Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Yoshinobu Arihara

Takashi Okamoto

Kenichiroh Ogata

Hisahiro Ooba

Tetsuo Matsumura

Takaki Itaya

Motoyuki Abe

Yoshihiro Sukegawa

Takuya Mayuzumi

Takao Miyake

Shinya Matohara

Kenichiro Ogata

In an internal combustion engine which performs a homogeneous lean combustion mode and a stratified lean combustion mode, there is provided a new internal combustion engine control device capable of obtaining a stable combustion state by decreasing influences of delay of an air flow and a degree of change of a transient state and smoothly performing switching between the homogeneous lean combustion mode and the stratified lean combustion mode. Accordingly, in the present invention, when switching between the stratified lean mode in which a compression stroke injection is performed by a direct injection injectorand the homogeneous lean combustion mode in which an intake stroke injection is performed by the direct injection injectoris performed, a predetermined delay time &#x394;t is provided from at least a switching operation of a tumble control valve, a switching operation between the compression stroke injection and the intake stroke injection is performed, and the delay time &#x394;t is set so as to correspond to a magnitude of the degree of change &#x394;L of the transient state. A switching timing between the compression stroke injection and the intake stroke injection is controlled according to the flow delay of an air control system such as the tumble control valveand the degree of change &#x394;L of the transient state, and thus, it is possible to improve combustion stability in a combustion chamber.

Internal combustion engine control device

Provided is a high-pressure fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine, said device being capable of suppressing noise from collisions of a plunger rod and an air intake valve. A high-pressure fuel pumpcomprises an intake valve, a plunger rod that is formed as a separate element from the intake valve, an elastic member that biases the plunger rod in the valve-opening direction of the intake valve, and a solenoid that draws the plunger rod in the valve-closing direction of the intake valve when supplied with electricity. A control devicehas a first control unit that applies a first current to the solenoid in order to close the intake valve, and a second control unit that applies a second current to the solenoid before the plunger rod collides with the intake valve due to the biasing force of the elastic member.

High-pressure fuel supply device for internal combustion engine

Provided is an engine control device that can suppress an increase in PM/PN in an engine that performs a catalyst warm-up mode. To do so, the engine control device according to the present invention synchronously controls ignition timing and an actual compression ratio of the engine in the catalyst warm-up mode.

Engine control device

Provided is an engine control device capable of suppressing deterioration of combustion stability due to a change in engine temperature in an engine which performs lean combustion or EGR combustion. When lean combustion in which an air-fuel mixture leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is burned or exhaust gas recirculation combustion in which a diluted air-fuel mixture is burned by re-suctioning exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber into the combustion chamber is performed, a ratio of a fuel injection amount during a compression stroke to a total fuel injection amount during one combustion cycle is increased as a temperature of an engine decreases.

An engine control device sets a target value for the engine oil temperature appropriately in an engine that uses gasoline as a fuel, even when the fuel does not have a single boiling point because the gasoline is a mixed composition, or when the fuel property changes (for example, when the vaporization property changes due to deterioration). In other words, the engine control device prevents excessive heating or insufficient heating by changing the oil temperature to the high side in a condition wherein the fuel being used does not easily vaporize, and changing the oil temperature to the low side in a condition wherein the fuel being used easily vaporizes. This engine control device includes an oil temperature controller that controls the temperature of oil lubricating the interior of the engine; a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to the engine; and a detector for detecting the property of the fuel. The temperature of the oil is controlled on the basis of a signal from the detector.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine control system that is capable of promoting mixing of fuel and air during exhaust gas recirculation, thereby suppressing combustion fluctuation of a gasoline engine, such that efficiency and exhaust gas purification can be simultaneously achieved. The engine control system controls an engine and is equipped with an injection device for injecting fuel directly into a cylinder and a recirculation device for recirculating exhaust gas to the intake side. When the temperature of the recirculating exhaust gas recirculated by the recirculation device is high as opposed to when the temperature is low, or when the amount of the recirculating exhaust gas recirculated by the recirculation device is large as opposed to when the amount is small, at least one of the following is executed: advancing of the fuel injection timing (IT_SP (n&#x2212;2) of the injection device; increasing of the fuel pressure (FP) to be supplied to the injection device; reducing the frequency (n) of divided multi-stage injection to be performed by the injection device during the period between intake top dead center and compression top dead center; and reducing of the interval of divided multi-stage injection (IT_RE (n&#x2212;2)).

Engine control system

Provided is a control device of a direct injection engine, the control device that can prevent the amount of emission of soot from increasing and the exhaust performance from worsening when a restart request is made before an engine is stopped after an idle stop condition is satisfied. When a restart request is made before an engine is stopped after an idle stop condition is satisfied, at least one of the number of fuel injections in one combustion cycle and the air/fuel ratio of an air fuel mixture used for combustion is changed for each cylinder according to a piston position at that time.

Control device of direct injection engine

Provided with a control device for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine that reduces an amount of fuel attaching to and remaining on a piston crown surface and a cylinder bore wall surface so as to suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one burning cycle. In divided multi-stage injection in which the fuel to be injected in one burning cycle is divided into a plurality of times, an injection amount rate of injection at an early timing among injections divided into the plurality of times is set according to a fuel cut continuous time at a timing when the fuel injection is resumed from a fuel cut state.

Control device for in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine

Provided is a control device for an in-cylinder injection engine which reduces an amount of fuel attaching and remaining on a piston crown surface so as to bring the first injection as advanced as possible and suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM, when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one cycle in the in-cylinder injection engine. At least the first fuel injection of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is performed in an intake stroke. At least the first injection start timing of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is set in accordance with an EGR amount. The first injection start timing is more advanced when the EGR amount is large than when the EGR amount is small.

Control device for in-cylinder fuel injection type internal combustion engine

A control apparatus for a direct injection type engine is provided for reducing an amount of fuel that adheres to and that remains on a crown surface of a piston so as to suppress the increase of Number of particles as well as advancing the first injection as much as possible when plural fuel injections are carried out in one cycle in the direct injection type engine. The first injection timing is set based on a pulse width of at least the first injection among each of injections split plural times, and when the pulse width of the split first injection is short, the injection timing of the first injection is more advanced as compared with a case of a longer pulse width of the split first injection.

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Yoshinobu Arihara