A surgical stapler including an anvil, a staple cartridge, and a buttress material removably retained to the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In various embodiments, the staple cartridge can include at least one staple removably stored therein which can, when deployed, or fired, therefrom, contact the buttress material and remove the buttress material from the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In at least one embodiment, the anvil can include at least one lip and/or groove configured to removably retain the buttress material to the anvil until deformable members extending from the surgical staple are bent by the anvil and are directed toward and contact the buttress material.

A staple cartridge comprising a cartridge body, staples, and a sled is disclosed. The cartridge body comprises a longitudinal slot separating the cartridge body into a first lateral side and a second lateral side. The cartridge body further comprises a first longitudinal row of staple cavities defined in the first lateral side and a second longitudinal row of staple cavities defined in the first lateral side. The staple cavities of the first longitudinal row of staple cavities are angled toward the longitudinal slot. Gaps are present between the staple cavities in the first longitudinal row of staple cavities. The staple cavities of the second longitudinal row of staple cavities are angled toward the longitudinal slot. The staple cavities of the second longitudinal row of staple cavities are laterally aligned with the gaps. The staples are removably stored in the first and second longitudinal rows of staple cavities.

A vehicle controller includes processing circuitry configured to execute a counter updating process, first and second starting processes, and a resetting process. The resetting process includes resetting the crank counter when a crank counter has a value outside of a range corresponding to a tooth-missing portion in a case in which a magnitude of a difference obtained by subtracting a value of a pre-update crank counter from the value of the crank counter that was increased by receiving the pulse signal in the counter updating process is greater than a first threshold value corresponding to a specified angle. The resetting process further includes resetting the crank counter when the crank counter has a value within the range corresponding to the tooth-missing portion in a case in which the magnitude of the difference is greater than a second threshold value that is greater than the first threshold value.

When a start request for an internal combustion engine is made with 1) a clutch disconnected, 2) a crankshaft rotating at a specified rotation speed or greater, and 3) fuel injection by an injector stopped, a controller for a vehicle executes: a first process that identifies, from the cylinders, a target cylinder that is in a compression stroke when the request is made; a second process that calculates a requested injection position based on the rotation speed; a third process that calculates, as a start crank position, a rotation position of the crankshaft advanced from the requested injection position by a specified rotation amount; and a fourth process that outputs a command signal that instructs a target injector to inject fuel at the crank position only if the rotation position of the crankshaft obtained when the request is made is advanced from the crank position.

Disclosed is a method for synchronizing an internal combustion engine including at least one camshaft, on which a target is mounted, a position sensor for sensing the position of the camshaft and a processing unit, the method transmitting a synchronization or synchronization fault signal as a function of the determined direction of rotation of the target.

Disclosed is a method for processing signals from a crankshaft sensor including the following steps: detection of a stopping of the engine; simulation and transmission of a backwards-running square waveform; and simulation and transmission of a forwards-running square waveform. Also disclosed is a processing module configured to implement such a method.

An engine synchronization method may include: detecting teeth numbers of crank teeth installed on a crankshaft based on a pulse signal generated from a crankshaft position sensor; calculating a tooth period between a falling edge and a next falling edge of the pulse signal generated from the crankshaft position sensor and detecting a missing tooth based on the calculated tooth period; determining whether the detected missing tooth is an actual missing tooth based on a tooth number detected at the time of detecting the missing tooth; and performing synchronization control of an engine when it is determined that the detected missing tooth is the actual missing tooth.

Disclosed is a method for processing signals from a crankshaft sensor including the following steps: detection of a stopping of the engine; simulation and transmission of a backwards-running square waveform; and simulation and transmission of a forwards-running square waveform. Also disclosed is a processing module configured to implement such a method.

A method for detecting the physical stoppage of an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft that drives a toothed wheel having a plurality of teeth, each tooth corresponding to different angular positions of the crankshaft, a sensor positioned next to the toothed wheel generates a signal characteristic of the passage of a tooth. The method detects a tooth from the signal generated by the sensor, identifies the tooth detected, triggers a timeout, and detects stoppage of the engine if the passage of a tooth adjacent to the tooth detected has not been detected before the end of the timeout. The value of the timeout is dependent on the tooth identified, and including: determining crankshaft angular position depending on the tooth identified, the value of the timeout dependent on the angular position of the crankshaft, determining the preferential stopping positions of the crankshaft and assigning a first timeout value for the preferential stopping positions and assigning at least a second value for the other positions of the crankshaft. The first timeout value being less than the second timeout value.

Disclosed is a method for synchronizing an engine including a camshaft and a position sensor for sensing the position of the camshaft. The method includes, for each detected tooth edge: computing a time signature of the detected edge; comparing the time signature of the detected edge with a set of theoretical signatures of edges of the target including a theoretical signature for each edge of the target, the comparison being implemented through a tolerance; and generating a synchronization or synchronization fault signal as a function of the result of the comparison. When the engine speed drops below a predetermined threshold, the tolerance adopted for comparing the time signature of a detected edge with the theoretical signature of an edge of the target is reduced in relation to the tolerance adopted for the same comparison before the engine speed drops below the threshold.