US Patent Issued to PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS on May 27 for "Method of determining closing time of needle valve of a fuel injector" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,017, issued on May 27, was assigned to PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method of determining closing time of needle valve of a fuel injector" was invented by Baptiste Perrot (Blois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a solenoid controlled fuel injector including a solenoid controlled actuator adapted to control a needle valve comprises the steps of: a) providing a reference curve/signal; b) activating the injector by sending an activation pulse to the solenoid, and measuring the voltage signal to provide a solenoid voltage signal, determining a difference signal, Delta_signal; d) differentia...