Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10502154-B2
Application number	US-201816026948-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2018
Priority date	Jul 6, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

An electronic control unit of a control device for an internal combustion engine executes, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling an actuator such that a pin drive operation is executed for switching from a first cam to a second cam, executes second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle, and executes abnormality determination processing for determining that a cam switching mechanism has an abnormality in a case where a pin returns to a reference position by using a pin return section following a cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine comprising:
a camshaft;
a plurality of cams having different profiles;
a cam switching mechanism configured to switch a drive cam as a valve-driving cam between the cams, the cam switching mechanism including a shift member, a pin, an actuator, and a position regulation mechanism, the shift member being configured to rotate with the camshaft, the shift member being configured to shift an axial position with respect to the camshaft in conjunction with the cams, the shift member being provided with a guide groove in an outer peripheral surface of the shift member, the pin being configured to be engaged with and disengaged from the guide groove, the actuator being configured to execute a pin drive operation for allowing the pin to protrude from a reference position toward the shift member, the position regulation mechanism being configured to cause the axial position of the shift member to be a first position or a second position as a result of regulation, the guide groove including a pin insertion section, a cam switching section, and a pin return section, the actuator being configured to execute the pin drive operation for driving the pin to protrude from the reference position toward the shift member at a pin drive timing for inserting the pin into the pin insertion section of the guide groove, the cam switching section being configured such that the shift member shifts from the first position to the second position as the shift member rotates when the pin is inserted into the pin insertion section, the pin return section being configured such that the pin returns to the reference position after the pin passes through the cam switching section, the drive cam being configured to be switched from a first cam to a second cam included in the cams as the shift member shifts from the first position to the second position in the cam switching section, and the cam switching mechanism being configured such that the pin returns to the reference position before arrival of the pin return section following the cam switching section arriving first after the pin drive timing in a case where the pin drive operation is executed when the shift member is at the second position; and
an electronic control unit configured to
execute, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed for switching from the first cam to the second cam,
execute second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle in which switching from the second cam to the first cam is not performed after the execution of the first drive processing, the second cycle being a cycle following the first cycle, and
execute abnormality determination processing for determining that the cam switching mechanism has an abnormality that the drive cam is not switched from the first cam to the second cam by the first drive processing in a case where the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to determine that the drive cam is switched from the first cam to the second cam by the first drive processing in a case where the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin does not return to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing in the abnormality determination processing.

3. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the guide groove is formed such that the pin insertion section and the pin return section do not overlap each other in a circumferential direction of the shift member; and
the electronic control unit is configured to determine that the drive cam is switched from the first cam to the second cam by the first drive processing in a case where the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position before arrival of the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing in the abnormality determination processing.

4. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the second cycle is a cycle corresponding to the pin drive timing arriving first after the pin returns to the reference position after the execution of the first drive processing.

5. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the second drive processing is executed for the second cycle arriving while a predetermined operation condition is used in a case of transition of an operation condition of the internal combustion engine to the predetermined operation condition after the execution of the first drive processing.

6. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the guide groove is formed such that at least a part of the pin insertion section and at least a part of the pin return section overlap each other in a circumferential direction of the shift member; and
the electronic control unit is configured to determine that the drive cam is switched from the first cam to the second cam by the first drive processing in a case where the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of a cycle immediately preceding the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing in the abnormality determination processing.

7. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to determine the returning of the pin to the reference position based on an induced electromotive force generated in the actuator when the pin returns.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasaki Keisuke
• Adachi Noriyasu
• Sugihira Shigehiro
• Kawai Takayoshi
• Sadakane Shinji
• Otsuka Kaoru

Classifications

• F01L2013/116

  Temperature · CPC title

• F01L2013/0078

  by modification of cam contact point by axially displacing the camshaft · CPC title

• F01L2250/04

  the camshaft being driven by belts · CPC title

• F01L2013/0052

  with cams provided on an axially slidable sleeve · CPC title

• F01L2250/02

  the camshaft being driven by chains · CPC title