Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daicel Corporation

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k. (honda Motor Co., Ltd. in English)

Hiroshi Ohno

Yukio Miyashita

Yusuke Hasegawa

Shu Shimamoto

Shinichi Kubota

Toshikatsu Takanohashi

Tadashi Takeuchi

Eiji Miyauchi

Shusuke Akazaki

Teruo Wakashiro

Yuichi Shimasaki

Kazutomo Sawamura

Hiroaki Kato

Toru Kitamura

Yoichi Nishimura

Takashi Komatsuda

Takuya Aoki

Akihisa Saito

Hironao Fukuchi

Hisashi Miyamoto

Takayoshi Nakayama

Tomohiko Kawanabe

Masahira Hattori

Masahiko Yakuwa

Hisashi Igarashi

Tetsu Teshirogi

Kunio Noguchi

Masahiro Sakanushi

Hideo Furumoto

Yoshitaka Takasuka

Kenichiro Ishii

Hiroaki Kodama

Yukio Noda

Koichi Saiki

Shuuji Yoshioka

Kenji Sugiura

Akinobu Matsuyama

Hiroki Negishi

Keiichi Yagisawa

Wataru Suda

Hirokuni Miyamoto

Shinji Fukuda

Kenshiro Oshima

Toshiyuki Ito

An object is to provide a Th1-increasing agent that can reduce constraints on storage conditions and feeding form and sufficiently increase Th1 at lower doses. A Th1-increasing agent containing a cellulose derivative as an active ingredient, the cellulose derivative having a degree of butyryl substitution of 0.3 or greater and 2.6 or less, and a total degree of substitution of 0.5 or greater and 2.8 or less.

Type 1 helper t cell-increasing agent, food and pharmaceutical

Object of the present invention is to provide an intestinal immune-enhancing agent that can sufficiently increase IgA in the intestinal tract with a low dose while maintaining an increased amount of IgA for an extended period of time. Provided is an intestinal immune-enhancing agent containing a cellulose acetate that has a total degree of acetyl substitution from 0.4 to 1.1.

Intestinal immune-enhancing agent, food product, and medicament

When deterioration of a NOx purifying device due to sulfur contamination is detected, a specific operating state flag FHL is set to &ldquo;1,&rdquo; and, at intervals equal to or shorter than, for example, three seconds, the air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an engine is varied so that it is alternately leaner and richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. When the temperature TCAT of the NOx purifying device exceeds a deterioration recovery temperature STCAT2 while the air-fuel ratio variation control is being executed, the SOx removing flag FHLSOx is set to &ldquo;1,&rdquo; and for a period equivalent to the deterioration recovery time TRSOx, the air-fuel ratio is maintained richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.

Exhaust gas purifying apparatus for internal combustion engine and controller for internal combustion engine

A torque shock alleviating device in a hybrid vehicle utilizing both an engine and an electric motor as drive sources, whereby a torque shock is not generated when the rich-spiking of the air-fuel mixture is carried out in order to restore the adsorbing ability of an NOx adsorbing device in the hybrid vehicle. When an engine is operated in a lean burn manner, NOx in an exhaust gas is adsorbed to an NOx adsorbing device provided in an exhaust passage. When the adsorbing ability of the NOx adsorbing device reaches a saturated level, a rich-spiking for temporarily enrichening the air-fuel mixture of the engine is carried out to restore the adsorbing ability of the NOx adsorbing device. When the output torque from the engine is increased by the rich-spiking, a regenerative braking force is generated in a motor, thereby moderating the increase in output torque from the engine by such regenerative braking force to alleviate the torque shock. An electric power generated by the regenerative braking is supplied for the charging of a battery.

Torque shock alleviating device in hybrid vehicle

An air-fuel ratio control system controls the air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine. An exhaust gas purifying-device arranged in the exhaust system of the engine accommodates a nitrogen oxide absorbent for absorbing nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases emitted from the engine. Nitrogen oxides absorbed by the nitrogen oxide absorbent is reduced by enriching the air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the engine. The degree of the enriching of the air-fuel ratio is set to a larger value as a flow rate or flow velocity of the exhaust gases increases.

Air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines

A cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel ratio-estimating system for an internal combustion engine includes an air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in the exhaust system of the engine, at a confluent portion of the exhaust system. The air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to each of the cylinders is estimated based the output from the air-fuel ratio sensor, by using an observer for observing the internal operative state of the exhaust system based on a model representative of the behavior of the exhaust system. The air-fuel ratio at the confluent portion is estimated by using a delay parameter representative of the response delay of the air-fuel ratio sensor, and the air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to each of the cylinders is estimated by using the estimated air-fuel ratio at the confluent portion. The estimated air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to each of the cylinders is subsequently used for estimating a value of the air-fuel ratio at the confluent portion of the exhaust system.

Cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel ratio-estimating system for internal

A system for detecting the ambient temperature of an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, where an oxygen sensor (O.sub.2 sensor) is installed for detecting oxygen content in exhaust gases generated by the engine. The oxygen sensor has a detection element and a heater for heating the detection element when supplied with current. The exhaust system is further provided with a catalytic converter which similarly has a heater for heating the catalyst for promoting the activation thereof. The electric resistance of the sensor heater is detected and based on the detected resistance, the ambient temperature of the exhaust system is detected or estimated in accordance with characteristics preestablished with respect to the electric resistance of the heater. With the arrangement, it becomes possible to detect the ambient temperature of the exhaust system without using a temperature sensor. The detected ambient temperature is used for controlling the current supply to the heater of the catalytic converter.

Exhaust system ambient temperature detection system for internal

An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine has an air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in an exhaust passage of the engine for detecting an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gases emitted from a plurality of cylinders. An output from the air-fuel ratio sensor is sampled whenever the engine rotates through a predetermined crank angle, and sampled values of the output from the air-fuel ratio sensor are sequentially stored. An output characteristic of the air-fuel ratio sensor is detected. One of the sampled values of the output from the air-fuel ratio sensor is selected at least depending on the output characteristic of the air-fuel ratio sensor. An air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to each of the cylinders is estimated, separately from other ones of the cylinders, based on selected ones of the sampled values of the output from the air-fuel ratio sensor and a model representative of a behavior of the exhaust passage. The air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the each of the cylinders is controlled in a feedback manner responsive to the estimated air-fuel ratio of the mixture such that the estimated air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the each of the cylinders is converged to a desired air-fuel ratio.

A system for determining an oxygen concentration sensor deterioration caused when foreign particles has clogged at a slit for introducing exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine to block the same. Since it is found by the inventors that sensor output fluctuates greatly between its maximum and minimum values in a TDC interval as the clogging increases, the deviation between the maximum and minimum is first calculated. The calculated deviation is then compared with a reference value and if it exceeds the reference value, the sensor is presumed to deteriorate. The reference value is varied on engine speed, engine load, or an air/fuel ratio of the engine.

System for determining deterioration of oxygen concentration sensor

A system for controlling an air/fuel ratio for an internal combustion engine, using an oxygen concentration sensor having a first chamber for introducing therein exhaust gas of the engine and a second chamber for introducing therein reference ambient air to detect oxygen content in the exhaust gas. In order to eliminate exhaust gas pulsation which could affect on detection accuracy, it is firstly determined if engine operation is in a transient state or in a normal state. Then the detected oxygen concentration value in the preceding cycle is added to the product obtained by multiplying the deviation between the values in the preceding and current cycles by a coefficient .alpha.. The coefficient is made different in the transient state and in the normal state. In the normal engine operation state, the coefficient .alpha. is determined from engine speed and load.

Air/fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engine

A method of detecting deterioration of an exhaust gas ingredient concentration sensor for use in controlling an air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system in which the sensor is arranged. The sensor has an output characteristic approximately proportional to concentration of a specific ingredient in exhaust gases emitted from the engine. The air-fuel ratio is feedback-controlled to a desired air-fuel ratio by calculating an amount of fuel supplied to the engine by the use of a desired air-fuel ratio coefficient indicative of the desired air-fuel ratio and set in dependence on operating conditions of the engine, and an air-fuel ratio correction coefficient set in dependence on a value of an output from the sensor and the desired air-fuel ratio coefficient. A plurality of average values of the air-fuel ratio correction coefficient are calculated, respectively, when the desired air-fuel ratio falls within a plurality of predetermined ranges. The average values thus calculated are compared with each other. A degree of deterioration of the sensor is determined from results of the comparison. Further, a method of feedback-controlling the air-fuel ratio in the above-mentioned manner, in which the value of the output from the sensor is corrected in response to the degree of deterioration thus determined.

Method of detecting deterioration of exhaust gas ingredient

An air-fuel ratio control method for an internal combustion engine. An amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine is calculated in response to operating conditions of the engine and output from an exhaust gas ingredient concentration sensor, to thereby feedback-control the air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to the engine to a desired air-fuel ratio. The method comprises the steps of (1) calculating a fuel cooling correction value for compensating for a change in an actual air-fuel ratio caused by cooling effects of actually-injected fuel, according to at least one parameter which can determine the amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine, and (2) calculating the amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine by the use of the fuel cooling correction value.

Air-fuel ratio control method for internal combustion engines

A method of detecting failure of an exhaust gas component concentration sensor for detecting concentration of a component of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine. The method comprises the steps of: (1) applying a predetermined voltage to the sensor, (2) determining whether or not a change in an output voltage from the sensor caused by the application of the predetermined voltage to the sensor is smaller than a predetermined value, and (3) deciding that the sensor is faulty when the change in the output voltage is smaller than the predetermined value. A device for sensing concentration of a component of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine comprising an electric resistance member connected in series between an electric current supply source and one of a pair of electrodes provided on a solid electrolytic element. A device for detecting failure of an exhaust gas component concentration sensing device comprising a constant voltage supply source for applying a predetermined voltage to the sensing device, and a switch connected between the constant voltage supply source and one of a pair of electrodes provided on an electrolytic element of the sensing device, for applying the predetermined voltage to the one of the electrodes when the switch is closed.

Exhaust gas component concentration sensing device and method of

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