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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with variable valve opening characteristics, capable of reducing torque differences among cylinders while preventing emissions from worsening. SOLUTION: The controller for the multi-cylinder internal combustion engine 1 is provided which has a valve opening characteristic control means 9 to control the valve opening characteristics of at least either an intake valve 2 or an exhaust valve 3 and which estimates differences in the amount of intake among the cylinders to restrict the control range of the valve opening characteristic according to the estimated differences in the amount of intake. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine capable of sufficiently increasing the temperature of exhaust gas without requiring complicated fuel injection control. SOLUTION: The cylinder injection type spark ignition internal combustion engine comprises a fuel injection valve 7 for injecting a fuel in the form of developing penetrating force stronger than that of conical fuel spray and an ignition plug 6. The fuel is injected in a compression stroke by the fuel injection valve to form a combustible mixture near the ignition plug for stratified charge combustion. When the temperature of exhaust gas is increased, the fuel is injected near the top dead center of compression by the fuel injection valve and the ignition timing of the ignition plug is set at the middle of an expansion stroke. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve relatively good stratified charge combustion even when inner cylinder temperature is low by a control device for a cylinder injection spark ignition internal combustion engine that facilitates forming of a mass of combustible gas mixture inside a cavity formed on the piston top surface in the latter half of the compression process by injecting fuel inside the cavity and making inside of the cavity a stagnation space using the air intake flow turning inside the cylinder. SOLUTION: This control device comprises a variable means 9 that can vary strength of the air intake flow, and when the piston temperature is below a predetermined temperature, strength of the air intake flow is weakened by the variable means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for a spark ignition type internal combustion engine, in an exhaust passage of which the exhaust emission control device including a particulate filter is arranged, for suppressing the excessive temperature rise of the particulate filter during decelerating operation after executing an increase in the amount of fuel to suppress the thermal deterioration of exhaust system components.SOLUTION: To solve the above issue, the exhaust emission control device for the spark ignition type internal combustion engine, in the exhaust passage of which the exhaust emission control device including the particulate filter is arranged, reduces the concentration of oxygen in exhaust gas flowing into the particulate filter during decelerating fuel-cut operation of the internal combustion engine when a time (an integrated time) is not shorter than a predetermined time for executing an increase in the amount of fuel to suppress the thermal deterioration of the exhaust system components, thereby reducing the oxidation speed of PMs trapped by the particulate filter.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine which can suppress the deterioration of the estimated accuracy of an exhaust system temperature in the internal combustion engine with a supercharger, in the control device for the internal combustion engine.SOLUTION: Fuel amount increase control increases a fuel jetting quantity of an engine 10 more than a normal jetting quantity to cool and protect exhaust system components by the vaporization latent heat of unburnt fuel contained in the exhaust. In the fuel amount increase control, an ECU 50 estimates a primary delay temperature Tof the exhaust system component and a fuel quantity added to the normal jetting quantity and jetted is calculated based on deviation ΔT between the primary delay temperature Tand a set temperature. In the estimation of the primary delay temperature T, the emission volume ratio of exhaust (W/G passing flow) through an exhaust by-pass passage 30 to the exhaust (turbine passing flow) through a turbine 20b is considered. As a result, the exhaust system component temperature is highly precisely estimated.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably protect a sensor device arranged downstream of a turbine from making contact with condensed water in an internal combustion engine with a turbo supercharger.SOLUTION: A turbine housing 30 is provided therein with: a turbine 32; and a water reservoir 70 located at a lower side of outlets 32a and 36a of a bypass passage 36, and for reserving condensed water. The water reservoir 70 is formed at a position that allows the water reservoir to be invisible from the outlet 32 of the turbine 32 when a WGV 38 is open. Then, when a damage by getting wet in which the condensed water reserved in the water reservoir 70 is moved to a lower side due to an exhaust flow from the turbine 32 and makes contact with an air-fuel ratio sensor 50, is likely to occur, ECU opens the WGV 38 to cut off communication between the outlet 32a of the turbine 32 and the water reservoir 70, thus resulting in a good balance between a response (output performance) of an engine and the durability of the air-fuel ratio sensor 50.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the influence of mixing in a supercharger turbine to improve detection accuracy, and to prevent detection error.SOLUTION: If a wastegate valve 27 is opened, abnormality of inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio dispersion is detected based on a detection value of a pre-catalyst sensor 17, and meanwhile if the wastegate valve 27 is closed, abnormality of inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio dispersion is detected based on a detection value of a post-catalyst sensor 18. In the detection based on the pre-catalyst sensor 17, exhaust gas which passes through a west gate passage 26 is measured, so that air-fuel ratio leveling due to influence from an exhaust turbine 25b of a super charger 25 is controlled. In the detection based on the post-catalyst sensor 18, if abnormality that air-fuel ratio becomes rich occurs in some cylinders, sensor output is more on the lean side than that at normal time with increase of hydrogen during exhaustion. Thereby, detection is continuously performed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of improving starting performance and emission by suppressing air-fuel ratio deviation during supplying vaporized fuel, in the internal combustion engine where the vaporized fuel is supplied into cylinders in statuses that fuel is hardly vaporized at a low-temperature start or the like.SOLUTION: The control device for the internal combustion engine includes a vaporized fuel tank 38 for storing vaporized fuel, and a normally-closed vaporized fuel supply valve 42 for opening and closing a connection part between the vaporized fuel tank 38 and a surge tank 20. In a state that the vaporized fuel supply valve 42 is closed during operation, fuel is injected into the tank to produce the vaporized fuel. At starting the engine, the vaporized fuel supply valve 42 is opened to supply the vaporized fuel stored in the tank into the surge tank 20. During producing the vaporized fuel, the air-fuel ratio of mixture in the vaporized fuel supply valve 42 is estimated, and the production of the vaporized fuel is continued until the air-fuel ratio is almost zero.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine with simple structure whether a supply condition of vaporized fuel at starting failure is in a short supply or an excess supply, in a control device for supplying the vaporized fuel into a cylinder in a condition that fuel is difficult to vaporize at such as a low-temperature start.SOLUTION: The device has: a vaporized-fuel tank 38 for storing the vaporized fuel; and a normally-closed vaporized-fuel supply valve 42 which opens/closes a connection between the vaporized-fuel tank 38 and a surge tank 20. The device: injects fuel into the tank while the vaporized-fuel supply valve 42 is closed during an operation to produce the vaporized fuel; opens the vaporized-fuel supply valve 42 when an engine starts; and supplies the vaporized fuel stored in the tank to the surge tank 20. If an engine speed is not increased normally when the engine starts, a cylinder injection of fuel is further carried out in the compression stroke. The device, then, determines that the vaporized fuel is in the short supply when a behavior of the engine speed after injection is to be a predetermined increasing behavior, while that it is in the excess supply when not to be the predetermined increasing behavior.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the startability of an internal combustion engine by quickly supplying a gasified fuel into cylinders even during a cold startup.SOLUTION: The engine 10 includes a normal fuel tank 32, a gasified fuel tank 36, an in-tank injection valve 38, a gasified fuel supply valve 40, and others. An ECU 60 operates to supply the gasified fuel stored in the gasified fuel tank 36 during the operation of the engine to a surge tank 20 during the startup. When the gasified fuel is short during the startup, after a negative pressure is generated in the gasified fuel tank 36 utilizing cranking, the in-tank injection valve 38 is driven to newly generate gasified fuel. The gasified fuel is supplied to the surge tank 20, and the engine is re-started. Thereby, during the startup, the gasified fuel stored beforehand can be immediately supplied into the cylinders, and even if the gasified fuel is short, new gasified fuel can be quickly generated, and the engine can be smoothly re-started.