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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshihisa Oda, Toyota, JP;
Toshitake Sasaki, Toyota, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Toyota, JP;
Kazuya Miyaji, Okazaki, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
In a vehicle provided with an engine, an EGR cooler for cooling EGR gas recirculated from an exhaust channel of the engine to an intake channel thereof by using a coolant, an electric pump for supplying the coolant to the EGR cooler, and a gas temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the EGR gas temperature at the downstream of the EGR cooler, an ECU acquires a first gas temperature in a normally stable state where the electric pump is rotating, thereafter performs a coolant amount suppressing process to suppress the rotational speed of the electric pump, acquires a second gas temperature in a suppressed stable state after a predefined time has elapsed from the start of the coolant amount suppressing process, and determines that the EGR cooler is abnormal if a difference between the first gas temperature and the second gas temperature is less than a threshold value.