Fujitsu Ten Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Junya Nishimura

Takayuki Demura

Yasuhiro Oi

Kaoru Otsuka

Yoshito Aibara

There is provided an air supply apparatus for an engine comprising a plurality of exhaust pipes and catalysts arranged in the exhaust pipes, respectively, the apparatus comprising devices for supplying air into the interior of the corresponding exhaust pipes upstream of the corresponding catalysts, respectively.

Air supply apparatus

The detection output of a knock sensor, which detects knock of an internal combustion engine, is filtered by a filter in which the filtering frequency band is variable. The output of the filter is discriminated by a level discriminating unit with respect to a given determination level. A counter counts number c of times at which the detection output of the knock sensor is equal to or higher than the determination level. A determining unit determines whether knock occurs or not on the basis of the number c. In response to the output of the determining unit, when determination of occurrence of knock is impossible, a correcting unit conducts correction of shifting the filtering frequency band of the filter. Therefore, determination of occurrence of knock is enabled, and the accuracy of knock detection is improved.

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Kobe, Japan

Junya Nishimura