Control apparatus for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9759153-B2
Application number	US-201615085668-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2016
Priority date	Apr 14, 2015
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

In a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, a vapor concentration learned value learned as a concentration of fuel in purge gas is reflected in an injection amount command value used for fuel injection amount control. An electronic control unit changes a reflection mode of reflecting the vapor concentration learned value in the injection amount command value depending on a pattern of switching an inlet through which the purge gas flows into an intake passage, between a first inlet and a second inlet upstream of the first inlet, and executes the reflection in the changed reflection mode during a period from a start of an intake of intermediate gas into a cylinder to completion of the intake of the intermediate gas. The intermediate gas is present in a portion of the intake passage between the first inlet and the second inlet when switching of the inlet is performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine configured such that vaporized fuel generated in a fuel tank flows, together with air, into an intake passage as purge gas through a vaporized fuel processing device, and the control apparatus configured to reflect a vapor concentration learned value learned as a concentration of fuel in the purge gas, in an injection amount command value used for fuel injection amount control for the internal combustion engine, the control apparatus comprising:
a switching unit configured to switch an inlet through which the purge gas flows into the intake passage, between a first inlet and a second inlet, the second inlet being provided upstream of the first inlet in the intake passage; and
an electronic control unit configured to change a reflection mode of reflecting the vapor concentration learned value in the injection amount command value depending on a pattern in which the inlet is switched by the switching unit, and the electronic control unit configured to reflect the vapor concentration learned value in the injection amount command value in the changed reflection mode, during a period from a start of an intake of gas into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine to completion of the intake of the gas into the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the gas being gas present in a portion of the intake passage, the portion being between the first inlet and the second inlet, when switching of the inlet through which the purge gas flows into the intake passage is performed by the switching unit.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to reflect, when the inlet through which the purge gas flows into the intake passage is switched from the first inlet to the second inlet by the switching unit, the vapor concentration learned value that is made lower than the vapor concentration learned value at a time of switching the inlet, in the injection amount command value, during the period from the start of the intake of the gas into the cylinder of the internal combustion engine to the completion of the intake of the gas into the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the gas being the gas present in the portion of the intake passage, the portion being between the first inlet and the second inlet, when the switching of the inlet is performed.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to reflect, when the inlet through which the purge gas flows into the intake passage is switched from the second inlet to the first inlet by the switching unit, the vapor concentration learned value that is made higher than the vapor concentration learned value at a time of switching the inlet, in the injection amount command value, during the period from the start of the intake of the gas into the cylinder of the internal combustion engine to the completion of the intake of the gas into the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the gas being the gas present in the portion of the intake passage, the portion being between the first inlet and the second inlet, when the switching of the inlet is performed.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Akita Tatsuhiko

Classifications

• F02D41/3064 Primary

  with special control during transition between modes · CPC title

• F02B37/00

  Engines characterised by provision of pumps driven at least for part of the time by exhaust · CPC title

• F02D41/2445

  characterised by a plurality of learning conditions or ranges · CPC title

• F02D41/1454

  the characteristics being an oxygen content or concentration or the air-fuel ratio · CPC title

• F02D41/0002

  Controlling intake air · CPC title