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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999

Filed:

Nov. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yutaka Kanbara, Maebashi, JP;

Akira Uchikawa, Omama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M / ; F02D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701110 ; 73116 ; 731173 ; 123419 ; 123436 ;
Abstract

A misfire diagnostic system for an Internal combustion engine comprises a crank-shaft angle sensor for monitoring a crankshaft angular velocity reflecting a combusting condition of each of engine cylinders, and a control unit for calculating an angular-velocity correction factor of each of the engine cylinders on the basis of the angular velocity in every engine operating region only under a stable engine operating condition. The control unit corrects the angular velocity by the angular-velocity correction factor of each of the engine cylinders for every engine operating region. The presence of a misfire is accurately decided on the basis of the angular velocity corrected for every engine cylinder and for every engine operating region.


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