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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to contribute to prevention of worsening an exhaust gas emission at the time of cold starting up of an internal combustion engine by providing a technology for accurately determining the degradation of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, specifically, the degradation of a low temperature activation capability of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst. In order to achieve this object, the catalyst degradation detecting device of the internal combustion engine of the present invention includes an adsorbent provided in the exhaust passage at downstream of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst, for adsorbing a predetermined component contained in the exhaust gas when a temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature range, and desorbing the adsorbed predetermined component when the temperature is within the predetermined temperature range; an adsorbing amount detector for detecting the amount of the predetermined component adsorbed in the adsorbent; and a catalyst degradation determining device for determining the degradation of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst based on a predetermined component adsorbing amount detected by the adsorbing amount detector.