Internal-combustion engines inventions 09/08

20080230017 - Fuel reformer and power source with fuel reformer: A fuel reformer of a power source includes: a gas-liquid separator which separates raw fuel into gas-phase fuel and liquid-phase fuel; and a molecular weight-increasing catalytic device which is provided downstream of the gas-liquid separator and includes a molecular weight-increasing catalyst which increases molecular weight of the gas-phase fuel. The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080230018 - Octane number-increasing catalyst, fuel reformer of internal combustion engine, and the internal combustion engine: A fuel reformer of an internal combustion engine includes: an octane number-increasing catalytic device including an octane number-increasing catalyst; and an oxygen supply device that supplies oxygen to the octane number-increasing catalytic device. The octane number-increasing catalyst includes rhodium and increases an octane number of liquid-phase fuel under presence of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080230019 - Dual intake valve assembly for internal combustion engine: An intake valve assembly of an internal combustion engine. The intake valve assembly comprises a primary valve, a secondary valve mounted about the primary valve coaxially therewith, a primary valve spring for normally biasing the primary valve toward a closed position, a secondary valve spring for normally biasing the secondary... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080230020 - Lifter oil manifold assembly for variable activation and deactivation of valves in an internal combustion engine: A lifter oil manifold assembly for variable actuation of engine valves having first (top) and second (valve) plates having portions of oil control and oil exhaust passages formed therein. The assembly further includes a carrier member having an oil supply passage integrated thereby separating the oil supply path from the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080230021 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, the engine includes a plurality of cylinders each of which having at least one valve of a first type, an inlet valve, and at least one valve of a second type, an exhaust valve, arranged in an end part of the... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080230022 - Rate limiting and balancing control system for dual independent camshaft phasing: A method for controlling dual independent camshaft phasers in an internal combustion engine. The method has three basic steps: a) first, determining if rate balancing between the two phasers is required; b) second, determining the optimal rate balancing commands; and c) third, applying the determined rate balancing commands to the... Agent: Patrick M. Griffin, Esq. Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080230023 - Variable valve mechanism: The present invention provides a variable valve mechanism that varies amounts of opening and closing of a valve includes a rotating cam, a rocker arm, two lash adjusters, a hydraulic passage, and a switching mechanism. The rocker arm includes an input member and an output member. The two lash adjusters... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080230024 - Controlling two cam phasers with one cam position sensor: A camshaft (cam) phaser control system for an engine includes a first camshaft having a first target wheel. A second camshaft has a second target wheel. A cam position sensor detects said first and second target wheels and generates camshaft position data based on said first and second target wheels.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080230026 - Phase adjusting device: The invention relates to a transmission assembly (34), for imparting a phase difference between an outer wheel and an inner wheel of a spline VVT. The assembly comprises a tubular meshing member (36) having an inner surface (38) and an outer surface (40), wherein at least a portion of the... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20080230025 - Valve timing control system: A valve enables and disables communication of a bypass passage, which extends from a fluid supply passage and bypasses at least one fluid control valve, to at least one of a retarding passage and an advancing passage connected to a valve timing mechanism. An ECU controls the valve to enable... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080230027 - Vct control module with intelligence: A variable cam timing control module for an internal combustion engine having at least one cam position sensor, at least one solenoid to actuate a cam phasing device, a driven outer cam sprocket position sensor and a microcontroller. The microcontroller may receive a set point angle signal from the engine's... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Brown & Michaels, PC

20080230028 - Outward-opening gas-exchange valve system for an internal combustion engine: An outwardly-opening gas-exchange valve assembly for an internal combustion engine. The valve assembly includes a port in a firing chamber in an engine head, the port having a valve seat on a side opposite from the firing chamber. A piston-shaped poppet valve head slides in a bore in the engine... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080230029 - Intake air control for an internal-combustion engine: The present invention provides an intake air control that is capable of suppressing the exhaust emission at engine startup and quickly activating a catalyst after engine startup. An engine has a variable valve actuation mechanism for continuously adjusting at least a lift amount of an intake valve to control an... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080230030 - Intake device for motorcycle: A motorcycle includes an engine having a substantially vertical cylinder assembly and disposed in a front half of a vehicle body frame, an inverted type rear cushion unit disposed behind the engine in substantially vertical posture, an air cleaner disposed behind the rear cushion unit and below a rider's seat,... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080230031 - Dual intake valve assembly for internal combustion engine: An intake valve assembly of an internal combustion engine that includes a combustion chamber and an intake passage. The intake valve assembly comprises a primary valve provided to seal against a primary valve seat formed in an intake port, a secondary valve mounted about the primary valve coaxially therewith and... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080230032 - Method for the production of a cylinder crankcase, and cylinder crankcase produced according to said method: A method for producing a cylinder crankcase is provided, in which a hypereutiectic aluminum-silicon alloy is cast in a rheocasting or thixocasting process and is cast at a temperature ranging from 520° C. to 580° C.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080230033 - Throttle lever breakaway mechanism: A throttle lever for use with vehicles such as ATVs with a throttle housing including a vehicle throttle control mechanism. The lever engages the control mechanism by a shaft engaging the control mechanism. A throttle lever arm rotates the shaft to control the throttle control. A failure point on the... Agent: Bryan Anderson Patent Services

20080230034 - High flow dual throttle body for small displacement engines: A throttle body for an internal combustion engine of an automobile includes a housing defining a plurality of spaced apart, separated intake passages, a plurality of throttle valves, a plurality of throttle shafts and a drive mechanism. The plurality of throttle valves is rotatably disposed in the plurality of intake... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080230035 - Fluid pump control apparatus: A fuel supply system comprises an engine control unit (ECU), a fuel pump with a built-in pump motor which is PWM controlled based on a control signal from the ECU, a pump controller for controlling supply of electric power to the pump motor, and sensors for detecting an operating state... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080230036 - Roller actuator for a mechanical fuel pump: A fuel pump actuator comprising a body portion and a contact end fitted to the body portion for actuating a mechanical fuel pump in response to a camshaft lobe. A roller mounted to the body portion is configured to ride on the lobe. The contact end of the actuator engages... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080230037 - Fuel supply device of motorcycle: A straddle type motorcycle includes a frame, an engine mounted on the frame and having a substantially vertical cylinder assembly and an intake air passage extended backward from a rear surface of the cylinder assembly, a fuel tank disposed above the cylinder assembly, and a fuel supply device. The fuel... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080230038 - Vapor assisted cold start architecture utilizing tank grade vent valves: A vapor fuel recovery system for fuel tanks is provided. The vapor recovery system comprises: a canister that captures vapor fuel expelled from the fuel tank; a vent valve that controls ventilation of vapor fuel from the fuel tank to the canister; and a vent bypass disposed between the canister... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080230039 - Continuous liquid fuel vaporizer: A tubular vaporizer for vaporizing volatile liquids, and especially hydrocarbon fuels. Liquid fuel is passed into the vaporizer tube, is vaporized by heat transferred through fuel contact with the hot walls, and vaporized fuel exits the vaporizer tube. A hot carrier air stream is passed through the vaporizer with the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080230040 - Egr valve having rest position: During normal operation of diesel engines the EGR valve poppet often becomes stuck to the valve seat in the closed position, due to excessive build up of exhaust gas debris, which renders the valve inoperable. This usually occurs after the engine is shut down and the valve is seated. Features,... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Ozga, P.C.

20080230041 - High efficiency alcohol fuel engine: In an internal combustion engine adapted to combust alcohol blend fuels (i.e., fuels containing greater than 20% alcohol by volume), a dilute combustion mixture (e.g., with substantial EGR), intake air cooling, and latent cooling caused by vaporization of the alcohol fuel, are used together with a compact combustion chamber (in... Agent: David Read US Epa, Nvfel

20080223332 - Advanced internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine power cycle wherein a combustion chamber is fitted with an inlet valve, an outlet valve, and movable piston coupled to perform work, includes an generator to form a stream of greater than about 95% molecular oxygen from atmospheric air and a nitrogen waste gas stream; a... Agent: Mueller And Smith, Lpa Mueller-smith Building

20080223317 - Cooling apparatus for internal combustion engine: A cooling apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a coolant pump; coolant piping provided so that a first coolant circuit and a second coolant circuit are arranged in a parallel manner; a heat radiation mechanism of the coolant; a load mechanism operated using heat carried by the coolant; an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080223316 - Engine thermostat having bypass pressure-dampening fluid passage: A thermostat assembly (200) includes an actuator portion (106) having a sealed container (126) with an arm (108) protruding therefrom. A retainer plate (118) connects the thermostat assembly (200) to an engine component (104). A bypass valve plate (228) is arranged to sealably engage a bypass valve seat (134) that... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20080223318 - Cooling sprayer with valve: The internal combustion engine piston cooling sprayer comprises a sprayer body (1) with an axial through-passage (12) in which is fixed a tubular guide liner (4). The tubular guide liner (4) is fixed in the sprayer body (1) by its downstream section (4c), while its upstream section (4b) remains away... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080223319 - Cooling structure of construction machine: Solution: An air intake chamber (16) is provided on the air intake side of a heat exchanger (15) in an engine room (12), and a first air intake port (17) is formed in a top face of the air intake chamber (16). In the air intake chamber (16), a duct... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080223341 - Engine load estimating apparatus and engine load estimating method: An engine load estimating apparatus, including an actuator that changes a position of a top dead center of a piston of the engine, and a controller in communication with the actuator. The controller detects a drive output of the actuator when the actuator changes the position of the top dead... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080223342 - Two-stroke engine with variable compression: The invention consists of a two-stroke opposing cylinder engine that includes a length flushing system and two crankshafts (1, 3) and a novel type of phase setting mechanism which enables the compression ratio to be adjusted in operation. Two intermediate gear wheel (15) and (16) synchronize rotation of the crankshafts... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080223349 - Stratified scavenging two-stoke cycle engine: A stratified scavenging two-stroke cycle engine with the check valve for introducing scavenging air simplified in construction is provided. The gasket between the flange part forming an air supply chamber and a mixture passage at a side of the cylinder and the passage connecting member having an air flow passage... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080223320 - Variable compression ratio mechanism for an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has a mechanism to control crankshaft axis position and control combustion chamber compression ratio. The mechanism includes control ring, rotatably supporting crankshaft, and rotatably installed in the engine housing. The control shaft is installed in the engine housing and parallel to the crankshaft. The control shaft... Agent: Victor Chepettchouk

20080223321 - Variable valve actuation system for an internal combustion engine: A valve system is disclosed for an internal combustion engine which allows a secondary valve event, serving for example to provide internal EGR, to be selectively disabled. The system comprises two valve 10 and 22, a first cam 20 acting on the first valve 10 by way of a rocker... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080223322 - Camshaft adjuster: In a camshaft adjusting device comprising a locking unit provided for locking an adjustment function component in at least one position relative to a camshaft drive component wherein at least two locking structures are provided which each have at least one locking surface for mutual engagement, each locking structure surface... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20080223323 - Valve timing control device for internal combustion engine: A valve timing control device includes a drive pulley driven by a crankshaft of an engine, and a driven camshaft. The camshaft has a cam that serves to open and close an intake port. An engine valve is spring-loaded by a valve spring, whereas the cam opens or closes the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080223324 - Two-step rocker arm assembly: A two-step rocker arm assembly is provided having an arm member and a first roller assembly rotatably mounted with respect to the arm member and defining a generally C-shaped opening. A shaft member rotatably supports a second and a third roller assembly. The shaft member extends through the generally C-shaped... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080223325 - Engine brake having an articulated rocker arm and a rocker shaft mounted housing: A system for actuating an engine valve is disclosed. The system may include a lost motion housing having two spaced collars surrounding a rocker shaft. The lost motion housing may include an internal hydraulic circuit connecting a master piston bore with a slave piston bore. The lost motion housing may... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080223326 - Switchable support element for a valve train of an internal combustion engine: A switchable support element (1) comprising a housing (2) in whose bore (4) an axially displaceable pressure piston (7) extends, said support element (1) comprising at least one coupling element (8) for an optional coupling of the pressure piston (7) in its axially extended position relative to the housing (2),... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080223327 - Dual-sided air intake assembly with crossover: The present invention provides an air intake assembly including a first portion defining a first chamber through which airflow passes. The first portion is coupled to a first throttle member to allow communication from the first chamber to the first throttle member. The air intake assembly also includes a first... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080223328 - Engine starter: An electric engine starter in which downsizing and weight saving are improved to an extreme based on the rational design and by eliminating an unnecessary unit, wherein a battery is arranged outside the starter, a power accumulating unit has a rotation supporting unit for supporting one end of a spring,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080223329 - Compound bracket system: A compound bracket system (400) for an internal combustion engine (100) includes a first bracket (112) that is rigidly connected to a crankcase(102) of the internal combustion engine (100). The first bracket (112) forms at least one mounting pad (310) that is arranged to connect to and support a first... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20080223331 - Pitot engine crankshaft oil pump: The oil pump comprises an open ended conduit extending from a connecting rod journal to below the surface of oil in a crankcase. The conduit is bent and oriented such that the open end is tangential to the radius of crankshaft rotation and faces in the direction of rotation. Channels... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20080223330 - Additives and lubricant formulations for improved antiwear properties: A lubricated surface, a method for reducing wear between moving parts, and lubricants, and lubricant additive concentrates containing a wear reducing agent. The lubricated surface contains a base oil of lubricating viscosity, a hydrocarbon soluble titanium compound, a metal-free friction modifier and an amount of at least one hydrocarbon soluble... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080223333 - Control method for the intake and exhaust valves of and engine and internal combustion engine comprising such valves: This method is for controlling the intake and exhaust valves of the cylinders of an internal combustion engine which is capable of operating either in four-stroke positive mode or in two-stroke braking mode. The control means pilot the valves so that at least a first exhaust valve of each cylinder... Agent: Novak Druce And Quigg LLP (volvo)

20080223334 - Torque based fuel cut-off: An engine control system is provided. The system includes: an engine torque module that estimates torque output based on charge energy; and a cylinder mode module that controls fuel cut-off and adjusts spark timing to the engine based on the torque output.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080223335 - Throttle body restriction indicator: A control system for a vehicle comprises a throttle control module and a diagnostic module. The throttle control module controls a position of a throttle of the vehicle and compensates for changes in effective opening area of the throttle due to coking. The diagnostic module reports a coking value to... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080223336 - Engine control system: An engine control device includes a governor lever, a centrifugal governor, a control lever operated to oscillate between a low-speed position and a high-speed position, and a governor spring expandedly provided between the control lever and the governor lever. An automatic choke device is connected to a choke valve of... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080223337 - Throttle apparatus embedding electronic control unit therein: A throttle apparatus embedding an electronic control unit in which a circuit board of the electronic control unit is embedded within a throttle body and a connector for connecting to an external portion connected to a terminal provided in the circuit board protrudes from an outer wall of the throttle... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080223338 - System and method for exhaust heat generation using electrically actuated cylinder valves and variable stroke combustion cycles: A method for operating an engine having at least a first and second cylinder, comprising operating the first cylinder with a spark timing more retarded than a spark timing of a second cylinder; and operating one of said first cylinder and second cylinders with a first number of strokes per... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080223339 - Start safety ignition system: A method for controlling an ignition system of an internal combustion engine having a primary firing pulse generator for charging a capacitor. An electronic switch is included for discharging the capacitor via an ignition coil to generate an ignition voltage. A microcomputer operates the switch to control the ignition timing... Agent: Houston Office Of Novak Druce And Quigg LLP

20080223340 - Regeneration system and method for particulate traps: An internal combustion engine system has an internal combustion engine with an intake for air and an exhaust for products of combustion. The engine has a turbocharger for pressurizing intake air in response to passage of the products of combustion. An exhaust aftertreatment device receives the exhaust from the engine... Agent: Deere & Company

20080223343 - Fuel vapor control apparatus: A filter box having an integrated vent solenoid to connect to the atmospheric port of an automotive emission storage canister in relation to the fuel tank of the vehicle, used to recapture fuel vapor before it is released into the atmosphere. The filter box with integrated vent solenoid is sealed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080223344 - Internal combustion engine using hydrogen: In an internal combustion engine using hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen gas as fuels and including a fuel injection device that injects liquid fuel, a hydrogen-blended fuel in which hydrogen gas is contained in the form of minute bubbles in a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, that is supplied to the fuel injection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080223345 - Arrangement of a charge air cooler in an intake system of an internal combustion engine: The arrangement of a charge air cooler in an intake system of an internal combustion engine has a charge air cooler that on the one hand is supplied with combustion air and on the other hand with a liquid coolant. A coolant/air cooler is provided in which the liquid coolant... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080223346 - Automotive modular inductive heated injector and system: A fuel injection system (60) is provided for an internal combustion engine (62). The engine has a plurality of cylinders (70). The system includes a plurality of fuel injectors (10′) constructed and arranged to receive fuel. One fuel injector is associated with a cylinder for injecting fuel into the associated... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080223347 - Engine pcv system with hydrophobic, oleophobic membrane for air/oil separation: An engine crankcase emission control system for an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder air intake system connected to associated engine cylinders. The system also includes an engine crankcase. A crankcase air outlet connects the crankcase to the cylinder air intake system at a location subject to variable intake vacuum... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080223348 - Internal combustion engine and vehicle having the internal combustion engine: An engine (internal combustion engine), in accordance with an embodiment, includes: a cylinder head disposed above a crankcase; a cylinder head cover attached to cover an upper side of the cylinder head; and an ignition plug provided with a plug part inserted into the cylinder head and a plug cap... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080216774 - System for producing a hydrogen enriched fuel: A system for producing, dispensing, using and monitoring a hydrogen enriched fuel includes a producing system configured to produce the hydrogen enriched fuel, a vehicle having an engine configured to use the hydrogen enriched fuel, and a dispensing system configured to store and dispense the hydrogen enriched fuel into the... Agent: Stephen A Gratton The Law Office Of Steve Gratton

20080216793 - Engine: (iv) thereafter, opening the partition valve when the lower chamber is at a relative minimum volume wherein, the heated air disposed in the upper chamber is released into the lower chamber via the opened partition valve, and the water vapor and/or Hydrogen in the lower chamber is caused to expand... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080216776 - Coolant controller and method for its manufacture: A coolant controller for a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine has a housing and a thermostat valve arranged therein. The thermostat valve has at least one valve closing member loadable by a working element as a function of a temperature value, a temperature sensor as well as a... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080216775 - Automotive coolant pump apparatus: An automotive coolant pump has movable vanes, which are adjustable as to their orientation in accordance with the temperature of the coolant, whereby the rate of coolant flow through the pump impeller accords with coolant temperature. A thermal-actuator is operated by a thermal-sensor, and serves to rotate a vanes-drive-ring to... Agent: Anthony Asquith

20080216777 - Engine cooling system with overload handling capability: A cooling system for an internal combustion engine incorporating a heat accumulator to temporarily store heat during peak heat loads. In automotive vehicles, the heat accumulator may store excess heat generated during vehicle acceleration or hill climbing and it may dissipate stored heat during vehicle cruise, deceleration, or engine idle.... Agent: Jan Vetrovec

20080216778 - Pump system and decoupler for supplying pressurized hydraulic fluid to a hydraulically actuated valvetrain: A pump system for supplying pressurized hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic valve actuation system for operating engine valves of an internal combustion engine comprises a substantially conventional main pump, driven by the engine, which supplies the necessary volume of pressurized hydraulic fluid when the engine is running. The system comprises... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080216779 - Apparatus for and method of controlling a starting operation to restart an engine: In an engine provided with a variable valve mechanism which varies an operating angle of an intake valve and a lift amount thereof, when an engine operation is automatically stopped after the establishment of an idling stop condition, the operating angle of the intake valve and the lift amount thereof... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080216780 - Variable valve actuating apparatus for internal combustion engine and process of controlling the same: A variable valve actuating apparatus for an internal combustion engine with an exhaust turbocharger. An intake valve characteristic varying section is arranged to vary an operating angle and a lift of an intake valve. An exhaust valve characteristic varying section is arranged to vary an opening timing and a closing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080216781 - Drive motor for use in variable valve operating device for internal combustion engine: An actuator of a variable valve operating device includes an electric motor for varying the distance by which an intake valve of an internal combustion engine is lifted. The electric motor has a hollow cylindrical magnet assembly disposed around a hollow cylindrical holder, and a shaft rotatably supported in a... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080216783 - Variable valve timing mechanism-equipped engine: A variable valve timing mechanism-equipped engine is provided which allows a mount installing section and a hydraulic control valve of a variable valve timing mechanism to be positioned in a chain case without limitation of positioning of accessories such as a water pump, air conditioning compressor, power steering oil pump... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080216784 - Valve drive having a mechanical valve play position and method for the mounting thereof: The valve drive has a cam follower (10) which is arranged between a cam (3) of a camshaft (4) and the gas exchange valve (5) and is mounted on a support element (8). Support element (8) is stationary in cylinder head (2), with a rigid installation height (feature YP), for... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080216785 - Lash adjuster: A lash adjuster includes a plunger and a cylinder. The cylinder includes a high-pressure chamber defined therein. The plunger has a valve port provided through a bottom wall thereof. The valve port includes a seat. A spherical valve body is accommodated in the high-pressure chamber. The valve body is made... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080216782 - Method for positional determination of an ec motor: A method for positional determination for an EC motor (14) on a device for the adjustment of the rotational angular position of the camshaft (11) of a reciprocating piston combustion engine relative to the crankshaft (12) is provided, whereby a positional measuring signal is tracked on each occurrence of a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080216786 - Glow plug with integrated pressure sensor: A glow plug includes: a tubular body (2) having at one of its ends a plug head as well as a fixing zone including elements (12, 13) for being fixed in a bore, an arm (4) mounted on the body (2) of the plug at the end opposite to the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080216787 - Method for starting an internal combustion engine: To achieve a reliable and exhaust-optimized combustion starting already from the beginning of a combustion phase in the startup of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine is brought to a target speed by an electric motor in a drag phase, the target speed being higher than the previously... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080216788 - Arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine: In an arrangement and method for operating an internal combustion engine with at least two intake pipe tracts connected each to one group of cylinders, with each of the intake pipe tracts including at least one independently adjustable throttle element for controlling the intake air pressures in the respective intake... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20080216789 - Engine balancer system: An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing (17) disposed so as to face an oil pan beneath a crankshaft is formed by joining an upper housing (29) and a lower housing (30) via mating faces (P), and the height of the mating faces (P) is lower... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080216790 - Piston for an internal combustion engine: A piston for an internal combustion engine is provided that comprises a piston head, onto which a piston hub and a piston skirt are formed, as well as reinforcing ribs, which extend between piston hub and piston skirt and which each comprise two portions that are curved in opposite directions.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (gme)

20080216791 - Connecting rod-crank piston pin for the carrying out of an eccentric connecting rod system preferably for internal-combustion engines: A piston pin carries out an eccentric coupling of connecting rod and crank connected with the driving shaft. The piston pin is shaped like a cylinder, has two cuts disposed orthogonally to the axis of the piston pin. The cuts form three sectors. The two external sectors correspond to the... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20080216792 - Positive displacement rotary vane engine: The present invention is an engine, which includes a positive displacement compression process, a variably fueled, continuous combustor and/or heat exchanger, and a positive displacement, work-producing expander. This arrangement avoids the traditional stochiometric mixture requirements utilized in spark-ignition based engines and the emission problems associated with diesel engines.... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. Pc

20080216794 - Throttle assembly for intake air and v-type engine therewith: A throttle assembly for intake air protects a link mechanism for interlocking throttles with each other from water and mud and maintains the throttle operability in a satisfactory state. The throttle assembly for intake air includes a plurality of throttle devices for injecting fuel into intake air to generate an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080216795 - Engine braking method for an internal combustion engine having two serially arranged exhaust-gas turbochargers: In an engine braking method and an internal combustion engine including an engine braking arrangement, wherein the engine has high pressure and low pressure exhaust gas turbochargers connected in series, with a bypass (12) around the high-pressure compressor allowing the air mass flow selectively to bypass the high pressure compressor... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20080216796 - Control system and method for internal combustion engine: A control system and method for an internal combustion engine includes an intake manifold for directing airflow to a plurality of cylinders of the engine and an electronically controlled throttle valve disposed within the intake manifold for regulating airflow into the engine. An engine retard control determination module determines whether... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080216797 - High pressure fuel pump control apparatus for an internal combustion engine: In a high pressure fuel pump control apparatus for an internal combustion engine which has a high pressure fuel pump of an engine driven type capable of pressure feeding a controlled amount of fuel by driving a fuel suction valve to close at predetermined timing in a fuel delivery stroke,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080216798 - Coupling device and fuel supply arrangement: A coupling device (30) for hydraulically coupling a fuel injector (20) to a fuel rail (18) of a combustion engine (22) has a fuel injector cup (38) being designed to engage a fuel inlet portion (26) of the fuel injector (20), and a tube (32) with a first end (34a)... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p. Patent Department

20080216799 - Method for operating a fuel pump: In a method for operating a fuel pump of a motor vehicle, the fuel pump is driven by an electric motor in such a way that the fuel pump is driven by an energized electric motor in a defined rotational direction in order to feed fuel in the direction of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080216800 - Fuel delivery module for low installation height applications: A fuel delivery module 14 and fuel tank combination includes a fuel tank 16 for a vehicle. The fuel tank has a top wall 25 and a bottom surface 20. A fuel pump 18 is disposed in the fuel tank. The fuel pump has an axis A disposed generally at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080216801 - Fuel supply system: A fuel supply system provided in a fuel tank includes: a fuel pump that sucks fuel reserved within the fuel tank via a suction filter and discharges the sucked fuel; a pressure regulator that maintains pressure of the fuel discharged from the fuel pump within a predetermined range; a pump... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080216802 - Device for distributing recirculated gases and recirculated gas-cooling device comprising one such device: A device for distributing the exhaust gas from a motor vehicle engine in the direction of a component. The device includes: a gas inlet port and a gas outlet port that open onto a same first plane; an inlet port and an outlet port to the component, which open onto... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080210184 - Fuel additive concentrate dosing system: A safe, reliable system for automatically dosing diesel truck fuel tanks with a fuel additive is provided. The additive, such as a concentrated solution containing fuel borne catalyst (FBC), is fed by gravity and dosing is controlled with a signal from a switch located on the ignition switch and/or the... Agent: Thaddius J. Carvis

20080210185 - Hydrogen station, method of charging hydrogen, and vehicle: A hydrogen station includes gas storage equipment for storing hydrogen, a dispenser for charging hydrogen gas supplied from the gas storage equipment into a hydrogen tank of a vehicle, and a blower. When charging hydrogen, the blower blows air towards a radiator of the vehicle parked at a predetermined vehicle... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080210180 - Air-cooled engine heat extractor: A heat extractor for attachment to an air-cooled engine. A cooling fan extends from the engine and is rotated by action of the engine. The heat extractor comprises a first thermally conductive surface for attachment to the engine, a plurality of flaps extending from the first surface, wherein when the... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080210204 - Internal combustion engine: A piston of an internal combustion engine includes a cavity for gases passing a piston ring and a first flow path leading from the cavity to a piston ring region and a second flow path extending from the cavity to an outlet opening for removing gases to an inlet opening... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080210181 - Variable valve mechanism of internal combustion engine: When an actuation mechanism fails to operate and thus fails to control a turning of a control shaft of a valve lift varying mechanism, a moving member is enforcedly moved to an intermediate stable position by a biasing force that is produced by combining a first type force that biases... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080210183 - Adjusting device for an internal combustion engine, in particular camshaft adjusting device: In an adjusting device for an internal combustion engine, in particular a camshaft adjusting device, an adjusting unit is provided which comprises at least one currentless sensor unit for carrying out in at least one mode an adjustment as a function of a momentary phase angle between cooperating relatively rotatable... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20080210182 - Electric camshaft adjuster: A way of improving a harmonic drive of sleeve design is for the expenditure on the construction of the harmonic drive (19, 19′) to be lowered by changes to the wave generator (17, 17′, 17″), and for the axial installation space thereof to be lowered by integrating the ring gears... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080210186 - Method for controlling glow plugs in diesel engines: The invention describes a method for controlling glow plugs in diesel engines by varying the effective electric voltage applied to the glow plugs between an initial value and a target value, which is obtained at the end of a cold start phase determined by an engine control unit and which... Agent: Keith H. Orum Orum & Roth

20080210187 - Engine start controller: An engine start controller having a starter motor that is driven by battery to start engine, an activation switch that sends to the starter motor a START command for starting the engine, an activation circuit that connects the starter motor to the battery to supply a drive current, and an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080210188 - Air induction housing having a perforated sound attenuation wall: An air induction housing having a perforated wall which simultaneously provides ample air entry into the air induction housing and excellent intake noise attenuation. The size, number and arrangement of the perforations is selected such that ample airflow is provided and audibility of intake noise is minimized, based upon simultaneous... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080210189 - Intake manifold having runners with variable cross sectional area: The present invention provides a tunable engine manifold which employs sliders to form one wall of the inlet runners. The sliders can be moved to alter the cross sectional area of the runners as desired. Seals on the sliders provide an efficient means to seal the runners to prevent undesired... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080210190 - Rotary valve for use in an internal combustion engine: In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a rotary valve including a valve body having a curved portion and two side portions, wherein a line extending through the respective centers of the side portions defines an axis of rotation of the rotary valve. The valve body may include... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080210191 - Cylinder head arrangement including a rotary valve: A cylinder head arrangement is provided. The arrangement may include a cylinder head having at least one valve chamber defined therein. The arrangement may also include at least one rotary valve, accommodated in the valve chamber, the rotary valve having a curved portion, two side portions and at least one... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080210192 - Cylinder head for an internal combustion engine: A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine is provided. The cylinder head includes a valve chamber shaped to accommodate at least two rotary valves therein. The cylinder head also includes at least two first passages extending between the valve chamber and an underside of the cylinder head. The cylinder... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080210193 - Crankcase: A crankcase for an internal combustion engine with two side walls, an upper surface and a first end face, where the side walls, the upper surface, and the first end face are joined with one another as a single piece. The crankcase is open at the second end face, and... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080210194 - Orbiting piston machines: The casing (1) of a positive displacement machine has a cylindrical internal surface (3) delimiting an operating chamber which accommodates an orbiting piston (4) having a cylindrical external surface. At least one of the said surfaces, e.g. the internal surface (3), is at least partly constituted by a peripheral wall... Agent: Intellectual Property Dept. Dewitt Ross & Stevens Sc

20080210195 - Apparatus for and method of controlling intake operation of an internal combustion engine: Opening timing of the intake valve of an internal combustion engine is controlled to take a value within a range from 30° to 140° after the top dead center of intake stroke during a period of time before completion of engine warming-up from starting of an engine, and also, effective... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080210196 - Direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the same: In a direct-injection internal combustion engine, a variable intake valve, of which valve timing can be varied, is used as an air intake valve through which an air intake path and a combustion chamber communicate with each other. The direct-injection internal combustion engine includes: a variable-intake-valve control section that controls... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080210197 - Method for exhaust gas temperature control via engine braking in an internal combustion engine: Systems for, and methods of, controlling exhaust gas temperature in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine during positive power operation of the engine are disclosed. Control of exhaust gas temperature may be desired to improve emissions performance in the engine, which is often dependent upon exhaust gas temperature. One or more... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080210198 - Internal combustion engine and fuel injection method in internal combustion engine: An air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture produced by fuel injected from a first injector into an intake port (or into a combustion chamber) is set in a range of 28 to 38. Therefore, when the temperature and pressure rise with a first combustion started by spark-ignition around a spark... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080210199 - Fuel injector: A fuel injector has a spray nozzle with a plurality of spray discharge orifices, each of which has an elongated cross-section having a major axis orientable to a center electrode of a spark plug in the combustion chamber.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20080210200 - Method for controlling a fuel delivery device on an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has a fuel delivering device with a high-pressure pump which conveys fuel into a fuel reservoir, and a volume flow control valve that is assigned to the high-pressure pump. A control difference (FUP_DIF) is determined from a difference between a predefined fuel pressure (FUP_SP) and a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080210201 - Fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine and engine incorporating same: A fuel injection system includes a fuel piping for supplying fuel to plural injectors of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, and a connection member for attaching the fuel piping to a vehicle. The fuel piping is divided into plural resin supply pipe members across the longitudinal direction thereof. The fuel... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080210202 - Fuel injection pump: The invention provides a fuel injection pump comprising a pump housing and a pumping arrangement associated therewith, wherein the pumping arrangement includes a pumping plunger and a plunger drive arrangement, the pumping plunger having a first end reciprocably received within a plunger bore provided in the pump housing and a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080210203 - Fuel pump layout structure in motorcycle: A fuel pump layout structure in a motorcycle, including an engine, a fuel pump for the supplying fuel to the engine, a frame for supporting the engine and the fuel pump, and a rear suspension damper disposed behind the frame with a swing arm being swingably suspended from the rear... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080210205 - Hydraulic control type supercharger for automotive engine: Disclosed herein is a hydraulic control type supercharger for an automotive engine. The supercharger includes a supercharger unit and a solenoid pump. The supercharger unit includes a hollow housing inserted into an intake pipe and having a longitudinal hollow portion, a rotating shaft mounted to the hollow housing to pass... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20080210206 - Breather apparatus in combustion engine: The present invention provides a breather apparatus in a combustion engine having a sufficient gas-liquid separation function without involving an additional parts such as a breather tank and an arrangement space thereof. A breather chamber is formed in an air cleaner case, and the breather chamber is communicated with a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080210207 - Engine system for multi-fluid operation: A system for an engine, comprising of an injector coupled to the engine and configured to inject fuel to a cylinder of the engine, a first reservoir holding a first fluid containing at least a fraction of gasoline, a second reservoir holding a second fluid containing at least a fraction... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080210208 - Control apparatus and control method for internal combustion engine: A throttle operation is performed after an internal combustion engine is started. Then, temperature of a catalyst is obtained based on a signal output from a temperature sensor fitted to the catalyst. It is then determined whether the temperature obtained is equal to or higher than the activation temperature. If... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080210209 - Lambda controller with balancing of the quantity of oxygen: In a method for the lambda control in an internal combustion engine with at least one catalytic converter, with the exhaust system being provided with front and rear lambda control circuits lambda with at least one rear oxygen sensor downstream in reference to the catalytic converter, with an output signal... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department