Electronic control unit for internal combustion engines

Internal-combustion engines – Cooling – With cooling of additional parts or materials

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123 4165, 123179H, F02N 1700

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044871694

ABSTRACT:
A reciprocating piston internal combustion engine having a plurality of heads, a glow plug associated with each one of the pistons, a source of DC voltage, and a control for providing heating power to the glow plugs. The engine also has engine oil and transmission oil flowing therethrough, and a fan for cooling the oil. A first switch turns the fan on and off. There is included a central electronic control which includes thermistors for sensing a temperature related to the temperature of the engine and for providing a connection from the source of DC voltage to the glow plugs when the sensed temperature is below a predetermined value and for disconnecting the source when the sensed temperature is above the predetermined value. A duty cycle rate generator alternately connects and disconnects the source of DC voltage to the glow plugs above the preset value at a duty cycle rate which ranges from 0 to 100 percent and which depends on the voltage level of the source of DC voltage. The thermistors are disposed to measure the temperature of the first and eighth heads and the engine and transmission oil, and a second controller controls the first switch to turn the fan on and off depending on the temperature sensed by the temperature sensors. The control includes a second duty cycle rate generator, also ranging from 0 to 100 percent, but dependent on the magnitude of the most significant sensed temperature.

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