Hitachi, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Suzuki Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Automotive Engineering, Ltd.

Yasunori Mouri

Osamu Abe

Takeshi Atago

Toshio Ishii

Matsuo Amano

Noboru Sugiura

Seiji Suda

Toshio Furuhashi

Taiji Hasegawa

Takao Sasayama

Hiroshi Kuroiwa

Nobuo Kurihara

Toshio Manaka

Yutaka Nishimura

Shinichi Sakamoto

Masami Shida

Tokuo Kosuge

Akira Teragakiuchi

Shinya Igarashi

Yoshishige Oyama

Kenji Ikeura

Kiyoshi Miura

Sadayasu Ueno

Satoshi Takizawa

Kaoru Uchiyama

Junichi Ishii

Yoshihisa Kawamura

Masayuki Miki

Katsunori Oshiage

Chihiro Kobayashi

Kiyoshi Horibe

Minoru Osuga

Yuichi Kashimura

Mitsuhiro Masuda

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Shigeru Horikoshi

Toru Sugawara

Takao Teranishi

Tadashi Kirisawa

Kazuto Kinoshita

Yoshikazu Aochi

Ishii Toshio

Toshiro Nomura

Seiichi Kikuchi

There is disclosed a thermal-type air flow measuring instrument which judges whether the direction of flow of a fluid, ranging from a static flow to a pulsating flow involving a reverse flow, is forward or reverse, and outputs a signal corresponding to the flow rate of the fluid, thereby measuring the flow rate with high precision. An auxiliary passage is provided in a fluid passage, and is constituted by first, second and third passageways. Two temperature sensing resistors are mounted respectively at an upstream side and a downstream side within the first passageway in close proximity to each other. Most of the fluid, flowed into the first passageway in a forward direction, flows through the second passageway. The third passageway serves to direct a reverse flow of the fluid toward the temperature sensing resistors. Results of measurement of the flow rate of intake air in an internal combustion engine indicate that a minus error due to a pulsating flow, experienced in the conventional construction, is eliminated almost completely, and that a plus error due to a reverse flow is reduced to about 1/10.

Thermal-type air flow measuring instrument with fluid-direction judging

A torque detection mechanism can be provided for a power train and its control unit without newly adding a sensor and its signal processing module. As a gear pair for the torque detection mechanism of a phase difference type, existing gears in a transmission are used, or a gear pair for this mechanism are provided adjacent to these existing gears. From phase signals sent from pickups, a phase difference signal is obtained by use of one part of existing devices in the control unit. The torque detection mechanism can be realized with the minimum number of component parts by utilizing the existing members and spaces instead of newly adding a sensor and its module. The invention can be applied to either of FF and FR cars, and has a practical structure in respect of the performance, costs and reliability.

Torque detection apparatus of power train

On an outer peripheral portion of a rotor (1), three protrusions are provided per each cylinder. A pickup coil 2 is disposed facing to the outer peripheral portion with a predetermined distance. A rotation signal (S.sub.0) is converted to a rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1) having three pulses (A, B and C) per each cylinder corresponding to the three protrusions. According to the first signal (A) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1) the cranking ignition period (A.sub.1) is determined. According to the second signal (B) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1), the starting timing for flowing current to the ignition coil (8) is decided. According to the third signal (C) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1), the ignition timing at cranking operation is defined by detecting time intervals (3t, t, 2t) between the three signals (A, B, C).

Control apparatus of internal combustion engine

A fuel injection system of the type in which the opening time of a fuel injection valve is controlled on the basis of a predetermined program and in accordance with various operation parameters such as the intake air flow rate, engine speed and engine temperature. The system has a means for detecting at least one of the offset of the engine speed from a command speed and the engine speed variation per unit time, the data being used together with the above-mentioned operation parameters in controlling the opening time of the fuel injection valve.

Fuel injection system

In a supercharger for an internal combustion engine having a waste gate valve, a signal for controlling the opening of the waste gate valve is generated in such a manner that a basic amount thereof is produced on the basis of the opening of a throttle valve and the number of revolutions of the engine and then the basic amount is so corrected that an actual mass flow rate of intake air follows a desired value thereof determined by the opening of the throttle valve and the number of revolutions of the engine at that time. According to this, a temperature sensor exclusively used for the controlling the waste gate can be omitted.

Control apparatus for a waste gate valve of a turbocharger in an

A basic pulse width T.sub.p is determined in accordance with the throttle valve opening and speed of an engine, and the basic pulse width T.sub.p is corrected when the peak value of cylinder pressures exceeds a given range established by the average value of the peak pressure values.

Fuel control system for internal combustion engines

An apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine comprises a position sensor for detecting an operational position of an accelerator pedal operated by a driver, a microprocessor for generating a target throttle valve opening in accordance with a predetermined function in response to the operational position of the accelerator pedal, and a servo motor provided with a throttle valve opening sensor and a servo drive circuit for controlling the opening of the throttle valve of the engine to the target throttle valve opening. In the microprocessor, there is provided a compensation circuit for compensating, during the acceleration, for the target throttle valve opening in response to the operational positions of the accelerator pedal immediately before and after the acceleration and an engine operational parameter immediately before the acceleration.

Apparatus for controlling internal combustion engine

A knock control apparatus for internal combustion engines includes a plurality of sensors for generating signals indicative of the operating conditions of an engine, a plurality of actuators responsive to control signals to control the respective energy conversion functions of the engine, a data processing unit responsive to the signals from the sensors to perform engine controlling data processing operations and thereby supply engine control values to the actuators, and a knock sensing unit for detecting the occurrence of knocking in the engine and generating knock detection signals, and the data processing unit is responsive to the knock detection signals from the knock sensing unit to retard the calculated ignition timing. When the acceleration of the engine is detected in accordance with the output signal of the sensor, the data processing unit increases, in accordance with the knock detection signals, an amount of ignition timing retard to be calculated over an amount of retard to be calculated in accordance with the knock detection signals during the steady operation of the engine.

Knock control apparatus for internal combustion engine

An ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders. The apparatus includes a knock sensor for detecting a knocking condition in the engine, sensors for detecting other operating conditions of the engine, a microprocessor unit for receiving signals from the sensors to determine a basic ignition timing of the engine and generate an ignition timing control signal, and a power transistor circuit responsive to the ignition timing control signal from the microprocessor unit to switch on and off the primary current in an ignition coil and generate a high-voltage ignition signal. The microprocessor unit has a control function of retarding the basic ignition timing a predetermined amount in response to a knock detected during an ignition operation at the basic ignition timing and another control function of gradually restoring the retarded ignition timing to the basic ignition timing in response to a knock detected during an ignition operation at the retarded ignition timing from the basic ignition timing. The apparatus includes control means responsive to the occurrence of a knock to correct the basic ignition timing for each cylinder of the engine whereby the basic ignition timing of each cylinder is controlled to be retarded in response to the detection of a knock in each cylinder.

Ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine

An apparatus for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine having a carburetor which, controls the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine in the steady operating condition of the engine on the basis of predetermined data determined relative to the engine crankshaft rotation speed and intake vacuum and stored in a memory. A three-way catalyst purifies engine exhaust gases, and an output signal from an O.sub.2 sensor in the exhaust system is fed back for the control of the air-fuel ratio in the engine exhaust gases. A circuit checks whether this feedback control is normally carried or not. The air-fuel ratio supplied to the engine in an unsteady operating condition of the engine is controlled by regulating the fuel and air supplied to the engine while bypassing the carburetor, by the sensed values of the intake vacuum, engine crankshaft rotation speed and engine temperature and also depending on the throttle valve position. To control the rate of exhaust gas recirculation, an upper limit and a lower limit of the rate of opening of a recirculation rate regulating valve are determined on the basis of the sensed throttle valve opening, and other predetermined data determined relative to the engine crankshaft rotation speed and intake vaccum is read out from the memory to limit the rate of opening of the recirculation rate regulating valve.

Control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a carburetor

An ignition timing control method compensates for the variations in characteristic among different knock sensors and for the aging of a knock sensor of an engine by detecting the output of the knock sensor under an engine operating condition which is less conductive to knocking phenomenon, e.g., the idling operation, comparing the detected sensor output with a plurality of preliminarily stored reference values to detect and store the sensitivity of the sensor, computing an amount of retard in accordance with a knock intensity detected under a knock control condition and the stored sensor sensitivity, obtaining a correction amount in accordance with the retard amount, and correcting a basic ignition timing in accordance with the correction amount thereby determining a final ignition timing, and an apparatus carrying out the method.

Method and apparatus of ignition timing control

An electronic control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a quantity of intake air fed to the engine cylinders is detected by processing an output signal produced by an air flow sensor incorporating a heat generating element and an optimal quantity of fuel corresponding to the detected intake air flow is supplied to the internal combustion engine. Arrangement is made such that the internal combustion engine can be operated with an optimal fuel supply even when the heat generating element electrically energized is not yet heated to a predetermined temperature.

Electronic control apparatus for internal combustion engine

Disclosed are method and apparatus for controlling knocking of an internal combustion engine by retarding an ignition timing in accordance with a knocking intensity of detected knocking and advancing the ignition timing at a predetermined velocity after the ignition timing has been retarded. When the detected knocking intensity is below a predetermined level, it is regarded that the knocking has not occurred and the retardation is inhibited.

Method and apparatus for controlling knocking of an internal combustion

The data processing unit of an engine control apparatus constantly fetches signals flowing from the sensors and signals flowing to the actuators, and decides whether the respective fetched signals are normal or abnormal to thereby store the results of the decision as diagnosis data in a random access memory. The data processing unit stores a predetermined code in a predetermined area of the random access memory, carries out the engine control data processing operations in accordance with the diagnosis data, and writes the predetermined code in the predetermined area of the random access memory and clears data of all areas of the random access memory other than the predetermined area to thereby carry out the engine control data processing when the read data is determined not to be equal to the predetermined data.

Electronic control method and apparatus for internal combustion engine

A method of controlling an internal combustion engine employs a microcomputer to control the fuel supply to the engine as well as the ignition timing thereof on the basis of measurement of the air quantity fed to the engine. For measuring the air quantity charged to the engine with high accuracy, the intake air flow fed to the engine is sampled in synchronism with the pulsating variation thereof. A value obtained by averaging the sampled values is used as the intake air quantity on the basis of which the fuel supply and the ignition timing are arithmetically determined.

Method of controlling internal combustion engine

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Yasunori Mouri