US Patent Issued to Mazda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Control system for engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,674, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Aki-gun, Japan).

"Control system for engine" was invented by Naoki Bando (Aki-gun, Japan), Yusuke Kuroiwa (Aki-gun, Japan), Takahiro Kawamura (Aki-gun, Japan) and Atsushi Ohshita (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an accelerator opening degree decreases to be lower than a predetermined accelerator determination opening degree, a control device implements a fuel cut that stops fuel injection by an injector; and in implementation of fuel cut, when a catalyst temperature is high, the control device implements an intake air amount increase control to control an int...