Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080208438 | Control Method of Direct Injection Engine, Controller for Implementing the Control method, and Control Circuit Device Used for the Controller - An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection control technique which maximizes engine power according to fuel evaporation characteristics. The fuel injection timing in the intake stroke is delayed according as a physical quantity affecting the fuel evaporation time changes such that the fuel evaporation time decreases. Further, the fuel injection timing when a physical quantity affecting the fuel evaporation time is such that the fuel evaporation time decreases is set closer to the end of the intake stroke than the fuel injection timing when the physical quantity is such that the fuel evaporation time increases. The fuel injection timing is controlled so as to maximize engine power according to fuel evaporation times. | 08-28-2008 |
20080295590 | THERMAL TYPE FLOW METER AND ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A thermal type flow meter has a first heating resistor, a second heating resistor for blocking heat transfer from the first heating resistor to a console, a temperature measuring resistor interposed between the two heating resistors, and a controller for calculating a flow rate unrelated to temperatures of fluid from temperatures of the resistors and currents supplied to the heating resistors. | 12-04-2008 |
20090025680 | Multi-Hole Injector, in-Cylinder Gasoline Injection Type Internal Combustion Engine and Control Method for the Engine - Improvement of combustion stability in retard ignition at the time of starting in a cold state, high output in a full throttle condition, reduction of smoke, and prevention of wear of the cylinder liner caused by oil dilution, are to be attained. In connection with the flow of fuel into each hole and a fuel inflow angle which is determined by the axis of each hole formed in a plate, the fuel inflow angle of an hole directed to a spark plug is set large to reduce an effective flow path area, thereby making the amount of fuel in the hole smaller than in other holes. A shallow cavity is formed in a piston crown face and a small prominence confronting fuel sprays is formed within the cavity. | 01-29-2009 |
20090063021 | Control Apparatus of Cylinder Injection Type Internal Combustion Engine - An object of the invention is to reduce an HC generated in a so-called fast idle period in which an engine and a catalyst are warmed up, stabilize a combustion and achieve an early activation of the catalyst, at a cold starting time of a cylinder injection type engine. In a control apparatus controlling a cylinder injection type internal combustion engine directly feeding a fuel into a combustion chamber by a fuel injection apparatus attached to a portion near an intake valve, the control apparatus controls the fuel injection apparatus so as to carry out an intake stroke injection, makes a lift amount of an intake valve smaller than a lift amount at a time of a high load, and controls such that an opening timing of the intake valve comes closer to an intake stroke side near an intake top dead center, in a fast idle period of the cylinder injection type internal combustion engine. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070007 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CYLINDER INJECTION TYPE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control apparatus for a cylinder injection type internal combustion engine wherein the variable lift mechanism lessens the lift of the intake valve so as to set the time of opening the intake valve in a retarded angle position, in cold starting of the engine. The time of closing the exhaust valve is accordingly set in a retarded angle position. | 03-12-2009 |
20090090177 | Thermal Flow Meter, Thermal Flow Meter Control Method, and Sensor Element of Thermal Flow Meter - A thermal flow meter corrects flow rate detection errors produced by vaporization of liquid phase components included in a gas to be measured. The thermal flow meter includes a correction circuit | 04-09-2009 |
20090143959 | ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An engine that re-circulates its exhaust gas suffers decreased accuracy in estimating an EGR rate real-time especially while the operating state of the engine is in a transitional state, which often results in torque fluctuations and deteriorated exhaust gas. | 06-04-2009 |
20090150052 | Control Apparatus for Spark-Ignition Engine - Disclosed herein is a control apparatus for a spark-ignition engine that is capable of avoiding knocking at the time of high-load operation. With this control apparatus, a residual-gas suction unit or the like is not used, an exhaust gas does not deteriorate due to injection in a compression stroke, and a thermal efficiency also does not decrease. | 06-11-2009 |
20090272187 | THERMAL TYPE FLOW METER - There is provided a thermal type flow meter capable of accurately detecting a flow rate even when a fluid temperature varies rapidly or when the fluid temperature is high. A probe includes: a first main heating resistor; a second main heating resistor set at a temperature different from that of the first main heating resistor; and a sub-heating resistor for heating lead wires of the two main heating resistors. A CPU of a sensor control circuit finds a fluid temperature by using the two main heating resistors, and finds a fluid flow rate by using at least one of the two main heating resistors. | 11-05-2009 |
20090299610 | CONTROL APPARATUS OF SPARK IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In an in-cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine in which the intake air amount is controlled by use of an intake valve or an exhaust valve, which is provided with mainly a variable valve mechanism, instable combustion during a low-load operation is avoided without an increase in pumping loss (without a decrease in the thermal efficiency). In the in-cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine, during low-load operation, on the basis of the cooling water temperature of the engine the opening and closing timing of the intake valve is controlled in a retard angle manner and the opening and closing timing of the exhaust valve is controlled in an advance angle manner. Furthermore, the fuel injection timing is controlled in a retard angle manner on the basis of the retard angle amount of the intake valve opening and closing timing. | 12-03-2009 |
20110155105 | Control Unit of Fuel Injector - An injection control unit of a fuel is provided, which prevents generation of a nozzle deposit of a fuel injector. In a control unit of a fuel injector capable of controlling a lift height that is a distance between a valve body and a valve seat, after start of fuel injection and before end of the fuel injection, after the lift height is controlled to a first height, a period in which the lift height is controlled to a second height which is lower than the first height is provided for a predetermined period. According to such a configuration, when the lift height of the valve body is lowered to the second height after the fuel is injected at the first height, a fuel velocity in the vicinity of an inner wall of an injection port is increased due to an inertial force of the fuel and reduction in an opening area. By a fuel flow at a high velocity, a contamination substance adhering to a wall surface is washed away. | 06-30-2011 |
20110166768 | Control Device for Engine - A control device for an engine, capable of accurately estimating the quantity of exhaust heat from the engine and performing engine control which improves the exhaust quality and fuel consumption of the engine in various operating conditions thereof, by using the accurate extimated value of the quantity of exhaust heat. A control device for an engine is provided with an exhaust flow rate sensor for directly sensing the flow rate of exhaust gas discharged from the engine, an exhaust temperature estimating device for sensing or estimating the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine, and an exhaust heat quantity estimating device for estimating, based on an output of the exhaust flow rate sensor and an output of the exhaust temperature estimating device, the quantity of heat of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine. | 07-07-2011 |
20110226214 | Control Unit for Direct Injection Engine - When a direct injection type internal combustion engine is in an operating state, a fuel is split and jetted into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine and split injections are performed in a manner to make a ratio of a piston travel and an injection pulse width of split injection constant in a cycle whereby a rich mixture is not locally generated and a mixture in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine is put in a condition near stoichiometry. Also, when the internal combustion engine is in cold condition, a fuel is split and jetted and split injections are performed so that the ratio of the piston travel and the injection pulse width of split injections monotonously increases in a cycle. | 09-22-2011 |
20120097126 | Control Apparatus of a Direct Injection Gasoline Engine - In a direct injection gasoline engine, at acceleration operation, an amount of internal EGR is increased by advancing exhaust valve closing timing, and also fuel injection pressure is increased. In this case, range of increase in fuel injection pressure is determined on the basis of the exhaust valve closing timing at present. | 04-26-2012 |
20120097128 | Cylinder Injection Engine and Control Device Therefor - In a cylinder injection engine and a control device for the engine, for achieving both of the decrease of a particulate matter by suppression of fuel adhesion on the piston during fast idling of cold start and ignition retard fuel by stratification of a mixed gas around an ignition plug, a closing timing of a suction valve is set to a middle stage of a compression stroke in which a piston moving speed becomes maximum, while the furl adhesion to the piston is decreased by injecting the fuel for stratification onto the ignition plug in the vicinity of a piston bottom dead center, and when the piston is raised in the compression stroke, the mixed gas flows from a combustion chamber to a suction pipe to generate a rising flow, and by this rising flow, the mixed gas is stratified around the ignition plug. | 04-26-2012 |
20120191326 | Control Device for Internal Combustion Engine and Internal Combustion Engine - A control device for an internal combustion engine that is capable of easily switching between a stratified operation mode and a non-stratified operation mode is provided for a port injection spark ignition internal combustion engine. Injection directions in which sprayed fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve are defined nearer the center of a cylinder than the centers of two intake valves. Injection timing of the fuel injection valve is controlled by the stratified operation mode completing the fuel injection in the exhaust stroke, and the non-stratified operation mode completing the fuel injection in a range from a compression stroke to the exhaust stroke. The injection end timing of the fuel injection valve in the stratified operation mode is retarded from the injection end timing in the non-stratified operation mode, in which the fuel injection time is equal to or shorter than that in the stratified operation mode. | 07-26-2012 |
20130110377 | Fuel Injection Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engine | 05-02-2013 |
20130184968 | Electric Power Supply System and Controller of Vehicle that can Supply Electric Power to Outside - Provided is an electric power supply system which includes a plurality of electric power sources and supplies electric power corresponding to demanded electric power. In supplying electric power to the outside from a vehicle which constitutes one of the electric power sources, the electric power supply system realizes generation of power by an engine at high efficiency while maintaining a balance between power income and expenditure. In supplying electric power from the vehicle, an amount of electric power generated by an engine mounted on the vehicle is decided based on information supplied from an external device such as transition over time in an amount of electric power demand including future prediction and transition over time in an amount of electric power which is suppliable from other electric power sources including future prediction. | 07-18-2013 |