Yanmar Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Shirouzu

Tohru Nakazono

Hiroyuki Ohtsubo

Mitsuhiro Nakagaki

Katashi Tanaka

In a backhoe that is a construction machine in which a swash plate angle of a variable capacity hydraulic pump driven by an engine is controlled based on a difference between an actual engine speed of the engine and a target engine speed calculated from an accelerator position, the engine is controlled through isochronous control when the actual engine speed of the engine is equal to or higher than a maximum torque engine speed with which a maximum torque of the engine is able to be output, and the engine is controlled through droop control when the actual engine speed of the engine is lower than the maximum torque engine speed with which the maximum torque of the engine is able to be output.

Construction machine

An aspect of the invention provides a method for operating a workable homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine in which a compression ignition operation is performed by spark ignition to shorten a load input time and a load cutoff time. In the homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine operating method, a mixture gas is burned by compression ignition in a combustion chamber, and fuel and air are previously mixed to produce the mixture gas. The homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine includes a spark ignition devicewhich performs spark ignition to the mixture gas. A temperature controllersubstantially keeps an intake air temperature of the mixture gas constant. A spark ignition operation, a spark-assist compression ignition operation in which spark ignition is supplementarily used, and a non-spark compression ignition operation in which the spark ignition is not used are switched according to magnitude of a load.

Homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine operating method

A method is provided for operating a homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine in which a mixture gas is burned by compression ignition in a combustion chamber of a cylinder, fuel and air being previously mixed to produce the mixture gas. The homogeneous charge compressed ignition engine includes an ignition plug, which performs spark ignition to the mixture gas. An advance-angle limit and a delay-angle limit of spark ignition timing are set. The compression ignition of the mixture gas is able to be induced at the spark ignition timing. The spark ignition is supplementarily performed to the mixture gas according to an operating condition between the advance-angle limit and the delay-angle limit.

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Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Shirouzu