Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ikuo Musa

Ken Tachibana

Takanori Fujimoto

Toshiro Hara

Shogo Nakashima

Yasuyuki Akama

Kouichi Taketoshi

Masato Oonishi

A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine, for preventing a throttle valve from freezing when the internal combustion engine is stopped. A control unit is constructed to receive power from a battery ancillary to an internal combustion engine when the internal combustion engine is stopped and perform a probability determination of whether or not the probability of a throttle valve freezing is high. When this probability is high, the control unit controls the throttle valve to execute a freeze protection operation, including a valve opening and closing operation of the throttle valve, before the throttle valve freezes. The probability determination is carried out using environmental temperature detecting means, engine temperature detecting means, date/time information outputting means, location information detecting means, and a drive level of an exhaust recirculating device.

Control apparatus of internal combustion engine

A memory rewriting apparatus can rewrite control programs for a vehicle mounted ECU through communications reliably and easily. A transmission and reception circuit communicates with a data communications device that sends program data. An ID check circuit checks based on an ID check code attached to the data whether a subject vehicle on which the apparatus is installed is a vehicle to be rewritten. A communications condition determination device determines whether the communications condition is suitable for communications. A control part (MPU) controls writing program data into a memory of the vehicle mounted ECU. The control part notifies the non-completion of rewriting to the data communications device when determined, before and during data rewriting, that the communications condition is unsuitable, and it also notifies the completion of rewriting to the data communications device after the rewriting of the data has been completed, when determined that the communications condition is suitable.

Apparatus for rewriting a memory in a vehicle mounted ECU through communications

A failure diagnosis device for determining engine abnormalities by comparing the air-fuel ratio or the exhaust pressure of an engine with a predetermined value or by determining that the air fuel ratio or the exhaust pressure of the engine is different from the average air-fuel ratio or the average exhaust pressure by a predetermined amount. This comparison is made only when the engine is in a predetermined running condition in which either the air-fuel ratio or the exhaust pressure is stabilized for a predetermined period of time. When the air-fuel ratio or exhaust pressure is different from the average air-fuel ratio or from the average exhaust pressure by a predetermined value, engine abnormality can be detected for each cylinder or for each cylinder group.

Failure diagnosis device for an engine which compares airfuel ratio and

A vehicle engine diagnostic device equipped with a forcible load-controller for forcibly changing, during operation, the drive conditions of a desired one of a plurality of driven loads, such as fuel injectors. If that driven load is functioning normally, changing its drive conditions by the forcible load-controller causes the operating conditions of the associated control unit, i.e., of the main control section, to change accordingly; if that driven load or any of its associated devices are out of order, no change occurs in the operating conditions of the control unit. Thus, the diagnostic device makes it possible to diagnose even driven loads which are not equipped with sensors as well as the devices associated therewith.

Diagnostic device for vehicle engine analysis

A fuel control apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises an crank angle sensor producing a crank angle signal at a predetermined crank angle in the engine, an intake air quantity detector for detecting the quantity of intake air sucked in the engine, an injector for injecting fuel to an engine cylinder, and a control means for actuating the injector at a driving time in response to the quantity of intake air and at a timing determined by the crank angle signal, wherein a period calculating means calculates the next period on the basis of the previous period and the present period in the crank angle signal and an injection-initiating time control means controls a time to actuate the injector in accordance with the next period of the crank angle signal.

Fuel control apparatus for an internal combustion engine

A navigation apparatus for a vehicle comprising means for previously introducing and storing the coordinate data and place names of a plurality of spots and means for computing the present location of the vehicle, so that the position and place name of a spot close to the present location of the vehicle are displayed, and the present location of the vehicle may be set by introducing the place name when the vehicle is positioned at any one of the close spots, and a spot, such as a garage, where the vehicle usually parks for along time is pre-registered, so that, when the vehicle is positioned at the registered spot, a switch is operated, and, when the vehicle stops at the spot for a predetermined duration or more or over a duration including a predetermined interval, the locational data of the registered spot is taken as the present location of the vehicle, thereby correcting accumulated errors at the present location of the vehicle.

Navigation apparatus for vehicle

An automotive navigation system wherein a memory included therein has not stored therein picture information of an actual map, but instead has stored therein geographical names and the geographical positions thereof. When the geographical names of a departure point, a destination point and one or more passing points are entered through an input unit, a control circuit reads out the respective positions of the points from the memory. The control circuit controls a display unit to display on a display screen marks respectively indicating two or more of the points and the current position of a vehicle.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ikuo Musa