Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Oki Denki Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yutaka Otobe

Akihiro Yamato

Osamu Gotoh

Shumpei Hasegawa

Noriyuki Kishi

Michio Kawamoto

Akira Fujimura

Akira Kato

Toshiyuki Sato

Toshihiro Oikawa

Takeo Kiuchi

Takahiro Iwata

Akimasa Yasuoka

Shigehiro Kimura

Kikuo Tomozawa

Masataka Chikamatsu

Hideo Kobayashi

Sachito Fujimoto

Yoshio Wazaki

Yoshio Suzuki

Hiroshi Hasebe

Fumio Hosoda

Takashi Koumura

Kazuhito Kakimoto

Akira Katoh

Makoto Hashiguchi

Shigeo Umesaki

Norio Tomobe

Mamoru Kosuge

Akinobu Takagi

Hitoshi Yamabe

Toshihiro Kamiyama

Etsuo Kawabata

Naoki Ohsawa

Hayato Yasui

Norio Sato

Shoichi Ootaka

Masakatsu Niikura

A valve operating system in an internal combustion engine includes a cam shaft provided with a valve operating cam, a rocker arm having a pair of support wall portions which are integrally connected at their base ends to a swinging support portion swingably supported on a support member mounted on a cylinder head and which are opposed to each other at a distance in a direction along the swinging axis of the swinging support portion, a support shaft supported between the support wall portions, and a roller which is rotatably supported on the support shaft with a bearing interposed therebetween so as to be in rolling contact with the valve operating cam. A lower connecting wall interconnecting lower portions of the base ends of the support wall portions is projectingly provided on the swinging support portion in a manner opposed to an outer peripheral surface of a lower portion of the roller. Thus, it is possible to increase the rigidity of the rocker arm, while avoiding an increase in size of the rocker arm.

Valve operating system in internal combustion engine

A valve operating system in an internal combustion engine includes a cam shaft provided with a plurality of valve operating cams, a plurality of rocker arms positioned adjacent one another, an associative operation switch capable of being switched between a state in which it permits the rocker arms adjacent each other to be operated associatively with each other, and a state in which it releases the associative operation. An urging means for urging the free rocker arm of the plurality of rocker arms toward the valve operating cam corresponding to the free rocker arm, which becomes free relative to an engine valve, when the associative operation switch is brought into the associative operation releasing state. The free rocker arm is provided with first and second support walls spaced apart and opposed to each other, and a roller is provided in rolling contact with a valve operating cam corresponding to the free rocker arm, and is rollably supported on a support shaft mounted to extend between the support walls through a bearing. In such valve operating system, one of the support walls included in the free rocker arm is integrally provided with a receiving portion which contacts with the urging means. Therefore, the structure of the free rocker arm can be simplified in such a manner that the receiving portion is positioned to the side of the roller. In addition, an increase in size of the free rocker arm can be avoided, and the inertial weight is reduced. Thus, it is possible to conveniently accommodate the high-speed rotation of the internal combustion engine.

Method and apparatus are described for determining the operability, or lack thereof, of a hydraulic pressure-operated selective coupling mechanism for operating an intake valve or an exhaust valve of an internal combustion engine during various modes of engine operation wherein a control means employed to operate the control valve effective for supplying hydraulic pressure to the mechanism is imparted with an indication of the selected mode of intake or exhaust valve operation and of the hydraulic pressure supplied to the mechanism and is operative to compare such indications to determine whether or not they coincide.

Valve operation control device for internal combustion engine

A method of selectively and automatically adapting an electronic control unit for internal combustion engines, depending upon whether the engine has a manual or an automatic transmission. When the engine has the manual transmission, a first signal indicative of a shift lever position assumed by the manual transmission is always generated. When the engine has the automatic transmission, a second signal indicative of the shift lever position is generated when the automatic transmission assumes a neutral position or a parking position, and the first signal is generated when the automatic transmission assumes a position other than the neutral position or the parking position. When it is determined that the second signal is being generated, second control data is selected to control the operation of the engine, and when it is determined that the first signal is being generated and at the same time the starter is operating, first control data is selected to control the engine operation.

Method of selectively adapting an electronic control unit for internal

Described herein is a method for controlling the bypass air flow of internal combustion engine, which prevents the air-fuel ratio from becoming over rich temporarily in the initial stage of deceleration of the engine by driving a control valve to open a throttle by-pass passage on deceleration of the engine to supply auxiliary air thereto and which includes: detecting the open angle of the throttle valve; setting a valve opening rate according to the throttle open angle; setting an upper limit on the valve opening rate when it is greater than an upper limit value determined in relation with the engine speed; driving the control valve according to the valve opening rate; and on deceleration of the engine, gradually reducing a valve opening rate set in an operation prior to the deceleration.

Method for controlling by-pass air flow on deceleration of internal

A fuel supply control method for controlling the quanity of fuel being supplied to an internal combustion engine, in a feedback manner responsive to the output of a means for detecting the concentration of an ingredient in exhaust gases emitted from the engine. When the engine is operating in a predetermined low speed operating region wherein the rotational speed of the engine is lower than a predetermined speed higher than the idling speed and the intake pipe absolute pressure is higher than a predetermined value higher than a value normally assumed at idle of the engine, the above feedback control is interrupted and the fuel quantity is increased by a predetermined amount so as to make the air/fuel ratio of a mixture being supplied to the engine richer than a theoretical mixture ratio. Preferably, the above predetermined speed and predetermined intake pipe absolute pressure applied for determination of the operating condition of the engine in the predetermined low speed operating region are each set to different values between when the operation of the engine enters the predetermined low speed operating region and when it leaves the same region.

Fuel supply control method for internal combustion engines at operation

The present invention relates to a method of detecting the number of revolutions of an internal combustion engine. Utilizing the presence of a certain multiple relationship between the period of a top dead-center signal and the period of a cylinder discrimination signal, the present invention is constructed so that, with respect to clock signals to be counted for detecting the number of revolutions, between the period of a clock signal used when using the top dead-center signal and the period of a clock signal used when using the cylinder discrimination signal there exists a multiple relationship which is the same as the multiple relationship between the period of the top dead-center signal and that of the cylinder discrimination signal.

Method of detecting the number of revolutions of internal combustion

An air intake side secondary air supply system for an internal combustion engine is provided with a linear type solenoid valve disposed in an air intake side secondary air supply passage leading to an intake air passage, downstream from the throttle valve. The opening degree of the linear type solenoid valve is controlled continuously by a drive current supplied to the solenoid. The magnitude of the drive current of the solenoid is determined by providing a base value of current which is responsive to a plurality of engine parameters that represent the engine load, and by correcting the base value in accordance with a result of the sensing of concentration of an exhaust gas component.

Air intake side secondary air supply system for an internal combustion

A method of controlling fuel supply to an internal combustion engine, wherein a quantity of fuel for supply to the engine is determined by correcting a basic value of the quantity of fuel determined as a function of at least one operating parameter of the engine by correction values dependent upon operating conditions of the engine, and the determined quantity of fuel is supplied to the engine. A value of at least one predetermined operating parameter of the engine is detected. A single voltage creating means is adjusted to set an output voltage therefrom to a desired value. Predetermined one of the correction values has a value thereof set as a function of the output voltage from the voltage creating means and dependent upon the value of the at least one predetermined operating parameter of the engine. Determined is a value of the predetermined one correction value corresponding to the detected value of the at least one predetermined operating parameter of the engine and to the set desired value of output voltage of the single voltage creating means. Preferably, the at least one predetermined operating parameter of the engine includes the rotational speed of the engine, and intake pipe absolute pressure thereof.

Fuel supply control method for internal combustion engines, with

A method for controlling the flow rate of supplementary air supplied to an internal combustion engine via at least one supplementary air passage bypassing a throttle valve arranged in the intake air passage, by means of at least one control valve arranged across the at lease one supplementary air passage. The valve opening of the control valve is decreased with a decrease in the engine rotational speed, when the throttle valve is detected to be in a substantially fully closed position and at the same time the engine rotational speed is higher than a predetermined value which is higher than an idling speed of the engine. Preferably, the at least one supplementary air passage comprises a plurality of air passages, and the at least one control valve comprises a plurality of on-off valves arranged across respective ones of the air passages. One or more of the on-off valves are selectively opened in response to the extent of engine warming-up and/or an increase in engine load.

Intake air quantity control method for internal combustion engines

A fuel supply control method for internal combustion engines, which is capable of stabilizing the engine rotational speed to a desired idling speed immediately after the rotational speed of the engine at idle suddenly changes due to an external disturbance such as a change in the electrical load on the engine. The fuel quantity to be supplied to the engine is determined in accordance with operating conditions of the engine in the idling condition, and the determined fuel quantity is corrected by a correction value which is determined in response to the difference between a desired idling speed of the rotational speed of the engine and an actual value thereof. When the absolute value of a detected rate of change in the rotational speed of the engine is larger than a predetermined value, the correction value is corrected to thereby correct the determined fuel quantity.

Method of controlling fuel supply for internal combustion engine at idle

A supercharging pressure control system for an internal combustion engine with a turbocharger, for controlling supercharging pressure in dependence on operating conditions of the engine, includes a waste gate valve disposed to selectively close and open a bypass exhaust passage, an actuator for actuating the waste gate valve, a control valve for communicating the actuator with the atmosphere to substantially vary the valve opening pressure of the waste gate valve, a throttle valve opening sensor, a pressure sensor for detecting intake passage pressure downstream of the throttle valve, and an electronic control unit for controlling through feedback the intake passage pressure to reach a target value by actuating the control valve in dependence on the difference between the target value and the detected pressure value. The feedback control is carried out when the throttle valve opening exceeds a predetermined value.

Supercharging pressure control system for an internal combustion engine

An ignition timing control method for an internal combustion engine wherein a plurality of correction values for ignition timing are stored in memory means beforehand as a function of an output voltage from a variable voltage creating means which is humanly adjustable and the rotational speed of the engine. The output voltage from the variable voltage creating means and the rotational speed of the engine are detected, and one of the correction values is read, which corresponds to the detected output voltage and the detected rotational speed of the engine. Then, the ignition timing is corrected by the use of the read one correction value. Further, a value of a parameter indicative of load on the engine is detected, and the ignition timing control is executed when the detected value of the parameter is above a predetermined value. Alternatively, in place of the correction values, address values are stored in memory means. One of the address values is read, which corresponds to the detected output voltage and converted to a numerical value in the number system with a predetermined number as the base. The figures of the numerical value correspond to respective regions of the engine rotational speed. A correction value for correcting the ignition timing is determined in accordance with one of the figures of the numerical value corresponding to the region of the engine rotational speed in which the engine is detected to be operating.

Ignition timing control method for internal combustion engines

An ignition timing control method for an internal combustion engine, which controls the ignition timing of a mixture to be supplied to the engine in a feedback manner responsive to the difference between the actual engine speed and the desired idling speed. When it is determined that the engine is in a predetermined idling region and the engine temperature is above a predetermined value, the ignition timing is retarded by a predetermined amount, and the ignition timing thus retarded is corrected by a correction value calculated by multiplying the difference between the actual engine speed and the desired idling speed by a predetermined coefficient, to thereby control the ignition timing to the ignition timing value thus corrected. The ignition timing feedback control is inhibited when the voltage at a predetermined input terminal of a central processing unit is at a predetermined input level.

Ignition timing control method for internal combustion engines at idle

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