Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11066984-B2
Application number	US-202016907563-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2020
Priority date	Jul 12, 2016
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

An engine including an exhaust bypass valve and an intake bypass valve. The exhaust bypass valve is disposed in an exhaust bypass channel connecting an outlet of an exhaust manifold and an exhaust outlet of a turbocharger to each other. The intake bypass valve is disposed in an intake bypass channel connecting an inlet of an intake manifold and an inlet of the turbocharger. An intake pressure sensor detects a pressure of the intake manifold. If an instruction value indicating an upper limit or a lower limit of the valve opening degree of the intake bypass valve is continuously output for a predetermined time or more, an engine control device determines that an abnormality occurs in at least one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine comprising:
an intake manifold configured to supply air into a cylinder;
an exhaust manifold configured to emit exhaust gas from a cylinder;
a turbocharger configured to compress air with exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold;
an exhaust bypass channel connecting an outlet of the exhaust manifold and an exhaust outlet of the turbocharger, the exhaust bypass channel having an exhaust bypass valve in the exhaust bypass channel, and an intake bypass channel connecting an inlet of the intake manifold and an inlet of the turbocharger, the intake bypass channel having an intake bypass valve in the intake bypass channel, wherein the engine has at least one of the exhaust bypass channel and the intake bypass channel;
the intake bypass channel including at least one of the intake bypass channel provided with an intake bypass valve,
an intake pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure of the intake manifold; and
a control device configured to perform feedback control by outputting an instruction value of a valve opening degree of at least one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve such that a pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor approaches a set target pressure of the intake manifold, wherein
the control device is configured to perform feedback control on one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve, and
if an instruction value indicating an upper limit or a lower limit of the valve opening degree is continuously output for a predetermined time or more with respect to the exhaust bypass valve or the intake bypass valve as a target of the feedback control, the control device is capable of determining that an abnormality occurs in one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass valve.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a gas injector configured to inject gas fuel to air supplied from the intake manifold and mix the gas fuel with the air; and
a fuel injection valve configured to inject liquid fuel to the cylinder,
wherein the engine is configured to be driven while being able to switch between a premixed combustion mode in which the gas fuel injected from the gas injector and mixed with air is caused to flow into a combustion chamber of the cylinder and a diffusion combustion mode in which combustion occurs by injection of the liquid fuel by the fuel injection valve into the combustion chamber, and during driving in the premixed combustion mode, if an abnormality occurs in one of the exhaust bypass valve and the intake bypass, the control device switches from the premixed combustion mode to the diffusion combustion mode.

Assignees

• Yanmar Power Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Murakami Taishi
• Doul Masayoshi

Classifications

• F02D2250/34

  Control of exhaust back pressure, e.g. for turbocharged engines · CPC title

• F02D41/0007

  for control of turbo-charged or super-charged engines (control of the pumps per se F02B37/12) · CPC title

• F02D19/082

  Premixed fuels, i.e. emulsions or blends · CPC title

• F02D19/024

  by controlling fuel injectors · CPC title

• F02B37/186 Primary

  Arrangements of actuators or linkage for bypass valves · CPC title