Subaru Corporation

Horiba, Ltd.

Shota Tobe

Kenji Takeda

Yasuyuki Kiya

Kunio Tabata

In order to separately evaluate an influence degree of fuel and an influence degree of lubricating oil with respect to particulate matters contained in exhaust gas, an exhaust gas analysis method includes: analyzing particulate matters contained in the exhaust gas exhausted from an engine, thereby making it possible to analyze the particulate matters derived from the lubricating oil by using isooctane as a fuel.

Exhaust gas analysis method and exhaust gas analysis system

An engine control apparatus is configured to control a direct injection engine that includes a combustion chamber and an intake system including an intake port. The engine control apparatus includes a cleaning component sensor and a mode controller. The cleaning component sensor is provided in a fuel system and configured to detect a cleaning component included in fuel. The fuel system includes a fuel tank and an injector and is configured to supply the fuel to the combustion chamber. The mode controller is configured to cause execution of a cleaning mode by the direct injection engine, under a state in which the cleaning component included in the fuel is higher than a threshold. The cleaning mode includes increasing an amount of a fuel-air mixture flowing back from the combustion chamber to the intake port.

Engine control apparatus

An engine control apparatus controls includes a cleaning mode to clean a deposit generated in an intake system of an engine. The engine control apparatus includes a generation source calculator, a deposit calculator, and a mode controller. The generation source calculator is configured to calculate an attached generation source amount on the basis of a temperature of the intake system. The attached generation source amount is an amount of a generation source, of the deposit, attached to the intake system. The deposit calculator is configured to calculate an attached deposit amount that is an amount of the deposit attached to the intake system, on the basis of the attached generation source amount and the temperature of the intake system. The mode controller is configured to execute the cleaning mode, when the attached deposit amount is greater than an execution threshold.

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Shota Tobe