Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090043475 | CYLINDER PRESSURE SENSOR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - A control module comprising a cylinder torque determination module that determines an indicated torque for a cylinder in an engine based on a pressure in the cylinder, a cylinder torque balancing module that determines a derivative term for the cylinder based on rotation of a crankshaft, and a cylinder pressure error detection module that detects a pressure error for the cylinder based on the indicated torque and the derivative term. A method comprising determining an indicated torque for a cylinder in an engine based on a pressure in the cylinder, determining a derivative term for the cylinder based on rotation of a crankshaft, and detecting a pressure error for the cylinder based on the indicated torque and the derivative term. | 02-12-2009 |
20090056429 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING CRANKSHAFT POSITION DATA - A method for collecting crankshaft position data includes rotating a crankshaft of an engine within a selected angular velocity range without any fuel being applied to the engine and measuring crankshaft position data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090120175 | FILTERING FOR ROUGH ROAD DETECTION - An engine misfire system comprises a rough road detection module and a misfire detection module. The rough road detection module selectively generates a rough road indicator based upon a transmission output speed of a vehicle. The misfire detection module selectively diagnoses engine misfire and selectively generates a misfire indicator based on diagnosed engine misfire and the rough road indicator. | 05-14-2009 |
20100083936 | Target wheel position detection systems - A control module for a vehicle includes a time recording module that stores timestamps that correspond to each of N teeth of a target wheel of the vehicle in memory. N is an integer. A position module generates M angular positions based on the timestamps. M is an integer greater than one. Each of the M angular positions corresponds to a space between adjacent ones of the N teeth. A position estimator determines position of the target wheel based on the M positions. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088010 | METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ENGINE FUNCTION BASED ON CRAKSHAFT ACCELERATION - A method and control system for controlling an engine includes an instantaneous crankshaft acceleration determining module determining an instantaneous crankshaft acceleration. An engine parameter adjustment module adjusts an engine parameter in response to the instantaneous crankshaft acceleration. | 04-08-2010 |
20100191445 | INDIVIDUAL CYLINDER FUEL MASS CORRECTION FACTOR FOR HIGH DRIVABILITY INDEX (HIDI) FUEL - A system includes a fuel detection module, a misfire detection module, and a fuel control module. The fuel detection module detects when a fuel supplied to an engine having C cylinders has a high drivability index (HIDI), where C is an integer greater than 1. The misfire detection module detects whether M of the C cylinders misfire when the fuel has the HIDI, where M is an integer, and 1≦M07-29-2010 | |
20110056278 | SYNCHRONIZATION DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGINE CONTROLLERS - An engine controller diagnostic system includes a cylinder identification (ID) comparison module and a synchronization diagnostic module. The cylinder ID comparison module compares a first cylinder ID associated with a first controller with a second cylinder ID associated with a second controller. The synchronization diagnostic module determines a synchronization status of the first controller based on a comparison between the first cylinder ID and the second cylinder ID. | 03-10-2011 |
20110066358 | PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR RANDOM MISFIRE - A control system includes a jerk determination module and a misfire confirmation module. The jerk determination module determines a jerk of a crankshaft associated with a firing event in an engine. The misfire confirmation module selectively confirms that a misfire detected in the engine is valid based on the jerk. | 03-17-2011 |
20110253100 | CYLINDER COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND CONTROL WITH COORDINATED TORQUE CONTROL - An engine control system includes a disturbance module, a torque correction module, a torque-to-spark module, and a spark correction module. The disturbance module determines a disturbance value for a past combustion stroke of a cylinder of an engine based on rotation of a crankshaft. The torque correction module selectively determines a torque correction for a future combustion stroke of the cylinder based on the disturbance value. The torque-to-spark module determines a spark correction based on the torque correction and determines an uncorrected spark timing based on a torque request. The spark correction module determines a corrected spark timing based on the uncorrected spark timing and the spark correction and generates spark during the future combustion stroke based on the corrected spark timing. | 10-20-2011 |
20110253101 | CYLINDER COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND CONTROL - An engine control system includes a disturbance module, a misfire threshold determination module, a disturbance ratio module, and a spark control module. The disturbance module determines a disturbance value for a past combustion stroke of a cylinder based on rotation of a crankshaft. The misfire threshold determination module determines a jerk value indicative of a misfire within the cylinder. The disturbance ratio module determines a disturbance ratio for the past combustion stroke based on the disturbance value and the jerk value. The spark control module determines a spark timing for a future combustion stroke of the cylinder, determines a spark timing correction for the future combustion stroke based on the disturbance ratio, determines a corrected spark timing based on the spark timing and the spark timing correction, and generates spark during the future combustion stroke based on the corrected spark timing. | 10-20-2011 |
20110288734 | POWERTRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHODS WITH ECM-TO-TCM PARAMETER TRANSFER PROTOCOLS FOR TCM BASED CONTROL - A control system includes an engine control module and a transmission control module. The transmission control module communicates with the engine control module via a network. The engine control module generates a mean engine speed signal and a minimum engine speed signal. The engine control module transmits the mean engine speed signal and the minimum engine speed signal to the transmission control module via the network. The transmission control module controls operation of at least one of a torque converter and a transmission based on the mean engine speed signal and the minimum engine speed signal. The torque converter is connected between an engine and the transmission. | 11-24-2011 |
20120078485 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CRANKSHAFT POSITION BASED INDICATED MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURE (IMEP) - A system for a vehicle includes a filtering module and an indicated work module. The filtering module generates engine speeds based on positions of teeth of a toothed wheel that rotates with a crankshaft and based on a crankshaft position signal generated by a crankshaft position sensor. The crankshaft position sensor generates the crankshaft position signal based on rotation of the toothed wheel. The indicated work module generates an indicated work for a combustion cycle of a cylinder of an engine based on squares of first and second ones of the engine speeds and outputs the indicated work. | 03-29-2012 |
20120310505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING INDICATED MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURE OF CYLINDERS IN AN ENGINE - A system for an engine includes first, second, third, and fourth modules. The first module determines an expected response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within a cylinder of the engine. The second module determines a value based on the expected response and a measured response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within the cylinder of the engine. The third module estimates an indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) for the cylinder of the engine based on the value. The fourth module selectively adjusts an operating parameter of the engine based in the estimated IMEP. | 12-06-2012 |
20130054109 | STOCHASTIC PRE-IGNITION DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system for a vehicle includes a time stamping module, a period determination module, a stochastic pre-ignition (SPI) indication module, and an SPI remediation module. The time stamping module generates first and second timestamps when a crankshaft of an engine is in first and second crankshaft positions during an engine cycle, respectively. The period determination module determines a period between the first and second timestamps. The SPI indication module selectively indicates that an SPI event occurred within a cylinder of the engine based on the period. The SPI remediation module selectively adjusts at least one engine operating parameter in response to the SPI indication module indicating that the SPI event occurred within the cylinder. | 02-28-2013 |
20130312504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MISFIRE BASED ON A FIRING PATTERN OF AN ENGINE AND ENGINE TORQUE - A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a threshold determination module and a misfire detection module. The threshold determination module determines at least one of an acceleration threshold and a jerk threshold based on a misfire type. The misfire detection module detects a misfire in a cylinder of an engine when: (i) crankshaft acceleration is less than the acceleration threshold; and/or (ii) crankshaft jerk is less than the jerk threshold. Crankshaft jerk is a derivative of crankshaft acceleration with respect to time. | 11-28-2013 |