摘要:
An onboard load control apparatus and a method for detecting a fault of an onboard electrical load with high accuracy are disclosed. The control apparatus comprises an onboard battery mounted on an automotive vehicle, an electrical heater for electrically heating an electrical load such as an electrically-heated catalyst supplied with power from the onboard battery, an auxiliary relay for turning on/off the power to the electrical heater from the onboard battery, and an ECU for controlling the on/off operation of the auxiliary relay. The apparatus further comprises an engine speed detector for detecting the engine speed of the internal combustion engine and a fault judgement unit for judging whether the electrical heater is normal or faulty on the basis of the fluctuation amount of the engine speed of the internal combustion engine detected by the engine speed detector before and after switching the auxiliary relay. A fault of the electrical load is judged by detecting the voltage across the onboard battery while taking the fluctuation amount of the same voltage into consideration. The apparatus further comprises a load condition holder for holding the load condition of a specific load while the engine speed or the battery voltage is detected.
摘要:
A device for detecting deterioration of a catalyst in an internal combustion engine having a heater on the upstream side of a catalytic converter provided in an exhaust gas passage, the device being capable of expanding the deterioration determination conditions of the catalyst. It is determined whether the conditions, except the temperature condition, are all obtained among the conditions for detecting deterioration of the catalytic converter. When the conditions, except the temperature condition, are all obtained, an electric power is supplied from a power source to the heater to satisfy the temperature condition. Deterioration of the catalyst can be reliably detected if the electric power is supplied to the heater only when the engine is in the idling operation condition and if deterioration of the catalyst is detected when the time for supplying electric power to the heater has become larger than a predetermined period of time. The heater may be one contained in the electrically heated catalyst.
摘要:
An exhaust purifier for an internal combustion engine is capable of properly heating a catalyst in consideration of a deterioration with time and manufacturing variation in an electric heater that heats the catalyst.The exhaust purifier has the catalyst 4 disposed in an exhaust pipe, the electric heater for forcibly heating the catalyst 4, a power source for supplying power to the heater, an estimate unit for estimating the temperature that the catalyst 4 will reach, a comparator for providing the difference between the estimated temperature and a target temperature, and an operation controller for controlling the operating conditions of the engine according to the temperature difference. The estimate unit measures the voltage and current of the heater, calculates the resistance or power of the heater according to the voltage and current, and estimates the temperature. The operation controller adjusts the quantity of intake air and ignition timing, or adjusts ignition timing and then the quantity of intake air to maintain an engine speed, or, if a battery 6 is abnormal, adjusts the quantity of intake air and ignition timing to increase the temperature of exhaust gas.
摘要:
An exhaust purifier of an internal combustion engine supplies secondary air into an exhaust pipe without cooling nor inactivating an electrically heated catalyst (EHC) that is active. The exhaust purifier includes the EHC 3 disposed in the exhaust pipe 2, a main catalyst 4 disposed in the exhaust pipe 2 downstream from the EHC 3, and a unit for supplying secondary air into the exhaust pipe 2. The secondary air supply unit has a main path 10 for supplying secondary air into a space defined in the exhaust pipe 2 between the EHC 3 and the main catalyst 4 when it is determined that the main catalyst 4 is active. The secondary air supply unit may additionally have a second path 9 for supplying secondary air into the exhaust pipe 2 on the upstream side of the EHC 3 when it is determined that the EHC 3 is active, so that the secondary air may pass through the EHC 3 and reach the main catalyst 4.
摘要:
Fuel-vapor evaporating from a fuel tank is led through a vapor pipe and absorbed in a charcoal canister. Fuel-vapor stored in the charcoal canister is supplied to an inlet pipe when a purge valve is opened when the engine is driven, because the pressure in the inlet pipe is low. Fuel-vapor is then burned as fuel in the engine. If the opening of the purge valve is suddenly increased at the start of the purge, the air fuel ratio control is disturbed. Therefore, the purge rate is gradually increased and the vapor concentration of the fuel-vapor purged from the charcoal canister is learned, and the change rate of the purge rate is made small because the air-fuel ratio control may be disturbed when the vapor concentration is not learned enough.
摘要:
Fuel-vapor evaporating from a fuel tank is led though a vapor pipe and absorbed in a charcoal canister. Though the evaporating rate is influenced by the altitude where the automobile operates, the air-fuel ratio must be controlled within the proper range. This apparatus controls a purge valve in accordance with the purge rate which is determined based on the standard atmospheric pressure and compensated in accordance with the present atmospheric pressure. Therefore, this apparatus can precisely control the amount of purged fuel and the air-fuel ratio.
摘要:
This fuel injection control apparatus consists of a calculating device for calculating an air-fuel ratio correction factor FAF, a learning device for learning an air-fuel ratio learning factor KG in accordance with the deviation of FAF from the reference value, and a controller for controlling the amount of injected fuel in accordance with FAF and KG. When the start enrichment FASE and the warm-up enrichment FWL are added, KG is learned in accordance with the corrected deviation which is the deviation of FAF corrected by the correction factor f(FASE+FWL) which is concerned with FASE and FWL. The learning accuracy is improved because KG is learned at each region of FWL which is divided into plural regions in accordance with the engine driving conditions.
摘要:
An air-fuel ratio control apparatus includes: a determining part for determining a target purge ratio in accordance with operating conditions of an engine; a purge control part for controlling a flow rate of evaporated fuel, supplied from an evaporated fuel purge system into an intake passage of the engine, by actuating a purge control valve based on the target purge ratio, and for storing an evaporated fuel flow rate of the purge control valve; a fuel injection control part for generating a drive signal in accordance with a fuel injection time, and for controlling an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture to the intake passage by actuating a fuel injection valve in accordance with the drive signal; an estimating part for estimating the ratio of an evaporated fuel flow rate to an intake air flow rate based on sensed operating conditions of the engine and on the stored evaporated fuel flow rate of the purge control part; and a fuel injection time determining part for determining a fuel injection time based on the estimated ratio, and for supplying the fuel injection time to the fuel injection control part.
摘要:
In a control device, in a control device of an internal combustion engine provided with an internal combustion engine main body mounted to a vehicle and a heater operating on the basis of an output from a specific sensor given as a trigger at least before the internal combustion engine main body starts, whether or not the heater is operated before the start is stored, and it is judged that the sensor has failed when operation of the heater is not stored.
摘要:
A device for judging the deterioration of a three-way catalyst comprising an upstream O.sub.2 sensor and a downstream O.sub.2 sensor which are arranged in the exhaust passage upstream and downstream of the three-way catalyst respectively. When the ratio of length of the output signal response curve of the downstream O.sub.2 sensor and the length of the output signal response curve of the upstream O.sub.2 sensor is over a threshold level, it is judged that the three-way catalyst has deteriorated. The threshold value is reduced as the mean value of the air-fuel ratio becomes off from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.