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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1997
Katsunori Kaneko, Okazaki, JP;
Kazunari Kuwabara, Ogaki, JP;
Toshio Syudo, Tokyo, JP;
Hiromitsu Ando, Okazaki, JP;
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An exhaust-gas temperature raising system, installed in an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine adapted to spark-ignite fuel injected from a fuel injection valve directly into a combustion chamber, includes an electronic control unit which controls the fuel injection valve to inject the fuel, at a delayed fuel-injection timing in a compression stroke of the engine, in such an amount as to form an overrich air-fuel mixture locally around an ignition plug together with air in the combustion chamber, when the engine is in an operating condition in which an exhaust-gas temperature is required to rise. The electronic control unit controls an engine control parameter so that the fuel injected at the delayed fuel-injection timing and spark-ignited is insufficiently combusted around the ignition plug, and is then mixed with extra oxygen in the combustion chamber so as to be combusted while being affected by a gas flow in the combustion chamber, whereby the exhaust-gas temperature is effectively raised while suppressing the fuel consumption rate to a minimum.