Internal-combustion engines inventions 09/09

20090235888 - Device for injecting a liquid additive into the fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle: The device for injecting an additive comprises a removable flexible pouch forming a liquid additive reservoir connected to the fuel supply system of the engine via a quick-connect element to an additive feed line that supplies a dosing pump. The flexible pouch retracts whereby reducing its inside volume in order... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090235896 - Diesel cycle internal combustion engine: A diesel cycle internal combustion engine can be operated with a variety of fuels having different boiling points and different viscosity-temperature characteristic curves, with a fuel circuit that includes a fuel tank, a fuel pump, a fuel line, at least one fuel filter, a high-pressure pump, an injection system device... Agent: Robert A. Sabourin

20090235877 - Closed loop fluid cooling system for marine outboard, inboard, and inboard-outboard motors: A closed loop fluid cooling system for marine motors is described. The system includes a motor cooling circuit in fluidic communication with fluid cooling jackets about a motor. The system includes a heat dissipation circuit. The motor cooling circuit is in closed fluidic communication with the heat dissipation circuit. A... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20090235878 - Cooling apparatus of v-type internal combustion engine: In one embodiment of the present invention, a cooling water path that extends in the direction of a row of cylinders is provided between left and right banks. A communication port that communicates with a discharge port of the water pump is provided at a position on the front side... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090235879 - Engine room for construction equipment: An engine room for construction equipment is provided, which can minimize emission of noise generated in an engine room due to driving of an engine and a ventilating fan to an outside of the engine room by absorbing the noise through a noise trap, and can improve the cooling performance... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090235880 - Device for cleaning intake air: A device is provided for a piece of equipment with an internal combustion engine having a crank case and a combustion space, wherein an air cooling stream is present for cooling the internal combustion engine. The device, on the one hand, is effective for cleaning of the intake air, and... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20090235876 - Portable gas powered internal combustion engine arrangement: A gas powered internal combustion engine in which the gas is provided from pressurized liquid gas in an LPG container and in which the LPG container is rigidly mounted adjacent to the internal combustion engine at a preselected angle to be in conductive heat transfer relationship to the internal combustion... Agent: Don B. Finkelstein, Esq Law Offices Of Don Finkelstein

20090235881 - Six-cycle internal combustion engine: Described is a six-cycle internal combustion engine. Four of the cycles are the standard “Otto” cycles, namely intake, compression, power and exhaust plus two additional cycles, a primary intake cycle and a transfer cycle. The two additional cycles act as a supercharger to provide compressed air to the intake port... Agent: Gold & Rizvi, P.A.

20090235883 - Valve timing control apparatus for internal combustion engine: A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including a drive rotary member that is rotated by the crankshaft, a driven rotary member that transmits rotational force input from the drive rotary member, to the camshaft, and an electromagnetic mechanism that acts to vary a relative rotational phase... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090235884 - Vane-type cam phaser having dual rotor bias springs: A vane-type camshaft phaser for varying the timing of combustion valves including a first torsional bias spring disposed on a cover plate spring guide and grounded to the cover plate and to a slot in a spring retainer to urge the rotor toward an intermediate locking position from any position... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090235885 - Variable valve actuating apparatus: A variable valve actuating apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a drive cam, a control shaft, a control cam, a rocker arm, and a swing cam. The drive cam is rotated by the internal combustion engine. The control shaft is supported for rotation about a rotation axis. The control... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090235886 - Variable valve actuating apparatus for internal combustion engine and control shaft for variable valve actuating apparatus: A variable valve actuating apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a control shaft rotatably supported through a bearing to a body of the engine, and arranged to rotate about a center axis to control an operating state of an engine valve, the control shaft including; a control cam having... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090235882 - Spring retainer and spring system: A spring retainer can reduce the set height and mass of a coil spring. The spring retainer has a retainer body attached to a stem end of a valve and a circumferential plate-like spring part having an inner circumferential part supported by the retainer body and resiliently supporting an end... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090235887 - Roller bearing, camshaft support structure, and internal combustion engine: A needle roller bearing (21) as a roller bearing comprises an outer ring (22) formed by connecting a plurality of arc-shaped outer ring members in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of needle rollers (23) arranged along the inner diameter surface of the outer ring (22), and an oil groove... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090235889 - Ignition device for plasma jet ignition plug: An ignition device for a plasma jet ignition plug is provided. A resistance for decreasing electric noises is not incorporated in a plasma jet ignition plug. A resistance of not less than 1 KΩ and not more than 20 KΩ is provided to a path from a spark discharge circuit... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20090235890 - Intake control device for an engine: In an intake control device, upper and lower partition plates are provided in an intake passage extending obliquely upward from a combustion chamber as seen in an axial direction of a crankshaft. The partition plates divide the intake passage into upper intake passages and lower intake passages. A tumble control... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090235891 - Intake flow control device for internal combustion engine: An intake flow control device includes valve units, a drive shaft, and an actuator. The valve unit includes a housing defining an intake passage therein. A valve shaft is supported between side walls of the housing. The drive shaft connects and drives the valve shafts. The actuator is directly connected... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090235892 - Cylinder head cover: A tubular valve casing formed of metal is molded with an outer shell portion formed of synthetic resin. A valve body is inserted into the valve casing through an opening formed at an end of the valve casing and incorporated in the valve casing. An annular projection is formed in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090235893 - Two-cycle engine: A two-cycle engine includes a crankshaft that has shafts on both sides and a crankcase that pivotally supports the shafts of the crankshaft through bearings. A collar is circumferentially provided on an outer ring of one of the bearings that supports one of the shafts on a side at which... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090235895 - Lubricating structure for engine: the lubricating means 13 or 14 being arranged on an anti-thrust load side of each of the cylinders 11 with respect to a sliding surface for the piston 12, a notch of each of the pistons 12 required for said lubricating means and 14 being formed on the anti-thrust load... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090235894 - Lubrication apparatus for engines: A lubrication apparatus for an engine includes a crankshaft chamber, a camshaft chamber, and an oil reservoir chamber, wherein an oil-suction piping path is provided in the oil reservoir chamber, and is communicated between the crankshaft chamber and the oil reservoir chamber. The oil-suction piping path includes, among others, a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090235897 - Internal combustion engine of spark-ignition direct-injection type and fuel injecting method thereof: A multi-hole injector directly injects fuel into a combustion chamber. Intake air is introduced into the combustion chamber through intake ports to provide tumble flow in the combustion chamber. A cavity is formed in a part of the top surface of a piston which is eccentric to the exhaust side.... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090235899 - Coupling arrangement: A coupling arrangement has a fuel injector cup with a central longitudinal axis coupled to a fuel rail at a first axial end area and to a ring element at a second axial end area by a circlip. The cup has at least two slots arranged at the second end... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090235898 - Fuel injector isolator: A compression resistant isolator disposed between a direct fuel injector and a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine provides thermal, or thermal and vibrational isolation therebetween. A plurality of radially spaced rigid axial support members provide axial load support to maintain proper direct fuel injector positioning within the cylinder... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090235900 - Control device of high-pressure fuel pump of internal combustion engine: A control device of a high-pressure fuel pump of an internal combustion engine capable of improving stability in controlling the drive of the high-pressure fuel pump by limiting the end timing of a drive signal of the high-pressure fuel pump and driving an actuator in a control effective range of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090235901 - Fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine: A pulsation damper is provided between and in series with a low pressure fuel system pipe and a high pressure pump of a fuel supply system. During startup of an engine, low pressure fuel supplied via the low pressure fuel system pipe is injected from an intake passage fuel injector.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090235902 - Water disassociation and reformation engine method: p

20090235903 - Air intake system for a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition engine: The present disclosure discloses an HCCI air intake system for HEV, wherein the air outlet of the compressor is simultaneously connected to a hot channel and a cold channel, the hot channel is connected to the cylinder of the HCCI gasoline engine via the electrical drive system, coolant heat exchanger,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090235904 - Portable gas powered internal combustion engine arrangement: A gas powered internal combustion engine in which the gas is provided from pressurized liquid gas in an LPG container and in which the LPG container is rigidly mounted adjacent to the internal combustion engine at a preselected angle to be in conductive heat transfer relationship to the internal combustion... Agent: Don B. Finkelstein, Esq. Law Offices Of Don Finkelstien

20090235905 - Device for swirling and mixing exhaust gases recycled in the intake duct of an internal combustion engine: Disclosed is a device for swirling and mixing exhaust gases recycled in the intake duct (1) of an internal combustion engine via a recycling conduit (2). The device is formed of two control flaps (3, 4) in the form of toroidal portions, mounted rotatably about axes of articulation (6, 7),... Agent: Mann+hummel Gmbh, Dept: Vr-p Plant 5.4

20090235906 - Device for exhaust gas recirculation and process for manufacturing it: The invention involves a device for exhaust gas recirculation of a combustion engine, with an intake module and an exhaust gas recirculation tube projecting with its gas outlet end into the intake module. Openings are created in the peripheral wall of the gas outlet end of the exhaust gas recirculation... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20090235907 - Electronically controlled blow-by gas returning apparatus for internal combustion engine: An electronically controlled blow-by gas returning apparatus for an internal combustion engine which corrects a fuel injection amount is disclosed. This blow-by gas returning apparatus is provided with an electronically controlled ventilation valve and a control unit. The ventilation valve regulates the flow rate of blow-by gas. The control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090235908 - Fuel tank system: A system for separating an ethanol-gasoline blended fuel into gasoline and ethanol-water mixture by mixing water therewith with a lightweight, compact and simple configuration is provided. The system includes a fuel tank for storing a blended fuel; pump means for sucking the blended fuel in the fuel tank, separating the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090229555 - Storage systems for adsorbable gaseous fuel and methods of producing the same: A storage system for an absorbing gas including a plurality briquette units situated within the storage tank is disclosed. In some embodiments each briquette unit includes a liner or open vessel, and compressed gas-absorbing particulate matter associated with the liner for external support In some embodiments, the liner or vessel... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090229541 - Control device of internal combustion engine: A control device for a premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) internal combustion engine is provided, capable of stable operation over a wide operating range. The control device of an engine 1 comprises: a fuel supply means 20 of supplying the main fuel to the engine 1; an hydrogen supply means... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090229543 - Cooling device for engine: An ECU executes a program including a step of, if an engine is not in a cold state, controlling electric power to be supplied to an electric water pump such that a flow rate requested at the engine is obtained, a step of, if the engine is in the cold... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090229542 - Cooling system for a vehicle, and method for the operation of a cooling system: An invention relates to a cooling system for a vehicle comprising an engine, an engine radiator, and an engine cooling circuit. A second cooling circuit encompassing at least one cooling component can be coupled to the engine radiator and is connected to a coolant recirculation pipe of the engine cooling... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20090229544 - Engine-driven power generator: In an engine-driven power generator, a fan-equipped flywheel and a drive shaft of a power generation section are connected to a crankshaft of an engine, and the power generation section is driven by the drive shaft being driven via the crankshaft. The fan-equipped flywheel is disposed between a crankcase of... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090229545 - Crankshaft for integral gas compressor and internal combustion engine: A crankshaft for an integral gas compressor and internal combustion engine. The cylinder block of the integral gas compressor and internal combustion engine has a bank of compressor cylinders and a bank of engine cylinders, such as in a V-shaped configuration. The crankshaft has four journals, each adapted to carry... Agent: Mcafee & Taft Tenth Floor, Two Leadership Square

20090229587 - Split-cycle four-stroke engine: An engine has a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. An expansion piston is slidably received within an expansion cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the expansion piston reciprocates through an expansion stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090229547 - Electromotive device for operating gas exchange valves: The invention relates to an electromotive device for operating gas exchange valves on internal combustion engines, comprising a rotary actuator exerting forces on one or more valve stem ends of one or more gas exchange valves by means of a lever arrangement. The rotary actuator is a reluctance motor with... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20090229548 - Internal combustion engine with mixed camshafts and method for operating an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine which operates in accordance with an auto-ignition principle includes at least one working cylinder, at least two inlet valves per working cylinder and at least one outlet valve per working cylinder. The internal combustion engine has a first camshaft and a second camshaft. The second camshaft... Agent: Manfred Beck Pa

20090229549 - Variable valve mechanism for engine: A variable valve mechanism for an engine includes: a rocker shaft; a first rocker arm rotatably supported by the rocker shaft, for transmitting displacement of a first cam to a valve; a second rocker arm rotatably supported by the rocker shaft, for transmitting a displacement of a second cam to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090229550 - Concentric camshaft with bearing sleeve and method of debris removal: A camshaft may include a first shaft, a bearing sleeve member located on and fixed to the first shaft, and a first lobe member located on the first shaft and displaceable between first and second positions. The first lobe member may be axially offset relative to the bearing sleeve member... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229551 - Concentric camshaft with independent bearing surface for floating lobes: A camshaft may include a first shaft, a first lobe member fixed to the first shaft, a second lobe member fixed to the first shaft, and a third lobe member. The first lobe member may include a first lobe portion and a first bearing portion extending axially from the first... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229552 - Engine and vehicle comprising engine: An engine E of the present invention comprises a valve body 53 configured to open and close ports 0A and 20B formed in a cylinder head 20, a drive cam mechanism 50A operable in association with a crankshaft by a driving power transmission mechanism 28, a pivot cam mechanism 48... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090229553 - Engine system: An adaptable cylinder deactivating system for automobile engines that can easily and cost effectively be placed into virtually any existing or new engine to drastically reduce fuel consumption. This outcome is achieved by deactivating half of the cylinders while also eliminating compression at times when full power is not necessary.... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20090229554 - Rocker arm assembly having slider roller oil pumping features: An engine assembly may include an engine structure, a rocker arm assembly supported by the engine structure, and a camshaft. The rocker arm assembly may include a lever body, a support member coupled to the lever body, and a first roller member supported for rotation on the support member. The... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229546 - Concentric camshaft with improved torque resistance: An engine assembly may include an engine structure and a camshaft supported on the engine structure. The camshaft may include a first shaft, a first lobe member fixed to the first shaft and including a bore and first and second lobe portions that are axially spaced from one another and... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229556 - Calibrated air intake tract having air infusion insert: A Calibrated Air Intake Tract for Internal Combustion Engine is disclosed. The intake includes a Mass Airflow Sensor section that defines an inner diameter that differs from the diameter of the overall intake air tract piping. The Mass Airflow Sensor length and diameter are precision-tuned in order to provide the... Agent: Steins & Associates

20090229557 - Intake device for internal combustion engine: In an intake device for an internal combustion engine, in which a valve body rotatable about a valve shaft is provided within an intake passage and by which an intake flow is controlled, the valve shaft is eccentric with a center of the valve body and is supported at a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090229558 - Flywheel starter pulley attachment apparatuses and methods: Flywheel starter pulley attachment apparatuses and methods are disclosed for a flywheel rotatable about an axis and a starter pulley rotatable about the same axis as the flywheel. One or more retainers can be provided to couple rotation of the starter pulley to the flywheel and/or a cooling fan element... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090229559 - Engine balance system: A balance system for implementation within an engine crankcase, as well as an engine employing such a system and a method of balancing forces as performed by such a system, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the balance system includes a crankshaft with at least one eccentric portion and... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C Intellectual Property Department

20090229560 - Internal combustion engine having a reduced cylinder head height: An internal combustion engine according to the invention comprises at least one cylinder and at least one valve provided for a gas exchange and having a first end comprising a valve head, and a second end, characterized in that a valve bearing has a length of a guidance area arranged... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090229561 - Engine hydraulic control apparatus: A hydraulic control apparatus (1) is provided with an oil pump (4) that draws oil from an oil pan (3) due to the rotation of the crankshaft, a piston jet (6) that open when the hydraulic pressure of the oil that has been drawn from this oil pump (4) attains... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090229564 - Control strategy for transitions between homogeneous-charge compression-ignition and spark-ignition combustion modes: A method for transitioning a spark-ignition direct injection internal combustion engine between a controlled auto-ignition combustion mode and a homogeneous spark-ignition combustion mode includes operating the engine in a stratified-charge spark-ignition combustion mode during the transitioning.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20090229563 - Hcci/si combustion switching control system and method: A control system and method for operating an engine includes a spark ignited (SI) control module controlling the engine in a spark ignited mode, a pre-homogeneous charge compression (HCCI) module controlling the engine in an HCCI mode after the spark ignited mode, and an HCCI module controlling the engine in... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229565 - Method for controlling combustion mode transitions for an internal combustion engine: Transitioning between combustion modes includes an intermediate combustion mode. Transitions are controlled in accordance with a preferred fuel mass and permissible fuel mass ranges corresponding to changing intake airflow.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20090229566 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: In an internal combustion engine, gasoline is injected directly into a combustion chamber and ignited by auto-ignition. The characteristics map range within which fuel is ignited by auto-ignition is enlarged by supercharging the internal combustion engine.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090229562 - Spark timing and control during transitions between spark ignited combustion and homogenous charge compression ignition: A control system for an engine comprises an air per cylinder (APC) generating module that generates measured and desired APC values. A combustion transition module selectively transitions the engine from spark ignition (SI) combustion to homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion and from HCCI combustion to SI combustion. A spark... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090229567 - safety lockout device: A safety lockout device for a level throttle control of a vehicle includes a rocker or toggle stop mounted to be engageable with a throttle arm to lock out movement of the arm. A release is connected to the stop so as to move the stop against a restorative form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090229568 - Throttle opening control device, motorcycle, and method for producing control map: A throttle opening control device for a vehicle having an engine with an electronically controlled throttle valve and an accelerator operated by a rider is provided. The throttle opening control device includes an accelerator opening acquisition module for acquiring an opening of the accelerator, an engine rotation speed acquisition module... Agent: Jones Day

20090229569 - Multiple spark plug per cylinder engine with individual plug control: A system and method for operating a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine having at least two spark plugs per cylinder include a first control wire coupled to a first spark plug of a first cylinder and a second spark plug of a second cylinder, and a second control wire coupled... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl/dsb

20090229570 - System and control method for an engine having two types of fuel injectors: A reduced cost dual fuel injection system and method is described. Port fuel injectors and direct fuel injectors may be operated by using common injector drivers.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20090229571 - Pressure booster arrangement: The invention relates to a pressure booster arrangement for high-pressure injection systems or high-pressure injection system parts of internal combustion engines. A differential piston which operates with a large cross section in a medium-pressure reservoir and with partial cross sections is operative in terms of positive displacement in associated control... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090229573 - Direct injection assembly of the common-rail type provided with a shut-off valve for controlling the delivery of a high-pressure fuel pump: An embodiment of a direct injection assembly of the common-rail type provided with a fuel tank, a manifold, a high-pressure pump for feeding the fuel to the manifold, a low-pressure pump provided with an intake pipe and connected to the high-pressure pump by means of the intake pipe to feed... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090229572 - High pressure common rail fuel system with gas injection: A high pressure common rail fuel system is provided including a fuel supply, a high pressure pump assembly fluidly connected to receive fuel from the fuel supply, and a gas supply system fluidly connected to provide gas to the high pressure pump assembly to create a high pressure gas fuel... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090229575 - Coupling device: Coupling device (50) for hydraulically and mechanically coupling a fuel injector (20) to a fuel rail (14) of a combustion engine (22), the fuel injector (20) having a central longitudinal axis (L), the coupling device (50) having a fuel injector cup (30) being designed to be hydraulically coupled to the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090229576 - Coupling device: Coupling device for hydraulically and mechanically coupling a fuel injector to a combustion engine fuel rail, having a fuel injector cup with a central longitudinal axis hydraulically coupled to the rail and engaging a fuel inlet portion of the injector, a first ring element fixedly coupled to the cup, and... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090229574 - Fuel injection device, an engine including the same, and vehicle: A fuel injection device includes an air-fuel mixture injector, a fuel supplier, a fuel injection device holder, an insert piece, a fuel introducer and an air introducer. The fuel injection device holder has an air-fuel mixture chamber that is provided in the inside of the fuel injection device holder and... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090229578 - Control device enabling integrated operation of vehicle electric system and engine electric solenoid fuel injection and ignition systems: A control device enabling integrated operation of vehicle electric system and engine electric solenoid fuel injection and ignition systems includes a timing circuit for driving a pulse generator to generate a pulse signal. The pulse generated by the pulse generator is limited and then phase-shifted and amplified. The pulse signal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090229577 - Fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine: The fuel injection system has at least two electrically actuated control valves for controlling the fuel injection; the control valves are each connected via electric lines to an electric control unit. In the fuel injection system, terminal elements for connection of the electric lines are provided. For a first of... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090229579 - Gas fuel supply apparatus: An engine-start is inhibited when a gas engine is tilted, and the engine is immediately stopped. A shutoff valve (21) is provided on a liquefied fuel passage (15) supplying a liquefied fuel to a vaporizing chamber (14) from a cylinder (16). The shutoff valve (21) is provided with a diaphragm... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090229580 - Fuel tank having improved thermal stability: A fuel tank has phase change material located within its interior and in a heat transferring relationship with the contents of the tank. Thermal energy is transferred from the contents of the tank to the phase change material (PCM) when tank temperatures increase to the phase transition temperature (PTT) of... Agent: Glenn S. Arendsen

20090229581 - Ignition apparatus, internal-combustion engine, ingnition plug, plasma equipment, exhaust gas degradation apparatus, ozone generating/sterilizing/disinfecting apparatus, and odor eliminating apparatus: Stable and highly efficient combustion/reaction is provided, even when fuel ratio of mixture is decreased and combustion/reaction of the lean mixture is performed in a heat engine such as a reciprocating engine, by controlling dielectric constant of mixture in a combustion/reaction chamber by introducing water and/or exhaust gas into the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090229582 - Vehicle having internal combustion engine with supercharger: A vehicle having an internal combustion engine with a supercharger is provided for reducing the number of parts and for reducing the size of the engine in the transverse direction of the vehicle by effectively utilizing an outer space around the engine. A supercharger is fixed to a rear end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090229583 - Motor poppet valve and an egr device for an internal combustion engine using the same: Motor control means of a motor poppet valve has initial motor torque setting means for setting the initial motor torque of an electric motor so that the initial motor torque equals a torque corresponding to a force biasing a valve element of a poppet-valve body toward a valve seat or... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090229584 - Heating apparatus of electromagnetic pcv valve: An electromagnetic PCV valve includes a valve seat, a valve element, a step motor for moving the valve element, and a housing that houses the valve seat, the valve element, and the step motor. When the valve element is moved by the step motor, a size (an opening degree) of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090229585 - Oil separator for blow-by gas: To provide an oil separator including multiple cones and having a simple structure and high trapping efficiency for oil mist. An oil separator can include multiple cones arranged in a line and a chamber for blow-by gas, which is formed in adjacent to the line of the cones, and arranged... Agent: Conley Rose Jpmorgan Chase Tower

20090229586 - Procedure and device for controlling an air supply system of a combustion engine: The invention concerns a procedure and a device for controlling an air supply system of a combustion engine with an exhaust gas system and an exhaust gas purification system with a particle filter in the exhaust gas system, whereby a boost pressure of an air supply current is controlled or... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090229588 - Method for determining the composition of a fuel blend: The invention relates to a method for the open-loop control of an internal combustion engine, which is operated with a fuel blend of an initial and at least one second fuel, the internal combustion engine having a fuel metering system, a tank fill-level gauge for determining the tank content and... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090223467 - Combustion devices for powdered fuels and powdered fuel dispersions: An engine includes at least one cylinder, an intake valve, a conduit, a positive displacement powdered fuel dispensing device, and an oxidizing gas source supplying an oxidizing gas to the conduit. The cylinder is defined by a cylinder block having a bore, a cylinder head coupled to the top of... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20090223491 - Variable compression ratio engine: A variable compression ratio mechanism for continuously varying the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine while minimizing the power requirement and providing internal clamping to isolate the setting mechanism from the reaction to combustion loads. The mechanism includes a setting cam (1501) actuated via an innovative torque storage system... Agent: Ahmed Syed

20090223468 - Valve-deactivating oil manifold assembly having an integral direct injection fuel pump and roller hydraulic pump lifter: An improved lifter-oil manifold assembly (LOMA) for variable actuation of combustion valves in an internal combustion engine, comprising a body formed preferably of first and second plates having portions of oil flow passages integrally molded therein. A plurality of individual solenoid-actuated oil control valves is retained by a retainer in... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090223469 - Balance shaft drive system: An engine assembly may include an engine structure, a crankshaft, a camshaft, a balance shaft, and first and second gears. The crankshaft, camshaft, and balance shaft may each be rotatably supported by the engine structure. The camshaft may be rotationally driven by the crankshaft and the first gear may be... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090223472 - Camshaft phasor synchronization system for an engine: A camshaft phasor control system for an engine includes a first camshaft position sensor that generates a first camshaft position signal based on a position of a first camshaft. A first summer generates a first error signal based on the first camshaft position signal and a first commanded position signal.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090223471 - Camshaft variator device: The invention relates to a camshaft variator device for an internal combustion engine which includes a crankshaft and a camshaft. The invention includes: a first component which is rigidly connected to the camshaft of the engine, such that the rotation of the first component causes the camshaft to rotate; a... Agent: Patent Crafters

20090223470 - Twin cam phaser for dual independent cam phasing: An engine assembly may include a cam phaser assembly coupled to a concentric camshaft. The cam phaser assembly may include first and second plate assemblies that have first and second vanes, an oil chamber housing located axially between the first and second plate assemblies, an oil distribution member, and a... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090223473 - Rocker arm assembly: A rocker arm assembly includes a lever body having a first end defining a pivot point, a second end for engagement with a valve train and a central opening extending therethrough. An eccentric bearing is received in the central opening, the eccentric bearing having an eccentric opening therein. The eccentric... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090223474 - Plasma plug for an internal combustion engine: A plasma plug for an internal combustion engine includes a main body having an inner portion formed of ceramic and an outer portion formed of aluminum or other metal. A first electrode and a second electrode formed of Ruthenium dioxide are disposed axially within the electrically insulated portion of the... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20090223475 - Implement with two hand interlock: An implement includes an electric starter operatively connected to an internal combustion engine to start the internal combustion engine. An ignition circuit actuates the electric starter. A first normally open switch forming part of the ignition circuit is mounted on the implement at a first position and must be held... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090223476 - Gas introducing structure of intake path: A gas introducing structure of an intake path includes a gas introducing path introducing a gas into an intake airflow in the intake path of an internal combustion engine, wherein an inner peripheral surface of the gas introducing path is made of a bottom surface appearing as a straight line... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090223477 - Air intake control device of v-diesel engine: An intake passage of a V diesel engine 10 has a pair of distributing lines 19L, 19R connected to corresponding banks 11L, 11R, a converging line 16 that connects the distributing lines 19L, 19R to each other, and a pair of branch lines 15L, 15R branched from the converging line... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090223478 - Air intake device of engine: An air intake device of an engine includes a throttle body provided in an intake passage of an engine, a bypass passage arranged to connect an upstream side and a downstream side of a throttle valve disposed in the throttle body, an idle number-of-revolutions control device that is disposed in... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090223479 - Inline crankshaft journal: A crankshaft and connecting rod configuration for use in piston engines comprises a crankshaft having a separable crank throw wherein the separable crank throw includes a pair of laterally separated throw arms supporting a crankpin therebetween. A pair of coplanar connecting rods is in rotational engagement with the crankpin. Each... Agent: Robert M. Downey, P.A.

20090223480 - Internal combustion engine: An engine having a rotor including at least one slot and at least one combustion chamber used to form a cavity is provided. The engine also includes at least one vane rollably disposed in the slot, and a block for receiving the rotor, and having a first quadrant including an... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20090223481 - Device and method to increase fuel burn efficiency in internal combustion engines: A reciprocating piston engine wherein the movement of a piston within the combustion chamber creates vortices in the fluid within the chamber and wherein the orientation of the vortices is more normal to the axis of movement of the piston than parallel to the axis of movement of the piston.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20090223483 - High efficiency internal explosion engine: A four-stroke, piston-powered internal explosion (“IE”) engine for providing power output through a rotating crankshaft. The IE engine includes an engine block having power cylinders formed therein for receiving working pistons, bearing means for supporting the crankshaft, and a crankshaft supported within the bearing means having an output end extending... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20090223482 - Method for improving an internal combustion engine: f

20090223484 - Six-cylinder engine: A six-cylinder engine includes a stop-cylinder-setting section. The stop-cylinder-setting section sets to-be-stopped cylinders such that cylinders operated in a four-cylinder operation mode (two cylinders stopped) are stopped in a two-cylinder operation mode (four cylinders stopped), and the cylinders operated in the two-cylinder operation mode are stopped in the four-cylinder operation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090223485 - Procedure for determining a fuel composition or a fuel quality: The invention concerns a procedure for determining the composition of a fuel mixture from a first fuel and a second fuel or for determining the quality of a fuel for operating a combustion engine with at least one cylinder pressure sensor in at least one cylinder of the combustion engine... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090223487 - Fuel inijector and method for controlling fuel injectors: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising an injector body, a fuel supply passage defined in the injector body, the fuel supply passage containing fuel under high pressure in use of the injector, a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure of fuel in the passage... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090223486 - High-pressure accumulator body with integrated distributor block: The invention relates to a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a first high-pressure accumulator and having a second high-pressure accumulator. The fuel injection system also has a high-pressure pump, wherein the first and the second high-pressure accumulators have a number of ports for injector supply... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20090223488 - Control and regulation method for an internal combustion engine provided with a common-rail system: The invention proposes an open-loop and closed-loop control method for an internal combustion engine (1) with a common rail injection system, in which a rail pressure (pCR) is subject to closed-loop control during normal operation. The invention is characterized by the fact that a second actual rail pressure is determined... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20090223489 - Fuel rail radiated noise reduction: A fuel rail assembly of an internal combustion engine includes an axially extending non-round fuel conduit and at least one axially extending stiffening feature integral with said conduit. Integration of the stiffening features in the conduit enables reduction or elimination of the objectionable frequency noise radiated by the fuel rail... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090223490 - Method for controlling a piezoelectric actuator and control unit for controlling a piezoelectric actuator: A method for controlling a piezoelectric actuator which displaces a control element of an injection valve includes the step of charging the actuator until a start voltage is reached. Subsequently, the actuator is discharged until a partial lifting voltage, which is maintained during a holding time, is reached. In the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090223492 - Fuel pump module having a direct mounted jet pump and methods of asssembly: An apparatus includes a housing configured to receive a portion of a fuel pump. The housing defines a first flow path, a second flow path and a third flow path. The first flow path is in fluid communication with a fuel outlet portion of the fuel pump. The second flow... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090223493 - Condensate extractor for charge air cooler systems: A condensate extractor system for an internal combustion engine assembly with a charge air cooler system is provided. The condensate extractor system includes a hose member with a first end in direct fluid communication with the charge air cooler system, and a second end in direct fluid communication with the... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090223494 - Internal combustion oxygen injection process: Oxygen can make any fuel more flammable, more powerful and burn more efficiently. When oxygen is mixed with the normal air that enters the air intake of an internal combustion engine, the engine runs faster and creates more power using the same amount of fuel. Because more fuel is burned,... Agent: Watts Fredrick Williamson

20090223495 - Control apparatus of egr control valve: A conventional technique performs valve close control of an EGR valve after an EGR-gas back flow is detected. Therefore, the conventional technique has a subject that, if an EGR-gas flow direction changes from forward flow to back flow, a back flow condition will last not only for a response delay... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090223497 - Blow-by gas recirculation system for internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a blow-by gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine. An oil separation cover 10 has a surge-tank mounting portion 400 integrally formed therewith in a columnar shape having a cam-shaped cross-section and a height approximately equal to that of an oil separation space OS. The... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090223496 - Device for cleaning of crankcase gases: This document describes a device for cleaning of crankcase gases from a combustion engine, and a combustion engine having such a device. An inlet conduit is connected to a crankcase of the combustion engine. A centrifugal separator receives a flow of crankcase gases from the crankcase via the inlet conduit... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090223498 - Two-way pcv valve for turbocharged engine pcv system: A valve assembly controls the flow of boosted gas and naturally aspirated gas between an air inlet leading into an intercooler and an oil separator disposed in a head cover in a turbocharged motor vehicle engine. The valve assembly includes a housing defining a first channel through which the natural... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090223499 - Diagnostic method and device for operating an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has an exhaust gas catalyst, a first exhaust gas sensor that is arranged for use in lambda control, and a second sensor that is arranged for trim control. The measuring signal of the second sensor is used to determine a NOx quality value depending on the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090217904 - Crankless reciprocating steam engine: We present a high-efficiency crankless reciprocating steam engine that loses only a small amount of energy when the rectilinear motion of its piston is changed into the rotary motion of its driveshaft. The present invention continuously rotates a valve in one direction while alternately introducing steam into two piston housing... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Park & AssociatesIPLaw LLC

20090217889 - Drive train, in particular vehicle drive train: A drive train, especially a vehicle drive train, includes: an engine for supplying drive power into the drive train; a cooling circuit in which a cooling medium is revolved in order to cool the engine or an electric generator or another unit; an expansion machine which is driven with fluid... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090217890 - Bendah rotary cycle internal combustion engine and air compressor: The present invention generally relates to a rotary engine and, more particularly, to a rotary engine that, by using cylinder wedge geometry improves output efficiency, and decreases fuel consumption, and at the same time is easy to manufacture, contains fewer parts, uses conventional sealing techniques and has the flexibility to... Agent: Morris Bendah

20090217891 - Reciprocating piston machine: A two-stroke engine (1) including, an engine block (2) having a cylinder (3), a double-ended piston (4) received for reciprocation in the cylinder (3), the piston (4) comprising a body having first and second opposing ends (7, 9), the first end (7) forming a wall of the combustion chamber (8),... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090217892 - Gas exchange valve actuator for a valve-controlled internal combustion engine: A gas exchange valve actuator for a valve-controlled internal combustion engine is equipped with a rotor, which is to be coupled to a valve member, and a stator, wherein the rotor has at least two stacks, which are arranged at a predetermined distance from one another, of superposed permanently magnetic... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20090217893 - Four-stroke cycle internal combusion engine: According to some embodiments, there is provided a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine in which an amount of valve lift is switchable in more multiple steps according to an operating range. In a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine 1 including an intake valve 7, an exhaust valve 6, and a... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLLC

20090217894 - method of braking an actuator piston, and a pneumatic actuator: A pneumatic actuator, connected to a pressure fluid circuit (6) that has a high pressure side and a low pressure side, an actuator cylinder (8, 9), an actuator piston (10, 11) provided in said actuator cylinder (8, 9) and displaceable between a first position and a second position, an actuator... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood

20090217895 - Inner arm stop for a switchable rocker arm: A roller finger follower assembly for variably activating a valve in an internal combustion engine includes at least one vertical recessed channel formed inside an outer arm and a shaft. The channel includes a machined upper surface closing the channel. The shaft engages with the recessed channel, the shaft reciprocates... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090217896 - Valve drive for an internal combustion engine: Proposed is a valve drive for an internal combustion engine, having a gas exchange valve (11) and having a valve actuating element (4) which has a contact face (8) for an end face (9) on a valve shank (10) of the gas exchange valve (11) which is actuated in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090217898 - Quick engine startup system and method: A technique is provided for improved response of internal combustion engines to increased load demands. The engine is equipped with an air storage tank that stores compressed air. The air may be stored at an elevated pressure (e.g., manifold air pressure) during normal full load operation of the engine. Valving... Agent: Ge Transportation-rail C/o Fletcher Yoder PC

20090217897 - Motor vehicle energy management having a supplementary starter diagnostic function: A diagnostic device for the starter of a combustion engine is provided. The electrical system of a motor vehicle includes a battery in whose connecting line a battery disconnect switch is provided, and the electrical system of the motor vehicle is monitored by a vehicle electrical system state detection device... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090217899 - Intake manifold for internal combustion engines: An intake manifold for an internal combustion engine that distributes a fuel-air mixture to an engine. The manifold includes a box-shaped chamber defined by at least four sidewalls. The chamber is mounted atop multiple intake runners, and opens to an intake plenum to which multiple runners are joined. The box-shaped... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090217900 - Housing part having sealing face and seal for internal combustion engine: A housing part has a sealing surface around the housing part which is to be fastened by means of a seal to another housing part in a sealing manner. At least one fastening opening is provided for the guiding through of fastening elements, in order to seal the housing part... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090217901 - Driving mechanism of a crankless engine: The application relates to a driving mechanism which is comprised of a toggle rod and a ratchet wheel (61), the toggle rod is comprised of a linkage (4) and a big arm (24) of a sliding bush (14), and the driving mechanism converts reciprocating motion to rotary motion. Four parallel... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090217902 - Method for assembling a crankshaft drive and piston compressor: A piston compressor includes a crankcase having an interior space. The compressor also includes a crankshaft, at least one connecting rod having a connecting rod head that interacts with the crankshaft. The at least one connecting rod and crankshaft are arranged in the crankcase and the crankcase and the at... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090217903 - Rotary internal combustion engine: The invention discloses a rotary internal combustion engine that includes a cylinder with circular section, containing two identical cylinder blocks with semi-circular sections. Two identical rotors are installed within the cylinder block and are provided with four pistons with piston rings similar to the reciprocation engine. Two identical rotor shafts... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090217905 - Direct injection type of diesel engine: A center cavity made up of a generally circular recess is formed in a head of a piston. An injector is provided for injecting fuel into the center cavity. Sub-cavities are connected to the center cavity on the periphery side of the head. The injector is positioned to inject fuel... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090217906 - Internal combustion engine control method and internal combustion engine system: A system and method of controlling an internal combustion engine are provided. The method may include closing said intake valve at a timing in a first range, which is before a maximum charge closing timing with which an amount of air inducted into said cylinder from said air intake passage... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090217907 - Power source braking system to prevent engine stalls: A system to prevent engine stalls for a machine having a power source is disclosed. The power source is in communication with a controller, which is configured to determine the temperature of the power source and compare the temperature of the power source to a predetermined threshold temperature. The controller... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090217908 - Ignition timing controlling apparatus and ignition timing controlling method for internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: calculating a knock magnitude N by dividing an integrated value lpkknk obtained by integrating the magnitude of vibration in the knock detection gate by BGL; controlling ignition timing according to a result of comparison between knock magnitude N and a... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090217909 - fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine: With reference to FIG. 1, the present invention provides an internal combustion engine (10) comprising a variable volume combustion chamber (13); an air intake system (18,20,21) for delivering charge air to the combustion chamber (13); an exhaust system (17) for relaying combusted gas from the combustion chamber (13) to atmosphere;... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090217910 - Control method of an electronic injection fuel feeding system: A control method of an electronic injection fuel feeding system for an internal combustion engine and displaying at least one injector and a non-continuous flow rate fuel pump actuated by a an actuator device; the control method includes the steps of: determining the desired fuel amount which must be injected... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090217911 - Vehicular fuel supply equipment: Fuel supply equipment for a vehicle includes a fuel filter cover for covering a fuel filter that is disposed outside of a fuel tank. A fuel pressure regulator for keeping fuel supplied to a fuel injection system under predetermined pressure is arranged so that the fuel pressure regulator is located... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090217912 - High viscosity fuel injection pressure reduction system and method: An improved high viscosity fuel injection pressure reduction system and method is disclosed for use in an internal combustion engine. The system may include a first fuel line and a second fuel line. The first fuel line may be configured to be coupled upstream of a combustion chamber of the... Agent: Ge Transportation-rail C/o Fletcher Yoder PC

20090217913 - Engine head structure: An injector, a spark plug and a pressure sensor are assembled integrally in a common housing. The common housing is fixed in a mounting hole provided in a cylinder head of an engine so that tip end portions of the injector, the spark plug and the pressure sensor face inside... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090217914 - Method for driving solenoid-actuated fuel injectors of internal combustion engines: An accurate control of a solenoid-operated fuel injector in a Diesel or gasoline engine specifies that a pull-in voltage (Vpull-in) higher than the generally available battery voltage (Vbatt) is applied to the injector, and that the injection is ended as quickly as possible, in order that the fuel injection closely... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20090217915 - Air-exhaust mixing apparatus: An apparatus for mixing intake air and exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine includes a chamber having an inlet to supply a stream of intake air, and a second inlet that receives an exhaust gas flow. The second inlet includes a section extending into the chamber of the mixer... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090217916 - Enhanced catalyst performace by engine load adjustment: A method comprises operating an engine of a vehicle to provide output torque to an input of a torque converter, determining whether the engine is in a cold start condition, fixing an input shaft of a transmission when the engine is in the cold start condition, and coupling the input... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090217917 - Method for controlling an internal combustion engine: A method for controlling an internal combustion engine that is to be operated either by petrol or alcohol or by a variable proportion of the two fuels and that includes an electronic control unit that can drive the engine, an admission line, and an exhaust line that includes a richness... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.