A system for controlling fuel metering in an internal combustion engine using a fluid dynamic model with the quantity of throttle-past air being determined therefrom. Based on the observation that the difference between the steady-state engine operating condition and the transient engine operating condition can be described as the difference in the effective throttle opening areas, the quantity of fuel injection is determined from the product of the ratio between the area and its first-order lag value and the quantity of fuel injection under the steady-state engine operating condition obtained by mapped data retrieval and by subtracting the quantity of correction corresponding to the quantity of chamber-filling air. A pseudo-manifold pressure is estimated and is used for calculating the effective throttle opening area and its first lag value. The pseudo-manifold pressure is corrected by atmospheric pressure, engine coolant water temperature, etc., so as to enhance estimation accuracy.

Fuel metering control system for internal combustion engine

An electrode structure and a mechanism for automated or user-selected operation or compensation of the electrodes, for example to determine tissue coverage and/or prevent arcing between bottom electrodes during electrocautery is disclosed.

Electrocautery method and apparatus

A compression ignition type engine, wherein a first combustion where the amount of the recirculated exhaust gas supplied to the combustion chamber is larger than the amount of recirculated exhaust gas where the amount of production of soot peaks and almost no soot is produced and a second combustion where the amount of recirculated exhaust gas supplied to the combustion chamber is smaller than the amount of recirculated exhaust gas where the amount of production of soot peaks are selectively switched between and where the second combustion is switched to the first combustion when the temperature of the catalyst arranged in an engine exhaust passage is about to fall below the activation temperature.

Compression ignition type engine

A device for detecting the deterioration of a catalytic converter for an engine having two or more cylinder groups, and a catalytic converter disposed in a common exhaust passage with which exhaust passages individually connected to the respective cylinder groups are merged, wherein the air-fuel ratio of the respective cylinder groups are controlled independently based on the output of the upstream air-fuel ratio sensors disposed in the respective individual exhaust passages. Since the air-fuel ratios of the respective cylinder groups are controlled independently, the phases of the air-fuel ratio oscillations of exhaust gases flowing into the common exhaust passage from the individual exhaust passages are usually not synchronized. However, during the engine operation, the phases of the air-fuel ratio oscillations of the exhaust gases are occasionally spontaneously synchronized due to slight differences of the periods of the cycle of the air-fuel ratio feedback controls in the respective cylinder groups. The device detects such a spontaneous synchronization, and determines whether or not the catalytic converter has deteriorated based on the output of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in the common exhaust passage downstream of the catalytic converter.

A device for determining deterioration of a catalytic converter for an engine

A plant control system using response specifying control that makes it possible to independently set a follow-up behavior for an output value of a plant when a target output value of the plant changes and a convergent behavior for a difference between a target output value and an output value when the output value of the plant changes. The control system has a controller for determining a clutch stroke on the basis of a model equation of a clutch device such that a target rotational speed and an actual rotational speed of the clutch device coincide with each other. The controller includes a target value filter for carrying out filtering computation on a target rotational speed to calculate a filtering target value that converges to the target rotational speed with a response delay, and a response specifying control unit that determines the clutch stroke by response specifying control such that the filtering target value and the clutch rotational speed coincide with each other.

Plant control system

An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine includes a LAF sensor and an O2 sensor arranged in an exhaust pipe at respective locations upstream and downstream of a catalytic converter. A desired air-fuel ratio coefficient used in calculating an amount of fuel supplied to the engine is calculated based on operating conditions of the engine, and corrected based on output from the O2 sensor. The air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to the engine is feedback-controlled to a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio based on the corrected desired air-fuel ratio coefficient. When the output from the O2 sensor falls within a predetermined range, the desired air-fuel ratio coefficient is not corrected, but held at an immediately preceding value thereof.

Air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines

An electromagnetically driven valve control system for an internal combustion engine having at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, and a starter for starting cranking of the engine. A CPU controls an energization time/timing control circuit section to electromagnetically drive at least one of the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve. The CPU detects a starting signal indicative of starting of the cranking of the engine, and a timer measures a time period elapsed after the starting signal is detected. An inhibiting time period is set, over which the operation of the starter means is inhibited, and the at least one of the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve is driven in a valve closing direction when the starting signal is detected. The operation of the starter is permitted when the time period elapsed after the starting signal is detected exceeds the inhibiting time period.

Electromagnetically driven valve control system for internal combustion engines

A control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders each having at least one intake valve, at least one exhaust valve, and a crankshaft. The control system has an electromagnetic driving section which electromagnetically causes opening and closing of at least one of the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve. A crank angle sensor generates a crank angle signal whenever the crankshaft rotates through a predetermined angle, and a cylinder position sensor generates a cylinder-discriminating signal indicative of a predetermined crank angle of a particular cylinder of a plurality of the cylinders. A piston position sensor detects an operating state or position of the piston of each of the plurality of the cylinders, based on the generated crank angle signal and the generated cylinder-discriminating signal. A CPU starts opening of the at least one of the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve, based on the detected operating state of the piston.

Control system for internal combuston engines

There are provided a control system and method and an engine control unit for an internal combustion engine, which are capable of attaining a high combustion efficiency in both of a homogeneous and a stratified combustion modes, thereby improving drivability and fuel economy, as well as a control system for an internal combustion engine which is capable of ensuring stable combustion in both the modes. In one form of the invention, the control system includes an ECU for controlling ignition timing IG of an in-cylinder fuel injection type engine which is operated while switching the combustion mode between the homogeneous and stratified combustion modes. The ECU determines which of the homogeneous and stratified combustion modes should be selected.

Control system and method and engine control unit for internal combustion engine

A control system for an internal combustion engine estimates an amount of adherent fuel adhering to the inner surface of the intake passage, as well as an amount of carried-off fuel evaporated form fuel adhering to the inner surface of the intake passage and carried into combustion chambers, determines an amount of supply fuel to be supplied to the engine, based upon operating conditions of the engine, the estimated adherent fuel amount, and the estimated carried-off fuel amount, and supplies the determined supply fuel amount into the intake passage. The control system calculates an amount of exhaust gases to be recirculated from the exhaust passage to the intake passage, and corrects the estimated adherent fuel amount and the estimated carried-off fuel amount, based upon the calculated exhaust gas recirculating amount, based upon the calculated exhaust gas recirculating amount. Advantageously, the exhaust gas recirculating amount is calculated based upon dynamic characteristics of an exhaust gas recirculation control valve and those of exhaust gases being recirculated.

Ken Ogawa

Papers

Air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engines

Electromagnetically driven valve control system for internal combustion engines

Control system for internal combuston engines

Control system and method and engine control unit for internal combustion engine

Control system for internal combustion engines with exhaust gas recirculation systems