Engine system control apparatus and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9771858-B2
Application number	US-201514945217-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2015
Priority date	Nov 28, 2014
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

An engine system is mounted on a vehicle and includes an engine and a turbocharger. The engine system control apparatus includes: a driving state identifier that identifies a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states; a surge determiner that determines whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and a variable nozzle controller that controls, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of a variable nozzle of the turbocharger to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine system control apparatus of an engine system, the engine system being mounted on a vehicle and including an engine and a turbocharger, the engine including a combustion chamber, the turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, the engine system control apparatus comprising:
a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;
a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and
a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied,
wherein the plurality of driving states of the vehicle include at least one vehicle stop state where the vehicle is stopped and at least one vehicle running state where the vehicle is running.

2. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the driving states of the vehicle further include input values for a pressure of an intake manifold that is in communication with the combustion chamber, and input values for a fuel injection amount change rate of an injector that injects a fuel into the combustion chamber, and
the surge determiner determines that the surge condition is satisfied, when the pressure of the intake manifold is equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure and the fuel injection amount change rate of the injector is equal to or greater than a predetermined change rate.

3. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined pressure has mutually-different values that are set according to a number of revolutions of the engine.

4. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.

5. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.

6. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and
the predetermined value has mutually-different values that are set according to the respective driving states of the vehicle.

7. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and
a predetermined value for the at least one vehicle running state is set so as to make it difficult to satisfy the surge condition, compared to a predetermined value for the at least one vehicle stop state.

8. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one vehicle stop state comprises a revving of the engine.

9. A vehicle, comprising:
an engine system; and
an engine system control apparatus of the engine system,
the engine system including:
an engine including a combustion chamber; and
a turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, and
the engine system control apparatus including:
a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;
a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and
a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied.

10. An engine system control apparatus of an engine system, the engine system being mounted on a vehicle and including an engine and a turbocharger, the engine including a combustion chamber, the turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, the engine system control apparatus comprising:
a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;
a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and
a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied,
wherein the plurality of driving states of the vehicle at least include a shift-changing state and a coast state.

11. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein
the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and
the predetermined value has mutually-different values that are set according to the respective driving states of the vehicle.

12. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein
the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition satisfied, and
a predetermined value for the coast state is set so as to make it difficult to satisfy the surge condition, compared to a predetermined value for the shift-changing state.

13. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the driving states of the vehicle further include a driving state in which there is a revving of the engine.

14. The engine system control apparatus ac

Assignees

• Fuji Heavy Ind Ltd
• Subaru Corp

Inventors

• Masuma Tetsuro
• Watanabe Tazuki
• Kato Hiroshi

Classifications

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title

• F02D41/021

  Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine (conjoint control of vehicle sub-units for propelling the vehicle B60W30/18) · CPC title

• F02D41/3005

  Details not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• F02M26/05

  High pressure loops, i.e. wherein recirculated exhaust gas is taken out from the exhaust system upstream of the turbine and reintroduced into the intake system downstream of the compressor · CPC title

• F02D2200/0406

  Intake manifold pressure · CPC title