Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Harada

Tomihisa Oda

Takao Fukuma

Tomoyuki Ono

Tatsuhisa Yokoi

Teruhiko Miyake

Ryouhei Kusunoki

Hidetomo Horikawa

Ryoichi Kitaoka

Shigeki Nakayama

Hiroki Matsuoka

Daisuke Shibata

Naofumi Magarida

Kotaro Hayashi

Souichi Matsushita

Toshio Suematsu

Masaaki Kobayashi

Shinobu Ishiyama

Akio Matsunaga

Shigehiro Matsuno

Yusuke Nozaki

Yukihiro Tsukasaki

Yasuhiro Ohtsubo

Yoshitsugu Suzuki

Akihiro Negami

A diesel engine includes: a PM filter provided in its exhaust passage; a fuel injection valve for performing post fuel injection in a cylinder of an engine body in addition to primary fuel injection, in order to supply fuel to the PM filter, to maintain its purification performance; an oil level sensor for detecting a degree of dilution of engine oil; and a first indicator lamp that is turned on to indicate that the engine oil needs to be changed when the degree of dilution of engine oil detected by the oil level sensor is equal to or greater than an allowable level. The vehicle diesel engine overrides the prohibition of the post fuel injection until a distance traveled by the vehicle after the indicator lamp is turned on reaches a predetermined distance.

Vehicle diesel engine and control method of the same

An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting an abnormality of an oil level sensor having lower and upper oil level detectors includes: a recording portion that records the output of the upper oil level detector before the internal combustion engine is started; and a determining portion that determines that the upper oil level detector has an abnormality if the output of the lower oil level detector is indicating, after the start of the internal combustion engine, that the oil level is higher than the first reference oil level while the output of the upper oil level detector recorded by the recording portion is indicating that the oil level was lower than the second reference oil level before the start of the internal combustion engine.

Abnormality detection apparatus and method for oil level sensor

Parameters for control of engine operation are operated for each operating state for establishment of compliance, whereby the output values are made compliance targets. This compliance operation is performed by first determining the adjustment sequences and adjustment directions for a plurality of parameters for reducing the output values exceeding the compliance targets and then sequentially operating these parameters in accordance with the determined adjustment sequence and in the determined adjustment direction.

Automatic compliance device, automatic compliance method, automobile, and storage medium

A control apparatus for a motor vehicle is provided in which each of a plurality of output values of the vehicle varies depending upon a plurality of input control parameters for controlling the vehicle. The control apparatus changes the input control parameter or parameters so that each of the output values becomes substantially equal to a corresponding target output value. The control apparatus then determines adapted values of the input control parameters, based on values of the input control parameters obtained when each of the output values becomes substantially equal to the corresponding target output value or falls within a permissible adaptation range of the target output value.

Control apparatus for motor vehicle and storage medium

A NOx catalyst in the exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is capable of lean burn and adapted to release and reduce absorbed NOx by a reducing agent. Reducing agent supplier is provided in the exhaust passage on the upstream side of the NOx catalyst. A load detector detects the load of an internal combustion engine. Reducing agent addition controller controls the reducing agent addition period and the reducing agent addition interval based on the load of the internal combustion engine, whereby sufficient reducing agent is supplied to the NOx catalyst side independently of the operating condition.

Exhaust emission control device of internal combustion engine

An amount of pressurized fluid is pumped by a high-pressure fluid pump to a common rail in an engine by using a multi-functional control circuit (ECU) that improves the controllability of fluid pumped to the common rail such that a target pressure in the common rail is achieved notwithstanding the loss of fuel injected from the common rail into the engine's cylinders nor the variety of pressure losses or deviations occurring throughout the system. The ECU sets a base fluid pumping amount based on a target value of pressure in the common rail and an amount of fluid ejected from the common rail. The ECU also calculates a fluid pumping amount required to cause the actual pressure of the common rail to follow a change of a target pressure of the common rail according to the amount of change of the target pressure. The ECU sets the sum of the basic fluid pumping amount, the required fluid pumping amount and a carried-over amount of fluid, as a set value of the fluid pumping amount to achieve target pressure in the common rail. If the set value of the fluid pumping amount exceeds a predetermined capacity of the fluid pump, the ECU sets a difference between the set value of the fluid pumping amount and the predetermined capacity as the carried-over amount of fluid that is carried over to a next setting of fluid pumping amount, thereby reflecting the difference therebetween in a next set value of the fluid pumping amount so that the target pressure in the common rail may be achieved via a plurality of pumping sequences including any carried over fluid amounts.

Fluid pump control apparatus and method

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Yasuo Harada