Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11739684-B2
Application number	US-202217961246-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2022
Priority date	Jul 12, 2016
Publication date	Aug 29, 2023
Grant date	Aug 29, 2023

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;
a turbocharger configured to compress air with exhaust gas from an exhaust manifold; the exhaust manifold configured to emit exhaust gas from the cylinder;
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;
an intake bypass channel connecting an inlet of the intake manifold and an inlet of the turbocharger, the intake bypass channel provided with an intake bypass valve, wherein the engine includes at least one of the exhaust bypass channel and the intake bypass channel; and
an intake pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure of the intake manifold, wherein the engine has a configuration such that a degree of valve opening is controlled by a map control or a predetermined mathematical formula for one of the intake bypass valve and the exhaust bypass valve, and the degree of valve opening is feedback-controlled (PID control) for the other.

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 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 the engine, the control device switches from the premixed combustion mode to the diffusion combustion mode.

Assignees

• Yanmar Power Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Murakami Taishi
• Doui Masayoshi

Classifications

• F02B43/02 Primary

  Engines characterised by means for increasing operating efficiency · CPC title

• F02B37/18

  by bypassing exhaust {from the inlet to the outlet of turbine or to the atmosphere} · CPC title

• F02B43/04

  for improving efficiency of combustion · CPC title

• F02D19/02

  peculiar to engines working with gaseous fuels · CPC title

• F02D19/06

  peculiar to engines working with pluralities of fuels, e.g. alternatively with light and heavy fuel oil, other than engines indifferent to the fuel consumed · CPC title