Power train system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10458347-B2
Application number	US-201515746648-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2015
Priority date	Jul 27, 2015
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

To provide a novel power train system capable of improving fuel efficiency, reducing harmful components of an exhaust gas, and improving an output by adjusting a composition of a gas component of the exhaust gas in accordance with an operation condition. Therefore, provided is a power train system including a gas component separation unit (2) which extracts a plurality of gas components having different specific heat ratios from an exhaust gas of a spark ignition type internal combustion engine (1), a recirculation unit which recirculates the plurality of gas components to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and a ratio adjustment unit (3) which adjusts a ratio of the plurality of gas components recirculated to the combustion chamber in response to an operation state of the internal combustion engine. A composition of a gas recirculated to the internal combustion engine can be adjusted depending on various operation conditions. Accordingly, it is possible to improve fuel efficiency, reduce harmful components of an exhaust gas, and improve an output in a wide range of operation conditions of the internal combustion engine.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power train system comprising:
a spark ignition type internal combustion engine;
a gas component separation device which extracts a plurality of gas components having different specific heat ratios from an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine;
a recirculation device which recirculates the plurality of gas components to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; and
a gas components ratio adjustment device which adjusts a ratio of the plurality of gas components recirculated to the combustion chamber in response to an operation state or a fuel property state of the internal combustion engine,
wherein the gas components having different specific heat ratios are a gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and a gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio, and
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio when an engine torque of the internal combustion engine is lower than a predetermined value and increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio when the engine torque is higher than the predetermined value.

2. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as an engine torque of the internal combustion engine increases.

3. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio when a fuel supply amount supplied to the internal combustion engine is large.

4. A power train system comprising:
a spark ignition type internal combustion engine;
a gas component separation device which extracts a plurality of gas components having different specific heat ratios from an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine;
a recirculation device which recirculates the plurality of gas components to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; and
a gas components ratio adjustment device which adjusts a ratio of the plurality of gas components recirculated to the combustion chamber in response to an operation state or a fuel property state of the internal combustion engine,
wherein the gas components having different specific heat ratios are a gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and a gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio, and
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio in response to one of the following:
(i) a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine increases while an engine torque of the internal combustion engine is large;
(ii) an octane number of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine increases;
(iii) an alcohol concentration of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine increases; or
(iv) an intake humidity of intake air taken into the internal combustion engine increases.

5. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as a cooling water temperature, an intake air temperature, a fuel temperature, or an external air temperature of the internal combustion engine increases.

6. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as an octane number of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine increases.

7. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as an alcohol concentration of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine increases.

8. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as a natural gas concentration of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine increases.

9. A power train system comprising:
a spark ignition type internal combustion engine;
a gas component separation device which extracts a plurality of gas components having different specific heat ratios from an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine;
a recirculation device which recirculates the plurality of gas components to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; and
a gas components ratio adjustment device which adjusts a ratio of the plurality of gas components recirculated to the combustion chamber in response to an operation state or a fuel property state of the internal combustion engine,
wherein the gas components having different specific heat ratios are a gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and a gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio, and
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture of fuel and air supplied to the internal combustion engine moves to a lean side when the internal combustion engine is operated in a high load.

10. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas components ratio adjustment device increases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio and decreases a ratio of the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio as an intake humidity of intake air taken into the internal combustion engine increases.

11. The power train system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio is carbon dioxide separated from the exhaust gas and the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio is nitrogen separated from the exhaust gas.

12. The power train system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio is carbon dioxide separated from the exhaust gas and the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio is nitrogen separated from the exhaust gas.

13. The power train system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the gas component having a relatively small specific heat ratio is carbon dioxide separated from the exhaust gas and the gas component having a relatively large specific heat ratio is nitrogen separated from the exhaust gas.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Sukegawa Yoshihiro
• Kaneeda Masato
• Hatamiya Shigeo

Classifications

• F02D41/0052 Primary

  Feedback control of engine parameters, e.g. for control of air/fuel ratio or intake air amount · CPC title

• F02D2200/0418

  Air humidity · CPC title

• F02M26/36

  with means for adding fluids other than exhaust gas to the recirculation passage; with reformers · CPC title

• F02D2200/0414

  Air temperature · CPC title

• F02D2200/0611

  Fuel type, fuel composition or fuel quality · CPC title