Abstract:
A variable compression ratio device may include a piston assembly having double pistons of which the volume may be varied, a lifter relatively moving one piston of the double pistons with respect to the other piston of the double pistons, a guide unit engaged with the piston assembly and guiding a movement of the one piston with respect to the other piston, and a locking unit selectively coupling the one piston to the other piston.
Abstract:
A cooling water flow control device of a cooling system for a vehicle can shorten a warm-up time of a cooling water being supplied to an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler. The cooling water flow control device includes: the EGR cooler that cools an exhaust gas supplied to an intake system of an engine using cooling water and includes an EGR cooler outlet through which the cooling water is discharged; a water pump to circulate the cooling water to the EGR cooler and the engine at an engine startup; and a direct flow path connected to a vent hole formed in the engine to guide the cooling water from the vent hole to a downstream side of an EGR cooler outlet.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a cooling system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes an engine, an EGR cooler, an oil cooler, a heater, a radiator, and a controller. The engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator are respectively connected through a coolant line and coolant circulates through the engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator by operation of a water pump. The controller receives the coolant from the engine and operates a control valve connected with the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator. The method includes: sensing driving conditions and operating the control valve when a cooling mode is required to decrease the temperature within the vehicle based on the sensed driving conditions. The control valve is operated based on modes controlled depending on a coolant temperature, and among the plurality of modes, one is iteratively performed.
Abstract:
A water jacket of an engine is capable of implementing cooling water flows as both a cross flow and a parallel flow. The water jacket includes a head water jacket formed in a cylinder head of an engine; a block water jacket formed in a cylinder block of the engine; and a variable partition wall which is configured to induce a cross flow of cooling water in a space between positions of cylinders in the head water jacket, where the variable partition wall has a shape configured to be varied according to an engine operating condition, and the variable partition wall allows the cooling water to flow in a selected one of the cross flow and a parallel flow according to the shape which is varied in head water jacket.
Abstract:
An engine system for exhausting condensate water includes an intake line into which fresh air flows, an engine including a plurality of cylinders for generating driving torque by burning fuel, an exhaust line in which exhaust gas exhausted from the cylinders flows, a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation system (LP-EGR) through which the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust line is resupplied to the cylinder, and a turbocharger including a turbine rotated by the exhaust gas exhausted from the cylinder, a compressor for compressing external air and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) gas by being rotated together with the turbine, and an exhaust pipe for exhausting condensate water to the outside, wherein the condensate water generated by the external air flows through the intake line and the EGR gas is recirculated by the LP-EGR.
Abstract:
A device for measuring temperature of a turbine wheel in a turbocharger includes: a guide that passes infrared ray generated from the turbine wheel and includes a coolant path; a protection unit that protects an optical head which senses the infrared ray; and a signal processing unit that measures a temperature of the turbine wheel by processing a signal corresponding to the sensed infrared ray.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a variable compression ratio device which changes a top dead center of a piston provided in an engine depending on a driving state of the engine. The variable compression ratio device may include: a lower piston reciprocally movable in a cylinder of the engine and connected with a connecting rod to rotate a crankshaft, an operation chamber, an upper piston disposed above the lower piston and partially inserted into the operation chamber, a push plate dividing the operation chamber into upper and lower spaces, a hydraulic pressure chamber which is the lower space, an elastic member provided in the upper space to push the push plate downward, a hydraulic pressure supply unit selectively supplying hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pressure chamber, and a hydraulic pressure supply pathway connecting the hydraulic pressure supply unit and the hydraulic pressure chamber for supplying the hydraulic pressure.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus and method for preventing boiling of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler, the apparatus including a coolant inflow passage configured to allow coolant to flow into the EGR cooler, a coolant discharge passage having one end connected to the EGR cooler to allow the coolant cooling EGR gas to be discharged, an EGR valve positioned adjacent to the EGR cooler to control a flow rate of gas flowing into the engine, and a control unit configured to determine the flow rate of the coolant flowing into the EGR cooler according to a number of revolutions of the engine, determine an opening amount of the EGR valve, determine whether the EGR cooler is in a micro-boiling condition, and perform compensation to perform boiling prevention when the EGR cooler satisfies the micro-boiling condition.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a vehicle cooling system is provided. The system includes an engine, an EGR cooler, an oil cooler, a heater, a radiator, and a controller. The engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator are respectively connected through a coolant line and coolant circulates through the engine, the EGR cooler, the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator by operation of a water pump. The controller receives the coolant from the engine and operates a control valve that is connected with the oil cooler, the heater, and the radiator. The method includes sensing driving conditions and operating the control valve when a warm mode is required to increase the temperature within the vehicle based on the sensed driving conditions. The control valve is operated based on first to third modes depending on a coolant temperature.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a valve opening control apparatus and method of a gasoline EGR system. The valve opening control apparatus includes a gasoline engine generating driving power through combustion, an intake line through which an intake gas flows into a combustion chamber of the gasoline engine, an exhaust line through which an exhaust gas is discharged from the combustion chamber, a recirculation line branched off from the exhaust line and connected to the intake line, an EGR cooler, positioned in the recirculation line, cooling the exhaust gas flowing in the intake line, an EGR valve configured to control an amount of the exhaust gas flowing in the intake line, an emergency (EM) filter positioned in one end of the EGR valve, and a flow rate regulator configured to control an opening amount of the EGR valve according to a clogging state of the EM filter.