US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on July 7 for "Knocking control method for internal combustion engine and knocking control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,435, issued on July 7, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Knocking control method for internal combustion engine and knocking control device" was invented by Yuusuke Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuki Tanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshikatsu Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling knocking of an internal combustion engine has, when knocking having a knock judgment threshold value or more is detected, retard-correcting an ignition timing at a predetermined retardation speed, while the knocking is not detected, gradually advancing the ignition timing at a predetermined advanc...