Control device for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11002197-B2
Application number	US-201916448667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2019
Priority date	Jun 26, 2018
Publication date	May 11, 2021
Grant date	May 11, 2021

Abstract

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake air amount controller and a variable valve controller. The intake air amount controller includes an exhaust manifold pressure calculator, an engine intake air amount calculator, a volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator, a cylinder intake air amount calculator, an exhaust gas flow rate calculator, and a cylinder intake air amount controller. The volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator calculates a volumetric efficiency correction coefficient based on a pressure ratio between an intake manifold pressure and an exhaust manifold pressure, a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine, and an actuation state of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
an engine intake air amount calculator configured to calculate an engine intake air amount being an amount of air sucked into an intake pipe of the internal combustion engine;
an intake manifold pressure measurer configured to measure an intake manifold pressure of the internal combustion engine;
an exhaust manifold pressure calculator configured to calculate an exhaust manifold pressure of the internal combustion engine;
a rotational speed measurer configured to measure a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine;
a variable valve controller configured to variably control an actuation state of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve of the internal combustion engine;
a volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator configured to calculate a volumetric efficiency correction coefficient for associating the engine intake air amount with a cylinder intake air amount that represents an amount of air sucked into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine from the intake pipe, based on a pressure ratio between the intake manifold pressure and the exhaust manifold pressure, the rotational speed, and the actuation state of the intake valve and the exhaust valve of the internal combustion engine; and
a cylinder intake air amount calculator configured to calculate the cylinder intake air amount based on the engine intake air amount and the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient,
wherein the control device is configured to perform fuel control and ignition control of the internal combustion engine based on the cylinder intake air amount that is calculated by using the engine intake air amount and the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient.

2. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator has a first map in which a relationship of the rotational speed and the pressure ratio with respect to the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient is stored, and
wherein the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator calculates the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient based on the first map.

3. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator has, in association with the actuation state of at least one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve, a plurality of maps, in each of which the relationship of the rotational speed and the pressure ratio with respect to the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient is stored.

4. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator has a second map in which a relationship of the rotational speed and the pressure ratio in a reference actuation state of at least one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve with respect to the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient is stored, and
wherein the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient calculator corrects the volumetric efficiency correction coefficient stored in the second map based on a deviation between the reference actuation state and a most recent actuation state of at least one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve.

5. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the exhaust manifold pressure calculator has a map in which a relationship between an exhaust gas flow rate and an atmospheric pressure-pressure ratio being a pressure ratio between the exhaust manifold pressure and an atmospheric pressure is stored, and
wherein the exhaust manifold pressure calculator calculates the exhaust manifold pressure based on the map.

6. The control device for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein a supercharger is mounted to the internal combustion engine, and
wherein the exhaust manifold pressure calculator calculates an upstream-of-turbine pressure being a pressure on an upstream side of a turbine of the supercharger, and sets the upstream-of-turbine pressure as the exhaust manifold pressure.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Watanuki Takuo

Classifications

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title

• F02D2200/0402

  the parameter being determined by using a model of the engine intake or its components · CPC title

• Y02T10/40

  Engine management systems · CPC title

• F02D23/00 Primary

  Controlling engines characterised by their being supercharged · CPC title

• F02D13/0215 Primary

  changing the valve timing only · CPC title