Engine combustion state detection device

• US 20050193804A1
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kokubo, Naoki
• Granted Patent: US 7,133,766 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/35.12
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/288 for performing a transformation into the frequency domain, e.g. Fourier transformation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/101 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/1012 Engine speed gradient
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/024 using an estimation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/028 by determining the combustion timing or phasing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1498 measuring engine roughness
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/046 by monitoring revolutions for detecting misfire G01M15/11

Abstract

A rotation angle sensor detects the rotation speed of a crankshaft of an engine. An ECU extracts a first frequency component synchronized with combustion cycles of the engine that is contained in a rotation speed signal obtained by the detection of the rotation angle sensor, and a second frequency component having a higher frequency than the first frequency component. It detects a combustion state by using the rotation variation amount of the first frequency component in a lower rotation range than a specified engine speed, and by using the rotation variation amount of the second frequency component in a higher rotation range.

Claims

1. A combustion state detection device for an internal combustion engine, comprising:

a rotation speed detection means for producing a rotation speed signal varying with a rotation speed of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, the rotation speed signal containing a first frequency component synchronized with combustion cycles of the internal combustion engine and a second frequency component which is higher in frequency than the first frequency component;

an extracting means for extracting the second frequency component; and

a state detecting means for detecting a combustion state of the internal combustion engine on the basis of the extracted second frequency component.

2. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means detects the combustion state on the basis of the second frequency component when a rotation speed of the engine is in a range higher than a predetermined speed.

3. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means detects the combustion state on the basis of the first frequency component when the rotation speed of the engine is in a range lower than a predetermined speed, and on the basis of the second frequency component when the rotation speed is in a range higher than the predetermined speed.

4. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a correcting means for correcting a rotation variation amount of the second frequency component on the basis of an attenuation characteristic of the second frequency component among cylinders of the engine.

5. The combustion state detection device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a calculating means for learning, by comparing a rotation variation amount of the first frequency component and a rotation variation amount of the second frequency component calculated for each cylinder, a variation among the cylinders, so that the correcting means corrects the rotation variation amount of the second frequency component by the learned variation.

6. The combustion state detection device according to claim 5, wherein the calculating means calculates the attenuation learning value for each cylinder by the first frequency component and the second frequency component only when the engine is in a specified low rotation state,

7. The combustion state detection device according to claim 4, wherein the correcting means corrects the rotation variation amount of the second frequency component for each cylinder on the basis of pre-stored cylinder-specific attenuation characteristic data of the second frequency component.

8. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the extracting means variably sets according to the engine speed an extraction frequency band for extracting the second frequency component from the rotation speed signal.

9. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the extracting means variably sets according to the engine speed an extraction frequency band for extracting the first frequency component from the rotation speed signal.

10. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means includes an estimating means for estimating combustion torque developed during combustion of the engine on the basis of the rotation variation amount of the second frequency component.

11. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means includes estimating means for estimating a cylinder pressure peak position of the engine on the basis of the second frequency component.

12. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means includes an estimating means for determining presence of knock occurrence on the basis of the second frequency component.

13. The combustion state detection device according to claim 1, wherein the state detecting means includes an estimating means for sampling rotation fluctuations of the second frequency component plural times, and determining combustion stability of the internal combustion engine on the basis of statistical processing for the sampled rotation fluctuations.