US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Controller for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,427, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controller for internal combustion engine" was invented by Tatsunobu Hattori (Seto, Japan), Yutaro Kitano (Toyota, Japan) and Ryota Iwasaki (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine includes a fuel tank, a fuel injection valve, a fuel passage, a shut-off valve disposed in the fuel passage, and a pressure sensor that detects a passage fuel pressure that is a pressure of fuel in a portion of the fuel passage between the shut-off valve and the fuel injection valve. The controller outputs a valve closing signal to the shut-off v...