Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9759144-B2
Application number	US-201415027847-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2014
Priority date	Oct 9, 2013
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

Provided is an engine which is provided with an EGR device, wherein: an actual intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 1 of an intake-gas pressure P 1 to an exhaust-gas pressure P 2 is calculated from the detected exhaust-gas pressure P 2 and the detected intake-gas pressure P 1 ; an estimated intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 2 of the intake-gas pressure P 1 to the exhaust-gas pressure P 2 is calculated from an engine rotational frequency N, and a fuel injection amount F; and, in cases when the actual intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 1 is less than a prescribed value π 0 , an EGR gas weight Megr is calculated based on the actual intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 1 , and in cases when the actual intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 1 is equal to or more than the prescribed value π 0 , the EGR gas weight Megr is calculated based on the estimated intake/exhaust gas pressure ratio π 2.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine comprising an EGR device which flows back a part of exhaust gas to intake air as EGR gas,
characterized in that
an actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio of intake pressure concerning exhaust pressure is calculated from detected exhaust pressure P 2 and detected intake pressure P 1 ,
an estimated intake/exhaust pressure ratio of the intake pressure concerning the exhaust pressure is calculated from an engine rotation speed and a fuel injection amount, and
an EGR gas weight is calculated based on the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is less than a predetermined value, and the EGR gas weight is calculated based on the estimated intake/exhaust pressure ratio when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is not less than the predetermined value.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of effective passage sectional area maps calculating an effective passage sectional area of the EGR device from an opening degree of an EGR valve restricting a flow rate of the EGR gas and a differential pressure of the exhaust pressure and the intake pressure,
wherein the EGR gas weight is calculated from an effective passage sectional area map selected based on the engine rotation speed and the fuel injection amount.

3. The engine according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of effective passage sectional area maps calculating an effective passage sectional area of the EGR device from an opening degree of an EGR valve restricting a flow rate of the EGR gas and a differential pressure of the exhaust pressure and the intake pressure,
wherein the EGR gas weight is calculated from an effective passage sectional area map selected based on the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio and the exhaust pressure when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is less than the predetermined value, and
wherein the EGR gas weight is calculated from an effective passage sectional area map selected based on the estimated intake/exhaust pressure ratio and the exhaust pressure when the actual intake/exhaust pressure ratio is not less than the predetermined value.

Assignees

• Yanmar Co Ltd

Inventors

• Iwase Atsuhito
• Amari Yusuke

Classifications

• F02D2250/34

  Control of exhaust back pressure, e.g. for turbocharged engines · CPC title

• F02D41/145

  with determination means using an estimation · CPC title

• F02D41/0052 Primary

  Feedback control of engine parameters, e.g. for control of air/fuel ratio or intake air amount · CPC title

• F02M26/47 Primary

  the characteristics being temperatures, pressures or flow rates · CPC title

• F02D41/0072 Primary

  Estimating, calculating or determining the EGR rate, amount or flow (sensors in EGR systems F02M26/45) · CPC title