CONTROL SYSTEM OF ENGINE

• US 20160230707A1
• Filed: 01/27/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Kazuaki, Sakamoto, Yuusou, Tsuboi, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,897,044 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/20 specially adapted for catalytic conversion F01N3/22 takes precedence; Methods of operation or control of catalytic converters
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/0804 Estimation of the temperature of the exhaust gas treatment apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0035 to achieve a special effect, e.g. to warm up the catalyst
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0045 Estimating, calculating or determining the purging rate, amount, flow or concentration
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0235 in relation with the state of the exhaust gas treating apparatus control of exhaust gas treating apparatus per se F01N
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/123 the fuel injection being cut-off
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 25/0836 Arrangement of valves controlling the admission of fuel vapour to an engine, e.g. valve being disposed between fuel tank or absorption canister and intake manifold

Abstract

A control system of an engine is provided. The control system includes an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage, a deceleration fuel cutoff module for performing a deceleration fuel cutoff when a deceleration fuel cutoff condition is satisfied in an engine decelerating state, a purging unit for performing a purge to supply a purge gas to an intake passage during the deceleration fuel cutoff, an evaporated fuel supply amount estimating module for estimating a supply amount of evaporated fuel to the intake passage when the purge is performed, and a catalyst temperature estimating module for estimating a temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the supply amount of the evaporated fuel. The purging unit controls a supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the exhaust emission control catalyst temperature.

Claims

1. A control system of an engine in which a purge gas containing evaporated fuel desorbed from a canister is supplied to an intake passage of the engine, the control system comprising:

an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of the engine;

a deceleration fuel cutoff module for performing a deceleration fuel cutoff to stop a fuel supply from an injector to the engine when a predetermined deceleration fuel cutoff condition is satisfied in a decelerating state of the engine;

a purging unit for performing a purge to supply the purge gas to the intake passage of the engine during the deceleration fuel cutoff;

an evaporated fuel supply amount estimating module for estimating a supply amount of the evaporated fuel to the intake passage when the purge is performed; and

a catalyst temperature estimating module for estimating a temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel,

wherein the purging unit controls a supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the estimated temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst.

2. The control system of claim 1, wherein the purging unit reduces the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, as the estimated temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst becomes lower.

3. The control system of claim 1, wherein the purging unit stops the purge when the estimated temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst falls below a predetermined temperature while the purge is performed.

4. The control system of claim 1, further comprising a catalyst temperature increasing amount estimating module for continuously estimating an increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when unburned evaporated fuel accumulated in the exhaust emission control catalyst by the purge is assumed to have entirely combusted at once,

wherein while the purge is performed, the purging unit stops the purge once the estimated increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst exceeds a preset value.

5. The control system of claim 1, further comprising an evaporated fuel concentration estimating module for estimating a concentration of the evaporated fuel within the purge gas when the purge is performed,

wherein the purging unit further controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel.

6. The control system of claim 5, wherein the purging unit does not perform the purge during the deceleration fuel cutoff when the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel is above a predetermined concentration.

7. The control system of claim 1, further comprising an exhaust gas temperature detecting/estimating module for detecting or estimating a temperature of exhaust gas of the engine when the engine is operated by supplying fuel from the injector to the engine and combusting the fuel,

wherein the catalyst temperature estimating module estimates the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected or estimated immediately before the deceleration fuel cutoff is started, the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel, a heat generation amount, and a heat release amount, the heat generation amount produced by combustion, at the exhaust emission control catalyst, of part of the evaporated fuel which has reached the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, the heat release amount produced from the exhaust emission control catalyst to air passing through the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed.

8. The control system of claim 2, wherein the purging unit stops the purge when the estimated temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst falls below a predetermined temperature while the purge is performed.

9. The control system of claim 2, further comprising a catalyst temperature increasing amount estimating module for continuously estimating an increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when unburned evaporated fuel accumulated in the exhaust emission control catalyst by the purge is assumed to have entirely combusted at once,

wherein while the purge is performed, the purging unit stops the purge once the estimated increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst exceeds a preset value.

10. The control system of claim 2, further comprising an evaporated fuel concentration estimating module for estimating a concentration of the evaporated fuel within the purge gas when the purge is performed,

wherein the purging unit further controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel.

11. The control system of claim 2, further comprising an exhaust gas temperature detecting/estimating module for detecting or estimating a temperature of exhaust gas of the engine when the engine is operated by supplying fuel from the injector to the engine and combusting the fuel,

wherein the catalyst temperature estimating module estimates the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected or estimated immediately before the deceleration fuel cutoff is started, the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel, a heat generation amount, and a heat release amount, the heat generation amount produced by combustion, at the exhaust emission control catalyst, of part of the evaporated fuel which has reached the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, the heat release amount produced from the exhaust emission control catalyst to air passing through the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed.

12. The control system of claim 8, further comprising a catalyst temperature increasing amount estimating module for continuously estimating an increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when unburned evaporated fuel accumulated in the exhaust emission control catalyst by the purge is assumed to have entirely combusted at once,

wherein while the purge is performed, the purging unit stops the purge once the estimated increasing amount of the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst exceeds a preset value.

13. The control system of claim 8, further comprising an evaporated fuel concentration estimating module for estimating a concentration of the evaporated fuel within the purge gas when the purge is performed,

wherein the purging unit further controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel.

14. The control system of claim 8, further comprising an exhaust gas temperature detecting/estimating module for detecting or estimating a temperature of exhaust gas of the engine when the engine is operated by supplying fuel from the injector to the engine and combusting the fuel,

wherein the catalyst temperature estimating module estimates the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected or estimated immediately before the deceleration fuel cutoff is started, the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel, a heat generation amount, and a heat release amount, the heat generation amount produced by combustion, at the exhaust emission control catalyst, of part of the evaporated fuel which has reached the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, the heat release amount produced from the exhaust emission control catalyst to air passing through the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed.

15. The control system of claim 12, further comprising an evaporated fuel concentration estimating module for estimating a concentration of the evaporated fuel within the purge gas when the purge is performed,

wherein the purging unit further controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel.

16. The control system of claim 15, wherein the purging unit does not perform the purge during the deceleration fuel cutoff when the estimated concentration of the evaporated fuel is above a predetermined concentration.

17. The control system of claim 12, further comprising an exhaust gas temperature detecting/estimating module for detecting or estimating a temperature of exhaust gas of the engine when the engine is operated by supplying fuel from the injector to the engine and combusting the fuel,

wherein the catalyst temperature estimating module estimates the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected or estimated immediately before the deceleration fuel cutoff is started, the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel, a heat generation amount, and a heat release amount, the heat generation amount produced by combustion, at the exhaust emission control catalyst, of part of the evaporated fuel which has reached the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, the heat release amount produced from the exhaust emission control catalyst to air passing through the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed.

18. The control system of claim 16, further comprising an exhaust gas temperature detecting/estimating module for detecting or estimating a temperature of exhaust gas of the engine when the engine is operated by supplying fuel from the injector to the engine and combusting the fuel,

wherein the catalyst temperature estimating module estimates the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the temperature of the exhaust gas detected or estimated immediately before the deceleration fuel cutoff is started, the estimated supply amount of the evaporated fuel, a heat generation amount, and a heat release amount, the heat generation amount produced by combustion, at the exhaust emission control catalyst, of part of the evaporated fuel which has reached the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, the heat release amount produced from the exhaust emission control catalyst to air passing through the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed.

19. The control system of claim 18, further comprising a turbocharger having a compressor disposed in the intake passage of the engine,

wherein the purging unit includes a purge line communicating the canister with a part of the intake passage downstream of the compressor, a purge valve provided in the purge line, and a purge valve controlling module for controlling the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage by controlling an operation of the purge valve when the purge is performed.

20. The control system of claim 1, further comprising a turbocharger having a compressor disposed in the intake passage of the engine,

wherein the purging unit includes a purge line communicating the canister with a part of the intake passage downstream of the compressor, a purge valve provided in the purge line, and a purge valve controlling module for controlling the supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage by controlling an operation of the purge valve when the purge is performed.