Mazda Motor Corporation

Yoshihisa Nakamoto

Takeo Yamauchi

Junichi Taga

Kota Maekawa

Masaharu Marumoto

Toshiaki Tsuyama

Ryohei Ono

Daisuke Shimo

Kenji Uchida

Naoyuki Yamagata

Mikihito Fujii

Yusuke Koike

Osamu Aoki

Masahiro Miyazaki

Hideki Hosoya

Kenta Kobayashi

Tohru Hokazono

Yoshinori Fukumoto

Takehisa Koroki

Keisuke Okihama

Akira Kuramochi

Sotetsu Yoshida

A fuel reforming system includes a fuel injection device capable of injecting fuel into an EGR passage, a reforming catalyst provided in the EGR passage, an oxidation catalyst provided in the vicinity of the reforming catalyst in the EGR, and an air supply device that supplies air to the EGR passage. When clogging occurs in the reforming catalyst and a temperature of the reforming catalyst is less than a first temperature, air is supplied to the EGR passage by the air supply device, and fuel is injected by the fuel injection device. When clogging occurs in the reforming catalyst and the temperature of the reforming catalyst is greater than or equal to the first temperature, air is supplied to the EGR passage by the air supply device, and fuel injection of the fuel injection device is stopped.

Engine fuel reforming system

A method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder forming member, a piston reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, an injector which supplies fuel into a combustion chamber, and a heat insulating layer covering at least a part of a combustion-chamber wall surface and having a lower heat conductivity than the combustion-chamber wall surface. The method includes applying a coating material that is a material of the heat insulating layer to the combustion-chamber wall surface, assembling the piston to the cylinder forming member while the coating material is uncured, and heating the coating material to be cured by combusting the fuel injected from the injector and reciprocating the piston. The heating the coating material includes injecting the fuel from the injector at least in an early stage of the heating so that the injected fuel adhering to the surface of the coating material is suppressed.

Internal combustion engine and method of manufacturing the same

A premixed compression ignition engine system includes an engine, a fuel injector, a water injector, and a controller. The controller conducts: a compression-stroke mid-period injection that causes a fuel injector to inject fuel to form a fuel-air mixture in a surrounding space of a combustion chamber; a compression top-dead-center injection that causes the fuel injector to inject fuel to form a fuel-air mixture in the central space of the combustion chamber after the compression-stroke mid-period injection; and a water injection that causes a water injector to inject water to the surrounding space of the combustion chamber at a timing from commencement of the compression-stroke mid-period injection to commencement of the compression top-dead-center injection.

Premixed compression ignition engine system

When a predetermined restart condition is satisfied after an engine is automatically stopped, whether or not a piston of a stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder which is in a compression stroke falls within a specific range set at a bottom dead center side of a predetermined upper limit position is determined. When the piston of the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder falls within the specific range, a first compression start is executed in which fuel is injected from an injector into the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder for the first time and is then self-ignited. In the first compression start, a start timing of a first fuel injection operation with respect to the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder is set to be earlier as a stop position of the piston of the cylinder gets closer to the bottom dead center within the specific range.

Start control device of homogeneous-charge compression ignition engine

A start control device of a compression self-ignition engine is provided. The device includes: a determining module for determining whether a piston of a compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder that is stopped on a compression stroke according to an automatic stop is within a specific range set on a bottom dead center side of a predetermined reference stop position; an injection control module for controlling each fuel injection valve to inject fuel into the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder first after the piston of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder is determined to be stopped within the specific range and the engine restart condition is satisfied; and an in-cylinder pressure estimating module for estimating an in-cylinder pressure of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder at a first top dead center on the compression stroke in the restart, where the piston of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder reaches after the restart starts.

Start control device of compression self-ignition engine

When a compression self-ignition engine is automatically stopped, at the same time as fuel cut for stopping fuel injection from a fuel injection valve () is executed, an operating position of an intake throttle () is set to fully closed, and the fully-closed state is maintained at least until final TDC. Furthermore, an operation of an accessory () performed after the fuel cut is controlled to adjust an engine load so that an engine rotation speed (Net) when passing the final TDC falls within a specific speed range (P) determined in advance. Accordingly, a piston () of a Compression-Stop Cylinder (C) is stopped with high accuracy at a target position that is set on a bottom dead center-side of an intermediate position (CAx) between top dead center and bottom dead center, and a restart time of the engine is thereby reduced.

Starter and starting method of compression self-ignition engine

A start control device includes a compression self-ignition engine, fuel injection valve, piston stop position detector, starter motor, and controller for stopping the engine when an automatic stop condition is satisfied, and thereafter, when a restart condition is satisfied and a compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder piston stop position is within a stop position range on a bottom dead center side, restarting the engine by injecting fuel into the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder while applying torque to the engine. In restarting the engine, when the restart condition is not based on driver request, when the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder piston stop position is within the stop position range, the controller restarts the engine, injecting fuel into an intake-stroke-in-stop cylinder on an intake stroke, when the cylinder reaches the compression stroke. When the restart condition is based on driver request, the controller restarts the engine, injecting fuel into the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder.

Device and method for controlling start of compression self-ignition engine

A start control device includes a compression self-ignition engine, fuel injectors, a piston stop position detector, a starter motor and a controller for automatically stopping the engine when a predetermined automatic stop condition is satisfied, and thereafter, when a predetermined restart condition is satisfied and a compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder piston stop position is within a reference stop position range set relatively on a bottom dead center side, restarting the engine by injecting the fuel into the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder while applying the rotational force to the engine using the starter motor. In restarting the engine, when the fuel is injected in the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder, the controller controls the fuel injector to perform a pre-injection before a main injection and increase a total injection amount of the fuel for the pre-injection as the stop position of the compression-stroke-in-stop cylinder piston is further on a top dead center side.

There is provided a method for controlling an electrically driven supercharger of an internal combustion engine. The method comprises operating the supercharger at a first speed during a first engine operating condition. The method further comprises operating the supercharger at a second speed during a second engine operating condition, the second speed being lower than the first speed and increasing as the capacity of the electric power source decreases. According to the method, during a transition from the second engine operating condition to the first engine operating condition, the speed of the supercharger is increased from the second speed to the first speed. At that time, the second speed is increased as the capacity of the electric power source decreases, and as a result, the supercharger speed increase that results from the transition may become smaller. Consequently, the inrush electric current from the electric power source to the electric motor may be reduced during the transition, thereby avoiding further degradation of the electric power source.

Control for electrically driven supercharger

A traction control system for a motor vehicle has a four wheel steering device for controlling a steering characteristic of the vehicle based on a yaw rate difference between an actual yaw rate and a target yaw rate of the vehicle. The traction control system further has a device for controlling driven torque applied to a driven wheel while a slip is generated in the driven wheel. A correction device is used for correcting the driven torque to be small as a wheel steering angle becomes large while the four wheel steering device is operated.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yoshihisa Nakamoto