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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection control device capable of suppressing the deterioration of exhaust emission resulting from the response delay of an exhaust sensor when automatic start or the return of fuel cut is performed in the fuel injection control device for setting a fuel injection amount so that an actual air-fuel ratio in starting an engine or returning the fuel cut becomes richer than a theoretical air-fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine in which the automatic stop and automatic start of the engine are performed and in the internal combustion engine in which the fuel cut and the return of the fuel cut are performed. SOLUTION: This fuel injection control device is formed to perform air-fuel ratio feedback control when the detection signal of the exhaust sensor after automatic stop is determined to be rich. Also, the detection signal of the exhaust sensor after automatic start is determined not to be rich in the device, it is determined whether a specified time TA is passed from the automatic start or not. When the specified time TA is not passed, the start of the air-fuel ratio feedback control is prohibited and when the specified time TA is passed, the air-fuel ratio feedback control is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a warming-up apparatus of an internal combustion engine for appropriately avoiding a decrease in the recovery efficiency of a heating medium. SOLUTION: The warming-up apparatus of the internal combustion engine is applied to a hybrid vehicle for mounting a navigation system NS, thus supplying cooling water stored in a heat-storing tank 21 to the internal combustion engine 11 via an electric water pump 22, and hence promoting the warming-up of the internal combustion engine 11. When the current location of the hybrid vehicle in the navigation system NS arrives around a destination set to the navigation system NS, the cooling water that absorbs heat in the internal combustion engine 11 and becomes a high temperature is recovered into a heat-storing tank 21 through the electric water pump 22. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine accessory driving device of an internal combustion engine for enhancing the responsiveness of the internal combustion engine to the load request while driving an engine accessory. SOLUTION: One end of a drive shaft 25 of a compressor 24 is connected to one end of a connection shaft 27 of a motor 26, and a compressor pulley 22 is attached to the other end of the connection shaft 27. A belt 21 is stretched between the compressor pulley 22 and a crank pulley 20 of an engine 11. A one-way clutch mechanism is provided on the compressor pulley 22. When acceleration is requested to the engine 11, the rotational speed of a retainer to be rotated by the motor 26 is set to be higher than the rotational speed of a rotary yoke to be rotated by the engine 11 in the one-way clutch mechanism. The rotary yoke is idled with reference to the retainer, and the load to be transmitted from the compressor 24 to the engine 11 is cut off thereby. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling device of an internal combustion engine in which measures are taken to deal with the extension of a warm-up period owing to a failure of the cooling device, etc. SOLUTION: By a warm-up control means 50, a three-way directional control valve 30 is controlled before the operation start of an engine 10, a cooling water passage 28 is connected to a cooling water passage 32, cooling water for warm-up is circulated between the engine 10 and a heat accumulation tank 36 to warm-up the engine 10, and the engine 10 is permitted to start an operation when the inside temperature of the engine measured by an engine temperature sensor 54 and the temperature of cooling water for warm-up measured by a water temperature sensor 34 do not reach a predetermined temperature in a predetermined time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To establish appropriate idle speed control even if a target idle speed is changed from a reference idle speed, by reducing a difference between a controlled intake air quantity and a required flow rate resulting from a change in flow rate characteristics of intake adjusting means due to deposit adhesion. SOLUTION: An ECU 40 adjusts an idle opening angle of a throttle valve 36 arranged in an intake passage 26a of an engine 11 to feedback-control an idle speed of the engine 11 to a given speed. The ECU 40 adds an ISC flow rate to which an intake air quantity corresponding to a speed change between a target idle speed and a reference idle speed is corrected on the basis of an ISC learning value, and the ISC learning value to compute an ISC flow rate for producing the target idle speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress degradation in emission immediately after the starting of an internal combustion engine having a cylinder fuel injection valve. SOLUTION: When an engine is started in a condition that a start water temperature Twst is less than a predetermined temperature Tref, a value with a vehicle demand power P* limited by regarding a power limit Pemax1 as an upper limit is set to an engine demand power Pe* (S140-S170) so that the fuel injection amount of the cylinder fuel injection valve is limited until a piston top surface temperature Test1 becomes a predetermined temperature T1 or more for sufficiently vaporizing and completely burning fuel ejected from the cylinder fuel injection valve toward a piston top surface. A torque command Tm2* is set (S200-S220) to output a required torque Tr* to a driving shaft within a range of battery input/output limit Win, Wout, and an engine and a motor are controlled. Thereby, degradation in emission is suppressed which is caused by incomplete combustion of fuel ejected from the cylinder fuel injection valve while corresponding to the required torque Tr*. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain variation in an air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine in starting or just after starting. SOLUTION: When the engine is started first after starting of the system, closing of an exhaust switch valve is instructed so that all of gas introduced into an exhaust system is delivered through HC absorber (S100), and cranking of the engine 22 is started after confirming of closing of the exhaust switch valve (S110 to S130), and fuel injection control and ignition control is started so that fuel injection is started from a fuel injection valve when predetermined time passes after starting of cranking, and the engine is started (S170). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of catalyst at a time of decrease of speed of an internal combustion engine and suppress unexpected increase of speed of the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: Catalyst deterioration suppressing control is prohibited (S160) when change quantity ΔNe of engine speed Ne exceeds a threshold ΔNref established with determining based on change quantity ΔNe of engine speed Ne whether an operation condition of the engine is under transient condition or not when engine speed is to be reduced while executing catalyst deterioration suppressing control for increasing intake air quantity for suppressing catalyst deterioration due to exposure of the catalyst to high temperature lean atmosphere. Consequently, racing of engine can be prevented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recover waste heat of an engine without causing a secondary failure of an exhaust heat recovery device due to a failure of a catalyst device. SOLUTION: ECU executes program including a step S100 executing a catalyst deterioration determination process (oxygen occlusion quantity change), a step S300 setting a catalyst deterioration flag when a three-way conversion catalytic converter fails 120 (YES in S200), a step S500 determining whether misfire of the engine 150 is detected or not, and a step S700 prohibiting recovery of exhaust heat from exhaust gas of the engine 150 when the catalyst is deteriorated (YES in S200) or catalyst deterioration flag is set after misfire detection (Yes IN S500 and YES in S600). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine control system and its method for improving emission at starting an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When engine starting conditions are established at a time t0, a motor MG1 monitors the engine. Then, at a time t1, fuel is injected in a fuel injection amount calculated in accordance with an intake air amount Q and a theoretical air-fuel ratio and a mixture is ignited for combustion. At this time, the amount of exhaust gas is less than in normal idling operation because the intake air amount Q is the minimum air amount Qmin such that a friction equivalent qfri is subtracted from an idling air amount Qidl and it is enough for combustion with no misfire. An idling speed cannot be sustained only by the engine and so it is sustained by the torque of the motor MG1. After a time t1, a catalyst floor temperature Tcat rises and gets to a floor temperature specified value Tcatref at a time t2. Then, an exhaust gas purifying catalyst develops sufficient purifying performance to make the engine into independent operation with the intake air amount Q as the idling air amount Qidl. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI