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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2011
Kunihiko Suzuki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Seiji Asano, Hitachinaka, JP;
Kunihiko Suzuki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Seiji Asano, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-Shi, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a method for preferably controlling an internal combustion engine by precisely estimating a current value of a temperature of an exhaust device of an internal combustion engine provided with a variable valve, an exhaust turbo supercharger and the like, and controlling an affector of a temperature of an exhaust gas on the basis of a difference between a reference value of the exhaust device temperature and the current value of the exhaust device temperature. The method computes a temperature of an exhaust gas on the basis of a rotating speed, a charging efficiency, an ignition timing, an equivalent ratio, an external EGR rate, an exhaust valve opening timing, and a supercharging pressure, estimates a temperature of an exhaust device on the basis of the exhaust gas temperature, an amount of an intake air, a temperature of a fluid around the exhaust device and a flow rate around the exhaust device, and transiently corrects at least one of the ignition timing, the equivalent ratio, the external EGR rate, and the exhaust valve opening timing, on the basis of the estimation value and the reference value.