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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect abnormality of an exhaust re-circulating device including a branch communication pipe for introducing exhaust to each intake pipe connected to each combustion chamber. SOLUTION: When the pressure changed quantity ΔP as an absolute value of a difference between the pipe-inside pressure P1 of a main intake pipe 120a in the state of opening an EGR valve 154 and the pipe-inside pressure P2 in the state of closing the valve is less than a predetermined value ΔPref, a determination that abnormality occurs in an EGR device 150 is done. An EGR pipe 152 communicating an exhaust side and an intake side of an engine 22 with each other includes: a main EGR pipe 152a connected to an exhaust pipe 121; and a branch EGR pipe 152b divided from the main EGR pipe 152a. The total sum of cross sectional areas S of the branch EGR pipes 152b is less than a cross sectional area Sm of the main EGR pipe 152a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restart more adequate fuel injection into an internal combustion engine when the fuel injection into the internal combustion engine being operated is stopped. SOLUTION: This internal combustion engine device restarts fuel injection when the fuel injection into the internal combustion engine being operated is stopped. Herein, when a valve opening flag F has a value 1, namely, the opening of an EGR valve is an excessive air introduction opening EBref or greater, such an increase correcting amount α that a value α1 is multiplied by a correction coefficient k1 or a value α2 is multiplied by a correction coefficient k2 is set (S130, S150, S160, S180), such a target fuel injection amount Qf* that the increase correcting amount α is added to a basic intake air amount Qfb is set, and a fuel injection valve 126 is driven to perform fuel injection at the target fuel injection amount Qf* (S190). Thus, the more adequate fuel injection is restarted to start the self-independent operation or the load operation of the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To satisfactorily suppress deviation of a torque variation and an air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine from target values at the time of switch between injectors or at the time of largely varying a fuel injection ratio between the port injection injector and the cylinder injection injector. SOLUTION: The internal combustion engine 1 has the port injection injector 10p for injecting fuel into an intake port 4, the cylinder injection injector 10c for directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber 2 and an ECU 20. The ECU 20 acquires a predictive load factor of the internal combustion engine 1 based on operation condition of the internal combustion engine 1 and calculates the fuel injection ratio between the port injection injector 10p and the cylinder injection injector 10c based on the predictive load factor when judging the operation condition of the internal combustion engine 1 to be a transient condition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inhibit the degradation of a battery during the dead soak of an engine and improve restartability at high temperatures and idle rotation stability by efficiently cooling the engine.SOLUTION: A cooling device cools an engine body 2 by circulating cooling water between an engine body 2 and a radiator 3 using an electric motor 1 and by supplying cooling wind to the radiator 3 using an electric fan 4. A control unit 30 controls the operational states of the electric motor 1 and the electric fan 4 based on a cooling water temperature THW detected by a water temperature sensor 21, an outdoor air temperature THA detected by an outdoor air temperature sensor 22 and a battery voltage GBA during the dead soak after the engine is stopped. Specifically, the control unit 30 controls the electric motor 1 and the electric fan 4 when determining that the engine is at a high temperature based on the cooling water temperature THW and the outdoor air temperature THA at the stop of the engine.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more simply judge the imbalance of air-fuel ratios among cylinders of an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When an operational status of an engine is in a given normal operational status, a gradient cumulated average value ΔAulsa is calculated which corresponds to the variation of an air-fuel ratio AF to the time taken from the time the air-fuel ratio AF detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor reaches an upper peak where the change direction of the air-fuel ratio reverses to the time the air-fuel ratio reaches a lower peak where the change direction of the air-fuel ratio next reverses (S100 to S160). When the gradient cumulated average value ΔAulsa thus calculated exceeds a threshold ΔAref1 preliminarily defined as an upper limit, being an absolute value within a range in which the air-fuel ratios among the cylinders of the engine can be judged to be balanced (S165 to S175), it is judged that the air-fuel ratios are imbalanced among the cylinders of the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the deterioration of emission due to the occurrence of an air fuel ratio imbalance in which the air fuel ratio of emission discharged from at least one of a plurality of combustion chambers deviates from the air fuel ratio of emission discharged from the other combustion chambers. SOLUTION: When it is decided that the air fuel ratio imbalance does not occur, a sub-air fuel ratio correction amount qr, which is the correction amount for a fuel injection amount to a combustion chamber 23 is set to fall within a guard range defined by a value q0 and a value -q0 based on an after-catalyst air fuel ratio difference ▵AFr which is the difference between an after-catalyst air fuel ratio AFr and a target air fuel ratio AFtag (S300, S320). When the occurrence of air fuel ratio imbalance is decided, the sub-air fuel ratio correction amount qr is set based on an after-catalyst air fuel ratio learning value ▵AFrg while being allowed to be a value outside the guard range defined by the value q0 and the value -q0 (S330, S320). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inhibit the deterioration of emission in a system including a first emission control device including a first emission control catalyst purifying exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, and a second emission control device including a second emission control catalyst purifying the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine by keeping higher performance at least for a nitrogen oxide than the first emission control catalyst. SOLUTION: When an integrated suction air quantity Sq which is an integrated value of a suction air quantity Qa after an engine start is smaller than a threshold Sref based on a start cooling water temperature Tws and a catalyst activation flag F2 (S160), the engine is controlled by using a target air-fuel ratio AF*(AF1) smaller than that in a state that the integrated suction air quantity Sq is not smaller than the threshold Sref (S170, S200). Consequently, when the second emission control catalyst cannot sufficiently exhibits its function, a quantity of a nitrogen oxide (NOx) discharged from the engine can be suppressed and the deterioration of emission can be inhibited. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method to supply secondary air capable of promoting discharge of unburned components in a cylinder so as to improve exhaust emission control performance and catalyst warm-up performance. SOLUTION: When gas is exhausted from the cylinder 14, secondary air is blown from nozzle holes 28a and 28b opened in an exhaust passage 6 outside the cylinder 14 through a gap between exhaust ports 15a and 15b during valve opening to reach a peripheral range 18 of a piston top surface 17a in the cylinder 14. Unburned components staying in a quenching zone 18 around the piston top surface are thus disturbed, so that discharge of the unburned components out of the cylinder 14 is promoted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent degradation of emission by detecting excessive air-fuel ratio unevenness between cylinders, and to take measures to meet such the situation.SOLUTION: A fuel injection amount control device (control device) performs the feedback correction of the amount of the fuel to be injected from a fuel injection valve 33 based on the output value of an upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor 56 so that the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into a three-element catalyst 43 is coincident with the target value. The control device 70 acquires the air-fuel ratio imbalance index value which is increased more as the degree of unevenness of the air-fuel ratio between cylinders is increased on the basis of the output value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor, calculates an imbalance rich correction amount based on the air-fuel ratio imbalance index value, and corrects the air-fuel ratio of the engine to the rich side by the imbalance rich correction amount. However, during the predetermined period after starting the engine, since the air-fuel ratio of the engine is corrected to the rich side by the start correction amount, the control device performs reduction correction of the imbalance rich correction amount.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an internal combustion engine that properly controls an engine, regardless of reduction in an exhaust recirculating volume associated with performing a large number of purges.SOLUTION: An electronic control unit 22 calculates a base value of knocking limit at ignition timing on the basis of an engine speed and an engine load, and corrects the base value according to a purging air flow which is introduced in intake air to calculate the knocking limit at ignition timing.