Internal-combustion engines inventions 08/08

20080202447 - Engine-driven generator: An engine-driven generator is provided that is formed by supporting an engine (3) and a generator (4) on a frame (2), wherein the frame (2) is formed as an open periphery framework type, within this frame (2) a duct member (31) is disposed around the outer periphery of the engine... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080202449 - Engine system: An engine system comprises a detection means for detecting a supply quantity or supply pressure of hydrogen rich gas which is disposed in a hydrogen rich gas supply pipe for supplying hydrogen rich gas to a combustion chamber of the engine, a hydrogen rich gas supply valve control means for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080202448 - Mobile power generation system and method: A mobile power generating system and method, located on a mobile carrier. A power supply is coupled to an electrical drive motor, to power the drive motor. Rotational output from the drive motor is routed through a gear reduction system to increase one of horsepower and torque, and increased rotational... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080202450 - Device for uncoupling the oil flow through a radiator: A bypass valve for blocking oil flow through a radiator from a transmission with low oil temperatures includes an oil supply from the radiator, an oil supply, via a bypass line, an oil outlet and a valve unit arranged inside the valve housing. The valve unit includes a compression spring... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080202452 - Method for detecting malfunction of a cooling system based on detected coolant temperature: A method For detecting a malfunction of a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, comprising: detecting a coolant temperature on a side of the engine; determining a malfunction of the cooling system with the coolant temperature and the value only after a cold start of the engine.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080202451 - Mounting structure of filter for cooler of construction machine: On the front surface side of a cooler, a filter mounting portion provided with a filter abutment surface with which a filter is brought into abutment from the front side of the filter mounting portion is provided. The front end side of the filter pushed in from a maintenance port... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080202453 - Electronic module fox a fan of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to an electronic module (2) for a fan or a cooling air blower of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle. According to the invention, the electronic module (2) comprises at least one deformable element (12, 28, 68), which when deformed can engage with part (4)... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080202454 - Split-cycle engine with water injection: A split-cycle water injection engine includes a crankshaft rotatable about a crankshaft axis. A power piston is slidably received within a power/expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft. A compression piston is slidably received within a compression cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft. A crossover passage is operatively... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080202486 - Hybrid cycle combustion engine and methods: An improved internal combustion engine of the four-stroke variable volume type operates by refraining from introducing substantial fuel into the working medium during the compression stroke until substantially maximum pressure of the working medium has been reached and utilizing at least one of the following processes: (a) causing combustion of... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080202455 - Internal combustion engine with gas exchange valve deactivation: An internal combustion engine with selectively deactivated intake and/or exhaust valves includes a fulcrum plate having a through hole with a slidable plunger supporting a pivot ball that engages an associated rocker arm. A solenoid positioned above the rocker arm cover is directly coupled to a latching mechanism that either... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20080202457 - Engine: A simpler configuration of a mechanism for stopping intake/exhaust valves opened/closed by a valve opening/closing mechanism of a rocker arm. An engine E includes an exhaust valve for opening/closing an exhaust port of an exhaust path with a first exhaust valve spring for energizing the exhaust valve in a valve... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202458 - Engine: A valve stopping mechanism wherein when hydraulic fluid pressure is low a cylinder operating state is set and a response of a switch from a cylinder stop state to the cylinder operating state is high. An intake valve and an exhaust valve, a first intake valve spring and a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202456 - Engine/valvetrain with shaft-mounted cam followers having dual independent lash adjusters: A multiple cylinder internal combustion engine having a valvetrain with a camshaft disposed within an engine block and at least two valves operated by a common camshaft lobe includes a stationary shaft disposed generally parallel to the camshaft and a cam follower having a first end with an opening pivotally... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20080202459 - Variable valve mechanism for internal combustion engine: A variable valve mechanism for an internal combustion engine includes a rocker arm, a swing cam, and a transmission member which is interposed between the swing cam and a cam and transmits the displacement of the cam to the swing cam. The rocker arm is provided with a rolling roller... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202460 - Variable valve timing mechanism: In a variable valve timing mechanism, a valve-lifting cam member is fitted, slidably in tile circumferential direction, onto a camshaft that is driven to rotate in synchronization with a crankshaft of a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine. An eccentric collar is set between a driving collar fixed on the camshaft... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202461 - Engine cylinder sleeve heater and method: A method for installing a heated piston into a cylinder sleeve that is initially smaller than the piston includes: receiving the engine block at a heating station, heating the engine cylinder sleeve with heated air for a predetermined time at a predetermined temperature such that a temperature of the cylinder... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080202462 - Switching resonance intake system for an internal combustion engine: A switching resonance intake system is provided an internal combustion engine with a first and a second cylinder bank. The cylinder banks are each coordinated with a resonance container with a group of swing pipes leading to the cylinders, and the resonance containers are joined together by resonance pipes provided... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080202463 - Balancing shaft unit: A balancing shaft unit for balancing inertia or torque in an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The balancing shaft unit includes a housing part and at least one balancing shaft having at least one counterweight. The housing part is made in one piece and has at least two... Agent: Harness, Dickey And Pierce, PLC

20080202464 - Unfinished cylinder head casting, cast cylinder head for diesel internal combustion engines, and process for producing an unfinished cylinder head casting: An unfinished cylinder head casting for producing a cylinder head for internal combustion engines powered with diesel fuel includes a sealing surface, intended for mounting in a finished state on a corresponding sealing surface of an engine block, and designed on a sealing surface section of the unfinished cylinder head... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080202465 - Injection system for an internal combustion engine: The present invention relates to an internal combustion engine having an injector which functions as a positive displacement pump and dispenses an amount of lubricant fixed for each and every operation of the injector. The fluid dispensed could be a lubricant delivered directly to crankshaft bearings, camshaft bearings, tappets or... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080202466 - Rotary internal combustion engine and rotary compressor: The rotary internal combustion engine is a rotary internal combustion engine that uses the unique combination of multiple rotors on a vertical axis with piston vanes, which are intersected by horizontally oriented valve rings so that rotating rotors intersect gaps on the rotating valve rings, thus creating the intake compression... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20080202467 - Method for facilitating vaporization of a fuel for a diesel type direct-injection internal-combustion engine: A method facilitates vaporization of a fuel in a direct-injection four-stroke engine including at least one cylinder with a combustion chamber, at least one fluid intake with an intake pipe and a valve, at least one burnt gas exhaust with an exhaust pipe and a valve, a valve controller and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080202468 - Machine system having task-adjusted economy modes: A control system for a machine is disclosed. The control system may have a power source, an operator input device, a work implement, and a controller in communication with the power source and the operator input device. The operator input device may be configured to generate a signal indicative of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080202469 - Method and apparatus for controlling a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine: The invention comprises a method for controlling operation of a homogeneous charge combustion ignition engine operating in an auto-ignition mode. The method comprises determining a desired combustion phasing; and, controlling a mass flowrate of externally recirculated exhaust gas based upon an actual combustion phasing. A closed-loop control scheme is executed... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080202471 - Fuel injection system suitable for low-viscosity fuels: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion system includes an Engine Management System (EMS), a fuel feed pump, a return line, a high-pressure pump, supplying fuel under pressure to a common rail, a hydraulically operated valve forming an outlet chamber connected to the common rail and a control chamber,... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080202470 - Fuel supply system for a motor vehicle: A fuel supply system for a motor vehicle has a sucking jet pump (6, 7) which is connected to a flow line (5). The valve (16, 17) reduces the cross-section of an opening (20) in a nozzle (14, 15) of the sucking jet pump (6, 7) with increasing pressure in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080202472 - Fuel rail support bracket: A fuel rail mounting bracket for use in a fuel charging assembly of a vehicle engine is disclosed. The fuel rail mounting bracket may include a bolt support portion mounted to the vehicle engine; a transition zone extending from the bolt support portion; and a support hoop portion extending from... Agent: Automotive Components Holdings LLC C/o Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080202474 - Control system for general-purpose engine: In a system for controlling a general-purpose internal combustion engine having two cylinders each equipped with a throttle valve and a fuel injector, and a cooling fan that sucks in and blows air onto the cylinders, there are provided a throttle driver that drives the throttle valve of each cylinder... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080202473 - Method and apparatus for rapidly thawing frozen nox reductant: According to one aspect of the present invention, a liquid reductant tank for supplying liquid reductant to a selective catalytic reduction system is disclosed. The tank includes a tank cavity for holding a liquid reductant and being at least partially defined by one or more side walls; a liquid reductant... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080202475 - Device for charging and discharging at least one piezoactuator for an injection valve of an internal combustion engine: A device for controlling at least one piezoactuator for an injection valve of an internal combustion engine, including a microcontroller that controls an output stage which generates the load current for charging and discharging the piezoactuator. The microcontroller controls the output stage through an integrated circuit. A discharge circuit interacts... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080202476 - Fuel pump speed control system: A fuel pump controller includes a detecting device for detecting environmental vibrational energy and converting the environmental vibrational energy into an electrical signal. A motor controller is coupled to a fuel pump motor wherein the electrical signal is used by the controller to command the fuel pump motor to operate... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080202477 - Fuel injection valve: A fuel injection valve according to the invention serves as an injector for fuel injection systems of air-compressing, auto-ignition internal combustion engines. A piezoelectric actuator of the fuel injection valve has a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of electrode layers arranged between the ceramic layers. A first electrode... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080202478 - Pressure control valve for a hydraulic device, and use of said pressure control valve: Disclosed is a pressure control valve (8) for a hydraulic device, particularly a fuel supply system of a motor vehicle, comprising a valve seat (10) that is disposed between a valve member (13) and a spring element (16) for biasing the valve member (13) counter to the valve seat (10).... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080202480 - Canister arrangement in power generating apparatus: A power generating apparatus includes an engine for driving a generator; a fuel tank for storing fuel to be supplied to the engine therein, and a canister containing an adsorbent for adsorbing thereonto fuel that evaporates from the fuel tank to inhibit release of the fuel vapor into the atmosphere.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080202479 - Multipurpose engine equipped with a canister: The present invention relates to a multipurpose engine including a canister that adsorbs evaporated fuel generated in a fuel tank as well as desorbs a desorbs the fuel so that the fuel can be led to an air suction system of the engine. A multipurpose engine, comprising: a charge line... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080202481 - Vapor recovery system for a vehicle fuel tank: A vapor recovery system for a vehicle fuel tank comprising a canister having a first chamber containing a first body of adsorbent material for adsorbing fuel from fuel vapor laden air, said first chamber having a vent inlet for communication with the headspace of a vehicle fuel tank, a vent... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080202482 - Egr system for internal combustion engine: When the opening angle of an intake control valve is limited to a given opening angle by fuel cut, an EGR apparatus is activated, and a malfunction of the EGR apparatus is diagnosed on the basis of a change in intake manifold pressure before and after the activation of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080202483 - Reduced-emission single cylinder engine: An engine having an operating orientation includes an engine housing having a crankcase and a single cylinder bore, and a single piston configured to reciprocate within the single cylinder bore to generate pressure pulses in the crankcase. A breather chamber is at least partially defined by the crankcase and is... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080202484 - Ignition coil for an internal combustion engine: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine has a core, which is provided with a plastic extrusion coat on its periphery. The core is concentrically surrounded by a secondary coil and a primary coil. The plastic extrusion coat of the core is used as a coil shell for the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080202485 - Controller and method for controlling an ignition coil: A controller for an ignition coil, the controller comprising means for determining a rate of change of current flow through a primary winding of the ignition coil; and means for switching off current flow through the primary winding of the ignition coil as a function of the rate of change... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080196679 - Cooling system for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a cooling system for a motor vehicle comprising a first heat exchanger (1), in particular, embodied in the form of a main cooler for cooling a first liquid coolant (3) of an internal combustion engine (2) by means of an air flow coming from the ambient... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080196678 - Radiator-shroud structure: A shroud 15 attached to an air discharge side of a radiator 13 narrows toward a centrifugal-flow-type rotary fan 11 and forms a cylindrical shape. A surrounding portion 17 is provided so as to surround the rotary fan 11, and a guide portion 19 extending in the centrifugal direction of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080196701 - Two-stroke internal combustion engine with enhanced scavenging: The engine has at least one cylinder (2) each with at least one and preferably multiple air intake valves (25′, 1) into the cylinder, and at least one exhaust port (51) at a lower position above the bottom position of the piston (53). A blower (4) is arranged to force... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080196680 - Engine brake apparatus: Apparatus and methods for hydraulic valve actuation of engine valves are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a lost motion piston assembly that transfers motion between first and second rocker arms to selectively provide auxiliary engine valve actuation motions to the engine valves for engine operations... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080196681 - Mounting of an scp camshaft on an engine: A method disclosed for mounting a camshaft and a phaser on an engine, the camshaft being an SCP camshaft formed of concentric inner and outer rotary members each fast in rotation with a respective one of two groups of cams and the phaser enabling the phase of at least one... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080196682 - Connection element for the secure fixing of a lever-type cam follower: Connecting element (10) retains cam follower (2), which actuates gas-exchange valve (4) of an internal combustion engine, on support element (6). Support element (6) has spherical end (7) on cylindrical section (22) and on which cam follower (2) is mounted, so as to be pivotably movable in the direction of... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080196683 - High performance overhead valvetrain assembly: A high performance overhead valvetrain assembly includes a hydraulic lash adjuster which is received within and supports a trunnion. The trunnion, in turn, is received within a cylindrical passageway in one end of a rocker arm. The opposite end of the rocker arm engages a valve stem. Between the trunnion... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080196684 - Hydraulic lash adjuster: A hydraulic lash adjuster includes a cylindrical body having a central cylindrical bore. A hollow plunger is reciprocable in the bore and includes a reservoir chamber therein. The plunger has a close clearance with the bore. A high pressure chamber is defined by the plunger and a closed end of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080196685 - Starter device: A starter device for an internal combustion engine has a drive element and a output element. The drive element enables driving the starter device in rotation. The output element is supported rotatably about an axis of rotation and has a coupling device for releasably coupling the starter device to the... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080196686 - Air gap insulation at cylinder liner: A cylinder liner for an internal combustion engine, especially a gasoline motor, in which a piston can move between a lower and an upper dead center in an axial direction K, and the cylinder liner has a thrust collar, by which the cylinder liner can be fixed in a housing... Agent: Hudak, Shunk & Farine, Co., L.p.a.

20080196687 - Combustion engine powered working machine: A portable, hand-held, combustion engine powered working machine comprises a tool unit (1) including a rotatable working tool (3), and a machine unit (2) including an internal combustion engine (11), an assembly (16) for supplying air and fuel to the engine, and an air cleaning system, which comprises a filter... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080196688 - Internal combustion engine: An engine with expansion piston located on the end of a motion arm connected to the engine shaft. On the shaft, rotating compression pistons are mounted. The distance between the two piston types allows for the production of great torque. The geometry of expansion chamber and compression chamber is concentric... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080196689 - Method and apparatus for incorporation of a flame front - type ignition system into an internal combustion engine:

20080196690 - Internal combustion engine with auxiliary combustion chamber: An internal combustion engine, including a main combustion chamber serving as a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber adjacent to the main combustion chamber and smaller in capacity than the main combustion chamber, and a partition wall between the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber, the partition... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080196691 - Direct injection internal combustion engine and injector used for direct injection internal combustion engine: An injector according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of fuel passages having an axis line inclined with respect to a valve operation axis line at a nozzle end; wherein inclined axis lines of at least three of the fuel passages have a spreading angle, none of them intersecting... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080196692 - Controller for boat propulsion unit: A boat propulsion unit controller includes a switch arranged to switch between a long intake duct and a short intake duct for drawing air into an engine of a boat propulsion unit, a motor-operated driver arranged to drive the switch, a duct length switching position sensor arranged to detect the... Agent: Yamaha Marine Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080196693 - Multiple injection blend for direct injected engines: A fuel injection system for a direct fuel injection engine is provided. The system includes an injection mode module that selects a fuel injection mode to be one of a single injection mode and a dual injection mode during engine operation and a fuel injection command module that commands fuel... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080196694 - Multiple injection blend for direct injected engines: A fuel injection system for a direct fuel injection engine includes an injection mode module. The injection mode module selects a fuel injection mode to be one of a single injection mode and a dual injection mode. A fuel injection command module transitions between the single and dual injection modes... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080196695 - Event-based direct injection engine starting with a variable number of injections: A method for starting an internal combustion engine having direct fuel injection into a cylinder, comprising of only for a first combustion event under selected conditions during an engine start, directly injecting fuel to the cylinder at least twice, where each of said two injections at least partially occur during... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080196696 - Direct injection event-based engine starting: A method for starting an internal combustion engine having direct fuel injection, comprising of adjusting a number of direct injections per combustion cycle based on a cylinder event number from a first cylinder event.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080196697 - Method of controlling the start-up of an internal combustion engine: m

20080196698 - Evaporative emission control apparatus and method: A system of mechanical components that operate cooperatively to control evaporation of fuel or hydrocarbon leakage from engines is disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the system of mechanical components comprises a first valve assembly and a second valve assembly. The first valve assembly, which functions as a fuel-shut off... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20080196699 - Gravity-controlled constant-pressure and pressure-regulation device: A gravity-controlled constant-pressure and pressure-regulation device includes a canister, a weight block, and a seal head. The canister includes a metal layer, an epoxy resin layer, and a plastic sheet layer. The metal layer serves as an inner lining. The epoxy resin layer surrounds an outer circumference of the metal... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080196700 - Diesel fuel cooling system and control strategy: A fuel cooling system for a diesel internal combustion engine system having a set of engine cylinders, a fuel storage tank, and a common rail fuel injection system comprises of a fuel distribution circuit for carrying fuel from the fuel storage tank to the engine cylinders; a fuel recycling circuit... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080196702 - Diagnostic method and control apparatus for gas sensor: A gas sensor diagnostic method includes: a fuel supply detecting step of detecting an interruption of a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine, and a restart of the fuel supply after the interruption of the fuel supply; a response time period accumulating step of determining a response time period... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080196703 - Vapor fueled engine: A fuel supply assembly is provided that may allow for use of vaporized fuel to power an engine and enhance fuel efficiency. The fuel supply assembly may include a vaporizing tank, a heating source, a temperature control and a monitoring and control system configured to control intermixing of ambient air... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080190383 - Engine device for an oxyhydrogen vehicle: An engine device for an oxyhydrogen vehicle includes an oxyhydrogen generator for electrolytically converting an electrolyte into oxyhydrogen gas, a fuel tank for storing combustible fuel, a first pipe unit connected to the oxydrogen generator, a second pipe unit connected to the fuel tank, and an engine unit. The engine... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick Llc

20080190392 - Peristaltic engine: A peristaltic engine including two members and a conduit with a varying cross-sectional area disposed on the outer surface of one of the two members in the form of a helix. Each member has an axis and an outer surface in close proximity of each other forming a pinch point... Agent: Peter J. Rashid

20080190384 - Systems and methods for regulation of engine variables: A method for controlling an engine output with at least two actuators, including applying inputs to actuators which regulate a variable of an engine, evaluating the response of the system, determining the ability of the actuators to change the engine variable, determining the capability of the actuators to reject a... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080190385 - Cooling agent compensation tank for a cooling circuit: The invention relates, in general, to internal combustion engine cooling, in particular for a motor vehicle, more specifically to a cooling agent compensation tank of a cooling circuit, in particular a low-temperature circuit for indirectly cooling a super-charging air for an internal combusting engine and to a method for cooling... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080190398 - Engine with pistons aligned parallel to the drive shaft: The parallel piston fuel engine has pistons arranged to move linearly along axes parallel to the central axis of the drive shaft of the engine. The engine includes at least one combustion chamber having two portions having central axes such that their central axes are not aligned.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080190406 - Variable compression ratio internal combustion engine: The invention provides a technology that enables to control response delay of the supercharger in a variable compression ratio internal combustion engine under acceleration. When the variable compression ratio internal combustion engine is under acceleration, the compression ratio of the internal combustion engine is set to a compression ratio lower... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080190386 - Multi-step valve actuation system: A multi-step valve actuation system is provided to selectively open a poppet valve of an internal combustion engine having a camshaft rotatably supported by a cylinder block. The multi-step valve actuation system includes a rocker arm operable to selectively open the poppet valve and a pushrod operable to bias the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080190388 - Camshaft adjuster: A locking unit of a camshaft adjuster (1) for an internal combustion engine is provided, in which a locking pin (19) establishes a positive connection between a driving element and a driven element of the camshaft adjuster (1). The driving element and/or the driven element are formed by a plastic... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080190390 - Lift amount adjusting device in lift-variable valve-operating mechanism: In a lift amount adjusting device in a valve-operating mechanism which changes at least a lift amount, a rocker arm is rockably arranged in a driving-force transmitting path for transmitting a driving force of a valve cam to an engine valve, and a jig abuts on the rocker arm to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080190389 - Rocker assembly with adjustable swivel foot: A rocker assembly for a valve train having a first valve, a second valve, and a pushrod is provided. The rocker assembly includes a rocker having a first arm in contact with the first valve, a second arm in contact with the second valve, and a third arm in contact... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080190387 - Valve rotating mechanism for exhaust valves, especially of marine diesel engines: A valve rotating mechanism for exhaust valves, especially of marine diesel engines, which mechanism is braced in a valve housing for the valve stem (1) between an upper and a lower drive element, is linked to the lower drive element via a freewheel device, which transmits rotation of the valve... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080190391 - Valve train assembly with magnet: The valve train assembly with magnet uses the magnet to collect ferrous metal particles that are in the oil prior to their arrival at the high pressure cavity of the hydraulic lash adjuster. The magnet can be positioned in the low pressure cavity of the hydraulic lash adjuster, in the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080190393 - Intake control device for internal combustion engine: An intake control device of an internal combustion engine in which an intake path of each cylinder is partitioned into an upper and a lower path and a tumble control valve and an intake pressure control valve are provided to open/close the upper path and lower path respectively. In a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080190394 - Cylinder head with multiple oil passages and method for manufacture: A novel device and method is provided for incorporating oil passageways in existing cylinder head assemblies of an overhead cam type engine valve train. The system provided utilizes a longitudinal preformed metal tube which contains multiple separate longitudinal passageways. In the course of the assembly of the tube in the... Agent: Arthur J. Plantamura, Esq. General Chemical Performance Products Llc.

20080190395 - Wankel and similar rotary engines: An improved rotary engine system has two stationary buffer seals located at the two ends of the minor axis of a rotor housing that divide the rotor housing into two separate volumes. A first volume is an intake and compression volume and a second volume downstream to the first volume... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.c.

20080190396 - Control device and control method for internal combustion engine: When the engine output request is increased in a state in which the valve closing timing of an intake valve (9) is before intake BDC, a target value (LT) for the maximum lift of an intake valve is changed straight away, regardless of the actual air intake amount, to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080190397 - Fuel system with direct connection between fuel pump, jet pump and fuel filter: Fuel system comprising a fuel tank, a main fuel supply pump (2), a fuel filter (4) comprising a housing and a filter element, a reservoir (10) within the fuel tank and a jet pump (3) for filling said reservoir, wherein a one piece connector (1) directly connects the main fuel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080190399 - System for controlling an air to fuel ratio: A method of controlling an air to fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine may include receiving a request for a modification of a first flow of fuel to at least one combustion chamber, modifying the first flow of fuel in response to the request, receiving a first signal indicative... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080190400 - Vapor fueled engine: A fuel supply assembly providing vaporized fuel to an engine wherein a quantity of liquid gasoline fuel is controllably heated for a desired vapor emission from the liquid fuel, and a conduit arrangement conducts the vapor, intermixes it with ambient air and conveys the intermixture to the engine's combustion chamber.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080190401 - Helico-conical immersed nanometer/fir/magnetic fuel saver: The invention as disclosed herein is a helico-conical immersed FIR/magnetic fuel saver possessing the following characteristics: it includes a set of fuel-activating ceramic balls or pieces, and high-field magnetic balls or pieces, which are placed within the fuel tank and immersed in the fuel. The fuel-activating ceramic balls or pieces... Agent: Yixin Guo

20080190402 - Motor vehicle heating system: According to this invention, means (58, 78a, 78b, 78c, 80, 82) are provided for heating the elastomer (68). It is especially preferable for the automotive heater to have an electromagnetically operated fuel valve (52) and for the damping element (66) to be provided in the area of the electromagnetically operated... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080190403 - Device for exchanging heat for gases containing acids: Device for exchanging heat between an acidiferous gas and a heat transfer medium, with at least one flow duct for the acidiferous gas which consists essentially of aluminum and/or an aluminum alloy.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080190404 - Internal combustion engine having exhaust gas recirculation: The present invention relates to an internal combustion engine (1), in particular for a vehicle, having at least one exhaust gas recirculation line (13) for externally recirculating exhaust gases from an exhaust gas side of the internal combustion engine (1) to a fresh air side of the internal combustion engine... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080190405 - Internal combustion engine and method for controlling a supercharged internal combustion engine: The invention relates to n internal combustion engine and method for controlling a supercharged internal combustion engine, wherein a deviation of the actual lambda value from a calculated lambda value is detected. The value for the exhaust back pressure is corrected subject to the detected deviation for the event of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080184952 - Composition for powering engine: An improved fuel composition for fueling two cycle engines is provided. The fuel composition includes a fuel mixture contained in a container. The fuel mixture includes gasoline and one or more fuel additives which are premixed in a predetermined proportion prior to purchase by a user. The fuel mixture is... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080184945 - Actuating device of a recirculation pump for a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine: Actuating device for a recirculation pump of a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine comprising a pulley suitable for being rotationally driven by the engine, a driven shaft for driving the pump and an electromagnetically controlled coupling interposed between the pulley and the driven shaft, in which the electromagnetic... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080184963 - Connecting rod free piston machine: The invention relates to mechanical engineering, namely to connecting rod free piston machines and solves a problem of making a safe and long-lived piston machine with compact dimensions. The machine includes a body with cover plates, an output shaft (which is installed on these cover plates and interacts with gears),... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080184966 - En very compact device for adjusting the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a device and method for adjusting the compression ratio of internal combustion engines during the operation thereof. According to the invention, the angular position of an eccentric (18), which is solidly connected to at least one lateral flange (21c, 21b) and which is slidably housed in... Agent: Michel Marchisseau

20080184946 - Adjustable valve drive device of engine: A rocker cam is comprised of a first split body and a second split body, which are joined with a joint split face that contains an axial line of a cam shaft. The first split body has a first pin support portion that supports one end portion of the connection... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080184948 - Device for the variable adjustment of the control times for gas exchange valves in an internal combustion engine: A device (1) for the variable adjustment of control times of an internal combustion engine, including a stator (2), a driven element (3) arranged coaxially thereto, with both components being assembled so as to rotate relative to one another, and both components define at least one pressure chamber (10) at... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080184949 - Device for variably setting the control times of gas exchange valves an internal combustion engine: A device for variably setting the control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine is provided having a hydraulic actuator (18) with two reciprocally operating pressure chambers (12, 13) and with a pressure medium supply device (32) for supplying and withdrawing pressure medium to or from the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080184947 - Engine valvetrain having variable valve lift timing and duration: An engine includes a crankshaft, a first noncircular gear operatively connected to the crankshaft to be driven thereby, a second noncircular gear meshingly engaged with the first noncircular gear, a cam operatively connected to the second noncircular gear to be driven thereby, and a valve operatively connected to the cam... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080184950 - Rotary hydraulic coupling: A rotary hydraulic coupling is described for use in an engine having a camshaft, a hydraulic phaser for driving the camshaft, and an oil feed manifold secured to the body of the engine and incorporating oil galleries for supplying oil to the phaser. The rotary coupling, which serves to connect... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080184951 - Device combustion engine: A device for controlling valve movements in an internal combustion engine includes a rotating camshaft having a cam curve, the camshaft being designed, via a rocker arm, to interact with a valve mechanism for operating the inlet or exhaust valve by a valve spring. The valve mechanism includes timing gear... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080184953 - Induction system for an internal combustion engine: An induction system for an internal combustion engine, having a combustion chamber and an intake port in periodic communication with the combustion chamber, includes an intake tube having a lower trumpet (41) and an upper trumpet (42), each having an upper end, a lower end and a length; a transition... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080184954 - Vehicle: A motorcycle has a head pipe and an engine disposed with its cylinder axis inclined rearward. An intake pipe located between a down tube and the engine is connected to a front part of the engine and includes an engine connecting part connected to a front part of the engine.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080184955 - Engine air intake system with resilient coupling having internal noise attenuation tuning: An engine air intake system, which may include a supercharger or other air-handling device, includes a resilient coupling connecting an air intake connector, such as a throttle body, and an air inlet duct. The resilient coupling includes a bellows convolution for allowing limited motion between connected components. The coupling is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080184957 - Cylinder head and internal combustion engine having the same: A cylinder head includes a lifter guide boss part, a concave relief groove portion and a guide portion. The lifter guide boss part defines a lifter bore arranged to slidably support a valve lifter. The concave relief groove portion has a predetermined width and a predetermined depth formed on the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080184956 - Internal combustion engine: In an internal combustion engine in which air-intake valves reciprocate in parallel to the direction of reciprocal motion of pistons, an air-intake structure of an internal combustion engine includes an outward projection of the air-intake port that is reduced to achieve a downsizing of a cylinder head. An air-intake structure... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080184958 - Throttle management apparatus for an internal combustion engine, and engine incorporating same: A throttle management apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided which allows the response of the engine to an operator's request to be improved while allowing the output characteristic of the engine to be controlled arbitrarily. The throttle management apparatus controls plural throttle valves provided for plural cylinders respectively.... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C.

20080184959 - Method for operating at least one drive motor of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method for operating at least one drive motor, particularly an internal combustion engine, of an automobile, particularly a motor vehicle, wherein the engine speed of the drive motor in the detected idle state of the motor vehicle does not exceed a predetermined maximum value by... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080184960 - Throttle body with integrated reversion restriction: The throttle body of the present invention includes a reversion restriction preferably in the form of a reed valve.... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20080184961 - Vehicle: A vehicle has a body frame that does not interfere with an injector. A down tube extends downward to the rear. An engine is disposed with its cylinder axis inclined rearward. An intake pipe located between the down tube and the engine extends obliquely upward from a forward side of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080184962 - Fuel injection apparatus for a multicylinder internal combustion engine: The fuel injection apparatus has a high-pressure pump and has a respective injector for each cylinder of the engine, which injector is at least indirectly connected to the high-pressure pump via a hydraulic line. Each injector is connected to the high-pressure pump via a hydraulic line and/or to the injector... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080184964 - Fuel injection system with cross-flow nozzle for enhanced compressed natural gas jet spray: An intake manifold system including an intake manifold and a compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel injector located between an inlet and an outlet of the intake manifold. The CNG fuel injector includes a housing, an inlet, an outlet, a seat, a closure member, and a nozzle. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080184965 - Fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine: a fuel injector (19) which functions as a positive displacement pump and dispenses an amount of fuel which is fixed for each and every operation of the injector (19); and a controller (23) which controls the operation of the fuel injector (19). In response to an increasing engine speed and/or... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080184967 - Method of operating a piezoelectric actuator: A method of operating an injector having an injector valve needle and a piezoelectric actuator for controlling movement of the injector valve needle, the method comprising reducing the voltage across the actuator at a first rate (RT1) in order to initiate an initial injection, increasing the voltage across the actuator... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080184968 - Solenoid valve driver and fuel injection system equipped with the same for compensating lag of operation of solenoid valve: A solenoid valve driver is provided which may be employed in automotive fuel injection system. The solenoid valve driver includes a capacitor which is to be discharged to energize a coil of a solenoid valve and a controller. The controller determines a discharge start time that is a time when... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080184969 - Fuel supply system, especially for an internal combustion engine: A fuel supply system comprises a piston pump having a working chamber and an adjustable throttle device, arranged upstream of the working chamber and adapted to modify the flow of fuel supplied to the working chamber. The invention is characterized in that the throttle device, in the closed position, allows... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080184970 - Fuel pump module and method of producing the same: A fuel pump module includes a cylindrical sub-tank having an open portion at one end and a bottom portion at the other end, and a fuel pump located in the sub-tank. The bottom portion of the sub-tank is provided with an introducing passage from which fuel is introduced into the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080184971 - Check valve placement in an electronic returnless fuel system: A fuel pump module within a fuel tank employs at least one fuel pump, while in the case of additional fuel pumps, a manifold receives all pumped fuel and directs it into a surrounding fuel filter within a filter case. A check valve is adjacent the filter case at a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080184972 - Liquid vapor separator: A liquid vapor separator for a vehicle's fuel system, said liquid vapor separator comprising a body having an inlet connectable with a venting system of a fuel tank and a vapor outlet connectable to a fuel vapor treating device, and a condensation space for condensation of fuel droplets, said space... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080184973 - Canister: A canister includes a casing having a gas passage which extends from a first passage end formed with a charge port to let in fuel vapor and a purge port to let out the fuel vapor, to a second passage end formed with an atmospheric air port to let in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080184974 - Exhaust gas recirculation apparatus: An exhaust gas recirculation apparatus includes a housing connected with an EGR cooler via a mount face. The housing has a valve chamber accommodating a selector valve. The housing has a partition extending from the mount face close to the valve chamber to divide first and second exhaust ports opened... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080184975 - Intake module: An intake module includes a surge tank, inflow ports formed from resin integrally with the tank and aligned in one direction of the tank, an intake air leading portion formed at one end portion of the tank in a certain direction and leading intake air into the tank, and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080184976 - Method of and apparatus for co-fuelling diesel engines: Apparatus for co-fuelling a diesel engine including a diesel engine having one or more combustion chambers; a co-fuel tank for containing a liquid co-fuel, the co-fuel tank being in fluid connection with the one or more combustion chambers; co-fuel delivery and delivery control means operatively interposed between the co-fuel tank... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080184977 - High tension capacitive discharge ignition with reinforcing triggering pulses: A capacitive discharge ignition system in which a controllable switch is positioned between a storage capacitor and the primary winding of an ignition transformer. The switch is controlled to create a train of pulses to the primary winding timed to reinforce the ringing action of the ignition transformer.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080184978 - Driving force control apparatus for vehicle: In one embodiment, when control of a throttle opening degree is limited due to the occurrence of an electronic throttle failure, a determination is made of whether or not an intake manifold negative pressure of an engine is inadequate, and when determined that intake manifold negative pressure is inadequate, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC