Engine control device, engine control method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12297789-B2
Application number	US-202118276421-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2021
Priority date	Feb 12, 2021
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

Provided is an engine control device for controlling an opening degree of a valve adjusting a flow rate of an air-fuel mixture of an engine, wherein the opening degree is corrected based on an exhaust temperature deviation which is a deviation between a reference value and a current value of an exhaust temperature when controlling the opening degree.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine control device for controlling an opening degree of a valve adjusting a flow rate of an air-fuel mixture of an engine,
wherein the opening degree is corrected based on an exhaust temperature deviation which is a deviation between a reference value and a current value of an exhaust temperature when controlling the opening degree,
wherein the engine control device further comprising a volumetric efficiency deterioration degree calculation unit which calculates a volumetric efficiency deterioration degree based on the exhaust temperature deviation and a load of the engine,
wherein the opening degree is corrected based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree, and
wherein the engine control device further comprising a deterioration degree holding determination unit which determines whether or not the load varies and holds the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree at a value before variation when the load varies.

2. The engine control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the opening degree of the valve is controlled so that an air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture is controlled at a predetermined value.

3. The engine control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an intake manifold pressure target correction value calculation unit which calculates an intake manifold pressure target correction value which is a correction value of a target value of a pressure of an intake manifold of the engine based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree;
an intake manifold pressure feedback control unit which calculates an air-fuel ratio target correction value which is a correction value of a target value of the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture as an operation amount of feedback control based on an intake manifold pressure deviation which is a deviation between a value obtained by correcting the target value of the intake manifold pressure by the intake manifold pressure target correction value and a current value of the intake manifold pressure;
an air-fuel mixture flow rate target value calculation unit which calculates an air-fuel mixture flow rate target value based on a value obtained by correcting the target value of the air-fuel ratio by the air-fuel ratio target correction value; and
a valve opening degree command value calculation unit which calculates an opening degree command value of the valve based on a deviation between the air-fuel mixture flow rate target value and a current value of the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture.

4. The engine control device according to claim 3 ,
wherein a current value of a flow rate of the air-fuel mixture is a value corrected based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree.

5. The engine control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an air-fuel mixture flow rate target value calculation unit which calculates an air-fuel mixture flow rate target value; and
a valve opening degree command value calculation unit which calculates an opening degree command value of the valve based on a deviation between the air-fuel mixture flow rate target value and a value obtained by correcting a current value of the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree.

6. An engine control method of controlling an opening degree of a valve adjusting a flow rate of an air-fuel mixture of an engine, comprising:
correcting the opening degree based on an exhaust temperature deviation which is a deviation between a reference value and a current value of an exhaust temperature when controlling the opening degree,
wherein the engine control method further comprising a step of calculating a volumetric efficiency deterioration degree based on the exhaust temperature deviation and a load of the engine,
wherein, in the step of correcting the opening degree, the opening degree is corrected based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree, and
wherein the engine control method further comprising a step of determining whether or not the load varies and holds the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree at a value before variation when the load varies.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program allowing a computer to execute a step of correcting an opening degree of a valve adjusting a flow rate of an air-fuel mixture of an engine based on an exhaust temperature deviation which is a deviation between a reference value and a current value of an exhaust temperature when controlling the opening degree,
wherein the program further allowing the computer to execute a step of calculating a volumetric efficiency deterioration degree based on the exhaust temperature deviation and a load of the engine,
wherein, in the step of correcting the opening degree, the opening degree is corrected based on the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree, and
wherein the program further allowing the computer to execute a step a step of determining whether or not the load varies and holds the volumetric efficiency deterioration degree at a value before variation when the load varies.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Engine & Turbocharger Ltd

Inventors

• Hashimoto Naoki
• Takayanagi Ko
• Shiraishi Masataka
• Furukawa Yuta
• Kitamura Yosuke
• Koyama Yuki

Classifications

• F02D2200/0411

  Volumetric efficiency · CPC title

• F02D2200/0406

  Intake manifold pressure · CPC title

• F02D41/1446

  the characteristics being exhaust temperatures · CPC title

• F02D41/0027

  the fuel being gaseous (non-electrical control F02D19/02) · CPC title

• F02D41/0007

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