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20080223335 | THROTTLE BODY RESTRICTION INDICATOR - A control system for a vehicle comprises a throttle control module and a diagnostic module. The throttle control module controls a position of a throttle of the vehicle and compensates for changes in effective opening area of the throttle due to coking. The diagnostic module reports a coking value to a user based upon an amount of compensation performed by the throttle control module. A method comprises controlling a position of a throttle of a vehicle; compensating for changes in effective opening area of the throttle due to coking; and reporting a coking value to a user based upon an amount of compensation performed. | 09-18-2008 |
20090101107 | Engine Controller of Hydraulic Shovel - [PROBLEMS] To easily realize an improvement in fuel economy and a reduction in noise during the operation of a hydraulic shovel while securing traveling performance. | 04-23-2009 |
20090288634 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, MOTORED VEHICLE EQUIPPED THEREWITH, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MOTOR - When a torque control value (TR) is larger than a threshold value and vehicular speed (SV) is lower than a threshold value an upper temperature limit setting unit sets the upper temperature limit of a motor generator at an upper temperature limit (TS | 11-26-2009 |
20100154741 | THROTTLE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES TO REDUCE THROTTLE OSCILLATIONS - A throttle control system includes a pressure comparison module and a throttle plate control module. The pressure comparison module determines an inlet pressure upstream from a throttle body and an outlet pressure downstream from the throttle body. The throttle plate control module controls a position of a throttle plate based on the inlet pressure and the outlet pressure. | 06-24-2010 |
20120017871 | Control System in Vehicle - A control system for controlling a driving power source in a vehicle, includes a driving state detector for detecting a driving state of the vehicle; a first determiner for determining whether or not the driving state detected by the driving state detector is a first state; a second determiner for determining whether or not the driving state detected by the driving state detector is a second state; a rotational speed limiter for executing rotational speed limiting control for limiting a driving power source rotational speed to a predetermined upper limit value or less when the first determiner determines that the driving state is the first state, during an operation of the driving power source; and a rotational speed limiting termination unit for terminating the rotational speed limiting control, when the second determiner determines that the driving state is the second state, during the operation of the driving power source. | 01-26-2012 |
20120055446 | FUEL SHORTAGE DETECTING APPARATUS FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE ENGINE - In an apparatus for detecting fuel shortage of a general-purpose internal combustion engine connectable to an operating machine to be used as a prime mover of the machine, the engine being supplied with fuel stored in a tank and having an actuator adapted to open and close a throttle valve installed in an air intake pipe so as to achieve a desired engine speed set by an operator, comprising a fuel shortage condition detector adapted to detect whether the engine is in a fuel shortage condition, and an engine stopper adapted to stop the engine when the engine is detected to be in the fuel shortage condition. With this, it becomes possible to detect whether the engine having the electronic governor is in the fuel shortage condition, thereby preventing occurrence of trouble such as afterburning. | 03-08-2012 |
20120073542 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRE-IGNITION CONTROL - Methods and systems are provided for mitigating engine pre-ignition based on a feed-forward likelihood of pre-ignition and feedback from a pre-ignition event. In response to an indication of pre-ignition, a cylinder may be enriched while an engine load is limited. The enrichment may be followed by an enleanment to restore exhaust catalyst feed-gas oxygen levels. The mitigating steps may be adjusted based on engine operating conditions, a pre-ignition count, as well as the nature of the pre-ignition. | 03-29-2012 |
20120304962 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A COMBUSTION TORQUE OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CONTROL UNIT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method for estimating a combustion torque acting upon a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is described. In one example, the method includes acquiring an instantaneous engine speed signal, calculating a cyclic engine speed signal based on the instantaneous engine speed signal, averaging the cyclic engine speed signal, correcting the averaged cyclic engine speed signal for engine losses, and estimating the combustion torque based on the corrected averaged cyclic engine speed signal. The description also concerns a control unit for an internal combustion engine. | 12-06-2012 |
20130104843 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING THROTTLE OPENING AREA BASED ON CAM PHASER POSITION TO MINIMIZE NOISE DURING ACCELERATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130180501 | ENGINE CONTROL UNIT, ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM AND ENGINE CONTROL METHOD - An engine control method includes: a step of running the engine in a forward direction by driving a motor that applies a torque to a crank of the engine in the forward direction in a case where the crank angle of the engine does not lie in the first section; a step of removing any load from the motor in a case where the crank angle of the engine lies in the first section; a step of braking the motor in a case where it is determined in the sixth step that the crank angle of the engine lies in the second section; and a step of running the engine in the forward direction by driving the motor in the forward direction in a case where it is determined that there is the request for restart of the engine. | 07-18-2013 |
20130276749 | AUTO-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH PARTIAL DEACTIVATION AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF SAID TYPE - Methods and systems are provided for improving the operation of a multi-cylinder auto-ignition internal combustion engine. By configuring the cylinders in multiple groups based on compression ratios, and operating the cylinders in a load-dependent manner, fuel consumption may be improved. | 10-24-2013 |
20130306027 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine and control device for this - A method for operating an internal combustion engine is described, in which a setpoint torque for the operation of the internal combustion engine is specified, an actual torque delivered by the internal combustion engine being ascertained as a function of a signal of at least one cylinder pressure sensor, and a comparison between a variable that is a function of the setpoint torque and the actual torque being carried out. | 11-21-2013 |
20140041625 | FIRING FRACTION MANAGEMENT IN SKIP FIRE ENGINE CONTROL - The described embodiments relate generally to skip fire control of internal combustion engines and particularly to mechanisms for determining a desired operational firing fraction. In some embodiments, a firing fraction determining unit is arranged to determine a firing fraction suitable for delivering a requested engine output. The firing fraction determining unit may utilize data structures such as lookup tables in the determination of the desired firing fraction. In one aspect the desired engine output and one or more operational power train parameters such as current engine speed, are used as indices to a lookup table used to select a desired firing fraction. In other embodiments, additional indices to the data structure may include any one of: transmission gear; manifold absolute pressure (MAP); manifold air temperature; a parameter indicative of mass air charge (MAC); cam position; cylinder torque output; maximum permissible manifold pressure; vehicle speed; and barometric pressure. | 02-13-2014 |
20140109868 | ENGINE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - This disclosure provides a system and method for controlling internal combustion engine system to reduce operation variations among plural engines. The system and method utilizes single-input-single-output (SISO) control in which a single operating parameter lever is selected from among exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) fraction and charge air mass flow (MCF), and a stored reference value associated with the selected lever is adjusted for an operating point in accordance with a difference between a measured emissions characteristic and a pre-calibrated reference value of the emissions characteristic for that operating point. Adjusting the selected operating parameter lever towards the theoretical pre-calibrated reference value of the operating parameter lever for each of plural operating points can reduce engine-to-engine variations in engine out emissions. | 04-24-2014 |
20140116379 | ACCELERATOR PEDAL REACTION FORCE CONTROL DEVICE - A reaction force control unit calculates a driver's requested output and then estimates a maximum output that can be generated by an engine in a current cylinder deactivation operation. Next, the reaction force control unit calculates a difference between the maximum output and the requested output as an output difference and then determines whether the output difference has reached a predetermined reaction force start threshold value, and if the determination result is Yes, the reaction force control unit estimates a number of to-be-reactivated cylinders on the basis of the output difference and the current cylinder deactivation operation state. Subsequently, the reaction force control unit sets a target reaction force on the basis of the output difference and the number of to-be-reactivated cylinders, and outputs drive current to a reaction force actuator. | 05-01-2014 |
20140165962 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VACUUM GENERATION - Methods and systems are provided for controlling motive flow through an ejector using a pneumatically controlled valve. A vacuum actuated valve may be opened at low vacuum conditions to increase motive flow through the ejector while the valve is closed at high vacuum conditions to decrease the motive flow. This allows motive flow through the ejector to be controlled based on vacuum needs at low component cost. | 06-19-2014 |
20140190447 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-FUEL INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present invention is intended to suppress generation of a misfire and an increase in the amount of emission of HC, in a multi-fuel internal combustion engine of compression ignition type using, as fuels, a liquid fuel which can be ignited by compression and a gas fuel which is lower in ignitability than the liquid fuel. In the invention, in the same operating state, in cases where the liquid fuel and the gas fuel are caused to combust with the liquid fuel being used as an ignition source, the equivalent ratio of a mixture in a cylinder is made to increase, in comparison with the case where only the liquid fuel is caused to combust, and the rate of the increase of the equivalent ratio with respect to the case where only the liquid fuel is caused to combust is made smaller, when an engine load is low in comparison with the time when the engine load is high, and when an engine rotational speed is low in comparison with the time when the engine rotational speed is high. | 07-10-2014 |
20140202426 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HUMIDITY DETECTION VIA AN EXHAUST GAS SENSOR - Various methods and system are described for determining ambient humidity via an exhaust gas sensor disposed in an exhaust system of a variable displacement engine. A reference voltage of a sensor coupled to an inactive engine bank is modulated between a first and second voltage to estimate ambient humidity. Concurrently, a reference voltage of a sensor coupled to an active engine bank is modulated between the first and second voltage, or at the first voltage, to estimate fuel alcohol content, or exhaust air-fuel ratio, respectively. | 07-24-2014 |
20140230785 | ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - An engine control apparatus for controlling an engine which drives a hydraulic pump to discharge operation oil, the engine control apparatus includes: a pump driving power limit unit configured to limit pump driving power, which is power used to drive the hydraulic pump, based on pressure of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump when in a state in which a part of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump is released because pressure of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump has become equal to or higher than preset relief pressure; and an engine output control unit configured to control output of the engine so that target speed, which is speed of the engine set as a target, becomes equal to or higher than a value of a point of time when limiting of the pump driving power is started. | 08-21-2014 |
20140245993 | FOUR-CYLINDER ENGINE WITH TWO DEACTIVATABLE CYLINDERS - A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes during a first operating condition, operating two primary cylinders and two secondary cylinders to perform combustion, the two primary and secondary cylinders arranged in an inline configuration, the two primary cylinder adjacent to one another, the two secondary cylinders adjacent to one another, and the secondary cylinders positioned 175°-185° out of phase relative to the two primary cylinders and during a second operating condition, selectively deactivating the two secondary cylinders to perform combustion in only the two primary cylinders. | 09-04-2014 |
20140261315 | REDUCING TURBOCHARGED ENGINE OVERHEATING - A method comprising in response to coolant loss in a turbocharged engine, deactivating one or more engine cylinders while limiting engine load of one or more active cylinders based on an engine speed, and a cylinder head temperature. | 09-18-2014 |
20140261316 | MANAGING ENGINE FIRING PATTERNS AND PATTERN TRANSITIONS DURING SKIP FIRE ENGINE OPERATION - Various methods and data structures for managing transition between different firing fractions during skip fire operation of an engine are described. In some embodiments, transitions are constrained to occur when firing sequence segments of a designated length are shared by the first and second firing fractions. In a separate aspect, a data structure that uses current firing fraction phase as a first index and a target firing fraction as a second index may be used to determine a phase of the target firing fraction to enter at a transition. Is some circumstances transitions between a current and target firing fraction may be conducted as a series of steps through intermediate firing fractions. | 09-18-2014 |
20140373810 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMBUSTION ENGINE IN ORDER TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE SWITCHING BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO MODES OF OPERATION - A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a plurality of cylinders all of which are operated in a full load engine mode and some of which are shut down in a partial load engine mode is disclosed, wherein the full load engine mode is switched to the partial load engine mode only if a partial engine operating torque which can be provided by the internal combustion engine in the partial load engine mode is greater than or equal to a target torque set on the internal combustion engine. In order to switch from the full load engine mode to the partial load engine mode, a switch variable determined on the basis of at least one specific parameter of the internal combustion engine and/or of the motor vehicle must additionally be set. | 12-25-2014 |
20150059691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AND CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF ENGINE COMPONENT - An engine system is provided. The engine system includes an ambient air pressure sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a pressure of ambient air. The engine system also includes an operational parameter sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of one or more operational parameters associated with the engine. The engine system further includes a controller communicably coupled to the ambient air pressure sensor and the operational parameter sensor. The controller is configured to receive the signal indicative of the pressure of ambient air and the signal indicative of the one or more operational parameters associated with the engine. The controller estimates the temperature of at least one of a valve, a piston, a liner, a cylinder head, and a pre-chamber of the engine as a function of the received signals and parameters associated with fuel delivery in a single fuel cycle of the engine. | 03-05-2015 |
20150075492 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INJECTING GASEOUS FUEL DURING AN EXHAUST STROKE TO REDUCE TURBO LAG - Methods and systems are provided for injecting and combusting an amount of gaseous fuel during an exhaust stroke of a cylinder combustion event in order to reduce turbo lag and reduce a duration of time required for an exhaust catalyst to light-off during transient events. In one example, when an increase in torque demand is greater than a threshold, a first amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during a compression stroke of a cylinder combustion event and a second amount of gaseous fuel may be combusted during an exhaust stroke of the combustion event. The second amount may be adjusted based on the increase in torque demand. | 03-19-2015 |
20150114346 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADJUSTING ENGINE AIRFLOW BASED ON OUTPUT FROM AN OXYGEN SENSOR - Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a throttle based on an intake oxygen sensor output. In one example, a method may include adjusting a position of a throttle based on a dilution threshold and a total aircharge dilution level, the total dilution aircharge level based on an output of an intake oxygen sensor. Additionally, spark timing may be adjusted based on the total aircharge dilution level. | 04-30-2015 |
20150354492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DUAL FUEL ENGINE SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided for accurately estimating an engine volumetric efficiency in a multi-fuel engine system operating with different fuels and different injection systems. The volumetric efficiency is revised based on the fraction of each fuel in the total fuel injection amount as well as based on the injection type for each fuel. The volumetric efficiency estimate compensates for the partial pressure effect and charge cooling effect of each fuel as well as each injection type. | 12-10-2015 |
20160047327 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOAD CONTROL DURING MISFIRE OF ENGINE - An object is to provide a method and a system of controlling a load during misfire of an engine, whereby additional stress on a crank shaft is calculated from torsional vibration of the crank shaft to obtain an output limit rate, and an operation output of an engine is controlled on the basis of the output limit rate. The method includes: a first step of calculating additional stress on a crank shaft on the basis of a vector sum of crank-shaft torsional vibration vibratory force when the misfire is detected; a second step of determining whether the calculated additional stress on the crank shaft is less than an allowable stress with respect to the crank shaft; a third step of controlling an operation output of the engine to be reduced by a predetermined amount and returning to the first step if the calculated additional stress is greater than the allowable stress and obtaining an output limit rate by calculating the additional stress on the crank shaft if it is determined that the calculated additional stress on the crank shaft is less than the allowable stress with respect to the crank shaft; and a fourth step of controlling the operation output of the engine on the basis of the output limit rate. | 02-18-2016 |