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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2007
Youhei Morimoto, Kariya, JP;
Akikazu Kojima, Gamagoori, JP;
Hiroshi Haraguchi, Kariya, JP;
Denso Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes a calculation function of calculating an energy generation rate of an energy generated by combustion of fuel injected into a combustion chamber of a compression-ignition internal combustion engine, and an ignition detection function of detecting an ignition timing of the fuel in the combustion chamber on the basis of a timing at which the energy generation rate exceeds a first threshold value. When the energy generation rate due to a main injection, which is an object of ignition timing detection by the ignition detection function, exceeds the first threshold value at a plurality of timings, the ignition detection function determines an earliest one of the plurality of the timings as the ignition timing of the main injection.