Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuji Tomita

Taku Ibuki

Yoshihisa Hirosawa

A first supercharger and a second supercharger are disposed in series in intake and exhaust passages. In a B region in which both the supercharging effects of the first and second superchargers are utilized, the opening of an exhaust control valve disposed in a passage for bypassing the turbine of the first supercharger is set to an intermediate degree, and the opening of an intake control valve disposed in a passage for bypassing the compressor of the first supercharger is set to the minimum. In a C region in which the supercharging effect of only the second supercharger is utilized, both the openings of the exhaust control valve and the intake control valve are set to the maximum. When the control region shifts from B region to C region as result of acceleration of the vehicle, the fuel injection amount is reduced over a predetermined period immediately after the shift.

Control apparatus for internal combustion engine equipped with supercharger

An apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve is applied to an internal combustion engine having a first supercharger, a second supercharger, a first control valve, and a second control valve. The apparatus includes an electronic control unit to obtain two supercharging-pressure-corresponding-values before and after an opening degree of the first control valve is changed during a period in which the engine is operated in a specific operating state under which the first supercharger supercharges the engine more efficiently than the second supercharger, and to determine whether or not the second control valve is abnormal based on the two values with respect to the change of the opening degree of the first control valve.

Apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve of an internal combustion engine

The present invention is applied to an internal combustion engine comprising a first supercharger, a second supercharger, a first control valvefor controlling a supply of an exhaust gas to the first supercharger, and a second control valvefor controlling a supply of an air to the first supercharger, and provides to an apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve which can determine abnormality of the first control valve and the second control valve. The apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve determines abnormality of a control valve when a supercharging pressure is smaller than a predetermined referential supercharging pressure by a predetermined value or more. The apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve determines that the first control valve is abnormal and the second control valve is normal if a pressure of an air at a downstream side of a compressor of the first supercharger is larger than a pressure of an air at an upstream side of the compressor by a predetermined value or more. In the meantime, the apparatus for determining an abnormality of a control valve determines that either one of the first control valve and the second control valve is abnormal if the pressure of the air at a downstream side of the compressor of the first supercharger is not larger than the pressure of the air at an upstream side of the compressor by a predetermined value or more.

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Susono, Japan

Tetsuji Tomita