Throttle Position Lock Patents (Class 123/398)
  • Patent number: 10302022
    Abstract: A wire throttle adjustment device 1 for performing open-close adjustment of a throttle valve by pull operation of a wire 2. The wire throttle adjustment device 1 includes an operation member 10 connected to an end part 2A of the wire 2 and configured to perform the pull operation of the wire 2. The operation member 10 includes an action part 11 that is elastically deformable by the pull operation of the wire 2 in a fully-opened state of the throttle valve. The action part 11 includes an elastically-deformable elastic arm part 12 configured to swing together with the operation part 15 and extending from the pivotally-supported part 14, and the end part of the wire 14 is connected to a tip part of the elastic arm part 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Kunimune Kawamura, Kazuhiro Umetani
  • Patent number: 9022007
    Abstract: An embodiment of an engine is described. The engine includes a first throttle valve. The first throttle valve is provided in a first intake passage coupled to an intake manifold. The first throttle valve has a default closed position. The engine further includes a second throttle valve. The second throttle valve is provided in a second intake passage coupled to the intake manifold. The second throttle valve has a default open position. The engine further includes a venturi pump that is provided between the second throttle valve and the intake manifold. When the second throttle valve is in the default open position, intake air flows through the venturi pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Norman Ulrey
  • Patent number: 8939127
    Abstract: A stop control apparatus (100) for an internal combustion engine performs stop control of a three-or-less cylinder internal combustion engine (200). The stop control apparatus for the internal combustion engine is provided with: a determining device (161) configured to determine a compression stroke immediately before the internal combustion engine stops; and a throttle valve controlling device (168) configured to control an opening degree of a throttle valve (208) to be a predetermined opening degree while an intake valve (211) is closed in all cylinders, in the compression stroke immediately before the internal combustion engine stops, which is determined by the determining device. This reduces an influence of an intake negative pressure in an intake stroke, and makes it possible to preferably control the crank angle when the engine stops, even in the three-or-less cylinder internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuta Tsukada
  • Patent number: 8746210
    Abstract: A helical torsion return spring and a throttle body assembly for urging a throttle plate of a throttle body assembly to a default position when a throttle motor of the throttle body assembly is disabled. The return spring includes a middle portion, a first end portion, a second end portion, a first spring leg, and a second spring leg. The throttle body assembly includes a throttle shaft, a first bushing, a second bushing, and the spring defined above. A first end portion center axis defined by the first end portion and a second end portion center axis defined by the second end portion are offset from a middle portion center axis defined by the middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank A. Nicholas
  • Patent number: 8739894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a handheld work apparatus having a handle. A throttle trigger and a throttle trigger lock are arranged on the handle. An operating-mode selector having an off position, an operating position and a starting position is provided. The selector, trigger lock and the trigger are pivotally mounted. A first latching element is provided on the selector and a second latching element is provided on the trigger element, which coact in the starting position of the selector and the starting position of the trigger and hold the trigger in its starting position. To ensure that the starting position of the selector can only be engaged when the trigger is actuated, the second latching element lies outside of the pivot path of the first latching element in the non-actuated position of the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Schlauch, Roland Adam, Heiko Stöcker
  • Patent number: 8272364
    Abstract: An implement comprises an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve. At least one handle, the inside of which is provided with a gas lever likewise in a pivotal manner, is attached to a housing surrounding the internal combustion engine. The minimum distance between the gas lever and the handle is defined by a stop. When the operator lifts the implement by the handle, the position of the gas lever also changes. Even when the gas lever is fully depressed, only a part-load position is achieved at the throttle valve. In this way, effective rotational speed limitation is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Waeker Neuson Produktion GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hausler, Helmut Braun
  • Patent number: 8127743
    Abstract: A work implement in the nature of a drive for a tool includes a starting and/or switching-off braking device for the tool. A brake button is provided which can be externally actuated by a user, with which a starting and/or switching-off brake can be released. A device is also provided which can change the rotational speed of the drive, the device having a throttle button capable of being actuated by the user from outside. The brake button and the throttle button are arranged on a handle so that they can be contacted simultaneously by the hand of a user, where the throttle button can be actuated when the starting and/or switching-off brake is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: DOLMAR GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Vick, Mark Jesse
  • Patent number: 8051743
    Abstract: A throttle control device for a hand held tool, such as a chain saw, is provided. The tool is provided with a forwardly extending wire for transmitting a motion from a throttle control lever turnably arranged about a first axis to a throttle valve. One end of the wire is secured to a wire arm that is turnably arranged about a second axis. The wire arm is provided with one or several teeth cooperating with the throttle control lever and the second axis is arranged behind the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Husqvarna AB
    Inventors: Stefan Kullberg, Roger Rogersten, Pär Martinsson, Oskar Bergquist
  • Patent number: 7948192
    Abstract: A dual redundant permanent magnet type dynamoelectric machine includes a dual flux throttle system to selectively disable one of a first motor and a second motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Richard A. Himmelmann
  • Patent number: 7509205
    Abstract: A speed control system is for a vehicle having an engine including a carburetor with a throttle plate moveable between a minimum open position and a maximum open position. The speed control system includes a ground speed limiter mechanism operatively coupled with the throttle plate and configured to displace the plate toward the minimum position as ground speed of the vehicle approaches a predetermined maximum value. An engine speed limiter mechanism is operatively coupled with the throttle plate and is configured to displace the plate toward the minimum position as a speed of the engine approaches a predetermined maximum value. Preferably, a control linkage is connected with the throttle plate and is moveable between a first configuration, at which the throttle plate is disposed at the minimum position, and a second configuration at which the throttle plate is disposed at the maximum position, the two limiter mechanisms displacing the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Club Car, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Warren McLeod
  • Patent number: 7484431
    Abstract: A portable handheld apparatus such as a brushcutter, blower or the like has a drive motor and a throttle lever (2). The throttle lever (2) is pivotally journalled about a rotational axis (3). The throttle lever (2) acts on an actuating device for controlling the drive motor. In order to make possible a simple adjustment of the actuating device, it is provided that the throttle lever (2) has an operator-controlled lever (6) and an actuating lever (5). The operator-controlled lever (6) can be actuated by the operator. The actuating lever (5) acts on the actuating device. The relative position of the actuating lever (5) relative to the operator-controlled lever (6) is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Müller, Harald Schliemann
  • Patent number: 7234445
    Abstract: A device for actuating at least one throttle valve of an internal combustion engine is provided. When the throttle valve opening angles are small, the throttle valve and the actuating device are positively coupled, and when the throttle valve opening angles are large, the throttle valve and the actuating device are form lockingly coupled in the closing direction, but are only conditionally coupled in the opening direction, such that the throttle valve can be brought into operation for smaller throttle valve opening angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Spickermann, Berndt Roehrig
  • Patent number: 7216006
    Abstract: A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode control is performed using the identified model parameters. The model parameter identifier (22) calculates a model parameter vector (?) by adding an updating vector (d?) to a reference vector (?base) of the model parameter. The updating vector (d?) is corrected by multiplying a past value of at least one element of the updating vector by a predetermined value which is greater than “0” and less than “1”. The model parameter vector (?) is calculated by adding the corrected updating vector (d?) to the reference vector (?base).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Yoshihisa Iwaki, Jun Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7050864
    Abstract: A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode control is performed using the identified model parameters. The model parameter identifier (22) calculates a model parameter vector (?) by adding an updating vector (d ?) to a reference vector (? base) of the model parameter. The updating vector (d ?) is corrected by multiplying a past value of at least one element of the updating vector by a predetermined value which is greater than “0” and less than “1”. The model parameter vector (?) is calculated by adding the corrected updating vector (d ?) to the reference vector (? base).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Yoshihisa Iwaki, Jun Takahasi
  • Patent number: 7000593
    Abstract: A portable handheld work apparatus such as a blower or brushcutter or the like has an actuating device for controlling the drive motor of the work apparatus. A throttle lever (2) is provided which acts on the actuating device. A fixing device (35) is provided for the throttle lever (2). In order to obtain a simple, reliable fixing of the throttle lever (2), the fixing device (35) includes blocking elements which fix the throttle lever (2) in a latching position (21) of the fixing device (35) in at least one pregiven position and which enable the throttle lever (2) in the operation-disabled position (20) of the fixing device (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Müller, Harald Schliemann
  • Patent number: 6935309
    Abstract: A throttle plate manipulator, for allowing an engine to operate that has a throttle plate, the throttle plate having a gas mixer having cross-hairs including a main opening and vertical and horizontal bars extending across the opening, the throttle plate having a butterfly located behind the cross hairs that controls the engine speed. The manipulator includes a manipulator disc that secures over the cross-hairs using an attachment rod having a hook that hooks behind one of the bars of the cross-hairs, and a control rod that extends through the manipulator disc and engages the butterfly. Fuel-air flow into the engine is allowed and adjusted as desired by rotating the control rod to advance the control rod toward the butterfly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Willie Farrow
  • Patent number: 6925986
    Abstract: A servo-assisted butterfly valve for an internal combustion engine comprising a valve seat, a butterfly body engaging the valve seat, a shaft on which the butterfly body is keyed, an electric actuator coupled to the shaft, an elastic member which is adapted to exert a torque on the shaft which tends to rotate the butterfly body towards a limp-home position and an abutment body which comprises an eccentric member which forms an abutment surface for an abutment member of the elastic body in order to stop, in the desired limp-home position, the rotation of the butterfly body caused by the elastic body in the absence of action by the electric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli Powertrain, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Domenico Cannone, Gianni Fargnoli
  • Patent number: 6769401
    Abstract: There is provided a power output control system for an internal combustion engine, which enables the vehicle to smoothly perform refuge travel to find a place to park when an electric throttle control device becomes incapable of controlling a throttle valve, while ensuring adequate traveling performance. An ECU determines whether or not the electric throttle control device is incapable of controlling the throttle valve, and interrupts energization of the electric throttle control device when it is determined that the electric throttle control device is incapable of controlling the throttle valve. At this time, the opening of the throttle valve is held at the default opening degree by a spring. Further, basic ignition timing is calculated according to the engine rotational speed and load on the engine, and ignition timing of the engine is determined by correcting the calculated basic ignition timing according to the amount of operation of the accelerator pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Tachibana, Norio Suzuki, Manabu Niki
  • Patent number: 6739312
    Abstract: A throttle device for engine has a throttle valve, a shaft, and a valve gear. The valve gear is driven to rotate by a motor. The shaft and the valve gear are unitarily molded of a continuous resinous material. In the coupled area between the shaft and the valve, a recess section is provided. The recess section is formed, from the outer end face of the gear, coaxially with the shaft. The recess section serves as a thin-walled section, and prevents deformation of the gear likely to be caused by heat shrinkage. Furthermore, the recess section includes a through hole, which is effective for moving the ball bearing along the axial direction. A press-fitting tool is inserted into the through hole to install the ball bearing by pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Komeda, Kazunori Mori
  • Patent number: 6666187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjustably limiting the maximum speed of an engine powered hand tool controlled by a power-regulating device (11) located in the handle of the tool. The device makes it possible to optimise the speed of the engine for the job that is to be done. The device consists of a threaded shaft (15) that is moved by rotating a nut (12) and a spring (14). When a higher speed than the selected level is required, is it possible to increase the speed to the maximum speed available by pressing the power-regulating device (11) with a force that exceeds the force from the spring (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget Electrolux
    Inventors: Göran Dahlberg, Bo Sandström, Mats Axelsson, Marcus Kragner
  • Patent number: 6581568
    Abstract: A manually guided implement having a drive motor is provided. Control elements, such as a gas throttle and an arresting element, are pivotably disposed on a grip of the implement disposed remote from the motor. The arresting element is fixed in position on the throttle by a pivot joint, and is held in a position of rest by a spring element. The arresting element can be pivoted out of the rest position into an arresting position by the hand of an operator. The arresting position defines a starting throttle position of the gas throttle on the grip of the implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co.
    Inventor: Jochen Kramer
  • Patent number: 6345604
    Abstract: A throttle control for an internal combustion engine comprising an electric motor and a motor drive connecting the motor to a throttle plate of a throttle body, whereby throttle plate control is established solely by the electric motor without a mechanical motion-transmitting mechanism between the vehicle accelerator pedal and the throttle plate. The motor is under the control of an electronic microprocessor that responds to a signal indicating that the engine ignition system has been deactivated. A command is sent by the microprocessor at the time of engine shutdown to the motor to actuate the throttle plate to an intermediate position, thereby avoiding throttle plate freezing and avoiding throttle plate sticking at closed throttle due to deposits, such as hydrocarbon deposits, on the wall of the throttle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Ahrns, Michael Donald Bennett, Michael Joseph Weber
  • Patent number: 6209412
    Abstract: An operation-control lever unit for regulating engine power of an engine-powered working machine to control operation of a working tool includes a throttle-lever holding mechanism operative in response to pivotal movement of a lock lever in a locking direction to frictionally hold the throttle lever at a desired position. The throttle-lever holding mechanism includes a stationary cam formed integrally with the head portion of the operator's control handle for the machine, a movable cam on the lock lever and cooperating with the stationary cam to displace the lock lever along a support shaft in a direction away from the stationary cam, and a resilient member disposed behind the movable cam and resiliently urging the movable cam toward the stationary cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenjiro Hiratsuna, Tomomi Nakaya, Atsushi Kojima, Takashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6039024
    Abstract: A throttle control system in a first position allows movement of an actuator arm by a trigger to move a cable connected to an engine such that the engine may operate between idle and full speed. In a second position, the actuator arm rests against a stationary cam so that the engine operates at a predetermined speed irrespective of the position of the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Capro, Inc.
    Inventors: John Carlson, Bernard Driggers
  • Patent number: 6009853
    Abstract: A throttle control apparatus that maintains a vehicle's ability to run during a throttle system failure includes a throttle-controlling ECU that calculates a throttle opening instruction value from an accelerator stroke signal outputted from an accelerator pedal sensor, and supplies a motor with a current value based on the instruction value, to control the opening of a throttle valve. If the deviation between the instruction value and the output value from a throttle sensor is greater than a reference value, the ECU determines that there is a system failure. If it is determined that a system failure exists, an internal combustion engine controlling ECU varies the number of cylinders of the engine in operation to vary the engine output, depending on whether the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal by the driver is greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Fujikawa, Futoshi Kushigemachi, Masaru Shimizu, Hirotaka Kurita
  • Patent number: 5868377
    Abstract: A hand lever apparatus (throttle lever) is provided which has the automatic restoring function (automatic idle rotation opening position restoring function) to cope with accidents and steadily hold a desired operation position (intermediate opening position of a throttle valve). The hand lever apparatus has a rotationally operable main lever (30) and a sub-lever (40) rotationally operated to pull a cable (10a) connected to a driven member (CV). The main lever (30) has a brake plate (34). By pressing the brake plate (34) against an operating portion (42) of the sub-lever (40), rotation of the sub-lever (40) is regulated to hold the sub-lever (40) in a position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5865155
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed which allows movable members such as a main lever to be retained appropriately in case members even in a time when a case is dismounted or separated from a handle. In the hand lever device, the case has a ternary structure composed of one side case member (21), an intermediate case member (22) and the other side case member (23). The case (20) is dismounted from the handle (7) by detaching the other case member (23) from the one side case member (21) and the intermediate case member (22). The main lever (30) for drawing a cable (17) connected to a driven member (CV) is retained between the one side case member (21) and the intermediate case member (22) even in a time when said case (20) is dismounted or separated from the handle (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Nagashima
  • Patent number: 5862713
    Abstract: A throttle lever device for an engine having a decreased number of parts and capable of facilitating an assembling operation. An operation grip for controlling an engine of a mowing machine or the like is provided on opposite sides thereof with a throttle lever and a lock lever engageable with the throttle lever, respectively. A lock button is arranged in proximity to the lock lever so as to hold the throttle lever at a half throttling position. The throttle lever, lock lever and lock button are arranged so as to be pushable in toward a center of the operation grip. The lock lever and lock button are formed integrally with each other and constantly urged by an elastic member so as to be projected outwardly of the operation grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Starting Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Tsunoda, Minoru Shibasaki, Yukinobu Tomaru, Hidenobu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5855196
    Abstract: An apparatus for automatically controlling the activation of the throttle on a carburetor on the engine of a drag race car before the start of the race while staging the car. The apparatus eliminates some of the tasks a driver must perform during the process of staging and launching a race vehicle on the starting line(such as physically depressing the throttle pedal) using a starting line throttle actuation system for Pro tree and Full tree modes for controlling the throttle opening. In both Pro and Full tree modes, the staging process is simplified by allowing the driver to stage with the throttle pedal pre-depressed in the wide open down position, with the actual opening of the throttle controlled by the starting line throttle actuation control system. The apparatus has the driver use the same staging procedure for both Pro tree and Full tree races, thus eliminating separate training that has been required for Pro and Full tree races.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Curtis E. Rodden
    Inventor: Frank Hawley
  • Patent number: 5839419
    Abstract: An adjustable automatic starting line throttle actuation controller for use with a drag racing vehicle. The device controls the throttle from a preset partial throttle opening to a wide open throttle during the initial staging process of the race, while the driver holds the throttle in a wide open position. The device can control the opening of the carburetor linkage of the carburetor to a preset low r.p.m. at the starting line (during the staging process) before a race begins, and control the opening of the throttle for the first portion of the race after the race starts. A preferred version of the device has a dual piston cylinder having respective piston rods connected to the carburetor and one connected to the throttle pedal. An electronic activation assembly controls which piston rod is being actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Curtis E. Rodden
    Inventor: Frank Hawley
  • Patent number: 5718052
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed which is adapted so that a throttle valve as a driven member can be adjusted appropriately in its degree of opening via a cable and kept at a desired degree of opening and yet immediately returned to the minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety. Thus, fatigue of an operator's fingers can be diminished. Also, the throttle valve is enabled to be brought to the degree of opening at which it had stood before it was returned to the minimum degree of opening without the necessity of readjustment. The hand lever device comprises an eccentric cam shaft (40) including a supporting shaft portion (42) and a pivot pin portion (41, 43) having pivotal axis (0b) eccentric to axis (0a) of the supporting shaft portion (42), a main lever (30) pivotally fitted on the supporting shaft portion (42), and a sub-lever (50) fixed to the pivot pin portion (41). The main lever (30) and sub-lever (50) are pivotally operated to draw a cable (20) connected to a driven member (CV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5685271
    Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed for adjusting the degree of openness of a throttle valve via a cable and kept at a desired opening degree and yet immediately returned to a minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety, thereby diminishing fatigue of fingers, and ensuring a desired level of operation. The hand lever device comprises a main lever (3) and a sub-lever (50) is attached to a wind-up tractive member (60) which draws a cable (20) connected to a driven member (CV) in such a manner that one end portion of the cable (20) is wound up thereon, and a torsion coil spring (40) is used as a brake operated by the main lever (30) for braking the wind-up tractive member (60) in order to hold the sub-lever (50) immobilized at any pivotally operated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Taomo, Hisato Ohsawa, Hirofumi Yamami, Fumihiko Aiyama
  • Patent number: 5642712
    Abstract: A two-stage time operated throttle and method is described for use on a drag racing vehicle comprising: (i) an electro-mechanical controller for selectively opening and closing the throttle of the vehicle; (ii) an on-board processor capable of issuing an open throttle control signal and a close throttle control signal; (iii) a first adjustable timer set prior to launch to a predetermined first value whereby, upon expiration of the first value, a close throttle signal is issued; (iv) a second adjustable timer set prior to launch to a predetermined second value, which is greater than the first value whereby, upon expiration of the second value, an open throttle control signal is issued; and (v) a signal for modifying at least one of the first and second values subsequent to launch based on actual race conditions. A four-stage time operated throttle and method is also provided by adding a third timer and a fourth timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Biondo Racing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam Biondo
  • Patent number: 5517967
    Abstract: A safety device for a throttle of an internal combustion engine comprises a throttle lever for controlling an opening of a throttle valve of the internal combustion engine, a throttle lever control means for selectively locking and unlocking operation of the throttle lever, a throttle lever control cancellation means for cancelling the throttle lever control means from controlling the throttle lever and an internal combustion engine operation control means, responsive to displacement of said throttle lever control cancellation means, for selectively operating and stopping the operation of said internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 5463994
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control having a threaded rod with a disc at one end, and a rotatable arm at the other, threaded through a mounting bracket. This control mounted in the engine assembly secures the throttle at a given setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Inventor: Lorance T. Underwood
  • Patent number: 5131363
    Abstract: A setting element (9) has, as handle (18), a web which is connected via a place of intended breakage (19) to the rest of the setting element (9). As setting part (17) there is provided an eccentric which effects the required setting movement by the turning of the setting element (9). After a desired setting has been reached, the handle (18) is broken off, thereby preventing further manipulation of the setting element (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventor: Otmar Ganser
  • Patent number: 4974567
    Abstract: A throttle holding device is disclosed that allows an operator to hold open the throttle of the vehicle when the vehicle is not being driven. This increases the amount of available heat to the heating system of the vehicle cab and will allow the vehicle cab to be more quickly and efficiently heated. The throttle hold device of the present invention acts in conjunction with the parking brake and is actuated upon engagement of the parking brake through a pneumatic circuit. Upon actuation a piston is moved against a spring bias and causes the throttle cord of the vehicle to further open the throttle thus raising the idle speed of the vehicle. A shut-off switch is included on the pneumatic circuit to disconnect the system should the operator not desire that the higher idle be obtained. The shut-off switch is particularly useful in the summer months or whenever it is more important to conserve gasoline than to adequately heat the vehicle cab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: J. I. Case Company
    Inventors: Louis T. Jensen, David R. Natzke
  • Patent number: 4807580
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a trigger mechanism for gasoline operated equipment where a trigger is operatively connected to a throttle by a lever. The mechanism includes latch means which regulates the speed of the engine, and an idle setting means. The latch means also stops or shuts the engine down when it is depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard R. Clark
  • Patent number: 4784099
    Abstract: A timer operated throttle closing device for drag racing vehicles. In particular, this throttle closing device automatically senses the initiation of the race and automatically closes the throttle after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, and after a second period of time has elapsed automatically releases the throttle closure device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Inventors: Harley R. Noe, Warren Bauer
  • Patent number: 4773362
    Abstract: An automatic starting arrangement for a hand-started internal combustion engine is disclosed. Internal combustion engines of this type have a choke flap and a throttle flap positioned one behind the other in the air-intake channel. In order to ensure a reliable starting of the engine independently of manual positioning activities, the invention provides that in the starting operation, the choke flap initially moves independently of the throttle flap. The throttle flap is held in a half-throttle position between the full-throttle position and the idle position. Before the choke flap is brought into its at-rest no-choke position, a movable holding mechanism is actuated and the throttle flap is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl
    Inventors: Michael Wissmann, Hans Nickel, Jurgen Weber
  • Patent number: 4672929
    Abstract: An automatic starting arrangement for a hand-started internal combustion engine is disclosed. Internal combustion engines of this type have a choke flap and a throttle flap positioned one behind the other in the air-intake channel. In order to ensure a reliable starting of the engine independently of manual positioning activities, the invention provides that in the start position the choke flap is coupled with the throttle flap in a position-dependent manner and the choke flap holds the throttle flap in a position between the full-throttle position and the idle position. The choke flap is brought into an at-rest position via an actuating device which is actuable in dependence upon the operating condition of the engine. The choke flap is decoupled from the throttle flap in the at-rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl
    Inventors: Michael Wissmann, Hans Nickel, Jurgen Weber
  • Patent number: 4570593
    Abstract: A throttle safety device including a coil spring mounted on the outer periphery of an operating rod and having one end secured to a fixed part of the device and an opposite end connected to a locking member to resiliently force the latter to move to an operative position. The coil spring is turned into wrapping and pressing engagement with the outer periphery of the operating rod when the locking member is in an inoperative position, so as to hold the latter in the inoperative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Tokio Take, Satoshi Sonoda, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4553463
    Abstract: A chain saw mounting assembly wherein a chain saw is pivotally mounted at the motor housing end, on a support frame, for pivotal movement in the cutting plane of the saw blade. A throttle actuator on the assembly regulates the speed of the cutting chain between idling speed, when the saw is in its inoperative pivoted position, and an accelerated cutting speed when the saw is in its pivoted operating position. The device is adaptable for mounting on a workpiece supporting table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Inventor: Richard C. Engel
  • Patent number: 4524741
    Abstract: A preset throttle release device for use on drag racing cars to manually set a throttle linkage position at a desired setting restricting the maximum engine rpm at the beginning of a race. The device once set can be released providing a full range of throttle position once the race has begun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Inventor: Ronald W. Corbi
  • Patent number: 4302880
    Abstract: A regulating arrangement for internal combustion engine-driven tools, such as power saws of the type provided with a handle piece, from the one side of which a finger grip projects connected to the throttle valve of the engine and from the other side of which a middle hand grip and a thumb grip project. The middle hand grip, when the tool is in use, is adapted to release a lock for the finger grip preventing an unintentional opening of the throttle, while the thumb grip is adapted to make it possible to hold the finger grip in a middle position. The middle hand grip and the thumb grip include a common hooking piece, which includes a number of fingers projecting from a rear support of the same, one of said fingers including a forwardly directed hook and the other a backwardly directed dog, which selectively can be brought into engagement and disengagement with a projection on the finger grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget Partner
    Inventors: Goran L. Elfving, George N. Farquhar
  • Patent number: 4245713
    Abstract: In order to prevent the slack of a core of an accelerator wire which otherwise may occur during the operation of an apparatus to maintain the vehicle in running at some desired speed, a guide is arranged along a portion of the core between an end of an outer casing of the accelerator wire from which the core extends outwardly and a member, fixed to a carburetor torsion shaft, at which the core is anchored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Haruo Mochida, Toyohiko Morikawa