Variable valve type internal combustion engine and control method thereof

• US 7,357,119 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Issued: 04/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoshida, Takashi, Sukegawa, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, HAI H
• Application Number:
  US11/763,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20070245993A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 123345-348, 123/90.11, 123/90.15, 123/90.16, 123/90.17, 123/302, 123/308, 123/432, 123/568.14
• US Class Current: 123/346
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2031/006 having multiple air intake valves
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2275/16 Indirect injection
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 13/0226 changing valve lift or valve lift and timing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/001 for engines with variable valve actuation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0002 Controlling intake air
• 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: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

The operation modes of plural intake valves 7a and 7b provided in one cylinder is independently changed according to the drive region of the internal combustion engine. In the low air amount region, the intake airflow is controlled only with intake valve 7a which operates in the low air amount region and the other intake valve 7b is operated in the medium and high air amount regions.

Claims

1. A variable valve type internal combustion engine in which the intake airflow is controlled with a plurality of intake valves, comprising a plurality of intake ports provided in each cylinder, an intake valve which individually opens and shuts each intake port, a variable valve gear which continuously and changeably sets at least one of the lift amount and the open valve period of each intake valve, and the operation modes of said plural intake valves in one cylinder can be set respectively and independently according to the operating states of the internal combustion engine,

wherein the lift amount and the open valve period of one intake valve when the lift amount and the open valve period in which the variation of the air amount which passes through another intake valve falls within the allowable range are predetermined, and

the difference between the demand air amount and the air amount which passes through one intake valve can be given by controlling the lift amount, the open valve period and the phase of another intake valve by giving one intake valve the lift amount and the open valve period predetermined in region where air amount is comparatively small in the high air amount region.

2. A variable valve type internal combustion engine in which the intake airflow is controlled with a plurality of intake valves, comprising a plurality of intake ports provided in each cylinder, an intake valve which individually opens and shuts each intake port, a variable valve gear which continuously and changeably sets at least one of the lift amount and the open valve period of each intake valve, and a control means in which at least one of the lift amount and the open valve period of plural intake valves can be set independently for each intake valve, and the operation modes of said plural intake valves in one cylinder can be set respectively and independently according to the operating states of the internal combustion engine,

wherein the opening space of another intake valve is increased to secure the air amount by decreasing the opening space of one intake valve, and

the lift amount and the open valve period of another intake valve is increased to decrease the variation of the intake airflow due to the variation of the lift amount and the open valve period of another intake valve.