinder at the time of operating an intake control valve, a control apparatus for an engine according to the present invention is provided with an intake control valve which can open/close an intake passage in synchronization with opening/closing of an intake... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070240680 - Control device of internal combustion engine: A control device of an internal combustion engine determining a target throttle opening degree based on a target intake air amount which can simply and reliably detect any control abnormality is provided. The control device of an internal combustion engine determining a target throttle opening degree based on a target... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070240681 - Intake device for outboard motors: An intake device for outboard motors, which makes it possible to improve intake performance and reduce the size of the device at the same time. Cylinder banks have a plurality of cylinder bores arranged in a vertical direction, and extend rearward to form a V shape. Intake ports of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070240682 - Fuel injector for an internal-combustion engine: The fuel injector comprises a hollow casing, fixed on which is a nozzle having a nebulizer for the fuel under pressure, a needle axially mobile for opening and closing the nebulizer by means of a first end thereof, and a control rod, substantially coaxial with the needle and in direct... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070240684 - Fuel pump control: An apparatus in a mechanical returnless fuel system is provided that includes a fuel pump motor for providing fuel to a powertrain system. A powertrain control module provides an activation signal for activating the fuel pump motor. A restraint control system includes a restraint control module for providing a disabling... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070240685 - Method for controlling a valve and method for controlling a pump/nozzle device with a valve: A valve has a piezo actuator, a valve element, a valve body and a valve seat. At a predeterminable point in time, the valve element is controlled by a discharging process of the piezo actuator from a position in which it rests against the valve seat to a predetermined position... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070240686 - Fuel system for outboard motor: A boat has an outboard motor that is mounted to a hull and has a fuel system. The outboard motor has a cowling housing an engine. The fuel system includes a fuel pump disposed within a sealed container. The sealed container provides a physical and thermal barrier to seawater and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070240687 - Fuel control system and associated method: A fuel control system for controlling the purging of alternate fuel in an internal combustion engine at shutdown includes: at least one valve device configured to deliver a fuel supply to the engine; a first fuel source configured to provide a primary fuel to the valve device; a second fuel... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070240688 - Fuel conditioning apparatus: A fuel conditioning system has a housing defining a chamber and provided with an inlet upstream of the chamber and an outlet downstream of the chamber. A hemispherical seat has a first end in communication with the inlet, and a second end in communication with the chamber. A valve body... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070240690 - Fluid control valve: A fluid control valve includes a housing defining therein a fluid passage. The fluid control valve further includes a valve member for controlling a fluid flow in the fluid passage by communicating and blocking by the fluid passage. The fluid control valve further includes a protection member being press-inserted into... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240689 - Thermally responsive regulator valve assembly: A thermally responsive regulator valve assembly and exhaust gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine having an intake manifold and an exhaust system is provided. The exhaust gas recirculation system includes an exhaust gas recirculation passage selectively interconnecting the exhaust system and the intake manifold. An exhaust gas recirculation... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation, Legal Staff

20070240691 - Egr recovery system and method: An EGR recovery system and method includes calculating a transient volume of EGR sufficient to maintain NOx emitted by an engine below a predetermined level during a period of transient operation of said engine, supplying an actual volume of EGR during said period of transient operation, measuring said actual level... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070240692 - Four-stroke engine for an outboard motor: An engine for an outboard motor is provided that can include a crankcase having a crankcase chamber, a cam chamber, and an oil pan disposed below the crankcase. The engine can also include a crank chamber oil-return passage through which lubricating oil can be returned from the crank chamber to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070240693 - Spark plug circuit: A spark plug circuit for, and a method of, reducing or preventing the corrosion of a spark plug electrodes in an internal combustion engine. The circuit and method provide a positive voltage across the center electrode/ground electrode gap, which repels positively charged corrosion mechanisms, such as calcium and phosphorus ions.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070240695 - Air-fuel ratio detection apparatus of internal combustion engine: In a multi-cylinder engine, to compute the air-fuel ratio of each cylinder by an air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust pipe, a cylinder is determined by a crank angle detected by a crank angle sensor. A deviation in the air-fuel ratio of each cylinder is detected on the basis... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070240694 - Method for detecting a cylinder-specific air/fuel ratio in an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine comprising several cylinders provided with injection valves associated with the cylinders admeasuring fuel. An exhaust gas probe is arranged in an exhaust gas tract and the measuring signal thereof is characteristic for the air/fuel ratio in the respective cylinder. A sensing crankshaft angle is determined in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070234982 - Method for reducing power consumption and emissions for an internal combustion engine having a variable event valvetrain: A method for controlling stopping and starting of an engine having a variable event valvetrain is described. According to the method engine valves may be used to reduce engine evaporative emissions as well as engine starting emissions.... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070234988 - Method for producing a compression connection: m

20070234975 - Power system with computer-controlled fuel system: The present invention is a fuel-control system for a turbine which includes a programmable logic controller. The controller manages utility and stored natural gas sources using a surge tank and pressure-control valve arrangement and is backed up by a hydrogen-powered fuel cell.... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20070234976 - Apparatus with mixed fuel separator and method of separating a mixed fuel: A method of operating a vehicle system including an internal combustion engine is disclosed, the method comprises separating a second fuel from a first fuel, the second fuel having a greater concentration of at least one component than the first fuel; combusting at least the first fuel at least during... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070234977 - Evaporative in-cylinder cooling: An engine is cooled using high pressure water injected into the piston with the water converted to high pressure steam by the heat from combustion with heat transfer taking place in passages in the piston and in and between grooves in the piston and the cylinder sleeve. The high pressure... Agent: Clyde I. Coughenour

20070234978 - Fluid valve: A fluid valve for use in proportioning/mixing fluid between at least one input and at least one output. The fluid valve including a rotary actuated diverter for controlling fluid flow between the inlet(s) and outlet(s). The fluid valve may be configured to support proportioning any number of fluids, including liquids... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070234979 - Fluid valve: A fluid valve for use in proportioning/mixing fluid between at least one input and at least one output. The fluid valve including a rotary actuated diverter for controlling fluid flow between the inlet(s) and outlet(s). The fluid valve may be configured to support proportioning any number of fluids, including liquids... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070234980 - Engine coolant pump drive system and apparatus for a vehicle: An engine coolant pump drive system for a vehicle having an engine, an engine coolant system, and at least one sensor for sensing at least one operational condition of the vehicle is disclosed. The pump drive system includes a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) clutch, and a coolant pump. The MRF clutch... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070234981 - V-engine with auxiliary shafts: The present invention relates to a V-engine having a crank shaft 20, two banks of cylinders, each comprising at least one cylinder, having a cylinder head in which at least one camshaft 100,102 is provided, and two auxiliary shafts 30,32 arranged substantially laterally of the crank shaft. Moreover, a force-transmitting... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP Established 1950

20070234985 - Method for controlling an internal combustion engine having a variable event valvetrain: A method for improving engine torque control during cylinder reactivation and cylinder deactivation for an engine having at least a turbo charger and a variable event valvetrain is presented. The method can improve vehicle drivability during cylinder mode transitions.... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070234984 - Method for controlling cylinder air charge for a turbo charged engine having variable event valve actuators: A method for controlling cylinder air charge of an engine having a compressor is presented. In one example, the description includes a method for coordinating the control of the throttle, turbo charger, and valves such that the desired cylinder air charge may be achieved while engine pumping work may be... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070234983 - Method for controlling valves of an engine having a variable event valvetrain during an engine stop: A method for controlling a variable event valvetrain during engine stop conditions is described. According to the method engine valves may be controlled to so that subsequent engine starting may be facilitated and so that energy consumption may be reduced.... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070234986 - Vane-type camshaft adjuster: In a camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine including a housing, with two side cover sections and a middle jacket section arranged between the side cover sections and a rotor disposed in the housing, the jacket section is formed by a cross-cut profile section drawn from a tube in... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070234987 - Closure assembly for a camshaft phaser: A closure assembly for a camshaft phaser. A plug or a cap is provided with either a radially-sealing gasket seal or a face-sealing gasket seal, the seal being formed by insertion of the plug into a bore, or by installation of a cap over a neck formed in a cover... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070234989 - Valve operating assembly and method of manufacturing: The present invention relates to a leakdown plunger, comprising a first plunger opening, a second plunger opening, and an outer plunger surface that is provided with an axis and encloses an inner plunger surface, the first plunger opening is provided with a first annular plunger surface shaped to accommodate a... Agent: The Maclean Fogg Company C/o Dana Alden

20070234990 - Start-up control for internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine (101, 601, 901) alters an effective compression ratio from an effective compression ratio for a start-up operation to a larger effective compression ratio for a normal operation when an engine rotation speed (NE) increases beyond a resonance rotation speed region during cranking. A controller (104, 610,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070234991 - Method and apparatus for controlling engine valve timing: A method of controlling an engine during an engine startup or shutdown condition includes operating a valve to open a port of a combustion chamber to allow fluid to flow between the combustion chamber and the port for at least one entire engine cycle. The method also includes preventing combustion... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070234992 - Active induction system tuning with multiple valves: An induction system is designed for an engine that includes a manifold having a plenum in fluid communication with primary runners. A plenum valve is arranged between first and second chambers of the plenum that are respectively in fluid communication with first and second sets of the primary runners. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070234993 - Induction system with common actuator for plenum and runner valves: An example induction system for an engine includes a plenum in fluid communication with multiple primary runners. A plenum valve is arranged between first and second chambers of the plenum, which are respectively in fluid communication with first and second sets of the primary runners. The plenum valve is configured... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070234994 - Scuff resistant aluminum piston and aluminum cylinder bore combination and method of making: A piston and cylinder assembly for an engine is disclosed. The assembly includes a piston including an aluminum alloy piston body having a crown and a skirt extending from the crown. The skirt has an exterior surface having a surface finish in a wave form with peaks and valleys, and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070234995 - Cylinder head cover for a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine: A cover for a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine having a connecting element for attachment the cylinder head and a sealing element arranged between the cylinder head cover and the cylinder head. The connecting element is associated with a connecting area, and the sealing element is associated with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070234997 - Turbocharger oil supply passage check valve and method: A turbocharger (500) for an internal combustion engine (400) includes a center housing (504) having an oil supply passage (412) in fluid communication with an oil pump (404). The oil pump (404) is in fluid communication with an oil reservoir (420) in the engine (400). An oil drain passage (418)... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20070234996 - Adjusting device, in particular for a motor vehicle: In an adjusting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, which includes at least one adjusting unit for adjusting the pressure of a pressure medium in accordance with at least one parameter, the adjusting unit includes a first and a second throttle point having different dependences on the parameter in... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070234998 - Shut-down device for engine of portable working machine: An engine shut-down device, which protects a portable working machine from static electricity discharge damage, is provided. In the portable working machine, engine operation can be stopped by switching or forcing a short-circuit at a primary coil in the ignition unit of the engine. The engine shut-down device, includes a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070235000 - Suction system with a device for avoiding the ingress of water: A suction system for an internal combustion engine has a device for avoiding the ingress of water and includes a switch-over valve between a primary intake line and a secondary intake line. To provide improved protection against water ingress, the switch-over valve is controlled so that during off-road travel there... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070234999 - Throttle regulator for vibration compaction machine: An engine stop switch and a fuel open-close lock are integrally incorporated in a throttle lever case, a partially toothless driven gear is intermittently rotated via a partially toothless drive gear 4 rotated by a lever 6, and the intermittent rotation of the partially toothless driven gear turns on/off the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070235001 - Rotary engine with two rotors and its design method: This invention provides a rotary engine and the type engine design method. This engine mainly has two nested rotors and a cylinder body. This invention publicizes in detail about the rotary engine movement principle and the work mechanism. This type engine can the automatic control compression ratio, the running rate... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070235002 - Combustion control via homogeneous combustion radical ignition (hcri) or partial hcri in cyclic ic engines: A process is provided for enhancing homogeneous combustion and improving ignition in rotary and reciprocating piston IC engines. Physical embodiments supporting this process have secondary chambers embedded in the cylinder periphery to initiate radical ignition (“RI”) species generation in an earlier cycle for use in the main chamber combustion of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group

20070235003 - Piston formed by powder metallurgical methods: A piston includes a piston structure being unitarily formed in a powder metallurgy process, the piston structure having a crown assembly and a skirt assembly, at least a partial combustion chamber being formed intersecting a piston crown surface during the powder metallurgy process, the skirt assembly depending from the crown... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20070235004 - Bowl-in-piston of a cylinder in a direct injection engine: A piston in a direct injection spark ignition internal combustion engine is configured to reciprocate upward and downward within a combustion chamber along a reciprocating axis. The piston comprises an upper end which partly defines the combustion chamber; a bowl defined on the upper end of the piston, the bowl... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070235005 - Method for controlling valves during the stop of an engine having a variable event valvetrain: A method for controlling valves during an engine stop is presented. The valves are controlled in a manner that can quiet the engine during a stop. In addition, the valves may be selectively controlled to direct the contents of the cylinder in a desired direction so that engine emissions may... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070235006 - Electronic engine control device, vehicle equipped with electronic engine control device, and electronic engine control method: An engine ECU learns a base duty ratio command of an actuator for driving a throttle valve as an operation level of engine control on condition that a target idle rotation speed Nei* enters a predetermined rotation speed range during idling of an engine as one prerequisite. When the learning... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070235007 - Ignition timing control system and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit: An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of reducing the capacity of a memory that stores data used in controlling ignition timing, thereby reducing manufacturing costs. An ignition timing control system that controls ignition timing of an internal combustion engine calculates a maximum torque... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070235008 - Needle-spring locking device for pump-injector (injector) for internal combustion engines: Needle-spring locking device for pump-injectors (injectors) of diesels, in which in order to significantly increase the lift and closing pressures of the nozzle needle, the locking spring (17) is disposed in the central cavity of the body around the outer surface of the plunger's bushing (2) and is connected with... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070235009 - Control apparatus for direct injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for a direct injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine can prevent the deterioration of combustion resulting from fuel adhesion according to the deterioration of performance of an injector. The apparatus includes a variety of kinds of sensors that detect an operating condition of an internal combustion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070235010 - Flow sensor: An exhaust system for receiving exhaust gas of an engine is provided. The exhaust system comprises a cooler configured to cool at least a portion of exhaust gas, a pressure sensor configured to measure an exhaust pressure drop across the cooler, and a controller configured to determine exhaust flowrate as... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070235011 - Exhaust gas recirculation system with in-cylinder valve actuation: A method for recirculating exhaust gas includes operating an intake valve to open an intake port of a combustion chamber, operating an exhaust valve to open an exhaust port of the combustion chamber, and directing exhaust gas from the exhaust port to an exhaust recirculation port of the combustion chamber.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070235012 - Ignition apparatus: Ignition apparatus 10 includes high tension ignition cable 56. The cable 56 is of low electrical resistance per unit length. A central core 100 of the cable 56 is formed of carbon fibre filaments. An insulating layer 110 is provided around the core 100. A semiconductor layer 120 is provided... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070235013 - Ignition coil device: An ignition coil device mounted on the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The ignition coil includes: a cylindrical pipe inserted into a plug hole while a first clearance is formed between the cylindrical pipe and the plug hole; a coil tower arranged over the cylindrical pipe; a seal... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070227473 - Water-cooled internal combustion engine: A water-cooled internal combustion engine has a cylinder head 21 provided with a cylinder head water jacket Jh through which cooling water flows. The cylinder head water jacket Jh includes a combustion chamber water jacket 70 surrounding combustion chambers 26 and an exhaust passage water jacket 71 around an exhaust... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070227475 - Internal combustion engine and transporation apparatus incorporating the same: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block formed of a metal material, a cylinder liner formed of a metal material different from that of the cylinder block, the cylinder liner being fitted onto the cylinder block, a water jacket provided between the cylinder block and the cylinder liner for... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070227476 - Machine provided with pulsating oil pressure reducing device: A pulsating oil pressure reducing device 40 for an internal combustion engine has an oil chamber 41 for reducing pulsating oil pressure in a discharge passage 30 for carrying oil discharged from an oil pump 20. The oil chamber 41 communicates with the discharge passage 30 by way of a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070227478 - Electro-hydraulic valve actuator with integral electric motor driven rotary control valve: An improved electro-hydraulic intake and exhaust valve actuator for a “camless” internal combustion reciprocating engine. The present invention integrates an electric motor driven “plug type” rotary control valve and a single acting hydraulic cylinder in one housing for the actuation of an engine valve. The geometry of the hydraulic ports... Agent: John W. Fitzgerald

20070227479 - Control device and method for variable valve mechanism: A variable valve timing and lift mechanism includes an actuator that adjusts the period in which an intake valve is held open by moving a drive element. When a control unit switches the duration, the control unit controls the actuator so that the duration is changed at a first speed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070227480 - Variable valve device for internal combustion engine: A variable valve device for an internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine body having a plurality of cylinders, a variable valve mechanism which is provided in the body and is switchable between at least two modes with oil pressure, a mode switching oil control valve which switches the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070227481 - Variable valve device for internal combustion engine: A variable valve device for an internal combustion engine comprises a first switching oil passage which is formed along an axial direction in one of a rocker shafts, the first rocker arm being switched to the first mode by applying oil pressure to a first rocker arm through the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070227484 - Control apparatus and control method for a variable valve timing mechanism: Control of a hydraulic type variable valve timing mechanism utilizing torque acting on a camshaft to transfer oil between an advance chamber and a retard chamber to cause a variation in a rotational phase of the camshaft, is implemented by computing a manipulated variable at each one cycle of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070227483 - Variable valve timing apparatus executing reference position learning and control method thereof: A current value of an intake valve phase calculated based on a sensor output is smoothed along the direction of time axis in accordance with a smoothing factor, whereby a phase detection value is detected. At the time of reference position learning, the smoothing factor is set to a value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070227482 - Variable valve timing apparatus with reduced power consumption and control method thereof: A convergence determination of intake valve phase control is made by comparing a phase deviation of an intake valve from a target phase with a convergence determination value. At the time of convergence, it is determined that the intake valve phase has reached the target phase, so that the required... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070227485 - Method and apparatus for adjusting engine valve clearance: A rocker arm is mounted to an eccentric shaft. The shaft has a pair of ends which are mounted to corresponding supports. The shaft has a rocker arm seat portion which is eccentric to the end portions, whereby when the position of the shaft is changed by rotating it, the... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070227470 - Lightweight portable electric generator with integrated starter/alternator: A compact and lightweight electric generator for portable power applications employs a new engine design and integration approach for reducing engine, generator, and starter weight. A unique flywheel alternator/starter configuration that generates electrical power, rotates the engine for starting, provides inertia for smooth engine operation, pressurized air for cooling, and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070227471 - Ultra-expansion four-stroke internal combustion engine: An ultra-expansion four-stroke internal combustion engine, includes a cylinder and a pistons, wherein the compression degree of the admission space that satisfies the power requirement is maintained at 1.8-5 Mpa at the end of compression stroke to form the condition of increasing combustion temperature and pressure. According to an ultra... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070227472 - Waste heat collecting system having expansion device: An object of the invention is to provide a waste heat collecting system having an expansion device, in which an over expansion of refrigerant is prevented so that a loss to be caused by the over expansion is eliminated. A volume ratio of expansion for the expansion device is selected... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070227474 - Optimized cooling system for a motorized vehicle: The subject of the present invention concerns an engine-cooling radiator module assembly (1), an engine block (3), a radiator module (9) and a method for cooling an oil circulating in an oil circuit of an engine by means of a coolant. The coolant runs through a coolant channel which is... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070227477 - Combustion type power tool having buffer piece: A combustion-type power tool includes a housing, a cylinder disposed, a piston, and a cylinder head disposed at an end of the housing and having a wall portion extending in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, the wall portion having an opening. A motor is disposed at the cylinder... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070227488 - Glow plug energization control apparatus and method: There is provided an energization control apparatus for a glow plug in an engine, including a post-start glow section to control energization of a resistance heater of the glow plug by a battery after start of the engine. The post-start glow section is configured to evaluate revolution stability of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070227487 - Glow plug provided with a pressure sensor: A glow plug consists of a tubular body including elements for fixing it into a bore, an intermediate tubular part (30) arranged inside the tubular body, a finger (10′) disposed inside the intermediate tubular part (30) and including a heating electrode and a pressure sensor (14) connected by the face... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070227486 - Head of a glow plug provided with a pressure sensor: The invention concerns a glow plug comprising a glow plug body (2), a pressure sensor arranged inside the glow plug body (2), a threaded portion (6) on the outside of the glow plug body (2) and gripping means (12), generally of cylindrical form with a hexagonal section, enabling the body... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070227489 - Engine starting system in response to manual trigger operation: In a system, a setting unit sets historical information in response to a manual transient operation. The manual transient operation triggers automatic start of the engine. The historical information represents that the manual transient operation has existed. A validation unit has a first identifier uniquely identifying the vehicle. The validation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070227490 - Internal combustion engine provided with oil filter: An internal combustion engine is provided with an oil filter 10 through which lubricant oil having pulsating pressure passes. The oil filter 10 has an oil filter body 11 attached to a filter base 20, and a cover 30 formed integrally with the filter base 20 and circumferentially surrounding the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070227491 - Power unit: A power unit provided with a dry sump type lubricating device includes a power unit case that is covered in part by a power unit case cover and is divided into a front unit case and a rear unit case. The power unit also includes a crankshaft rotatably supported by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070227492 - Fuel injector having algorithm controlled look-ahead timing for injector-ignition operation: The present invention provides an injector-ignition fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, comprising an ECU controlling a heated catalyzed fuel injector for heating and catalyzing a next fuel charge, wherein the ECU uses a one firing cycle look-ahead algorithm for controlling fuel injection. The ECU may further incorporate... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070227494 - Heated catalyzed fuel injector for injection ignition engines: The present invention provides an injector-ignition fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, comprising an input fuel metering system for dispensing a next fuel charge into a pressurizing chamber, a pressurization ram system including a pressurization ram for compressing the fuel charge within the pressurizing chamber, wherein the fuel charge... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070227493 - Injector-ignition for an internal combustion engine: The present invention provides a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses fuel substantially exclusively during the power stroke of an internal combustion engine, wherein ignition occurs in a fast burn zone at high fuel density such that a leading surface of the fuel is completely burned within several microseconds. In... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070227495 - Intake device of internal combustion engine: An intake control valve of an intake device of an internal combustion engine comprises a given portion defined by an air intake passage that leads to a combustion chamber of the engine through an intake valve; a pivot shaft passing through the given portion; and a valve plate secured to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070227496 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: 1. Method for operating an internal combustion engine 2.1. The invention proposes a method for operating an internal combustion engine in which the combustion position can be set/controlled/corrected. 2.2. According to the invention, it is provided that the phase position of intake and/or exhaust phase is shifted for this purpose.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070227497 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine, computer program product, computer program, and control and/or regulating device for an internal combustion engine: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, a computer program product, a computer program, and a control and/or regulating device for an internal combustion engine make detection of an erroneously permanently closed intake valve for a cylinder of the internal combustion engine having more than one intake valve possible.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070227498 - Fresh gas system and operating method for a piston engine: The fresh gas system is characterized in that the collecting line is unthrottled and a control unit for actuation of the additional valves is designed so that it subdivides a fresh gas charge of the combustion chamber which depends on the load state into two charging phases (A, B) within... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070227499 - Electric power generation control system: An electric power generation control system has an electric power generation amount determining section for determining an electric power generation request amount of a vehicle alternator by monitoring vehicle conditions, an electric power generation amount increase judgment section for judging presence/absence of an electric power generation amount increase request to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070227500 - Method for determining the air mass in a cylinder: The method for determining an air mass in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine with a supercharging device and with a device for variably controlling the valve overlap of the gas exchange valves is characterized by a reference characteristic curve for the air mass inside the cylinder that, according... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070227501 - Internal combustion engine shut-down for engine having adjustable valves: A method for operating an engine in a vehicle, the engine having at least a cylinder, the method comprising generating engine braking torque to stop rotation of the engine in a desired range by opening and closing at least an electrically actuated valve of the cylinder more than once during... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070227502 - Engine: An engine comprises an upstream interlocking portion (1) near a crank shaft, which is interlockingly connected through a timer (20) to a downstream interlocking portion (2). The timer (20) is provided with a temperature-sensing operation means (7). During a cold-starting term while the temperature-sensing operation means (7) senses a temperature... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070227503 - Spark-ignition gasoline engine: Disclosed is a spark-ignition gasoline engine, which comprises control means operable, when an engine operation zone is a high-load operation zone including a WOT region within at least a low speed range, to adjust a closing timing of an intake valve in such a manner as to maintain an effective... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070227504 - Apparatus, system, and method for diverting fluid: A pump component is removed from a port of a suction-side fluid cavity of a high-pressure fluid pump. The pump component performs a pump function for the high-pressure fluid pump. A primary coupler connects to the port. The pump component connects to the primary coupler. A diverter fluid passage diverts... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070227505 - Revolution control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine provided with that revolution control apparatus: An engine revolution in an expansion stroke of a cylinder is calculated, and stored, from a time that is required for a crank shaft to rotate by a predetermined angle from a compression upper dead center of that cylinder, and to determine the fuel injection amount, in averaging these stored... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070227506 - Drive circuit for an injector arrangement and a diagnostic method: The invention relates to a drive circuit for an injector arrangement comprising a fuel injector, and method of detecting faults in the drive circuit. The drive circuit comprises diagnostic means (RH, RL) that is operable to sense a measured voltage (VBIAS) between the injector and a known voltage level (VBAT,... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070227507 - Control device for piezo actuators of fuel injection valves: A control device for piezo actuators of fuel injection valves includes a DC/DC up converter and an output stage configured as a SEPIC converter having a second transistor and a coupling capacitor connected in series on the input end. The DC/DC up converter is configured as a flyback converter having... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070227508 - Method of retarding injection timing of mechanical unit injectors using a modified pump barrel: A modified barrel device (1) and method of retarding injection timing of EMD-type unit injectors by a desired amount of crank degrees includes the steps of providing a modified pump barrel (8) whose port locations differ, in their spacing from the top shoulder of the associated barrel, that corresponds to... Agent: Edward M. Livingston, Pa

20070227509 - Internal combustion engine having improved fuel pump configuration, and vehicle including same: An engine-mounted mechanical fuel pump for an internal combustion engine contributes to a stable operation of the engine, a reduction in the weight of the engine, and a reduction in the pump drive loss. The engine includes a cylinder head provided with intake ports and exhaust ports therein, and fuel... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070227511 - Fuel supply system for internal combustion engine: In a fuel supply system, a fuel pump supplies fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel supply piping and to a back pressure introducing passage. A pressure regulator has a fuel pressure regulating chamber communicated to the fuel supply piping, and a back pressure chamber communicated to the back... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070227510 - Fuel system with pressure regulation and pressure relief: A fuel supply system is provided for delivering fuel from a tank to an engine of a motor vehicle through a fuel line. The system is provided with a pressure relief valve to divert fuel from the fuel line during engine shut down conditions when fuel flow to the engine... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070227513 - Evaporated fuel adsorbing apparatus: An evaporated fuel adsorbing apparatus includes a surge tank provided in an intake system for an internal combustion engine; a resonator connected with only the surge tank; and a fuel adsorbing member that adsorbs evaporated fuel. The fuel adsorbing member is provided in the resonator.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070227514 - Fuel vapor treatment apparatus: A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a canister, a fuel vapor supply tube and a booster pump. The booster pump compresses fuel vapors retained in the canister and feeds the fuel vapors in the form of a compressed gas to fuel injectors of an engine via the fuel vapor supply... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070227512 - Solenoid valve: A solenoid valve 10 is provided generally including a bobbin 12 for supporting a coil 14 and a core 16 located adjacent to the bobbin 12. An armature 18 is movably disposed relative to the core 16. A plunger 24 is coupled to the armature 18 and movable with the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070227515 - Purge system for internal combustion engine: A canister is connected with a fuel tank to adsorb fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank. The canister is also connected to a downstream side point of an intake air pipe, which is on a downstream side of a supercharging device, through a first purge line. The canister is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070227516 - Supercharger: A centrifugal supercharger is provided. One embodiment of the supercharger comprises a two-piece housing wherein a parting area is substantially aligned with a rotational axis of a drive- or impeller shaft. Another embodiment comprises a sleeve, or intermediate member disposed substantially between the housing and a bearing assembly(s) located within... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070227517 - Procedure to operate an internal combustion engine: c

20070227518 - Advanced engine management of individual cylinders for control of exhaust species: This invention is a method and system for controlling engine-out exhaust species of a combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders by providing a means for controlling combustion parameters in individual cylinders, grouping the individual cylinders into a lean set and a rich set of one or more cylinders, combusting... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property