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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine which determines a target throttle opening based on target suction air quantity and can simply and more surely detect control abnormality. SOLUTION: This invention provides the control device for the internal combustion engine which determines the target throttle opening based on the target suction air quantity mcta and detects control abnormality by comparing the target suction air quantity mcta and suction air quantity mcfm measured by an air flow meter. Control abnormality during processes of determination of the target throttle opening and control throttle opening and control of a throttle valve can be simply and more surely detected by such control device for the internal combustion engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for an internal combustion engine capable of calculating target throttle opening accurately. SOLUTION: A target engine load rate KLT is calculated. Target throttle opening θtT required for changing an actual engine load rate into the target engine load rate KLT is calculated based on pressure in an intake pipe being pressure in an intake passage on the downstream side of a throttle valve. Whether the target throttle opening θtT can be realized by a step motor or not is determined. When it is determined that the target throttle opening θtT cannot be realized, the maximum or minimum throttle opening capable of being realized by the step motor is set to the final target throttle opening θtTf. The step motor drives the throttle valve so that actual throttle opening coincides with the final target throttle opening θtTf. Pressure Pm in the intake pipe is inferred based on the final target throttle opening θtTf. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently make use of function of an electric power steering device by restricting reduction of power source voltage as much as possible. SOLUTION: When power source voltage is reduced to the base voltage or less, feedback control is performed by adjusting the upper limit value Ilim of the assist current so as to maintain the power source voltage at a target voltage. A feedback base section 100 sets the upper limit current initial value Ilim0, and subtracts the current compensation quantity corresponding to a voltage deviation ΔV from the upper limit current initial value Ilim0. A proportion term compensation section 110 computes the current compensation quantity by multiplying control gains Kp1 and Kp2 different from each other on an upper limit current regulation side and an upper limit current relaxation side, and a differential term compensation section 120 computes the current compensation quantity in response to a change of voltage to a lower side and a change of a differential value to a predetermined value or more. The upper limit current value Ilim is obtained by subtracting the current compensation quantity computed by the proportion term compensation section 110 and differential term compensation section 120 from the upper limit current value computed by the feedback base section 100. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an internal combustion engine capable of easily and surely detecting control abnormality, in the control device of the internal combustion engine for determining target throttle opening on the basis of a target intake quantity. SOLUTION: This control device of the internal combustion engine determines the target throttle opening on the basis of the target intake quantity mcta. The control device of the internal combustion engine is provided for detecting the control abnormality by comparing the target intake quantity mcta with an intake quantity mcfm measured by an air flowmeter. Such a control device of the internal combustion engine can easily and surely detect the control abnormality in a process of determining the target throttle opening and controlling a throttle valve. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine having a swirl control valve (SCV) for determining the amount of air to be filled in a cylinder during operating transition of the SCV with higher accuracy. SOLUTION: The control device for the internal combustion engine determines the amount of air to be filled in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine having the swirl control valve (SCV) 21. When it determines the amount of air to be filled in the cylinder during operating transition of the SCV 21, the influences of burnt gas being put in or out of a space Sp of an intake port 7 ranging from the SCV 21 to an intake valve 6a on the amount of air to be filled in the cylinder are considered. Namely, when the control device determines the amount of air to be filled in the cylinder during operating transition of the SCV 21, the amount of air to be filled in the cylinder determined without considering the operation of the SCV is corrected by the amount of air equivalent to the amount of the burnt gas put in or out of the space Sp. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately estimate cylinder intake air (fresh air) amount used for calculating a first-time fuel injection amount, when a fuel injection control makes the transition from a stop state to an execution state. SOLUTION: An intake air amount control device estimates a cylinder intake air amount KLFWD passing through an intake valve and sucked into a combustion chamber in a this time's intake stroke by using various models using a predetermined physical law. In a normal case where the fuel injection control is in the execution state, the KLFWD itself is set as a this time's cylinder intake air (fresh air) amount. Besides, when the intake air amount control device estimates the cylinder intake air amount in a first-time fuel injection when the fuel injection control makes the transition from the stop state to the execution state, and if the combustion chamber is filled with air (fresh air) in closing an exhaust valve immediately before the first-time fuel injection, the intake air amount control device estimates an air amount in the combustion chamber in closing the exhaust valve from a state equation as an initial air amount Ma, and sets a value calculated by adding the Ma to the KLFWD as a cylinder intake air (fresh air) amount in the first-time fuel injection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an internal combustion engine for determining throttle valve downstream side intake pipe internal pressure and a cylinder suction air flow rate in steady operation by a simpler method. SOLUTION: This control device of the internal combustion engine has a throttle valve passing air flow rate calculating expression for expressing a throttle valve passing air flow rate mt as a function of downstream side intake pipe internal pressure on the downstream side of a throttle valve, and a cylinder suction air flow rate calculating expression for expressing a cylinder suction air flow rate mc as a function of the downstream side intake pipe internal pressure. The control device is characterized by calculating the downstream side intake pipe internal pressure Pm and the cylinder suction air flow rate mc, when the throttle valve passing air flow rate mt determined from the throttle valve passing air flow rate calculating expression, coincides with the cylinder suction air flow rate mc determined from the cylinder suction air flow rate calculating expression, as downstream side intake pipe internal pressure Pmta and a cylinder suction air flow rate mcta, when steadily operated under an operation condition at that time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately correct the error of the estimated throttle opening caused by the delay drive of a throttle valve. SOLUTION: An electronic control unit (ECU) 30 of an engine 1 correctly estimate the air intake of the engine by setting the target opening of a throttle valve 5 according to the operation amount of an accelerator pedal, outputting the drive signal to an actuator 5a of the throttle valve after the elapse of the predetermined delay time to start the drive of the throttle valve, and looking ahead the throttle opening. The ECU performs the correction of matching the estimated value with the detected value if the difference between the present throttle opening detected by a throttle sensor 50 and the estimated throttle value in the predetermined time elapsed from the present time calculated by the look-ahead is smaller than a predetermined determination value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for accurately calculating an air flow passing through a throttle valve even if an EGR gas is introduced into the throttle valve. SOLUTION: This device for calculating an air flow mt passing through a throttle valve in an internal combustion engine 1 comprises an exhaust gas recirculating passage 21 for recirculating at least a part of the exhaust gas discharged from a combustion chamber to an exhaust passage into an intake passage 13; and a control valve 22 for regulating the flow of the exhaust gas passing through the exhaust gas recirculating passage. An air flow mt passing through the throttle valve is calculated according to a pressure Pm in an intake pipe, a pressure Pmegr in the intake pipe produced during stationary operation while the exhaust gas is recirculated and calculated according to the opening of the throttle valve and the opening of the control valve, and a pressure on the upstream side of the throttle valve or the atmospheric pressure Pa. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the durability of a throttle valve and a throttle valve drive means from being lowered by preventing hunching from occurring in a throttle opening when an engine is operated in a steady state. SOLUTION: A target engine load factor KLT is calculated. A target throttle opening θtT necessary for changing an actual engine load factor KL to the target engine load factor KLT is calculated based on an intake pipe pressure which is a pressure in an intake passage on the downstream side of the throttle valve. A convergent throttle opening θtCV which is a throttle opening to converge when the target engine load factor KLT is assumed to be held at the calculated KLT is calculated. In the transient operation of the engine, the target throttle opening θtT is set to a final target throttle opening θtTf, and in the steady operation of the engine, the convergent throttle opening θtCV is set to the target throttle opening θtTf. Next, the throttle valve is driven so that the actual throttle opening θt matches the final target throttle opening θtTf. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI