Nissan Motor Company Limited

Keisuke Hamano

Masashi Ono

Masayuki Shimizu

Masayuki Tomita

Toshio Takahata

Tomohiko Takahashi

Ritsuo Satou

Yuuichi Iriya

Hirokimi Koyama

Tomoya Mori

Yayoi Okumura

Junso Ichiba

Shinichi Kobayashi

Toshiya Kouno

An internal combustion engineat a standstill of a vehicle after cold starting can switch its combustion mode to a homogenous combustion mode or a stratified combustion mode. An operation range of the stratified combustion at the standstill of the vehicle after cold starting is expanded relative to an operation range of the homogenous combustion at the standstill of the vehicle after cold starting as an inclination of the vehicle decreases. With this technique, the operation range of the stratified combustion can be expanded while assuring an intake air negative pressure required for achieving the brake performance, so that HC reduction at the standstill of the vehicle after cold starting is obtained.

Control device for vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Sagamihara, Japan

Keisuke Hamano