F02D CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- Class:
- COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- Subclass:
- CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
Description
F02D covers control systems and regulatory mechanisms for internal combustion engines, including fuel injection timing and quantity, ignition timing, air intake, and emission control strategies. This subclass encompasses mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electronic control devices that optimize engine performance across operating conditions, including governors, carburetors, fuel pumps, and modern electronic control units (ECUs). F02D excludes engine design itself (F02B) and fuel supply systems not directly involved in engine control (F02M), focusing instead on active regulation and feedback systems that manage engine operation.
Additional Content
Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit
23 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- F02D 1/00 Controlling fuel-injection pumps, e.g. of high-pressure injection type
- F02D 11/00 Arrangements for, or adaptations to, non-automatic engine control initiation means, e.g. operator initiated
- F02D 13/00 Controlling the engine output power by varying inlet or exhaust valve operating characteristics, e.g. timing
- F02D 15/00 Varying compression ratio
- F02D 17/00 Controlling engines by cutting-out individual cylinders; Rendering engines inoperative or idling
- F02D 19/00 Controlling engines characterised by their use of non-liquid fuels, pluralities of fuels, or non-fuel substances added to the combustible mixtures
- F02D 21/00 Controlling engines characterised by their being supplied with non-airborne oxygen or other non-fuel gas
- F02D 23/00 Controlling engines characterised by their being supercharged
- F02D 25/00 Controlling two or more co-operating engines
- F02D 27/00 Controlling engines characterised by their being reversible
- F02D 28/00 Program control of engines
- F02D 29/00 Controlling engines, such controlling being peculiar to the devices driven thereby, the devices being other than parts or accessories essential to engine operation, e.g. controlling of engines by signals external thereto
- F02D 3/00 Controlling low-pressure fuel injection, i.e. where the fuel-air mixture containing fuel thus injected will be substantially compressed by the compression stroke of the engine, by means other than controlling only an injection pump
- F02D 31/00 Use of non-electrical speed-sensing governors to control combustion engines, not otherwise provided for
- F02D 33/00 Non-electrical control of delivery of fuel or combustion-air, not otherwise provided for
- F02D 35/00 Non-electrical control of engines, dependent on conditions exterior or interior to engines, not otherwise provided for
- F02D 37/00 Non-electrical conjoint control of two or more functions of engines, not otherwise provided for
- F02D 39/00 Other non-electrical control
- F02D 41/00 Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents
- F02D 43/00 Conjoint electrical control of two or more functions, e.g. ignition, fuel-air mixture, recirculation, supercharging or exhaust-gas treatment
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class F02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 8,687
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 8,328
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 7,423
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 5,732
- UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (UTC) US 5,592
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 4,699
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 4,541
- DENSO CORPORATION 3,711
- WEICHAI POWER COMPANY 3,486
- SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES FR 3,249