ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,023, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Control device for internal combustion engine" was invented by Eiichiro Ohata (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Failure in ignition of a fuel by an ignition plug is reduced, and, at the same time, wearing of electrodes of the ignition plug in an internal combustion engine is suppressed. A control device 1 for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition control unit that controls energization of an ignition coil 300 that supplies electric energy to an ignition plug 200 that discharges in a cylinder 150 of the internal combustion en...