Mass air engine management systems for vintage style automobile engines

• US 20060042469A1
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christopher H. Richards
• Original Assignee: Christopher H. Richards
• Inventors: Richards, Christopher H.
• Application Number:
  US11/175,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20060042469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 96/422
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2400/11 After-sales modification devices designed to be used to modify an engine afterwards
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/18 by measuring intake air flow
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/021 Arrangements of air flow meters in or on air cleaner housings

Abstract

Mass Air Engine Management Systems For Vintage Style Automobile Engines that uses a Mass Air Flow Sensor positioned above a vertically mounted throttle body and below a traditional vintage style air filter assembly. The Mass Air Flow Sensor may be positioned inside the air filter assembly, as an integral part of the air filter assembly or as an integral part of the vertically mounted throttle body. The result is a vintage appearance.

Claims

1. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system that has a vintage appearance comprising:

a. an air intake manifold with air inlet flange and a plurality of air flow outlets;

b. a vertically mounted throttle body with an intake end and an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the air intake manifold inlet flange;

c. a mass air flow sensor with an intake end and an outlet end said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the vertically mounted throttle body intake end; and

d. an air filter assembly with an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the mass air flow sensor intake end.

2. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system, as described in claim 1 above further comprising:

a. a mass air flow sensor that outputs a frequency signal, and includes;

i. a frequency to voltage converter; and

ii. an engine control module that reads voltage input.

3. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system that has a vintage appearance comprising:

a. an air intake manifold with air inlet flange and a plurality of air flow outlets;

b. a vertically mounted throttle body with an intake end and an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the air intake manifold inlet flange;

c. a mass air flow sensor with an intake end and an outlet end said outlet end having an internal surface and an outward surface said internal surface being sized and shaped to connect to the vertically mounted throttle body intake end; and

d. an air filter assembly with an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to accommodate the outward surface of the outlet end of the mass air flow sensor and further said air filter assembly having an internal chamber sized and shaped to receive said mass air flow sensor.

4. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system, as described in claim 3 above further comprising:

a. a mass air flow sensor that outputs a frequency signal, and includes;

i. a frequency to voltage converter; and

ii. an engine control module that reads voltage input.

5. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system that has a vintage appearance comprising:

a. an air intake manifold with air inlet flange and a plurality of air flow outlets;

b. a vertically mounted throttle body with an intake end and an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the air intake manifold inlet flange; and

c. a combined air filter and mass air flow sensor assembly with an outlet end said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the vertically mounted throttle body intake end.

6. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system, as described in claim 5 above further comprising:

a. a mass air flow sensor that outputs a frequency signal, and includes;

i. a frequency to voltage converter; and

ii. an engine control module that reads voltage input.

7. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system that has a vintage appearance comprising:

a. an air intake manifold with air inlet flange and a plurality of air flow outlets;

b. a combined vertically mounted throttle body and mass air flow sensor with an intake end and an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the air intake manifold inlet flange;

c. an air filter assembly with an outlet end, said outlet end being sized and shaped to connect to the combined vertically mounted throttle body and mass air flow sensor intake end.

8. A modern mass air engine management system, for use with an internal combustion engine, with an air intake system, as described in claim 7 above further comprising:

a. a mass air flow sensor that outputs a frequency signal, and includes;

i. a frequency to voltage converter; and

ii. an engine control module that reads voltage input.