Internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9587597-B2
Application number	US-201414895765-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2014
Priority date	Jun 5, 2013
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

In the present invention, an internal combustion engine is provided with an in-cylinder fuel injection valve and a secondary air supply device and is formed so as to make possible first catalyst warming control and second catalyst warming control that promote the raising of the temperature of an exhaust gas purification catalyst. The first catalyst warming control comprises control to inject fuel from the in-cylinder fuel injection valve during the compression stroke to form a stratified state, and control to greatly delay ignition timing. The second catalyst warming control comprises control to supply secondary air to an engine exhaust gas passage. The internal combustion engine executes the first catalyst warming control after startup and, after the first catalyst warming control is executed, carries out control (third catalyst warming control) to execute the first catalyst warming control and the second catalyst warming control simultaneously.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An internal combustion engine comprising:
an in-cylinder fuel injector which injects fuel to an inside of a combustion chamber;
an exhaust purification catalyst which is arranged in an engine exhaust passage;
a secondary air feed device which feeds air at an upstream side of the exhaust purification catalyst in the engine exhaust passage;
a control device which controls the in-cylinder fuel injector and the secondary air feed device; and
an ignition device which ignites an air-fuel mixture of the fuel and air in the combustion chamber; wherein
the control device including an electronic control unit having a microprocessor, memory, and at least one input and output port, the control device configured to:
perform a first catalyst warm-up control and a second catalyst warm-up control which promote a temperature rise of the exhaust purification catalyst,
the first catalyst warm-up control includes control which injects fuel from the in-cylinder fuel injector in a compression stroke to form a high concentration region where a concentration of fuel at part of the combustion chamber rises and a low concentration region where the concentration of the fuel is lower than the high concentration region, and control which retards an ignition timing to make a temperature of an exhaust gas which flows out from the combustion chamber rise,
the second catalyst warm-up control includes control which feeds air into the engine exhaust passage to make components which are contained in the exhaust gas oxidize to make the temperature of the exhaust gas rise,
the control device performs the first catalyst warm-up control after start-up of the internal combustion engine in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control and performs control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control after performing the first catalyst warm-up control,
the control device performs the first catalyst warm-up control in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control is a control which forms a first stratified state where the air-fuel ratio of the combustion chamber as a whole becomes lean and where the air-fuel ratio of the high concentration region becomes rich, and
the control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control is a control which forms a second stratified state where the air-fuel ratio of the combustion chamber as a whole becomes rich at the time of ignition and where a stratification degree is weaker than the first stratified state.

2. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , further comprising an operating angle changing mechanism which changes an operating angle of an intake valve, wherein the control device switches from the control which performs the first catalyst warm-up control in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control to the control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control and to make the operating angle of the intake valve decrease.

3. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the control device switches from the control which performs the first catalyst warm-up control in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control to the control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control in the time period during which a load after start-up of the internal combustion engine is constant.

4. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the control device performs control which switches from the control which performs the first catalyst warm-up control in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control to the control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control and which makes an amount of fuel which is injected from the in-cylinder fuel injector in the compression stroke decrease.

5. The internal combustion engine according to claim 4 , further comprising an injection pressure changing device which changes an injection pressure of the in-cylinder fuel injector, wherein the control device performs control which makes the injection pressure of the in-cylinder fuel injector decrease so as to make an amount of fuel which is injected from the in-cylinder fuel injector in the compression stroke decrease.

6. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the control device makes an injection timing of the in-cylinder fuel injector in the compression stroke advance when switching from the control which performs the first catalyst warm-up control in the state not performing the second catalyst warm-up control to the control for simultaneously performing the first catalyst warm-up control and the second catalyst warm-up control.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kaneko Naoya
• Mitani Shinichi
• Uchida Daisuke

Classifications

• F02D41/0255

  to accelerate the warming-up of the exhaust gas treating apparatus at engine start · CPC title

• F02D41/3023

  a mode being the stratified charge spark-ignited mode · CPC title

• F02B2023/106

  Tumble flow, i.e. the axis of rotation of the main charge flow motion is horizontal · CPC title

• F02D41/024

  to increase temperature of the exhaust gas treating apparatus · CPC title

• F02B23/104

  the injector being placed on a side position of the cylinder · CPC title