Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Kozo Katogi

Takanobu Ichihara

Shinji Nakagawa

Kazuhiko Kanetoshi

Minoru Ohsuga

Toshio Ishii

Masami Nagano

Yutaka Takaku

Hiroatsu Tokuda

Minoru Osuga

Osamu Igarashi

Hiroyuki Takamura

Kiyoshi Miura

Seiji Asano

Shotaro Naito

Toshihiro Aono

Hiroaki Saeki

Minoru Oosuga

Mamoru Nemoto

Toshio Furuhashi

Hirohisa Yamamura

Mitsuhiro Masuda

Shizuhisa Watanabe

Keiichi Tokuyama

Masaru Kugo

Hiroshi Ito

Asahiko Otani

Hiroshi Sekine

Mamoru Nakamura

Provided is a control apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with fuel injection valves provided respectively for the cylinders including: a revolution measuring means for measuring a revolution speed for a predetermined angle for each cylinder; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means for calculating, from the measured revolution speed, a difference in revolution speed between a cylinder of current explosion and a cylinder of the previous explosion; an injection amount correcting means for adjusting the average amount of injection of the fuel injection valves of all the cylinders in accordance with the inter-cylinder differences in revolution speed after the cold start of the engine calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference averaging means for averaging the differences in revolution speed, calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means, each between the cylinder of current explosion and the cylinder of the previous explosion; and a torque adjusting means for adjusting the torque of each cylinder so that the average value of the inter-cylinder revolution differences calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference averaging means can be reduced close to zero.

Control apparatus for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine

An engine controller capable of optimizing both the air-fuel ratio and the ignition timing to provide HC-minimized performance under the relevant driving conditions (environmental conditions) in order to minimize the amount of HC emitted from an engine at the time of start-up (before catalyst activation) is provided. The engine controller includes: air-fuel ratio control means for controlling the air-fuel ratio to be within a predetermined range (for example, 14.5 to 16.5) when the engine is operated at a certain driving condition (for example, in a state in which the catalyst is not activated such as the time of starting a cooler, or idling time); and ignition timing correction means for correcting the ignition timing to the retard side when the engine is operated at the certain driving condition and the air-fuel ratio is within the predetermined range.

Engine controller

A control apparatus for an engine including a unit for retarding an ignition timing from an MBT by a predetermined value or more during cranking at engine starting or during a period from a first combustion up to an idling engine speed.

Control apparatus for an engine

An engine control system for an internal combustion engine with a fuel injector, comprises a combustion fuel quantity computing means for computing a combustion fuel quantity in a combustion cycle; and a residual fuel quantity computing means for computing a residual fuel quantity in the combustion cycle based on a difference between an injection fuel quantity of the fuel injector and the combustion fuel quantity.

Engine control system

An engine control apparatus for controlling the amount of the air flowing into each cylinder in accordance with the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder at the time of starting the engine is disclosed. Further, at the engine starting time, the target amount of the air flowing into the cylinder is calculated and/or the amount of the air flowing into the cylinder is controlled, based on the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder. The amount of the fuel remaining in the neighborhood of the engine intake port or in the intake pipe is calculated by being separated into a balanced liquid film amount and unbalanced liquid film amount. Based on the unbalanced liquid film amount, the injection fuel amount is corrected so that the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder is controlled with high accuracy.

Engine control apparatus

An apparatus and a method of control of the engine for separating and detecting the fuel remaining in the engine and in the intake passages before the start of the engine and also detecting the fuel property, and calculating a parameter such as an optimum fuel injection quantity when the engine is started, and thus enabling an efficient exhaust performance and a good running performance to be compatible at start-up. The engine control apparatus has a unit for detecting or estimating a burned fuel quantity of the engine, and a unit for separating and detecting a burned fuel quantity supplied from the fuel injection valve and a burned quantity of fuel other than the fuel supplied from the injection valve.

An engine controller comprises a combustion state detection or estimation means for detecting or estimating a combustion state in the combustion chamber, a combustion air-fuel ratio estimation means for estimating a combustion air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber according to an exhaust air-fuel ratio and the detected or estimated combustion state, and a means for calculating engine control parameters according to the estimated combustion air-fuel ratio.

Exhaust emission control is exercised to restrict the exhaust amounts [g] of HC, CO, NOx, and the like. However, since the intake air amount for startup unduly increases due to an engine speed overshoot for startup, the exhaust amounts of HC, CO, and NOx increase excessively. Therefore, there is a need for optimizing the intake air amount for startup. The present invention proposes an engine startup control method that assures excellent startability and low exhaust emissions (small gas amount). Disclosed is an engine control device for starting an engine (from its stop state). The engine control device includes a section for setting a target engine operating state of each combustion; a section for detecting an actual engine operating state of each combustion; and a section for computing a control parameter for each subsequent combustion in accordance with the target engine operating state of each combustion and the actual engine operating state of each combustion.

Engine control device

An engine control apparatus which can ensure and maintain a stability and constant exhaust emission characteristics even in such a condition that a nature of a fuel used as present is unsure, and which is robust among different fuel natures, comprising a plurality of different nature fuel quantity computing means and an operating condition detecting means for detecting an operating condition of an engine, wherein a first nature fuel quantity computing means among the plurality of different nature fuel quantity computing means is used as a fuel quantity computing means during an engine start, and the first nature fuel quantity computing means is forcibly changed over into a second nature fuel quantity computing means if an engine operating condition detected by the operating condition detecting means satisfies a predetermined term.

To improve startability and reduce the amount of HC emission at start-up with the aid of a construction where vaporized fuel is supplied to the bypass passage that bypasses the main passage. The main air control valveis installed near the intake portof the main air passageand the main air control valve is closed or throttled at the time of start-up or additional injection from the port injection valveis given in the beginning of start-up cranking. With a apparatus equipped with the main air control valve, vaporization of the fuel injected from the auxiliary injection valveis facilitated in the beginning of cranking and also intake delay of the vaporized fuel is reduced, and hence startability can improve and the amount of HC emission at the time of start-up can decrease. With a apparatus where additional injection is given from the port injection valvein the beginning of cranking, fuel supply into the cylinder is achieved quickly, and hence startability can improve and the amount of HC emission at the time of start-up can decrease.

Starting apparatus, starting method, control method and exhaust filtration apparatus of internal combustion engine

In order to improve the decrease of the catalytic action and the deterioration of the exhaust purification performance, a catalyst installed in the exhaust pipe of an engine and a secondary air pump for supplying secondary air into the exhaust pipe are provided, and the secondary air pump is operated even after the engine has stopped.

Exhaust gas purifier

An intake-air measuring apparatus for an internal combustion engine, enabling to calculate a mass of intake-air inducted into the internal combustion engine, with a small map but at high accuracy, comprises: a means for measuring out an air mass passing through a throttle valve based on pressure in up/down streams of the throttle valve and temperature in the upstream of the throttle valve; a means for calculating an air mass passing through the intake valve based on a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, an open/close timing of the intake valve and an opening of an EGR valve; and a means for selecting either one of the air mass passing through the throttle valve or the air mass passing through the intake valve, depending upon operation condition of the internal combustion engine, thereby outputting the selected air mass as inducted air mass into the internal combustion engine.

Intake-air measuring apparatus for internal combustion engine

A failure of a detecting circuit such as an ion current detecting circuit for detecting a combustion condition of an engine can be diagnosed at a stage for detecting a combustion condition by a combustion condition detecting apparatus equipped with a malfunction diagnosing apparatus. The engine combustion condition detecting apparatus equipped with the malfunction diagnosing apparatus is arranged by a sensing circuit for sensing an ion current flowing through a combustion chamber, a misfire judging means for judging misfire occurred in the engine in response to the detection signal derived from the sensing circuit, and a malfunction judging means for judging malfunction of the sensing circuit.

Engine combustion condition detecting apparatus equipped with malfunction diagnosing apparatus

Engine combustion condition detecting apparatus equipped with

A knock detection device being provided with a plurality of digital filter units, each is designed to cover respective characteristic resonance vibration frequency components inherent to resonance vibration modes due to knocking and including first, second and third digital filters, the first digital filter being tuned to the center frequency of the characteristic resonance vibration frequency component, the second digital filter being tuned to a neighboring lower frequency and the third digital filter being tuned to a neighboring higher frequency. The maximum intensity among the three intensities determined by the first, second and third digital filters is determined as the intensity for the characteristic resonance vibration frequency component and the determined result is fed-back to the digital filter unit to correct the center frequency of the first digital filter to the frequency showing the maximum intensity, whereby the knocking is reliably detected without being affected by such factors as engine operating conditions and secular changes of the engine.

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Kozo Katogi