Engine system having EGR apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10125704-B2
Application number	US-201615376514-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2016
Priority date	Aug 24, 2016
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

An engine system having an ERG apparatus may include an engine including a plurality of combustion chambers generating a driving torque by combustion of a fuel; an intake line inflowing an intake gas supplied to the combustion chamber; an exhaust line flowing an exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber; a turbocharger including a turbine provided at the exhaust line and rotated by the exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber and a compressor provided at the intake line, rotated in connection with the turbine, and compressing external air; and an EGR apparatus including a recirculation line branched from the exhaust line and joined to the intake line, a flow rate controller mounted at the recirculation line and measuring and controlling an amount of recirculation gas, and a pressure sensor mounted at the recirculation line to measure a pressure of the recirculation gas.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling an engine system of an engine and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) apparatus re-supplying a part of exhaust gas exhausted from the engine to a combustion chamber of the engine, comprising:
detecting operation information from an operation information detector;
determining whether an operation region of a vehicle is a use region that the EGR apparatus is used from the operation information by a controller; and
controlling, by the controller, operation of a flow rate controller of the EGR apparatus depending on the use region of the EGR apparatus,
wherein when the operation region is the use region that the EGR apparatus is used,
the controlling step includes:
measuring a pressure of an exhaust gas flowing in a recirculation line by a pressure sensor provided in a recirculation line of the EGR apparatus;
measuring a rotation speed of a flap mounted at a rotation axis of a drive motor of the flow rate controller by a speed sensor;
determining an amount of recirculation gas from the pressure of the exhaust gas and the rotation speed of the flap by the controller; and
controlling the flap to be rotated in a same direction as a flow direction of the exhaust gas flowing in the recirculation line depending on the amount of recirculation gas and the target EGR ratio by the controller.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
when the operation region is not the use region that the EGR apparatus is not used,
the controlling includes:
measuring the pressure of the exhaust gas flowing in the recirculation line by the pressure sensor provided to the recirculation line of the EGR apparatus;
measuring the rotation speed of the flap mounted at the rotation axis of the drive motor of the flow rate controller by the speed sensor;
determining the amount of the recirculation gas from the pressure of the exhaust gas and the rotation speed of the flap by the controller; and
controlling the flap mounted at the rotation axis of the drive motor of the flow rate controller to be rotated in a direction opposite to the flow direction of the exhaust gas flowing in the recirculation line depending on the amount of the recirculation gas by the controller.

3. An engine system having an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) apparatus, comprising:
an engine including a plurality of combustion chambers generating a driving torque by combustion of a fuel;
an intake line inflowing an intake gas supplied to the combustion chambers;
an exhaust line flowing an exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chambers;
a turbocharger including a turbine provided at the exhaust line and rotated by the exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chambers and a compressor provided at the intake line, rotated in connection with the turbine, and compressing external air; and
the EGR apparatus including a recirculation line branched from the exhaust line and joined to the intake line, a flow rate controller mounted at the recirculation line and measuring and controlling an amount of recirculation gas, and a pressure sensor mounted at the recirculation line to measure a pressure of the recirculation gas,
wherein the flow rate controller includes:
a drive motor generating power;
a flap mounted at a rotation axis of the drive motor and rotated by the recirculation gas flowing in the recirculation line or by a power of the drive motor; and
a speed sensor detecting a rotation speed of the flap.

4. The engine system of claim 3 , wherein
the flap is provided perpendicular to a flow direction of the recirculation gas flowing in the recirculation line.

5. The engine system of claim 4 , wherein
the controller controls the flap to be rotated in a direction opposite to the flow direction of the recirculation gas flowing in the recirculation line when it is determined that an operation region is not a use region that the EGR apparatus is not used from the operation information.

6. The engine system of claim 4 , wherein
the controller determines an amount of the recirculation gas from the pressure of the recirculation gas measured by the pressure sensor and the rotation speed of the flap determined by the speed sensor and controls the flap to be rotated in a same direction as the flow direction of the recirculation gas flowing in the recirculation line depending on the determined amount of the recirculation gas and a target EGR ratio when it is determined that an operation region is a use region that the EGR apparatus is used from the operation information.

7. The engine system of claim 6 , further including
a humidity sensor measuring humidity of fresh air flowing in the intake line, and
the controller is configured to compensate a rotation speed of the flap depending on the humidity of the air measured by the humidity sensor.

8. The engine system of claim 3 , wherein
the rotation axis of the drive motor is positioned outside a radial direction of an interior circumference of the recirculation line.

9. The engine system of claim 1 , further including:
an operation information detector detecting operation information of the vehicle; and
a controller controlling the flow rate controller depending on the operation information.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Choo Saeng

Classifications

• F02B37/20

  by increasing exhaust energy, e.g. using combustion chamber {by after-burning (using an auxiliary combustion chamber supplied by charging air F02B37/166)} · CPC title

• F02D41/0077 Primary

  Control of the EGR valve or actuator, e.g. duty cycle, closed loop control of position (EGR valve position sensor F02M26/48) · CPC title

• F02M26/04

  with a single turbocharger · CPC title

• F02M26/20

  Feeding recirculated exhaust gases directly into the combustion chambers or into the intake runners · CPC title

• F02D2200/50

  said parameters being related to the vehicle or its components · CPC title