US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Pre-ignition determining apparatus for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,869, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Pre-ignition determining apparatus for internal combustion engine" was invented by Norihito Hanai (Toyota, Japan) and Masanori Toya (Inazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-ignition determining apparatus for an internal combustion engine using hydrogen as fuel is configured to determine an occurrence of pre-ignition based on an output value of a vibration sensor provided in the internal combustion engine. The pre-ignition determining apparatus includes processing circuitry that is configured to execute an accumulation process of calculating an a...