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7421999 Control apparatus for an internal combustion engine capable of pre-mixed charge compression ignition  
An electric control device 70 is applied to an internal combustion engine 10 capable of a pre-mixed charge compression ignition combustion in which air-fuel mixture gas including air and fuel...
7421998 Modular engine  
An engine is shown and disclosed having individual components that can be optimized depending upon the situation, application or desired performance of the engine. The individual components perform...
7421997 Outboard engine unit  
An outboard engine unit having heat-generating electrical equipment. An intake port of an intake silencer is set at a distance from an engine, and air suctioned from the intake port is unlikely to...
7421996 Lubricating device for engine  
An lubrication device for an engine includes: a crank case which freely rotatably supports a crank shaft and also which stores oil at its lower part; an oil strainer which is so arranged as to be...
7421995 Rotary valve system and engine using the same  
Rotary valve system for controlling communication with a port in an internal combustion engine which, in one disclosed embodiment, has a crankshaft, compression and expansion pistons connected to...
7421994 Hydraulic lash adjuster having a check valve cartridge sub-assembly  
An improved hydraulic lash adjuster including a cup-shaped adjuster body, and a plunger assembly disposed within the adjuster body. The plunger assembly includes a stepped axial bore extending from...
7421993 Variable valve lift apparatus  
A variable valve lift apparatus is provided comprising: an arm; a valve and valve springs connected to a first end of the arm for controlling an air intake and an air exhaust; a driving plunger...
7421992 Camshaft  
A camshaft for activation of the gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine has two coaxially mounted shafts rotatable inside and with respect to one another, first cams fixedly attached...
7421991 Brake-actuated vane-type camshaft phaser  
A vane-type camshaft phaser includes a vaned camshaft rotor disposed within a lobed stator, defining phase advance and retard chambers filled with oil. The height of the rotor is less than the...
7421990 Harmonic drive camshaft phaser  
A camshaft phaser comprising first and second harmonic gear drive (HD) units disposed in back-to-back relationship. Each HD includes an elliptical wave generator (WG), a flexspline (FS) deformable...
7421989 Vane-type cam phaser having increased rotational authority, intermediate position locking, and dedicated oil supply  
A vane-type camshaft phaser having a rotational authority between 40 crank degrees before TDC and 30 crank degrees after TDC. The phaser includes a stator seat formed at a rotation position...
7421988 Positive-guidance apparatus for conversion of a rotary movement of a drive to a reciprocating movement of a part  
A positive-guidance apparatus for conversion of a rotary movement of a driven cam element to a reciprocating movement of a part. The apparatus has a first cam area which pushes the part away in a...
7421987 Variable valve actuator with latch at one end  
Actuators and corresponding methods and systems for controlling such actuators offer efficient, fast, flexible control with large forces. In an exemplary embodiment, an fluid actuator includes a...
7421986 Rotary radial internal combustion piston engine  
The engine comprises a housing, a rotor, which is mounted in the housing for rotation about its axis. The rotor has a pair radially opposite cylinders spaced radially and apart from its axis of...
7421985 Water-cooled internal combustion engine  
A water-cooled internal combustion engine configured so as to facilitate the change of the cooling system, thereby reducing costs. The crankcase of the water-cooled internal combustion engine is...
7421984 Method for adjusting a coolant flow by means of a heating cut-off valve  
The invention relates to a method for actuating the valves in the three-way thermostat and in the heating cut-off valve of a cooling system. The valve setting in the cooling system is in this case...
7421983 Marine propulsion system having a cooling system that utilizes nucleate boiling  
A cooling system for a marine propulsion device incorporates both a closed portion and an open portion. The closed portion is operated to encourage nucleate boiling and is provided with a pump and...
7421982 Independent combustion chamber-type internal combustion engine  
The present invention is directed to an internal combustion engine for making suction, compression, explosion, expansion and exhaust strokes in an operating chamber of variable volume defined...
7421981 Modulated combined lubrication and control pressure system for two-stroke/four-stroke switching  
A switching mechanism capable of switching between a two-stroke operation and a four-stroke operation of an engine as desired, wherein the switching mechanism is switchable between engagement with...
7421836 Air/fuel ratio validation for lean burn  
A multi-cylinder group engine system operable in at least a first mode and a second mode, where in the first mode a first and second cylinder group combust air and fuel, and where in the second...
7421333 Monitoring system for internal combustion engine  
A technique is provided which can specify a member in which malfunction really occurs when there exists malfunction in at least one of a plurality of state values representing the state of an...
7421332 Control method and control device for an actuator  
A control method for an actuator ( 1 - 4 ) of an injector of a fuel injection system in an internal combustion engine has the following steps: specification of a target value (SOISOLL) for the...
7421331 Method for operating an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle  
A method for operating an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle. The internal combustion engine has a combustion chamber and an injection valve by which fuel is able to be...
7421330 Adaptive load balancing system  
An an internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders for providing the necessary energy used for the work performed by the engine. Cylinder specific knock monitoring is used in order to...
7421166 Laser spark distribution and ignition system  
A laser spark distribution and ignition system that reduces the high power optical requirements for use in a laser ignition and distribution system allowing for the use of optical fibers for...
7418994 Fan shroud with integral hood seal  
A one piece fan shroud for a tractor has first and second faces, a frame with top, left and right sides, a bottom, and an upper wall extending from the top of the frame. The upper wall, left and...
7418957 Vehicle control method and vehicle control apparatus  
A vehicle control apparatus and methodology relate to an exhaust gas sensor and sensor heater associated with an exhaust passage of a vehicle engine. The exhaust gas sensor is selectively heated to...
7418956 Ignition apparatus for an internet combustion engine  
An ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine can be produced at low cost and small size by preventing the generation of a spark at a spark plug due to a turn-on voltage with a simple...
7418955 Fuel savings device and methods of making the same  
An apparatus for enhancing fuel mileage of internal combustion engine consists of a tube inserted into a fuel line between a fuel storage tank and the engine, the tube having a plurality of...
7418954 Gaseous fuel and air mixer for an engine  
A path ( 24 ) is formed in an intake tube ( 6 ), which supplies external air to a reciprocating engine ( 4 ). External air flowing from an inlet port to an outlet port of the path ( 24 ). A gaseous...
7418953 Fuel vapor treatment apparatus for internal combustion engine  
A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a first determiner that determines a concentration of purged fuel based on an amount of deviation from a target air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel ratio...
7418952 Evaporative fuel treatment system  
An evaporative fuel treatment system is disclosed that includes a canister, a detection passage having a reduced area portion, and switching device that switches fluid communication. Also included...
7418951 Fuel feed apparatus having control unit for fuel pump  
A fuel feed apparatus is provided for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine, which is controlled using an engine control unit. The fuel feed apparatus includes a pump...
7418950 Fuel pump and tank assembly for an automotive vehicle  
A fuel tank assembly includes a fuel tank having a plurality of side walls spaced apart by a floor. A flange extends downward from one of the plurality of side walls at an angle toward the floor. A...
7418949 Common rail injector  
A common rail injector having an injector housing with a fuel inlet connected to a central high-pressure fuel source outside the injector housing and to a pressure chamber inside the injector...
7418948 Fuel pump having motor arrangement and pump arrangement  
A stator core of a motor arrangement includes six cores, which are arranged one after another in a circumferential direction. A bobbin, which is made of dielectric resin, is fitted to each core....
7418947 Direct injection valve in a cylinder head  
A direct injection valve in a cylinder head ( 1 ) consists of a cylindrical housing comprising the following components: a valve ( 16 ) for dosing a fluid by means of a valve needle ( 15 ), an...
7418946 Engine start control apparatus and method  
An engine start control apparatus includes an intake air amount control device for controlling an amount of air supplied to a combustion chamber, a fuel supply device for injecting fuel to be fed...
7418945 Fresh gas system and operating method for a piston engine  
A fresh gas system for a piston engine has a collecting line for supplying fresh air to multiple individual lines. The fresh gas system has the collecting line which is unthrottled and a control...
7418944 Electronic throttle control apparatus  
An electronic throttle control apparatus includes: a motor; a throttle valve which is driven by the motor to open and close; a throttle sensor for detecting an actual opening angle of the throttle...
7418943 Spark advance foe engine idle speed control  
An engine idle speed control system for regulating an idle speed of an internal combustion engine includes a first module that determines an indicated torque of the engine based on a current spark...
7418942 Control apparatus and control method for internal combustion engine  
A control apparatus retards ignition timing of the engine, and increases an amount of a fuel supplied to the engine based on a retard amount of the ignition timing, by calculating a maximum engine...
7418941 Fuel injection apparatus  
A fuel injection apparatus comprising a fuel injection arrangement for delivering a fuel injection pulse sequence to a combustion chamber during a combustion cycle, the fuel injection pulse...
7418940 Fuel injector spray pattern for direct injection spark ignition engines  
A system and method for operating an internal combustion engine include injecting fuel through a plurality of fuel jets of a fuel injector directly into a corresponding cylinder with at least a...
7418939 Crankshaft assembly with coated crank pin  
The invention provides a motorcycle having a frame, an engine coupled to the frame, and a crankshaft assembly. The crankshaft assembly includes a first flywheel half having an aperture, a crank pin...
7418938 Engine balancer system  
An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing disposed so as to face an oil pan beneath a crankshaft is formed by joining an upper housing and a lower housing via mating faces,...
7418937 Engine air intake arrangement for a vehicle  
A vehicle, such as a motorcycle, includes one or more stationary funnels through which air is delivered to an intake port of an engine. One or more movable funnels are arranged on an inlet side of...
7418936 Engine and valvetrain with compact rocker arm and fulcrum assembly for internal combustion engines  
An internal combustion engine having a plurality of intake and/or exhaust valves associated with each cylinder includes a valvetrain having a fulcrum with a plurality of pivot ball sockets each...
7418935 Stroke adjusting device for valves of a combustion engine  
A device for adjusting the valve lift ( 1 ) of the valves of a combustion engine comprising a lever ( 3 ) being driven by a camshaft ( 4 ), pushed against the camshaft ( 4 ) by a spring, which...
7418934 Valve timing controller  
A valve timing controller is provided with a first rotary element that rotates in response to a crankshaft, a second rotary element that rotates in response to a camshaft. Multiple link mechanisms...