Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control inventions 11/07

20070275818 - Engine start controlling apparatus and method for hybrid vehicle: A hybrid-vehicle engine start controlling apparatus includes an engine, a motor connected to a vehicle driving shaft, a first engaging element provided between the engine and the motor for connecting and disconnecting the engine and the motor and engine start control means. The engine start controlling means is configured to... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070275819 - Control apparatus and method for hybrid vehicle: A control apparatus and method for a hybrid vehicle having a first engagement element between an engine and a motor-generator and a second engagement element between the motor-generator and a drive wheel. During EV drive mode, the first engagement element disengages and the second engagement element engages to drive the... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070275820 - Drive train with exhaust gas utilization and control method: The invention relates to a drive train, comprising an internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas turbine, arranged in the flow of exhaust of the internal combustion engine, a crankshaft driven by the internal combustion engine, switchably connected by means of a hydrodynamic coupling to the exhaust gas turbine in driven... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070275821 - Power-transmission control mechanism for lawn mower: In a power-transmission control mechanism for controlling transmission of power from an internal combustion engine 10 of a lawn mower to mowing blades 12, a controller for an electromagnetic clutch 20 periodically repeats: reading detected engine rotational speed N during a predetermined time t, when an operating switch is turned... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070275822 - Throttle control device for a hand held tool: This invention relates to a throttle control device for a hand held tool, such as a chain saw. The tool is provided with a forwardly extending wire (17) for transmitting a motion from a throttle control lever (12) turnably arranged about a first axis (14) to a throttle valve. One... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070275823 - Clutch engagement control apparatus for hybrid vehicle: A clutch control apparatus is provided for a hybrid vehicle having at least two different power sources and a clutch disposed between the power sources and the drive wheels arranged to vary a transmission torque capacity. A separate clutch input and output speed sensing device senses the actual clutch input... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070270277 - Hybrid vehicle powertrain with a multiple-ratio power transmission mechanism: A control method and system for a hybrid vehicle powertrain with an electric motor in a power flow path between an internal combustion engine and a multiple-ratio geared transmission. Motor torque, which is added to engine torque to obtain an effective transmission input torque, is modulated to achieve smooth power-on... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070270278 - Continuously variable planetary gear set: A continuously variable planetary gear set is described having a generally tubular idler, a plurality of balls distributed radially about the idler, each ball having a tiltable axis about which it rotates, a rotatable input disc positioned adjacent to the balls and in contact with each of the balls, a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070270279 - Shift control apparatus and method for automatic transmission of vehicle: When a n speed prohibition command is being output from the AI shift controlling means, the AI shift control is performed even in the S mode if the vehicle speed V is lower than the reference vehicle speed Vn, whereby busy shifting can be effectively prevented when the vehicle is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070270280 - Operating device and method of an apparatus: An operating device of an apparatus which operates in response to operation of an operating member by a driver includes a detecting device which detects a running state of a vehicle; a setting apparatus which sets, according to the detected running state, a range of a control value controlled by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070270281 - Vehicle start control device and method: A vehicle start control device executes a neutral control and a hill hold control, wherein, in the neutral control, a clutch provided in a power transmission path is brought into a slipping state or a released state to reduce the engine idling load and in the hill hold control, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070265135 - Control device for vehicle: An ECT-ECU executes a program including the steps of: executing an oil cooler abnormality determination process; if the oil cooler is abnormal and an oil temperature TH is at least an other-component-abnormality-incurring temperature where the oil cooler is abnormal, executing an engine speed limit process where the oil cooler is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070265136 - Vehicle with engine control system: A vehicle, such as a motorcycle, which has an engine control system that is configured to reduce an output of the engine upon a determination that a shifting of the transmission, without a corresponding disengagement of the clutch, is likely to occur. In one arrangement, the vehicle includes a controller... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070265137 - Control strategy for avoiding tip-in noise in a powershift transmission: In a motor vehicle including a power source, an accelerator pedal, a powershift transmission for producing a selected gear, first and second input shafts, a first input clutch for connecting the selected gear and the first input shaft to the power source, a second input clutch for connecting an alternate... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070259755 - Drive state shift control apparatus for hybrid vehicle: A drive state shift control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle and a control method for a hybrid vehicle smoothly perform a shift in drive state in accordance with an operating state by a mode shift and a gear shift. When an accelerator operation causes a mode shift request and a... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070254771 - Efficiency based integrated power train control system: A power train control system for a mobile machine is disclosed. The power train control system has a power source configured to produce a power output, a transmission device operatively connected to receive the power output and propel the mobile machine, and a control module. The control module is configured... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070254770 - Continuously variable power-branched transmission, and a method for regulating a continuously variable power-branched transmission: A continuously variable power-branched transmission for a motor vehicle, including an input shaft, a variable speed drive unit having pairs of conical disks and a continuously variable transmission ratio, a gear system, and an output shaft. Two control clutches connect the variable speed drive unit and the gear system so... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070254772 - Engine controller: When an engine torque trace is set during acceleration or deceleration, the ratio of increase or decrease in the engine torque per unit time is restricted so that when the engine torque generated during acceleration or deceleration approaches an engine torque (balance torque) at which the engine is oriented upright... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070254773 - Starting method for internal combustion engines with a double clutch transmission: A method implements a starting process for an internal combustion engine which has a drive unit and a transmission with at least two transmission input shafts and a multiple clutch device, in particular a double clutch device. During the starting process, the first gear is engaged in a first clutch... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070254775 - Shift control device for vehicle transmission: A shift control device is provided for a vehicle transmission having first and second clutches arranged to be selectively engaged when one of gear ranges in first and second gear groups, respectively, is selected. The shift control device includes a rotational speed detecting section, a deceleration detecting section, a rotational... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070254774 - Method for adjusting an automatic transmission ratio: A method for adjusting an automatic transmission ratio by a driver includes imposing a ratio change required by the driver to the transmission when first conditions are fulfilled, maintaining the ratio until second conditions for returning to operation in an automatic mode are fulfilled, and automatically restoring the automatic mode... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070254776 - Drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicle: A drive control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle which has an engine selectively set in one of a normal fuel-consumption operation mode and a low fuel-consumption operation mode for obtaining a lower fuel consumption; a generator selectively used for one of being driven by the engine and assisting driving of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC