Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mineo Kashiwaya

Toshimichi Minowa

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Kiyomi Morita

Matsuo Amano

Kinsaku Yamada

Yoshishige Oyama

Naoyuki Ozaki

Masahide Sakamoto

Hiroshi Ohnishi

Hisato Tsuruta

Minoru Ohsuga

Hiroshi Kuroiwa

Yoshio Okamoto

Tatsuya Ochi

Yoshiyuki Yoshida

Yoshishige Ohyama

Tohru Nakagawa

Noboru Tokuyasu

Toshiharu Nogi

Takuya Shiraishi

Takeshi Atago

Toshio Ishii

Yasushi Sasaki

Yoshihiro Sukegawa

Takao Sasayama

Yutaka Takaku

Yutaka Nishimura

Shinichi Sakamoto

Sadayasu Ueno

Mamoru Fujieda

Yoko Nakayama

Yoshikazu Hoshi

Teruo Yamauchi

Katsuji Marumoto

Yozo Nakamura

Yusuke Kihara

Kanemasa Sato

Haruo Watanabe

Hiroshi Kamifuji

Naoyuki Tanaka

Hisanori Moriya

Eiji Hamashima

Hiroyuki Ando

Yoshikazu Aochi

Tadahiko Otani

Takeshi Takamaru

Yukinori Sano

Katsunobu Kameta

Akira Hikichi

Tadashi Inoue

Eigi Hamashima

Youzou Nakamura

Seijl Oobayashi

Yuuji Ikeda

A cylinder injection engine includes a fuel injector for injecting a fuel into a combustion chamber formed between a cylinder head and a piston, an intake port opening to the combustion chamber, an intake valve disposed in the intake port, a plurality of spark plugs provided for each cylinder for effecting ignition of a mixture formed within the combustion chamber, an external EGR valve having a function of EGR amount control to the cylinder, and a gas flow control valve. The engine has air/fuel ratio mode setting and ignition mode setting.

Cylinder injection engine and control apparatus and method thereof

In an engine system, an ignition timing is changed in accordance with operation parameters of an engine. The engine system includes an exhaust gas clarifying equipment with a catalyst to clarify the specified components in the exhaust gas, catalyst temperature detecting unit for estimating or detecting the temperature of the catalyst, torque fluctuation detecting unit for detecting the state of fluctuation of an output torque of the engine, and ignition timing calculating unit for calculating the final ignition timing on the basis of the detected results of the torque fluctuation detecting unit and the catalyst temperature detecting unit.

Engine system and engine control method

The invention provides an output torque control method and apparatus for a lean burn internal combustion engine which accounts for aging of component parts, and in which no stepwise change of torque or shock occur when an air fuel ratio is changed. The method and apparatus according to the invention control an intake air amount while maintaining an emission purification function by controlling the air fuel ratio to that of a theoretical mixture (air fuel ratio of 14.7) in a case where a limit NOx emission is determined by using a detected air fuel ratio and lean burn operation becomes difficult due to the amount of NOx emissions. Abrupt change of an output torque when the air fuel ratio is changed is curtailed by controlling a fuel amount or an air amount after calculating the fuel amount or the air amount from an engine speed and an accelerator depression angle.

Output torque control apparatus and method for an internal combustion

In a valve control apparatus for an automobile, an H-bridge type chopper main circuit 4 is operated by a control signal PWM from a microcomputer 1 to thereby drive a motor 9 for controlling a throttle valve 10. The power element current from the chopper main circuit 4 is detected by a shunt resistor 5 in the form of a voltage, and the detected voltage is amplified by an amplifier 6 and then taken into the microcomputer 1 through a sample hold circuit 12 and an A/D converter. The sample hold circuit 12 is operated in synchronism with the control signal PWM from the microcomputer 1. Further, the A/D converter is also operated in synchronism with the control signal PWM from the microcomputer 1. The motor 9 is controlled by a throttle valve opening angle command and a throttle valve opening angle signal, and further the motor 9 is controlled by a detected motor current.

Valve control apparatus for an automobile

The present invention has a structure of a lean-burn combustion engine 25 for burning a fuel by increasing the proportion of air to the fuel, a swirl control valve 8 for regulating a swirl intensity of combustion air inside an intake port in a lean-burn operation range of the lean-burn combustion engine 25, an accelerator pedal 1 for setting an acceleration request of a driver, and mechanical connection for mechanically connecting the accelerator pedal 1 to the swirl control valve 8, having a mechanism capable of setting the swirl control valve opening so that a lean limit can be expanded. Also, the invention has a structure of an intake system including the swirl control valve for regulating a swirl intensity of combustion air inside an intake port and a a driving mechanism for the valve can be produced easily and at a low cost, and a lean limit can be expanded.

Control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine

A method and apparatus for detecting the quality of combustion in each cylinder of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is disclosed. The invention determines a combustion stroke of each cylinder by sensors and detects the rotational speed of the engine at least three times during each combustion stroke by a rotation speed calculation device. The detected rotational speeds are evaluated by an arithmetic calculation device to identify the variation in rotational speed of each piston during a combustion stroke whereby the quality of combustion is, thus, determined. In a feature of the invention fluctuations in rotational speed caused by reciprocating inertia (.omega..sub.c) are calculated and eliminated from fluctuation in engine speed caused by combustion (.omega..sub.g) so that the quality of combustion based only upon variation in detected speeds caused by combustion is derived.

Method and apparatus for detecting combustion conditions in

An electromagnetic fuel injection valve includes a fuel swirl element disposed upstream of a valve seat for giving a swirl force to fuel, a fuel injection port disposed downstream of the valve seat, fuel dividing device disposed downstream of the fuel injection port for dividing a fuel flow.

Electromagnetic fuel injection valve

A fuel injection valve (10) has a valve member (2) arranged to be controllably movable in an axial direction toward and away from a circular valve seat (4) so as to control fuel flow from a port (5) downstream from the valve seat. An axial fuel passage (7) extends from upstream of the valve seat (4) through a clearance between the seating portion and the seat (4) for producing a substantially non-swirling fuel flow from the port (5). A transverse fuel passage (8) is also provided and the transverse fuel passage extends transversely to the axial passage and communicates with the axial fuel passage at a location offset to a diameter of the valve seat for producing a swirling fuel flow from the port (5). A combination of swirling and non-swirling fuel flow is thus supplied by the port (5), for producing finer fuel droplets of improved distribution.

Fuel injection valve

A fuel supply control system for internal combustion engines with an air flow mounted in a intake manifold, a throttle valve opening sensor and a control unit, in which at quick acceleration the control unit generates a correction air flow quantity signal in accordance with the change of the output of the throttle valve opening sensor and corrects the output signal of the air flow sensor by the correction air flow quantity signal, whereby estimating real air flow quantity sucked into the engine cylinders.

Internal combustion engine control system

When auxiliary equipment of a car, such as car air conditioner, is required to operate, fuel to be supplied for an engine is at first increased and at a predetermined time thereafter additional air commensurate with the increment of fuel is supplied, and after the engine increases its output power by the above mentioned increase of fuel and air, the auxiliary equipment is actually operated, whereby the number of revolutions of the engine is prevented from decreasing.

Fuel supply control apparatus for internal combustion engines

An electronically controlled fuel injection apparatus in which opening degree of a throttle valve or throttle aperture is sampled periodically at a predetermined time interval to detect change in the throttle aperture for determining deceleration. Upon every determination of the deceleration, a correcting quantity is accumulatively determined so that deceleration is corrected for compensating delay in the control of fuel injection in dependence on magnitude of change in the throttle aperture. An improved engine performance and optimum air-fuel ratio control can be accomplished.

Electronically controlled fuel injection apparatus for internal

An intake system for an internal combustion engine has a fuel injector disposed in an induction passage upstream of a pivotally mounted throttle plate having an idle position in which the throttle plate has upstream and downstream edge portions slightly spaced from the inner peripheral surface of the induction passage to define therewith narrow gaps for the passage of air and injected fuel particles. A bypass air passage is formed in the peripheral wall of the induction passage and has a downstream end open thereto to produce a jet of air directed toward the central zone of the downstream face of the throttle plate when in the idle position. The air jet is operative to compensate for the difference in pressure between a central space immediately downstream of the throttle plate and peripheral zones adjacent to the narrow gaps whereby whirling-up of air and fuel particles just downstream of the throttle plate and resultant formation of drops of liquid fuel can be prevented.

Intake system for internal combustion engine

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Mineo Kashiwaya