Abstract:
An operating range boundary for switching a cam for driving an intake valve (drive cam) is changed in a direction of decreasing an engine load if a target EGR rate is predicted to increase across the contour line shown in FIG. 3. By changing the boundary, the drive cam is switched from a large cam to a small cam before an operating point is transferred from a partitioned range R2 to a partitioned range R1. When the small cam is selected as the drive cam, suction efficiency is frequently lowered as compared to a case where the large cam is selected as the drive cam. Therefore, the drive cam is switched to the small cam before the operating point is transferred from the partitioned range R2 to the partitioned range R1, thereby enabling the suction efficiency to be lowered in many cases.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine including a combustion chamber; a compressed gas valve wherein the compressed gas valve is arranged to enable compressed gas to be extracted from the internal combustion engine and used to provide power for mechanical functions: and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of the configuration of the internal combustion engine and cause the compressed gas valve to be opened in response to a signal indicating at least one of that the internal combustion engine is decelerating and a throttle is closed to enable compressed gas to be extracted from the internal combustion engine via the compressed gas valve.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for accurately measuring an air-fuel-ratio of an engine. During a first condition of decreased scavenging, adjusting fuel injection based on a more-upstream air-fuel ratio, and during a second condition of increased scavenging, adjusting fuel injection based on one or more more-downstream air-fuel ratios and not based on the more-upstream air-fuel ratio. During the first condition, adjusting fuel injection may be further based on the one or more more-downstream air-fuel ratios.
Abstract:
A multi-cylinder gasoline engine is provided. The engine includes an engine body having a plurality of cylinders, an exhaust manifold through which exhaust gas discharged from each of the cylinders of the engine body passes, and a controller for controlling various instruments provided to the engine body and the exhaust manifold. The engine body includes a switch mechanism. The exhaust manifold includes a plurality of independent exhaust passages, a gathering section, a negative pressure generating device, bypass passages, and openable-and-closable flow switch valves. The controller controls the injector, the ignition plug, the switch mechanism, and the flow switch valve so that a CI combustion is performed within a predetermined first operating range and an SI combustion is performed within a second operating range set on a higher engine load side than the first operating range.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, and more particularly, to a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, which mixes a part of exhaust gas discharged from an engine with air for combustion, and recirculates the mixture, thereby inhibiting nitrogen oxide (NOx) from being generated. Therefore, a technical problem to be achieved in the present disclosure is to provide a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas which may have a simplified structure. In addition, another object of the present disclosure is to provide a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, which improves output of an engine by increasing an amount of intake air, and further improves fuel efficiency.
Abstract:
A six-stroke engine system including an engine with a combustion chamber including an exhaust valve that expels exhaust gasses, a blowdown exhaust valve that expel blowdown exhaust gasses during recompression, and an intake valve and a blowdown compressor intake valve that introduce air. An exhaust line directs exhaust gasses to drive a turbine, which drives a compressor. An intake line receives compressed air from the compressor and directs it into the combustion chamber through the intake valve. A blowdown exhaust line, separate from the exhaust line, directs blowdown exhaust gasses from the blowdown exhaust valve to drive the blowdown turbine, which drives a blowdown compressor. A blowdown compressor line directs compressed air from the intake line into the blowdown compressor, and directs super-compressed air from the blowdown compressor through the blowdown compressor intake valve during recompression.
Abstract:
This internal combustion engine comprising a variable compression ratio mechanism either measures an exhaust temperature or exhaust pressure which varies according to an actual expansion ratio, or measures a physical quantity which varies according to the exhaust temperature and/or the exhaust pressure, and estimates the current mechanical compression ratio on the basis of the measured value.
Abstract:
A six-stroke cycle engine includes an intake passage including a throttle valve, and an exhaust passage including a catalyst. The six-stroke cycle engine includes a scavenging passage including a first end defined by a scavenging port and a second other end connected to the intake passage upstream of the throttle valve. The six-stroke cycle engine includes an intake valve, an exhaust valve, a scavenging valve, and a valve gear configured to operate these valves. The valve gear closes the scavenging valve and operates the intake valve and the exhaust valve so as to execute an intake stroke, a compression stroke, an expansion stroke, and an exhaust stroke, in this order. The valve gear also operates only the scavenging valve so as to execute a scavenging intake stroke and a scavenging exhaust stroke, in this order, following the exhaust stroke.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an pneumatic hybrid internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber composed of a cylinder in which a piston is arranged mechanically interconnected to a crank shaft via a piston rod. An inlet valve and an exhaust valve are both mechanically interconnected via a valve gear to the crank shaft. The engine further includes at least one charge valve which is actuated by a charge valve actuator in a fully variable manner such that the engine can be operated in a four stroke hybrid mode.
Abstract:
An auxiliary valve actuating mechanism of an engine includes a first valve actuating mechanism and an auxiliary valve actuating mechanism. The auxiliary valve actuating mechanism comprises an auxiliary cam, an auxiliary rocker-arm shaft, an auxiliary rocker arm, an eccentric rocker arm bushing and a bushing actuation device. One end of the auxiliary rocker arm constitutes a motion pair with the auxiliary cam and the other end is above the valve. The bushing actuation device actuates the eccentric rocker arm bushing to rotate between an operating position and a non-operating position.