Blow-by gas leak diagnostic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11401844-B2
Application number	US-202117560258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 23, 2021
Priority date	Dec 28, 2020
Publication date	Aug 2, 2022
Grant date	Aug 2, 2022

Abstract

A blow-by gas leak diagnostic device includes a first PCV flow path, a second PCV flow path, a fresh air inlet, a pressure measurement unit, a first valve that opens and closes the first PCV flow path, a second valve that opens and closes the second PCV flow path, a third valve that opens and closes the fresh air inlet, a valve control unit, and a leak diagnosis unit. The valve control unit controls an opening degree of the third valve when a downstream side of an intake manifold with respect to a throttle valve has a negative pressure, and the second valve is in a closed state. The leak diagnosis unit diagnoses presence or absence of a leak in the first PCV flow path on the basis of an inner pressure of the first PCV flow path measured by the pressure measurement unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A blow-by gas leak diagnostic device which include
a first PCV flow path that allows a crankcase of an engine to communicate with a downstream side of an intake manifold of the engine with respect to a throttle valve,
a second PCV flow path that allows the crankcase of the engine to communicate with an upstream side of the intake manifold with respect to the throttle valve, and
a fresh air inlet that allows the crankcase of the engine to communicate with the upstream side of the intake manifold with respect to the throttle valve, and
diagnoses a leak in the first PCV flow path, the blow-by gas leak diagnostic device comprising:
a pressure measurement unit that measures an inner pressure of the first PCV flow path;
a first valve that opens and closes the first PCV flow path;
a second valve that opens and closes the second PCV flow path;
a third valve that opens and closes the fresh air inlet;
a valve control unit that controls an opening degree of the third valve; and
a leak diagnosis unit that diagnoses the leak in the first PCV flow path,
wherein the valve control unit controls the opening degree of the third valve when the downstream side of the intake manifold with respect to the throttle valve has a negative pressure, and the second valve is in a closed state, and
the leak diagnosis unit diagnoses presence or absence of the leak in the first PCV flow path on a basis of the pressure measured by the pressure measurement unit.

2. The blow-by gas leak diagnostic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first valve and the second valve are one-way discharge valves, and
the third valve is an electromagnetic valve.

3. The blow-by gas leak diagnostic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the leak diagnosis unit
measures a first inner pressure of the engine when the third valve is in an open state and measures a second inner pressure of the engine when the third valve is in a closed state, and
calculates a differential pressure between the first inner pressure and the second inner pressure after each measurement and diagnoses that a leak occurs in the first PCV flow path in a case where the differential pressure is not equal to or more than a threshold.

Assignees

• Nidec Tosok Corp

Inventors

• Komaki Chikao
• Ito Ryota

Classifications

• F01M2250/60

  Operating parameters · CPC title

• F02M25/06 Primary

  adding lubricant vapours · CPC title

• F01M2013/0083

  Crankcase pressure · CPC title

• F01M2013/0044

  with one or more valves · CPC title

• F01M13/028

  of positive pressure · CPC title