Control device for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9964018-B2
Application number	US-201615282536-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2016
Priority date	Oct 1, 2015
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

When both a position sensor and a motor malfunction, an ECU limits the engine rotation speed to such a speed range that the pressure inside a circulation route remains at or below a predetermined value even when the opening degree of a control valve is a minimum opening degree. When the position sensor is malfunction but the motor is not malfunction, the ECU relaxes the limits on the engine rotation speed, compared with when both the position sensor and the motor are malfunction, by driving the motor to an end of a motion range thereof and increasing the opening degree of the control valve to an opening degree larger than the minimum opening degree.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including an output shaft and a cooling system, the cooling system including:
a circulation route through which coolant circulates; a pump; and a control valve,
the pump and the control valve being disposed on the circulation route,
the pump being configured to be driven by the output shaft,
the control valve including a housing, a valve body housed in the housing, and an opening degree detector, the valve body being configured, to be rotated by a motor to adjust the opening degree, the opening degree detector being configured to detect the opening degree of the valve body,
the control device comprising
an electronic control unit configured to control the motor, control a rotation speed of the output shaft, detect malfunction, in the motor, and detect malfunction in the opening degree detector;
the electronic control unit being configured to, when both malfunction in the opening degree detector and malfunction in the motor are detected by the electronic control unit, limit the rotation speed of the output shaft to a speed range in which a pressure inside the circulation route remains equal to or lower than a predetermined value and the opening degree of the valve body is a minimum opening degree, and
the electronic control unit being configured to, when the malfunction in the opening degree detector is detected and no malfunction in the motor is detected by the electronic control unit, relax the limits on the rotation speed of the output shaft, compared with the limits when both the malfunction in the opening degree detector and the malfunction in the motor are detected by the electronic control unit, and drive the motor to an end of a motion range of the motor and fix the opening degree of the valve body at a stopper opening degree, the stopper opening degree being larger than the minimum opening degree.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to, when the malfunction in the motor is detected but no malfunction in the opening degree detector is detected by the electronic control unit, limit the rotation speed of the output shaft to the speed range in which the pressure inside the circulation route remains equal to or lower than the predetermined value when the opening degree of the valve body is an opening degree detected by the opening degree detector.

3. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the stopper opening degree is set to be a maximum value of the opening degree of the valve body.

4. A control method for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including an output shaft and a cooling system,
the cooling system including a circulation route through which coolant circulates, a pump, and a control valve, the pump and the control valve being disposed on the circulation route,
the pump being configured to be driven by the output shaft,
the control valve including a housing, a valve body housed in the housing, and an opening degree detector, the valve body being configured to be rotated by a motor to adjust the opening degree, the opening degree detector being configured to detect the opening degree of the valve body, the control method comprising:
when both malfunction in the opening degree detector and malfunction in the motor are detected, limiting a rotation speed of the output shaft to a speed range is which a pressure inside the circulation route remains equal to or lower than a predetermined value and the opening degree of the valve body is a minimum opening degree; and
when malfunction in the opening degree detector is detected and no malfunction in the motor is detected, relaxing the limits on the rotation speed of the output shaft, compared with the limits when both the malfunction in the opening degree detector and the malfunction in the motor are detected, and driving the motor to an end of a motion range of the motor and fixing the opening degree of the valve body at a stopper opening degree, the stopper opening degree being larger than the minimum opening degree.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kaneko Rihito
• Takagi Noboru
• Takagi Isao
• Onoda Hidetoshi

Classifications

• F02D41/221

  relating to the failure of actuators or electrically driven elements · CPC title

• F01P2007/146

  using valves · CPC title

• F01P5/12

  Pump-driving arrangements · CPC title

• F01P7/14 Primary

  the coolant being liquid · CPC title

• F01P11/16 Primary

  concerning coolant temperature (F01P11/20 takes precedence) · CPC title