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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine capable of further improving exhaust emission control performance using the oxygen storage capacity of exhaust emission control catalyst. SOLUTION: This catalyst exhaust emission control device for the internal combustion engine comprises storage capacity calculating means 18, 25, and 26 for calculating the oxygen storage capacity of the exhaust emission control catalyst 19 disposed on an exhaust passage 7 of the internal combustion engine 1, and a use banning means 18 that determines whether or not a predetermined banning condition is satisfied and, when the predetermined banning condition is satisfied, bands the use of the latest oxygen storage capacity calculated by the storage capacity calculating means instead of the oxygen storage capacity used until then. Further correct exhaust emission control is allowed by banning the use of the latest calculated oxygen storage capacity when the predetermined banning condition is satisfied, namely by preventing for use for the exhaust emission control of the calculated oxygen storage capacity that is concerned to be inaccurate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent drop of volatile characteristic determining precision caused by change of a gasoline temperature inside a fuel tank by conducting volatile characteristic determining processing when an engine is under a predetermined specific operation condition (just after cranking at the time of engine start), in a gasoline volatile characteristic determining device using an ultrasonic wave. SOLUTION: Start of cranking accompanied to ignition switch ON is determined in a step 301, and then volatile characteristic determining processing is controlled to be conducted in a limited period when an engine speed (a rotational speed of an engine) is a prescribed value or less in a step 302. Since a volatile characteristic is determined thereby under a specific operation condition of a cranking time at the time of engine start all the time, i.e., under a constant condition, determination precision therefor is improved. As the volatile characteristic is determined before gasoline inside a gasoline piping returns to a fuel tank when an ultrasonic sensor is arranged inside the fuel tank, change of a gasoline temperature inside the fuel tank is eliminated to enhance precision for the volatile characteristic determination.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the quantity of unburned fuel discharged to an exhaust gas passage upon fuel cut in a dual injection system provided with a port injection valve and a cylinder injection valve. SOLUTION: This fuel injection control device stops only port injection (port injection quantity fip=0) at first when a fuel cut execution condition is satisfied (time t1), and continues cylinder injection by setting cylinder injection quantity fic to a value subtracting "quantity of fuel (adhesion flow in fuel) flowing into a cylinder out of fuel adhesion quantity fw adhering on a intake air passage composition member" from a target air fuel ratio equivalent quantity. Cylinder injection is stopped (fic=0) when fuel adhesion quantity fw which reduces after that gets to the minimum value fwlim1 or less. Consequently, misfire during cylinder injection (time t1 to t2) can be prevented and air fuel ratio can be made consistent with target air fuel ratio. After stop of cylinder injection, the quantity of adhesion flow-in fuel discharged to the exhaust gas passage as unburned fuel due to misfire can be reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection quantity control device for an internal combustion engine capable of stabilizing an air-fuel ratio even in transient operation such as a sudden change of throttle valve opening. SOLUTION: This fuel injection quantity control device is applied to the internal combustion engine provided with a dual injection system equipped with two fuel injection valves which are a cylinder injection valve 39C and a port injection valve 39P for every cylinder. The device determines a port injection quantity fip based on a predicted intake air quantity KLfwd obtained from a predicted throttle valve opening in the closed state of an intake valve, at a point of time before the intake valve is closed, and carries out port injection of fuel in the port injection quantity fip. The device accurately computes an actual required total fuel quantity Fcact based on an actual intake air quantity KLact obtained from an actual throttle valve opening in the closed state of the intake valve, immediately after the intake valve is closed, and carries out cylinder injection, setting the shortage portion of an actual cylinder inflow fuel quantity Fcest which actually flowed into the cylinder by port injection to the actual required total fuel quantity Fcact, as a cylinder injection quantity fic. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air-conditioning control device for a vehicle capable of smoothly maintaining constant speed traveling control even if external vehicle speed variation factor exists. SOLUTION: The air-conditioning control device for the vehicle is provided with an internal combustion engine 2 mounted on the vehicle 1; a vehicle speed detection means 3 for detecting the vehicle speed of the vehicle 1; constant speed traveling means 15, 17 for maintaining predetermined speed and traveling the vehicle utilizing the detection result of the vehicle speed detection means 3; an air conditioner 5 for driving a variable displacement compressor 6 using an output of the internal combustion engine 2; and a control means 16 for controlling driving of the compressor 6. The vehicle speed variation during traveling that a predetermined speed by the constant speed traveling means 15, 17 is maintained is detected using the vehicle speed detection means 3. The compressor 6 is controlled by the control means 16 so as to suppress the vehicle speed variation. Thereby, an air-conditioning load of the internal combustion engine is adjusted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for performing an air-fuel ratio feedback control based on feedback gains for each catalyst part properly set, in an internal combustion engine having a plurality of catalysts (catalyst parts) arranged in series with an exhaust passage. SOLUTION: Over-and-short amount of oxygen in exhaust gas flowing out of first to third catalysts 53 to 55 constituting a catalyst device are calculated, by using a catalyst model in consideration of oxygen occlusion reaction in the catalysts. The feedback gains (proportional gains) of the first to third catalysts 53 to 55 are set to become larger, as a position of the catalyst is nearer to downstream of the exhaust passage. Feedback controlled variables for each catalyst are calculated based on values calculated by multiplying each feedback gain to the over-and-short amount of oxygen. Air-fuel mixture supplied to an engine is feedback-controlled, so that feedback controlled variables for the catalyst device, calculated by summing up the feedback control variables for the catalysts, becomes "0". COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure favorable startability of an internal combustion engine by controlling energization quantity in preheating in accordance with power consumption of a starter as well as a state of a battery. SOLUTION: This heater control device controls energization to a heater for an air-fuel ratio sensor provided in the internal combustion engine. It is provided with a preheating means to energize the heater before start of the internal combustion engine, a starter power predicting means to predict power consumption of the starter when the internal combustion engine is started, and an energization control means to control an energization state to the heater by the preheating means based on the predicted power consumption. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain a good condition of a catalyst in an exhaust emission control device of an internal combustion engine constituted in a manner that an exhaust passage upstream of the catalyst is switched to either one of two exhaust paths with different lengths. SOLUTION: This exhaust emission control device switches a normally open type electromagnetic switch valve 55, an upstream normally close type electromagnetic switch valve 56, and a downstream normally close type electromagnetic switch valve 57 according to a temperature of a catalyst 53 taken by a catalyst temperature sensor 68, so as to switch to either one of a normal mode for constituting an exhaust passage A and a catalyst cooling mode for constituting an exhaust passage B longer than the exhaust passage A. A proportional gain and an integral gain at the time of feedback controlling an air-fuel ratio of an engine to make output of a catalyst downstream air-fuel ratio sensor 67 to a predetermined target value are set larger when the normal mode is selected, and smaller when the catalyst cooling mode is selected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine allowing effective purification of harmful components including unburnt components and nitrogen oxide even in a sudden change in the air-fuel ratio of the engine. SOLUTION: The exhaust emission control device sets a fist catalyst target oxygen storage amount to be a half of the maximum oxygen storage amount of a first catalyst 53 when the calculated oxygen storage amount of a second catalyst 54 is within a preset range including the half of the maximum oxygen storage amount of the second catalyst 54, changes the first catalyst oxygen storage amount to be a preset amount smaller than the half of the maximum oxygen storage amount of the first catalyst 53 when the oxygen storage amount of the second catalyst 54 exceeds the preset range, and changes the first catalyst target oxygen storage amount to be a preset amount larger than the half of the maximum oxygen storage amount of the first catalyst 53 when the oxygen storage amount of the second catalyst 54 is smaller than the preset range. The air-fuel ratio of the engine is controlled so that the calculated oxygen storage amount of the first catalyst 53 sequentially corresponds to the first catalyst target oxygen storage amount. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air/fuel ratio control device for an internal combustion engine capable of improving the exhaust gas purifying efficiency of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst by estimating the exhaust amount of a specified component in exhaust gas flowing out of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst (or a representative value representing the condition of exhaust gas) and controlling an air/fuel ratio in accordance with the estimated value. SOLUTION: The air/fuel ratio control device estimates, on the basis of an exhaust air/fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purifying catalyst 19 disposed in an exhaust passage 7 of an engine 1, at least one estimation value related to a component increased in the discharge amount during a rich air/fuel ratio, and at least one estimation value related to a component increased in the discharge amount during a lean air/fuel ratio, being at least one representative value indicating the discharge amount of at least one specific component contained in exhaust gas flowing out of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst 19 or a state of the exhaust gas that is flowing out, sets a target state for each estimation value, and controls the air/fuel ratio so that each estimation value reaches its target state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT