Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Alternative fuel concentration estimating system, vehicle comprising alternative fuel concentration estimating system, and alternative fuel concentration estimating method
- Patent Title (中): 替代燃料浓度估算系统,包括替代燃料浓度估算系统的车辆和替代燃料浓度估算方法
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Application No.: US13133373Application Date: 2009-11-30
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Publication No.: US08356512B2Publication Date: 2013-01-22
- Inventor: Takashi Abe , Sou Kurosaka , Yoshinobu Mori , Shinichi Kuratani
- Applicant: Takashi Abe , Sou Kurosaka , Yoshinobu Mori , Shinichi Kuratani
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2008-311768 20081208
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/006462 WO 20091130
- International Announcement: WO2010/067527 WO 20100617
- Main IPC: G01M15/04
- IPC: G01M15/04

Abstract:
An ECU is used in a motorcycle including an engine E, which combusts in a combustion chamber a blended fuel in which gasoline and ethanol are blended, and a fuel injection device for injecting a fuel with a predetermined fuel injection amount such that an air excess ratio in the combustion chamber is a first predetermined value when an ethanol concentration of the blended fuel is zero. The ECU executes O2 feedback control based on an O2 concentration derived from an output of an O2 sensor. Further, the ECU calculates an actual fuel compensation ratio by dividing a fuel injection amount after the O2 feedback control by a predetermined fuel injection amount, and estimates the concentration of the alternative fuel based on this actual fuel compensation ratio and a first predetermined value stored in the ECU.
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