Combustion abnormality detecting device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11118526-B2
Application number	US-202016810857-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2020
Priority date	Mar 27, 2019
Publication date	Sep 14, 2021
Grant date	Sep 14, 2021

Abstract

The disclosure provides a combustion abnormality detecting device, a combustion abnormality detecting method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a misfire detection accuracy is increased by increasing a piezoelectric detection accuracy. A charge amplifier (210) outputting a voltage signal corresponding to a charge generated by a piezoelectric element (35) in response to a received pressure, a drift component extracting part (230) extracting a drift component of the piezoelectric element (35), a drift correcting part (250) generating a correction signal for removing the drift component based on the extracted drift component and feeding back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier (210), and a misfire detecting part (400) performing misfire detection based on the correction signal are included.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A combustion abnormality detecting device, detecting an occurrence of a combustion abnormality of an internal combustion engine based on a signal obtained by performing a signal processing with respect to an output signal of a pressure sensor comprising a piezoelectric element generating a charge responsive to a received pressure, the combustion abnormality detecting device comprising:
a charge amplifier, outputting a voltage signal corresponding to the charge;
a drift component extracting part, extracting a drift component of the piezoelectric element based on the voltage signal;
a drift correcting part, generating a correction signal for removing the extracted drift component and feeding back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier; and
a combustion abnormality detecting part, detecting that the combustion abnormality occurs based on the correction signal.

2. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the combustion abnormality detecting part detects an occurrence of a misfire as the combustion abnormality based on a variation of a value of the correction signal.

3. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 2 ,
wherein the combustion abnormality detecting part detects the occurrence of the misfire based on a variation amount of the value of the correction signal in a negative direction and a first misfire occurrence reference value set in advance.

4. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 2 ,
wherein the combustion abnormality detecting part detects the occurrence of the misfire based on a temporal variation rate of the value of the correction signal and a second misfire occurrence reference value set in advance.

5. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a resistance value of the piezoelectric element has a negative temperature property.

6. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a material of the piezoelectric element is zinc oxide.

7. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the drift component extracting part comprises:
a differential processing part, performing a differential process with respect to the voltage signal; and
a low-pass filter, extracting a low frequency band component of a signal subjected to the differential process.

8. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the drift correcting part comprises a registering part associating a current value of the correction signal to be fed back in the drift component with each of a plurality of values which the drift component is able to obtain and registering the current value, obtains the current value associated with the extracted drift component by referring to registered contents of the registering part, and feeds back a current signal to the input side of the charge amplifier, wherein the current signal is equivalent to the obtained current value and regarded as the correction signal, and
wherein the combustion abnormality detecting part detects the occurrence of the misfire based on the current signal.

9. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a temperature estimating part estimating a temperature inside the internal combustion engine based on the correction signal.

10. A combustion abnormality detecting device, detecting an occurrence of a combustion abnormality of an internal combustion engine based on a signal obtained by performing a signal processing with respect to an output signal of a pressure sensor comprising a piezoelectric element generating a charge responsive to a received pressure, the combustion abnormality detecting device comprising:
a charge amplifier, outputting a voltage signal corresponding to the charge;
a drift component extracting part, extracting a drift component of the piezoelectric element based on the voltage signal;
a drift correcting part, generating a correction signal for removing the extracted drift component and feeding back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier; and
a combustion abnormality detecting part, detecting that the combustion abnormality occurs based on a signal generated based on the extracted drift component and serving for generating the correction signal.

11. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 10 ,
wherein the combustion abnormality detecting part detects an occurrence of a misfire as the combustion abnormality based on a variation of a value of the signal generated based on the extracted drift component.

12. The combustion abnormality detecting device as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising a temperature estimating part estimating a temperature inside the internal combustion engine based on the signal generated based on the extracted drift component.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for realizing, in a combustion abnormality detecting device detecting an occurrence of a combustion abnormality of an internal combustion engine based on a signal obtained by performing a signal processing with respect to an output signal of a pressure sensor comprising a piezoelectric element generating a charge responsive to a received pressure, an extracting function, a correcting function and a detecting function,
wherein the extraction function extracts a drift component of the piezoelectric element based on a voltage signal corresponding to the charge from a charge amplifier outputting the voltage signal, the correcting function generates a correction signal for removing the extracted drift component and feeds back the correction signal to an input side of the charge amplifier, and the detecting function detects the combustion abnormality based on the correction signal.

Assignees

• Mikuni Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Fujisaki Satoru
• Fukui Katsuhiko

Classifications

• G01D21/02

  Measuring two or more variables by means not covered by a single other subclass · CPC title

• F02D41/22 Primary

  Safety or indicating devices for abnormal conditions {(in air/fuel ratio feedback systems F02D41/1495, in electric control linkage F02D11/107, in purge control systems F02M25/0809)} · CPC title

• F02D2200/1015

  Engines misfires · CPC title

• F02D2200/022

  Estimation of engine temperature · CPC title

• F02D41/1498

  measuring engine roughness · CPC title