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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
Applicants:
Jeffrey D. Naber, Houghton, MI (US);
Satheesh Rajh Rajagopalan, Houghton, MI (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey D. Naber, Houghton, MI (US);
Satheesh Rajh Rajagopalan, Houghton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B06F 19/00 (2006.01); G01L 23/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of statistically characterizing combustion knock events includes receiving signals from a sensing device such as an accelerometer, estimating at least one parameter of a probability distribution function based on the received signals, and calculating a value indicative of an npercentile based on the parameter to predict upcoming combustion knock events.