Control Device for Internal Combustion Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024229731-A1
Application number	US-202218562060-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 2, 2022
Priority date	Jun 17, 2021
Publication date	Jul 11, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of realizing an operation of the internal combustion engine in a state in which a dilution is close to a limit. A processor (CPU 23 a ) of a control device for an internal combustion engine calculates a change amount of a parameter (for example, a combustion center position) indicating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine (combustion center change amount calculation unit 32 ). The processor (CPU 23 a ) corrects an operation amount of an actuator (for example, an EGR valve) that adjusts a dilution of an air-fuel mixture according to a difference between the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state and a target value of the change amount, and brings the change amount close to the target value (actuator operation amount correction unit 33 ).

First claim

1 . A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising a processor configured to:
calculate a change amount of a parameter indicating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine, and correct an operation amount of an actuator that adjusts a dilution of an air-fuel mixture according to a difference between the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state and a target value of the change amount, and bring the change amount close to the target value.

2 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the actuator is an EGR valve, and the processor is configured to
increase an opening of the EGR valve as the difference increases in a case where the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state is less than the target value, and
decrease the opening of the EGR valve as the difference increases in a case where the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state is more than the target value.

3 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to advance an ignition timing in a case where the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state is more than the target value.

4 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 3 , wherein the processor is configured to increase discharge energy generated in an ignition device in a case where the change amount does not decrease after the ignition timing is advanced.

5 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 2 , wherein
the parameter indicating the combustion state is an average value of combustion center positions, and the processor is configured to advance an ignition timing in a case where the average value of the combustion center positions is out of a predetermined range.

6 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured to increase discharge energy generated in an ignition device in a case where the average value of the combustion center position is within the predetermined range and the change amount of the parameter indicating the combustion state is more than the target value.

7 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the parameter indicating the combustion state is
an index having a correlation with a combustion ratio of the air-fuel mixture,
a crank angle at which the combustion ratio of the air-fuel mixture takes a predetermined value,
a maximum value of an in-cylinder pressure, or
a crank angle at which the in-cylinder pressure is maximum.

8 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the parameter indicating the combustion state is a combustion center position, and the processor is configured to
estimate an in-cylinder pressure of the internal combustion engine based on a crank angular velocity at a first timing after an ignition timing and a crank angular velocity at a second timing before an exhaust valve is opened, and estimate the combustion center position by using the estimated in-cylinder pressure, or
estimate the combustion center position by using an in-cylinder pressure detected by a sensor.

9 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to correct the operation amount of the actuator in a case where an intake system state is a steady state, a traveling state is a constant speed state, or the traveling state is a constant acceleration state.

10 . The control device for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the change amount is a deviation indicating a difference from a reference value, and the reference value is a value of the parameter indicating the combustion state in a previous combustion cycle.

Assignees

• Hitachi Astemo Ltd

Inventors

• ORYOJI Kazuhiro
• Akagi Yoshihiko

Classifications

• F02P5/1502

  using one central computing unit · CPC title

• F02D2200/024

  Fluid pressure of lubricating oil or working fluid · CPC title

• F02D41/009

  using means for generating position or synchronisation signals · CPC title

• F02P9/002

  Control of spark intensity, intensifying, lengthening, suppression (by means of current control in the storage devices F02P3/05, F02P3/09, during starting F02P15/12) · CPC title

• F02D37/02

  one of the functions being ignition · CPC title