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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2009
Yoshitaka Nakamura, Toyota, JP;
Hiroshi Sawada, Gotenba, JP;
Toru Kidokoro, Hadano, JP;
Shinya Taira, Toyota, JP;
Yoshitaka Nakamura, Toyota, JP;
Hiroshi Sawada, Gotenba, JP;
Toru Kidokoro, Hadano, JP;
Shinya Taira, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A determination is made more simply as to a malfunction of a low pressure EGR device that supplies an EGR gas from a low pressure EGR passage connecting between an exhaust passage at a location downstream of a turbine and an intake passage. Provision is made for a high pressure EGR device that connects between the exhaust passage at a location upstream of the turbine and the intake passage, the low pressure EGR device that connects between the exhaust passage at a location downstream of the turbine and the intake passage, and a detection unit that detects a malfunction of the low pressure EGR device from the degree of opening of a high pressure EGR valve at the time when the EGR gas is supplied from both the high pressure EGR device and the low pressure EGR device, and at the time when the high pressure EGR valve of the high pressure EGR device is controlled in a feedback manner so as to direct an amount of EGR gas in a cylinder toward a target range of the amount of EGR gas, while carrying out open loop control of a low pressure EGR valve of the low pressure EGR device.