Exhaust system for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10865725-B2
Application number	US-201816111566-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2018
Priority date	Aug 30, 2017
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

An object is to reduce the influence of a hydrogen-ascribable difference between the measurement value of an oxygen sensor and the actual value. An exhaust system includes an oxygen sensor configured to measure the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and including a diffusion rate limiting layer and a controller configured to correct the measurement value of the oxygen sensor in such a way as to increase the measurement value of the oxygen sensor by an amount of correction that is made larger when the responsivity of the oxygen sensor to changes in the air-fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine is high than when it is low in the same operation state of the internal combustion engine.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, comprising:
an oxygen sensor configured to measure an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and including a diffusion rate limiting layer, wherein a voltage applied to the oxygen sensor results in an amount of electrical current flowing through the oxygen sensor that is related to the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas, and wherein the oxygen sensor measures the amount of electrical current; and
a controller configured to correct the amount of electrical current measured by said oxygen sensor in such a way as to increase the measured electrical current of said oxygen sensor by an amount of correction that is made larger when a responsivity of said oxygen sensor to at least one of an increase or a decrease in the air-fuel ratio of said internal combustion engine is higher than when the responsivity is lower during an operation state of said internal combustion engine when speed of the internal combustion engine is in a steady state and a quantity of fuel being injected into the internal combustion engine is increasing and decreasing periodically.

2. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a hydrogen concentration in the exhaust gas is higher than when the hydrogen concentration is lower.

3. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a load of said internal combustion engine is higher than when the load is lower.

4. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a temperature of the exhaust gas of said internal combustion engine is lower than when the temperature is higher.

5. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, comprising:
an oxygen sensor configured to measure an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and including a diffusion rate limiting layer, wherein a voltage applied to the oxygen sensor results in an amount of electrical current flowing through the oxygen sensor that is related to the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas; and
a controller configured to:
perform predetermined processing on the basis of a result of comparison between the air-fuel ratio measured by said oxygen sensor and a comparison reference air-fuel ratio; and
correct said comparison reference air-fuel ratio in such a way as to decrease said comparison reference air-fuel ratio by an amount of correction that is made larger when a responsivity of said oxygen sensor to at least one of an increase or a decrease in the air-fuel ratio of said internal combustion engine is higher than when the responsivity is lower during an operation state of said internal combustion engine when speed of the internal combustion engine is in a steady state and a quantity of fuel being injected into the internal combustion engine is increasing and decreasing periodically.

6. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 5 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a hydrogen concentration in the exhaust gas is higher than when the hydrogen concentration is lower.

7. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 5 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a load of said internal combustion engine is higher than when the load is lower.

8. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine according to claim 5 , wherein said controller is further configured to make the amount of correction larger when a temperature of the exhaust gas of said internal combustion engine is lower than when the temperature is higher.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hayashita Go

Classifications

• F02D41/1479

  Using a comparator with variable reference · CPC title

• F02D2041/147

  the characteristics being a hydrogen content or concentration of the exhaust gases · CPC title

• F02D2041/1431

  the system including an input-output delay · CPC title

• G01N27/4175

  Calibrating or checking the analyser · CPC title

• F02D41/2474

  Characteristics of sensors · CPC title