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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a warm-up control device for an internal combustion engine capable of suppressing an increase of fuel consumption and emission when a temperature difference occurs between cylinder groups. SOLUTION: In the warm-up control device, the internal combustion engine 1 is equipped with a water temperature sensor 64 capable of detecting the temperature of a first cylinder group 11 arranged on a first bank 16 and the temperature of a second cylinder group 12 arranged on a second bank 17 based on the water temperature of the first bank 16 and the water temperature of the second bank 17. Further, an ECU 70 of the internal combustion engine 1 is provided with a start control portion 75 for performing such start control as to start only the cylinder group 10 higher in temperature when the temperatures of the cylinder groups 10 detected by the water temperature sensor 64 are different from each other. Thus, when the temperature of the first cylinder group 11 is different from that of the second cylinder group 12 at the time of starting the internal combustion engine 1, only the cylinder group 10 higher in temperature is started first. As a result, it is possible to suppress an increase of fuel consumption and emission when the temperature difference occurs between the cylinder groups 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To favorably control an engine on the basis of a fuel property when resuming engine operation after refueling. SOLUTION: A fuel tank 19 is provided with a refueling chamber 19f and a residual fuel chamber 19r connected by a cutoff valve 20. When feeding the oil, the oil is fed only to the refueling chamber 19f after mutually cutting off the refueling chamber 19f and the residual fuel chamber 19r mutually connected till then. When resuming the engine operation after feeding the oil, while mutually cutting off the refueling chamber 19f and the residual oil chamber 19r as they are, only the fuel in the residual fuel chamber 19r is supplied to the engine, and the engine is controlled in response to a predetermined property of the fuel in the residual fuel chamber 19r. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for optimally controlling an internal combustion engine based on a property of fuel actually supplied to the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: The controller includes a fuel property sensor 23 disposed in a fuel supply tube 20 between a fuel tank 21 and a fuel injection valve 18. The controller calculates an accumulated value of a fuel injection quantity from the start of fuel supply, and controls the engine based on a fuel property before supplied, until the accumulated value of the fuel injection quantity reaches a predetermined threshold. On the other hand, the controller controls the engine based on a fuel property newly detected by the fuel property sensor 23, after the accumulated value of the fuel injection quantity reaches the predetermined threshold. The threshold is approximately equivalent to a quantity of a fuel before supplied remaining in a fuel passage, when the fuel supply is completed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an internal combustion engine capable of preventing degradation of the emission characteristic when oil dilution occurs. SOLUTION: When oil dilution with a fuel is detected, the intake valve opening timing is set to be before ATDC 30° to prohibit the delayed opening of an intake valve. The advanced closing of the intake valve is prohibited by increasing the operating angle of the intake valve to set the intake valve closing timing to be after BBDC 30°. By prohibiting the delayed opening and the advanced closing of the intake valve, generation of the in-cylinder negative pressure when detecting the oil dilution is suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylinder filled air quantity estimation device capable of estimating a cylinder filled air quantity in consideration of to the backflow of air from the inside of the cylinder to the inside of the intake pipe. SOLUTION: A cylinder filled air quantity of each cylinder is divided into a basic air quantity and an excessive air quantity which exceeds a throttle valve passing air flow rate by opening an intake valve to flow into a cylinder. The cylinder filled air quantity estimation device is equipped with a basic air quantity calculation means for calculating the basic air quantity on the basis of the throttle valve passing air flow rate and valve opening time of each intake valve, an excessive air quantity calculation means for calculating the excessive air quantity on the basis of a drop quantity of intake pressure by an opening intake valve, and a cylinder filled air quantity calculation means for calculating a cylinder filled air quantity of each cylinder by summing the basic air quantity and excessive air quantity, wherein the basic air quantity calculation means calculates hypothetical intake valve opening time so that an average air flow rate to all cylinders is equivalent to the throttle valve passing air flow rate. The hypothetical intake valve opening time is employed as the valve opening time of the intake valve. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate the air quantity filled in a cylinder simply and accurately. SOLUTION: The air quantity filled in the cylinder is divided into a first air quantity and a second air quantity, the first air quantity and the second air quantity are calculated respectively, and the first air quantity and the second air quantity are summed up to calculate the air quantity filled in the cylinder. The firt air quantity is one excess of the air quantity filled in the cylinder for a throttle valve passage air quantity generated by an intake stroke. An intake pressure decreasing amount which is an decreasing amount of the intake pressure generated by the intake stroke is detected for every cylinder to calculate the sum of the intake pressure decreasing amount in the range of 720°crank angle. The first air quantity is calculated based on the intake pressure decreasing amount and the sum of the intake pressure decreasing amount. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately calculate dispersion of a valve opening characteristic of an internal combustion engine with a cylinder fuel injection valve and an intake port fuel injection valve. SOLUTION: A device for detecting the dispersion of the valve opening characteristic is provided with a valve opening characteristic setting means (57) for changing the valve opening characteristic of an intake valve (9) of the internal combustion engine (1); a cylinder fuel injection means (61) for injecting fuel into cylinders (5) of the internal combustion engine; an intake passage fuel injection means (62) for injecting the fuel into an intake passage (7) connected to the cylinders; and a valve opening characteristic dispersion detecting means (27) for detecting the dispersion of the valve opening characteristic of each of the cylinders, and detects the dispersion of the valve opening characteristic of each of the cylinders by the valve opening characteristic dispersion detecting means only when only one of the cylinder fuel injection means and the intake passage fuel injection means operates. When the dispersion of the valve opening characteristic is calculated, an index of a combustion state of each of the cylinders detected by an index detecting means may be used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for restraining degradation of the controllability of an internal combustion engine in case that some failure occurs in a measurement system of a variable valve system mechanism. SOLUTION: This control device is used to control an internal combustion engine. This control device comprises a valve control system which controls a valve adjustment mechanism capable of arbitrarily adjusting, with a prescribed width, at least an operational angle as a valve opening period of a valve the internal combustion engine has; and a valve measurement system failure detection part which detects some failure of the measurement system. The valve control system can perform switching to a control mode for setting the operational angle at any of a plurality of predetermined angles corresponding to failure detection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine, preventing the starting malfunction of the internal combustion engine and the worsening of emission by setting optimum control parameters for operating the internal combustion engine at starting the engine. SOLUTION: The control device 1 for the internal combustion engine sets the control parameters for the internal combustion engine depending on the temperature of a cooling medium. The control device 1 comprises a heat accumulator 30 for accumulating heat during stopping the internal combustion engine. The temperature of the cooling medium becomes higher than that of the heat accumulated in the accumulator before starting the engine, at least. The various control parameters for the internal combustion engine are set in a preset time after starting the engine in accordance with the temperature of the cooling medium before it becomes higher and the actual temperature of the cooling medium. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylinder injection spark ignition internal combustion engine for improving fuel consumption at cold starting time. SOLUTION: An engine 1 ignites and burns fuel by a spark plug 17 by injecting the fuel into a combustion chamber 13 by an injector 43, and introduces EGR by increasing an overlap quantity of an intake valve 23 and an exhaust valve 24 by operating a variable valve system 2 at cold starting time, and injects the fuel from the injector 43 in a compression stroke. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO