Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Misako Ban

Yuki Nose

Yoshiyuki Shogenji

Keiichi Myojo

Eiji Ikuta

Norihito Hanai

When a purge valve opens, a CPU calculates a purge concentration learning value based on an air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor. Additionally, under the condition that a temperature increase request of a three-way catalyst is generated, the CPU performs dither control that sets one of a plurality of cylinders as a rich combustion cylinder, which is richer than a theoretical air-fuel ratio, and the remaining cylinders as lean combustion cylinders, which are leaner than the theoretical air-fuel ratio. When the dither control is performed, the CPU forbids the update of the purge concentration learning value.

Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and method for controlling internal combustion engine

A controller for an internal combustion engine includes processing circuitry configured to execute: a dither control process of operating fuel injection valves to designate at least one of cylinders as a lean combustion cylinder, in which an air-fuel ratio is leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and to designate at least another one of the cylinders as a rich combustion cylinder, in which an air-fuel ratio is richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio; and an idle-time limiting process of causing an absolute value of a difference between the air-fuel ratio in the lean combustion cylinder and the air-fuel ratio in the rich combustion cylinder to be smaller when the internal combustion engine is idling than when the internal combustion engine is not idling.

Controller and control method for internal combustion engine

A controller is configured to execute a dither control process of operating fuel injection valves such that at least one of cylinders is a lean combustion cylinder, in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and at least another one of the cylinders is a rich combustion cylinder, in which the air-fuel ratio is richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and a limiting process of limiting the dither control process such that the difference in the air-fuel ratio between the cylinders is smaller in a change period, in which a gear ratio of the multi-speed transmission is changed, than in periods except for the change period.

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit configured to determine whether or not cylinder-specific air-fuel ratio processing is being executed in which an air-fuel ratio of at least one of a plurality of cylinders is controlled to be a rich air-fuel ratio and an air-fuel ratio of at least one of the other cylinders is controlled to be a lean air-fuel ratio. The electronic control unit updates a first learning value in which a result of comparison between a knock strength of the internal combustion engine and a first determination value is reflected when the cylinder-specific air-fuel ratio processing is not being executed. The electronic control unit prohibits updating of the first learning value and calculates a target ignition timing of the internal combustion engine based on the first learning value when the cylinder-specific air-fuel ratio processing is being executed.

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