Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Technocraft Co., Ltd.

Keisuke Nagakura

Takashi Suzuki

Eiji Yamada

Shigeo Yamamoto

Dai Tanaka

Yusuke Fujitsu

Akihiro Katayama

Takahiro Nishigaki

Tomoya Suzuki

Toshitake Sasaki

Koji Hata

Kazuya Miyaji

Jun Hattori

Joji Matsubara

Kuniyuki Sasaki

An exhaust gas control apparatus removal determination device that performs an exhaust gas control apparatus removal determination processing based on a change in temperature of exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas control apparatus provided in an exhaust path of an engine and a change in temperature of exhaust gas flowing out. The controller determines whether the first state in which the difference between the measured value and the estimated value of the engine output is greater than or equal to a predetermined value continues for a predetermined time or longer, and determines that the engine output is in the first state. If it is determined, execution of the removal determination processing is prohibited.

Removal determination device for particulate matter trapping device of vehicle

A controller for an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders, a fuel injection valve for supplying a fuel to each cylinder, an EGR passage connecting an exhaust passage and an intake passage, and an EGR valve adjusting a flow rate of exhaust flowing into the intake passage from the exhaust passage via the EGR passage, the controller includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute determination processing for determining that a degree of an imbalance abnormality is larger when a torque fluctuation amount is relatively large than when the torque fluctuation amount is relatively small.

Controller for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine

A control device for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The internal combustion engine includes a plurality of cylinders, a fuel injection valve configured to supply fuel to each cylinder, an EGR passage configured to connect an exhaust passage and an intake passage, an EGR valve configured to adjust a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing from the exhaust passage into the intake passage through the EGR passage, and an air-fuel ratio sensor provided in the exhaust passage. The control device includes an electronic control unit configured to execute determination processing for determining that a degree of imbalance abnormality is greater when a fluctuation amount of a detection value of the air-fuel ratio sensor is relatively large than when the fluctuation amount is relatively small.

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

An engine system includes: an engine including a direct injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder of the engine and a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake port of the engine; and an electronic control unit configured to control an operation of the engine by adjusting, based on a state of the engine, a rate of fuel injection from the direct injection valve with respect to total fuel injection and a rate of fuel injection from the port injection valve with respect to the total fuel injection. The electronic control unit executes a malfunction diagnosis with the rate of fuel injection from the direct injection valve set to 100%, when the electronic control unit determines that an execution condition for executing the malfunction diagnosis on a fuel system is satisfied and a power required of the engine is equal to or greater than a prescribed power.

Engine system and method of controlling engine system

When imbalance diagnosis is not executed, target fuel pressure is set based on a rotation speed and volumetric efficiency of an engine, and when the imbalance diagnosis is executed, fuel pressure smaller than the target fuel pressure settable when the imbalance diagnosis is not executed is set as the target fuel pressure, and a high-pressure fuel pump that supplies fuel to a delivery pipe connected to the in-cylinder injection valve, is driven and controlled such that detected fuel pressure becomes the target fuel pressure. With this, it is possible to execute the imbalance diagnosis with higher accuracy.

Control device for internal combustion engine using imbalance diagnosis and abnormality determination

An engine system includes: an engine including a plurality of cylinders; an EGR passage including EGR branch passages each configured to recirculate part of exhaust gas into an intake port of a corresponding one of the plurality of cylinders; an EGR valve configured to be capable of adjusting an EGR flow rate; and an ECU configured to control the EGR valve. When an engine rotation fluctuation amount in an EGR OFF state is less than a first determination value, and when the engine rotation fluctuation amount in an EGR ON state is greater than a second determination value, the ECU imposes an EGR restriction for restricting the EGR flow rate. When it is determined that the engine rotation fluctuation amount in the EGR ON state is greater than a third determination value less than the second determination value after the EGR restriction is imposed, the ECU continues the EGR restriction.

Engine system

An engine includes a low-pressure delivery pipe that stores fuel to be injected from port injection valves, a feed pump that supplies the fuel to the low-pressure delivery pipe, a high-pressure delivery pipe that stores the fuel to be injected from in-cylinder injection valves, a high-pressure pump driven in response to rotation of the engine, and a fuel pressure sensor that detects a pressure of the fuel stored in the low-pressure delivery pipe. An engine ECU controls the feed pump based on a detection value from a fuel pressure sensor, and when the engine ECU executes an abnormality diagnosis of the fuel pressure sensor, the engine ECU increases a rotational speed of the engine to be higher than a rotational speed when the engine ECU does not execute an abnormality diagnosis of the fuel pressure sensor. This improves the accuracy of an abnormality determination of the fuel pressure sensor.

Control device for internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine includes a port injection valve and a feed pump that pressurizes the fuel. An engine ECU performs a stuck abnormality diagnosis of the fuel pressure sensor based on detection values of the fuel pressure sensor in first processing and second processing. The first processing includes setting a target pressure of the fuel in the storage section to a first pressure, and detecting a pressure of the fuel with the fuel pressure sensor. The second processing includes setting the target pressure of the fuel in a low-pressure delivery pipe to a second pressure lower than the first pressure, and detecting a pressure of the fuel. The engine ECU causes the first processing to be performed in response to a start signal that starts an internal combustion engine, and causes the second processing to be performed subsequent to the first processing.

A vehicle includes an engine, a motor, a battery that stores an electric power for driving the motor, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus is configured to control the engine and the motor in one of control modes, the control mode includes a charge sustaining (CS) mode and a charge depleting (CD) mode. During the CS mode, a first determination is made to determine that the engine malfunction has occurred when a number of times of abnormal combustion occurring during a current trip is equal to or larger than a threshold. During the CD mode, instead of or in addition to the first determination, a second determination is made to determine that the engine malfunction has occurred when a cumulative number of times of abnormal combustion is equal to or larger than the threshold.

Vehicle, control apparatus for vehicle, and control method for vehicle

A hybrid vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine having an in-cylinder injection valve directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber and a port injection valve injecting fuel into an intake port; and a motor generator, and causes a torque equal to a user required torque to act on a drive shaft by controlling output torques of the engine and motor generator. When a misfire is not detected, the hybrid vehicle operates the engine at an engine operation point at which an engine power satisfies an engine required power in a first engine operation line. When a misfire is detected, the hybrid vehicle operates the engine at an engine operation point at which the engine power satisfies the engine required power in a second engine operation line, causes one of the injection valves to inject an entire amount of fuel, and determines which one is abnormal.

Hybrid vehicle and method for controlling the same

An abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a phase of a first valve provided to a first cylinder is modified within a range extending from a first phase to a second phase and a phase of a second valve provided to a second cylinder is modified within the range includes: a rotation variation amount detection unit that detects a rotation variation amount of an output shaft of the internal combustion engine; and a diagnosis unit that adjusts the phase of the first valve and the phase of the second valve to the first phase, and diagnoses the presence of an abnormality on the basis of the detected rotation variation amount of the output shaft of the internal combustion engine in a state where the phase of the first valve and the phase of the second valve are at the first phase.

Abnormality diagnosis apparatus and abnormality diagnosis method for internal combustion engine

A rotational fluctuation malfunction detection device for an internal combustion engine determines that fluctuations in output shaft rotational speed are 'normal' when a rotational fluctuation value, obtained in a 'disturbance fluctuation state' is below threshold L1. If rotational fluctuation value obtained in &#x201c;disturbance fluctuation state&#x201d; equals or exceeds L2, the rotational fluctuation malfunction detection device determines that the rotational fluctuation value is &#x201c;abnormal.&#x201d; However, when the rotational fluctuation value obtained in &#x201c;disturbance fluctuation state&#x201d; is equal to L1 or between L1 and L2, the rotational fluctuation malfunction detection device determines that the rotational fluctuation value is &#x201c;normal&#x201d; if the rotational fluctuation value obtained in the &#x201c;non-disturbance state&#x201d; is below L3, and the rotational fluctuation value is &#x201c;abnormal&#x201d; if the rotational fluctuation value obtained in the &#x201c;non-disturbance state&#x201d; equals or exceeds L3.

Rotational fluctuation malfunction detection device and rotational fluctuation malfunction detection method for internal combustion engine

An abnormality determination apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with a duel-injection system that has two fuel systems for injecting and supplying fuel to each of cylinders, which determines whether there is an abnormal variation in air-fuel ratio among the cylinders, includes: an abnormal variation determining unit that determines whether there is an abnormal variation in a period during which fuel is separately injected by both the two fuel systems; and an abnormality estimating unit that estimates which one of the fuel systems has an abnormality on the basis of a fuel injection distribution ratio of both the fuel systems in the period.

Abnormality determination apparatus and abnormality determination method for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine

A spark plug () includes a plug body (), a center electrode (), a ground electrode () and injection control side poles (). The ground electrode has an end portion () opposing the end of the center electrode in a direction indicated by arrow A parallel to the axis of the plug body. A tip () of the ground electrode and a tip () of the injection control side poles () are positioned in substantially the same plane () perpendicular to the axis (C). The ground electrode () and the injection control side poles () are arranged at substantially regular intervals around the center electrode ().

Spark plug

In the top face of a piston (), there is formed a cavity () having a bottom surface () which slopes downward toward an exhaust side and which includes a raised part () extending from near the center of the bottom surface to an intake-side wall surface. The cavity guides fuel spray () which has been injected by an injector () and passed by an electrode part () of a spark plug (), to arrive near the electrode part of the spark plug again in the form of an air-fuel mixture ().

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