US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 15 for "Engine control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,233, issued on April 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Engine control device" was invented by Hidetake Tanaka (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhiro Shikata (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU includes: an index calculation unit calculating, as indices relating to fuel properties, a first index that indicates a degree of anti-knocking margin and a second index that indicates required ignition energy required for normal ignition; a first control unit for setting a target in-cylinder temperature based on the first index and controlling an in-cylinder temperature based on the target in-cylinder temperature, as an i...