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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2006
Ken Ogawa, Wako, JP;
Toru Kitamura, Wako, JP;
Ken Ogawa, Wako, JP;
Toru Kitamura, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a control system for a compression-ignition engine whose operation is switchable between a compression-ignition operation in which an air-fuel mixture supplied to a combustion chamber auto-ignites to burn owing to compression and a spark-ignition operation in which the air-fuel mixture is ignited to burn by a spark of a spark plug, it is determined whether a predetermined permissible condition to permit switching from the spark-ignition to the compression-ignition operation is satisfied, and switching from the spark-ignition operation to the compression-ignition operation is permitted when the predetermined permissible condition is satisfied, thereby enabling to expand the compression-ignition operation utilization region so long as permissible in light of the engine operating condition.