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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2003
Shinji Nakagawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Toshio Hori, Hitachinaka, JP;
Mamoru Nemoto, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masami Nagano, Hitachinaka, JP;
Shinji Nakagawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Toshio Hori, Hitachinaka, JP;
Mamoru Nemoto, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masami Nagano, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An internal combustion engine control device for, in a lean-burn internal combustion engine provided with a three-way catalyst and a lean NOx catalyst in an exhaust system, optimizing an air/fuel ratio in a rich mode from the viewpoints of both better fuel economy and exhaust emission control when NOx having been stored in a lean NOx catalyst during a lean operation is desorbed and cleaned by switching to a rich operation. An internal combustion engine control device for controlling an air/fuel ratio during the rich operation to be changed between a period of desorbing Ostored in the three-way catalyst and a period of desorbing and cleaning NOx stored in the lean NOx catalyst.