Fuel Injection System Patents (Class 123/445)
  • Publication number: 20130312705
    Abstract: A method of producing a fuel distribution pipe includes providing a forged bar made of metal, forming a main bore in the forged bar so as to extend along an axial direction of the forged bar, forming an injector bore having an injector opening in the forged bar, forming a bolt through hole having a bolt opening in the forged bar, obtaining a base pipe having the main bore, the injector bore and the bolt through hole from the forged bar, and bending the base pipe such that the injector opening of the injector bore and the bolt opening of the bolt through hole are provided along a line parallel to the axis of the main bore. The injector bore directly communicates with the main bore and the bolt through hole does not communicates with the main bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: OTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji ISOGAI, Takayoshi OTA
  • Patent number: 8590511
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an intake passage structure. The engine is configured such that a cylinder head is formed integrally with an intake manifold portion. A cylinder central axis is oriented parallel to an extending direction of an intake passage, when viewed in a side view. An injector is arranged such that it does not interfere with peripheral components, including the intake passage and a throttle body. The injector is disposed in the intake manifold portion such that a leading end thereof is oriented towards the intake valve of the cylinder head. The intake passage on the upstream side of an injector attachment position is offset from the injector in a width-direction of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Negoro, Toshio Yamamoto, Ryuichi Abe, Shuichi Ochiai, Takanori Osuka, Tomokazu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20130306029
    Abstract: An engine includes an engine having at least one cylinder and a cooling system that circulates coolant. A gaseous fuel system includes a heater and a gaseous fuel injector. Liquefied gaseous fuel is heated by extracting engine heat from the engine coolant and providing it to a stream of liquefied gaseous fuel passing through the heater. Heated gaseous fuel is injected directly into the cylinder. A liquid fuel system having an injector provides liquid fuel directly into the cylinder as ignition source. A sensor measures an outlet coolant temperature from the heater and provides a signal to a controller such that the engine can operate in a normal or in a thermal management mode during which engine heat extracted from the engine coolant is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Alan R. Stockner, Frank J. Lombardi
  • Patent number: 8588999
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving a balance between engine fuel economy and exhaust emissions in an off-highway vehicle. One example method includes adjusting an engine injection timing based on an ambient NOx level estimated by a NOx sensor in the engine intake. Another example method includes adjusting a trip plan with a time in notch duty cycle based on a deviation from the time in notch duty cycle from a reference duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edward Joseph Hall, Kyle Stott, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, James Robert Mischler, Christopher Mcnally, Jason Dean
  • Publication number: 20130298871
    Abstract: A throttle body fuel injection system and method that is arranged to easily replace four-barrel carburetors includes a throttle body assembly with four main bores, each with a throttle plate and an associated fuel injector. Each injector feeds fuel into a circular fuel distribution ring via a fuel injection conduit, which introduces pressurized fuel into the air stream. The fuel distribution rings and bores have profiles that avoid constrictions for to prevent low pressure zones according to the Venturi effect. Fuel is injected through downward-facing outlets at or near the bottom end of the rings. The fuel injection rings are two-piece, each formed of an insert pressed into an outer housing. The insert includes axial grooves intervaled about its exterior circumference of insert that are joined by a circumferential groove formed about the insert. The grooves are in fluid communication with a conduit that supplies fuel from a fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: RICHARD KIRK BENNETT, DOUGLAS DAVID WEBBER
  • Patent number: 8580111
    Abstract: A device for separating fuel components comprising a separating membrane for separating high-octane fuel components from un-separated fuel and a heat exchanger between first liquid passing through the heat exchanger and second liquid passing through the heat exchanger, is provided. The first liquid is un-separated fuel passing through the heat exchanger before being supplied to the separating membrane. The second liquid is low-octane fuel remaining when the high-octane fuel components are separated from the un-separated fuel, passing through the heat exchanger after changing to an almost liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Randall D. Partridge, George Walchuk, Kouseki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20130291835
    Abstract: When a start-up failure occurs wherein an internal combustion engine equipped with a variable valve device does not transition to complete combustion before a first prescribed period ? elapses from the start of cranking in conjunction with fuel injection, a control unit for the internal combustion engine executes a start-up failure process addressing a state wherein the valve timing is different from a specific timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Imamura, Yoshiaki Miyazato, Yuu Yokoyama, Masaki Numakura, Yoshiki Endo
  • Publication number: 20130284149
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relates to an injection element having an inner element with a first outlet opening and an outer element. The outer element includes at least one second outlet opening structured and arranged for receiving and injecting fuel in a combustion space, and arranged coaxially to the first outlet opening. The outer element further includes third outlet openings composed of bores structured and arranged for forming a cooling liquid film layer, wherein the bores are arranged coaxially to the first outlet opening and the at least one second outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Chris MAEDING
  • Publication number: 20130276756
    Abstract: Embodiments for starting an engine are provided. In one embodiment, an engine control method comprises, during engine cranking, commencing fuel injection when intake manifold pressure drops below a threshold, the threshold based on fuel volatility. In this way, the stability of engine starts using low volatility fuels may be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Publication number: 20130269656
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-pressure pump which can easily be installed in an internal-combustion engine. Specifically disclosed is a high-pressure pump 1 provided with a mounting member 100. The mounting member 100 is fixed to a pivot 70 so as to keep such an attitude of a rocker arm 60 that the protruding end part of the pivot 70 is positioned within a concave 65a formed on a second end 65 of the rocker arm 60 and that the outer circumferential surface of the protruding end part of the pivot 70 is apart from the inner circumferential surface of the concave 65a by coming in contact with an arm body 62 of the rocker arm 60 to resist a turn of the rocker arm 60 around a roller 61 under the weight thereof, before a plunger 50 is brought into contact with a first end 64 of the rocker arm 60, and so as to come out of contact with the arm body 62 when the rocker arm 60 turns in reverse to the turn under the weight thereof, after the plunger 50 is brought into contact with the first end 64.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeyuki Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 8555866
    Abstract: An injection gate (44,144,244,344) for high pressure, high velocity secondary fluid for admixture of an atomized spray (80,180) thereof with another or primary fluid that atomizes the other fluid. The secondary fluid may be an accelerant and the primary fluid may be a low pressure fuel/air mixture in a fuel injection arrangement for an internal combustion engine. An injection billet (10,110,210,310) for an engine is interposed between the carburetor (12) and the manifold (14), with an array of such injection gates (44,244,344) paired with an array of fuel/air gates (34,234,334) about an aperture coinciding with a throttle bore (60,160,260,360) and evenly balancing the spray about the throttle bore, creating a halo effect of atomized admixture of accelerant/fuel. The injection of accelerant is directed sharply downwardly toward the center of the bore and through the injected fuel stream, atomizing the fuel thereof for a high efficiency boost of horsepower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Inventors: David Acker, Steven Wilson, James Hobensack
  • Publication number: 20130263824
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an abnormality detection device that is used for an internal combustion engine whose operation is controlled in accordance with the properties of employed fuel, and capable of accurately detecting an abnormality in a fuel property sensor used to determine the fuel properties, and more particularly, a stuck fuel property sensor. The abnormality detection device is configured so that a measurement section of the fuel property sensor is housed in a fuel container, which is not disposed in a main flow path of a fuel flow path connecting a fuel pump to an injector, but is disposed apart from the main flow path. The fuel drawn from a fuel tank is introduced into the fuel container. The resulting output value of the fuel property sensor is acquired as a first sensor output value. Further, the fuel is discharged from the fuel container. The resulting output value of the fuel property sensor is acquired as a second sensor output value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Wakao, Mie Sasai
  • Publication number: 20130255634
    Abstract: A barrier system is disclosed which is fitted to the filler opening (12) of a fuel tank (10). The system comprises an outer sleeve (34) in the form of a coil spring (36) and lining (38) which is of a material that permits fuel to flow through it but which retains water and solid contaminants A valve (52, 54) is provided at the lower of the sleeve (34) for enabling accumulated water and solid contaminents to be drained from the sleeve (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: John Edgar Scragg
  • Publication number: 20130255635
    Abstract: A method is provided for dimensioning a filter group for internal combustion engines, provided with a first filter wall and a second filter wall, located downstream of the first filter wall with reference to a direction of a fuel, configured such as to be crossed in series by the fuel. The method includes steps of: a) supplying the fuel into the filter group at a minimum fuel flow, destined to guarantee start-up and functioning of the engine in normal operating conditions thereof; b) calculating a pressure drop across the first filter wall; c) calculating a pressure drop across the second filter wall; d) modify morphological and shape characteristics of the first filter wall up until when the pressure drop in the first filter wall exceeds the pressure drop in the second filter wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Giorgio Girondi
  • Publication number: 20130255633
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with compression-induced auto-ignition is disclosed. A reciprocating-piston engine includes at least one cylinder (1) in which a piston (2) is connected via a connecting rod to a crankshaft and movable in a reciprocating fashion in the cylinder. A cylinder head (3) is positioned over and encloses the cylinder to define a cylinder chamber (4) in the cylinder (1). The cylinder head (3) also has a compression pipe (6) which opens toward the cylinder chamber (4) and is equipped with at least one injection nozzle (5). A method for igniting fuel in an internal combustion engine is also described in which a fuel jet (7) from the injection nozzle (5) is injected, so as to avoid wetting of the inner wall of the compression pipe (6), when the piston (2) is situated in a position between 20° crank angle and 180° crank angle before top dead center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Franz-Josef Hinken
  • Publication number: 20130255631
    Abstract: A method for an engine may comprise during a first condition comprising decreased scavenging, adjusting fuel injection based on a more-upstream air-fuel ratio, and during a second condition comprising increased scavenging, adjusting fuel injection based on one or more more-downstream air-fuel ratios and not based on the more-upstream air-fuel ratio. During the first condition, adjusting fuel injection may be further based on the one or more more-downstream air-fuel ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Helmut Hans Ruhland, Albert Breuer, Thomas Lorenz, Moritz Klaus Springer
  • Publication number: 20130255622
    Abstract: A nozzle for a fuel injector is disclosed. The nozzle may have a body having a base end, a tip end, and a central bore extending from the base end to the tip end. The nozzle may also have a sac located within the central bore at the tip end. Further, the nozzle may have an orifice located within the tip end and in communication with the sac. The orifice may be skewed at an azimuthal angle relative to a radial direction of the central bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Deep Bandyopadhyay, Michael B. Goetzke, Raghavendra Subramanya
  • Publication number: 20130255632
    Abstract: A fuel injection device injects fuel per each cylinder in an engine having a plurality of cylinders #1 and #2. At a time of engine actuation, start timings of fuel injections are shifted per each cylinder and times within one rotation of a crankshaft is set as the injection start timings for all cylinders. At least the initial fuel injection is performed before cylinder discrimination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130255630
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that can suppress the emission of unburned HC accompanying start-up of an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus including a fuel supply control unit that initially supplies fuel to only some cylinders, and delays the start of fuel supply to delayed cylinders that are cylinders other than the aforementioned cylinders; an engine discharge gas HC amount predicting unit that calculates a relationship between a delayed cylinder starting engine speed that is a engine speed at a timing at which a cycle starts in which a delayed cylinder initially carries out combustion and a predicted value of an engine discharge gas HC amount; and a target engine speed calculating unit that calculates a target engine speed that is a target value of the delayed cylinder starting engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Aso, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8544767
    Abstract: A fuel injection device has therein a recovery channel provided in a first valve body, and a fuel channel provided in the first valve body and a second valve body. The fuel channel is opened by openings at a first end surface of the first valve body and a second end surface of the second valve body. One of the first end surface and the second end surface is provided with an end surface groove connected to the recovery channel. In the fuel injection device, the end surface groove is provided to enclose at least a part of the opening and is separated from the opening by a clearance, and one of the first valve body and the second valve body has a side surface groove extending in a circumferential direction at an outer periphery of the one of the first valve body and the second valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naofumi Adachi, Tsukasa Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130247867
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder with a combustion chamber and a piston selectively changing the volume of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber receives a mixture of air, hydrogen and a liquid fuel consisting essentially of water and a flammable, preferably non-fossil, substance. The contents of the combustion chamber are ignited generating power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: MayMaan Research, LLC
    Inventors: Yehuda Shmueli, Eitan Shmueli, Doron Shmueli
  • Publication number: 20130247872
    Abstract: A fuel supply structure of a saddle-ride type vehicle wherein a wrong operation of a hose locking member is more securely prevented during maintenance of the vehicle to enhance the maintainability without increasing the number of parts. Fuel supplied from a fuel tank to a throttle body is supplied via fuel supply parts through a flexible fuel hose. A cover member for covering the fuel supply parts is provided. The cover member is provided with a cover that covers a fuel hose locking member for locking the connection of the fuel hose and each fuel supply part. In addition, the cover covers the fuel hose locking member to disenable removing the fuel hose locking member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junji HIGASHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130247873
    Abstract: A method for distributing fuel in a fuel system of a motor vehicle. The method may be applied in a fuel system having a first fuel tank, where fuel is confined at a first pressure, and a second fuel tank, where fuel is confined at a second pressure greater than the first pressure. The method comprises releasing fuel already resident in the second fuel tank to the first fuel tank, and admitting fuel to the first and second fuel tanks simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 8534261
    Abstract: A four-cycle engine (1) structured to introduce fresh air into a cylinder (1a) via an intake port (1d) opened/closed by intake valves (IN1, IN2) and suck exhaust gas back into the cylinder (1a) via an exhaust port opened/closed by exhaust valves (EX1, EX2), wherein the exhaust port has a first exhaust port (1p) and a second exhaust port (1e), and the exhaust gas is sucked in back from the first exhaust port (1p) and secondary air is sucked in from the second exhaust port (1e) to form, in the cylinder (1a), a first temperature layer (T1) at a high temperature mainly composed of the exhaust gas and a second temperature layer (T2) at a temperature lower than that of the first temperature layer (T1) mainly composed of the secondary air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Hatamura Engine Research Office Ltd., CD-ADAPCO Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Hatamura, Toshio Yamada, Atsushi Morita
  • Publication number: 20130213358
    Abstract: A variable orifice fuel injector has both an inward opening needle valve and an outward opening needle valve and has means to inject dual fuels in different hollow conical spray patterns and conventional multiple jet spray patterns selectively and independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventor: Deyang Hou
  • Publication number: 20130213357
    Abstract: A fuel injection system with a high-pressure fuel injection pomp is provided for pressurizing fuel and delivering it for injection into an internal combustion engine. The system and the high-pressure fuel injection pump have an inlet, a return port, at least one plunger, a suction, channel positioned between the inlet and plunger, and a bleed valve connectively arranged at the suction channel of the high-pressure fuel injection pump, A selector valve is provided between the inlet, and return port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Volvo Lastvagnar AB
    Inventor: Sergi Yudanov
  • Publication number: 20130213356
    Abstract: There is provided an engine working machine operated by an engine including a fuel tank, a carburetor and a crankcase, wherein the engine working machine is provided with a fuel supply path configured to supply an additional fuel in an interior of a crank chamber at a time of starting and an starting aid device including a solenoid valve configured to open/close the fuel supply path. The solenoid valve provided inside the starting aid device is controlled by a control unit equipped by a control circuit board and is driven by power of the battery so as to open/close a fuel inlet hole. At the time of starting the engine, the control unit controls opening/closing the solenoid valve at an appropriate timing, so that the fuel is directly inlet to the interior of the crank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8505514
    Abstract: A common rail single fluid injection system including fuel injectors with the ability to produce multiple injection rate shapes. This is accomplished by including auxiliary filling orifices which selectively provide pressurized fluid to the check needle control chamber during injection events. In so doing, the speed and movement of the check needle is manipulated and differing injection rates may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dianqi Fang, Lin Zhang, Stephen Robert Lewis, Zhenlong Xu, Avinash R. Manubolu, Shriprasad G. Lakhapati, Christopher D. Hanson
  • Publication number: 20130199498
    Abstract: A self-igniting internal combustion engine includes at least one cylinder and a piston, which can be moved back and forth in the cylinder and which bounds a combustion chamber together with the cylinder and which has a piston recess facing the combustion chamber, said piston recess having flow cross-sections that vary in a circumferential direction of the cylinder and of the piston, and comprising an injector arranged centrally above the piston recess for injecting fuel into the piston recess, wherein the injector has a plurality of injection openings. In order to reduce the emissions and in particular the soot emissions of the internal combustion engine, at least some of the injection openings have different opening cross-sections, wherein the injection openings having the different opening cross-sections are directed at areas of the combustion chamber recess having different flow cross-sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Klaus Gabel
  • Patent number: 8504277
    Abstract: In a method for determining a control parameter for a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, the problem of enabling more precise determination of the control parameter, even if the fuel pressure (FUP) present on the fuel injector varies, is solved in that the fuel pressure (FUP) present on the fuel injector during the injection (I1, I2, I1?, I1?) is concluded while allowing for the time of the fuel pressure value detection and/or the crankshaft angle position of the internal combustion engine during the detection of the fuel pressure value, and that the control parameter is determined based on the fuel pressure (FUP) that was concluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Baranowski, Klaus Hengl-Betz, Thorsten Lauer
  • Publication number: 20130192562
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device is provided for an internal combustion engine which includes a fuel injection valve including: a housing which includes a fuel passage, a sac portion, an injection hole, and a valve seat portion; a needle valve which reciprocates in the housing and comes into contact with the valve seat portion; and a drive unit which opens and closes the needle valve. The fuel injection control device includes an injection control portion that performs control for the drive unit to perform a plurality of injections including at least a first injection and a second injection, the first injection being performed by opening the needle valve to an intermediate lift, and the second injection being started when the needle valve is closing after the first injection and being performed by opening the needle valve to a full lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Eriko MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20130186370
    Abstract: A fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine including a throttle valve and an airbox is provided with a main injector disposed at a downstream side of the throttle valve, an auxiliary injector disposed at an upstream side of the throttle valve and in the airbox, and a delivery pipe disposed inside the airbox and adopted to supply and distribute a fuel to the auxiliary injector. The delivery pipe has both ends which are supported on two side walls of the airbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Tatsushi Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20130180504
    Abstract: A chainsaw includes: an engine unit; a fuel supplying device configured to supply fuel to the engine unit; and an engine chamber defining portion defining an engine chamber therein. The engine unit includes: a cylinder unit housing a piston therein; a crankshaft configured to be driven by the piston; and a crank case configured to support the cylinder unit and house the crankshaft therein. The cylinder unit is accommodated in the engine chamber. The engine chamber defining portion has a partitioning portion interposed between the cylinder unit and the fuel supplying device and is formed with a first engine chamber venthole and a second engine chamber venthole adjacent to the cylinder unit for achieving ventilation between the engine chamber and atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130180505
    Abstract: A method and a control unit are disclosed for controlling an internal combustion engine having fuel injector(s), a camshaft for actuating inlet and/or outlet valve(s), a valve-train adjusting device for controllably changing the actuating characteristic of at least one valve which is actuated by means of the camshaft, and optionally having a camshaft sensor which supplies a camshaft signal dependent on the camshaft angle, a crankshaft sensor which supplies a crankshaft signal representing the crankshaft angle, and a control unit for controlling the fuel injection and the valve-train adjusting device. In order to obtain information about the current setting of the valve-train adjusting device, at least one cylinder pressure signal supplied by a cylinder pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in an associated cylinder is evaluated with regard to interference signals, and the evaluation result is taken into consideration in the control of the valve-train adjusting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Harry Schüle, Markus Stutika
  • Patent number: 8485158
    Abstract: A method to control a gas engine system is disclosed, whereby the engine can be operated with an air-fuel-ratio controlled with high precision, even in using a low calorific fuel-gas that is prone to vary in calorific value; the engine system includes: a first gas line toward each cylinder via a first gas valve from a gas supply source line, the first gas valve regulating flow rates of the fuel-gas through a gas compressor on the line; a second gas line toward suction air, the line being branched from the gas supply source line and the line being provided with a gas air mixer and a second gas valve on the line. In the case when the fuel-gas is of a low calorific value or where the output of the engine is high, a part of the fuel-gas is supplied to the engine through the first and second lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nishio, Hajime Suzuki, Yuuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130174808
    Abstract: In a fuel supply system, at least one of a first negative pressure P1 and a second negative pressure P2 is adjusted such that a width of a negative pressure range [P1, P2] of a condenser in a second state, that is, the difference P2?P1 of the first and second negative pressure, becomes smaller as a concentration C2 of high-octane number component of a raw fuel F0 is lower. A term until the internal atmospheric pressure P of the condenser 30 rises from the first negative pressure P1 to the second negative pressure P2 in a negative pressure control processing, that is, the term which the second state is maintained, is shortened. Therefore, the number of times the negative pressure control process is repeated is increased, thus the increase of an accumulated recovery amount of the first fuel F1 with high concentration of high-octane number component is attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130160740
    Abstract: An engine including: a cylinder block formed with a cylinder bore; a carburetor including, a fuel storage portion that stores fuel supplied from a fuel tank and supplies the fuel to a suction path, and a fuel discharge path that discharges fuel overflowed from the fuel storage portion; a starting fuel supply device including, a starting fuel storage chamber that is provided on a fuel route defined by the fuel tank and the carburetor and stores a predetermined amount of fuel, a fuel delivery portion that delivers the fuel to a starting fuel supply path connected to the suction path or the cylinder bore, and a fuel return path that discharges the fuel overflowed from the starting fuel storage chamber; and a notifying portion that visually notifies that the starting fuel storage chamber is filled with fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Kamimura, Takuhiro Murakami, Naoto Ichihashi, Kentarou Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20130152899
    Abstract: In a method for a diesel-gasoline dual fuel premixed charge compression ignition combustion system based on diesel compression ignition triggered ignition control of the present invention, air (+EGR gas) and a gasoline fuel supplied in a premixed charge intake stroke create a premixed surroundings, a diesel fuel injected in at least two classified steps in a succeeding compression ignition stroke creates a compression ignition combustion surroundings for a diesel and serves as an ignition trigger to produce flames, and the gasoline fuel injected in the premixed charge intake stroke and having created the premixed surroundings is burned in a succeeding combustion expansion stroke to generate power. Accordingly, a practical diesel-gasoline dual fuel powered engine solving both unstable combustion due to difficulty in control of ignition times and combustion and knockings restricting power performance can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Hyundai Motor Company
  • Publication number: 20130152584
    Abstract: A method for correcting a total cylinder air flow during scavenging by way of an oxygen sensor is disclosed. Additionally, cylinder trapped air amount and cylinder scavenging air amount are adjusted based on the corrected total cylinder air flow. The approach may reduce sensitivity between cylinder air flow estimates and fuel supplied for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mrdjan J. Jankovic, Amey Y. Karnik
  • Publication number: 20130152900
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (100) includes: a first fuel supply portion (28) which is provided in a combustion chamber (12) or in an intake passageway (40) that communicates with the combustion chamber (12), and which supplies a first fuel; a second fuel supply portion (24) that is provided in the combustion chamber (12) and that supplies a second fuel that is capable of compression-ignited fuel; and a third fuel to supply portion (26) that is provided in the intake passageway (40) and that supplies the second fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko Masubuchi
  • Publication number: 20130146020
    Abstract: A composite power cycle engine may include a fuel injector that injects fuel into air that is or is to be supplied into a combustion chamber, a high temperature medium injector that injects a high temperature medium into the combustion chamber to increase pressure of the combustion chamber, a low temperature medium injector that injects a low temperature medium into the combustion chamber to reduce pressure of the combustion chamber, and a piston that may be disposed in the combustion chamber to slidably move therein and that transforms gas expansion or contraction energy into kinetic energy, wherein the high temperature medium injector or the low temperature medium injector increases or reduces the pressure of the combustion chamber so as to generate power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130146026
    Abstract: A damping element implemented for damping a vibration transmitted between an injection valve and a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine may include a base body substantially shaped as a ring washer and at least one first contact segment fixedly coupled to the base body and protruding past the base body in a first axial direction and a second contact segment fixedly coupled to the base body and protruding past the base body in a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction. The first at least one contact segment has a radial offset from the longitudinal axis that is unequal to a radial offset of the second contact segment from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Jens Fath, Joachim Wagner, Rainer Weber, Marco Haller, Robert Kuchler
  • Publication number: 20130146029
    Abstract: An independent fuel injection system of a compressed natural gas (CNG) engine, may include a cylinder head having an intake port of an engine using CNG as fuel; an intake manifold communicating with the cylinder head so as to supply external air to the cylinder head; and an injection module installed at a predetermined portion of the intake manifold adjacent to the cylinder head and injecting the CNG fuel toward the intake port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jonghyuck Kim, Sungha Lee, Jonggyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130146025
    Abstract: A fuel supply system of a vehicle, may include a fuel tank storing ethanol therein, a main injector installed at an engine to inject the ethanol from the fuel tank, a heater provided to heat the ethanol supplied from the fuel tank to the engine, a cold-starting injector installed at the engine to inject the ethanol heated by the heater, and a valve unit connected to the main injector and the cold-starting injector and performing a switching operation between a state of the ethanol being supplied from the fuel tank to the main injector and a state of the ethanol heated by the heater being supplied to the cold-starting injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Kia Motors Corp.
    Inventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Jun Park
  • Publication number: 20130146027
    Abstract: Provided is a combustion generating device of an internal combustion engine, which is capable of performing very precise flame control through a simple structure which does not need a prechamber and reducing harmful exhaust gas through low-temperature rapid combustion. The combustion generating device includes: an ignition system generating a spark; and an injector generating a mixture by mixing air and fuel and injecting a flame into a combustion chamber, the flame being generated by applying the spark to the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Soohyung Woo, Jinkook Kong, Youngnam Kim
  • Patent number: 8463524
    Abstract: An ECU calculates actual intake air quantity suctioned into a combustion chamber or a value correlated with the actual intake air quantity as an actual measurement data based on a measurement value of an airflow meter. The ECU calculates intake air quantity estimated to be suctioned into the combustion chamber or a value correlated with the estimated intake air quantity as an estimation data based on a drive state of a throttle actuator. The ECU detects an abnormality in the throttle actuator based on a deviation degree between the actual measurement data and the estimation data. In the abnormality detection, the ECU changes at least one of an abnormality determination value used in the abnormality determination using the deviation degree, the actual measurement data and the estimation data based on a fuel property sensed with a fuel property sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130139790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual fuel injection valve having a pumping nozzle for a diesel engine and a gas engine, and an objective of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve in which, by using two kinds of fuel entering into a fuel valve, a warming up and injection of pilot fuel may be performed in an initial injection and injection of main fuel may be performed subsequently such that subsequent dual fuel is used for combustion, thereby increasing fuel injection performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deuk-Jin Park, Eung-Sung Kim, Ju-Tae Kim, Kwang-Cheol Heo, Jong-Suk Kim, Eun Ha
  • Publication number: 20130139789
    Abstract: A method and a device for supplying fuel into a combustion chamber of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in which an air-fuel mixture is supplied to the cylinder via at least two intake sections, which are connected to the cylinder via an intake valve, and each of the intake sections is assigned an injector, fuel being injected into the intake sections in at least intermittently asynchronous manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Gutscher, Andreas Posselt, Marko Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20130133624
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a two-cycle engine that includes an exhaust port which is opened and closed at one end portion in a longitudinal direction of a cylinder; a scavenging port which is opened and closed at the other end portion in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder; and a fuel injection port which injects a fuel into the cylinder provided between the exhaust port and the scavenging port, wherein the fuel begins to be injected in a state in which at least any one of the exhaust port and the scavenging port is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirose, Takeshi Yamada, Yasunori Ashikaga, Takayuki Yamada, Takahiro Kuge, Takahiro Takimoto, Mamoru Nomura
  • Publication number: 20130125861
    Abstract: An intake apparatus of an engine provided with a fuel supply device for supplying fuel into an intake passage. A guide body is disposed in the intake passage located downstream from the fuel supply device, and the guide body may have at least one hole. The volume ratio of the guide body relative to the intake passage range and the volume ratio of the total holes relative to the guide body are ranged in the preferable volume percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventor: Toshihiko Yamamoto