Internal-combustion engines inventions 11/07

20070272174 - Thermal energy recovery and management system: A thermal energy recovery and management system for an internal combustion engine for balancing the heat energy between a primary reservoir and the engine to maximize an operating efficiency of the engine and associated engine components. The primary reservoir storing or releasing heat energy produced by the engine to achieve... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070272178 - Semi-active compressor valve: A method and system for fine-tuning the motion of suction or discharge valves associated with cylinders of a reciprocating gas compressor, such as the large compressors used for natural gas transmission. The valve's primary driving force is conventional, but the valve also uses an electromagnetic coil to sense position of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070272180 - Variable valve actuator with latch at one end: Actuators and corresponding methods and systems for controlling such actuators offer efficient, fast, flexible control with large forces. In an exemplary embodiment, an fluid actuator includes a housing having first and second fluid ports, an actuation cylinder in the housing defining a longitudinal axis and having first and second ends... Agent: Zheng Lou

20070272182 - Method for control of dilution in engines during variable camshaft phasing: A method for coordinating engine throttle position with camshaft phaser motion during transient engine operation such that desired internal residual dilution is maintained. A dilution model for residual mass fraction and a table of desired dilution values are embedded in the engine control algorithm. The dilution model is applied to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070272184 - Adjustable camshaft: The present invention relates to an adjustable camshaft (1) in which an inside shaft (4) is rotatably mounted with respect to an outside shaft (2). To create a relative rotational movement between the two shafts (2, 4), a hydraulic regulating device (3) is provided at one end of the camshaft... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070272183 - Camshaft: The present invention relates to a camshaft (1) having an inner shaft (3) arranged coaxially in an outer shaft (2) and mounted to rotate with respect to the outer shaft (2). The camshaft (1) has a first phase adjuster (7) and a second phase adjuster (8), the first phase adjuster... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070272185 - Hydraulic lash adjuster for an internal combustion engine: A hydraulic lash adjuster for a valve train of an internal combustion engine is provided, with the hydraulic lash adjuster including a circular cylindrical housing in which a piston (22) is arranged for axial displacement, and further including a one-way valve (31) with a closing body (32) that can be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070272173 - Predictive auxiliary load management (palm) control apparatus and method: An improved vehicle cooling system is disclosed having the capability of controlling various thermal components of the system to effectively control the heating and cooling of an engine of the vehicle based on instantaneous vehicle and ambient conditions and also based upon predictive conditions. These predictive conditions can include information... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070272175 - Heat exchanger unit for motor vehicles: A heat exchanger unit for motor vehicles includes one first heat exchanger and one second heat exchanger. Each heat exchanger includes two collector pipes which are arranged at a distance from each other. One collector pipe of the first heat exchanger is arranged substantially adjacent to one collector pipe of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070272176 - Cylinder head cover with oil separator: The present invention relates to a cylinder head cover for covering a cylinder head of a combustion engine. Such cylinder head covers often comprise an oil separator for separating oil and/or oil spray from the blow-by gas of combustion engines. With the present invention the oil separator is formed as... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070272177 - Two-stroke internal combustion engine supplied with gasoline, diesel fuel or other conventional fuel: The invention concerns a two-stroke internal combustion engine supplied with gasoline, diesel, fuel, or other conventional fuel comprising a piston (2)-cylinder (1) assembly, said cylinder (1) providing exhaust ports (11), said piston (2)-cylinder (1) assembly providing a head (5) slidable within said cylinder (1) between the Top Dead Centre of... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070272179 - Internal combustion engine with electronic valve actuators and control system therefor: A valve assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a stationary permanent magnet assembly having at least one permanent magnet for generating a permanent magnetic field and a movable coil assembly having at least one coil of electrically conductive material for generating a magnetic field when an electrical current is... Agent: Alvin R. Wirthlin

20070272181 - Electrohydraulic control module: An electrohydraulic control module is provided for making available a compressed fluid, especially compressed oil for actuators, which are used for actuating control units, for example, for switching gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine on and off, with a control housing, which is attached to a connection part of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070272188 - Internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has a carburetor and an intake channel for supplying fuel and combustion air, wherein a section of the intake channel is formed in the carburetor. At least one fuel opening is provided that opens into the intake channel within the carburetor. The intake channel has an... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20070272189 - D.c. power enhancer for battery-powered vehicles and internal combustion engines: In one aspect of this invention, a battery power transfer device connected or connectable to establish an electrical path between a battery and a starter motor of an internal combustion engine. A coil of conductive hollow tubing having a plurality of complete loops is connectable between a positive (+) terminal... Agent: Charles J. Prescott, P.A.

20070272186 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that is startable by a motor driven by electric power supplied by an electric storage device, includes: a starting mode selection device for selecting either a first mode or a second mode as starting mode of the internal combustion engine; a control... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070272187 - Method of inhibiting the automatic stop control system of the heat engine of a vehicle during parking manoeuvres: 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

20070272190 - V-type engine air intake device: A V-type engine air intake device is provided for a V-type internal combustion engine. The V-type engine air intake device has a volume chamber, a first intake pipe, a second intake pipe and a plurality of curved branch pipes. The first intake pipe has a first outlet end connected to... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070272191 - Combustion chamber shape of direct injection type diesel engine: An object of the present invention is to provide a combustion chamber shape of a direct injection type diesel engine in which a black smoke generation amount can be suppressed during no-load operation while suppressing NOx and fuel consumption. The combustion chamber 5 is formed in a recessed shape in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070272195 - Configuration of lubricating system for a power unit of a vehicle: A power unit includes a shaft member rotatably supported by the crankcase and a torsional coil spring, disposed at one end of the shaft member, biasing a swing arm in one rotational direction. An oil strainer is fixed to the crankcase through a strainer support bracket extending vertically relative to... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070272193 - Lubricating apparatus for 4-cycle engine: An oil chamber of an oil pan 6 divided into a main oil chamber that collects oil from a crankcase and an auxiliary oil chamber that is positioned adjacent to the main oil chamber. The main oil chamber is connected with an oil supply pump that supplies oil to lubricated... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070272196 - Lubricating system for a vehicle power unit: A lubricating system for a vehicle transmission is provided by which the transmission is effectively lubricated, without increasing the number of component parts. The transmission includes an input shaft, an intermediate shaft and an output shaft, each of which are contained in the inside of a power unit case. The... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070272192 - Device for filtering lubricating oil: The invention relates to a device for filtering lubricating oil in the course of a mechanical valve train of an internal combustion engine, especially for motor vehicles, with at least one force-transmitting and oil-lubricated component operative between gas exchange valves and their periodic drive, the device comprising a filter element... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070272194 - Internal combustion engine for small planing boat: An internal combustion engine for a small planing boat for reducing the lateral width of an oil pan in conformity to the configuration of the bottom while securing the filtering surface area of an oil strainer. In addition, a vertical width of the oil pan is maintained to be small... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070272198 - Assembly for admitting combustion air for a motorcycle, and a motorcycle fitted with such an assembly: The air filter (12) is generally annular and subdivides the inside volume of the housing (11) into a radially inner chamber and a radially outer chamber. The radially inner chamber is fed with air through the air inlet module (13), while the radially outer chamber forms, around the air filter... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070272197 - Exterior air intake system for an engine compartment of a vehicle: The invention provides for an exterior air intake system in an engine compartment of a vehicle wherein the exterior air can be guided smoothly into an air cleaner. The engine compartment of a vehicle includes: a front-end module that is separated from an engine by a predetermined distance and that... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070272199 - Reverse rotation preventing mechanism for diesel engine: The invention prevents reverse rotation of a diesel engine which is possible to occur when the engine is started. A camshaft 13 is driven by a crankshaft 5 through power transmission means, and cams 14, 21 and 22 are provided on camshaft 13 so as to drive a fuel injection... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070272200 - Independent combustion chamber-type internal combustion engine: The present invention is directed to an internal combustion engine for making suction, compression, explosion, expansion and exhaust strokes in an operating chamber of variable volume defined between a housing and a piston. The internal combustion engine includes: an independent combustion chamber of fixed volume, formed in the housing and... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070272202 - Method and apparatus to control a transition between hcci and si combustion in a direct-injection gasoline engine: A method to operate a multi-cylinder direct-injection engine in one of a controlled auto-ignition and a spark-ignition combustion mode is described. Engine operation and an operator torque request are monitored. Fuel delivery to a portion of the cylinders is selectively deactivated and torque output from non-deactivated cylinders is selectively increased... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070272203 - Method and apparatus to control operation of a homogeneous charge compression-ignition engine: The invention provides a method for operating a multi-cylinder, spark-ignition, direct-injection, four-stroke internal-combustion engine adapted to operate in a controlled auto-ignition mode selectively operative at stoichiometry and lean of stoichiometry. The method comprises adapting an engine valve actuation system to control engine valve opening and closing, and monitoring engine operating... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070272201 - Combustion apparatus and combustion method: A combustion apparatus according to the present invention can positively control and generate burnt gas recirculation with a simple structure. The combustion apparatus has a cylindrical container (12) having a combustion chamber, a close end (10), and an open end (26), an inflow passages (20) for supplying combustion air into... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070272204 - Multi-source fuel system having grouped injector pressure control: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system has a first source of fuel at a first pressure, and a second source of fuel at a second pressure. The fuel system also has a first plurality of fuel injectors, and a first valve associated with the first... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070272205 - Intake air control apparatus for motor cycle: In order to protect a rotating portion of an intermediate link lever support pin, an intake air control apparatus provided with main and sub throttle valves is structured such that a wire bracket (6) supporting valve opening and closing wires (Wa, Wb) is screwed to an outer end surface (1a)... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070272206 - Electrically controlled throttle apparatus: An electrically controlled throttle apparatus comprises a throttle valve for controlling an amount of intake air to be supplied to an internal combustion engine; a throttle body which houses the throttle valve; a motor for driving the throttle valve; and a throttle sensor for detecting an opening degree of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070272207 - Method and device for operating a drive unit: A method and a device for operating a drive unit in a vehicle permit convenient transformation of a specified speed. A setpoint for at least one output variable of the drive unit is specified, and in at least one operating state of the drive unit, a setpoint for an operating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070272208 - Method and control unit for operating an internal combustion engine having an injection system: In a method, a computer program and a control unit for operating an internal combustion engine having an injection system, e.g., for a motor vehicle, in the injection system fuel is conveyed into a fuel accumulator by a metering unit and a high-pressure pump. The pressure in the fuel accumulator... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070272209 - Machine fluid sensor: A sensor for sensing one or more properties of a vehicle fluid has a tuning fork resonator adapted to contact the fluid. The tuning fork resonator comprises two tines and is operable to oscillate so that the two tines move in opposite phase at a frequency of less than 1... Agent: Symyx Technologies Inc Legal Department

20070272210 - Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine: In order to operate an internal combustion engine, a value of an operating variable of the internal combustion engine is determined depending on at least one measured quantity of the internal combustion engine. A test is carried out to determine whether or not the value of the operating variable is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070272211 - Method for monitoring the exhaust gas recirculation of an internal combustion engine: A method for monitoring the exhaust gas recirculation of an internal combustion engine by pressure sensing, in which exhaust gas is recirculated from an outlet side of a combustion chamber assemblage via an exhaust gas recirculation conduit to an inlet side of the combustion chamber assemblage. Reliable monitoring of the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070272212 - Fuel supply device: A fuel control device (11) which is provided on a fuel outlet side of a low-pressure pump (3) for controlling a fuel supply pressure from the low-pressure pump (3) to a predetermined pressure includes a pressure control valve (50) for controlling a fuel pressure of the fuel outlet side and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070272213 - Multi-source fuel system having closed loop pressure control: A fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The fuel system has a first source of fuel at a first pressure, and a second source of fuel at a second pressure. The fuel system also has a fuel injector configured to receive fuel from the first and second sources and... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070272214 - Combustion gas seal for fuel injection valve: Leakage of a combustion gas is prevented by installing a seal ring (10) in an annular groove (51) provided in the outer peripheral surface of a fuel injection valve (5). Further, a combustion gas leaked from the seal ring (10) is sealed in by providing a seal washer (11) more... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070272215 - Fuel injection sytem for internal combustion engines: The fuel injection system for internal combustion engines comprises at least one hydraulically actuated intensifier-injector with inlet (13) and outlet (14) cavities for actuating fluid, one or more interconnected manifolds [rail(s)] (8); with at least one medium pressure pump (5), check valves (8, 9), coarse and fine purification filters (2,... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070272216 - Control system and method for improving fuel economy: A control system is provided for controlling the fueling system (402) of a combustion engine. The control system includes a sensing arrangement for measuring a plurality of engine and vehicle conditions (404, 406, 408, 410, 412) in real time. The control system also includes a fuel map that defines engine... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070272217 - Fuel supply device: In a fuel supply system (1), a fuel pressure regulating valve (11) disposed at a fuel outlet side of a low-pressure pump (3) in order to regulate the pressure of supply fuel from the low-pressure pump (3) to a predetermined pressure is housed inside a cylinder (31) such that a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070272218 - Controlling evaporative emissions in a fuel system: Methods and fuel systems to reduce evaporative emissions of a volatile fuel. A fuel tank contains fuel, a carburetor mixes air with the fuel from the fuel tank, and a plurality of fluid paths route fuel amongst and/or between the fuel tank and the carburetor. A valve actuation device stops... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070272219 - Electronically controlled electromechanical valve: An electronically controlled electromechanical valve having at least three ports through which a fluid can flow and at least three different stable positions in which at least 2 ports are in fluid communication. The valve includes a stationary outer housing including at least three bores, a rotating inner section that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070272220 - Method and equipment for reducing emission and fuel consumption in order to imrpove combustion in internal combustion engines: A method and an equipment for reducing emission and fuel consumption in order to improve combustion in internal combustion engines, whereas, in order to achieve perfect combustion, prior to its entry into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, the mixture of fuel and air is led through a... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20070272221 - Split-cycle four-stroke engine: An engine has a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. An expansion piston is slidably received within an expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the expansion piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070266963 - Powder fuel engine: A powder fuel engine includes a battery, a cylinder and a generator. The battery is connected with an air compressor linked with an air tank, and the generator. The air tank is connected with a mixer and two powder tanks respectively via a pressurization tube. The powder tanks are to... Agent: Yi-hsiung Lin

20070266965 - Internal combustion engine for small planing boat: An internal combustion engine for a small planing boat for preventing supercooling of the internal combustion engine before warm-up while enabling efficient cooling of the internal combustion engine after warm-up. An internal combustion engine for a small planing boat includes a first cooling water path B through which cooling water... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070266966 - Refuse-trapping cover for use in portable working machine: There is provided a refuse-trapping cover for a portable working machine, which is capable of reducing the deterioration of the engine-cooling performance of the cooling fan that may be caused by the fibrous sawdust of a palm tree. The refuse-trapping cover includes a frame (40) having a plurality of open... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070266967 - Internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine is provided that includes a combustion chamber, a secondary air passage located above the combustion chamber; an exhaust passage that communicates with the combustion chamber, and a water jacket that is located between the exhaust passage and the secondary air passage.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070266973 - Valve actuating mechanism: A mechanism for actuating an engine poppet valve includes two rotatable cams, a first rocker mounted on a pivot shaft and acting between a first of the two cams and the stem of the valve, and a second rocker mounted for rotation about a fixed axis and acting between the... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20070266976 - Controller for vane-type variable valve timing adjusting mechanism: In a vane-type variable valve timing adjusting mechanism (VCT), an OCV target current is set to the holding current to hold an actual advance amount in close proximity to the target advance amount during the execution of the holding control. In the holding control, when the deviation between the actual... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070266977 - Valve timing controller: A valve timing controller includes a guide rotation member provided with a guide groove, a bearing rotation member radially supporting the guide rotation member, and a plurality of movable bodies sliding in the guide groove in accordance with a rotation of the guide rotation member. A plurality of link mechanisms... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070266964 - Method and arrangement for cooling a vehicle engine while heating the vehicle cab: Method for cooling in a motor vehicle comprising: cooling at least the vehicle engine by a liquid-based cooling system in which coolant is cooled by air in a first heat exchange element which is by the vehicle radiator; heating the cab of the motor vehicle by heating air by using... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070266968 - Twin cylinder motorcycle engine: A rocker box, pushrod assembly, oil delivery system, tappets and tappet guides are provided for an engine, particularly a shovelhead motorcycle engine. The rocker box includes a separable upper portion and lower portion with a seal for sealing the upper portion and lower portion when coupled together. The pushrod assembly... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070266969 - Twin cylinder motorcycle engine: A rocker box, pushrod assembly, oil delivery system, tappets and tappet guides are provided for an engine, particularly a shovelhead motorcycle engine. The rocker box includes a separable upper portion and lower portion with a seal for sealing the upper portion and lower portion when coupled together. The pushrod assembly... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070266970 - Valve timing controlling apparatus: In a valve timing controlling apparatus having: a first rotary body rotatable with a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine; a second rotary body rotatable with a crank shaft and rotatable relative to the first rotary body; a controlling means for varying relative rotational phase between the first rotary... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070266972 - Automatic tappet clearance adjusting device and method: An automatic tappet clearance adjuster comprising a unit for adjusting the projection by advancing/retracting an adjust screw from the forward end of a rocker arm, a section for detecting the torque by rotating the adjust screw, and a control mechanism section for controlling the adjusting unit according to the torque... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070266971 - Variable valve lift device for the lift adjustment of gas-exchange valves of an interanal combustion engine: In order to produce a variable valve lift device for the lift adjustment of the gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, by means of which with adjustment forces and holding forces, independently from whether said holding forces and adjustment forces are applied mechanically, hydraulically or electrically, with an adjustment... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070266975 - Camshaft-adjusting device: In a camshaft adjusting device comprising an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the phase positions of first and second camshafts with respect to a crankshaft driving the camshaft adjusting device, the adjusting mechanism includes an adjustment input and first and second outputs connected to the first and second camshafts respectively, with... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070266974 - Device and method for controlling internal combustion engine with universal valve gear system and variable compressing mechanism: A control device for controlling an engine, comprising a variable lift mechanism capable of changing the lift of a valve and a variable compression ratio mechanism capable of changing a compression ratio in a combustion chamber. The control devise controls the variable lift mechanisms and the variable compression ratio mechanism... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070266979 - Internal combustion engine and combustion control method: An internal combustion engine is provided that basically comprises a combustion chamber, an electric discharge unit and a controller. The combustion chamber receives a mixture of fuel and air that is caused to undergo compression self ignition. The electric discharge unit is provided inside the combustion chamber to generate an... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070266978 - Self-igniting petrol internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a self-igniting gasoline internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder (1), a cylinder head (2) closing the cylinder (1), a piston (3) mounted in the cylinder (1) in a sliding manner, a combustion chamber (4) which is defined in the cylinder (1) between an upper... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20070266980 - Body of a glow plug provided with a pressure sensor: This body (8) has on its outer surface both a screw thread (16) adapted for fixing the body (8) into a corresponding tapping in an engine (4), as well as a gripping zone (28), generally of cylindrical form with a hexagonal section, enabling gripping of the body (8) for screwing... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070266982 - Starting device of engine: In a starting device of an engine, a starter clutch is provided with an outer race that rotates with a rotor (starter member), and a cam interposed between the outer race and a starter gear. A through hole is formed in the rotor so as to face the outer race... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070266981 - Control apparatus and control method of internal combustion engine: Provided is a control apparatus and a control method of an internal combustion engine which can intend to suppress a deterioration of an emission and suppress a reduction of a startability. According to the method, a target ignition timing at a time of starting an internal combustion engine is acquired... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070266983 - Internal combustion engine with rotary valve: An axial flow rotary valve for an engine, that is rotatable about an axis within the bore of a cylinder head. The valve communicating with a respective cylinder in which a piston reciprocates, and an ignition means associated with the cylinder. The valve is provided with inlet and exhaust peripheral... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070266984 - Lightweight valve: A lightweight valve (1), in particular for internal combustion engines, is provided, with a valve stem (3), with a hollow valve cone (5) and with a valve disk (7) closing the valve cone (5), the valve disk (7) being provided with a recess (23) on its flat side facing the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070266985 - Gas sealing element for a rotary valve engine: A gas sealing element of an array of floating seals for a rotary valve internal combustion engine. The engine comprising a cylinder head (6) having a bore (8), a rotary valve (1) within the bore with a predetermined clearance, and a window (12) in the bore communicating with a combustion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070266986 - Lubricating apparatus for internal combustion engine: A lubricating apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided in which an oil discharge passage, extending from the oil pump, is provided for straddling the oil pump case and the tank body. A direction of the extension of the oil discharge passage is changed in the tank body such... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070266987 - Twin cylinder motorcycle engine: A rocker box, pushrod assembly, oil delivery system, tappets and tappet guides are provided for an engine, particularly a shovelhead motorcycle engine. The rocker box includes a separable upper portion and lower portion with a seal for sealing the upper portion and lower portion when coupled together. The pushrod assembly... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070266988 - Outboard engine unit: An outboard engine unit having heat-generating electrical equipment. An intake port of an intake silencer is set at a distance from an engine, and air suctioned from the intake port is unlikely to be affected by heat produced by the engine. Electrical equipment is disposed in a direction of opening... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070266989 - Intake accelerator for an engine: An intake accelerator for an engine, the intake accelerator is installed in the front end of a pipe line at an intake of an engine to increase the efficiency of the engine. The main body of the accelerator is provided therein with a plurality of vortex guiding blades extending from... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070266990 - Variable compression engine: A variable compression engine has a relief valve disposed in the combustion chamber thereof to reduce compression. The relief valve is open for a portion of the compression stroke of the engine. The open relief valve permits a portion of the fuel/air mixture introduced via the intake valve to leave... Agent: John Wiley Horton

20070266991 - Control system of internal combustion engine: There is provided a control system for controlling an internal combustion engine with an exhaust system provided with a catalyst, comprising a fuel cut means for stopping the supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine when the vehicle in which the internal combustion engine is mounted is in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070266992 - Internal combustion engine throttle valve: A throttle valve for an internal combustion engine, the throttle valve having: a valve seat; a throttle disk, which engages the valve seat and is rotated by an electric motor between an open position and a closed position; a gear transmission connecting the electric motor to a shaft of the... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070266993 - Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders, at least one cylinder being configured as a reference cylinder to which a cylinder pressure sensor is assigned, wherein at least one control element is assigned to each of the cylinders and provision is made for a crankshaft angle sensor. A... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070266996 - Fuel injector retention clip: A fuel delivery system in accordance with the present invention comprises a fuel rail having an outlet opening and an outlet cup that is insertable into the outlet opening. The cup includes a flange. The flange includes at least one tab extending therefrom. The cup further defines a vertical axis... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070266994 - Hydraulically driven pump-injector for internal compustion engines with hydromechanical return device of the power piston: Hydraulically driven pump-injector for internal combustion engines with hydromechanical return of the power piston (1) via an auxiliary cavity (13).... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070266995 - Low-fuel consumption and low pollution combustion system for supplying vehicle engine with mixture of fuel and oxygen: A low-fuel consumption and low-pollution combustion system supplies an engine with a mixture, in which oxygen contained in air is separated from nitrogen through a PSA (pressure swing adsorption) whereby oxygen having purity above 95% and a fuel mixture is fed into and burned in the combustion chamber obtaining a... Agent: John W Rennet Renner Otto Boisselle 7 Sklar

20070266997 - Evaporative emission control using selective heating in an adsorbent canister: An invention is disclosed for efficiently improving the working capacity and useful service life of an evaporative emission control canister by selectively heating the adsorbent towards the purge outlet of the vapor path.... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation

20070266998 - Leak detecting apparatus and fuel vapor treatment apparatus: A leak detecting apparatus includes a canister adsorbing a fuel vapor evaporated in a fuel tank, a measure passage, a pump connected with the canister through the measure passage, and a pressure senor detecting a pressure in the measure passage. The pump depressurizes the measure passage, the canister, and the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070267000 - Egr cooler with dual coolant loop: An integrated exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler with dual coolant loops comprises an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet for recirculating exhaust gas. An exhaust gas flow path extends between the exhaust gas inlet and the exhaust gas outlet to direct recirculating exhaust gas from the exhaust gas... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070266999 - Engine heater and method: An apparatus includes an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler (111) fluidly communicating with an intake system (117) and an exhaust system (109) of an engine (100). An EGR valve (113) is in fluid communication with the EGR cooler (111). A turbocharger turbine (103) has an inlet in fluid communication with... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20070267001 - Procedure for the functional diagnosis of an activateable fuel tank ventilation valve of a fuel tank system of an internal combustion engine: In a procedure for the functional diagnosis of an activateable fuel tank ventilation valve of the fuel tank system of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, whereby in specifiable time intervals when the fuel tank ventilation valve is activated to open, regeneration gas is added to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070267002 - Internal combustion engine with exhaust gas recirculation device, and associated method: An internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas recirculation device has two cylinder groups, the exhaust gas from which can be discharged separately via a respective exhaust pipe. The recirculation line of the exhaust gas recirculation device branches off from one of the exhaust pipes and opens out into the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070267003 - System for venting the crankcase of a turbo-charged internal combustion engine: In a system for venting a crankcase of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle provided with an exhaust gas turbocharger, comprising a first vent line which is in communication with the crankcase of the internal combustion engine and opens into an intake duct of the internal combustion engine,... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20070267004 - Multi-spark ignition system: A multi-spark ignition system for an internal combustion engine includes ignition coils each of which is mounted on one of spark plugs of an engine, an energy storing circuit, switching elements that repeatedly discharge electric energy stored by the energy storing circuit into the primary coil of the ignition coils;... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070261648 - Predictive auxiliary load management (palm) control apparatus and method: An improved vehicle cooling system is disclosed having the capability of controlling various thermal components of the system to effectively control the heating and cooling of an engine of the vehicle based on instantaneous vehicle and ambient conditions and also based upon predictive conditions. These predictive conditions can include information... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070261677 - Paired-piston linear engine: A linear internal combustion engine is disclosed having a cylinder defining an intake port proximate a first end thereof and an exhaust port proximate a second end thereof. First and second pistons insert into opposite ends of the cylinder. Each piston is coupled to an actuator/generator, such as a linear... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20070261651 - Valve timing control device: A valve opening and closing timing control device includes a phase control unit having a drive side rotation member for rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven side rotation member provided coaxially with the drive side rotation member for rotating in synchronization with a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070261649 - Variable valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine: A variable valve timing control apparatus employs a five-blade vane member fixedly connected to a camshaft end and rotatably disposed in a phase-converter housing formed integral with a sprocket driven by an engine crankshaft. Five phase-retard chambers and five phase-advance chambers are defined by five blades of the vane member... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070261650 - Lift-variable valve-operating systems for internal combustion engine: A lift-variable valve-operating system for an engine, includes a subsidiary cam swingably carried on a movable support shaft. A cam follower is operatively connected to an engine valve and follows the subsidiary cam. The lift amount of the engine valve is varied by displacing the movable support shaft. The subsidiary... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070261652 - Compact lash adjuster feed channel apparatus: The apparatus of the present invention provides a lash adjuster feed channel for an engine assembly. The engine assembly includes first and second sets of hydraulic lash adjusters responsive to a variation in hydraulic fluid pressure to cause a variation in lift of first and second sets of engine valves... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070261654 - System and method for reducing pressure in an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine: A pressure reducing system and method for an internal combustion engine. The system includes an intake manifold and an evacuation subsystem. The intake manifold is associated with the internal combustion engine. The evacuation subsystem is selectively fluidly coupled to the intake manifold. The evacuation subsystem is operative to reduce pressure... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070261653 - Engine start control system having failsafe arrangement: An engine start control system for a vehicle includes a first switch with which a user operates to start the engine, a second switch, a third switch, a brake switch and an engine start control unit for controlling start of the engine. The engine start control unit provides a normal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070261655 - Resin intake manifold: A resin intake manifold is provided with two separated bodies manufactured by connecting protrusions of weld portions of the separated bodies to each other in accordance with a vibration welding, and a cover wall in which one of the weld portions is arranged in an inner side or an outer... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070261656 - System to reduce crankshaft speed variations: A system to reduce rotational speed variations of a crankshaft includes a controller, a braking device, and a control module. The controller deactivates at least one cylinder in an internal combustion engine. The braking device applies a braking torque to the crankshaft when at least one cylinder is deactivated. The... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070261657 - Balancing shaft unit and associated bearing: The invention relates to a balancing shaft unit for piston machines, in particular internal combustion engines, for installation in a housing with non-divided bearing seats. Said shaft unit consists of at least one balancing shaft, which is configured as one piece with its balancing weight or weights. To allow the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070261658 - Piston for internal-combustion engine and combination of piston and piston ring for internal-combustion engine: A piston for an internal-combustion engine includes a through-hole communicating with the inner space of the piston formed in an oil-ring groove into which an oil ring is fitted and a through-hole connected with a second-ring groove, the through-hole having an opening spreading from the lower portion of the bottom... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070261659 - V-roller bearing and engine: A bearing has an inner race that has separable inner sections. The inner race has an inner male protrusion and an inner female receptacle, and each inner male protrusion is mated with one of the inner female receptacles to form a unitary inner race. The bearing further has an outer... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20070261660 - Low fuel pressure warning system: An internal combustion engine system having an internal combustion engine, a fuel source, a fuel filter for filtering fuel from the source to the engine, and a fuel pressure switch disposed between the fuel filter and the fuel source. An additional sensor is provided for sensing a condition of a... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070261662 - Compact filter comprising a square seal: A filter element comprising a spirally wound filter through which a fluid to be filtered flows axially and which is provided with a mounting ring on the circumference of the wound filter secured to the wound filter by a welded, adhesive, extruded or fused joint. The mounting ring is provided... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070261661 - Modular engine cover: An engine cover for a vehicle includes a frame extending generally about the perimeter of the cover and adapted for mounting to an engine of the vehicle, and a skin extending across and secured to the frame. In one embodiment, the frame is made of a moulded plastic material and... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20070261663 - Thermal oxidation protective surface for steel pistons: A piston (120) and method for making a piston (120) for a fuel-injected diesel engine adapted to withstand the damaging effects of fuel injection plume-induced oxidation in the regions of the piston bowl (134) and rim (130). The surfaces of the piston crown (126) targeted by the fuel injection plume... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070261665 - Internal combustion engine: In an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder with a combustion chamber formed between a piston and a cylinder head, at least one inlet duct and at least one outlet duct formed in the cylinder head, a fuel injector arranged in the cylinder head so as to project... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070261664 - Internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection: In an internal combustion engine comprising at least one cylinder including a combustion chamber formed between a piston and a cylinder head including inlet and exhaust ports, an outwardly opening injection nozzle for injecting fuel in the form of a hollow cone into the combustion chamber and a spark plug... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070261666 - Internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection: In an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder in which a combustion space is delimited between a piston and a cylinder head, with a fuel injector having an outwardly opening injection nozzle arranged in the combustion space for injecting fuel in the form of a hollow cone into... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070261667 - Spark ignition internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection: In an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder in which a combustion chamber is delimited between a piston and a cylinder head which includes at least one intake duct, at least one exhaust duct, a fuel injector arranged in the cylinder head and having outwardly opening injection nozzle... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070261668 - Control device and control method for stopping and starting an internal combustion engine: The present invention has an object of providing a technology capable of stopping and starting an internal combustion engine more preferably by restraining vibrations when the internal combustion engine stops and a scatter in crank angle when the internal combustion engine stops. For a period till an actual stop of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070261669 - Cylinder torque balancing for internal combustion engines: An engine torque control system for balancing torque output across cylinders of an internal combustion engine includes a first module that determines a derivative term for each cylinder of the engine based on rotation of a crankshaft. A second module determines a torque correction for a first cylinder based on... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070261670 - Method for adjusting the rotational angle position of the camshaft of a reciprocating internal combustion engine in relation to the crankshaft: A method for adjusting the rotational angle position of the camshaft (3) of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine relative to the crankshaft (5) is provided. The crankshaft (5) is drivingly connected to the camshaft (3) via an adjusting drive (1), which is embodied as a triple-shaft gear mechanism, having... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070261671 - Engine controller: An engine controller comprises a combustion state detection or estimation means for detecting or estimating a combustion state in the combustion chamber, a combustion air-fuel ratio estimation means for estimating a combustion air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber according to an exhaust air-fuel ratio and the detected or estimated combustion... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070261673 - Fuel injector with punch-formed valve seat for reducing armature stroke drift: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine that has a control valve, which opens or closes an outlet throttle from a control chamber and in which a closing element is moved into a valve seat in order to close the outlet... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070261674 - Fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engine: The engine ECU executes a program including the step of detecting an engine coolant temperature, the step of detecting an engine speed and an engine load, the step of estimating a temperature at a tip end of an in-cylinder injector based on the engine coolant temperature, the engine speed and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070261675 - Fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engine: The engine ECU executes a program including the step of detecting an engine coolant temperature, the step of detecting an engine speed and an engine load, the step of estimating a temperature at a tip end of an in-cylinder injector based on the engine coolant temperature, the engine speed and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070261672 - Method and apparatus for operating a spark-ignited direct fuel injection engine: A method and article of manufacture are provided to operate a spray-guided, spark-ignition, direct fuel injection engine, including injecting a first fuel pulse during a combustion cycle, and initiating spark ignition by energizing a spark igniter. A second fuel pulse is injected during the combustion cycle effective to form an... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070261676 - Fuel injection spark ignition system: A fuel injection system providing both fuel injection devices (5) and methods of fuel injection for internal combustion engines (1) in which a piezoelectric material (29) generates a current discharged to ignite fuel (8) delivered into the engine combustion chamber (2).... Agent: Cr Miles, P.C. Craig R. Miles

20070261678 - Fuel delivery system: A fuel delivery system is disclosed which includes a purge device which comprises a compressor (30) which includes a tank (32) for supplying compressed air to a line (34) which is connected to a fuel line (24). The compressed air is supplied to a point between a fuel tank (22)... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070261679 - Active purge method for small engine equipment: An emissions control system is described for an internal combustion engine, having a vapor sorbent material within the fuel tank cap subjected to an active purge.... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation

20070261681 - Engine shrouding with air to air heat exchanger: An insulated engine shrouding encloses a combustion chamber and piston assembly. The engine shrouding includes air transfer ducts that channel air from a condenser, where the air is preheated, to intakes of air-to-air heat exchangers where the air is further heated. The heat exchangers direct the hot air to atomizer/igniter... Agent: Robert M. Downey, P.A.

20070261680 - Inlet air heater system: An internal combustion engine is provided having a first and second bank of cylinder bores arranged in a generally V-shaped configuration. The internal combustion engine includes a first and second intake manifold each having a plenum and at least one intake runner. The first and second intake manifolds are mounted... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070261682 - Engine after-cooling system: An engine after-cooling system 10 comprises an after-cooler 11 for cooling compressed air which is output from a compressor for combustion by an internal-combustion engine, a heat exchanger 19 for cooling a coolant which is output from the after-cooler 11, a pump 21 for continuously pumping the coolant through the... Agent: Martin P. Hoffman Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C.

20070261683 - Vehicle having an exhaust gas recirculation system: A vehicle with an engine, especially a diesel engine, is provided and includes: an intake tract, via which air is supplied to the engine, an exhaust gas tract, via which exhaust gas emitted by the diesel engine is discharged towards an exhaust gas tailpipe and through the exhaust gas tailpipe... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070261684 - Positive crankcase ventilation device and system: A PCV device for recirculation of crankcase air has a structural member with a tubular, substantially linear internal flow passage characterized by a length and diameter with a ratio of length to diameter that attenuates noise and acts as a restrictive orifice to at least partially control flow volume therethrough.... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070261685 - Nitrous oxide injection system: A method and device for delivering a substance stored in a liquid phase and to be used in a gaseous phase is presented. The device includes an inlet configured attachable to a container with the liquid substance. A nozzle is in communication with the inlet and is thermally insulated from... Agent: Barzee Law Office

20070261686 - Process for the catalytic partial oxidation of liquid hydrocarbonaceous fuel: The present invention provides a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a liquid hydrocarbonaceous fuel, comprising the following steps: a) mixing the hydrocarbonaceous fuel with a first amount of molecular oxygen to form a first mixture comprising fuel and molecular oxygen; b) evaporating the fuel by igniting the first... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070256648 - Controlling engine operation with a first and second fuel: A method of operating an internal combustion engine including at least a combustion chamber having a piston disposed therein, wherein the combustion chamber is configured to receive air, a first fuel and a second fuel to form a substantially homogeneous mixture, and wherein the piston is configured to compress said... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070256649 - Coolant inspection and filtering system patent: The present invention relates to an automotive engine cooling system and the ability to filter contaminates from the cooling system liquid thus slowing down metal erosion of internal cooling system components. The present invention also allows the user to visually see the condition of the filtering device and the condition... Agent: Sheldust Inc.

20070256650 - Styled the system, asymmetric, engine/pump design: What is new in the art (or rather, technique) in the structuring of the linkage mechanism as it is most commonly used in the design of reciprocating piston heat/pressure engines and pumping/compressing machines are the two alterations and the combination thereof that I have invented. They are, #1, establishing a... Agent: Stephen Anthony Ethelmer Pflughoeft

20070256652 - Control strategy for hydraulically-switched engine mechanisms: A method for distributing lock pin ejections evenly over all the switchable mechanisms in a plurality of switchable mechanisms: establishing a limiting number of lock pin ejections; designating a primary switchable mechanism for the mode change upon command from an engine control module (ECM); employing the designated primary switchable mechanism... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070256651 - Valve actuator assembly having a center biased spool valve with detent feature: A valve actuator assembly for an engine includes a movable poppet valve, and movable first and second spool valves. The assembly also includes an intermediate channel interconnecting the first and second spool valve, a driving channel, and a first and second feedback channel interconnecting the second spool valve and the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070256653 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine comprising at least two cylinders respectively provided with admission valves and exhaust valves. According to the invention, in order to fill the cylinders with a larger amount of unburned gas during a gas exchange, the exhaust interval is... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070256654 - Camshaft and method for producing a camshaft of this type: The invention relates to a camshaft (50) comprising a shaft (13) onto which one or more annular cams (46′) are pushed and fixed in a positive and/or non-positive fit. To produce said camshaft in a particularly cost-effective, simple and flexible manner, the cams (46′) are produced from one or more... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070256655 - Ignition coil: An ignition coil of an ignition system in an internal combustion engine has a housing, a magnetically active core, a first coil winding connected to a supply voltage, and a second coil winding connected to a high-voltage terminal. At least one electrically conductive component is provided, at least in some... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070256656 - Device to improve the performances of a spark plug for internal combustion engine, two or four strokes: The invention relates to a device for creating a circulation of the fuel mixture inside the body via oblique venture shaped holes (1), crossing the spark plug body base (2), a crossing hole (3) which is conical on its upper part on the negative electrode (4), in order to obtain... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070256657 - Method of limiting the number of times a vehicle heat engine can automatically stop and start: 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

20070256658 - Combined variable compression ratio and passive ignition system: An arrangement for a reciprocating internal combustion engines is provide that includes a reciprocating main piston and a smaller cell piston which works in cooperation with the main piston to vary the compression ratio of and igniting a fuel-air mixture in a homogenous compression ignition engine. An actuator controls movement... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20070256659 - Throttle linkage for a model vehicle: A throttle linkage for a vehicle engine is provided comprising a vehicle engine and a throttle actuation arm secured for pivotal movement about an axis substantially fixed relative to the engine, the throttle actuation arm having an axis extending from the pivotal axis. A throttle control arm extending from the... Agent: Carr LLP

20070256660 - Rotary engine: A circular column-shaped flywheel rotor 4 that rotates inside a rotor housing 1 in which a cylindrical-shaped hollow section is formed; a piston head 34 that is located on the flywheel rotor 4 so that it can come in sliding contact with the inner peripheral wall of the rotor housing... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070256661 - Piston with vaporizing ring: A novel piston design for use in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The piston comprises a piston body adapted for reciprocating movement within the cylinder, and a connected vaporizing ring having top and a bottom surfaces. The piston body and vaporizing ring, together with the inner sidewall of... Agent: Michael D. Paul Gunn & Lee, P.C.

20070256662 - Charge motion control device using a single common drive shaft: An apparatus and method for controlling a plurality of charge motion control devices in the air intake manifold. In a first aspect of the invention, the valves are controlled through a single common drive shaft. In a second aspect, the runners each include an air flow bypass positioned between the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070256663 - Method of operating an engine brake: Methods and apparatus for actuating an engine valve provided between an engine cylinder and an exhaust manifold to provide compression-release engine braking in combination with exhaust gas restriction and brake gas recirculation are disclosed. In a first embodiment of the present invention, the engine valve used to provide brake gas... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070256664 - Valve controlled throttle 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.

20070256665 - Controlling engine operation with a first and second fuel: A method of operating an internal combustion engine including at least a combustion chamber having a piston disposed therein, the method comprising during a first number of cycles after start-up of the engine, supplying at least a first fuel to the combustion chamber, and combusting said first fuel and during... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070256666 - System and method for boosted direct injection engine: An engine system, comprising of a combustion chamber selectively communicating with an intake manifold via at least an intake valve and an exhaust manifold via at least an exhaust valve, a turbocharger including a compressor operatively coupled to the intake manifold and a turbine operatively coupled to the exhaust manifold,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070256667 - Integrated fuel feed apparatus: This invention relates to the engine technical field, more particularly, an integrated fuel feed apparatus. The integrated fuel feed apparatus including a driving member 20, a plunger pump 30 driven by said driving member, a fuel injector 90, a fuel intake member 13 and a fuel return member 14, with... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070256668 - Apparatus & process for controlling operation of an internal combustion having an electronic fuel regulation system: An apparatus and process for controlling an internal combustion engine (C) having an electronic fuel regulation system that provides fuel control for small engines (C) used in garden equipment (B) and small vehicles. An electronic control unit (1) accepts a plurality of signals generated by a plurality of sensors that... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070256669 - Canister close valve device: Disclosed herein is a canister close valve device for opening or closing a passage of a canister collecting evaporation gas evaporated in a fuel tank and a passage communicating with the atmosphere. The canister close valve device includes a housing which has a first vapor line making the fuel tank... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20070256670 - Integrated vacuum blocking valve: A canister assembly (30) is provided for canister purge system of a vehicle. The assembly includes a canister (32) constructed and arranged to adsorb hydrocarbon vapor. A vapor blocking valve (34) is integral with the canister and is in fluid communication therewith. The vapor blocking valve has a port (42)... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070256671 - Natural vacuum leak detection device with magnetic damping: A pressure management apparatus (10) includes a housing (30) defining a fluid communication passage between first and second fluid ports (46, 48). A poppet (40) is disposed in the housing and is movable between first and second positions. The first position prevents fluid communication between the first and second ports... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070256672 - Fuel economizer: A fuel economizer comprises a pipeline with thermal conducting elements and having a chamber contained therein, a plurality of magnetic elements each of which having a through hole formed therein and wrapped within a metal element that is formed with a plurality of spacings and disposed within the chamber of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070256673 - Motorcycle dynamic exhaust system: The present invention provides a method of operating a dynamic exhaust system of a motorcycle engine. The method includes providing a valve in the exhaust system that is movable to direct exhaust gases between a first flow path through the exhaust system and a second flow path through the exhaust... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070256674 - Pzev exhaust gas recirculation valve with activated carbon: An exhaust gas recirculation valve includes a body including a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet. The passageway communicates a flow of the exhaust gases. A bearing, disposed in the body, has a bearing passageway. A valve member is located in the passageway between the inlet and outlet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070251496 - Non-reciprocating internal combustion engine: A piston type internal combustion engine having a fixed position stub shaft mounted on a base. The piston, piston pin and piston rod rotate about this fixed position shaft. The piston assembly does not reciprocate. The cylinder block assembly is mounted to an output shaft whose center line does not... Agent: Edward E. Roberts

20070251478 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: In a valve timing adjusting apparatus, an, outer peripheral surface of each projection of an internal gear, which is received in a corresponding engaging hole of a guide rotator, may have reduced surface sections, which are radially inwardly reduced toward a radial center of the projection along a radial line... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251475 - Valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine: A valve timing control apparatus is adapted to an exhaust valve side of an internal combustion engine. A vane member is arranged to rotate with a camshaft relative to a timing sprocket member. The vane member is rotated at low speed engine operation dominantly by a camshaft-torque actuation mechanism and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070251480 - Valve mechanism of engine: To provide an inner shim that is unlikely to fall off from a spring retainer even when an anomalous operation of a valve occurs. A spring retainer fixed to the upper end portion of a valve shaft has a shim-attachment hole. An inner shim is fitted into the shim-attachment hole.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070251469 - Cogeneration apparatus: A cogeneration system that is operated in system connection is disconnected from the system and operated independently at a power failure of the system. A power generator 1 driven by an engine E is connected to a system 9. A water-cooling device 13 recovers exhaust heat of the engine E.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070251470 - Engine and method for operating an engine: An engine includes a housing having a combustion chamber. The engine may also include a fuel injector for supplying fuel directly or indirectly to the combustion chamber. Additionally, the engine may include an engine-lubricant-supply system operable to discharge engine lubricant onto the fuel injector.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070251471 - Air induction module for a combustion engine having pulse charging: In this air induction module, the induction pipe has two separate induction pipe bodies (1, 2) with induction pipe sections that, together, form the induction pipes. The second induction pipe body (2), which can be attached to the cylinder head of the combustion engine, contains, in its induction pipe sections,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070251472 - Engine and method for operating an engine: A method of operating an engine is provided. The engine may have a housing with one or more combustion chambers, including a first combustion chamber. The engine may also have a piston in fluid communication with the first combustion chamber. The method may include combusting fuel in the first combustion... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070251473 - Camshaft adjuster: A camshaft adjuster including an electric servo motor (21) that is mounted in a first housing (14) and an electronics module (37), which supplies the servo motor (21) with electricity is provided. A second housing (26), which is separate from the first housing (14), is allocated to the electronics module... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070251474 - Cam phasing system with mid-range engine shutdown: A camshaft phaser system includes an oil control spool valve having two opposing springs to center the spool at a rest position to lock the phaser rotor by blocking supply/vent to both the C1 and C2 chambers, obviating a conventional locking pin mechanism. A double-acting solenoid actuator moves the spool... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070251477 - Diagnosis system for vane-type variable valve timing controller: One-way valves are provided in a hydraulic pressure supply passage in an advance hydraulic chamber and a hydraulic pressure supply passage in a retard hydraulic chamber respectively. A drain oil passage bypassing each of the one-way valves is provided in the hydraulic pressure supply passage in the each hydraulic chamber... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251476 - Phaser for controlling the timing between a camshaft and a timing gear: A phaser for controlling the timing between a camshaft and a timing gear having a rotor with at least one vane and a stator with at least one recess the phaser allowing limited rotational movement of the rotor with respect to the stator. The vane divides the recess into first... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070251479 - Vertical internal combustion engine provided with belt-drive transmission mechanism: A vertical internal combustion engine E includes a crankshaft 18 enclosed in a crank chamber 20, a belt-drive transmission mechanism 50 held in a belt chamber 63 and including a rubber belt 53 for transmitting power of the crankshaft 18 to a camshaft 24 included in a valve train 23,... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070251481 - Start controller for internal combustion engine: At an intake timing of an initial combustion cylinder, an actual intake valve timing is adjusted to a target intake valve timing corresponding to a target intake air flow rate of the initial combustion cylinder. At intake timing of the other cylinders which contributes to increment of the engine speed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251482 - Starter apparatus for vehicle: In a vehicle starter apparatus incorporating therein a starting motor and a one-way clutch, a damper for mitigating vibration of an engine is disposed at a position between the one-way clutch and the engine, and at the same time, between the engine and a transmission.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070251483 - Adhesively bonded engine intake manifold assembly: An engine intake manifold assembly (10), including a first component (12) having a first mating surface (14) and a second molded plastic component (16) having a second mating surface (18). The second molded plastic component (16) is adhesively bonded to the first component (12) with an adhesive (20). The adhesive... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070251484 - Combustion engine pull-cord start system: A pull-cord start system has a recoil pulley coupled to a crankshaft of a combustion engine and a pull-cord wound about the recoil pulley that is pulled by an end user to rotate the recoil pulley and thereby start the engine. A throttle override device of the pull-cord start system... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070251485 - Gas and oil sealing in a rotary valve: A sealing system for an axial flow rotary valve internal combustion engine comprising an array of floating gas seals and an optional oil sealing system. The array of floating seals surrounding a window (15) in the bore (11) of the cylinder head (10) through which the ports (2, 3) of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070251486 - Outboard motor provided with internal combustion engine having electrical equipment box: An outboard motor S has an exhaust manifold passage 37 for carrying exhaust gas from combustion chambers 30. The exhaust manifold passage 37 is formed in a part of a cylinder head 22 in an exhaust-side part of an internal combustion engine E on the side of the cylinder head... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070251487 - Light-metal piston having heat pipes: The invention relates to a cooling duct piston for an internal combustion engine comprising heat pipes. In order to improve dissipation of heat from the thermally loaded piston areas while preventing thermal tensions, liquid-filled heat pipes that are provided with an evaporator end and a condenser end are disposed in... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070251488 - Outboard engine unit: An outboard engine unit having plural electronic components is disclosed. The electronic components are wholly supported by a single bracket which is mounted to a crankcase through a vibration damping rubber grommet.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070251489 - Balancing shaft for an internal combustion engine and a method for the production thereof: The invention relates to a balancing shaft for an internal combustion engine and to a method for the production thereof. In this case, the balancing shaft consists of a tubular hollow body and contains a balancing weight and also functional elements arranged on the hollow body. In order-to design a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070251490 - Outboard motor: An outboard motor having a grommet mounted on a lower cover is disclosed. The grommet is positioned outward from an area directly under a surface in which an upper cover and lower cover meet as viewed from above. A presser cover for pressing the upper half of the grommet expands... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070251491 - Energy transfer machine: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Projections from the fixed outer housing and rotor mesh with... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20070251492 - Method for determining a closing time of a closing element and circuit arrangement: In a method for determining the closure time for a valve, operated by a piezoelectric actuator, in order to record the closing time, the voltage at the piezoelectric actuator is recorded and the time is recorded at which the voltage has a maximum difference value from a comparison curve. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070251493 - Fuel control system for an engine: A method of controlling an amount of fuel to an engine is disclosed. The method includes determining first and second fuel limits. The first fuel limit is indicative of a higher value than the second fuel limit. The method also includes determining an amount of fuel to be delivered to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070251494 - Control unit for an internal-combustion: An engine control unit includes pressure detector provided in a combustion chamber of the engine. A motoring pressure of the engine is estimated. A combustion starting time is detected when the difference between an internal pressure detected by the pressure detector and the pressure estimated by the ECU exceeds a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070251495 - Piston engine: A piston engine (10), in particular in a motor vehicle, has a plurality of cylinders (3) whose combustion chambers (4) are connected to a fresh gas system (5). The fresh gas system (5) has two gas paths, namely a full-load path (9) and a partial-load path (10), for at least... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070251498 - Fuel injector with adjustable-metering servo valve for an internal-combustion engine: An injector with an adjustable-metering servo valve is provided. The injector has a shutter actuated by an armature of an electromagnet. The armature is mobile for an opening stroke defined by a surface of the core of the electromagnet, which is fixed in the casing by a ring nut and... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p

20070251497 - Method for operating an externally ignited internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method for forming a fuel/air mixture of a directly injecting internal combustion engine with a spark ignition, in which the fuel injection is configured in a stratified charge operating mode of the internal combustion engine in such a way that a first, a second and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070251499 - 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 guided displaceably in a cylinder bore of a pump housing part which piston defines a pump work chamber that can be filled with fuel from a fuel inlet via a suction... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070251500 - Fuel pressure controller: A fuel pump suctions fuel from a fuel tank and discharges the fuel. A discharge metering valve regulates an amount of the discharged fuel out of the suctioned fuel. The discharged amount is regulated by operating closing timing for closing the discharge metering valve through energization of the discharge metering... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251502 - Fuel supply apparatus for engine and control method of same apparatus: In a fuel supply apparatus for an engine, which is provided with a relief valve for returning fuel in a fuel pipe into a fuel tank when a fuel pressure exceeds a threshold, and also feedback controls a discharge amount of a fuel pump so that the fuel pressure detected... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070251501 - Fuel supply apparatus of engine: In a fuel supply apparatus of a returnless type engine provided with fuel supply pipe lines (5, 6) extended from a fuel tank (2) and having an injector (8) in a leading end side, a fuel pump (3) having an electric motor (31) arranged in the fuel supply pipe line,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070251503 - Fuel injector: A seal for sealing the fuel injector from a valve mount opening of a cylinder head, the seal radially surrounding the region of the discharge-side end of a fuel injector, sealingly rests on the valve mount opening opening via a first section. By way of at least an axial partial... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070251504 - Locking claw: The invention relates to a fastening device for fastening a fuel injector in the cylinder head region of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes an injector body and is embodied substantially symmetrically to its primary injector axis. The fastening device is preferably embodied as a locking claw, on... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070251505 - Electromagnetic fuel injection valve: In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve in which a coil assembly is housed within a solenoid housing, an inlet tube is provided coaxially and integrally so as to be connected to the rear end of a fixed core, and the solenoid housing and at least a front part of the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070251506 - Method of adapting close-loop pressure control in a common-rail injection system for an internal combustion engine and means for executing the method: In a method for adaptation of closed-loop control of a pressure in a common-rail injection system (3) for an internal combustion engine (1), with the closed-loop control having a pilot control and the common-rail injection system (3) with at least a correction device (11) able to corrected by corrective signals... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070251507 - Adaptation method for an injection system of an internal combustion engine: According to an adaptation method for an injection system of an internal combustion engine, a deceleration phase of the internal combustion engine is initially detected. Within this deceleration phase the injection system activation time is varied more selectively and the combustion energy of the following combustion process is measured. On... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070251508 - Fuel pump with inner channel priming: A pump unit 12 includes a pump housing 14, a pump cover 16, and an impeller 18 between the pump housing and pump cover. The pump housing and pump cover define a first channel 32 and a second channel 34 each having an inlet and an outlet. The impeller has... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070251509 - Air-fuel ratio control apparatus of internal combustion engine: There is provided an air-fuel ratio control apparatus of an internal combustion engine capable of learning an air-fuel ratio and performing purge at the same time. When purge is being performed, in an air-fuel ratio learning routine, an air-fuel ratio deviation between an air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070251511 - Fuel vapour storage and recovery apparatus: A fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus for a fuel system of a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine with an exhaust pipe and a fuel tank containing a fuel vapor/air mixture above a liquid fuel, the exhaust pipe being close to the fuel tank. The apparatus includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070251510 - Small engine carbon canister with check valve: A power source is provided for a machine. The power source includes an engine and an engine fuel system of the type that generates fuel vapor containing hydrocarbon material.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070251512 - Integrated check valve breather: A breather assembly may include a housing having an inlet for receiving crankcase emissions and an outlet for discharging the emissions, wherein the outlet is configured for direct connection to an exhaust system. The breather assembly may further include a check valve configured within an interior of the housing and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070251513 - Piston engine and respective operating method: To improve the smooth running of the piston engine (1), a fuel/fresh gas ratio in the exhaust gas is measured selectively for each cylinder in the exhaust system (4). The fuel system (5) is operated in such a way that it supplies the same amount of fuel to all combustion... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.