Internal-combustion engines inventions 08/09

20090211541 - Method for converting solar thermal energy: There is provided a method of converting solar thermal energy obtained in a first region into motive power energy used in a second region, the second region having a solar-radiation amount smaller than that of the first region, comprising: synthesizing ammonia from air and water by using, as an energy... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090211542 - System for controlling the thermal energy of a motor vehicle engine by adjusting the fluid actuators of said system: The inventive system comprises a high-temperature circuit (12) through which a high-temperature heat carrier fluid runs and which integrates a cooling radiator (22) in which a cooling fluid (46) flows, a low-temperature circuit (14) through which a low-temperature heat carrier fluid runs and which integrates a cooling radiator (30) in... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090211543 - Air cooler: An air cooling system includes an intake line, a heat exchanger, an exhaust line, and an amount of frozen carbon dioxide. The intake line connects the heat exchanger to an air source, and the exhaust line connects the heat exchanger to an air destination. The frozen carbon dioxide is disposed... Agent: Stephen Gardner Rasmussen

20090211545 - Abnormality diagnosis device for positive crankcase ventilation apparatus: An abnormality diagnosis device for diagnosing abnormality in a positive crankcase ventilation apparatus including a PCV passage, which is for supplying blow-by gas to an intake passage of an engine, and a PCV valve, which is for regulating the flow rate of blow-by gas in the PCV passage. The diagnosis... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090211544 - Crankcase ventilation system: An oil-collecting can (500) for a filter cartridge (300) comprises a plurality of capillary ribs (530) that are sized and shaped to contact filter media in the outlet chamber. The oil-collecting can (500) can be used in conjunction with a filter cartridge (300), which is installed in a filter assembly... Agent: Don W. Bulson (park) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090211546 - Method and device for the operation of a valve of the combustion chamber of a combustion engine, and a combustion engine: A device for the operation of a valve (5) to the combustion chamber (6) of a combustion engine, wherein the combustion engine comprises a cylinder, a piston (3) displacably arranged in the cylinder (2), and a combustion chamber (6) delimited by the cylinder (2) and the piston (3), and said... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood

20090211547 - Camshaft phaser for internal combustion engine: A camshaft phaser for an internal combustion engine includes a driven hub attached to a camshaft, and a drive sprocket journaled to the driven hub. A locking device uses a pin receptacle having a locking bore and an engagement ramp which is contiguous with the locking bore to allow a... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20090211548 - Variable valve device for engine: A variable valve device, which is capable of automatically canceling a deviation in the relationship between the rotation angle of a control shaft and the lift degree generated because of the disassembling and assembling of an engine, includes a target lift degree calculator that calculates a target lift degree, a... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090211549 - Cam phase adjuster with a plurality of springs: The camshaft adjuster is a plurality of return springs which are in parallel to one another in a spring.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090211551 - Crankshaft mechanism for engine: A crankshaft mechanism for an engine wherein a crankshaft can be disposed close to the piston side while securing a moment of inertia. In the crankshaft mechanism for the engine including the piston, the crankshaft is provided with a crank pin and counterweight parts, and a connecting rod connecting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090211550 - Engine with a balancer mechanism: There are provided a crank mechanism, and a balancer mechanism that inhibits vibrations caused by the crank mechanism, and an instantaneous center of rotation of an engine is arranged in the neighborhood of a predetermined target position by adjusting an acceleration caused by a translational force generated by a primary... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090211552 - Dry sump oil tank assembly for a vehicle: A dry sump oil tank assembly for a vehicle is provided with a housing defining an internal cavity. The housing is configured with a laterally-extending portion to add lateral volume to the internal cavity and has at least one internal baffle attached to the housing within the internal cavity below... Agent: Quinn Law Group, Pllc

20090211553 - Method and control device for metering fuel to combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine: A method for metering fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is provided, in which a fuel quantity to be metered for a combustion is metered by a preinjection and at least one additional injection, and in which, in the operation of the internal combustion engine, quantity... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090211554 - Control device for engine: An engine comprises an intake control valve disposed in an intake passage at an upstream side of an intake valve in each cylinder for individually opening/closing the intake passage, an actuator for opening/closing the intake control valve, and a control device for controlling an operation of the actuator, wherein the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090211555 - Carburetor for a combustion engine, and method for the controlled delivery of fuel: In order to allow fuel to be delivered in a controlled manner into a mixing chamber of a carburetor, a needle is displaced towards a needle seat between an open and a closed position in a clocked manner relative to an intake stroke of the engine such that the amount... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090211556 - System for maintaining a pump inlet pressure: A fuel system is disclosed. The fuel system has a first pump configured to provide fuel at a first pressure. The fuel system also has a control valve disposed downstream of the first pump, the control valve being configured to selectively direct the fuel at the first pressure to a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20090211557 - Electric circuit for triggering a piezoelectric element, in particular a fuel injection system of a motor vehicle: An electric circuit for triggering a piezoelectric element, in particular of a fuel injection system of a motor vehicle. Two transistors connected in series and triggerable using a clock pulse are provided, whose shared connecting point is coupled to the piezoelectric element and one of which is provided for discharging... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090211558 - Hybrid electrical/mechanical turbine engine fuel supply system: A turbine engine fuel supply system includes a priority flow line, a plurality of secondary fuel loads, an electric fuel metering pump, and a mechanically-driven fuel pump. The priority flow line is used to supply fuel to one or more gas turbine engine fuel manifolds. The electric fuel metering pump... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090211559 - Engine fuel supply circuit: A fuel supply circuit for a Diesel engine includes fuel injectors, a fuel tank, a main pump for delivering fuel to the injectors, and a variable flow charge pump for delivering fuel from the tank to an inlet of the main pump, and a surplus fuel line communicating unburned fuel... Agent: Deere & Company

20090211560 - Method for operating a tank system comprising a tank, and tank system: The invention relates to a method for operating a tank system, in particularly of a motor vehicle, comprising a tank. According to the invention, said tank system has an adsorption filter for capturing the volatile substances exiting the tank. The loading of the adsorption filter suggests that the tank is... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20090205606 - Operating method and fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine: A fuel supply system attached to the gasoline engine includes a first tank storing a mixture of gasoline and ethanol, a second tank storing water, a microbubble generator connected to the first and second tanks, and a fuel injection valve connected to the microbubble generator. The mixture and the water... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090205588 - Internal combustion engine with variable speed coolant pump: An internal combustion engine has a variable speed coolant pump which is operated at a variable duty-cycle at lower coolant temperatures, while transitioning to a predetermined fixed speed during a final warmup period of operation, and finally to a select-speed operation at one of a selected number of steady state... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090205589 - Thermostatic valve: A thermostatic valve for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, having a thermostatic operating element for arrangement in a distributing chamber as the drive element for a main valve element between an engine outlet and a connector to a coolant cooler, and for a bypass valve element designed... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090205590 - 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

20090205615 - Variable compression ratio system: A variable compression ratio system for use in a reciprocating-piston engine. The system allows the compression ratio in a combustion cylinder of the engine to be varied by varying the distance from a combustion chamber facing surface of a piston to the center of pivotal connection of a connecting rod... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20090205591 - Internal combustion engine: A v-twin type engine (20) according to the present invention comprises an engine (20) comprising a single cylinder block (22) and a crankcase (23). The cylinder block (22) is formed with two cylinders (26, 28) and a lower connection region (24) adapted to be attachable to the crankcase (23) of... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter Attn: William H. Bollman

20090205593 - Flow adjusting valve for combustion gas: A flow adjusting valve for combustion gas being provided with an air chamber between its air intake port and its air output port, the air chamber has an inlet connecting with the air intake port, and the air chamber is provided with a valve plug to block between the air... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090205592 - Fluid control valve and valve timing control apparatus: The valve includes a valve body 4 for controlling supply of fluid according to a position of a valve member 41, an electromagnetic driving means 5 for displacing a position of the valve member 41 according to an amount of power supplied thereto, and a controlling means 6 for controlling... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090205594 - Hydraulic spring drive apparatus: Hydraulic spring drive apparatus comprising: a rotatable cam shaft having fixed thereon a number of cams; a number of rocker arms, one following each cam, each pivotally attached at one end to a pressure bar and at another to an expansible, compressible connecting means in turn connected to a crank... Agent: Tomlinson & O'connell, P.C.

20090205595 - Continuously variable valve lift system including valve deactivation capability on one of two dual intake vavles: In a dual intake valve arrangement for an internal combustion engine, a continuously variable valve lift (CVVL) system controls two intake valves for one or more engine cylinders. In each cylinder, one of the intake valves includes an associated valve deactivation device, and the other intake valve does not. To... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090205596 - Variable air intake system: A valve closing side engaging groove is formed in a circumferential surface of a collar of a clutch between an optimum angular position, which implements a most effective valve angle for making the maximum fuel consumption improving effect, and a valve closing side least effective angular position, which implements a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090205598 - Engine having variable valve mechanism: An engine having a variable valve mechanism arranged to switch a lift degree of a valve between a low speed state and a high speed state includes a cam carrier defined by a cam bearing portion, a rocker shaft support, and a hydraulic cylinder support. The cam bearing portion is... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090205597 - Variable valve device for engine: A variable valve device is constructed to prevent inclination of a sliding surface of a high speed rocker arm. In an engagement surface where a connecting pin and the engagement portion of a high speed rocker arm are in contact, the center of the width of the surface in the... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090205599 - Adaptive individual dynamic volumetric efficiency optimization for engines with variable cam phasers and variable lift: A control system for an engine having a camshaft that is associated with an intake valve and a cam phaser that interfaces with the camshaft includes an air flow sensor that outputs first and second air flow signals based on mass air flow (MAF) delivered to the engine. An engine... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090205600 - Rocker arm arrangement with a bearing shell provided with grooves: Rocker arm arrangement of an internal combustion engine has a bearing journal with a central axis and an outside circumferential surface running in the central bore of a rocker arm lined with a bearing shell. The bearing journal has a first transverse oil channel leading to at least one outlet... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090205601 - Oil system for active fuel management on four valve engines: An oil system for selectively deactivating valves for specified cylinders of an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head having a lash adjuster oil passage and a cylinder deactivation oil passage. Plugs are coupled to the cylinder head separating the cylinder deactivation oil passage into separate portions. A clearance between... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090205602 - Compensation shaft of a multi-cylinder engine: A compensation shaft for a multi-cylinder engine at least two bearing pegs and at least four unbalanced weight sections, two of the at least four unbalanced weight sections being arranged respectively, around each of the at least two bearing pegs, so that at least two units are formed, these at... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090205603 - Compensation shaft of an internal combustion engine: The invention concerns a compensation shaft for a multi-cylinder engine comprising at least three bearing pegs (1a, 1b, 2) and unbalanced masses (3a, 3b 3c) arranged respectively in a region of each bearing peg (1a, 1b, 2), wherein at least one of the bearing pegs (1a; 1b; 2) as a... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090205604 - Coolable piston for internal combustion engine: A coolable piston for internal combustion engines is disclosed herein. The coolable piston includes a head portion with a crown and an annular wall. First and second shoulders are defined in annular wall adjacent to one another. A collar is formed on a distal end of the annular wall and... Agent: Robert L. Stearns Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090205605 - Engine including a self-adjusting thermally compliant bracket: An engine bracket assembly may include a first mounting portion, a second mounting portion, and a support member. The first mounting portion may fix a first end of the bracket assembly to the engine and the second mounting portion may fix a second end of the bracket assembly to the... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090205607 - Internal combustion engine including a piston with a geometrically-complex boss: An engine including a cylinder including a sliding piston with a combustion bowl associated with an off-center injector. The injector sprays fuel in a conical injection pattern form having an apex and is formed by asymmetrical jets that travel different lengths before coming into contact with an inner wall of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090205608 - Four stroke internal combustion engine: A four stroke internal combustion engine has a gas reserving chamber 100 which communicates with an exhaust port 31 and is configured to reserve burned gas discharged from a combustion chamber. The burned gas flows into the gas reserving chamber 100 while an exhaust valve including a valve head 32a... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLLC

20090205609 - Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine: A method and a device for operating an internal combustion engine are provided which make it possible to implement different deceleration requests to the internal combustion engine by switching over between half engine operation and full engine operation. A deceleration request is received particularly in a nonoperating state. A switchover... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090205610 - Throttle valve control device and throttle valve control method: A throttle valve control device for controlling an intake flow to an engine making it hard for a driver to hear return spring check sound and capable of detecting the failure of a return spring earlier by checking the return spring while the engine is operating and a throttle valve... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090205611 - Electronically-controlled throttle body: An electronically-controlled throttle body includes a throttle valve having a valve disc, fixed on a valve shaft rotatably supported in a body inside which an air-intake passage is formed, for varying an opening area of the air-intake passage; a reduction gear mechanism connected to the valve shaft of the throttle... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090205612 - Method for controlling a spark-ignition direct-injection internal combustion engine at low loads: A spark-ignition direct-injection internal combustion engine is controlled at low loads through split fuel injections and spark discharges including one injection and spark during a negative valve overlap period and another injection and spark during a compression phase of the engine cycle.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20090205613 - Controller of engine: A controller of an engine that can use a blended fuel with alcohol blended therein, the controller includes: an ignition timing controller, operable to control an ignition timing of the engine; an exhaust air-fuel ratio detector, operable to detect an exhaust air-fuel ratio of the engine; a concentration detector, operable... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090205614 - Device for the injection of fuel into the combusition chamber of an internal combustion engine: In a device for the injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, including an injector nozzle (5) and a nozzle needle (7) which is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner within the injector nozzle (5) and, for the control of its opening and closing movements,... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20090205616 - Device and method for regulating a volumetric flow of fuel in a low-pressure circuit system for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a device for regulating a fuel volume flow in a low-pressure circuit system for an internal combustion engine with a tail for providing the fuel, from which tank the fuel can be supplied via a feed line to a high-pressure pump by a feed pump. A... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090205617 - Egr control system: In an internal-combustion engine with exhaust-gas-recirculation system, electronic control means are provided designed to process an analytical model of the quantities “effective lambda” and “effective EGR percentage”, which is constructed on the basis of the physical laws that regulate the fluid-dynamic conditions in the intake pipe, in the exhaust pipe,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090205618 - Breather device in engine: A blow-by gas introducing passage having a blow-by gas inlet port, an air-cleaner-side breather passage that extends upwardly as branched from the blow-by gas introducing passage so as to communicate with an intake system, and a case-side breather passage that extends downwardly as branched from the blow-by gas introducing passage... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090205619 - Blow-by gas recirculation structure for engine: A blow-by gas recirculation structure for an engine includes a gas-liquid separating member, a cylinder head, a support member and a mounting bolt. The gas-liquid separating member includes a gas-liquid separating passage to separate oil from the blow-by gas. The cylinder head includes a communication passage communicating with the air... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090205620 - Pressure control valve, crankcase ventilation device, and method for the operation thereof: A pressure control valve is provided for a crankcase ventilator of an internal combustion engine. The pressure control valve includes a valve housing, a valve diaphragm, and a valve spring. A separate shutoff valve is provided for shutoff of the pressure control valve. A crankcase ventilation device includes such a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090205621 - Ignition coil with spring-loaded boltless mounting to spark plug: An ignition coil engages an inner surface of a bore of an engine, the providing access to a spark plug. The engagement is a boltless cam-lock engagement. A spring is associated with the engagement to hold the assembly in tension, and the spring also contacts a ground terminal in the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090205622 - Controller of internal combustion engine: A controller of an internal combustion engine includes: a purge controller, operable to control a purge amount of the vaporized fuel purged to an air intake system; an exhaust air-fuel ratio detector; an air-fuel ratio feedback controller; a period determiner, operable to determine whether it is an estimation enabling period;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090199789 - On demand, stored, positive pressurized air injection for internal combustion engines combustion chambers: The idea that I am seeking to patent is the process of manufacturing and storing pressurized air to be injected into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine for ignition of the fuel. Unlike a standard engine, that continuously compresses air during every engine cycle, this engine will only... Agent: Danny Franklin Beard

20090199790 - Engine control strategy: An internal combustion engine (10) has at least one combustion chamber (15) defined by a piston (13) accommodated in a cylinder (11). The method of operating the engine (10) comprises opening an exhaust means (30) as the combustion chamber (15) expands to permit fluid to discharge from the combustion chamber... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090199813 - Premixed compression ignition type engine and method of controlling intake air thereof: An intake passage (10) including intake ports (4a, 4b, 4c and 4d) connected to combustion chambers (3a, 3b, 3c and 3d) respectively is provided with a mixer (11) producing a mixture by mixing air and a fuel, a throttle valve (12), a bypass passage (16) bypassing the throttle valve (12)... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090199792 - Construction machine: A space (29) into which a hand can be put is provided between a cooling fan 33 attached to the engine (30) and the heat exchanger (31) arranged so as to face to the cooling fan (33). A part covering a region from the cooling fan (33) to the heat... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090199791 - Dual cooling fan system driven by single motor: A fan system includes a motor; a driven fan, driven by the motor; and a dummy fan, freely rotatable around a bearing support shaft. The fans have blade rings at their external surfaces. The blade rings include gears, engaged with each other such that rotation of the driven fan rotates... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090199793 - Air-cooled engine: There is provided an air-cooled engine (10) that is cooled by cooling air. The air-cooled engine (10) comprises a cylinder block (33), and a cylinder head (28) that closes off one end of a cylinder (26). The cylinder head (28) includes a base part (81) that is superposed on and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090199794 - Crankcase ventilation system: A ventilation system for use with an internal combustion engine having a crankcase is disclosed. The ventilation system may have a breather housing connected to ventilate gases from the crankcase, and a filtration canister fluidly connected downstream of the breather housing. The filtration canister may have a filter housing, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090199821 - Method to convert free-piston linear motion to rotary motion: providing a free-piston generator or motor/generator that has at least one piston having two compression heads; and, for each piston, a surface is provided on each compression head defining a helical channel, wherein the piston is rotated in a single direction due to the force imparted to the piston as... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090199828 - Air injection engine: An internal combustion engine of the present invention features separate compression and expansion cycles. The engine includes a separate compressor device which pressurizes air by a ratio greater than 15 to 1, at least one two stroke combustion cylinder and a compressed air conduit for transferring compressed air from the... Agent: Robert O. Blinn

20090199829 - Split-cycle four-stroke engine: An engine has a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. An expansion piston is slidably received within an expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the expansion piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a... Agent: Scuderi Group LLC

20090199796 - Engine valve device: An engine valve device includes an intake valve which opens and closes an intake port by a pressing force of a rotating cam and a pressing force of a valve spring, a piston which is movable in a same direction as the intake valve, a cylinder portion which houses the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090199797 - Electromotive camshaft adjuster: An electromotive camshaft adjuster for adjusting the angle of rotation of the camshaft (14) of an internal combustion engine relative to the crankshaft thereof is provided. The camshaft adjuster includes a triple-shaft gear mechanism, which has a driving wheel (2, 2a′) that is fixed to the crankshaft and is embodied... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090199800 - Valve lever assembly having a switchable valve actuating mechanism: A valve lever assembly having a switchable valve actuating mechanism comprises a first follower surface for following a first cam, at least one second follower surface for following a second cam and a valve lever, which is supported on an engine-affixed component and on the to-be-actuated valve, wherein the second... Agent: Scott Wakeman Muncy Geissler Olds & Lowe PLLC

20090199798 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a driving-side rotor, a driven-side rotor, and a bias mechanism. The bias mechanism includes a projection portion that is rotatable synchronously with the one of the driving-side and driven-side rotors and that contacts a contact part of the other one of the driving-side and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199799 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a housing, a vane rotor, at least one shaft member, and at least one annular seal member. The at least one shaft member is rotatable synchronously with a driven-side shaft and the vane rotor, and is journaled within the housing. The at least one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199801 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a driving-side rotor, a driven-side rotor, a sun gear, and a planet gear. The driving-side rotor is rotatable synchronously with the crankshaft. The driven-side rotor is received in the driving-side rotor and rotatable synchronously with a camshaft. The sun gear is rotatable integrally with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199802 - Lash adjuster: The present invention relates to a lash adjuster including a ball retainer having a generally conical chamber for situating a ball near the base of the lash adjuster housing. The chamber has both an external and internal shoulder for engaging a plunger spring and a ball spring, respectively. The chamber... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090199803 - Mechanical lash ring for a switchable valve train member: A switchable valve train member, such as a deactivating valve lash adjuster or a deactivating hydraulic valve lifter, including a pin housing slidably disposed within an axial bore in a body. A transverse bore in the pin housing contains a retractable locking pin that engages a feature in the body... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199804 - Cam lobe profile to accommodate mechanical lash of a switchable hydraulic lash adjuster: In an engine valve train equipped with a DHLA, the radius of the base circle of a cam lobe is decreased, relative to the radius of the base circle of a cam lobe in an engine equipped with an HLA, in proportion to the internal lash in the DHLA. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199805 - Deactivating hydraulic lash adjuster for oriented mounting in an engine: A deactivating hydraulic lash adjuster comprising a pin housing slidably disposed in a body and having at least one lock pin disposed in a transverse bore for extending into a receiver feature in the body to lock the two together during periods of engine operation in valve non-deactivation mode. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199795 - Camshaft and method for manufacturing a camshaft: A camshaft and a method for manufacturing the camshaft as described. A gear wheel of the camshaft is mounted on a camshaft tube. A collar that is attached to the gear wheel and a locating bearing element that is mounted on the camshaft tube delimit a locating bearing seat of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090199806 - Rigid primer bulb pump: A hand operated primer pump for small marine or other engines generally spark ignition engines used on stern drive boats that prevents transfer of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. The primer generally mimics and replaces prior art rubber primer bulbs in general shape and possibly color, although it can be made... Agent: Clifford H. Kraft

20090199807 - Method for adjusting a camshaft of an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine with an adjustable camshaft: A method for adjusting a camshaft of an internal combustion engine during a stop phase and during a subsequent new startup phase of the internal combustion engine. Such methods are used, in particular, in so-called start-stop designs for combustion engines. The camshaft controls intake valves and/or exhaust valves of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090199808 - Intake manifold: An intake manifold includes a surge tank, a connection pipe and a membrane-type resonator. The surge tank distributes an intake air supplied through a throttle device into a combustion chamber of an engine. The connection pipe is disposed at an upstream side of the surge tank so as to be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199809 - Fluid machine: A reciprocating fluid machine (2) includes pistons (32) reciprocated in respective cylinder bores (40). Each piston includes, as a lateral surface (32a) thereof, a cylindrical section (64) disposed in sliding contact with the corresponding cylinder bore with a coating layer (66) therebetween, ring groove sections (68) fitted with respective piston... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090199810 - Vehicle engine structure: An oil pan (20) includes: a pair of oil pan rail portions (21a, 21b), which are spaced apart from each other under an engine body (10a), and are fastened to the engine body (10a); a pair of side wall portions (22a, 22b), facing each other, which are formed integrally with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090199811 - Crankshaft beam piston engine or machine: Disclosed are crankshaft, single-plate cam and beam mechanisms that provide significant improvements in performance for 2- & 4-stroke engines, compressors and pumps. These cost effective mechanisms include linkages with the new and improved use of pivoting arms that operate with a variety of cylinder arrangements. One embodiment of the crankshaft... Agent: Booth Albanesi Schroeder LLC

20090199812 - Structure of the rotary engine: An improvement structure of the rotary engine mainly includes three parts. One is that at least a combustion chamber and an outlet are set on the perimeter of a steam wheel/flywheel. Under the optimum condition, a propelling chamber is set additionally in the front of combustion; chamber, and a platform... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090199814 - Power-based underspeed control: A method of adjusting the operation of an engine-driven machine to avoid engine under-speeding entails converting a received speed or torque command into a power command. When an engine under-speed condition is sensed, the system performs underspeed correction in the power domain before converting the underspeed processed power command back... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090199815 - Vehicle and motor controller for vehicle: A motorcycle includes an engine in which angle intervals of crank angles respectively corresponding to expansion strokes of a plurality of cylinders are unequal, a motor configured to generate a torque applied to a driving power transmission system including a crankshaft of the engine, and a motor controller configured to... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090199816 - Ignition apparatus for internal combustion engine: An ignition apparatus which allows for an accurate diagnosis of a spark plug in an internal combustion engine provided with plural spark plugs for each cylinder is provided for an internal combustion engine. The ignition apparatus is for an internal combustion engine provided with plural spark plugs for each cylinder,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090199817 - Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine: A fixed ignition mode in which ignition timing is fixed to a predetermined timing is selected when an engine speed is low. When in the fixed ignition mode, it is determined whether the engine is in a high temperature state or in a non-high temperature state and whether during or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090199818 - Start-up control device for internal combustion engine: In a speed transition period from when an internal combustion engine is started to when an engine speed settles down to a certain speed, a compression top dead center of a cylinder first operating is set as a reference crank angle and compression top dead centers of the cylinders arriving... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090199819 - Digital fuel injector, injection and hydraulic valve actuation module and engine and high pressure pump methods and apparatus: Digital fuel injector, injection and hydraulic valve actuation module and engine and high pressure pump methods and apparatus primarily for diesel engines. The digital fuel injectors have a plurality of intensifier actuation pistons allowing a selection of up to seven intensified fuel pressures. The disclosed engine operating methods include using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090199820 - Pressure control valve with limp-home and ventilation function: The invention relates to a fuel injection system for internal combustion engines, having a high-pressure accumulator which has a cavity under system pressure. Provided to the high-pressure accumulator is a pressure control valve that can be actuated electromagnetically. The cavity can be connected by the latter to a low-pressure side... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090199822 - Fuel delivery system for heating fuel therein: A fuel delivery system comprises a fuel rail having a flow channel therein. The fuel delivery system further comprises a fuel injector cup that includes a base at a first end thereof, an opening at a second end thereof opposite the first end, and an inner cavity disposed between the... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090199823 - Direct metering fuel control with integral electrical metering pump and actuator servo pump: A fuel supply system includes a fuel metering pump and a servo-flow pump that are used to supply fuel to one or more fuel manifolds and one or more fluid-operated actuators, respectively. The fuel metering pump and the servo-flow pump are driven by the same electric motor(s).... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090199825 - Apparatus, system, and method for efficiently operating an internal combustion engine utilizing exhaust gas recirculation: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficiently operating an engine utilizing exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). The apparatus includes an exhaust manifold receiving exhaust gas from a first cylinder set, an EGR manifold receiving exhaust gas from a second cylinder set, and a passage comprising a variable restriction. The... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090199824 - Method for controlling an engine provided with an exhaust gas recycling loop: An engine control, and in particular a method for controlling an engine including a low-pressure exhaust gas recycling loop. The method adjusts a predetermined engine operating parameter by controlling the position of an exhaust gas recycling valve, which is placed in the loop, for determining whether the predetermined measured quantity... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090199826 - Device for eliminating oil particles from the crankcase ventilation gas in an internal combustion engine: A device for eliminating oil particles from the crankcase ventilation gas of an internal combustion engine. The device is located in the flow duct of the gas that runs from the crankcase to an induction tract of the engine. The device includes an oil separator in the form of an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090199827 - Flux director for ignition coil assembly: An ignition coil has a primary core supporting a primary winding that is connectable to an engine ignition system and a secondary winding inductively couplable to the primary winding and surrounding the primary winding. The secondary winding can be connected to an engine spark plug assembly. A flux director surroundingly... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199789 - On demand, stored, positive pressurized air injection for internal combustion engines combustion chambers: The idea that I am seeking to patent is the process of manufacturing and storing pressurized air to be injected into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine for ignition of the fuel. Unlike a standard engine, that continuously compresses air during every engine cycle, this engine will only... Agent: Danny Franklin Beard

20090199790 - Engine control strategy: An internal combustion engine (10) has at least one combustion chamber (15) defined by a piston (13) accommodated in a cylinder (11). The method of operating the engine (10) comprises opening an exhaust means (30) as the combustion chamber (15) expands to permit fluid to discharge from the combustion chamber... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090199813 - Premixed compression ignition type engine and method of controlling intake air thereof: An intake passage (10) including intake ports (4a, 4b, 4c and 4d) connected to combustion chambers (3a, 3b, 3c and 3d) respectively is provided with a mixer (11) producing a mixture by mixing air and a fuel, a throttle valve (12), a bypass passage (16) bypassing the throttle valve (12)... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090199792 - Construction machine: A space (29) into which a hand can be put is provided between a cooling fan 33 attached to the engine (30) and the heat exchanger (31) arranged so as to face to the cooling fan (33). A part covering a region from the cooling fan (33) to the heat... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090199791 - Dual cooling fan system driven by single motor: A fan system includes a motor; a driven fan, driven by the motor; and a dummy fan, freely rotatable around a bearing support shaft. The fans have blade rings at their external surfaces. The blade rings include gears, engaged with each other such that rotation of the driven fan rotates... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090199793 - Air-cooled engine: There is provided an air-cooled engine (10) that is cooled by cooling air. The air-cooled engine (10) comprises a cylinder block (33), and a cylinder head (28) that closes off one end of a cylinder (26). The cylinder head (28) includes a base part (81) that is superposed on and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090199794 - Crankcase ventilation system: A ventilation system for use with an internal combustion engine having a crankcase is disclosed. The ventilation system may have a breather housing connected to ventilate gases from the crankcase, and a filtration canister fluidly connected downstream of the breather housing. The filtration canister may have a filter housing, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090199821 - Method to convert free-piston linear motion to rotary motion: providing a free-piston generator or motor/generator that has at least one piston having two compression heads; and, for each piston, a surface is provided on each compression head defining a helical channel, wherein the piston is rotated in a single direction due to the force imparted to the piston as... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090199828 - Air injection engine: An internal combustion engine of the present invention features separate compression and expansion cycles. The engine includes a separate compressor device which pressurizes air by a ratio greater than 15 to 1, at least one two stroke combustion cylinder and a compressed air conduit for transferring compressed air from the... Agent: Robert O. Blinn

20090199829 - Split-cycle four-stroke engine: An engine has a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. An expansion piston is slidably received within an expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the expansion piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a... Agent: Scuderi Group LLC

20090199796 - Engine valve device: An engine valve device includes an intake valve which opens and closes an intake port by a pressing force of a rotating cam and a pressing force of a valve spring, a piston which is movable in a same direction as the intake valve, a cylinder portion which houses the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090199797 - Electromotive camshaft adjuster: An electromotive camshaft adjuster for adjusting the angle of rotation of the camshaft (14) of an internal combustion engine relative to the crankshaft thereof is provided. The camshaft adjuster includes a triple-shaft gear mechanism, which has a driving wheel (2, 2a′) that is fixed to the crankshaft and is embodied... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090199800 - Valve lever assembly having a switchable valve actuating mechanism: A valve lever assembly having a switchable valve actuating mechanism comprises a first follower surface for following a first cam, at least one second follower surface for following a second cam and a valve lever, which is supported on an engine-affixed component and on the to-be-actuated valve, wherein the second... Agent: Scott Wakeman Muncy Geissler Olds & Lowe PLLC

20090199798 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a driving-side rotor, a driven-side rotor, and a bias mechanism. The bias mechanism includes a projection portion that is rotatable synchronously with the one of the driving-side and driven-side rotors and that contacts a contact part of the other one of the driving-side and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199799 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a housing, a vane rotor, at least one shaft member, and at least one annular seal member. The at least one shaft member is rotatable synchronously with a driven-side shaft and the vane rotor, and is journaled within the housing. The at least one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199801 - Valve timing adjusting apparatus: A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a driving-side rotor, a driven-side rotor, a sun gear, and a planet gear. The driving-side rotor is rotatable synchronously with the crankshaft. The driven-side rotor is received in the driving-side rotor and rotatable synchronously with a camshaft. The sun gear is rotatable integrally with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199802 - Lash adjuster: The present invention relates to a lash adjuster including a ball retainer having a generally conical chamber for situating a ball near the base of the lash adjuster housing. The chamber has both an external and internal shoulder for engaging a plunger spring and a ball spring, respectively. The chamber... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090199803 - Mechanical lash ring for a switchable valve train member: A switchable valve train member, such as a deactivating valve lash adjuster or a deactivating hydraulic valve lifter, including a pin housing slidably disposed within an axial bore in a body. A transverse bore in the pin housing contains a retractable locking pin that engages a feature in the body... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199804 - Cam lobe profile to accommodate mechanical lash of a switchable hydraulic lash adjuster: In an engine valve train equipped with a DHLA, the radius of the base circle of a cam lobe is decreased, relative to the radius of the base circle of a cam lobe in an engine equipped with an HLA, in proportion to the internal lash in the DHLA. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199805 - Deactivating hydraulic lash adjuster for oriented mounting in an engine: A deactivating hydraulic lash adjuster comprising a pin housing slidably disposed in a body and having at least one lock pin disposed in a transverse bore for extending into a receiver feature in the body to lock the two together during periods of engine operation in valve non-deactivation mode. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090199795 - Camshaft and method for manufacturing a camshaft: A camshaft and a method for manufacturing the camshaft as described. A gear wheel of the camshaft is mounted on a camshaft tube. A collar that is attached to the gear wheel and a locating bearing element that is mounted on the camshaft tube delimit a locating bearing seat of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090199806 - Rigid primer bulb pump: A hand operated primer pump for small marine or other engines generally spark ignition engines used on stern drive boats that prevents transfer of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. The primer generally mimics and replaces prior art rubber primer bulbs in general shape and possibly color, although it can be made... Agent: Clifford H. Kraft

20090199807 - Method for adjusting a camshaft of an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine with an adjustable camshaft: A method for adjusting a camshaft of an internal combustion engine during a stop phase and during a subsequent new startup phase of the internal combustion engine. Such methods are used, in particular, in so-called start-stop designs for combustion engines. The camshaft controls intake valves and/or exhaust valves of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090199808 - Intake manifold: An intake manifold includes a surge tank, a connection pipe and a membrane-type resonator. The surge tank distributes an intake air supplied through a throttle device into a combustion chamber of an engine. The connection pipe is disposed at an upstream side of the surge tank so as to be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090199809 - Fluid machine: A reciprocating fluid machine (2) includes pistons (32) reciprocated in respective cylinder bores (40). Each piston includes, as a lateral surface (32a) thereof, a cylindrical section (64) disposed in sliding contact with the corresponding cylinder bore with a coating layer (66) therebetween, ring groove sections (68) fitted with respective piston... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090199810 - Vehicle engine structure: An oil pan (20) includes: a pair of oil pan rail portions (21a, 21b), which are spaced apart from each other under an engine body (10a), and are fastened to the engine body (10a); a pair of side wall portions (22a, 22b), facing each other, which are formed integrally with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090199811 - Crankshaft beam piston engine or machine: Disclosed are crankshaft, single-plate cam and beam mechanisms that provide significant improvements in performance for 2- & 4-stroke engines, compressors and pumps. These cost effective mechanisms include linkages with the new and improved use of pivoting arms that operate with a variety of cylinder arrangements. One embodiment of the crankshaft... Agent: Booth Albanesi Schroeder LLC

20090199812 - Structure of the rotary engine: An improvement structure of the rotary engine mainly includes three parts. One is that at least a combustion chamber and an outlet are set on the perimeter of a steam wheel/flywheel. Under the optimum condition, a propelling chamber is set additionally in the front of combustion; chamber, and a platform... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090199814 - Power-based underspeed control: A method of adjusting the operation of an engine-driven machine to avoid engine under-speeding entails converting a received speed or torque command into a power command. When an engine under-speed condition is sensed, the system performs underspeed correction in the power domain before converting the underspeed processed power command back... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090199815 - Vehicle and motor controller for vehicle: A motorcycle includes an engine in which angle intervals of crank angles respectively corresponding to expansion strokes of a plurality of cylinders are unequal, a motor configured to generate a torque applied to a driving power transmission system including a crankshaft of the engine, and a motor controller configured to... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090199816 - Ignition apparatus for internal combustion engine: An ignition apparatus which allows for an accurate diagnosis of a spark plug in an internal combustion engine provided with plural spark plugs for each cylinder is provided for an internal combustion engine. The ignition apparatus is for an internal combustion engine provided with plural spark plugs for each cylinder,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090199817 - Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine: A fixed ignition mode in which ignition timing is fixed to a predetermined timing is selected when an engine speed is low. When in the fixed ignition mode, it is determined whether the engine is in a high temperature state or in a non-high temperature state and whether during or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090199818 - Start-up control device for internal combustion engine: In a speed transition period from when an internal combustion engine is started to when an engine speed settles down to a certain speed, a compression top dead center of a cylinder first operating is set as a reference crank angle and compression top dead centers of the cylinders arriving... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090199819 - Digital fuel injector, injection and hydraulic valve actuation module and engine and high pressure pump methods and apparatus: Digital fuel injector, injection and hydraulic valve actuation module and engine and high pressure pump methods and apparatus primarily for diesel engines. The digital fuel injectors have a plurality of intensifier actuation pistons allowing a selection of up to seven intensified fuel pressures. The disclosed engine operating methods include using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090199820 - Pressure control valve with limp-home and ventilation function: The invention relates to a fuel injection system for internal combustion engines, having a high-pressure accumulator which has a cavity under system pressure. Provided to the high-pressure accumulator is a pressure control valve that can be actuated electromagnetically. The cavity can be connected by the latter to a low-pressure side... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090199822 - Fuel delivery system for heating fuel therein: A fuel delivery system comprises a fuel rail having a flow channel therein. The fuel delivery system further comprises a fuel injector cup that includes a base at a first end thereof, an opening at a second end thereof opposite the first end, and an inner cavity disposed between the... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090199823 - Direct metering fuel control with integral electrical metering pump and actuator servo pump: A fuel supply system includes a fuel metering pump and a servo-flow pump that are used to supply fuel to one or more fuel manifolds and one or more fluid-operated actuators, respectively. The fuel metering pump and the servo-flow pump are driven by the same electric motor(s).... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090199825 - Apparatus, system, and method for efficiently operating an internal combustion engine utilizing exhaust gas recirculation: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficiently operating an engine utilizing exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). The apparatus includes an exhaust manifold receiving exhaust gas from a first cylinder set, an EGR manifold receiving exhaust gas from a second cylinder set, and a passage comprising a variable restriction. The... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090199824 - Method for controlling an engine provided with an exhaust gas recycling loop: An engine control, and in particular a method for controlling an engine including a low-pressure exhaust gas recycling loop. The method adjusts a predetermined engine operating parameter by controlling the position of an exhaust gas recycling valve, which is placed in the loop, for determining whether the predetermined measured quantity... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090199826 - Device for eliminating oil particles from the crankcase ventilation gas in an internal combustion engine: A device for eliminating oil particles from the crankcase ventilation gas of an internal combustion engine. The device is located in the flow duct of the gas that runs from the crankcase to an induction tract of the engine. The device includes an oil separator in the form of an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090199827 - Flux director for ignition coil assembly: An ignition coil has a primary core supporting a primary winding that is connectable to an engine ignition system and a secondary winding inductively couplable to the primary winding and surrounding the primary winding. The secondary winding can be connected to an engine spark plug assembly. A flux director surroundingly... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090194041 - Air flow arrangement for two diesel generator sets in shipping container: A system includes a shipping container having air inlets at each end and an air outlet at a top and approximate center. The system includes two engines positioned one on each side of a center region, with two generators—each positioned between one of the engines and an end of the... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20090194043 - Engine: There is disclosed a hydrogen powered internal combustion engine (12) having cylinders (22) for driving crankshafts (28). The crankshafts are configured to drive water pumps (32) which are for pumping water into engagement with drive faces (58) of a drive water wheel (44). This water wheel is connected to, and... Agent: Joel D. Skinner, Jr. Skinner And Associates

20090194042 - Fuel supply system for a vehicle including a vaporization device for converting fuel and water into hydrogen: A fuel supply system (1) is disclosed for use with an internal combustion engine or a fuel cell system (408). The fuel supply system may include a water supply (4) for supplying water; a fuel supply (3) for supplying fuel; a fuel reformer (10) including an air inlet (52,70) converts... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20090194044 - Electric supercharger: An lubricating oil from an oil pump that is driven by rotation of an engine is supplied as a refrigerant to a rotor of an assist motor via a pressure valve. The pressure valve is configured to be closed when the pressure of the lubricating oil is less than a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090194045 - Dual drive radiator fan and coolant pump system for internal combustion engine: A dual drive radiator fan and coolant pump system for a liquid-cooled reciprocating internal combustion engine includes a coolant pump with an impeller shaft driven by a first drive extending between the engine's crankshaft and a pump pulley and hub mounted upon the impeller shaft. A second drive extends between... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090194046 - Partition member for cooling passage of internal combustion engine, cooling mechanism of internal combustion engine, and method for forming the cooling mechanism: A partition member used in a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The partition member is arranged in a groove-like cooling passage through which a cooling heat medium flows. The partition member includes a separating wall and a flexible lip member. The separating wall divides the cooling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090194071 - Sorrels engine: An internal combustion engine of uniquely simple elements that combines the use of an assemblage of rotating elements to restrain cylinders radically coplanar perpendicular to centerline of the power shaft and pistons and connecting rods to a rotating coplanar reciprocating alignment with the cylinders, channels to force strokes of the... Agent: Joe M. Sorrels

20090194047 - Variable valve timing apparatus and control method therefor: An ECU executes a program including the steps of: controlling, when the phase of an intake valve is a phase advanced relative to a threshold value CA (FF) (NO in S106), an electric motor operating an intake VVT mechanism by feedback control (S202); and controlling, when the phase of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194048 - Adjusting device for variable valve control: Disclosed is an adjusting mechanism for rotating the adjusting shaft of a variable valve control device for combustion engines, in which the crank of a crank-rocker mechanism or slider-crank mechanism is mounted on the camshaft and in which the rocker of the crank-rocker mechanism or the slider of the slider-crank... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090194049 - Cam cap: A cam cap has a wall portion that extends between two cam cap portions integrally formed and having connection portions respectively, and therefore the rigidity of the cam cap is high and thus the relative positional accuracies of oil passage connection faces of the connection portions are high even after... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194050 - Rocker arm: The rocker arm 1 of this embodiment has a pair of side wall portions 21 formed so as to face each other, an engaging portion 22 connecting the pair of side wall portions 21 and adapted to engage with a rocking support member 4 arranged in an engine, a sliding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090194052 - Method and apparatus for operating standard gasoline-driven engines with a readily-available non-volatile fuel, thereby obviating the use of gasoline: The conventional spark plug of a gasoline engine is removed and replaced with a high-power spark plug capable of delivering very high power (e.g., one megawatt) over a relatively-narrow time interval (e.g., 20 nanoseconds). Next, the gasoline is replaced with a readily-available non-volatile fuel (e.g., JP-8). The gasoline—and its transportation,... Agent: Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A.

20090194051 - Plasma generating ignition system and associated method: An apparatus and method for igniting combustible materials in a combustion chamber of a combustion engine using corona discharge plasma from a coaxial cavity resonator. This system and method uses a coaxial cavity resonator in a body adapted to mate with a combustion chamber of a combustion engine. The coaxial... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090194053 - Plasma jet ignition plug: A plasma jet ignition plug capable of inhibiting occurrence of channeling while reducing removal of energy of plasma through a ground electrode at the time of emission of plasma. A ground electrode of a plasma jet ignition plug projects inward from a front end face of a metallic shell toward... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20090194054 - Engine intake system: In an engine intake system, an air cleaner and downstream sides of throttle valves in throttle bodies provided in intake passages are connected by bypass passages. An idle speed control apparatus provided at a midpoint of the passage controls amounts of air supplied during an idling operation. End portions of... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090194055 - Variable intake apparatus for internal combustion engine: In a variable intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine, each of a plurality of intake pipes is separated from a surge tank by a partition wall, and communication ports, provided in the partition wall for the respective intake pipes, are opened and closed by respective variable intake valves to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090194056 - Intake system with resonator: An engine assembly may include an engine block, first and second cylinder heads, and a first and second intake manifolds. The engine block may include a first bank defining a first set of cylinders and a second bank defining a second set of cylinders. The first cylinder head may be... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090194057 - Starter apparatus for an internal combustion engine: A starter device for an internal combustion engine (10) has an actuating device and an entrainer (24) can be coupled to the crankshaft (13) of the engine (10). The entrainer (24) and the actuating device are rotatably journalled about a rotational axis (14). The entrainer (24) and the actuating device... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20090194058 - Cylindrical valve system: The Cylindrical Valve System is a more efficient method of allowing Intake and Exhaust to occur in an internal combustion engine or similar device. It removes the restrictive camshaft, valves and valve springs and substitutes two highly efficient tubes spinning on roller bearings. Try to imagine turning a camshaft and... Agent: John Earl Pascale

20090194059 - Piston for an internal combustion engine and method for its production: A piston for an internal combustion engine, has a lower piston part and an upper piston part disposed on the lower piston part. The upper piston part has a top land that runs around its circumference, and a ring belt that runs around its circumference. At least the upper piston... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090194060 - Method for producing a support plate for valve bodies and a support plate: A method for producing a support plate (1) for valve bodies includes: i) providing a base armature (22) including an even number of portions of pipes (4, 4′); ii) arranging a valve body (5) on portions (19) of the base armature (22) forming temporary reception zones for a valve body... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090194061 - Oil module comprising an integrated cooling water channel: The invention relates to an oil module of a water-cooled internal combustion engine, comprising an oil filter, oil and water channels, a water pump and a thermostatic valve which opens various temperature-dependent water circuits. One water channel starts behind the thermostatic valve in the direction of flow and leads to... Agent: Bohan Mathers

20090194062 - Oil drain passage structure: An oil drain passage that guides, to an oil pan, lubrication oil in a space surrounded by a side wall of an engine block and an inner wall of a chain cover is formed with a partition formed by contacting a rib provided on the inner wall of the chain... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194063 - Camshaft cover with integrated intake manifold: An engine assembly may include an engine block, first and second cylinder heads, and first and second valvetrain covers fixed to the first and second cylinder heads. The engine block may include first and second cylinder banks disposed at an angle relative to one another to form a V-configuration. The... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090194064 - Method to optimize fuel economy by preventing cylinder deactivation busyness: A method of transitioning an engine to a cylinder deactivation mode may include determining a ratio of time that the engine is operating in the cylinder deactivation mode for an engine operating condition relative to a total time of engine operation in the operating condition, determining a number of transitions... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090194065 - Rotary piston type internal combustion engine: The rotary piston type internal combustion engine (E1) comprises an output shaft (1), a rotor (2), a housing (4), an annular operation chamber (5) formed by the rotor and housing on at least one side of the rotor in the axial direction of the output shaft for constituting an intake... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090194066 - Cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine: An engine provided with a fuel injector for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder, a spark plug positioning a spark gap in a flight path of fuel injected from the fuel injector, and a cavity formed in a piston top face, wherein at the time of stratified combustion, the fuel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090194067 - Service pack power management: A power management system, in certain aspects, may utilize direct load sensing feedback from the prime mover (e.g., engine), thereby reducing the possibility of overloading the prime mover. The use of direct load sense feedback from the prime mover can then be used with additional feedback, such as prime mover... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090194068 - Flow controlling method for an auxiliary intake flow passage: A flow controlling method for an auxiliary intake flow passage for use in a power unit which includes a starter clutch which is automatically engaged and disengaged in response to the engine speed. An intake air control valve (IACV) carries out changeover from water temperature dependent control (open loop control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090194069 - Control apparatus and control method of in-cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine: An ECU controls an internal combustion engine which generates a tumble flow inside a cylinder and strengthens the tumble flow by fuel injected near bottom dead center of an intake stroke. The ECU includes an injection timing changing device that changes the injection timing of fuel based on the amount... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090194070 - Method for controlling at least one sheathed-element glow plug in an internal combustion engine and engine controller: A method for controlling at least one sheathed-element glow plug in an internal combustion engine, the temperature of the sheathed-element glow plug being controlled as a function of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine in such a way that optimal combustion properties of the internal combustion... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090194072 - Two wire intensified common rail fuel system: A fuel system includes a plurality of fuel injectors fluidly connected to a common rail. Each of the fuel injectors has at least one body component and includes an intensifier control valve for controlling movement of an intensifier piston, a needle control valve for controlling movement of a needle valve... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper Intellectual Property Department

20090194073 - Fuel delivery device and methods therefor: A fuel delivery device including a fuel injector adapter and a side-port fuel injector. The fuel injector adapter includes a body portion with first and second connector portions extending therefrom. An injector port is formed in the body portion and configured to receive a side-port injector, wherein the injector port... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090194074 - Fuel delivery system for engine: An integrated, modular system for delivering fuel to an engine component in an engine having a fuel tank, as well as engine employing such a system, and methods of implementing such a system, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a housing defining a chamber, an... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C Intellectual Property Department

20090194075 - By-pass regulator assembly for dual erfs/mrfs fuel pump module: A fuel system that supplies fuel to an engine of a vehicle. The fuel system includes a pump that pumps fuel and a controller that selectively changes operation of the pump between an electronic returnless fuel system mode and a mechanical returnless fuel system mode. In the electronic returnless fuel... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090194077 - Multipurpose engine: In this multipurpose engine, a fuel gas evaporated within a fuel tank of the engine is drawn out of the fuel tank and is adsorbed by an adsorbing material, the fuel gas is separated from the adsorbing material, and then the fuel gas separated from the adsorbing material is suctioned... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090194076 - Reducing fuel-vapor emissions by vortex effect: A system for managing fuel vapors generated in a fuel system of a vehicle, the fuel system including a fuel tank includes a flow separator comprising an inlet to which a gas flow having fuel vapors is admitted, at least two outlets, and an internal cavity, the inlet, the outlets,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20090194078 - Device for controlling heating of a throttle valve of an internal combustion engine: In an embodiment, conductance of electricity to a heating element (4) for heating a throttle valve (2) of an automobile engine and a peripheral section thereof is performed only during a period wherein this heating can be performed effectively. Specifically, a controller (53) receives an output signal from an air... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194079 - Exhaust gas recirculation device of internal combustion engine, and control method thereof: An exhaust gas recirculation device includes a turbocharger (5) having a turbine (5b) on an exhaust pipe (4) and a compressor (5a) on an intake pipe (3), a low-pressure EGR passage (31) connecting the exhaust pipe (4) downstream of the turbine (5b) and the intake pipe (3) upstream of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194080 - Residual burnt gas scavenging method with double intake valve lift in a direct-injection supercharged internal-combusion engine, notably of diesel type:

20090194081 - Multifuel internal combustion engine: A multifuel internal combustion engine includes a fuel property detecting unit that detects an ignitability index Pc and a volatility index Pv respectively found through indexation of an ignitability and a volatility of fuel including at least two types of fuels F1 and F2 with different properties in a combustion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090194082 - Transistor type ignition apparatus for internal combustion engine: The present invention provides a transistor type ignition apparatus suitable for a gas engine in which high voltage output can be obtained with low input electricity. The ignition apparatus includes an ignition coil 2 having a primary coil 21 connected to a battery 6 and a secondary coil 22 connected... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090194083 - Multiple primary coil ignition system and method: A first current is supplied to a first primary winding of an ignition coil and a second current is supplied to a second primary winding of the ignition coil. A voltage is generated across a secondary winding of the ignition coil and an ignition spark current is generated at a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090194084 - Ignition coil: An ignition coil is equipped with a sparkplug of an engine. The ignition coil includes a coil portion, a tower portion, and a plug cap. The coil portion includes a coil case accommodating a primary and secondary coils being coaxial with each other. The coil portion has an end connected... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC