Electric Fuel Injection Pump Governor Patents (Class 123/357)
  • Patent number: 11487748
    Abstract: An in-vehicle processing device includes: a signal input unit that generates input data based on an input signal from outside; a processing unit that executes arithmetic processing for calculating output data based on the input data; a signal output unit that generates an output signal based on the output data to output the output signal to the outside; and a storage unit that stores application software for causing the processing unit to execute the arithmetic processing. The application software includes: a data management layer for managing object data which is a collection of data corresponding to a given target element on the storage unit; a data adaptation layer for generating the object data based on the input data to output the generated object data to the data management layer; and a data operation layer for acquiring the object data from the data management layer to calculate the output data based on the acquired object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Kohei Sakurai, Makoto Kudo, Kentaro Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11365683
    Abstract: A fuel supply control device is provided in which a parallel flow path of an orifice and a pressurizing valve is used as a complex pressurizing valve for a fuel supply amount, and which controls a fuel supply pump on the basis of a pressure difference before and after the complex pressurizing valve that has been detected by a pressure difference meter. When the rotational speed of the fuel supply pump is below a predetermined threshold value, the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a first fuel measurement amount, and the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a second fuel measurement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Seki, Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Shimamura
  • Patent number: 11359569
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote the stabilization of the fuel injection amount in a fuel injection device in which a valve body and a movable iron core are configured to be relatively displaceable. In a control unit 120 of a fuel injection device 100 which includes a control part that controls the energization time of a current flowing through a coil 108 based on the pulse width of a drive command pulse, the control part is configured to be able to execute control to split a required fuel injection amount for one combustion cycle into portions and inject the portions in a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Takao Miyake, Ryo Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 11313310
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for balancing a plurality of fuel injectors. In one example, a method includes determining a fuel injector error shape and applying a fueling correction to all injectors based on the fuel injector error shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rani Kiwan, Ross Pursifull, Joseph Lyle Thomas
  • Patent number: 11220969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving accuracy of an amount of fuel injected to an engine are disclosed. In one example, holding current of a fuel injector is adjusted to follow a fixed period and timing of a fuel injector off command is adjusted according to attributes of fuel injector holding current so that a fuel injector may provide a requested fuel amount. The fuel injector off command may be adjusted according to an amount of holding current that is expected to be flowing through the fuel injector at a time when the fuel injector is commanded off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Rani Kiwan, Joseph Thomas, Paul Hollar, Ian D Campbell
  • Patent number: 11162451
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving accuracy of an amount of fuel injected to an engine are disclosed. In one example, a maximum holding current of a fuel injector is adjusted so that a holding current of a fuel injector is equal to a predetermined value when the fuel injector is commanded to cease injecting fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rani Kiwan, Ross Pursifull, Joseph Thomas, Paul Hollar, Ian D Campbell
  • Patent number: 11105283
    Abstract: In an evaporated fuel treatment apparatus, a controller performs first purge concentration determination control by gradually increasing a purge flow rate in increments of a predetermined amount and detect a purge concentration based on a detection value of the pressure sensor. As the first purge concentration determination control, the controller performs a control to prohibit changing of an operating state of the purge pump or changing of an open state of the purge valve until a detected concentration determination time at which a variation range of the purge concentration detected based on a detection value of a pressure sensor becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Nakagawa, Yoshihiko Honda
  • Patent number: 11029175
    Abstract: Method for determining a pressure in a pressure cell, the method consisting in determining a measuring signal (x) that is at least proportional to a measured pressure in the pressure cell, generating an output signal (y) from the measuring signal (x) using a filter unit (10) comprising a transfer function by at least reducing, preferably eliminating, a noise signal contained in the measuring signal determining a change over time of the measuring signal (x), and setting the transfer function as a function of the change over time of the measuring signal (x). A measuring cell arrangement is also specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INFICON AG
    Inventor: Felix Mullis
  • Patent number: 10920399
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an engine, a hydrostatic transmission, and a controller. The hydrostatic transmission includes a traveling pump driven by the engine, a hydraulic circuit connected to the traveling pump, and a traveling motor connected to the traveling pump via the hydraulic circuit. The controller is configured to control the traveling motor and the traveling pump, determine a target flow rate of the traveling motor or the traveling pump, determine a correction amount of the target flow rate from a hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic circuit, and determine a target displacement of the traveling motor or the traveling pump from the target flow rate and the correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Takahisa Oasa
  • Patent number: 10794747
    Abstract: A powertrain controller of a vehicle provides a fuel pump actuator signal indicative of fuel flow to a vehicle bus. A processor is configured to receive data from the vehicle bus. The processor performs an integration of the actuator signal to accumulate fuel usage of the vehicle, and periodically sends the accumulated fuel usage, vehicle speed, engine speed, engine status, and vehicle location to a remote server. A subset of accumulated fuel usage is retrieved for a set of the vehicles of a fleet traversing a route during a timeframe, the accumulated fuel usage compiled from fuel pump actuator signals. Fuel waste is computed for identified idle time periods within the accumulated fuel usage. Monetary waste is computed from the fuel waste. A report is generated including the monetary waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Brian Hofmann, John William Schmotzer, Richard Gordon, Darcy Salman
  • Patent number: 10669966
    Abstract: The silence of a diesel engine is enhanced. A PCM detects an actual supercharging pressure of a gas, and controls an injection mode of a fuel through an injector, thereby executing main injection that is started near a compression top dead center or pilot injection that is executed prior to the main injection depending on an operating state of an engine. If the degree of opening of an accelerator pedal decreases during operation of a large turbocharger, and the actual supercharging pressure is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the PCM executes cylinder pressure control that allows an interval between a start timing of the pilot injection and a start timing of the main injection to be broader than if the actual supercharging pressure is less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Suesada, Hiroshi Minamoto, Yasunori Uesugi
  • Patent number: 10655544
    Abstract: An engine comprising: a fuel injection device including a rack and an actuator, the rack being configured to regulate the amount of fuel injected to a combustion chamber, the actuator being configured to control the position of the rack; and a control device that controls fuel injection performed by the fuel injection device based on an instructed revolution number, and that performs a dither control on the actuator, wherein the control device has information of a revolution number variation region that is based on the relationship between a dither frequency in the dither control and an engine revolution number, and upon determining that the instructed revolution number is within the revolution number variation region, changes at least one of the dither frequency and the instructed revolution number. Thus, an engine capable of reducing a periodic variation in engine speed which may be caused by a dither control is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Uehara
  • Patent number: 10590877
    Abstract: A method, device and system for detecting and counteracting a runaway condition in a diesel engine system. The diesel engine system includes an inlet for supplying combustion air to a diesel engine, and an exhaust for relieving the diesel engine from exhaust gas. The diesel engine system further includes an exhaust gas recirculation system for selectively allowing exhaust gas from the exhaust to enter the inlet. A first gas flow path actuator is included in the exhaust gas recirculation system, and a second gas flow path actuator is included in the exhaust. The method, as performed by the system, comprises detection of an actual or potential runaway condition, and in response thereto deprives the diesel engine of oxygen. Depriving of oxygen is performed by opening the first gas flow path actuator and closing the second gas flow path actuator to cause stalling of the diesel engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: DAF Trucks N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Vijlbrief, Sebastiaan Elling
  • Patent number: 10557426
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus and method in which when an injector malfunction is determined based on a difference in variation of angular velocity of a crankshaft between a plurality of cylinders of a vehicle engine, determining whether the injector malfunctions by avoiding the time when the driving torque of an air compressor is applied or at the time when the influence thereof is reduced, thereby preventing the erroneous determination of whether the injector malfunctions from occurring due to the driving torque of the air compressor connected to the vehicle engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Su-Young Park
  • Patent number: 10502155
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine which can suppress a relative variation in the fuel injection amount for each cylinder. A drive pulse width to drive the fuel injection valve for injecting the fuel is calculated according to a driving state of the internal combustion engine, any one or both of a valve-opening response delay time and a valve-closing response delay time with respect to a drive pulse signal of the fuel injection valve for each fuel injection value are calculated, and the drive pulse width is corrected to make an injection amount of each fuel injection valve matched to a predetermined injection amount based on any one or both of the valve-opening response delay time and the valve-closing response delay time calculated for each fuel injection valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyohara, Osamu Mukaihara, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Takao Fukuda, Masayoshi Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 10451047
    Abstract: The present application relates to a pump unit for a fuel injection system. The pump unit has a low pressure fuel supply line and a high pressure fuel outlet. A pumping chamber having a plunger is operable to perform a pumping cycle comprising a pumping stroke and a filling stroke. The pump unit also includes an inlet valve having an inlet valve member movable between an open position for permitting the supply of fuel to the pumping chamber from the low pressure fuel supply line and a closed position for inhibiting the supply of fuel from the pumping chamber to the low pressure supply line. An outlet valve is provided in the high pressure fuel outlet. The pump unit also includes a means for latching the inlet valve member in its open position. The present application also relates to a method of operating a pump unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Male, Anthony Thomas Harcombe
  • Patent number: 10436164
    Abstract: A roller assembly, comprising a roller shoe having a bottom surface, and a groove at the bottom surface, the groove having a semicircular portion and a straight portion extending from the semicircular portion, the semicircular portion having a first diameter and the straight portion having a first width, and a cylindrical roller positioned in the roller shoe groove, the cylindrical roller having a second diameter, wherein the first width is greater than or equal to the first diameter and the second diameter is less than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-pei Wang, Matthew B. State, Eric A. Benham, Justin Gregory Wenger, Alexander E. Lesin, Kyle J. Brewer
  • Patent number: 10408028
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring, calculating, and/or optimizing engine emissions produced in operating motorized equipment in well site operations or other jobs are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: providing a set of exhaust emissions rates for one or more engines at a job site as a function of a speed of each engine and total brake horsepower to be provided by each engine; identifying one or more operating speeds or transmission gears for the one or more engines during an operation at the job site based at least in part on the set of exhaust emissions rates for the one or more engines; and operating the one or more engines at the one or more operating speeds or transmission gears during an operation at the job site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley V. Stephenson, Andrew James Summers
  • Patent number: 10358997
    Abstract: A method for controlling a marine internal combustion engine includes operating the engine in a lean-burn mode, wherein a first fuel/air equivalence ratio of an air/fuel mixture in a combustion chamber of the engine is less than 1. The method includes comparing a change in operator demand to a delta demand deadband; comparing a speed of the engine to an engine speed deadband; and comparing a throttle position setpoint to a throttle position threshold. The method also includes immediately disabling the lean-burn mode in response to: (a) the change in operator demand being outside the delta demand deadband, and (b) at least one of: (i) the engine speed being outside the engine speed deadband, and (ii) the throttle position setpoint exceeding the throttle position threshold. The engine thereafter operates according to a set of mapped parameter values configured to achieve a second fuel/air equivalence ratio of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Steven M. Anschuetz, Robert R. Osthelder, William P. O'Brien
  • Patent number: 10352255
    Abstract: A machine includes an engine and a governor operable to control an operating speed of the engine along a first droop curve such that the operating speed is a function of an operating load of the engine. The first droop curve includes a first region that defines a first slope, a second region that defines a second slope different from the first slope, and a transition point located at an intersection of the first region and the second region. The machine further includes a controller in communication with the governor. The controller is configured to determine an average operating load of the engine over a predetermined time period, adjust the location of the transition point based at least in part on the average operating load to create a second droop curve, and operate the engine based on the second droop curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael J. Pipho, Ronnie F. Burk, Dick J. Goering
  • Patent number: 10349563
    Abstract: The invention provides a single radiator cooling system for use in hybrid electric vehicles, the system comprising a surface in thermal communication with electronics, and subcooled boiling fluid contacting the surface. The invention also provides a single radiator method for simultaneously cooling electronics and an internal combustion engine in a hybrid electric vehicle, the method comprising separating a coolant fluid into a first portion and a second portion; directing the first portion to the electronics and the second portion to the internal combustion engine for a time sufficient to maintain the temperature of the electronics at or below 175° C.; combining the first and second portion to reestablish the coolant fluid; and treating the reestablished coolant fluid to the single radiator for a time sufficient to decrease the temperature of the reestablished coolant fluid to the temperature it had before separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: David M. France, Wenhua Yu, Dileep Singh, Weihuan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10309347
    Abstract: An evaporative emissions control system includes an evaporative emissions control canister, a first fuel vapor return conduit including a first end fluidically connected the evaporative emissions control canister and a second end connectable to an internal combustion (IC) engine. A first valve is fluidically connected to the first fuel vapor return conduit. A second fuel vapor return conduit includes a first end portion fluidically connected to the first fuel vapor return conduit and a second end portion configured to be arranged in a vehicle fuel tank. A second valve is fluidically connected to the second fuel vapor return conduit at the second end portion in the vehicle fuel tank. A vapor return system includes a pump fluidically connected to the second valve in the vehicle fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: William L. Villaire, Manoj R. Chaudhari, Edward J. Strzelecki, Philip A. Yaccarino
  • Patent number: 10280867
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of electromechanics. The teachings may be applied to high-pressure valves, including methods for operating a valve and with devices which are used for activating the valves. Some embodiments include methods for operating a pressure reduction valve for an accumulator injection system, wherein the valve is driven, against a return spring, with an energizable coil and armature, between a closed position and an open position. The method may include: supplying the coil with a defined electrical signal to move the armature, sensing the current intensity profile over time, and determining a movement profile for the defined current signal, including an opening or closing time, based at least in part on the current intensity profile over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Anetsberger, Tet Kong Brian Chia, Walter Sassler
  • Patent number: 10260445
    Abstract: A method of controlling the fuel rail pressure of a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. A failure condition of a fuel rail pressure sensor is detected. A fuel rail pressure target value and an injector fuel output target value are determined on the basis of an internal combustion engine operating condition. A fuel pump output target value to be supplied into the fuel rail is determined. The fuel pump is driven in order to provide the fuel pump output target value. The fuel pump output target value is determined on the basis of the injector fuel output target value, and the fuel injector is energized for an energizing time target value determined on the basis of the fuel rail pressure target value and the injector fuel output target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Stefano Nieddu
  • Patent number: 10247116
    Abstract: An evaporative emissions (EVAP) control system for a vehicle includes a purge pump configured to pump fuel vapor to an engine of the vehicle via a vapor line and a purge valve. The system includes a hydrocarbon (HC) sensor disposed in the vapor line and configured to measure an amount of HC in the fuel vapor pumped by the purge pump to the engine via the vapor line. A controller is configured to: detect an imminent cold start of the engine and, in response to the detecting, perform the cold start of the engine by controlling at least one of the purge pump and the purge valve, based on the measured amount of HC, to deliver a desired amount of fuel vapor to the engine, which decreases HC emissions by the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Dekar, Roger C Sager, James J Daley, William B Blomquist, Jeffrey P Wuttke, Russell J Wakeman, Adam Fleischman, Ronald A Yannone, Jr., Luis Del Rio, Mark L Lott, Edward Baker, Michael T Vincent, Wei-Jun Yang, Aikaterini Tsahalou
  • Patent number: 10228665
    Abstract: An emulator is described herein, wherein the emulator is configured to emulate a rotary energy generator. The rotary energy generator can be one of a wind turbine, a diesel engine, or a hydrokinetic generator. The emulator includes an electromechanical motor that is mechanically linked to a generator. A motor drive is electrically coupled to the electromechanical motor, and controls torque at a rotor of the electromechanical motor. Electromagnetic torque produced by the generator is estimated, and the motor drive is controlled based upon the estimated generator torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Jason C. Neely, Steven F. Glover, Forest Eugene White, Jason Ryan Finn
  • Patent number: 10215069
    Abstract: A system for diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) vessel pressure relief for a vehicle is includes a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) storage tank, and a DEF pump assembly in an interior of the DEF storage tank. The DEF pump assembly includes a DEF pump having a pump body, a fluid pressure sensor fastened to an exterior of the pump body and configured to sense a DEF pressure, and a fluid temperature sensor fastened to the exterior of the pump body and configured to sense a DEF temperature. The system further includes a fluid channel, and a heating element in thermal communication with the fluid channel, where the heating element is configured to heat the fluid channel to displace DEF from a location proximate to the pump body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBALY TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Aleksandar Filipovski, Mark J. Cremasco, Yong Pan, Dirk Rensink, Biljana Rajic
  • Patent number: 10190525
    Abstract: A method of calculating an angular position of a crankshaft at the occurrence of a fuel injection event includes integrating a first polynomial function, and integrating a second polynomial function. The integrated second polynomial function is then divided by the integrated first polynomial function to calculate the angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event. The calculated angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event may then be correlated to an absolute angular position of the crankshaft, relative to a Top Dead Center position of the crankshaft. The calculated angular position of the crankshaft at the occurrence of the fuel injection event may be used to adjust the injection timing of future fuel injection events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Stefano Nieddu
  • Patent number: 10174733
    Abstract: An oil lubricated common rail diesel pump includes a pumping assembly and a drivetrain assembly. The pumping assembly includes a pump housing and a plunger mounted along a pumping axis. The drivetrain assembly includes a driveshaft and a cam mounted within a first chamber of a drivetrain housing. The plunger is arranged for reciprocating linear movement along the pumping axis within a second chamber of the housing upon rotation of the cam. The drivetrain assembly also includes a guide mounted within the housing between the cam and the plunger and being adapted to receive a cam follower. At least the housing is adapted to be substantially filled with oil in use and the guide includes at least one flow passage communicating between the first chamber and the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Roy Thornthwaite, Kevin J. Laity, Richard Krause
  • Patent number: 10114733
    Abstract: A benchmark test system captures and records root, or input, behavior from a user input device as one or more time-displaced samples of input. The system also separately captures and records the canvas, or visual, behavior of a user interface in response to the captured input as a series of time-displaced image frames. The image frames are analyzed for visual prompts occurring responsive to the input, and parameters of the image frames are determined. A parametric difference between corresponding ones of the root events and canvas responses is thereby computed, in order to determine a degree of visual responsiveness for the user interface software respective to the root input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Varghese, Mohit Saxena, Anshul Sharma, Arnold Jean-Marie Gustave Ginetti
  • Patent number: 10107223
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one injection parameter of an internal combustion engine, including the following steps: detecting a pressure profile in a time-resolved manner in an injection system of an internal combustion engine at least during an injection; providing a reference pressure profile for at least one operating point of the injection system; comparing the detected pressure profile with the reference pressure profile, and ascertaining at least one injection parameter as a function of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Walder, Robby Gerbeth
  • Patent number: 10106957
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a hydraulic pump in a construction machine, the method including: checking whether a dynamic characteristic of an engine deviates from a predetermined permissible range when a load is applied to the hydraulic pump and a pump load reaches pump torque required by the hydraulic pump; when the dynamic characteristic of the engine deviates from the predetermined permissible range, applying a pump load to the hydraulic pump so as to increase the pump torque to predetermined torque with a predetermined change rate; collecting information which is generated when the pump load is applied; generating a new torque change rate map by generating a torque change rate for each load section based on the information collected in the information collecting step; and updating an existing torque change rate map to the new torque change rate map generated in the map data generating step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Muk Kim, Woo Yong Jung, Young Sik Cho
  • Patent number: 10107310
    Abstract: In a hydraulic drive system, first and second multi-control valves are connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. A first regulator adjusts a tilting angle of the first hydraulic pump in a manner to decrease a discharge flow rate of the first hydraulic pump in accordance with an increase in a discharge pressure of the first hydraulic pump and an increase in a first power shift pressure. A second regulator adjusts a tilting angle of the second hydraulic pump in a manner to decrease a discharge flow rate of the second hydraulic pump in accordance with an increase in a discharge pressure of the second hydraulic pump and an increase in a second power shift pressure. The first power shift pressure is set by a first proportional valve, and the second power shift pressure is set by a second proportional valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Takuya Fukumoto, Hideyasu Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10094322
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for measuring fuel injection to an engine of a vehicle. For example, an engine control unit (ECU) that controls the operation of the engine, is equipped with a first direct memory address channel to store rail pressure values that are received from the engine in a first buffer. The ECU further includes a second direct memory address channel configured to copy a first subset of the rail pressure value from the first buffer to a filter module in response to an angle-based interrupt request. The ECU further includes a third direct memory address channel configured to copy filtered pressure values from the filter module to a second buffer. The ECU also includes a processor that computes a pressure drop based on the filtered pressure values from the second buffer, and compute a quantity of fuel injected into the engine based on the pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Nieddu, Roberto Morone
  • Patent number: 10054060
    Abstract: An adjustable fuel plate device for a diesel fuel pump is disclosed. The adjustable fuel plate device can include a fuel plate to limit travel of a governor arm of a diesel fuel pump for a diesel engine. The adjustable fuel plate device can also include a translation mechanism to move the fuel plate relative to the governor arm. Additionally, the adjustable fuel plate device can include a control system coupleable to the translation mechanism to control movement of the fuel plate during operation of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Attitude Performance Products, LLC
    Inventor: Justin Askerlund
  • Patent number: 9979287
    Abstract: A circuit includes a current sensor to sense a switching current flowing at input side of a switching DC-DC converter. An output capacitor filters an output voltage at an output side of the switching DC-DC converter. A feed-forward circuit passes a portion of the sensed switching current to a feedback path on the output side of the switching DC-DC converter simulating a changing effective series resistance (ESR) of the output capacitor to facilitate operating stability in the switching DC-DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Erick Omar Torres
  • Patent number: 9970827
    Abstract: A fuel temperature estimation device that can improve the estimation accuracy of a fuel temperature in each part of a fuel channel, is provided. In the invention, the fuel temperature estimation device estimates the fuel temperature of each part of the fuel channel in a vehicle (for example, an injection nozzle, a pressure accumulator, a high-pressure pump), and includes a flow rate measuring device that measures a fuel flow rate of a fuel return system of the fuel channel and a controller. The controller includes a fuel temperature correction unit that corrects an estimated fuel temperature in a fuel injection system based on the fuel flow rate of the fuel return system, and has a function of estimating the fuel temperature using the fuel flow rate of the fuel return system as a parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigemi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kujirai, Masahiro Misawa, Takafumi Amano, Yousuke Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9970391
    Abstract: A diagnostic method and system includes a control valve configured to control an amount of air drawn into an evaporative emissions (EVAP) system through an air filter and a vapor canister, and a pressure sensor configured to measure pressure in the EVAP system. The system also includes a controller configured to detect an engine idle-to-off transition and, in response to detecting the engine idle-to-off transition: receive a first pressure from the pressure sensor, fully open a purge valve connected between the vapor canister and an intake port of an engine, fully close the control valve, monitor one or more second pressures received from the pressure sensor, and detect a malfunction of the EVAP system based on the first pressure, at least one of the one or more second pressures, and a diagnostic threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Roger C Sager, William B Blomquist, James Daley, Aikaterini Tsahalou, Ronald A Yannone, Jr., Luis Del Rio, Mark L Lott, Joseph Dekar
  • Patent number: 9970369
    Abstract: Provided is a control unit (1) for setting, for respective electronic throttles (11) and (12) provided for respective cylinders, respective ranges of a difference between a target rpm and an engine rpm where the electronic throttles (11) and (12) are not operated as a first dead zone and a second dead zone, determining, for each of the electronic throttles (11) and (12), whether or not the difference between the target rpm and the engine rpm is in the dead zone, preventing the electronic throttle determined to have the difference in the dead zone from operating, and determining, for the electronic throttle determined to have the difference exceeding the dead zone, a control gain for the electronic throttle depending on the magnitude of the difference, thereby operating the electronic throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Takahashi, Masahiko Nomura
  • Patent number: 9909518
    Abstract: A method for controlling the speed of an internal combustion engine and a speed control circuit for carrying out the method. For controlling, fuel energy is used as an output variable. The control units are calculated in accordance with a stationary proportion gain which is calculated proportionally to the fuel energy and inversely proportional to the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 9879632
    Abstract: A method of controlling the injection of fuel into cylinders of an internal combustion engine provides a method of distributing injection of fuel among cylinders of the engine so as to inject a quantity of fuel which is reliable and accurate, even when the quantity of fuel for each cylinder is close to the minimum quantity which can reliably and accurately be injected. The method may be applicable to injection of fuel for combustion in the engine or injection of fuel which is timed to be injected so as to pass through the cylinder without combusting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventor: Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 9850807
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including a pre-chamber connected to a pre-chamber feed conduit for supplying the pre-chamber with a fuel (F), and a main combustion chamber. Fuel (F) in the main combustion chamber can be ignited by an ignition flare which passes from the at least one pre-chamber into the at least one main combustion chamber and which is produced by ignition of fuel (F) in the pre-chamber. At least one valve can be open-loop or closed-loop controlled by an open-loop or closed-loop control device depending on a parameter characteristic of a change in a power produced by the internal combustion engine, and/or by which a pre-chamber fuel flow directed through the pre-chamber feed conduit to the at least one pre-chamber can be at least partially diverted into a volume separate from the at least one pre-chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: GE Jenbacher GMBH & CO OG
    Inventors: Mario Graus, Francisco Lopez, Herbert Schaumberger, Nikolaus Spyra
  • Patent number: 9845736
    Abstract: A method of determining the timing and quantity of fuel injection to operate an internal combustion engine is disclosed. While operating the fuel injector to perform a fuel injection; a signal of a fuel pressure within the fuel rail during the fuel injection is sampled. The signal is used to determine first and second integral transforms yielding as output a value of first and second functions having as variables the fuel rail pressure drop caused by the fuel injection and the timing parameter indicative of the instant when the fuel injection started. Values of the first and second functions are used to calculate a value of the fuel rail pressure drop caused by the fuel injection and a value of the timing parameter. A value of a fuel quantity injected by the fuel injection is calculated as a function of the value of the fuel rail pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Nieddu, Andrea Mollar
  • Patent number: 9845755
    Abstract: A combustion system controller controls an operation of a combustion system including an internal combustion engine. The combustion system controller includes a mixing ratio acquisition portion and a control portion. The mixing ratio acquisition portion acquires the mixing ratios of various components included in a fuel. The control portion controls the operation of the combustion system based on the mixing ratios acquired by the mixing ratio acquisition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Hoshi, Atsunori Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 9845039
    Abstract: A method for implementing and canceling an automatic operation of a body of a machine includes receiving a selection of an automatic setting according to a first operation of a hoist mode actuator, determining an activation state of the automatic setting, causing an automatic operation of an engine of the machine to adjust an idle level of the engine and an automatic operation of a hoist system to move the body in a first direction to a first position. The method includes canceling the automatic operation of the engine and the automatic operation of the hoist system and controlling the idle level of the engine according to operations of a throttle, the hoist system to move the body according to the idle level of the engine and respective directions of the second operation the hoist mode actuator and subsequent operations of the hoist mode actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Anderson, Timothy Schwartz, Joel Skalet, Rodney Menold
  • Patent number: 9845761
    Abstract: A fuel estimation apparatus includes a combustion characteristic acquisition portion and a mixing ratio estimation portion. The combustion characteristic acquisition portion acquiring a combustion characteristic value indicating a physical amount relating to a combustion of an internal combustion engine acquires the combustion characteristic values of the combustions executed in different combustion conditions. The mixing ratio estimation portion estimates the mixing ratios of various components included in a fuel, based on the combustion characteristic values acquired by the combustion characteristic acquisition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Hoshi, Atsunori Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 9822722
    Abstract: The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that a fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in the case where, because a state where a detected value of the fuel pressure sensor is less than a target value occurs, a fuel discharge amount of a fuel pump is increased, and as a result, the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, and even if a predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, the detected value is less than the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunichi Tsutsuji, Koji Honda, Makiko Nakayama, Kinji Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9822751
    Abstract: Fuel pump for a direct injection system provided with a common rail. The fuel pump has a pumping chamber defined in a main body; a piston which is mounted in a sliding manner inside the pumping chamber to cyclically vary the volume of the pumping chamber; an intake channel which originates from a wall of the pumping chamber; an intake valve which is coupled to the intake channel; a delivery channel which originates from a wall of the pumping chamber; a delivery valve which is coupled to the delivery channel; and an actuating spring which has a plurality of turns having a pitch that varies between the turns and that is coupled to the piston so as to push the piston towards a maximum volume or minimum volume position of the pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
    Inventors: Enrico Vezzani, Michele Petrone, Luca Mancini
  • Patent number: 9777664
    Abstract: A method for controlling fuel injection of a combustion engine and a corresponding system includes providing at least a first predetermined air-fuel mixture map and determining a first air-fuel ratio based on at least one engine operating parameter and the at least first predetermined air-fuel mixture map; determining a second air-fuel ratio that is offset with a first constant value from the first air-fuel ratio, determining if a first operating mode or a second operating mode is selected; controlling engine fuel injection according to the first air-fuel ratio when a currently requested fueling rate results in a smaller air-fuel ratio than the first air-fuel ratio and the first operating mode is selected; or alternatively controlling engine fuel injection according to the second air-fuel ratio when a currently requested fueling rate results in a smaller air-fuel ratio than the second air-fuel ratio and the second operating mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes Foufas, Johan Larsson
  • Patent number: 9759151
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus is equipped with a fuel injection amount computation unit, a determination process unit, and an engine abnormality process unit. The determination process unit determines, based on a deviation between a command injection amount and a monitoring injection amount, whether or not there is an abnormality in fuel injection control. An injection amount threshold, which is used to make a determination on an abnormality in fuel injection control, is set larger based on a vehicle speed-associated parameter when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where a vehicle speed is high than when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where the vehicle speed is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Kiyonori Takahashi, Takuya Inamasu