Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel-ratio controller for internal combustion engine
- Patent Title (中): 用于内燃机的气缸缸空燃比控制器
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Application No.: US14463188Application Date: 2014-08-19
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Publication No.: US09482171B2Publication Date: 2016-11-01
- Inventor: Noriaki Iwase , Yasuo Mukai
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-192423 20130917
- Main IPC: F02D41/00
- IPC: F02D41/00 ; F02D41/14 ; F02D41/22

Abstract:
An ECU executes a cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel-ratio control in which an air-fuel-ratio of each cylinder is estimated based on a detection value of an air-fuel-ratio sensor to adjust the air-fuel-ratio of each cylinder. Further, the ECU computes a learning value of a correction quantity for each cylinder, which is obtained by executing the cylinder-by-cylinder air-fuel-ratio control. Then, the ECU determines whether the estimated air-fuel-ratio has converged according to whether the estimated air-fuel-ratio of each cylinder has been closer to a target value than a specified value for not less than a specified time period. A computation of the learning value is prohibited until the estimated air-fuel-ratio has converged. Therefore, it can be avoided to compute the learning value based on the fuel correction quantity that is obtained when the estimated air-fuel-ratio has not converged yet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150075507A1 CYLINDER-BY-CYLINDER AIR-FUEL-RATIO CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Public/Granted day:2015-03-19
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