Abstract: The invention provides an internal combustion engine controller for an internal combustion engine having a fuel tank which can be purged of fuel vapor via a purge line connected through a canister unit, to a suction input of the internal combustion engine. The amount of fuel vapor stored in the canister or the amount of fuel vapor supplied to the internal combustion engine according to the operating state and operation range of the engine are calculated, and the purge control valve and air-fuel ratio control characteristics are adjusted using the calculated value. At the same time, appropriate control of the amount of fuel vapor and purge control valve when diagnosing the purge pipe system failure by application of pressure to the purge pipe system, are provided. Both internal combustion engine control with the minimum change in air-fuel ratio and purge control are ensured, and highly reliable diagnosis of the purge pipe system is realized.

Abstract: A number of embodiments of feedback control systems for maintaining the desired air fuel ratio in a marine propulsion engine that has an exhaust system for exhausting the exhaust gases to the atmosphere through an underwater exhaust gas discharge and wherein the discharge is adjustable relative to the associated watercraft. Conditions which will change the back pressure in the exhaust system are measured and the amount of fuel air ratio supplied to the engine by a feedback control system is varied, depending upon the sensed airflow and the sensed condition of the exhaust outlet that may affect back pressure and, accordingly, the ideal air fuel ratio. Spark ignition timing is also changed and the air fuel ratio may be corrected depending upon exhaust back pressure.

Abstract: An internal combustion reciprocating engine includes a cylinder defining a main combustion chamber, a piston reciprocally movable in the cylinder, and a cylinder head providing an end wall for the main combustion chamber. A body is mounted in the cylinder head and is provided with an end wall substantially coincident with the main combustion chamber end wall, the body defining a pre-chamber and a passage interconnecting the pre-chamber and the cylinder. The body is in contact with the cylinder head only proximate the end wall of the body, the remainder of the body being insulated from the cylinder head, to store heat for heating air and vaporizing fuel introduced into the pre-chamber. A fuel inlet is in communication with the pre-chamber, and a spark source is mounted in the body and exposed to the pre-chamber.

Abstract: An engine control unit is configured to detect the revolution of an engine and to obtain the intensity of both the first order component of revolution for every combustion (one cycle per combustion) and the second order component of revolution. The second order is twice as much as the first order component. The unit further obtains dispersion or deviation in these intensities. Thereby, it is possible to detect combustion conditions and to correct them to desirable conditions.

Abstract: A fuel vapor purge control system of an automobile engine comprises fuel vapor concentration calculating means for calculating a concentration of fuel vapor in the purge flow based on a feedback correction coefficient, target purge rate calculating means for selectively setting a target purge rate depending on the magnitude of the fuel vapor concentration, purge valve controlling means for controlling the operation of a purge control valve so as to obtain the target purge rate, purge condition judging means for judging whether or not a purge condition to perform purging is satisfied based on operational conditions of the engine, wherein the target purge rate calculating means sets an initial target purge rate after the purge condition judging means judges that the purge condition is satisfied, the initial target purge rate being gradually increased with an elapse of time from an initial rate to a predetermined rate, and then sets a target purge rate depending on the fuel vapor concentration after the initial

Abstract: An exhaust brake for an internal combustion engine has a valve body with an exhaust gas conduit therethrough. The conduit has a center, an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The upstream portion is smaller in cross-section than the downstream portion. There is a butterfly valve member in the conduit of the valve body between the upstream portion and the downstream portion. The valve member has a cross-section and is positioned to closely fit the upstream portion when the valve member is closed. The valve member has a center and is pivotally mounted on a pivot which is offset with respect to the center of the conduit and offset from the valve member, whereby gas pressure in the upstream portion of the conduit acting against the valve member can rotate the valve member about the pivot.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust gas component concentration sensor having a sensor element and arranged in the exhaust system of the engine, for detecting concentration of a predetermined component present in exhaust gases emitted from the engine. An ECU controls the air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine, based on results of comparison between an output value from the sensor and a predetermined reference value, and detects deterioration of the exhaust gas component concentration sensor, based on the output value from the sensor. Engine operating condition sensors detect operating conditions of the engine. It is determined whether or not the engine is in a predetermined engine operating condition in which the sensor element temperature of the exhaust gas component concentration sensor lowers, based on outputs from the engine operating condition sensors.

Abstract: The invention is based on a hydraulic system, in particular of an engine brake for an internal combustion engine, having at least one hydraulic actuating element, a positive displacement pump by which pressurized fluid can be pumped from a low-pressure region into a high-pressure region, and a distributor unit (14) having a control output (13) which is connected via a control line with the actuating element, which control output can be pressurized from the high-pressure region and connected to the low-pressure region. In order to obtain the desired control of the actuating elements over a wide range of cycle times and speeds of rotation of the internal combustion engine with a pump of relatively small displacement, a return valve which opens towards the high-pressure region is provided, via which the control line can be connected to the high-pressure region after it has been pressurized from the high-pressure region and before it is connected to the low-pressure region.

Abstract: A glow plug assembly having a shield integrally connected to a housing is disposed in and retained in a bore in a cylinder head by a clamp connected to the cylinder head. A stop surface connected to said housing is engageable with the cylinder head and establishes the location of a heating element second end in the combustion chamber. The clamp maintains the stop against the head and the orientation of the shield angled second end relative to the combustion chamber. The heating element is connected to the housing by a spacer and the housing is sealed with a filler material which blocks the transfer of fluid through the housing. The filler material maintains the housing from passing fluid between the first and second housing ends, minimizes the vibration of the electrical conductors and conducts the heat out of the glow plug.

Abstract: An engine, having an intake passage, a throttle valve arranged in the intake passage, and a fuel injector arranged in the intake passage for injecting fuel into the intake passage, comprises an air-flow control valve arranged in the intake passage between the fuel injector and the throttle valve. The air-flow control valve is controlled to close during the engine starting operation, and to open after the engine starting operation completes. The air-flow control valve has a valve element having an axis about which the element is rotatable when the valve is opened or closed. The rotational direction of the valve element is selected so that air flowing through the valve is guided by the valve toward the fuel injector when the air-flow control valve is controlled to an intermediate open position which is between the closed position and the full open position.

Abstract: A control system and method for a multi cylinder engine that employs a single sensor associated with only one of the combustion chambers for feedback control of that combustion chamber and for controlling the fuel/air ratio of the remaining combustion chambers. The control of the remaining combustion chambers is based upon the value of the feedback control upon the time of shifting between lean and rich mixtures. The reference value is selected, however, after the initial switch between rich and lean so as to permit time for stabilization.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for executing a strategy of electronic throttle monitoring of a powertrain system including an electronic powertrain control module, and an electronic throttle control, includes an independent processor receiving signals shared with the powertrain control module from sensors and actuators on the vehicle. The monitor operates in a monitoring mode to detect faults occurring in the powertrain or the powertrain control module, and determines whether mitigating conditions occur in conjunction with detected power output greater than power demand. In the event that these mitigating conditions are not detected, the monitor operates in a limiting mode to actuate decreases in power output below the level of power demand.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a circuit for processing a signal (UL) of a lambda probe having a probe signal terminal on which the signal (UL) is outputted and a probe ground terminal. The circuit includes a voltage source having a plus pole and having a minus pole connected to the probe ground terminal. A first network of passive components is connected between the plus pole and the probe signal terminal for dividing the voltage between the plus pole and the probe signal terminal in a pregiven ratio thereby providing a divided potential as a first analog signal. An analog-to-digital converter has an input and is connected to a chassis ground at a ground potential different than the ground potential at the probe ground terminal. A second network of passive components is connected to the plus pole for supplying a potential proportional to the potential on the plus pole as a second analog signal.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio feedback correction coefficient for correcting a fuel supply quantity to an engine is proportional-plus-integral controlled based on an output from an oxygen sensor for detecting oxygen concentration in the exhaust gases. When the oxygen sensor is in an inactive condition, deviation of an air-fuel ratio control point in the air-fuel ratio feedback control is detected, and an operating quantity in the proportional-plus-integral control is corrected so as to reduce the detected deviation.

Abstract: A control device in an internal combustion engine, interlocking with a device to generate swirls in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine by providing bypass passages which allow air to bypass a throttle valve for regulating intake air flow rate of the internal combustion engine to control an output power of the internal combustion engine and allow the air to flow in from the side of atmosphere to communicate with air intake ports for respective cylinders on the downstream side of the throttle valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection system used in the intake air passageway of an internal combustion engine has a strategy for reducing cold start hydrocarbon emissions. The fuel injector has an actuator which allows the fuel spray pattern to be varied from one which is widely dispersed and atomized to one which is only weakly dispersed. A strategy for varying the spray pattern during the engine warm-up period after cold start is disclosed. The strategy increases evaporation within the passageway so that cold start overfuelling and attendant hydrocarbon emissions are reduced.

Abstract: An engine, having an intake passage, a throttle valve arranged in the intake passage, and a fuel injector arranged in the intake passage for injecting fuel into the intake passage, comprises an air-flow control valve arranged in the intake passage between the fuel injector and the throttle valve. The air-flow control valve is controlled to close during the engine starting operation, and to open after the engine starting operation completes. The air-flow control valve has a valve element having an axis about which the element is rotatable when the valve is opened or closed. The rotational direction of the valve element is selected so that air flowing through the valve is guided by the valve toward the fuel injector when the air-flow control valve is controlled to an intermediate open position which is between the closed position and the full open position.

Abstract: A throttle control system has two throttle opening sensors. When one sensor in a PID feedback control loop becomes abnormal, as sensed by monitoring the difference between outputs of the dual sensors, the use of sensor output for throttle feedback control is switched from the abnormal one to the other, normal one. Which one of the throttle opening sensors has become abnormal is determined by monitoring the intensity of electric current flowing to a DC motor which drives the throttle valve. Further, if an abnormality in the newly-used other sensor is determined, feedback control is continued based on an estimation of throttle opening calculated by using output of the sensor before its malfunction.

Abstract: In a cylinder-selective injection system for an internal combustion engine, there are cylinder-selective injection suppressions. Subsequent to the suppressions, restoring added quantities specific to an individual cylinder are generated, whose initial value is dependent upon the number of suppressed injections for the cylinder in question, and whose notching-down to zero is dependent upon the number of injections of the cylinder that have taken place after completion of the suppression.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressed gas supply system in an internal combustion engine which may be used for example for an air-assisted or an air-driven fuel injector.