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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 18, 2000
Blake R. Suhre, Neenah, WI (US);
Jeffery C. Ehlers, Neenah, WI (US);
Brunswick Corporation, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Abstract
A control method and apparatus for regulating the power output of an engine in a marine propulsion system provides the storage of several sets of numerical values in which each numerical value in each set is associated with a particular cylinder of the engine. In addition, each numerical value in each set represents the number of consecutive firing events experienced by each cylinder prior to the occurrence of a skip fire event. A numerical value of zero indicates continuous skip fire events for a particular cylinder and a numerical value equivalent to some predetermined maximum numerical value, such as 255, represents a continuous firing regime for the associated cylinder.