Internal combustion engine, and device and method for controlling internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10094263-B2
Application number	US-201515323061-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2015
Priority date	Jan 9, 2015
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

According to a device and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine, a control device (38) enables controllability of the internal combustion engine to be improved by preventing surging from occurring upon starting or stopping of the internal combustion engine, by opening a relief valve (28) as a turbine rotational speed reaches a surging rotational speed when the control device (38) causes a motor generator (32) to assist in rotation of the turbocharger (12) upon starting of a diesel engine body (11).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An internal combustion engine, comprising:
an internal combustion engine body;
a turbocharger including a compressor that is connected to the internal combustion engine body via a piping and supplies combustion gas to the internal combustion engine body, and a turbine that coaxially rotates with the compressor;
an electric motor that drives the compressor;
an opening and shutting device that opens and shuts between the piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between the internal combustion engine body and the compressor; and
a control device that drives and controls the electric motor and the opening and shutting device, wherein
the control device drives the compressor by driving the electric motor before start-up of the internal combustion engine body, brings the piping and the outside of the piping into an open state by driving the opening and shutting device at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed, and start up the internal combustion engine body without suppling fuel when the turbine rotational speed reaches to a predetermined start-up rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body.

2. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a power storage unit that supplies power to the electric motor, wherein
the control device starts power storage into the power storage unit and brings the piping and the outside of the piping into the open state by driving the opening and shutting device.

3. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an internal combustion engine rotation starting device that starts starting of rotation of the internal combustion engine body without supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine body, wherein
the control device brings the piping and the outside of the piping into a shut state by driving the opening and shutting device after driving the internal combustion engine rotation starting device.

4. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the control device brings the piping and the outside of the piping into a shut state by driving the opening and shutting device after an exhaust valve of the internal combustion engine body starts being driven to be opened and shut.

5. The internal combustion engine according to claim 2 , wherein the opening and shutting device is a flow regulating valve, and the control device increases opening of the flow regulating valve at a predetermined change rate that has been set beforehand, when the opening and shutting device is driven.

6. A control device of an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
an internal combustion engine body;
a turbocharger including a compressor that is connected to the internal combustion engine body via a piping and supplies combustion gas to the internal combustion engine body and a turbine that coaxially rotates with the compressor;
an electric motor that drives the compressor;
an opening and shutting device that opens and shuts between the piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between the internal combustion engine body and the compressor; and
a control device that drives and controls the electric motor and the opening and shutting device, wherein
the control device drives the compressor by driving the electric motor before start-up of the internal combustion engine body, brings the piping and the outside of the piping into an open state by driving the opening and shutting device at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed, and start up the internal combustion engine body without suppling fuel when the turbine rotational speed reaches to a predetermined start-up rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body.

7. A method of controlling an internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
starting power storage into a power storage unit;
driving a compressor by starting driving an electric motor with power in the power storage unit after voltage in the power storage unit reaches a predetermined standby voltage;
opening and shutting between a piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between an internal combustion engine body and the compressor, at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed;
starting the internal combustion engine body without supplying fuel when the turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined internal combustion engine start-up rotational speed; and
supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine when a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body reaches a predetermined fuel supply start rotational speed.

8. An internal combustion engine, comprising:
an internal combustion engine body;
a compressor that is connected to the internal combustion engine body via a piping and supplies combustion gas to the internal combustion engine body;
an electric motor that drives the compressor;
an opening and shutting device that opens and shuts between the piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between the internal combustion engine body and the compressor; and
a control device that drives and controls the electric motor and the opening and shutting device, wherein
the control device drives the compressor by driving the electric motor before start-up of the internal combustion engine body, brings the piping and the outside of the piping into an open state by driving the opening and shutting device at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed, and start up the internal combustion engine body without suppling fuel when the turbine rotational speed reaches to a predetermined start-up rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body.

9. A control device of an internal combustion engine, comprising:
an internal combustion engine body;
a compressor that is connected to the internal combustion engine body via a piping and supplies combustion gas to the internal combustion engine body;
an electric motor that drives the compressor;
an opening and shutting device that opens and shuts between the piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between the internal combustion engine body and the compressor; and
a control device that drives and controls the electric motor and the opening and shutting device, wherein
the control device drives the compressor by driving the electric motor before start-up of the internal combustion engine body, brings the piping and the outside of the piping into an open state by driving the opening and shutting device at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed, and start up the internal combustion engine body without suppling fuel when the turbine rotational speed reaches to a predetermined start-up rotational speed of the internal combustion engine body.

10. A method of controlling an internal combustion engine, the method comprising:
driving a compressor by starting driving an electric motor;
opening and shutting between a piping and outside of the piping, the piping being provided between an internal combustion engine body and the compressor, at or before a time point at which a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined surging rotational speed;
starting the internal combustion engine body without supplying fuel when a turbine rotational speed reaches a predetermined internal combustion engine start-up rotational speed.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yamashita Yukio
• Ono Yoshihisa
• Sakamoto Musashi
• Tsuji Takeshi
• Miyanagi Akihiro

Classifications

• F02B37/16

  by bypassing charging air · CPC title

• F02B37/225

  air passages · CPC title

• F01N3/38 Primary

  Arrangements for igniting · CPC title

• F02B37/007

  with exhaust-driven pumps arranged in parallel {, e.g. at least one pump supplying alternatively} · CPC title

• F02B37/14

  {Control} of the alternation between {or the operation of} exhaust drive and other drive of a pump, e.g. dependent on speed · CPC title