Hitachi, Ltd.

Makoto Muto

Seiji Asano

Kenichi Kotabe

Kenji Mizushima

Sadato Horiuchi

Shigeru Nishita

There is provided an air amount computing unit, and a fuel control unit, of an internal combustion engine that calculates a cylinder flow-in air amount during a transient state without response delay and so as not to have any inflection point in changes of flow rate and that allows a desirable air-fuel ratio to be kept. The air amount computing unit has air amount detecting means for detecting an air amount passing through an intake throttle section of the internal combustion engine, air amount computing means for obtaining a calculated value of the air amount passing through the intake throttle section from an throttle opening angle, means for obtaining an air amount flowing into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine by excluding an air amount filled into an intake manifold by filtering by a difference between a value of the air amount passing through the intake throttle section of this time and a previous filtering value, a first filter based on the air amount detected by the air amount detecting means, a second filter based on the calculated value of the air amount obtained by the air amount computing means, selecting means for selecting an input value and a previous output value of the first filter when the internal combustion engine is in a static state and selecting an input value and a previous output value of the second filter when the internal combustion engine is in a transient state and a third filter for inputting a selected value selected by said selecting means, wherein the output of the third filter is determined to be an air amount flowing into the cylinder.

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Mito, Japan

Makoto Muto