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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust air purification device of an internal-combustion engine in which it can be prevented that an exhaust-air temperature becomes unable to be appropriately raised during exhaust-air temperature rising control due to a phenomena that movable members are temporally brought into seized states. SOLUTION: In exhaust-air temperature rising control for filter regeneration, depending on an engine operating state, switching is performed between a first control mode for raising the exhaust-air temperature by utilizing an operation of an EGR valve 36 and a second control mode for raising the exhaust-air temperature without utilizing an operation of an EGR valve 36. Then, when the EGR valve 36 has been brought into the sized state at its totally closed position, during the exhaust-air temperature rising control, the first control mode is performed in substitute for the second control mode in the whole of a region where the second control mode is usually performed. Consequently, it can be avoided that the second control mode is performed with the EGR valve 36 temporally seized at its totally closed position. Further, it can be avoided that during the exhaust-air temperature rising control, the exhaust-air temperature cannot be allowed to rise appropriately for filter regeneration due to the performance of the second control mode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an abnormality determining device capable of determining, even in an internal combustion engine for arranging an exhaust throttle valve and a wastegate valve in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, abnormality of these valves. SOLUTION: The exhaust passage 14 of the internal combustion engine 10 is provided with a DPF 24 for collecting PM and the exhaust throttle valve 18 in order, and is provided with the wastegate valve 21 arranged in a wastegate 20 for bypassing the exhaust throttle valve 18. An electronic control device 40 of the internal combustion engine 10 has an opening-closing control means for controlling opening-closing operation of the exhaust throttle valve 18, an opening fixation determining means and a closing fixation determining means for determining that the exhaust throttle valve 18 and the wastegate valve 21 are fixed in opening or fixed in closing, when exhaust pressure detected by a pressure sensor 33 on the upstream side of the DPF 24 exceeds preset upper limit value and lower limit value, when controlling opening-closing of the exhaust throttle valve 18 by the opening-closing control means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent erroneous determination of existence of abnormality when transient abnormality occurs. SOLUTION: There occurs abnormality which interferes with adjustment of a catalyst bed temperature average value Tave to a target bed temperature Tt during temperature rising control for filter regeneration. There exist some cases where such abnormality is caused permanently and the other where the abnormality is caused transiently. If the abnormality determination is made immediately after a learning value K updated to be a value corresponding to a deviation between the catalyst bed temperature average value Tave and target bed temperature Tt becomes a value out of an appropriate range even once, the determination results in an error even when the device is recovered from the abnormality thereafter and the learning value K falls within the appropriate range again. In order to prevent such occurrence, the count-up performed when the learning value K at update is a value out of the appropriate range is utilized to determine the occurrence of the abnormality. The determination of the abnormality occurrence is made if a counter value of a counter C for resetting the learning value K to an initial value "0" when the learning value K is within the appropriate range reaches the determination value of "2" or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine, capable of efficiently restoring the NOx storing capability of a NOx storage reduction catalyst. SOLUTION: The device comprises the NOx storage reduction catalyst 30 provided in an exhaust passage 22 of the internal combustion engine 10 which executes lean burn, and a fuel addition valve 26 provided in the exhaust passage 22 on the upstream side beyond the NOx storage reduction catalyst 30. The NOx storage reduction catalyst 30 occludes NOx in exhaust gas when the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing thereinto is lean, and reduces the NOx being occluded with the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas to be rich. By adding fuel to the exhaust gas with fuel injection from the fuel addition valve 26, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is temporarily changed to be rich to restore the NOx storing capability of the NOx storage reduction catalyst 30. A fuel addition amount per unit time for the fuel addition valve 26 is set in accordance with the temperature of an exhaust manifold 24. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device of an internal combustion engine capable of increasing the estimated accuracy of the temperature of a catalyst device. SOLUTION: This exhaust emission control device calculates the estimated value of the catalyst floor temperature of a catalyst carrying type PM filter 73 by combining a first estimated catalyst floor temperature calculated based on the measured value of a first exhaust gas temperature sensor 91 with a second estimated catalyst floor temperature calculated based on the measured value of a second exhaust gas temperature sensor 92. Furthermore, the degree of the reflection the first estimated catalyst floor temperature on the estimated value of the catalyst floor temperature and the degree of the reflection of the second estimated catalyst floor temperature on the estimated value of the catalyst floor temperature are set according to an exhaust gas flow. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress conditions in which a calculated learned value becomes improper as a value corresponding to a stationary displacement between a catalyst floor temperature and a target floor temperature, and the supplied amount of the unburned fuel components for the learned value is excessively is excessively corrected. SOLUTION: When the target floor temperature Tt of a catalyst is increased more than before during the temperature raising control, the averaged value of the added amount of fuel from an addition valve 46 per unit time is increased so that the averaged value Tave of catalyst floor temperatures can follow up the target floor temperature Tt. However, a temperature difference ΔT between the averaged value Tave of the catalyst floor temperatures and the target floor temperature Tt is temporarily increased based on the heat capacity of the catalyst. If a learned value K is calculated based on a ratio Tt/Tave, the calculated learned value K becomes improper as a value corresponding to the stationary displacement between the averaged value Tave of the catalyst floor temperature and the target floor temperature Tt. However, the learning of the learned value K is prohibited in a period between the time when the target floor temperature Tt is increased more than before and the time when the catalyst floor temperature T is stabilized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent heat deterioration acceleration of an exhaust emission control catalyst in the downstream side and worsening of fuel economy in recovering from sulfur poisoning at the occurrence of a trouble in an exhaust emission control catalyst on the upstream side of an internal combustion engine exhaust system. SOLUTION: If at least any one of the conditions that an upstream side exhaust temperature T exin of the exhaust emission control catalyst on the downstream side is T exin >T sin (S206) and that a downstream side exhaust temperature T exout of the exhaust emission control catalyst in the downstream side is T exout >T sout (S208) is satisfied when an air/fuel ratio is AF≤AFr (Yes in S204), calculation for recovering from S poisoning is executed (S210). Thus, a recovering degree from the S poisoning can be obtained with high accuracy. Since temperature raising treatment for a catalyst floor temperature and air/fuel ratio reducing treatment can be executed appropriately by the S poisoning recovering control, the heat deterioration acceleration of the exhaust emission control catalyst on the downstream side and the worsening of fuel economy can be prevented even if a problem such as deterioration or clogging arises in a NOx storage/reducing catalyst on the upstream side. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device of an internal combustion engine, in which an addition valve can suitably be prevented from being clogged due to the intrusion of smoke. SOLUTION: An electronic controller 50 predicts that smoke is emitted in the exhaust emission in large quantities from that the internal combustion engine 10 is in an acceleration state, and the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine 10 is changed, and forcedly add the fuel from the addition valve 46 forming an injection hole facing the inside an exhaust passage 14. Thereby, the inside of the addition valve 46 is left in a filled state for fuel at the emitting of the smoke in large quantities, and the smoke is prevented from intruding into the inside of the addition valve 46 so that the addition valve 46 is prevented from being clogged with deposits of the smoke intruded into the inside. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology capable of carrying out stable combustion and providing good acceleration performance and deceleration performance in an internal combustion engine selectively switching between high air fuel ratio combustion performing combustion under a condition that air fuel ratio in a combustion chamber is high and low air fuel ratio combustion performing combustion under a condition that air fuel ratio in the combustion chamber is low. SOLUTION: In a combustion control device for an internal combustion engine selectively switching combustion condition in the combustion chamber between one of high air fuel ratio combustion and low air fuel ratio combustion, demand fuel injection quantity eqgov which is fuel injection quantity to the combustion chamber equivalent to demand load of an operator is used for a switch determination parameter for switching a combustion condition from low air fuel ratio combustion to high air fuel ratio combustion, and actual fuel injection quantity eqfin which is quantity of fuel injected to the combustion chamber at each fuel injection execution is used for a switch determination parameter for switching a combustion condition from high air fuel ratio combustion to low air fuel ratio combustion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for efficiently treating sulphur components accumulated on a NOx catalyst without deteriorating exhaust characteristics in a diesel engine having the NOx catalyst in an exhaust passage. SOLUTION: A pretreatment for dropping the air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture supplied for engine combustion is performed before S releasing treatment so that an exhaust air-fuel ratio A/FEHT becomes a predetermined air-fuel ratio pretreatment value α. The time required before the exhaust air-fuel ratio A/FEHT becomes stable near the air-fuel ratio pretreatment value α is set as a stand-by time TS. The S releasing treatment is started after the lapse of the stand-by time TS. Thus, improving controllability (the converging property of the exhaust air-fuel ratio A/FEHT to a target value) especially in the initial stage in the S releasing treatment is improved. While, when a prescribed condition is realized, the setting of the stand-by time TS is released and the S releasing treatment is started with the start of the pretreatment or immediately after the start of the pretreatment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI