An electronic control system and a device is disclosed proving improved control and diagnostics of glow plugs as are typically energized in diesel engines prior to and during cold start and also during engine warmup, especially for motor vehicles under human operator control. These improved control functions result in: Increased life of the glow plugs, longer service life, greater reliability, a simplified maintainence diagnostic interface, greater diagnostic capability, reduced emission of undesirable hydrocarbons, reduced unburned fuel as white smoke, more complete fuel combusion, reduced lubricating oil contamination, quiter and smoother operation, increased engine power, reduced fuel consumption, and quicker engine warmup all by controlling power applied to the glow plugs based upon electronically controlled fixed and/or adaptive functional algorithms based upon input variables such as battery voltage, glow plug voltages, glow plug currents, engine temperature based upon algorithms which can correct for sensing system hysteresis and time lag, ambient air termperature ambient air density, ambient air humidity, fuel injector duration and timing, intake mass air flow, exhaust gas composition, exhaust gas temperature, alternator output, engine speed, engine torque, engine power, engine compression, engine age, fuel type, and the like for affecting an on and off cycling using open loop control and/or closed loop feedback control of glow plug power so as to maintine glow plugs more closely within an optimal temperature range specific to engine system operational conditions and consistent with improved glow plug life.

Voltage monitoring glow plug controller

In a closed loop fuel control system for an internal combustion engine having a catalytic converter in its exhaust system, a first zirconia sensor in the exhaust system upstream from the catalytic converter generates a signal indicative of air-fuel ratio in gases before catalytic treatment, a second zirconia sensor in the exhaust system downstream from the catalytic converter generates a signal indicative of air-fuel ratio in gases after catalytic treatment and a cascade feedback control system including both zirconia sensors controls the rate of flow of fuel or air to the engine in response to both sensor signals and a reference to maintain a constant stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in the exhaust system for maximum catalytic converter efficiency in simultaneous oxidation and reduction. The engine fuel system reverts to open loop operation during wide open throttle, closed throttle and cold start operation.

Engine with dual sensor closed loop fuel control

A gas turbine system and method is provided. The proposed gas turbine system includes a combustor with at least one burner. The burner has an entry for introducing a fuel into an operating medium composed of a gas containing an oxidant to facilitate combustion of the fuel. In operation, the combustion of the fuel generates a flame and a resulting combustion gas. The provided gas turbine system includes at least one oxygen sensor located downstream of the flame, and measures an oxygen concentration of the combustion gas at that location. Further, the proposed gas turbine system includes a device to determine the temperature of the flame based upon the measured oxygen concentration of the combustion gas at the location of at least one oxygen sensor.

Gas turbine system and method

In accordance with an amount of a change or a proportion of the change of at least one of operating parameters, such as a crankshaft rotational speed, an intake pipe pressure, etc., of an internal combustion engine equipped with an electronically controlled fuel injection system, or a rate of incremental change of the amount of the change or the proportion of the change and in dependence on whether air-fuel ratio feedback compensation by the use of an oxygen sensor is effected or not, at least one of control variables, such as a fuel injection quantity, ignition timing, etc., is corrected to ensure stable control of the rotational speed of the engine during its idling and low speed operations.

Method and apparatus for controlling internal combustion engines

There is provided an air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines wherein the direction of deviation of the actual air-fuel ratio from a preset air-fuel ratio is determined by an oxygen concentration detector for detecting the concentration of oxygen contained in the exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine and an air-fuel ratio discriminating circuit, whereby air is injected from an air injection valve when the air-fuel ratio is low i.e. the mixture is rich and fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve when the air-fuel ratio is high i.e. the mixture is lean, thereby controlling the air-fuel ratio to a predetermined value.

Air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines

A closed loop engine control system for internal combustion engines is described. The control system is responsive to signals indicative of the presence or absence of oxygen in the exhaust gas of the engine and is operative to generate an output signal for receipt by a fuel delivery controller which will cause that fuel delivery controller to increase fuel delivery in the presence of oxygen molecules in the exhaust gas and to decrease fuel delivery in the absence of oxygen molecules in the exhaust gas in order to maintain the fuel delivery at the predetermined, and preferably the stoichiometric, air/fuel ratio mixture point.

Closed loop engine control system

A closed loop control system is disclosed for controlling the air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. An oxygen sensor is connected into the control loop after engine warm up when the temperature has reached its operating temperature to maintain the air-fuel ratio close to the stoichiometric value. An engine roughness detector is connected into the control loop before the oxygen sensor has reached its operating temperature to maintain the air-fuel ratio close to a predetermined lean limit. A temperature sensor and switching means controlled thereby are provided to alternately connect the roughness detector and the oxygen sensor in the control loop.

Alternate closed loop control system for an air-fuel ratio controller

An electronic controller for a predetermined temperature coefficient heater provides solid state control of the application of power to the heater. In particular, a positive temperature coefficient glow plug wherein the heater is plated on a ceramic substrate glow plug is controlled by contactless solid state controller. The temperature of the glow plug is sampled by a clock signal and compared with a predetermined temperature value. Pulsed power is supplied to elevate and maintain the temperature of the heater to the predetermined value. In a complete motor vehicle engine wherein one glow plug is used in each cylinder, one glow plug is sampled and controls the remainder of the plugs.

Electronic controller for predetermined temperature coefficient heater

Means for improving the fuel economy and hence efficiency of an internal combustion engine having electronic fuel injection where the amount of fuel delivered to the engine is proportional to the width and frequency of injector pulses. The engine is operated at constant speed and a nominal pulse width is established according to ambient conditions. The pulse width is varied, either increasingly or decreasingly, and the width is measured and stored at one point in time and compared with the width at a later time. If the comparison shows the width at a later time to be narrower than the stored value, variation is continued in the original sense. When the comparison shows that the later value of pulse width is greater than the earlier value, the sense of variation is reversed.

Means for improving the efficiency of an internal combustion engine

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Means for improving the efficiency of an internal combustion engine