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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Hirotaka Saitoh, Mishima, JP;
Hiromasa Nishioka, Susono, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An internal combustion engine may include an electronic control unit configured to supply additives to an exhaust gas cleaning catalyst having a temperature not more than a predetermined temperature. The electronic control unit may execute abnormality diagnosis of the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst based on an ability for cleaning exhaust gas of the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst. When preforming abnormality diagnosis of the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst having the temperature not more than the predetermined temperature, the electronic control unit may reduce the amount of the additives supplied to the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst to less than the amount supplied when abnormality diagnosis of the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst having the temperature not more than the predetermined temperature is not executed.