US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on May 13 for "Control method for internal combustion engine and control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,796, issued on May 13, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for internal combustion engine and control device" was invented by Sho Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuji Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When vibration sensed by knock sensor configured to sense the vibration of a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine is greater than a predetermined knock threshold value, a controller performs a first ignition timing control to retard ignition timings of cylinders so that the vibration becomes equal to or smaller than the knock threshold value; previously specifies a speci...