US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on July 1 for "Internal combustion engine control device" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,214, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Internal combustion engine control device" was invented by Akiyasu Miyamoto (Tokyo), Henning Sauerland (Schwaig-Oberding, Germany), Naoki Yoneya (Tokyo) and Yoshihito Yasukawa (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine control device includes a valve closing time calculation unit, a valve closing delay time difference calculation unit that normalizes a plurality of valve closing delay times with a fuel pressure and calculates a valve closing delay time difference, a content rate calculation unit that calculates the s...