US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 14 for "Control apparatus for engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,306, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Control apparatus for engine" was invented by Masataka Sumita (Aki-gun, Japan), Kouichi Miyamoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Kouji Shishime (Aki-gun, Japan) and Kenichi Ogasawara (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for an engine includes: a valve that adjusts an intake air filling amount for a cylinder according to an operation amount of an accelerator pedal; a sensor that outputs a measurement signal related to a temperature of an upper end of a cylinder head having an intake port and an exhaust port communicating with the cylinder; an...