Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Chika Kato

Hiromasa Nishioka

Hiroshi Otsuki

Hirohito Hirata

Keishi Takada

Tetsuya Sakuma

Kiyoshi Yamazaki

Yuji Sakakibara

Takashi Kuzuya

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi

Yusuke Shimmyo

Yoshiyuki Sakamoto

An internal combustion engineis provided, in an exhaust passage thereof with an electrochemical reactor including: an ion conductive solid electrolyte layer; an anode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer; and a cathode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer and able to hold NO. The engine includes a current control device for controlling the current supplied to the electrochemical reactor so as to flow from the anode layer through the solid electrolyte layer to the cathode layer. The current control device is configured so as to supply current to the electrochemical reactor at least temporarily while that internal combustion engine is stopped.

Internal combustion engine provided with electrochemical reactor and vehicle mounting internal combustion engine

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Nagakute, Japan

Chika Kato