Engine system and control method for engine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9957905-B2
Application number	US-201514626278-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2015
Priority date	Feb 26, 2014
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

An engine system includes an internal combustion engine, a forced induction device, an ejector device, a blow-by gas passage, and a controller. The ejector device has an ejector and a drive gas passage connected to an intake passage of the engine in a manner bypassing a compressor of the forced induction device. The controller is adapted to execute a temperature raising control when the controller determines that condensate water is likely to freeze in the ejector device. In the temperature raising control, the controller raises intake air pressure in a downstream portion of the intake passage with respect to the compressor compared to when the controller determines that the condensate water is unlikely to freeze and adjusts an intake air amount of the engine to restrain increase of the intake air amount that would be caused by increase in the intake air pressure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine system comprising:
an internal combustion engine;
a forced induction device having a compressor arranged in an intake passage of the engine, the compressor pressurizes and delivers intake air;
an ejector device including: a drive gas passage connected to the intake passage in a manner bypassing the compressor, and an ejector arranged in the drive gas passage;
a blow-by gas passage communicating between an interior of a crankcase of the engine and an interior of the ejector; and
a controller configured to execute a temperature raising control by:
determining whether condensate water is likely to freeze in the ejector device based on one of: an outside air temperature around the engine, an intake air temperature in the intake passage, or a gas temperature in the ejector device;
in response to determining that the condensate water is likely to freeze, increasing intake air pressure in a downstream portion of the intake passage with respect to the compressor; and
adjusting an intake air amount of the engine that limits increase of the intake air amount caused by the increase in the intake air pressure in the downstream portion of the intake passage.

2. The engine system according to claim 1 , further comprising an intercooler that is arranged in the downstream portion of the intake passage with respect to the compressor to cool the intake air, the drive gas passage is connected to a downstream portion of the intake passage with respect to the intercooler.

3. The engine system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the forced induction device is an exhaust-driven forced induction device having an exhaust turbine arranged in an exhaust passage of the engine,
the engine system further comprising: (i) a bypass passage connected to the exhaust passage in a manner bypassing the exhaust turbine, and (ii) a wastegate valve arranged in the bypass passage, and
wherein the controller increases the intake air pressure in the downstream portion of the intake passage by decreasing an opening degree of the wastegate valve.

4. The engine system according to claim 1 , wherein, in response to determining that the condensate water is likely to freeze and the intake air pressure is higher than or equal to a predetermined reference pressure, the controller executes the temperature raising control.

5. A control method for an engine system, the engine system including an internal combustion engine, a forced induction device having a compressor arranged in an intake passage of the engine, an ejector device having a drive gas passage connected to the intake passage in a manner bypassing the compressor and an ejector arranged in the drive gas passage, and a blow-by gas passage communicating between an interior of a crankcase of the engine and an interior of the ejector, the method comprising:
determining whether condensate water is likely to freeze in the ejector device based on one of: an outside air temperature around the engine, an intake air temperature in the intake passage, or a gas temperature in the ejector device; and
in response to determining that the condensate water is likely to freeze, executing a temperature raising control including:
increasing an intake air pressure in a downstream portion of the intake passage with respect to the compressor; and
adjusting an intake air amount of the engine that limits increase of the intake air amount caused by the increase in the intake air pressure in the downstream portion of the intake passage.

6. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
determining whether the intake air pressure is higher than or equal to a predetermined reference pressure, and
in response to determining that the condensate water is likely to freeze and the intake air pressure is higher than or equal to the reference pressure, executing the temperature raising control.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Makihara Masaki

Classifications

• F02B37/183

  Arrangements of bypass valves or actuators therefor · CPC title

• F02D41/0007 Primary

  for control of turbo-charged or super-charged engines (control of the pumps per se F02B37/12) · CPC title

• F02D41/0025

  Controlling engines characterised by use of non-liquid fuels, pluralities of fuels, or non-fuel substances added to the combustible mixtures · CPC title

• F01M13/028

  of positive pressure · CPC title

• F01M2013/026

  with pumps sucking air or blow-by gases from the crankcase · CPC title