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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, in a fuel supply device of an internal combustion engine, a technique for suitably installing the fuel supply device even in a limited installation space.SOLUTION: The fuel supply device includes a fuel tank 4 storing raw material fuel, a fuel heater 61 heating the raw material fuel supplied from the fuel tank 4, a fuel separator 62 separating the raw material fuel heated by the fuel heater 61 into a high-octane fuel containing high-octane components more than the raw material fuel and a low-octane fuel containing low-octane components more than the raw material fuel; and a fuel cooler 63 cooling the high-octane fuel and the low-octane fuel separated by the fuel separator 62. The fuel heater 61, the fuel separator 62 and the fuel cooler 63 are integrated to compose an integrated fuel separation device 6, and the integrated fuel separation device 6 is arranged in a hollow 5 at a lower part of the fuel tank 4.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel supply device capable of suppressing the generation of deposit in a fuel injection valve. SOLUTION: This fuel supply device includes a fuel property detection device for detecting whether the content of the aromatic components of a supply fuel stored in a main fuel tank is higher or lower than a determination value, and a fuel separation device for separating the supply fuel into a low-content fuel and a high-content fuel which have different contents of aromatic components. When the fuel property detection device detects that the content of the aromatic components of the supply fuel is higher than the determination value, the content of the aromatic components contained in the high-content fuel is lowered by lowering the separating capability of the fuel separation device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure NOx absorption capacity of NOx absorbent irrespective of oxygen concentration in atmospheric air or altitude while preventing breakage of NOx absorbent. SOLUTION: NOx storage reduction catalysts 26, 27 are arranged in an engine exhaust gas passage. A pair of exhaust branch pipes 22a, 22b branching off of an exhaust pipe 21 and merging after extending mutually in parallel are formed and a SOx trap catalyst 33 for temporally capturing SOx contained in exhaust gas is arranged in the first exhaust branch pipe 22a. Quantities of exhaust gas flowing through the first exhaust branch pipe and the second exhaust branch pipe are controlled by a first flow rate control valve 38a and a second flow rate control valve 38b. Atmospheric pressure representing oxygen concentration in atmospheric air is detected. Almost whole quantity of exhaust gas is made to bypass a SOx trap catalyst and flow in an NOx storage reduction catalyst when the atmospheric pressure is higher than a predetermined set pressure, and almost whole quantity of exhaust gas is made to flow in the NOx storage reduction catalyst after passing through the SOx trap catalyst when the atmospheric pressure is lower than the predetermined set pressure. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of a performance recovery process and inhibiting NOx discharged from an internal combustion engine from being discharged to atmospheric air at the execution of a performance recovery process of storage reduction type NOx catalysts provided in a plurality of branch passage branched off from an exhaust passage. SOLUTION: A flow rate of exhaust gas passing through a first branch passage 10a is made smaller than that passing through a second branch passage 10b (T1-T3) by closing a first flow rate change valve after adding fuel as a reducer from a first fuel adding valve during torque dulling control (T0-T1) when a quantity of NOx discharged from the internal combustion engine and flowing in an exhaust pipe is smaller than a predetermined quantity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology enabling a temperature rise of an exhaust emission control catalyst of a whole system in an early stage in an exhaust emission control system provided with a plurality of branch passages and an exhaust emission control catalyst arranged in each branch passage. SOLUTION: In the exhaust emission control system for an internal combustion engine provided with the plurality of the branch passages and the exhaust emission control catalyst arranged in each branch passage, a catalyst with a heater is provided in an upstream side of the exhaust emission control catalyst in at least a part of the plurality of the branch passages. When the exhaust emission control catalyst is warmed up, exhaust gas flow rate in a part of the branch passage provided with the catalyst with the heater is reduced and exhaust gas is made concentrated to flow in another branch pipe to warm up the exhaust emission control catalyst in another branch passage. In parallel with that, the catalyst with the heater is excited to warm up the exhaust emission control catalyst in the branch passage in which exhaust gas flow rate is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel fractional distillation device of an internal combustion engine capable of efficiently fractionating good quality fuel while suppressing deterioration of properties of fuel fractionated as a gas phase. SOLUTION: The fuel fractional distillation device is equipped with a fractional distillation passage 14 reaching a branch point 14c via a fractional distillation division 14a for fractionating fuel into a gas phase and a liquid phase by utilizing exhaust heat of an engine 1, a gas phase passage 18 branched from the branch point 14c, a liquid phase passage 17 branched from the branch point, a tank 19 for a liquid phase for storing fuel led to the liquid phase passage 17, a return passage 20 for a liquid phase for returning fuel in the tank 19 for a liquid phase to the fuel tank 17, an adjusting valve 21 for adjusting a liquid surface level L of the tank 19 for a liquid phase by leading the fuel in the tank 19 for a liquid phase to the return passage 20 for a liquid phase, and a fuel distribution control means 27 for controlling the adjusting valve 21 so as to execute at least either of operations for promoting distribution of fuel to the liquid phase passage 17 when the temperature in the fractional distillation division 14a is high and for promoting distribution of fuel to the gas phase passage 18 when the temperature in the fractional distillation division 14c is low. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel fractional distillation device of an internal combustion engine having a fail-safe mechanism used when a gas phase fuel becomes short. SOLUTION: This fuel fractional distillation device 17 of the internal combustion engine comprises a fractional distillation part 19 connected to the fuel supply system 11 of the internal combustion engine 1 and fractionally distilling a fuel into a gaseous phase and a liquid phase, a gaseous phase fuel storage means 23 storing the gaseous phase fuel fractionally distilled in the fractional distillation part, and a gaseous phase fuel supply means 18 supplying the gaseous fuel of the gaseous phase fuel storage means to a specified destination. The device also comprises a storage amount acquisition means 24 for acquiring the storage amount of the gaseous phase fuel storage means and a fuel introduction means 28 for introducing the fuel of the fuel supply system to the specified destination when the means determines that the storage amount is equal to or less than a prescribed amount. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel fractional distillation device of an internal combustion engine capable of satisfactorily cooling a gaseous phase fuel and a liquid phase fuel according to various purposes. SOLUTION: This fuel fractional distillation device 16 of the internal combustion engine comprises a fractional distillation part 18 connected to the fuel supply system 11 of the internal combustion engine 1 and fractionally distilling a fuel supplied from the fuel supply system into a gaseous phase and a liquid phase, a gaseous phase passage 22 for leading the gaseous phase fuel fractionally distilled in the fractional distillation part, and a liquid phase passage 23 for leading the liquid phase fuel fractionally distilled in the fractional distillation part. The device also comprises at least one of heat exchangers 27 and 28 for exchanging heat between a fuel after fractional distillation and a fuel before fractional distillation. The gaseous phase passage is led into the heat exchanger disposed on a side near the fuel supply system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust emission treatment method capable of efficiently recirculating exhaust emission from a collecting container to an intake passage while the deterioration of the state of combustion of an internal combustion engine is suppressed. SOLUTION: This exhaust emission treatment method comprises a step for collecting exhaust emission from an exhaust passage 5 into the collecting container 21 when catalysts 15 and 16 installed in the exhaust passage 5 of the internal combustion engine 1 cannot develop a specified purification performance and a step for recirculating the collected exhaust emission to the intake passage 3 of the internal combustion engine 1. In the step for recirculating the exhaust emission, the flow rate of the exhaust emission recirculated to the intake passage is varied according to the state of combustion of the internal combustion engine 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deposits from adhering to and accumulating in a gasoline injection valve in a fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine having the gasoline injection valve and a CNG injection valve arranged in an intake path.SOLUTION: In the fuel injection device for the internal combustion engine having the gasoline injection valve 7 and the CNG injection valve 6 arranged in the intake path, the gasoline injection valve 7 is arranged in a position separate from a combustion chamber relative to the CNG injection valve 6. This prevents a high-temperature a burned gas from reaching the gasoline injection valve 7 when the burned gas flows back from the combustion chamber to the intake path.