Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Tomoharu Hozumi

Masaaki Nagashima

Hiroshi Yatani

Kazuhiko Imamura

Atsushi Mitsui

Takeshi Aoki

Joaquin A Pelaez

Andrew G Shapiro

Thomas J Markman

Nobuaki Ito

Adam Vosz

Chiharu Shimizu

Kiyonari Matsuda

Michiaki Karube

Cameron S Daley

Benjamin C Schwartz

Nicholas R Pratt

Dylan P Antonides

Provided herein is a control system for a vehicle. The control system includes an engine including cylinders, each of the cylinders including a fuel injector associated therewith, a vehicle exhaust system coupled in fluid communication with the engine for receiving exhaust gas therefrom, a sensor coupled to the vehicle exhaust system to detect an air-to-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas, and an engine electronic control unit (ECU) communicatively coupled to the sensor and the fuel injector of each cylinder, the ECU including memory and a processor. The ECU is configured to store a sequence of operating states of the cylinders, determine, based on the stored sequence of operating states, expected air-to-fuel ratio (ATFR) value data, receive, from the sensor, actual air-to-fuel ratio (ATFR) value data, determine a difference between the expected and actual ATFR value data, and control operation of the fuel injector based on the determined difference.

Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle engine

An apparatus, method, and system for controlling an idle speed of an internal combustion engine during certain vehicle component operations to minimize unwanted motion and vibration. A transmission neutral engagement, a transmission forward or reverse gear engagement, and a vehicle speed are detected. An engine target idle speed is set to a first speed during the neutral engagement. An engine target idle speed is set to a second idle speed when a vehicle speed is less than a threshold speed and the forward or reverse gear is activated. The vehicle target idle speed is set to a third idle speed when the vehicle speed is greater than a threshold speed while the forward or reverse gear is activated, wherein the first target idle speed, second target idle speed and third target idle speed are different engine speeds.

Apparatus for controlling engine idle and uses thereof

An apparatus, method, and system for controlling the torque of an internal combustion engine during certain vehicle component operations to minimize unwanted motion and vibration. The method includes detecting at least one of reverse gear engagement or reverse movement of the vehicle; wherein a feedback control of the internal combustion engine is switched from open-loop control to closed-loop control upon detection of at least one of a reverse gear activation or reverse movement of the vehicle.

Apparatus for controlling torque control feedback and uses thereof

A misfire detecting apparatus is provided wherein a misfire is detected based on a rotational speed parameter indicative of a rotational speed of an internal combustion engine. An average change amount of the rotational speed parameter in a first predetermined period and an inertia speed changing component which is generated with rotation of the engine are calculated, and a first corrected rotational speed parameter is calculated by correcting the rotational speed parameter according to the average change amount and the inertia speed changing component. A first relative speed parameter is calculated according to a difference between a first reference value and the first corrected rotational speed parameter, the first reference value being the first corrected rotational speed parameter corresponding to the rotational speed parameter which is detected at a reference timing at which a piston of a cylinder, which is subjected to the misfire determination, is positioned in the vicinity of the compression top dead center. A first determination parameter is calculated by integrating the first relative speed parameter for an integration period corresponding to 720/N degrees of a crank angle ('N' is a number of cylinders of the engine), and a misfire determination is performed based on the first determination parameter. The reference timing and a start timing of the integration period are set according to the ignition timing of the engine.

Misfire detecting apparatus for internal combustion engine

An apparatus to control an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder operation controller configured to switch a cylinder operation between an all-cylinder operation and a cylinder deactivation operation. A deactivation time parameter integrating device is configured to integrate a deactivation time parameter indicating a deactivation time of the part of the plurality of cylinders to calculate an integrated deactivation time parameter. An inhibiting device is configured to inhibit the cylinder deactivation operation if the integrated deactivation time parameter calculated by the deactivation time parameter integrating device is larger than or equal to a reference value. The deactivation time parameter integrating device holds the integrated deactivation time parameter as an initial value after an operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped. The deactivation time parameter integrating device resumes integrating the deactivation time parameter using the initial value when the internal combustion engine restarts.

Apparatus to control internal combustion engine, method for controlling internal combustion engine and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A control device for stopping an engine, configured in such a manner that, when, after the ignition of the engine is turned off, the throttle valve is opened to introduce air in order to avoid that a piston stops near the top dead center, the control device stops the engine without causing a misalignment of the stop position of the piston and without degrading emission quality. A device for controlling the timing at which ignition is stopped when an internal combustion engine becomes stopped is provided with: a means for sending, depending on the rotational speed (NE) of the internal combustion engine detected by a rotational speed sensor decreasing to a level lower than or equal to a predetermined value (Np) after the ignition () is turned off and the throttle valve () is closed, a signal to an actuator () so that the throttle valve () is opened in order to control the stop position of a piston; and also provided with a means for stopping the ignition of the ignition plug when the throttle valve () becomes opened in order to control the stop position of the piston.

Device and method for controlling timing at which ignition is stopped when internal combustion engine becomes stopped

A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of accurately stopping a piston at a predetermined position during stoppage of the engine while preventing occurrence of untoward noise and vibration. After stopping the engine, the stop control systemfor the engineaccording to the present invention executes a first stage control (step) in which a throttle valveis controlled to a first stage control target opening degree ICMDOFPRE smaller than a second predetermined opening degree ICMDOF, in order to stop the piston at the predetermined position, before executing a second stage control (step) in which the throttle valveis controlled to the second predetermined opening degree ICMDOF. Further, the stop control systemstabilizes initial conditions at the start of the second stage control by setting a first stage control start rotational speed NEICOFPRE and a first stage control target opening degree ICMDOFPRE according to a change in a corrected target stop control start rotational speed NEICOFREFN (stepsand).

Stop control system and method for internal combustion engine

To provide a stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of accurately stopping a piston at a predetermined position while compensating for variation in the stop characteristic of the piston and aging thereof. The stop control systemfor the engineaccording the present invention controls a throttle valvetoward an open side when an engine speed NE becomes lower than a stop control start rotational speed NEIGOFTH after the engineis stopped (step), whereby a final compression stroke rotational speed NEPRSFTGT is controlled to a predetermined reference value NENPFLMTO, to thereby control the stop position of the pistonto a predetermined position. Further, the correlation between the stop control start rotational speed NEIGOFTH and the final compression stroke rotational speed NEPRSFTGT is determined (step, FIG.), and based on the determined correlation, a target stop control start rotational speed NEICOFREFX is calculate and learned (step), for use in the stop control.

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