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PURPOSE:To prevent a spark plug from smoldering as well as to keep off an output drop and a worsening of emission control, by making reduction speed of accelerating increment quick in time of low temperature but slow in time of high temperature, respectively. CONSTITUTION:When an accelerating state of an engine (a) is detected by a detecting device (b), a fuel injection quantity is increased by an increasing device (d) according to engine temperature (c) at that time, and in this case, it is increased much in time of low temperature but less in time of high temperature. At the time of reducing an accelerating increment value by a reduction device (e), this reduction speed is controlled according to the engine temperature (c). That is to say, in time of low temperature, it is reduced quickly but in time of high temperature slowly. With this constitution, smoldering in a spark plug due to excess fuel injection is preventable from occurring and, what is more, a tendency of making an air-fuel ratio, in time of acceleration, into being lean is also preventable.
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PURPOSE:To prevent a spark plug from smoldering as well as to improve a feeling of starting comfortableness evero so better, by increasing a fuel injection quantity in time of warming up as much as a fixed rate for the limited time alone when a clutch is on. CONSTITUTION:A fundamental fuel injection quantity tau0 is calculated by a fundamental injection quantity operational device according to the specified driving state parameter, and the fundamental injection quantity in time of warming up is compensated with a warm up increment value f0 calculated according to engine cooling water temperature THW. When a fact that a clutch is operated is detected by a clutch switch, the warm-up increment value is further increased as much as a fixed rate for the specified time alone. With this constitution, a feeling of starting comfortableness is improved while preventing a spark flug from smoldering.
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PURPOSE:To prevent knocking from occurring, by increasing a fuel injection quantity by degrees from that point that an engine comes into a state of being high load up to the specified increment value. CONSTITUTION:That whether an engine (a) comes into a state of being high load or not is detected by a high load state detecting device (b). And, in time of a high load state, a fuel injection quantity is gradually increased up to the specified increment value from that point that the engine goes into a state of being high load. Since an air-fuel ratio is controlled in a rich direction in accord with a rise of temperature in an engine combustion chamber, knocking is preventable from occurring. In addition, at an interval till the fuel injection quantity reaches the specified increment value, a rate of fuel consumption is improved.
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PURPOSE:To reduce the disorder of an air-fuel ratio in time of fuel cutting, by setting two kinds of fuel-cut engine speed setting values and, when an engine speed goes beyond the first setting value, cutting fuel for a half number of cylinders while if it exceeds the second value, cutting the fuel for all cylinders. CONSTITUTION:In order to prevent an engine from overrunning, a first fuel-cut engine speed and a second fuel-cut engine speed being larger than the former both are set at a fuel-cut controller. And, when an engine speed exceeds the first setting speed, a half number of cylinders alone are subjected to fuel cut. And when the engine speed goes beyond the second setting speed, fuel for all cylinders is cut. With this constitution, the disorder of an air-fuel ratio at every cylinder in time of fuel cutting is well reduced and, what is more, hunting width in the engine speed is reducible.
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PURPOSE:To always permit the correct cut-off for fuel feed by properly judging the engine load by correcting at least either the engine load for cutting-out fuel feed and the threshold value by the learned correction value for air fuel ratio. CONSTITUTION:The captioned apparatus is equipped with a means (b) for detecting the concentration of a specific component of the exhaust gas of an engine (a), and calculates the learned correction value of the air fuel ratio by a calculation means (c) from the concentration of the specific component detected by the means (b). Further, the means (d) for detecting the inhaled air amount of the engine (a) and the means (e) for detecting the engine revolution speed are provided, and the engine load is calculated by a calculating means (f) according to the outputs of these means. Each output of the calculating means (c) and (f) is input into a correcting means (g), and at least either the engine load or the threshold value is corrected by the learned correction value. The engine load and the threshold value after correction are compared, and when the engine load is higher than the threshold value, fuel feed to the engine (a) is cut-off by a cutting-off means (h).
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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