US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 13 for "Fuel injector control strategy using fuel bulk modulus for fuel injector command determination" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,182, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Fuel injector control strategy using fuel bulk modulus for fuel injector command determination" was invented by Mitchell B. Juchems (Eureka, Ill.) and Andrew O. Marrack (Peoria Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual fuel system includes a fuel injector having a fuel pressurization plunger, and a fueling control unit structured to determine a fuel bulk modulus term based upon a volume change value (dV) and a pressure change value (dP) for a fuel pressurized in the fuel injector. The fueling control unit is further structured to determine fuel inject...