Motorola Corporation

Frank Karim

Robert W Deutsch

Nicholas C Hopman

Howard L Frank

Disclosed is an electronic shaft synchronization system. The system employs a proportional integral controller for controlling the speed offset between two shafts approaching synchronization. The speed offset is determined by calculating an error signal representative of the shaft speed differences. Means for measuring the quality of the error signal is provided to allow the integrator to be initialized once the error signal reaches a first threshold. By initializing the integrator in this manner, the typical delay problem experienced with such integration is alleviated to allow a substantially faster synchronization between the shafts.

Servo control system for transmission shaft speed control

An injector driver fault detect and protection device for use with fuel injection systems that include at least one solenoid (17) for controlling a fuel injection valve, control means for providing a control signal, injector driver means (14) responsive to the control signal for providing a drive signal, and a current control switch (16) being responsive to the drive signal for selectively closing and opening a power line that includes the solenoid (17) to thereby control the fuel injection valve. The device includes a fault detect and protection unit that receives current sense information regarding the flow of current through the solenoid (17), control signals from the control unit (13), and engine rotation data in the form of CAM degrees from a CAM position sense unit (19). Based upon this information, the fault detect and protection unit (11) can provide a fault protect signal to a fault control switch (12) to open circuit the solenoid (17) under specific fault conditions, and to provide a fault data signal under other fault conditions, as appropriate.

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Hanover Park, IL, United States of America

Frank Karim