Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10047704-B2
Application number	US-201615069000-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2016
Priority date	May 13, 2015
Publication date	Aug 14, 2018
Grant date	Aug 14, 2018

Abstract

An EGR device is operated and EGR is executed, when a temperature of a first cooling water that cools a cylinder block and a cylinder head is higher than an EGR allowable temperature, and a working point of the internal combustion engine that is fixed by a load and an engine speed is in an EGR execution region. The EGR execution region is variable with respect to a temperature of the second cooling water (the temperature of the second cooling water is lower than the first cooling water) that cools the intake port, and the EGR execution region is narrowed to a high load side in a case where the temperature of the second cooling water is lower than a threshold value temperature, as compared with a case where the temperature of the second cooling water is higher than the threshold value temperature.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine including
a first cooling water circulation system that cools a cylinder block and a cylinder head by a first cooling water,
a second cooling water circulation system that cools an intake port that is formed in the cylinder head by a second cooling water having a lower temperature than the first cooling water, and
an EGR device that recirculates exhaust gas into an intake passage, and
a processor unit is configured
to operate the EGR device and execute EGR, when a temperature of the first cooling water is higher than an EGR allowable temperature, and a working point of the internal combustion engine that is fixed by a load and an engine speed is in a first EGR execution region according to a first EGR map; and
to decrease an EGR amount in a predetermined region in the EGR execution region existing below a threshold value load in a case where a temperature of the second cooling water is lower than a threshold value temperature

wherein the first and second cooling water circulation systems are independent of each other.

2. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processor unit is further configured
to determine an operation amount of the EGR device, by using a first map in which an operation amount of the EGR device is related with the load and the engine speed, and a second map in which the EGR amount in the predetermined region is set to be smaller as compared with the first map,
to operate the EGR device based on the first map when the temperature of the second cooling water is higher than the threshold value temperature, and
to operate the EGR device based on the second map when the temperature of the second cooling water is equal to or lower than the threshold value temperature.

3. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processor unit is further configured
to control the temperature of the second cooling water to a temperature lower than the threshold value temperature when the load of the internal combustion engine is higher than a predetermined threshold value load, and
to control the temperature of the second cooling water to a temperature higher than the threshold value temperature when the load of the internal combustion engine is lower than the threshold value load.

4. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the EGR device comprises an EGR cooler that cools exhaust gas to be recirculated, by the first cooling water, and
the processer unit is further configured to reduce a flow rate of the first cooling water which flows in the EGR cooler when the temperature of the second cooling water is lower than the threshold value temperature.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takahashi Daishi

Classifications

• F02D2200/0404

  Throttle position · CPC title

• F02D41/005

  according to engine operating conditions · CPC title

• F02D41/26

  using computer, e.g. microprocessor · CPC title

• F02M26/33 Primary

  controlling the temperature of the recirculated gases · CPC title

• F01P7/165

  characterised by systems with two or more loops · CPC title