Internal combustion engine control device

• US 10,087,863 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2015
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Keihin Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichihashi, Satoshi, Yonemaru, Tomomi, Takanohashi, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Moulis, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bailey, John
• Application Number:
  US15/537,959
• Publication Number:
  US 20180038299A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 123435, 12340629, 123673, 123679, 123691, 123686, 12340621, 12340626-40634, 12340637-40639, 12340641-40645, 73 3501, 180229, 374144
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/02 for driving cycles
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/021 Engine temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/1002 Output torque
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/025 by determining temperatures inside the cylinder, e.g. combustion temperatures
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 37/02 one of the functions being ignition
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1441 Plural sensors
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/2474 Characteristics of sensors
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/152 dependent on pinking detecting or indicating knocks in internal-combustion engines G01L23/22
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/1522 with particular means concerning an individual cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

To provide an internal combustion engine control device (100) in which a control unit (107b) controls an operating condition of an internal combustion engine (1) based on a difference ΔTCC between a first temperature TCC corresponding to the temperature of a first portion in a wall defining a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine (1), and a second temperature TE corresponding to the temperature of a second portion on an outer wall surface side than the first portion in the wall.

Claims

1. An internal combustion engine control device comprising a control unit that controls an operating condition of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle equipped with the internal combustion engine and a temperature sensor that detects temperature information of the internal combustion engine, by using a temperature of the internal combustion engine calculated based on the temperature information,

wherein the control unit controls the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on a first temperature and a second temperature,

wherein the first temperature is calculated based on temperature information detected by a first temperature sensor element attached to the internal combustion engine so as to be exposed to a combustion chamber, via a recess that is depressed from an inner wall surface of a wall defining the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and opens to the inner wall surface, with the first temperature sensor being accommodated in a case of the temperature sensor, as a structural element of the temperature sensor,

and wherein the second temperature is calculated based on temperature information detected by a second temperature sensor element disposed on a side of an outer wall surface of the wall than the first sensor element in a hole axial direction of a through hole penetrating the wall into which the case is inserted toward the recess, with the second temperature sensor being accommodated in the case to be shared by the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor, as a structural element of the temperature sensor.

2. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on the first temperature corresponding to a temperature of a first portion on a side of the combustion chamber in the wall and the second temperature corresponding to a temperature of a second portion on the side of the outer wall surface side than the first portion in the wall.

3. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit derives a value based on the first temperature and the second temperature, and sets a predetermined threshold based on torque of the internal combustion engine, to control the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on the value and the predetermined threshold.

4. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 3, wherein the value is a difference or a ratio between the first temperature and the second temperature.

5. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit executes control to advance or retard a timing of ignition of the internal combustion engine according to a magnitude relation between the value and the predetermined threshold, and the predetermined threshold is a threshold corresponding to a knocking level of the internal combustion engine.

6. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit derives a value based on the first temperature and the second temperature, and sets a predetermined threshold corresponding to a timing of the ignition at which torque of the internal combustion engine becomes maximum, to control the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on the value and the predetermined threshold.

7. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 6, wherein the value is a difference or a ratio between the first temperature and the second temperature.

8. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit executes control to advance or retard a timing of ignition of the internal combustion engine according to a magnitude relation between the value and the predetermined threshold.

9. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit derives a value based on the first temperature and the second temperature, and sets a predetermined threshold corresponding to a predetermined mass combustion crank angle of the internal combustion engine, to control the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on the value and the predetermined threshold.

10. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 9, wherein the value is a difference or a ratio between the first temperature and the second temperature.

11. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 9, wherein the control unit executes control to advance or retard a timing of ignition of the internal combustion engine according to a magnitude relation between the value and the predetermined threshold.

12. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on the first temperature and the second temperature, and the first temperature is detected by the first temperature sensor element of the temperature sensor attached to an attachment portion of the internal combustion engine on a side of an intake valve, as a temperature of the wall on the side of the intake valve of the internal combustion engine.

13. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the operating condition of the internal combustion engine based on a difference between the first temperature, corresponding to a wall surface temperature of the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and the second temperature corresponding to a representative temperature of the internal combustion engine.

14. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 13, wherein the control unit controls a timing of the ignition of the air-fuel mixture based on the difference between the first temperature and the second temperature, to control the operating condition of the internal combustion engine.

15. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 13, wherein the control unit controls to advance or retard the timing of the ignition according to a magnitude relation between the difference between the first temperature and the second temperature and a predetermined threshold, and the predetermined threshold is set to include a first threshold corresponding to a knocking level of the internal combustion engine.

16. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 15, wherein the predetermined threshold is set to further include a second threshold corresponding to the timing of the ignition at which torque of the internal combustion engine becomes maximum.

17. The internal combustion engine control device according to claim 16, wherein the predetermined threshold is set to further include a third threshold corresponding to a predetermined mass combustion crank angle of the internal combustion engine.