Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Keiichi Nagashima

Yuji Yasui

Masahiro Sato

Koichiro Shinozaki

Katsura Okubo

Yoshio Maeda

A device and a method for determining the trouble of a cylinder pressure sensor without increasing cost calculates the cylinder pressure of an internal combustion engine based on an output from the cylinder sensor installed in the engine and calculates a drift parameter indicating the drift amount of the cylinder pressure based on the cylinder pressure. When the drift parameter is not within a specified range, the device determines that the cylinder pressure sensor is defective. The specified range can be set based on the behavior of the cylinder pressure. A correction factor is obtained according to the operating state of the engine, and the drift parameter is corrected with the correction factor. A specified search signal is superimposed on the output from the cylinder pressure sensor. The cylinder pressure is calculated based on the output from the cylinder pressure sensor on which the search signal was superimposed.

Device and method for determining trouble of cylinder pressure sensor

A method of controlling ignition timing of an engine. In the control method, final ignition timing for performing ignition is calculated by adding a variation component to a set ignition timing. According to the final ignition timing, an indicated average effective pressure of an in-cylinder pressure detected when ignition is performed is calculated. An ignition timing characteristic curve indicating the correlation between the indicated average effective pressure and the variation component is estimated and optimal ignition timing is calculated from the characteristic curve. Feedback control for converging the set ignition timing to the optimal ignition timing is then performed. Consequently, the ignition timing is controlled to an optimal ignition timing corresponding to a current operational state of the engine.

Ignition timing controlling device and method

An apparatus for detecting an in-cylinder pressure of an engine is provided. The apparatus comprises an in-cylinder pressure sensor for outputting a signal indicating a change rate of an in-cylinder pressure and a control unit. The control unit is configured to correct the signal from the in-cylinder pressure sensor, integrate the corrected signal to determine the in-cylinder pressure, determine a change rate of a drift contained in the determined in-cylinder, and feedback the change rate of the drift so that the correction of the signal is made with the change rate of the drift. Since the output of the in-cylinder pressure sensor from which a drift has been removed is integrated, it is prevented that a drift appears in the in-cylinder pressure obtained by the integral. A resetting operation is not required so as to remove a drift.

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Saitama, Japan

Keiichi Nagashima