Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Toshiyuki Nishida

Shigeru Aoki

Kazuhiro Ueda

Ken Ogawa

Yoshikazu Oshima

Katsunori Nakamura

Atsushi Kato

Ryuichi Noseyama

Kenichiro Ishibashi

Noriyuki Abe

Hirofumi Atarashi

Akira Nagao

Shigeo Hidai

Susumu Nakajima

Mitsuru Ikeo

Akira Murakami

Hiromi Matsuura

Moriyoshi Awasaka

Hideki Minami

Eisaku Gosho

Masato Kita

Nobuo Arai

Yoshikazu Ohshima

Hitoshi Horikawa

A control apparatus for an electric motor provided with a rotator having a permanent magnet and with a stator for generating a rotating magnetic field by an applied voltage and revolving the rotator includes: a rectangular wave inverter that applies a rectangular wave voltage onto the stator of the electric motor to drive the electric motor; a voltage converting section that raises or lowers an output voltage of a direct-current power supply and applies the voltage onto the rectangular wave inverter; an electrical angle acquiring section that acquires an electrical angle of the rotator of the electric motor; and an output voltage command generating section that generates a command for instructing the voltage converting section to output an electrical-angle synchronized voltage whose amplitude ripples in synchronization with a change of the electrical angle of the rotator acquired by the electrical angle acquiring section. In response to the command generated by the output voltage command generating section, the voltage converting section raises or lowers the output voltage of the direct-current power supply to a voltage indicated by the command and applies the voltage onto the rectangular wave inverter. This reduces a loss caused by a response delay of the electric motor.

Control apparatus for electric motor

A fuel injection method wherein optimum fuel injection timing in a fuel-injection type gas fuel engine is determined by setting fuel injection end timing to be after the start of opening of an intake valve. That is, when injection ends in a first half of the intake valve open period the volumetric efficiency .eta.v falls and the engine output also falls, because the injection period overlaps with a period of positive pressure arising inside the intake pipe before opening of the intake valve, but when injection ends in a second half of the intake valve open period the volumetric efficiency .eta.v rises and the engine efficiency also rises, because the injection period overlaps with a period of negative pressure arising in the intake pipe during the first half of the intake value open period. Consequently, when fuel is injected during this trough in the intake port pressure, the volumetric efficiency increases and the engine output also increases by several percent.

Fuel injection method for gas fuel engine

Supply of fuel is stopped when fuel pressure sensed by a pressure sensor provided upstream of a regulator is at a predetermined value or less to avoid abnormal combustion caused by improper adjustment of air/fuel ratio. Even slight variation of the fuel pressure is sensed by monitoring the fuel pressure in an interval after closing a fuel shut-off valve once opened to re-opening of it. In addition, an abnormal state in the fuel system is detected by comparing an accumulated value of amount of injected fuel and an estimated value of fuel consumption in the tank. Furthermore, the peak current value of the fuel injection valve is controlled so that, when the engine at a low temperature is started, lift load of the injection valve is larger than sticking force of the injection valve, thereby preventing such situation where the injection valve is frozen so that it cannot supply fuel to the engine. In this case, the engine can be smoothly started by simultaneously controlling the valve open time. Furthermore, the temperature of the regulator is properly maintained so that optimum function can be exhibited by controlling the flow rate of cooling water flowing through a water passage provided in the regulator for regulating the fuel gas pressure.

Gas fuel supply system for vehicle

A fuel supply mechanism for a gas combustion engine has a tank filled with a gas fuel, a fuel injector having a fuel injection valve mounted on the gas combustion engine, a pipe for supplying the gas fuel from the tank to the fuel injector, a gas fuel cutoff valve in the pipe for cutting off the gas fuel flowing through the pipe, a gas fuel state detector for detecting a state of the gas fuel, and a control unit responsive to a detected signal from the gas fuel state detector for controlling the gas fuel cutoff valve and the fuel injection valve.

Gas fuel supply mechanism for gas combustion engine

A control system for an internal combustion engine determines whether or not at least one of fuel cut which is cutting-off of supply of fuel to the engine and decreased fuel supply which is supplying of fuel to the engine in a decreased amount for deceleration of the engine has been started, and whether or not purging of evaporative fuel into an intake passage of the engine by an evaporative emission control system of the engine was carried out within a first predetermined time period before the at least one of the fuel cut and the fuel supply reduction for deceleration of the engine has been stated. The amount of auxiliary air supplied to the engine via a secondary intake air passage bypassing a throttle valve arranged in an intake passage of the engine is increased over a second predetermined time period after the at least one of the fuel cut and the decreased fuel supply for deceleration of the engine has been started.

Control system for internal combustion engines

An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine is associated with a fuel injection amount control system for calculating an amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine, based on operating conditions of the engine, correcting the calculated amount of fuel, based on an adherent amount of fuel adhering to the inner wall surface of the intake passage, and a carried-off amount of fuel to be carried off from the adherent fuel into each combustion chamber of the engine, and injecting the corrected fuel amount into the intake passage. The ignition timing control system comprises an ECU which detects whether the engine has been recovered from a fuel cut state to a fuel supply state, and calculates ignition timing of the engine, based on operating conditions of the engine detected by engine operating parameter sensors, including pressure within the intake passage. A retard amount by which the ignition timing is to be retarded is calculated based on the detected operating conditions of the engine when it is detected that the engine has been recovered from the fuel cut state to the fuel supply state. Further, the ignition timing is corrected based on the calculated retard amount.

Ignition timing control system for internal combustion engines

An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine is provided with a main catalyst activated with heat of exhaust gas, a self-exothermic type auxiliary catalyst activated with electric current energy and a silencer, which are connected in series and in sequence from an upstream side to a downstream side in an exhaust system leading from an engine body. Thus, noxious components included in the exhaust gas can be converted and the gas is purified by using the main and auxiliary catalysts in combination but with the auxiliary catalyst being subject to less heat from the exhaust gas than the main catalyst.

Exhaust emission control device for internal combustion engine

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Toshiyuki Nishida