Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki K.k.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo K.k.

Takeo Sasaki

Yoshiaki Kanno

Akira Takahashi

Toshio Iwata

Yoshiaki Danno

Katsuya Nakamoto

Atsushi Ueda

Masahira Akasu

Jiro Sumitani

Yoshinobu Morimoto

A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which the air taken into the intake manifold by a Karman vortex detector. However, the amount of fuel injected is based on a calculated intake volume. The calculated intake volume for a time interval is a weighted sum of the measured volume and the calculated intake volume of the previous period. This overaging amounts for surge storage in the intake manifold and other input paths.

Surge-corrected fuel control apparatus for an internal combustion engine

A fuel controller for an internal combustion engine has a control unit which calculates the amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine by fuel injectors and drives the fuel injectors with a prescribed timing. The timing of the fuel injection is advanced at high engine speeds. The fuel injection timing is set such that the fuel injection is performed substantially in synchrony with the calculation of the amount of fuel to be supplied even when the fuel injection timing is advanced.

Fuel controller for an internal combustion engine

An idle revolution of an internal combustion engine is controlled by a device which includes an average position deflection operating portion for averaging a position deflection between a predetermined position of an actuator for controlling a throttle valve of the engine and an actual position thereof over a predetermined time period to correct the predetermined position with an average value to thereby obtain a desired idle revolution of the engine. By introducing a short time position deflection into the average position deflection, which corresponds to a temporary variation of engine load, an undesired effect of such variation can be removed.

Idling revolution control device for internal combustion engine

A device for controlling idling operation of an internal combustion engine comprising an actuator operatively connected to a throttle valve for controlling the opening degree of the throttle valve during engine idling operation, an actuator position sensor for sensing an operating position of the actuator, a first control unit adapted to receive output signals from an engine RPM sensor, a water temperature sensor which senses the temperature of engine cooling water and the actuator position sensor to control the operation of the actuator such that the opening degree of the throttle valve is adjusted to an appropriate level to maintain the RPMs of the engine during idling at a predetermined value corresponding to the sensed temperature of the cooling water, and a second control unit independently operated from said first control unit to control the operation of the actuator in accordance with the operating position of the actuator and the temperature of the cooling water so as to limit the operating position of the actuator and thereby limit the RPMs of the engine to the predetermined value corresponding to the sensed temperature of the cooling water notwithstanding a higher value of RPMs being called for by the first control unit. As a result, abnormal increases in RPMs during the idling operation of the engine are prevented even when the first control unit malfunctions.

Device for controlling the idling operation of an internal combustion

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine capable of using as a fuel a regular (low-octane) gasoline, a premium (high-octane) gasoline, or a mixture of both type of gasolines. The engine produces knocks when the ignition timing is advanced beyond a reference ignition timing determined as a function of the type of gasoline being used. This ignition timing control apparatus detects the knocks, and provides as an output therefrom a signal according to the occurrence rate of the knocks which essentially indicates the type of gasoline in use. By means of this signal, this ignition timing control apparatus continuously displaces the reference ignition timing in the direction of retard angle by using a proportion factor calculator and an interpolator. At the same time, the displaced reference ignition timing is corrected by the detected knock signals on a real time basis. In addition to the ignition timing control, an operating parameter for the engine such as a supercharging pressure, a compression ratio, or an air/fuel ratio is controlled to suppress knocks by the displaced reference control value and/or the corrected control value. The combined ignition timing signal and operating parameter signal serve to energize an ignition coil and an actuator to suppress the occurrence of knocks. This operation will continue until no knocks occur.

Engine operating parameter control apparatus

An engine control apparatus equips with an air flow meter for generating a signal having a frequency proportional to an air flow rate for feeding into the engine. A circuit for monitoring an arithmetic and logic unit is equipped to detect a fault of the arithmetic and logic unit thereby switching a control of a fuel feed valve from the control by the arithmetic and logic unit to a monostable multivibrator so as to prevent an inoperability of driving of a car.

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Himeji, Japan

Takeo Sasaki