Internal-combustion engines inventions 03/09

20090078226 - Method and system for liquid fuel conditioning: A fuel is conditioned in a fuel supply system for more efficient combustion in a combustion chamber. The conditioning system includes a fuel vessel for fuel conditioning, at least one fuel dispersing nozzle mounted for discharge into the fuel vessel, at least one gas inlet port and at least one... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090078227 - Surface passivation and to methods for the reduction of fuel thermal degradation deposits: In a specific embodiment of this invention, deposits and soot formation in a direct injection engine are reduced by passivating the injectors to within 0.1 mm of the injector nozzle. The fuel used with the inventive injectors comprises fuel-soluble additives.... Agent: Thomas & Raring, P.c Newmarket Services Corporation

20090078232 - Emulsion system for diesel fuel and water for an internal combustion engine: An emulsion system 10 for diesel fuel and water for a diesel internal combustion engine includes a ratio member 12 for combining predetermined quantities of diesel fuel and water, and an emulsifier 14 for emulsifying diesel fuel and water such that the resulting combination is ultimately urged through fuel injectors... Agent: Donald G. Flaynik Jr. Cherskov & Flaynik

20090078219 - System and method for providing an integrated cooling system using an independent multi-control system: A system for cooling an engine on a vehicle without a coolant based intercooler and intermediate duct, the system including an air-to-oil radiator system configured to cool oil that flows through an engine, an air-to-air radiator system configured to cool air that flows through the engine and further configured to... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090078220 - Cooling system with isolated cooling circuits: A cooling system for an internal combustion engine, comprising a first, high temperature, cooling circuit coupled to an engine for cooling the engine, where a first coolant circulates in the first circuit; and a second, low temperature, cooling circuit coupled to a plurality of devices for cooling the plurality of... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20090078221 - Adjusting ballistic valve timing: A method to adjust timing of an electrically actuated valve, said electrically actuated valve operating in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising during a cycle of said cylinder, opening said electrically actuated valve at a first valve opening position without activating a valve opening coil, and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20090078222 - Valve timing control apparatus: A check valve is provided in a fluid passage between a phase change valve and a fluid supply source. The check valve enables a flow of the hydraulic fluid from the fluid supply source to a retarding chamber or an advancing chamber defined in a housing in corporation with a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090078223 - Variable valve system of internal combustion engine: An intake side phase varying mechanism varies an open/close timing of an intake valve, and an exhaust side phase varying mechanism varies an open/close timing of an exhaust valve. Before starting the engine, one of the intake and exhaust side phase varying mechanisms is caused to keep a first position... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090078224 - Cam follower rocker arm: A cam follower rocker arm is provided comprising a body with a U-shape cross section with an intermediate opening at the top of the inverted U-shape and having an outside width less then the inside width of the opening, creating a ledge perpendicular to the body side walls. A roller... Agent: Arthur J. Plantamura, Esq. General Chemical Performance Products LLC.

20090078225 - Switchable rocker arm: A latching mechanism for variably activating an engine valve in an internal combustion engine includes a rocker arm body having a bore and a socket. A first passage leads from the socket to a first hydraulic chamber formed above a lock pin head. A second passage leads from the socket... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090078228 - Internal combustion engine including plasma generating device: A plasma generating device for an internal combustion engine sets the generating-atmosphere pressure for generating plasma to the intake pressure, thereby achieving a reduction in the size, weight, and energy consumption of the plasma generating device and an improvement in combustibility. An internal combustion engine includes a throttle valve arranged... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090078229 - Barrel-style charge motion control valve for v-configuration engines: An apparatus and method for controlling charge motion in the air intake manifold includes a barrel-style valve rotatably mounted in the lower air intake manifold between the linearly arranged set of air inlets and the first and second sets of laterally offset air outlets which branch to the first and... Agent: Paul L. Marshall, Esq. Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090078230 - Cylinder head oil passage structure: An oil communication passage (39b) is formed so as to run through a wall portion (39) separating an oil collector (41) and an oil drop hole (38) formed in an engine cylinder head (14), and oil that has collected in the oil collector (41) can therefore be guided to the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090078231 - Energy transfer machine: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Projections from the fixed outer housing and rotor mesh with... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20090078233 - Engine brake procedure: The invention concerns a procedure for the braking of a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, that is operated by a combustion engine, at which the braking torque is initiated into a drive train of the vehicle, by compressing gas in at least one cylinder of the combustion engine during the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090078234 - Method and system for closed loop combustion control of a lean-burn reciprocating engine using ionization detection: A system and method for controlling knock in a lean burn internal combustion (IC) engine includes a spark plug having an electrode, and an electrical circuit configured to provide a first voltage to the electrode and detect an ion current during a thermal-ionization phase of the combustion process, and provide... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (zps)

20090078235 - Control system and method for internal combustion engine: A control system includes: a detecting device that detects the transition in the cumulative amount of heat generated in a combustion chamber based on the pressure in the combustion chamber in an expansion stroke; and a controller that controls the amount of exhaust gas contained in an air-fuel mixture in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090078236 - System and method for controlling the fuel injection event in an internal combustion engine: A controller, in electrical communication with the one or more of the injectors and a high-pressure fuel pump, generates a first signal responsive to which the valve in the injector opens or closes and a second signal responsive to which the high-pressure fuel pump increases or decreases the pressure level... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090078237 - Fuel supply system for internal combustion engine: A high-pressure return passage returns excess fuel in a delivery pipe that is connected to an injector to a fuel tank. An upstream end of the high-pressure return passage is connected to the delivery pipe via a high-pressure regulator. A vertically lower portion of the high-pressure return passage is vertically... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090078238 - Fuel-evaporated gas processing system and electromagnetic valve device: A fuel-evaporated gas processing system includes an input port taking in evaporated gas evaporated in a fuel tank; output ports supplying the evaporated gas taken in through the input port to an intake system of an engine; a chamber interposed between the input port and the output ports; an electromagnetic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090078239 - Method for recovering vapor during an onboard refueling operation: f

20090078240 - Push rod engine with inboard exhaust: A multiple cylinder internal combustion engine having an engine block with first and second cylinder banks arranged at an angle and longitudinally offset relative to one another and a camshaft disposed within the engine block for actuating valves associated with each cylinder includes first and second cylinder heads associated with... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl/dsb

20090078241 - Method for adjusting a displacement pump that has a variable volume flow rate in an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method for adjusting a displacement pump that has a variable volume flow rate in an internal combustion engine. Said method comprises the following steps: the displacement pump is driven; the fluid is conveyed to the consumption points in the internal combustion engine; at least one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20090078242 - Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine: In a lower partial load range of, a setpoint value of the mass flow of air into the combustion chambers is determined as a function of a predefined torque request such that it is greater than necessary for implementing the predefined torque request and large enough that individual exhaust packets... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090071420 - Operating method for a system composed of a reformer and a catalytic exhaust gas aftertreatment device: An operating method for a system including a reformer which in reformate mode can convert hydrocarbon-containing fuel to a hydrogen-rich reformate gas, and a catalytic exhaust gas aftertreatment device which is acted upon by reformer gas to reach the catalytic converter light-off temperature more rapidly. During cold starts, the reformer,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090071421 - Internal combustion engine with breather chamber: A cylinder head cover, on which a breather chamber wall and control valve device are mounted is not enlarged while the capacity of a breather chamber is increased. For an internal combustion engine, control valve devices, which control the operation of a hydraulic valve stop mechanism that serves as a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090071422 - Electronic valve system: An internal combustion engine comprises a number of cylinders. The cylinders have electronically activated intake valves. Ignition coils for the cylinders are responsive to respective ignition signals such that charge accumulates in a coil for a cylinder when the ignition signal for the cylinder has a first state and then... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090071423 - Method for controlling actuation of valves in engine with turbocharger: Concerned is a method for controlling actuation of valves in an engine with a turbocharger, a variable valve mechanism 18 being arranged for controlling opening/closing timing and lifts of suction and exhaust valves (only exhaust valves 17 being shown in the figure) of each of cylinders 8, an operation with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090071424 - Valve timing control apparatus: A boss portion of a vane rotor includes a tapered outer wall surface, which is tilted relative to an axis of the boss portion. A housing member includes a tapered inner wall surface that contacts the tapered outer wall surface. A seal member is provided at one axial end surface... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090071425 - Variable valve timing apparatus: In a variable valve timing apparatus having a VVT mechanism in each of a plurality of banks, start of a valve timing control is not permitted until reference position learning of valve timing is completed in the corresponding bank and in other banks. Accordingly, the plurality of banks come to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090071426 - Hydraulic circuit, particularly for camshaft adjusters, and corresponding control element: The invention relates to a valve and suitable hydraulic circuit, especially for camshaft adjusters of an internal combustion engine. The hydraulic circuit comprises a number of check valves or two-way valves operating as check valves, in order to provide a rapid camshaft adjuster with a high regulating quality.... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20090071427 - Valve drive for an internal combustion engine: A drive valve for an internal combustion engine comprising a variable hub profile for a valve having a lever supported on a variable support point by means of a switchable support element which provides possibilities for influencing the hub profile and alternatively and cumulatively, the cam is axially displaced such... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090071428 - Warm-up system and warm-up method for in-vehicle power train: In a warm-up system that pre-warms up of an engine (E) by transferring heat from a heat source to an engine cooling water circulation circuit (1) of a vehicle, a residential hot water circuit (2) that uses a household heat source is provided as the heat source, and a one-touch... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090071429 - Spark plug and internal combusion engine in which the spark plug is disposed: To provide a spark plug with improved heat resistance and an internal combustion engine in which that spark plug is mounted where there is good conduction of the heat near the opening on the combustion chamber side of the mounting hole for the spark plug provided in the engine and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090071430 - Double-plenum inlet manifold and vehicle incorporating such a manifold: This invention relates to a double-plenum or double-chamber inlet manifold or splitter, made up of a structural unit comprising two distinct coupled plenums with a common wall, an inlet opening for each of the two plenums and several pipes through each of the said plenums, the said superimposed plenums having... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090071431 - Intake manifold: An intake manifold for supplying intake air to an internal combustion engine includes a surge tank for temporarily storing the intake air, an air-intake port through which the intake air will be introduced in the surge tank, the air-intake port being provided in the surge tank at a position closer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090071432 - Intake system: An intake system for an internal combustion engine has an intake conduit of thermoplastic material provided with an intake socket having an annular collar. At least one acoustic element is concentrically connected to the intake socket of the intake conduit, wherein the acoustic element is insertable into the annular collar.... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20090071434 - Low heat rejection high efficiency internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine including a low thermal capacity, low thermal conductivity insulating liner is provided. The insulating liner may be positioned to line the combustion chamber and a portion of the cylinder wall. The insulating liner may comprise a high aspect morphology sintered ceramic material and may further include... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090071433 - Reciprocating engine: A reciprocating engine 1 includes an annular top ring 5 serving as a first piston ring disposed adjacent to a top surface (head end surface) 4 of a piston 3 defining a combustion chamber 2; an annular second ring 6 serving as a second piston ring disposed with the top... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090071435 - Diesel engine lubricated with fuel such as light oil: A diesel engine includes a fuel supply passage via which fuel is supplied from a fuel tank to an oil pan through a supply pump, a lubrication-system fuel supply passage via which fuel is supplied from the oil pan to engine parts to be lubricated through a lubricating oil pump,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090071436 - Gas exchange valve actuating device: In a gas exchange valve actuating device having a lever for transmitting a drive movement to at least one gas exchange valve of an engine braking control unit of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine includes a compact braking control unit which is coupled to the valve operating... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20090071437 - Straddle type vehicle: A straddle type vehicle includes a protrusion which is displaced together with a throttle valve, a lever pulley which is displaced in response to the rotation of a throttle grip, a spring and a control device. The spring generates elastic force to return the protrusion to a first original position... Agent: Jones Day

20090071438 - Method and device for controlling starting of gas engine: There are provided a starting operation mode in which fuel gas flow is controlled by the fuel gas flow control valve based on actual mixture flow rate and adequate excess air ratio prescribed for each of detected values of operating conditions of the engine and then mixture flow is controlled... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090071439 - Method and device for integrative control of gas engine: An integrative control method and device for controlling gas engines is proposed which is improved load responsivity of the engine while maintaining air fuel ratio control. The control method comprises a speed control process for controlling engine rotation speed by calculating a command value of fuel gas flow rate based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090071440 - Direct injection spark ignition internal combustion engine and fuel injection control method for same engine: A direct injection spark ignition internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection controller preventing and/or suppressing engine knocking by retarding a fuel injection timing near an intake stroke bottom dead center. The fuel injection controller retards the fuel injection timing beyond a predetermined time by injecting a required amount of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090071441 - Electrical ignition method for internal combustion engines: and for formation of the power supply for the control device (U8), and an operating mode that is realized or able to be realized with the control device for switching combustion off for the internal combustion engine, whereby by means of the correspondingly arranged control device, the ignition switch is... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20090071442 - Direct metering fuel system with an integral redundant motor pump: A direct metering fuel supply system includes a plurality of axial gap motors, a fixed displacement, variable speed positive displacement piston pump, and a gas turbine engine control. Each axial gap motor is configured to be selectively energized and is operable, upon being energized, to supply a drive torque at... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090071443 - Fuel injection control apparatus for internal combustion engine: A fuel injection control apparatus for an engine including one or more sensors to detect one or more operational states of engine and a fuel state, a fuel injector to activate a plunger rod thereof to inject fuel when an excitation current is supplied to a coil of the fuel... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090071444 - Fuel supply apparatuses: A fuel supply apparatus according to the present invention includes vapor production determining means (3) for determining whether or not the vapor of the fuel is producible, and control means (ECU) for operating a passage resistance adjusting means (47) of a pressure adjusting mechanism (40) to cause increase of the... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20090071445 - Damping element for a fuel injection valve: Known damping elements (25) for a fuel injection valve (1) insertable into a receiving conduit (2) of a cylinder head (3) of an internal combustion engine are disposed between a valve housing (14) of the fuel injection valve (1) and a wall of the receiving conduit (2) of the cylinder... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090071446 - Fuel supply pump and tappet structure body: Disclosed is a fuel supply pump including a tappet structure body having a roller that contacts a cam and a tappet body disposed with a roller housing portion in which the roller is housed, with a pressure adjusting member for dispersing load force being interposed between the tappet body and... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090071447 - Virtual fuel sensor for dual fuel tank applications: A method comprises detecting a status of a transfer pump for transferring fuel between a first fuel source and a second fuel source; receiving a fuel trim value and a vehicle operating parameter; and calculating a fuel composition of one of the first fuel source and second fuel source based... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090071448 - Vapor separator: A vapor separator includes a fuel pump, and a container at least partially defining a fuel reservoir to hold fuel and a pump chamber to hold the fuel pump. A closure is carried by the container to close the fuel reservoir and at least partially defines a vapor chamber above... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090071449 - Multi-purpose liquid atomizer utilizing catalyst, turbulence, and collision: The present invention relates to a multi-purpose liquid atomizer utilizing a catalyst, turbulence, and collision. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multi-purpose liquid atomizer using a catalyst, turbulence, and collision, involving forming ceramic serving as a catalyst in inlet and outlet caps, such that the liquid fuel can... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20090071450 - Charger module for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a charger module (1) for an internal combustion engine, comprising a mechanical charger (2) and two charge coolers (3, 4), mounted downstream of the charger (2), for cooling the compressed charge air. The aim of the invention is to reduce the costs for producing such a... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20090071451 - Engine system routing crankcase gases into exhaust: An engine system is disclosed. The engine system has an engine block having at least one combustion chamber and at least partially defining a crankcase. The engine system also has an inlet conduit connecting a compressor of a turbocharger with the at least one combustion chamber. The engine system further... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090071452 - Bi-fuel engine using hydrogen: A method for controlling an internal combustion engine is disclosed in which a first fuel, hydrogen, is supplied under a first set of engine operating conditions and a second fuel, such as: gasoline, gasoline mixed with alcohol, or gaseous hydrocarbons, are supplied under a second set of engine operating conditions.... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20090071453 - Bi-fuel engine using hydrogen: A method is disclosed for making a transition from fueling an engine with hydrogen to another fuel. That other fuel may be gasoline, a gasoline and alcohol mixture, or gaseous fuels, as examples. The other fuel has the capability of providing higher BMEP than the hydrogen because of better air... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20090071454 - Ignition coil having compressed powder core: An ignition coil includes a generally cylindrical center core having a plurality of cylindrical portions whose outside diameter is different from each other, a primary coil disposed around the center core; and a secondary coil disposed around the primary coil, wherein the secondary coil boosts voltage that is applied to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090064956 - Ashless consumable engine oil: The present invention relates to a low sulfur, low phosphorus, low-ash, zinc free consumable lubricant composition suitable for use in an internal combustion engine, comprising: an oil of lubricating viscosity containing less than 0.01 percent by weight of sulfur; a high TBN succinimide dispersant and overall all lubricant composition that... Agent: The Lubrizol Corporation Attn: Docket Clerk, Patent Dept.

20090064946 - Fan drive device: The invention relates to a fan drive device (1) for driving at least one fan impeller (2), comprising at least one first drivable coolable housing element (9, 10) with at least one output disc (13) which can be connected to the at least one drivable coolable housing element (9, 10)... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090064947 - Oil-cooled engine: An oil-release space (18) is formed along a lower side portion (17) of a cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) below an oil-cooling jacket (4). A reinforcing plate (19) spans between the lower side portion (17) of the cylinder lateral and peripheral wall (3) and a bottom wall (10) of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090064948 - Crankcase breather assembly: A breather assembly for ventilation and pressure control within a crankcase of a positive displacement motor or pump. The breather assembly includes an intake/exhaust port through the crankcase with a valve seat for the port on an exterior surface of the crankcase. A flexible valve membrane is positioned over the... Agent: Floyd B. Carothers Carothers And Carothers

20090064975 - Two-stroke combustion engine: A method for the operation of a combustion engine operating in accordance with a two stroke principle, which comprises alternating power stroke and compression strokes, wherein the combustion engine comprises at least one cylinder (1) and a piston (2) that moves reciprocatingly therein, and a combustion chamber delimited (3) by... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood

20090064949 - Error correction during the operation of electrohydraulic valve control systems: In a method for operating an electrohydraulic valve control system of an internal combustion engine, the electrohydraulic valve control system comprising at least one gas exchange valve actuator and a gas exchange valve, which is hydraulically actuated by it, an actuation characteristic is acquired during the operation of the internal... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090064951 - Valvetrain control systems with independent intake and exhaust lift control: A valve control system for an internal combustion engine includes a valve actuation system. The valve actuation system includes at least one of first and second configurations. The first configuration includes a shared lift control valve that actuates an intake valve and an exhaust valve between N open lift modes,... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090064950 - Valvetrain control systems with lift mode transitioning based engine synchronization timing and sensor based lift mode control: A valve control system for an internal combustion engine includes a valve actuation system. The valve actuation system includes lift control valves that actuate at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve between N open lift modes, where N is an integer greater than one. A control... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090064952 - Valve drive for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a valve drive for internal combustion engines, comprising at least one cam assembly which can be axially displaced on a camshaft. The assembly consists of at least two cams having different profiles and actuating optionally at least one gas exchange valve for adjusting different valve lifts... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090064953 - Rocker arm: A rocker arm formed of material in a shape of sheet has a pair of side wall portions, a connection portion for a valve stem receiving portion and a connection portion for a pivot receiving portion which interconnect the side wall portions, and an open portion for arranging a roller... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090064954 - Switchable cam follower of a valve train assembly of an internal combustion engine: A switchable cam follower of a valve train assembly of an internal combustion engine is proposed, with an external lever that encloses an internal lever with its arms, of which components, that can deviate from each other flexibly, run on an axis that is attached to a valve side end,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090064955 - Valve control for reciprocating piston internal combustion engine: Valve controller for reciprocating piston internal combustion engines with at least two intake and/or exhaust gas-exchange valves for each piston/cylinder unit, wherein the gas-exchange valves are guided by valve stems in a cylinder head (8) of the reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, loaded in a closing direction by valve springs,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090064957 - Engine starting system: An internal combustion engine including an electrical starting system which integrates several components into a single assembly for easier manufacture and operation of the engine. For example, a safety switch and key are integrated with the electric motor starting system. The starting system includes a starter motor having a drive... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20090064958 - Automatic decompression mechanism for an engine: An automatic decompression mechanism for selectively actuating a cylinder valve of an engine so as to reduce the starting force required to start the engine. The mechanism includes a cam gear, a centrifugal member, and a cover member comprising an integrally formed biasing means for biasing and retaining the centrifugal... Agent: Wegman, Hessler & Vanderburg

20090064959 - Air intake manifold for coupling the output of a compressor to the air intake of an internal combustion engine: An elongated air intake manifold, for coupling a compressor outlet to the air intake of an internal combustion engine, includes bottom, top and side walls progressing from a circular upstream end through a sweeping curved central section to a 90° bend section terminating in a peripheral rim surrounding an air... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20090064960 - One-part seal material composition curable at ambient temperature, and intake manifold using the same: A one-part seal material composition curable at ambient temperature is provided that can meet all the requirements of: adhesiveness to weight saving materials; strength which can endure use in automotive parts; viscosity appropriate for enhancing efficiency of mass production; and fuel vapor sealing properties, and an intake manifold using the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090064961 - Reciprocating piston cylinder head cover having an integrated fluid exchange rotary disc valve: A cylinder head cover for a reciprocating compressor cylinder such as an air compressor or internal combustion engine is disclosed. The cover includes a first plate having a first and second channel in a surface of the first plate, wherein the first and second channels merge together within the plate... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090064962 - Balancer apparatus of engine: In a balancer apparatus of an engine having an oil pump, a space on a chain side and a space on an oil strainer side are partitioned by a projecting portion projecting in a direction which perpendicularly crosses balancer shafts in a balancer housing formed on an oil pump housing.... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090064964 - Spark ignited direct injection flow geometry for improved combustion: An engine assembly may include an engine block defining a cylinder bore, a piston disposed within the bore, and a spark ignited direct injection fuel system. The piston may be disposed within the bore at a position corresponding to at least 50 percent of an intake stroke of the piston.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090064963 - Spark ignited direct injection targeting for improved combustion: An engine assembly may include an engine block defining a cylinder bore, a piston disposed within the cylinder bore, and a spark ignited direct injection fuel system. The piston may be disposed within the cylinder bore and may be reciprocally displaceable from a first position to a second position during... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090064965 - Leisure vehicle: A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, including a drive wheel, a slip sensor unit configured to detect a slip of the drive wheel, a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine, a throttle valve position changing device... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090064966 - Idling control device of spark ignition type internal combustion engine: A spark ignition internal combustion engine in which, during an idling operation, the ignition timing is changed temporarily to the advance side or retard size with respect to the reference ignition timing so that when the engine speed deviates from the target idling speed, the engine speed becomes the target... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090064967 - Control for an internal-combustion engine: A rotational speed parameter is detected in accordance with a rotational speed of the engine. A reference value of the rotational speed parameter is calculated. For each cylinder, an error between the reference value and the rotational speed parameter detected every predetermined crank angle is calculated as a relative speed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090064968 - Configuration of air intake parts applied to thermal type air flow measuring instrument: It is an object of the present invention to expand an air flow measuring range of a thermal type air flow measuring instrument. A squeeze 157 is provided upstream of a thermal type air flow measuring instrument 100 of a main air passage 155 to expand an air flow measuring... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090064969 - Method for determining the composition of a fuel blend: The invention relates to a method for determining the composition of a fuel blend from a first and at least a second fuel for operating an internal combustion engine. The method makes provision for the ignition angle of the internal combustion engine to be altered and for a non-intermittent fluctuation... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090064970 - Method for taking into account the outgassing of fuel from the engine oil of an internal combustion engine: The invention deals with a method for operating an internal combustion engine with engine oil as the lubricant and a fuel supply by means of direct injection, wherein an air number (lambda) of a fuel-air mixture supplied to the internal combustion engine is determined. Provision is made in the method... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090064971 - Fuel injection system comprising a variable flow rate high-pressure pump: An injection system includes a high-pressure pump with at least one pumping element operated in a reciprocating manner by corresponding intake and discharge strokes. Each pumping element is equipped with a corresponding intake valve in communication with an intake line, fed by a low-pressure pump. An on-off solenoid valve is... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090064972 - Fuel injection nozzle and method of holding the same: A fuel injection nozzle for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine is inserted in a connecting pipe extending from a fuel rail and is fixed to the connecting pipe by fastening member. The fuel injection nozzle has a sealing part for sealing a fuel passage... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090064973 - Delivery device for delivering fuel out of a fuel tank: A delivery device for delivering fuel out of a fuel tank (1) has a suction connection (13) of a fuel pump (3) connected to a mixing tube (11) of a sucking jet pump (6). The sucking jet pump (6) sucks fuel out of the fuel tank (1) via a foot... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090064974 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: Method for the operation of an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine comprises a combustion chamber, at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, whose opening times are adjustable, wherein fresh mixture is introduced into the combustion chamber during an intake stroke; and by the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090064976 - Learn correction feature for virtual flex fuel sensor: A system for estimating fuel concentration comprises an ethanol estimating module that generates an ethanol estimate based on baseline closed loop corrections (CLC). A fuel system module controls fuel to an engine and generates a fuel system error. The ethanol estimating module selectively adjusts the baseline CLC and the ethanol... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090064977 - Method to determine an alcohol content: s

20090056670 - High efficiency integrated heat engine-2 (heihe-2): The present invention is a second kind of High Efficiency Integrated Heat Engine, or HEIHE-2 for short. HEIHE-2 is a reciprocal combustion engine integrated with both compound cycle and combined cycle. HEIHE-2 comprises triple compound cylinder structure, with the first cylinder and the second cylinder being the primary combustion and/or... Agent: Yuanping Zhao Biyun Zhou

20090056650 - Oil cooler for vehicle: In an oil cooler, a heat exchange core is housed in a casing including a cylindrical sidewall part in a way that a cooling water passage is formed around a heat exchange core. The heat exchange core includes inlet-side and outlet-side oil passages, and enables oil to be delivered from... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090056651 - Machine having cooling system and method: A machine includes a body having a cooling air inlet and a cooling air outlet, and having an engine compartment therein. A second compartment is positioned vertically above and fluidly connected with the engine compartment. At least one open-air operator station is positioned on a deck of the body, and... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20090056687 - Two-stroke, homogeneous charge, spark-ignition engine: A method for combusting fuel in an engine involving decreasing a first volume of air to a third volume, in two stages, the first stage in a crankcase compressor decreasing a first volume of air to a second volume and a second stage in the engine cylinder decreasing a second... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20090056652 - Valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine: A valve timing control device includes: a unit for calculating a target valve timing for one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve in accordance with an operational state; a unit for detecting an actual valve timing of one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve; an actual... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090056653 - Valve drive of an internal combustion engine: A valve drive (1) of an internal combustion engine which is used to actuate a gas exchange valve (6) is provided. Displacement of the valve takes place when a cam (9) is lifted and when a hydraulic force applying device (12) is lifted. A piston (13) of the force applying... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090056656 - Apparatus for the variable setting of control times of gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine: An apparatus (10) for the variable setting of control times of gas-exchange valves (9a, b) of an internal combustion engine (1) is provided and includes a drive element (22), a driven element (23), at least one pressure chamber (35, 36), a pressurized medium system (37), and a pressure storage device... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090056654 - Valve actuating mechanism for an internal combustion engine, and cylinder head incorporating same: A valve actuating mechanism includes a first rocker arm moving mechanism including a first spring for urging left and right rocker arms from a first operation position side towards a second operation position side. The valve actuating mechanism also includes a second rocker arm moving mechanism including a second spring... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090056655 - Variable valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine and cooling device for the same: A variable valve timing control apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a phase change mechanism configured to control engine valve timing by changing a relative angular phase between a timing sprocket and a camshaft by braking torque application via an electromagnetic brake. A flow control valve is arranged downstream... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090056657 - V-type engine for vehicle: A V-type engine for a vehicle is provided with front and rear banks including intake and exhaust valves exposed to a combustion chamber, a valve operating device for operating the engine valves, a valve stop mechanism for stopping the operation of the engine valves according to an operational condition of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090056658 - Lubricating device: A lubricating device comprises a cam shaft, plural cam portions for each valve provided at the cylinder head, a valve driving mechanism to change a rotational movement of the cam portion to an opening-and-closing movement of the valve via a slide member on which a peripheral surface of the cam... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090056659 - Direct-acting type valve lifter for internal-combustion engines: Means for Carrying Out the Invention: The valve lifter is mounted between a cam unit (20) and a valve stem (15). The cam unit (20) comprises a high-lift cam (22) and a low-lift cam (24) integrated to the high-lift cam. The valve lifter (30) is equipped with a side lifter... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090056660 - Glow plug with combustion pressure sensor: A glow plug with combustion pressure sensor is disclosed having a cover and a housing with which a piezoelectric element is hermetically accommodated. A lead wire having flexibility is employed to supply electric power to a heating member. The lead wire, fixedly connected to the heating member, extends through an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090056663 - Glow plug with integrated pressure sensor and body thereof: A glow plug includes: a tubular body (2) having at one of its ends a plug head (10) as well as a zone for being fixed into a bore, an arm (4) mounted on the body (2) of the plug at the end opposite to the plug head (10), and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090056661 - Vehicle starting assist system: An engine starting assist system. A battery is selectably coupled to an ultracapacitor with a contactor. In addition, a controller is configured to perform at least one of: monitor the condition of the battery, monitor the condition of the ultracapacitor, control the flow of energy between the battery and the... Agent: Eley Law Firm Co.

20090056662 - Externally vented carburetor system with vapor containment: A primer assembly is provided for use on a carburetor that is vented through an external vent on the primer. In at least some embodiments, the assembly comprises a housing comprising an open end and an outlet with a flexible primer bulb inserted into and closing the open end of... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C Intellectual Property Department

20090056664 - Multiple carburetor intake manifold with an air exchange passageway and method: A multiple carburetor two-stroke, two cylinder intake manifold that includes at least two cylinder bores evenly spaced apart on a flat, rectangular plate body. Formed in the plate body is a longitudinally aligned closed air passageway that extends between the two adjacent cylinders that allows the cylinders to draw air... Agent: Dean A. Craine

20090056665 - Engine starting system and method: An engine starting system includes a recoil starter with a recoil rope having a mark formed thereon, defining a predetermined length of the recoil rope required to turn a crankshaft from a compression stroke top dead center position to a start-operation-initiating position suitable to start operation of a 4-stroke engine.... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090056666 - Connection arrangement for clamping a cylinder head to a crankcase of a reciprocating internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a connection arrangement for assemblies of an internal combustion engine, more preferably for the clamping of a cylinder head to a crankcase by means of at least one tension rod, wherein a sealing device is associated with the or each tension rod in order to seal... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090056667 - Ultra efficient engine: An engine comprises a combustion chamber, an expansion cylinder with a piston adapted for reciprocating motion in the expansion cylinder via combustion products combusted in the combustion chamber, and a transmission associated with the expansion cylinder. The transmission has a guide frame with a first drive wheel rotatably mounted at... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20090056668 - Acoustic side cover for an engine: An apparatus for reducing engine noise includes a side cover configured to operatively connect to a side of an engine block. The side cover has a first layer configured to be adjacent to an outer surface of the side of the engine block. The first layer is made of a... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090056669 - Engine with cylinder disabling mechanism: An engine includes engine valves disposed on intake and exhaust sides of a combustion chambers with a valve operating device for opening and closing the engine valves and an engine valve disabling mechanism for disabling opening and closing movement of the engine valves in response to hydraulic pressure. An oil... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090056671 - Throttle valve device for an internal combustion engine: Provided is a throttle valve device for an internal combustion engine which is favorably protected from icing, and enables a favorable control of the intake flow rate by avoiding an abrupt increase in the flow rate particularly in a small opening angle range. An upstream recess (21) and a downstream... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090056672 - Airflow-based crank throttle control in a torque-based system: A method of torque-based control for an internal combustion engine may include determining a desired airflow rate into an intake manifold of the internal combustion engine during an engine start condition, determining a torque limit for a torque-based engine control module based on the desired airflow rate, and regulating engine... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090056673 - Diesel combustion mode switching control based on intake carbon dioxide (co2) concentration: A method of switching a combustion mode of a diesel engine may include determining a carbon dioxide concentration in an intake manifold of a diesel engine, operating the diesel engine in a first combustion mode, and operating the diesel engine in a second combustion mode when the determined carbon dioxide... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090056674 - Hold-down device for a fuel injection device, and fuel injection device: The hold-down device for a fuel injection device is distinguished by a particularly simple design that nonetheless permits a very effective holding down of a fuel injection valve. The fuel injection device includes at least one fuel injection valve, a receptacle bore for the fuel injection valve, and a connecting... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090056676 - Fuel injection device and fuel injection system: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel, which is distributed from a pressure-accumulation vessel. A pressure sensor is located in a fuel passage, which extends from the pressure-accumulation vessel to a nozzle hole, and configured to detect pressure of the fuel. The pressure sensor is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090056675 - System and method to compensate for variable fuel injector characterization in a direct injection system: A method for controlling fuel injection timing of at least one fuel injector in a direct injection fuel delivery system of an internal combustion engine during a mode of engine operation where a plurality of fuel injection events are performed by the at least one fuel injector during a cylinder... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20090056677 - Fuel injection device, fuel injection system, and method for determining malfunction of the same: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel, which is distributed from a pressure-accumulation vessel. A pressure sensor is located in a fuel passage, which extends from the pressure-accumulation vessel to a nozzle hole of the fuel injection valve. The pressure sensor is located closer to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090056678 - Fuel injection device, fuel injection system, and method for determining malfunction of the same: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel, which is distributed from a pressure-accumulation vessel. A pressure sensor is located in a fuel passage, which extends from the pressure-accumulation vessel to a nozzle hole. The pressure sensor is located closer to the nozzle hole than the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090056679 - Fuel supply system: A fuel supply system includes a fuel container, fuel channels provided between the fuel container and a fuel cell or a fuel reformer, flow regulating mechanism for regulating flow rate of a fuel flowing through the fuel channel, and cooling mechanism having a cooling portion which cools the fuel such... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090056680 - Electronic venting and mechanical roll over valve: A valve including a mechanical part, e.g. a float, for performing a ROV function (Roll Over Valve) and an electronic part, e.g. an electronically controlled solenoid valve, for performing a venting function.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090056681 - Supercharger with electric motor: In a supercharger (10) with an electric motor in accordance with the invention, an inner side of the center housing (10) is provided with an air introduction path (38) introducing a part of a compressed air within the compressor housing (8) to the electric motor (20), and a cooling structure... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090056682 - Egr cooler bypass switching system: An EGR cooler bypass switching system integrally comprises an EGR cooler for cooling EGR gas and a switching valve for switching between introduction and non-introduction of the EGR gas with respect to the EGR cooler. The system further comprises a cooler core through which the EGR gas introduced in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090056683 - Two component low pressure egr module: An engine (10, 100, 200, 34) assembly comprising an engine (36), at least one exhaust gas recirculation valve, (54) at least one throttle valve, and an actuator (12,112,212) operably connected to the EGR valve (56) and the throttle valve (54). The actuator (12, 112, 212) can be operably connected to... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20090056684 - Low emission dimethyl ether (dme) engine: A compression ignition internal combustion engine system combusts DME as fuel using high fuel injection pressures (e.g., above 800 bar) and low oxygen concentrations (e.g., below 17%, through high levels of EGR), thereby resulting in simultaneously very low NOx and PM engine-out emissions.... Agent: David H. Read Usepa, Nvfel

20090056685 - Method and apparatus for raising the spark energy in capacitive ignition systems: The present invention refers to an apparatus for raising the spark energy in capacitive ignition systems comprising at least one charge winding (L1) which via a first rectifier device (D1) charges a charge capacitor (C1) connected to the primary winding of an 5 ignition voltage transformer in order to provide... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20090056686 - Air-fuel ratio control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine: A target cylinder is selected while an internal combustion engine is operating in a steady state. The fuel injection quantity of the target cylinder is gradually increased or decreased and the fuel injection quantity of another cylinder is decreased or increased a corresponding amount in an inverse manner such that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC