INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE

• US 20100094526A1
• Filed: 07/17/2007
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichimoto, Kazuhiro, Yamanaka, Shinji, Ando, Daigo
• Granted Patent: US 8,170,778 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/103
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/021 Engine temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 29/02 peculiar to engines driving vehicles; peculiar to engines driving variable pitch propellers
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/2454 Learning of the air-fuel ratio control
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3094 the fuel injection being effected by at least two different injectors, e.g. one in the intake manifold and one in the cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 69/046 for injecting into both the combustion chamber and the intake conduit
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0829 related to special engine control, e.g. giving priority to engine warming-up or learning
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/905 Combustion engine

Abstract

On incompletion of port learning, an auto stop-permitting water temperature is set to a temperature which is higher than a temperature set on completion of the port learning and is higher than a port injection temperature as an upper limit temperature that enables an engine to be driven in a port injection drive mode. This arrangement increases the opportunity of continuing the operation of the engine with fuel injection from a port fuel injection valve without an auto stop, thus increasing the opportunity of the port learning.

Claims

1. An internal combustion engine system including an internal combustion engine equipped with a port fuel injection valve arranged to inject a fuel into an intake port and with an in-cylinder fuel injection valve arranged to directly inject the fuel into each cylinder, the internal combustion engine system comprising:

a learning execution module configured to perform learning under fuel injection from the port fuel injection valve in a specified operation state of the internal combustion engine;

an auto stop-permitting water temperature setting module configured to, on completion of the learning, set a first temperature to an auto stop-permitting water temperature that allows an auto stop of the internal combustion engine, and on incompletion of the learning, set a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature to the auto stop-permitting water temperature;

a cooling water temperature detection unit constructed to measure temperature of cooling water in the internal combustion engine; and

an auto stop restart controller configured to automatically stop operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto stop conditions including a condition that the measured temperature of cooling water is not lower than the set auto stop-permitting water temperature and to automatically restart the operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto restart conditions in an auto stop state of the internal combustion engine.

2. The internal combustion engine system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the learning execution module performs the learning under fuel injection control of activating fuel injection from only the port fuel injection valve and inactivating fuel injection from the in-cylinder fuel injection valve.

3. The internal combustion engine system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the learning execution module performs learning with regard to an air-fuel ratio as the learning under fuel injection from the port fuel injection valve.

4. The internal combustion engine system in accordance with claim 1, the internal combustion engine system further comprising:

an engine controller configured to control the internal combustion engine to have fuel injection from only the port fuel injection valve with stop of fuel injection from the in-cylinder fuel injection valve at the measured temperature of cooling water that is not higher than a preset reference temperature,

wherein the auto stop-permitting water temperature setting module sets the second temperature to be higher than the preset reference temperature.

5. A vehicle, comprising:

an internal combustion engine equipped with a port fuel injection valve arranged to inject a fuel into an intake port and with an in-cylinder fuel injection valve arranged to directly inject the fuel into each cylinder;

a rotation speed regulator connected with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine, connected with a driveshaft, which is linked to an axle of the vehicle, such as to allow rotation of the driveshaft independently of the output shaft, and configured to regulate a relative rotation speed of the output shaft to the driveshaft with input and output of electric power and input and output of driving force from and to the output shaft and the driveshaft;

a motor designed to input and output power from and to the driveshaft;

a learning execution module configured to perform learning under fuel injection from the port fuel injection valve in a specified operation state of the internal combustion engine;

an auto stop-permitting water temperature setting module configured to, on completion of the learning, set a first temperature to an auto stop-permitting water temperature that allows an auto stop of the internal combustion engine, and on incompletion of the learning, set a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature to the auto stop-permitting water temperature;

a cooling water temperature detection unit constructed to measure temperature of cooling water in the internal combustion engine; and

an auto stop restart controller configured to automatically stop operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto stop conditions including a condition that the measured temperature of cooling water is not lower than the set auto stop-permitting water temperature and to automatically restart the operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto restart conditions in an auto stop state of the internal combustion engine.

6. The vehicle in accordance with claim 5, wherein the learning execution module performs the learning under fuel injection control of activating fuel injection from only the port fuel injection valve and inactivating fuel injection from the in-cylinder fuel injection valve.

7. The vehicle in accordance with claim 5, wherein the learning execution module performs learning with regard to an air-fuel ratio as the learning under fuel injection from the port fuel injection valve.

8. The vehicle in accordance with claim 5, the vehicle further comprising:

an engine controller configured to control the internal combustion engine to have fuel injection from only the port fuel injection valve with stop of fuel injection from the in-cylinder fuel injection valve at the measured temperature of cooling water that is not higher than a preset reference temperature,

wherein the auto stop-permitting water temperature setting module sets the second temperature to be higher than the preset reference temperature.

9. A control method of an internal combustion engine system including an internal combustion engine equipped with a port fuel injection valve arranged to inject a fuel into an intake port and with an in-cylinder fuel injection valve arranged to directly inject the fuel into each cylinder, the control method comprising:

on completion of learning under fuel injection from the port fuel injection valve in a specified operation state of the internal combustion engine, setting a first temperature to an auto stop-permitting water temperature that allows an auto stop of the internal combustion engine, and on incompletion of the learning, setting a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature to the auto stop-permitting water temperature; and

automatically stopping operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto stop conditions including a condition that temperature of cooling water in the internal combustion engine is not lower than the set auto stop-permitting water temperature and automatically restarting the operation of the internal combustion engine upon satisfaction of preset auto restart conditions in an auto stop state of the internal combustion engine.