US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 22 for "Internal combustion engine control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,702, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Internal combustion engine control device" was invented by Shinya Matohara (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takeshi Eto (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU includes a processing device that repeatedly executes an air amount calculation process for estimating a flow rate of intake air. The processing device acquires a detection value of a flow rate sensor and stores the detection value in a storage device, stores a time when the detection value of the flow rate sensor is acquired in the storage device as a first time stamp, and stores a ...