Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Seiji Hirowatari

Masanao Idogawa

Masahiko Teraoka

Koji Honda

Hirohisa Kishi

Takahiro Uchida

Masahiro Kachi

Isao Takagi

Reiko Goh

Jun Maemura

Takeyasu Muraishi

Fumitoshi Sugiyama

Toshitaka Fujiki

Dai Takida

A control device, for an engine provided in a vehicle, is configured to change a rotation speed limit value for the engine from a first rotation speed limit value to a second rotation speed limit value higher than the first rotation speed limit value, when a circuit mode is selected as a driving mode of the vehicle, and the control device is configured to transmit first meter display control information to a meter control device controlling a display device provided in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle on a basis of the second rotation speed limit value.

Control device for engine

In a vehicle having mounted therein an engine including an injector that directly injects fuel into a cylinder, in the case in which a warm-up control required condition is established, catalyst warm-up control is executed if an amount of fuel diluted in oil is low, or even if the amount of fuel diluted in oil is high, when the temperature of the engine oil is less than the fuel volatilization temperature. In contrast, even in the case in which the warm-up control required condition is established, if the amount of fuel diluted in oil is greater than or equal to a determination value, and furthermore the temperature of the engine oil is greater than or equal to the fuel volatilization temperature, there is the possibility of negative influence on exhaust emissions, and therefore the catalyst warm-up control is prohibited.

Control device for vehicle

The engine ECU executes a program including the step of setting an upper limit guard value of a fuel pressure by executing low fuel pressure control in the case where a low fuel pressure control execution condition is satisfied with fulfillment of conditions that execution of the low fuel pressure control is permitted, that engine speed NE is lower than a threshold value, and that the atmospheric pressure is higher than a threshold value, and the step of controlling the fuel pressure to be a target fuel pressure within a range not exceeding the upper limit guard value.

Fuel pressure control apparatus for an internal combustion engine

A controller for a direct-injection internal combustion engine in which fuel is directly injected into a combustion chamber via a fuel injection valve, and a mixture formed thereby is burned by igniting the mixture via an ignition plug, which the controller, when the internal combustion engine is started under very low temperature conditions, controls an ignition cut operation that inhibits ignition and performs fuel injection only, the controller including an engine-start control unit that, when the internal combustion engine is started under very low temperature conditions after the ignition cut operation was performed, determines whether there is fuel that can contribute to combustion in a cylinder and if there is, inhibits the ignition cut operation, or limits a number of times of the cutting off of ignition.

Controller for a direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the direct-injection internal combustion engine

An engine ECU executes a program including: the step of outputting a fuel-cut instruction when conditions that an accelerator position PA is not higher than a threshold value and a rate of increase DNE of engine speed NE is not lower than a determination value DNE() are satisfied; the step of fully closing throttle opening; and the step of suspending ignition of air-fuel mixture by a spark plug.

Internal combustion engine controller

An internal combustion engine has a fuel injection valve. To cause an actual air-fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture burned in the engine to be equal to a target value, an electronic control device corrects a fuel injection amount from the fuel injection valve using a feedback correction value. The feedback correction value is changed based on the actual air-fuel ratio. The electronic control device computes, as a safeguard value, a value of the feedback correction value that causes a fuel injection time, which is an instruction sent to the fuel injection valve, to be a permissible minimum time. When the fuel injection time is less than the permissible minimum time, the electronic control device limits the lowest value of the feedback correction value to the safeguard value. As a result, the actual air-fuel ratio is prevented from being rich.

Apparatus and method for controlling fuel injection of internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine

An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention includes a control unit that makes a correction to the fuel injection amount using the air-fuel ratio learned value when calculating the fuel injection amount, and that changes the guard value that places a limitation on the degree of correction to the fuel injection amount made by using the air-fuel ratio learned value, based on the degree to which lubricating oil has been diluted with fuel.

Air-fuel ratio control apparatus for internal combustion engine

A fuel injection control apparatus for a direct injection type internal combustion engine according to the invention includes a control unit. The control unit estimates the degree to which lubricating oil, which is used in the internal combustion engine, has been diluted with fuel based on the length of time the internal combustion engine has been running, and an accumulated value that indicates an amount of air that has been taken in by the internal combustion engine while the internal combustion engine has been running or an accumulated value that indicates an amount of fuel that has been injected while the internal combustion engine has been running. The control unit determines the amount of fuel to be injected based on the degree of dilution.

Fuel injection control apparatus for direct injection type internal combustion engine

A controller for controlling valve timing imbalance between cylinder groups of an engine. For each cylinder group, the controller has a variable mechanism for varying the valve timing. A lock mechanism locks the variable mechanism so as to maintain the valve timing of the cylinder group at a lock value. An ECU sets a valve timing target value based on the operating condition of the engine. The ECU and an oil control valve drive the variable mechanism. The ECU restricts the valve timing target value of at least one of the variable mechanisms of which operation is unlocked when the operation of at least one of the variable mechanisms is locked so that difference between the target value and the lock value decreases.

Controller for controlling valve operating characteristic in an internal combustion engine

Either associated process control or discrete process control is selected for valve timing control according to the engine operation state. Under the associated process control, the target displacement angle INP of an intake camshaft () is computed according to the engine operation state, and the actual displacement angle INR of the camshaft () is brought closer to it. Further, based on the target valve overlap amount OVP computed according to the engine operation state and the actual displacement angle INR, the target displacement angle EXP of an exhaust camshaft () is computed, and the actual displacement angle EXR of the camshaft () is brought closer to it. Under the discrete process control, the target displacement angles INP, EXP are computed according to the engine operation state, and the actual displacement angles INR, EXR are brought closer to them.

Apparatus for controlling valve actuation in internal combustion engine

A controller for a lock mechanism of an engine valve that readily performs unlocking. A VVT changes the rotational phase of a camshaft relative to a pulley in accordance with the difference between the hydraulic pressure of an advance pressure chamber and the hydraulic pressure of a delay pressure chamber to vary the valve timing. The hydraulic pressure difference is set by a variable command value. A lock mechanism engages a lock pin with a lock hole when the rotational phase of the camshaft matches a lock phase. The VVT enters the most easily unlocking hydraulic pressure state when the command value is set at an unlocking command value. An ECU gradually increases the command value from a lower limit value to the unlocking command value and then to the upper limit value to unlock relative rotation of the camshaft.

Valve timing controller for internal combustion engine

A controller for controlling a valve timing of an engine that calculates a duty correction value using an arithmetic expression reflecting a physical model, which is associated with torque applied to an exhaust valve camshaft, a spring force exerted by an advancing spring for varying a rotational phase of the exhaust valve camshaft, and hydraulic pressure of operating oil. When the coolant temperature is lower than 80&#xb0; C., the controller sets the duty correction value to zero. The duty correction value reflecting all the fluctuation factors of the engine is easily obtained without using a map requiring a large amount of data.

A controller restricts an operation amount of the variable valve actuation mechanism of a fluid pressure operated type such that increase in the valve overlap amount of an engine is restrained when the engine is in a transient operation state in which the output of the engine increases. When the controller determines that the variable valve actuation mechanism is in the locked state, the controller relaxes the restriction imposed on the operation amount of the variable valve actuation mechanism. Hence, a decrease in follow-up performance of valve properties to desired properties is restrained while restraining temporary stagnation of increase in engine rotational speed caused by vehicle acceleration.

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