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7409932 Sliding joint for variable compression ratio device  
A barrel-type internal combustion engine includes a power output shaft assembly with a sliding joint. A power output shaft has a pair of spaced apart bearing surfaces and a plurality of radial...
7409931 Forced-air-cooled engine equipped with cooling air guide cover  
A forced-air-cooled engine has a main blow-out opening provided to a back plate of a cooling fan cover at a position facing a cylinder part for blowing out cooling air for cooling a cylinder part...
7409930 Water cooling device for outboard motor  
An outboard motor can have a case supported by a hull, an internal combustion engine supported on the upper end of the case, an oil pan formed in the case for storing lubricating oil for the...
7409929 Cooling apparatus for internal combustion engine  
A cooling apparatus includes a thermostat that adjusts a feed rate of coolant to a radiator, estimating means that estimates a coolant temperature simulated value at least based on the detection...
7409928 Method for designing an engine component temperature estimator  
A method of estimating temperature in an engine including estimating metal temperatures at each of a plurality of nodes and estimating a coolant temperature. The method further includes detecting a...
7409927 Method and device for cooling an internal combustion engine  
The invention relates to a method and a device for cooling an internal combustion engine. An aqueous, non-ionic coolant composition is used in a cooling circuit ( 14 ) of the internal combustion...
7409926 Controlling engine operation with a first and second fuel  
A method of operating an internal combustion engine including at least a combustion chamber having a piston disposed therein, the method comprising during a first number of cycles after start-up of...
7409754 Apparatus for closing fluid passages of engines  
An apparatus for closing fluid passages of engines is disclosed. Preferred apparatus of the invention are able to automatically recognize inlets of several fluid passages, which exist in each...
7409284 Apparatus for estimating air-fuel ratios and apparatus for controlling air-fuel ratios of individual cylinders in internal combustion engine  
An individual-cylinder air-fuel ratio estimation model is designed so as to consider the mixing of gases exhausted from adjacent combustion cylinders, and a movement by which a mixed gas arrives at...
7407634 Plasmatron fuel converter having decoupled air flow control  
A novel apparatus and method is disclosed for a plasmatron fuel converter (“plasmatron”) that efficiently uses electrical energy to produce hydrogen rich gas. The plasmatron has multiple...
7407534 Method of fabricating pipe for absorbing fuel evaporation gas for automobiles  
A pipe for adsorbing fuel evaporation gas in automobiles. An aluminum pipe portion is etched with acid or base so as to increase its surface area and improve its coating properties. The pipe is...
7407464 Engine start control system  
An engine start control unit enables engine start when a user performs a predetermined normal time push operation on a push switch in a normal mode. The engine start control unit enables the engine...
7407338 Taper-lock laser weld for an air induction component  
A transparent component portion includes a first weld surface and a first taper locking surface formed opposite from the first weld surface. An absorbing component portion includes a second weld...
7407179 Saddle-ride type vehicle  
A saddle-ride type vehicle eliminates the input of disturbances to a throttle body upon opening/closing of a vehicle seat, and is capable of reliably protecting an injector. An air cleaner 18 is...
7407153 Carburettor  
A carburettor for a two stroke engine includes a flow duct including rich and lean flow passages ( 160, 150 ) in parallel, through which, in use, air flows in a flow direction and which are...
7406961 Apparatus for controlling cyclone separators  
Apparatus for separating oil from crankcase ventilation gases of an internal combustion engine having at least two oil separators in the form of cyclones connected in parallel and traversed by the...
7406960 Oil mist removal device with oil fill  
An oil mist removal device, with oil fill, is provided for an internal combustion engine. A housing has first and second passages, and a separator therebetween. An oil fill port in the first...
7406959 Engine control system  
An engine control system includes an EGR device 10 which connects an exhaust passage Ex and an intake passage I and has an EGR valve; an intake throttle valve 41 placed in the intake passage I;...
7406958 Snow remover  
The snow remover has a cooling fan for directing cooling air to an engine, and an air cleaner. The air cleaner has an air intake for drawing in outside air. The cooling fan and the air intake of...
7406957 Air heater with one-piece housing  
A heating device for use in an internal combustion engine having an intake defining a passage is disclosed. The intake includes an opening in communication with the passage. The heating device...
7406956 Device for enhancing combustion efficiency  
The fossil fuel supplied into the engine and combustion device passes through the fuel-enhancing unit of the enhancing device of the present invention with the burned object generating far-infrared...
7406955 Method and system for liquid fuel conditioning  
A fuel conditioning method is applicable to common rail direct injection or unit injector system. A liquid fuel is conditioned for higher-efficiency combustion in a combustion chamber. The...
7406954 Fuel pump check valve  
A high-pressure fuel pump ( 10 ) used in a fuel system includes an electric motor ( 14 ) having a drive shaft ( 16 ) to which is attached a pumping element ( 18 ). A fuel inlet passage allows...
7406953 Fuel injection valve having a mechanical positive-control valve gear  
The invention relates to, in particular, a fuel injection valve and to a method for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. According to the invention, a...
7406952 Method and device for controllling an injector  
An injector has a valve pin whose position is adjustable according to the pressure prevailing in a control chamber and which blocks a fluid flow through at least one injection port in a closed...
7406951 Fuel injector with variable actuator boosting  
The invention relates to a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector has an injection valve member that can be actuated...
7406950 Fuel supply apparatus of engine  
The invention can avoid an energy dissipation and a consumption of an apparatus by minimizing a driving amount of a fuel pump and maintain an improved fuel supply state, in a fuel supply system...
7406949 Selective displacement control of multi-plunger fuel pump  
A pump for a combustion engine is disclosed. The pump may have at least one pumping member movable through a plurality of displacement strokes during a single engine cycle. The pump may also have a...
7406948 Internal combustion engine controller  
An engine ECU executes a program including: the step of outputting a fuel-cut instruction when conditions that an accelerator position PA is not higher than a threshold value and a rate of increase...
7406947 System and method for tip-in knock compensation  
A method of controlling an engine, the method comprising of providing fuel having a blend to a cylinder of the engine, actively varying said fuel blend in response to at least an operating...
7406946 Method and apparatus for attenuating fuel pump noise in a direct injection internal combustion chamber  
A method and apparatus for attenuating fuel pump noise in a direct injection internal combustion engine. In one proposal, the direct injection fuel nozzle is suspended from a fuel rail in a fashion...
7406945 Common rail system with pressure amplification  
A fuel system includes a fuel rail that communicates fuel at a first pressure through a fuel amplifier to a fuel injector. The fuel pressure amplifier increases the pressure from the first pressure...
7406944 Ignition control system  
A device for ignition control in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine includes an ignition coil which has a connected primary winding and a secondary winding, which is connected to a spark...
7406943 Haptic throttle devices and methods  
An apparatus includes a sensor configured to be coupled to a throttle interface. The sensor is configured to output a sensor signal associated with a condition of the throttle interface. A first...
7406942 Direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the direct-injection internal combustion engine  
A direct-injection internal combustion engine includes a variable-exhaust-valve control device for controlling value timing of a variable exhaust valve through which the combustion chamber of an...
7406941 One piece cast steel monobloc piston  
A piston for diesel engine applications has a piston body cast entirely of one piece of steel and includes a piston head with a combustion bowl, a ring belt and an oil cooling gallery. A pair of...
7406940 Piston for internal combustion engine  
A piston for an internal combustion engine of an automotive vehicle. The piston has a piston ring and a piston skirt section each of which has a sliding section in slidable contact with a cylinder...
7406939 Engine vibration suppression device and suppression method thereof  
A controller ( 20 ) estimates an internal cylinder pressure of an engine ( 1 ) on the basis of the operating conditions of the engine ( 1 ), torque variation in the engine ( 1 ) is calculated on...
7406938 Cooling mechanisms for rotary valve cylinder engines  
A cooling mechanism for a rotary valve cylinder engine 1 comprising a rotary valve cylinder 3 rotatably mounted within an outer cylindrical valve element 8 , the rotary valve cylinder 3 and...
7406937 Method for operating an internal combustion engine  
A method for operating an internal combustion engine having at least one triggerable intake valve and at least one triggerable discharge valve, in which the internal combustion engine is directly...
7406936 Accumulator fuel system  
An accumulator fuel system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of engine cylinders, includes an accumulator fuel volume ( 12; 112 ) for supplying high pressure fuel to one or more...
7406935 Variable valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine  
A variable valve timing control apparatus employs a five-blade vane member fixedly connected to a camshaft end and rotatably disposed in a phase-converter housing formed integral with a sprocket...
7406934 Valve timing controller with separating member  
A valve timing controller includes a first rotating element and a second rotating element. The controller further includes a link mechanism part including arm members for coupling the first and...
7406933 Variable valve timing apparatus with reduced power consumption and control method thereof  
A convergence determination of intake valve phase control is made by comparing a phase deviation of an intake valve from a target phase with a convergence determination value. At the time of...
7406932 Lift-variable valve-operating system for internal combustion engine  
A lift-variable valve-operating system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: subsidiary cams which are swingably supported on a movable support shaft capable of being displaced within a...
7406931 Control apparatus for internal combustion engine  
An internal combustion engine is provided with a plurality of valves, including a main driving valve and a driven valve, each of which can be lifted in response to an instruction from a control...
7406930 Variable displacement mechanism for internal combustion engine  
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder structure in which a crankshaft assembly is journalled for rotation about a main axis of a main crankshaft segment having a main axis. A crank web...
7406929 Cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine comprising a low-temperature radiator  
The invention relates to a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine of motor vehicles, comprising a main cooling circuit that encompasses a section located upstream of the radiator, a main...
7406871 Fuel type identifying apparatus  
A fuel tank is allowed to hold any of types of liquid fuels and currently hold one type of liquid fuel. A light emitting element outputs a light beam of a predetermined emission spectrum to the...
7406835 Cooling system and method for cooling a heat producing system  
A cooling system for cooling a plurality of heat producing systems includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of cooling zones, each of which has a respective inlet and outlet for facilitating...