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An apparatus is disclosed that includes a haptic actuator operatively associated with a pedal assembly of the vehicle, a human-machine interface (HMI) for enabling the driver to select between a plurality of fuel savings settings, and a controller coupled to a data interface in the vehicle and the HMI interface for causing the haptic actuator to provide feedback to the driver when an aspect of vehicle operation crosses at least one of a plurality of speed and acceleration thresholds responsive to the HMI setting. Additionally, a coaching method provides haptic-based feedback that will not interfere with the operation of the vehicle. This method of closed-loop feedback provides a timely signal to the driver in a way that will encourage a change in driver style over time, such as backing off the accelerator pedal to accelerate at a lower rate and braking earlier with less intensity. As not all driver preferences are the same under all conditions, the HMI selector will help coach the driver by providing feedback that best fits their driving preference at the particular time.

An apparatus is disclosed that includes a haptic actuator operatively associated with a pedal assembly of the vehicle, a human-machine interface (HMI) for enabling the driver to select between a plurality of fuel savings settings, and a controller coupled to a data interface in the vehicle and the HMI interface for causing the haptic actuator to provide feedback to the driver when an aspect of vehicle operation crosses at least one of a plurality of speed and acceleration thresholds responsive to the HMI setting. Additionally, a coaching method provides haptic-based feedback that will not interfere with the operation of the vehicle. This method of closed-loop feedback provides a timely signal to the driver in a way that will encourage a change in driver style over time, such as backing off the accelerator pedal to accelerate at a lower rate and braking earlier with less intensity. As not all driver preferences are the same under all conditions, the HMI selector will help coach the driver by providing feedback that best fits their driving preference at the particular time.

A heat exchanger integrated into the transmission oil pan transfers heat from post-catalyst exhaust gases to the transmission oil. Inlet and outlet ducts route exhaust gas between the heat exchanger and an exhaust pipe located downstream of the catalyst. The exhaust pipe accommodates a control valve that diverts exhaust gas flow to the heat exchanger during the warm-up phase, or to the tailpipe during steady state operation. A control function is provided to monitor transmission oil temperature and engine operating conditions and to control actuation of the valve. The main input parameter to the control function is the transmission oil temperature.

A system according to this invention opposes creep in a hydraulic hybrid motor vehicle. An accumulator contains fluid at high pressure, and a reservoir contains fluid at lower pressure. An engine produces positive torque at the wheels during an engine idle condition, and a pump / motor, driveably connected to the wheels and the engine, has a variable volumetric displacement pumps fluid to the accumulator from the reservoir. A control system determines a magnitude of negative torque transmitted from the wheels to the pump / motor that would exceed the magnitude of positive torque, determines the volumetric displacement of the pump / motor corresponding to the magnitude of negative torque, changes the displacement of the pump / motor to the required displacement, and operates the pump / motor as a pump driven by negative torque from the wheels to pump fluid from the reservoir to the accumulator.

A heat exchanger integrated into the transmission oil pan transfers heat from post-catalyst exhaust gases to the transmission oil. Inlet and outlet ducts route exhaust gas between the heat exchanger and an exhaust pipe located downstream of the catalyst. The exhaust pipe accommodates a control valve that diverts exhaust gas flow to the heat exchanger during the warm-up phase, or to the tailpipe during steady state operation. A control function is provided to monitor transmission oil temperature and engine operating conditions and to control actuation of the valve. The main input parameter to the control function is the transmission oil temperature.

A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines, has a distributor tube and a high-pressure pump that is driven as a function of engine rpm and that serves to generate the fuel pressure and throughput required in the distributor tube in the applicable operating state of the engine. The system also includes a fuel metering unit, which is associated with the high-pressure pump and includes a regulating valve which is actuated electromagnetically. The fuel metering unit is disposed in the high-pressure pump, and the outlet of the regulating valve discharges into the low-pressure region of the high-pressure pump. The above design features make a fuel metering unit possible that is capable of metering the exact quantity of fuel desired in the applicable engine operating state to the high-pressure pump of the CR system.

A start-up injector for a turbine engine combustion chamber, said injector including a fuel injection circuit; and a fuel ignition circuit including a fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and a spark plug for igniting the injected fuel. The start-up injector also includes a partitioned enclosure including a first compartment in which the fuel is ignited by the spark plug and a second compartment separated from the first compartment by a thermally conductive partition; and a main combustion start-up circuit which includes at least one fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and opens into the second compartment of the enclosure such as to inject the fuel against the wall.

The invention discloses a rubber composition for a color truck radial tire tread. The rubber composition comprises, by weight, 100 parts of a rubber matrix, 5-8 parts of an active agent, 40-80 parts of white carbon black, 4-8 parts of a silane coupling agent, 4-10 parts of light color rubber oil, 1.5-3.5 parts of an accelerator, 4-8 parts of an anti-aging agent, 1-2 parts of a vulcanizing agent, 5-8 parts of an antistatic agent, and 3-6 parts of a coloring agent, wherein the rubber matrix comprises a natural rubber and rare earth polybutadiene rubber, or comprises a natural rubber, rare earthpolybutadiene rubber and styrene butadiene rubber, the white carbon black is the high dispersible precipitated white carbon black, the accelerator is the combination of an accelerator CBS and an accelerator DPG, the anti-aging agent is the combination of three components of a non-polluting type light color antiozidant, a non-polluting type light color antioxidant and an anti-aging agent RD, the vulcanizing agent is sulfur, and the antistatic agent is a polyether antistatic agent. With the rubber composition of the present invention, the tensile strength of the prepared tread is 25 MPa, and the elongation at break is more than 500%. The rubber composition of the present invention is mainly used for the color truck radial tire tread.

[Object] To provide a nanoparticle-containing lubricating oil composition which demonstrates a low friction coefficient and realizes a further fuel economy.[Solving Means] A nanoparticle-containing lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil, an additive having hydroxyl group, and nanoparticle. A nanoparticle-containing lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil, an ashless friction modifier having hydroxyl group, and nanoparticle. A nanoparticle-containing lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil, an additive having hydroxyl group, and nanoparticle having a particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm. A nanoparticle-containing lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil, an ashless friction modifier having hydroxyl group, and nanoparticle having a particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm.

A fuel economy improvement assist device (1) has: accelerator operation amount detection means (12); and display control means (15a) for displaying, on a display device (20), a target value corresponding to a target accelerator operation amount and a deviation value of the detected accelerator operation amount from the target accelerator operation amount (14a). The display control means (15a) calculates an accelerator depression speed based on the detected accelerator operation amount, and variably displays the deviation value in accordance with the calculated accelerator depression speed.

Intake air heating and exhaust cooling is provided by a double wall exhaust system serving as an exhaust-to-air heat exchanger, sourcing hot air to the intake manifold for intake stroke pumping benefit and cooling the exhaust system during high load operation by routing excess boost air through an interstitial space of the double wall.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling a fuel system in a hybrid vehicle. Before canister purging is stopped by closing a purge valve, a canister vent valve is closed to hold fuel tank vacuum. Then, during a subsequent canister purge, the purge valve is opened before opening the vent valve, allowing canister purge to initiate under fuel tank vacuum conditions.

A low-octane fuel and a high-octane fuel stored in a low-octane fuel tank (5) and a high-octane fuel tank (7), both having known octane numbers, are injected from fuel injection valves (13a, 13b) into an intake port (12) at a mixing proportion that achieves a standard octane number set in accordance with the engine operation state. If knocking occurs during a predetermined steady engine operation state, the knocking is detected by a knock sensor (10b) and, corresponding to the knocking, the ignition timing is retarded from a basic ignition timing. A deviation in octane number is determined from the amount of ignition timing retardation with reference to a map, and is then corrected by the intake air pressure. On the basis of the corrected deviation in octane number, a deviation in the mixing proportion of the high-octane fuel is determined with reference to a map. The thus-determined deviation is added to a target mixing proportion computed corresponding to the standard octane number, thereby computing the present mixing proportion.

An upper limit value of an upward gradient of a road surface for starting neutral coasting is set to be larger than an upper limit of the upward gradient of the road surface for starting free-run coasting, so, when the upward gradient is relatively large and a coasting distance is short, the vehicle is caused to travel in the neutral coasting, and stop and restart of the engine are not carried out. Therefore, a decrease in drivability of the vehicle is suppressed. When the upward gradient is relatively small and the coasting distance is long, the vehicle is caused to travel in the free-run coasting, and supply of fuel to the engine is stopped, so fuel economy of the vehicle is obtained. Thus, it is possible to achieve both fuel economy and drivability of the vehicle during coasting on an upward gradient.

A low-octane fuel and a high-octane fuel stored in a low-octane fuel tank (5) and a high-octane fuel tank (7), both having known octane numbers, are injected from fuel injection valves (13a, 13b) into an intake port (12) at a mixing proportion that achieves a standard octane number set in accordance with the engine operation state. If knocking occurs during a predetermined steady engine operation state, the knocking is detected by a knock sensor (10b) and, corresponding to the knocking, the ignition timing is retarded from a basic ignition timing. A deviation in octane number is determined from the amount of ignition timing retardation with reference to a map, and is then corrected by the intake air pressure. On the basis of the corrected deviation in octane number, a deviation in the mixing proportion of the high-octane fuel is determined with reference to a map. The thus-determined deviation is added to a target mixing proportion computed corresponding to the standard octane number, thereby computing the present mixing proportion.

The invention provides a method for controlling the torsion of a stepless variable-speed moderate hybrid vehicle, which comprises the following steps that: an engine management system ECU calculates the torsion required by an integral vehicle according to the displacement amount of an accelerator pedal of a driver, after the torsion required by the integral vehicle is calculated, the engine management system ECU sends the torsion required by the integral vehicle to an integral vehicle controller HCU, and the integral vehicle controller HCU distributes motor torsion and engine torsion according to the condition of the current electric quantity of a battery and the running condition of an engine. Through the method, the dynamic property of the integral vehicle can be met, and the working condition of the engine is optimized by combining with the operating characteristic of CVT, so that the integral vehicle has economic consumption of fuel oil and less pollution emission, and achieves the effects of energy conservation and emission reduction.

In an engine drive washing machine, a discharge switch 10 is provided in a jet gun 5. When the switch 10 is turned off, an engine 1 is stopped. When the switch 10 is turned on, the engine 1 is started up to drive a pump 2. When an outlet pressure of the pump 2 is not lower than a predetermined value, a water-discharge valve in the gun 5 is opened to cause the water to be discharged. When the switch 10 is not turned off for a long time, the engine 1 is stopped. When an operator takes up the gun 5 to start the operation, the engine 1 is started up. The engine-drive type of washing machine is provided with a battery 13 for a starter motor, and the battery 13 is charged by a generator function of a starter-motor generator 3 during the operation of the engine 1.

Intake air heating and exhaust cooling is provided by a double wall exhaust system serving as an exhaust-to-air heat exchanger, sourcing hot air to the intake manifold for intake stroke pumping benefit and cooling the exhaust system during high load operation by routing excess boost air through an interstitial space of the double wall.

Methods are provided for performing diagnostic routines in a hybrid vehicle. In one example approach, a method for operating a hybrid vehicle comprises inhibiting engine shutdown and enabling deceleration fuel shut off to perform a monitoring test while a vehicle speed is above a threshold speed.

The invention provides a drive control method of a hybrid power drive system. The drive system comprises an energy storage device, a first motor, a second motor, an engine, a clutch and a drive shaft, the engine is interconnected with the first motor in series; output shafts of the first motor and the second motor are connected to the clutch; the first motor and the second motor are electrically connected to the energy storage device; the drive shaft is connected to the output shaft of the second motor, wherein, the clutch is a tristate overrunning clutch. The method comprises the following steps: controlling the drive system to be in a pure electromotive operating condition, a serial connection operating condition, a series parallel connection operating condition or a parallel connection operating condition according to power demand of the drive system and an energy storage condition of the energy storage device, and controlling power outputs of the first motor, the second motor and the engine in the series parallel connection operating condition or the parallel connection operating condition. The drive control method helps effectively exert the efficiency of the hybrid power drive system and reduce pollutants discharge, which is good for environmental protection.

Various methods and systems are provided for reducing pressure in a fuel tank of a fuel system of an engine. In one example, cooling fluid is routed from an air conditioner of a cooling system to a vapor cooler disposed in a vapor space of the fuel tank such that fuel vapor in the fuel tank may be condensed and routed to a fuel pump for delivery to the engine, thereby reducing a fuel tank pressure.

A fuel economy improvement assist device (1) has: accelerator operation amount detection means (12); and display control means (15a) for displaying, on a display device (20), a target value corresponding to a target accelerator operation amount and a deviation value of the detected accelerator operation amount from the target accelerator operation amount (14a). The display control means (15a) calculates an accelerator depression speed based on the detected accelerator operation amount, and variably displays the deviation value in accordance with the calculated accelerator depression speed.

A start-up injector for a turbine engine combustion chamber, said injector including a fuel injection circuit; and a fuel ignition circuit including a fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and a spark plug for igniting the injected fuel. The start-up injector also includes a partitioned enclosure including a first compartment in which the fuel is ignited by the spark plug and a second compartment separated from the first compartment by a thermally conductive partition; and a main combustion start-up circuit which includes at least one fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and opens into the second compartment of the enclosure such as to inject the fuel against the wall.

Methods and systems are provided for displaying a recommended engine fuel fill amount to an operator of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. In one example, the recommended engine fuel fill amount is determined based on an actual amount of fuel consumed over a particular duration and displayed to an operator of the vehicle with a low fuel warning.

A fuel gas has a gas including at least 40 weight % or more of 1-butene and propane, or at least 56 weight % or more of 1-butene and propylene. A combustion type power tool is driven by the fuel gas. A compressed gas container for a combustion type power tool has an inner side vessel filled with the fuel gas. When the fuel gas includes propane, 1-butene may be equal to or higher than 59 weight % and equal to or lower than 95 weight %. When the fuel gas includes propylene, the 1-butene may be equal to or higher than 70 weight % and equal to or lower than 96 weight %.