Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Haga

Akira Yamashita

Hiroki Murata

Isao Matsumoto

Naofumi Magarida

Takenori Saoda

Yuji Miyoshi

Shigeki Nakayama

Tomoyuki Ono

Teruhiko Miyake

Tomomi Onishi

Hajime Shimizu

Masahiro Nagae

Kei Takachiho

Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with at least one cylinder, an EGR device, and an actuator that is used for control of an engine control parameter that affects the combustion stability. The control device is configured to: perform, if a condensed water occurrence condition is met, a particle size estimation processing that estimates the particle size of the condensed water that flows into the at least one cylinder from the intake channel; and perform, if the condensed water occurrence condition is met, a correction processing that corrects the engine control parameter so as to improve the combustion stability. In the correction processing, the control device more increases a correction amount of the engine control parameter when the particle size estimated by the particle size estimation processing is greater.

Control device for internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine includes an intercooler configured to cool an intake gas compressed by a compressor, a cooler bypass passage configured to bypass the intercooler, and a cooler bypass valve configured to open and close the cooler bypass passage, and an exhaust gas recirculation gas is introduced into an upstream side of the intercooler. An electronic control unit is configured to open the cooler bypass valve during use of a high exhaust gas recirculation rate region, and to close the cooler bypass valve during use of a low exhaust gas recirculation rate region.

Control device for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that includes an EGR channel and an EGR valve is configured, when the internal combustion engine is in a warm-up process and when an intake air flow rate that is a flow rate of air supplied to the internal combustion engine main body is less than or equal to a predetermined value, to open the EGR valve with a minute opening degree that is an opening degree smaller than a minimum opening degree of the EGR valve with which a condensed water in an exhaust-channel-side portion that is a portion of the EGR channel on a side closer to the exhaust channel relative to the EGR valve flows into an intake-channel-side portion that is a portion of the EGR channel on a side closer to the intake channel relative to the EGR valve.

Control apparatus for internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine includes an exhaust valve, a plurality of cams Ca, Cb, and Cc used to drive the exhaust valve, a cam-switching variable valve mechanism that selects a use cam used to drive the exhaust valve out of the plurality of cams Ca, Cb, and Cc, and an electronic control unit that determines whether switching abnormality of the use cam in the variable valve mechanism is present on the basis of a locus M in a predetermined period K which is a period in which the exhaust valve is opened. The locus M is a locus of an in-cylinder pressure changing rate dPc/d&#x3b8; and is specifically a locus indicating a variation of the in-cylinder pressure changing rate dPc/d&#x3b8; depending on a crank angle &#x3b8;.

Internal combustion engine

A variable valve operating system assembled in an engine includes a first rocker arm contacting with a valve, a second rocker arm no contacting with any valve, a lost motion spring bringing the second rocker arm into contact with a cam, and switching device for switching the first/second rocker arms to a coupled or uncoupled state. An operation control apparatus for the engine includes element for determining whether or not an engine speed is higher than a first speed at which supply of fuel is allowed to be temporarily stopped, and element for setting a requested quantity of increase/decrease in internal resistance of the engine. When the engine speed is higher than the first speed and an accelerator opening degree is 0%, the switching device switches the first/second rocker arms to the coupled or uncoupled state based on the requested quantity.

Variable valve operating system

A control device of an internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve device including: first and second rocker arms; a cam; a rocker shaft provided with a lubricating oil passage; a pin switching the first and second rocker arms between a coupling state and a non-coupling state; a biasing member biasing the pin; a switching oil passage capable of supplying oil pressure to the pin in a direction opposite to a biasing direction; a lash adjuster; and a supplying oil passage, capable of supplying oil pressure to the pin in the biasing direction of the biasing member and supplying oil pressure into the lash adjuster, a hydraulic pump; an oil pressure control valve; and a control unit controlling the oil pressure control valve to always supply the supplying oil passage with oil pressure higher than oil pressure within the lubricating oil passage, during driving of an internal combustion engine.

Control device of internal combustion engine and variable valve device of internal combustion engine

In a control method of an internal combustion engine exhaust gas control system which is applied to a hybrid vehicle that is powered by an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, an exhaust throttle valve, provided downstream of an exhaust gas control catalyst, is controlled to reduce its opening amount to a target opening amount when it is determined that warm-up control of the internal combustion engine needs to be executed. Next, a target injection quantity of fuel necessary to increase the temperature of exhaust gas flowing into the internal combustion engine to a target exhaust gas temperature is calculated. Then, assist torque from the electric motor is adjusted so that the sum of torque from the internal combustion engine when the fuel injection quantity has been set to the target injection quantity and the assist torque substantially equals a required torque.

Internal combustion engine exhaust gas control system and control method of internal combustion engine exhaust gas control system

A hybrid system control apparatus is provided in which an intercooler is disposed upstream of the motor cooling radiator in a flow path of the ambient air flowing in an engine compartment, and/or is disposed such that at least a portion of the intercooler and a portion of the motor cooling radiator contact each other. The hybrid system control apparatus includes a warm-up portion that increases temperature of the boost air by controlling a load of the engine in cold start of a hybrid system such that the boost pressure from the forced air induction device is equal to or higher than a target boost pressure.

Hybrid system control apparatus and hybrid system control method

An internal combustion engine control device includes a NOx adsorber catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage, an EGR passage, a reducing agent adding device, a torque fluctuation reducing device, and a fuel injection device. The EGR passage draws a portion of exhaust gas from the exhaust passage downstream of the NOx adsorber catalyst and recirculates the exhaust gas into the intake passage. The reducing agent adding device adds a reducing agent to exhaust gas upstream of the NOx adsorber catalyst to reduce substances adsorbed by the NOx adsorber catalyst. When or after the reducing agent adding device adds the reducing agent, the torque fluctuation reducing device advances the timing of the fuel injection device or carries out a pilot injection to reduce a fluctuation in engine torque. The reducing agent adding device adds less reducing agent while the torque fluctuation reducing device is operating.

Internal combustion engine control device

An exhaust gas recirculation system includes a high-pressure EGR unit; a low-pressure EGR unit; a high-pressure EGR valve; a low-pressure EGR valve; and an EGR control unit that adjusts the opening amount of the high-pressure EGR valve to a required value for achieving the target EGR rate based on the characteristics of the exhaust gas in the low-pressure EGR passage before the operation mode is changed, and that maintains the required value during a period from when the operation mode is changed until when the low-pressure EGR gas is changed to the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine in the post-change operation mode.

Exhaust gas recirculation system for internal combustion engine and method for controlling the same

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation unit; an intercooler that is provided in the intake passage, at a position downstream of a position to which the exhaust gas is recirculated back; a bypass passage through which an intake air flow bypasses the intercooler. When it is determined that the pH of the condensed water obtained from the exhaust gas is at the level at which the intercooler corrodes in the state where the exhaust gas is recirculated back by the exhaust gas recirculation unit, the control apparatus executes a control for cutting off an intake air flow toward the intercooler to direct the intake air flow only to the bypass passage. Thus, it is possible to ensure reliability of the intercooler.

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Numazu, Japan

Hiroyuki Haga