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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2021
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Hitoki Sugimoto, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 15/11 (2006.01); F02D 41/14 (2006.01); F02D 41/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/1498 (2013.01); F02D 41/009 (2013.01); F02D 41/0097 (2013.01); F02D 2200/1015 (2013.01); G01M 15/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

A misfire determination period is set to a predetermined range of a crank angle. A CPU performs: a calculation process of calculating an average value of a torque of an output shaft of an internal combustion engine in the misfire determination period; a misfire determining process of determining that a misfire has occurred when the calculated average value is less than a prescribed threshold value; and a process of setting the whole misfire determination period to a period in a positive torque range which is a range of a crank angle at which the torque of the output shaft is equal to or greater than zero at the time of normal combustion in which a misfire does not occur.


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