Controller for cooling system of internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10927747-B2
Application number	US-201816001092-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 6, 2018
Priority date	Jul 5, 2017
Publication date	Feb 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 23, 2021

Abstract

A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes an adjustment valve configured to adjust a flow rate of a cooling liquid discharged from a water jacket. A controller for the cooling system includes circuitry configured to execute flow-restriction control that controls the adjustment valve to restrict discharge of the cooling liquid from the water jacket, thereby increasing temperature of an engine body. The circuitry is configured to execute the flow-restriction control so that temperature of the cooling liquid in the water jacket at which the flow-restriction control is terminated is lower when an ambient pressure is low than when the ambient pressure is high.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A controller for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, wherein the cooling system includes a water jacket formed in an engine body of the internal combustion engine and including a passage for a cooling liquid that cools the engine body, a cooling liquid pump configured to supply the cooling liquid to the water jacket, and an adjustment valve configured to adjust a flow rate of the cooling liquid discharged from the water jacket, the adjustment valve being in fluid communication with an outlet pipe connected to the water jacket and including a discharge port in fluid communication with a radiator, the controller comprising:
circuitry configured to execute flow-restriction control that controls the adjustment valve to restrict discharge of the cooling liquid from the water jacket such that the cooling liquid does not flow to the radiator, thereby increasing temperature of the engine body,
wherein the circuitry is configured to execute the flow-restriction control so that temperature of the cooling liquid in the water jacket at which the flow-restriction control is terminated is lower when an ambient pressure is lower than a predetermined value than when the ambient pressure is higher than the predetermined value, and
wherein the circuitry is configured to allow execution of the flow-restriction control when the ambient pressure is greater than a threshold value, and prohibit execution of the flow-restriction control when the ambient pressure is less than or equal to the threshold value.

2. The controller according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
terminate the flow-restriction control when the circuitry determines that a correlation value, which is correlated with the temperature of the cooling liquid in the water jacket, is greater than or equal to a determination value, and
set the determination value to be smaller when the ambient pressure is lower than the predetermined value than when the ambient pressure is higher than the predetermined value.

3. The controller according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to calculate the ambient pressure based on a current position and altitude information.

4. The controller according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
allow execution of the flow-restriction control when the temperature of the cooling liquid in the water jacket is less than or equal to a predetermined temperature, and
prohibit execution of the flow-restriction control when the temperature of the cooling liquid in the water jacket is greater than the predetermined temperature.

5. A controller for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, wherein the cooling system includes a water jacket formed in an engine body of the internal combustion engine and including a passage for a cooling liquid that cools the engine body, a cooling liquid pump configured to supply the cooling liquid to the water jacket, and an adjustment valve configured to adjust a flow rate of the cooling liquid discharged from the water jacket, the controller comprising:
circuitry configured to execute flow-restriction control that controls the adjustment valve to restrict discharge of the cooling liquid from the water jacket, thereby increasing temperature of the engine body,
wherein the circuitry is configured to calculate an accumulated intake air amount, which is an intake air amount accumulated from initiation of the flow-restriction control, and terminate the flow-restriction control when the accumulated intake air amount is greater than or equal to a determination value, and
wherein the determination value is calculated to be smaller when the ambient pressure is lower than a predetermined value than when the ambient pressure is higher than the predetermined value.

6. The controller according to claim 5 , wherein the circuitry is configured to calculate the ambient pressure based on a current position and altitude information.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kaneko Rihito
• Takagi Noboru
• Hisaminato Naoto
• Yamaguchi Mitsuru
• Andoh Hirokazu
• Yamaguchi Masaaki
• Furuya Yoshihiro

Classifications

• B60K11/02 Primary

  with liquid cooling · CPC title

• F01P7/167

  by adjusting the pre-set temperature according to engine parameters, e.g. engine load, engine speed · CPC title

• F01P7/14 Primary

  the coolant being liquid · CPC title

• F01P5/10

  Pumping liquid coolant; Arrangements of coolant pumps · CPC title

• F01P2023/08

  Microprocessor; Microcomputer · CPC title