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US 12,683,828 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for engine control
AssigneeVieletech Inc.
InventorMatthew Viele
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for sensing the position of a piston in a valve in a gas compressor or the position of a piston in a free piston engine. The apparatus includes a plurality of valve sensors, a plurality of magnets, and a plurality of valve sense modules coupled to the valve sensors and a controller coupled to the plurality of valve sense modules. The method includes processing information received from the valve sensors to determine the linear position of the valves in the gas compressor or a piston in a free piston engine.
Claims12
An apparatus comprising:
- a first plurality of electronic sense modules, each of the first plurality of electronic sense modules daisy chained together through a first cable type to form a first daisy chain, the first cable type including a fast bus and an Ethernet bus;
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- a second plurality of electronic sense modules, each of the second plurality of electronic sense modules daisy chained together through the first cable type, the second plurality of electronic sense modules to form a second daisy chain, wherein each of the first plurality of electronic sense modules and each the second plurality of electronic sense modules is coupled to one of a plurality of sensors in a gas compressor or a free piston engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.