Engine control apparatus

• US 4,984,546 A
• Filed: 06/08/1989
• Issued: 01/15/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Okubo, Satoru, Nishimura, Yukinobu, Wataya, Seiji, Shimomura, Setsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Argenbright, Tony M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mates, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US07/363,661
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 123/435, 123/436, 123/425, 123/419, 123/440, 123/489
• US Class Current: 123/406.23
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 1/04 with fuel-air mixture admission into cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/023 by determining the cylinder pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 37/02 one of the functions being ignition
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1406 with use of a optimisation method, e.g. iteration
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/045 combined with electronic control of other engine functions, e.g. fuel injection in general F02D37/02
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/153 dependent on combustion pressure
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

An engine control apparatus is provided with a control unit in which a fuel supply quantity Q_f or a ignition timing θ_i is corrected to maximize an evaluation parameter A=P_i /(Q_a /N) obtained on the basis of a suction air quantity Q_a, an engine speed N and a mean effective pressure P_i in a engine, or to maximize a parameter B=P_i /P_b obtained on the basis of a suction pipe pressure P_b and the mean effective pressure P_i, or to maximize a maximum pressure P_max or a mean effective pressure P_i for every combustion cycle, so that control is performed on the basis of the result of the above correction. The control unit also performs the feedback control of the fuel supply quantity Q_f and corrects the ignition timing by the above-mentioned correction means. Further, the control unit performs feedback control in a predetermined load-operation range of the engine, and stops the feedback control and corrects the fuel supply quantity Q_f out of said predetermined load-operation range of the engine.

Claims

1. An internal combustion engine control apparatus comprising:

an air-flow meter for measuring a suction air quantity Qa of an engine;

a suction pipe pressure sensor for detecting suction pipe pressure P_b of said engine;

a crank angle sensor for detecting the revolution angle θ

of said engine;

at least one cylinder internal pressure sensor for detecting combustion chamber pressure P_c of said engine; and

a control unit which comprises;

means for obtaining a fuel supply quantity Q_f and an ignition timing θ

i from an engine speed N and one of said suction air quantity Qa and said suction pipe pressure P_b ;

means for obtaining at least one of maximum pressure value P_max, a mean effective pressure P_i, a first evaluation parameter A=P_i (Qa/N) and a second evaluation parameter B=P_i /P_b, said maximum pressure P_max and said means effective pressure P_i being calculated from said combustion chamber pressure and said revolution angle θ

_c for every combustion cycle, said first evaluation parameter A being calculated from said suction air quantity Q_a, said engine speed N and said mean effective pressure P_i, said second evaluation parameter B being calculated from said suction pipe pressure P_b and said mean effective pressure P_i ; and

means for correcting at least one of said fuel supply quantity θ

_f and said ignition timing θ

_i to maximize said at least one of said maximum pressure value P_max, said mean effective pressure P_i, and said first and second evaluation parameters A and B;

means for controlling one of a fuel supply quantity and an ignition timing on the basis of a corrected value obtaining from said correcting means; and

an exhaust sensor for detecting the component concentration of a combustion gas,

wherein said control unit further comprises means for obtaining an air-fuel ratio based on the component concentration of the combustion gas detected by said exhaust sensor, and means for performing a feedback control of said fuel supply quantity θ

_f to set said air-fuel ratio to a predetermined value, said correcting means corrects said ignition timing θ

_i to maximize said at least one of said maximum pressure value P_max, said mean effective pressure P_i, and said first and second evaluation parameters A and B; and

wherein in a predetermined load-operation range of said engine, said feedback control and the correlation of said ignition timing θ

_i are executed whereas out of said load-operation range of said engine, said feedback control is stopped and said ignition timing θ

_i is corrected to maximize at least one of said maximum pressure P_max, said mean effective pressure P_i and said first and second evaluation parameters A and B.

2. An engine control apparatus comprising:

air-fuel ratio control means for controlling an air-fuel ratio of an engine;

ignition timing control means for controlling the ignition timing of said engine;

air-fuel ratio detection means for detecting the air-fuel ratio of said engine;

load detection means for detecting the load of said engine;

cylinder internal pressure detection means for detecting the internal pressure of at least one cylinder of said engine;

first feedback control signal generation means responsive to the output of said cylinder internal pressure detection means for outputting a first feedback control signal to said ignition timing control means to substantially maximize the output torque of said engine on the basis of the cylinder internal pressure detected by said cylinder internal pressure detection means;

load judgment means responsive to the output of said load detection means for judging whether the load of said engine is in a low or partial load range or in a high load range.

air-fuel ratio feedback control signal generation means for outputting an air-fuel ratio feedback control signal to said air-fuel ratio control means to converge the air-fuel ratio detected by said air-fuel ratio detection means to a theoretical value when said load judgment means judges that the load of said engine is in said low or partial load range; and

second feedback control signal generation means responsive to the output of said cylinder internal pressure detection means for outputting a second feedback control signal to said air-fuel ratio control means to substantially maximize the torque of said engine when said load judgment means judges that the load of said engine is in said high load range.