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20080201034 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An internal combustion engine control apparatus includes: a fuel injector; a cooling fan of a radiator that radiates the heat of coolant in a coolant passage in the internal combustion engine; a flow rate control mechanism that variably controls the flow rate of the coolant; an abnormality detector that detects an abnormality of the cooling fan; and a controller that controls the amount of fuel injected from the fuel injector to the internal combustion engine and the operation of the flow rate control mechanism in accordance with the result of the abnormality detector. | 08-21-2008 |
20090259386 | Apparatus for and Method of Controlling Internal Combustion Engine Equipped With Turbocharger - A compressor flow rate is calculated using a compressor model, which is the physical model of a compressor. A plurality of the compressor models are provided, and the compressor model used for calculating the compressor flow rate is changed in accordance with an operational condition of an internal combustion engine. | 10-15-2009 |
20110172898 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM CONTROL DEVICE - A device with models constructed based on thermodynamics laws and fluid dynamics laws including the energy conservation law, momentum conservation law and mass conservation law. Compressor outflow flow rate calculation section calculates the flow rate of air that flows out of a compressor based on a relationship between an in-cylinder intake air flow rate during steady-state operation in an internal combustion engine system and supercharging pressure, which is pressure of air compressed by the compressor, and a value of the in-cylinder intake air flow rate calculated by in-cylinder intake air flow rate calculation section. | 07-14-2011 |
20110213539 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Disclosed is an internal combustion engine control device that is capable of accurately estimating a turbine flow rate during a transient operation of an internal combustion engine with a turbocharger having a WGV. Steps are performed to acquire an exhaust gas flow rate mcyl (=mB), a WGV opening WG (=X), and a turbine rotation speed Ntb (=Na) during the transient operation of the internal combustion engine. Steps are then performed to calculate the turbine flow rate (=mtA) and exhaust gas flow rate mcyl (=mA), which prevail when the turbine rotation speed Ntb and WGV opening WG acquired during the transient operation are achieved during a steady operation. Next, a step is performed to calculate the turbine flow rate (=mtB) during the transient operation by applying the flow rate ratio of mtA to mA to the exhaust gas flow rate mcyl during the transient operation. Preferably, the turbine rotation speed Ntb during an Ntb transient operation is estimated by using a turbine flow rate change amount Δmt (=mtB−mtA) during the transient operation. | 09-01-2011 |
20110225968 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS - An object of this invention is to prevent a diaphragm of an actuator from being damaged by a high temperature, and improve a heat resistance property of the actuator. A valve actuator includes a communication hole that allows communication between a high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber that are separated by a diaphragm, and a normally closed reed valve that opens and closes the communication hole. When a temperature of the valve actuator is less than a pressure release temperature, an ECU changes a differential pressure between the high pressure chamber and low pressure chamber by means of a pressure regulating valve, to control the valve actuator. This control is executed within a range of differential pressures at which the reed valve does not open. If the temperature exceeds the pressure release temperature, a differential pressure at which the reed valve opens is realized by the pressure regulating valve. Thus, pressure is released from the high pressure chamber to the low pressure chamber at a high temperature, and the diaphragm can be protected. | 09-22-2011 |
20110253116 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS - An internal combustion engine control apparatus includes means that detects an inlet temperature that is a temperature in a vicinity of an inlet of a purification catalyst disposed in an exhaust path and means that detects a turbine temperature that is a temperature in a vicinity of an exhaust turbine of a turbo-supercharger disposed in the exhaust path, and also includes means that controls a valve overlap that is a state in which an intake valve and an exhaust valve of the internal combustion engine are open simultaneously. When the inlet temperature is lower than an inlet high temperature reference value, and the turbine temperature is higher than a turbine high temperature reference value that is higher than the inlet high temperature reference value, the valve overlap amount is increased so as to be greater than a turbine high temperature time reference amount. | 10-20-2011 |
20120085092 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes: a turbocharger having a turbine disposed in an exhaust path and a compressor disposed in an intake path; a waist gate valve that opens and closes a bypass channel that connects a part of the exhaust path upstream of the turbine and a part of the exhaust path downstream of the turbine to each other; a drive mechanism that drives the waist gate valve; and waist gate valve opening controlling means that controls the drive mechanism so that the opening of the waist gate valve agrees with a saturation minimum opening when the drive mechanism opens the waist gate valve, the saturation minimum opening being the minimum opening at which the flow rate of an exhaust gas passing through the bypass channel is saturated. | 04-12-2012 |
20150159546 | CONTROL DEVICE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE EQUIPPED WITH TURBO SUPERCHARGER - An object of the present invention is to improve controllability over a supercharging pressure in a transient state, in a control device of an internal combustion engine equipped with a turbo supercharger that determines a manipulated variable of an actuator which acts on a rotational speed of a turbine by feedback control based on a deviation between a target state quantity and an actual state quantity. To this end, a control device according to the present invention determines an opening degree of a throttle by feedforward control based on a target intake air amount, and determines a manipulated variable of the actuator by feedback control based on a deviation between a target intake pressure determined from the target intake air amount and an actual intake pressure. | 06-11-2015 |
20150184606 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR SUPERCHARGED ENGINE - It is an object of the invention to enhance the possibility of realizing a required torque in a supercharging region where scavenging occurs in a control apparatus for a supercharged engine. In order to achieve this object, the control apparatus for the supercharged engine according to the invention determines an operation amount of an intake valve driving device from a target in-cylinder air amount that is calculated from a required torque, and determines an operation amount of a throttle from a target intake valve passing air amount that is obtained by adding an amount of air blowing through an interior of a cylinder to the target in-cylinder air amount. | 07-02-2015 |
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20140341864 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING RETINAL TISSUE AND RETINA-RELATED CELL - The invention provides a method for producing a retinal tissue by (1) subjecting pluripotent stem cells to floating culture in a serum-free medium containing a substance inhibiting the Wnt signal pathway to form an aggregate of pluripotent stem cells, (2) subjecting the aggregate to floating culture in a serum-free medium containing a basement membrane preparation, and then (3) subjecting the aggregate to floating culture in a serum-containing medium. The invention also provides a method for producing an optic-cup-like structure, a method for producing a retinal pigment epithelium, and a method for producing a retinal layer-specific neural cell. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342346 | METHOD OF CRYOPRESERVATION OF TISSUE DERIVED FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS - The invention provides a method of cryopreserving a tissue derived from a pluripotent stem cell, including the steps of (1) bringing a tissue derived from a pluripotent stem cell into contact with a cell protection solution that contains sulfoxide and chain polyol, (2) maintaining, in a cryopreservation solution, the pluripotent stem cell-derived tissue that was brought into contact with the cell protection solution in the first step, and (3) cryopreserving, in the presence of a coolant, the pluripotent stem cell-derived tissue that was maintained in the cryopreservation solution. | 11-20-2014 |
20150132787 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CILIARY MARGINAL ZONE-LIKE STRUCTURE - The invention provides a method for producing a cell aggregate containing a ciliary marginal zone-like structure by culturing a cell aggregate containing a retinal tissue in which Chx10 positive cells are present in a proportion of 20% or more of the tissue in a serum-free medium or serum-containing medium, each containing a substance acting on the Wnt signal pathway for only a period before the appearance of a RPE65 gene expressing cell, followed by culturing the “cell aggregate in which a RPE65 gene expressing cell does not appear” thus obtained in a serum-free medium or serum-containing medium, each not containing a substance acting on the Wnt signal pathway and so on. | 05-14-2015 |