Control device for supercharger with electric motor

• US 7,530,229 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2005
• Issued: 05/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Akita, Koichi
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, THAI BA
• Application Number:
  US10/586,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20080148730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 60607-609, 606/12, 606/052
• US Class Current: 60/608
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/22 by varying cross-section of exhaust passages or air passages , e.g. by throttling turbine inlets or outlets or by varying effective number of guide conduits F02B37/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/24 by using pumps or turbines with adjustable guide vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 39/10 electric
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/703 Atmospheric pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0007 for control of turbo-charged or super-charged engines control of the pumps per se F02B37/12
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/18 by measuring intake air flow
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus for an electrically assisted supercharger capable of effectively compensating for an output drop even with decrease in the atmospheric pressure. A control apparatus for an electrically assisted supercharger according to the present invention has a supercharger 20 disposed on an intake passage 5 of an internal combustion engine 1 mounted on a vehicle, and driven by an electric motor 20a, a controller 16, 21 for controlling the electric motor 20a to control a boost pressure, and a pressure detector 30 for detecting a state of the atmospheric pressure, and is characterized in that when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detector 30 becomes less than a predetermined value, the controller 16, 21 makes a driving force of the electric motor 20a larger than that when the atmospheric pressure is not less than the predetermined value.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for an electrically assisted supercharger, comprising:

a supercharger disposed on an intake passage of an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle, driven by an electric motor;

controlling means for controlling the electric motor to control a boost pressure;

pressure detecting means for detecting a state of the atmospheric pressure,

an intake air mass detecting means for detecting the intake air mass;

a turbocharger for performing supercharging by making use of an exhaust flow of the internal combustion engine; and

a variable nozzle mechanism for variably controlling a supercharging state by the turbocharger;

wherein;

when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes less than a predetermined value, the controlling means makes a driving force of the electric motor larger than that when the atmospheric pressure is not less than the predetermined value,

when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes more than the predetermined value, the variable nozzle mechanism controls the variable nozzle opening with a feedback control based on a deviation in an intake air mass detected by the intake air mass detecting means and a target intake air mass determined based on an operating state of the internal combustion engine, and

when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes less than the predetermined value, the variable nozzle mechanism prohibits the variable nozzle opening with the feedback control, based on the deviation between the intake air mass and the targeted intake air mass, and controls the variable nozzle opening with the targeted variable nozzle opening calculated based on the rotation number and load of the internal combustion engine.

2. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 1,

wherein when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes less than the predetermined value, the variable nozzle mechanism controls the variable nozzle opening by modification of the target variable opening with an intake pressure feedback.

3. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 2,

wherein when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes less than the predetermined value, the control means determines an increase of the driving force of the electric motor, based on the deviation between the intake air mass detected by the intake air mass detecting means and the target intake air mass determined based on an operating state of the internal combustion engine.

4. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 3, wherein the electric motor is built in the turbocharger and wherein the supercharger and the turbocharger are integrated with each other.

5. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 3, wherein the controlling means controls the electric motor so as to secure the target intake air mass, with further consideration to an output of the internal combustion engine to be compensated for because of the prohibition of consideration to the intake air mass on the occasion of determining the control quantity of the variable nozzle mechanism.

6. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 3, wherein the controlling means prohibits consideration to the intake air mass on the occasion of determining the control quantity of the variable nozzle mechanism and controls the electric motor so that the intake air mass becomes coincident with the target intake air mass.

7. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 2, comprising an exhaust gas recirculation system for recirculating exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, to the intake passage,

wherein the controlling means controls the exhaust gas recirculation system so that an amount of the exhaust gas recirculated to the intake passage becomes coincident with a target exhaust gas recirculation amount determined based on the operating state of the internal combustion engine.

8. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 2, wherein the controlling means controls the electric motor so that the intake air mass becomes coincident with the target intake air mass.

9. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 1, wherein when the atmospheric pressure detected by the pressure detecting means becomes less than the predetermined value, the control means determines an increase of the driving force of the electric motor, based on the deviation between the intake air mass detected by the intake air mass detecting means and the target intake air mass determined based on an operating state of the internal combustion engine.

10. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 9, wherein the electric motor is built in the turbocharger and wherein the supercharger and the turbocharger are integrated with each other.

11. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 9, wherein the controlling means controls the electric motor so as to secure the target intake air mass, with further consideration to an output of the internal combustion engine to be compensated for because of the prohibition of consideration to the intake air mass on the occasion of determining the control quantity of the variable nozzle mechanism.

12. The control apparatus for the electrically assisted supercharger according to claim 9, wherein the controlling means prohibits consideration to the intake air mass on the occasion of determining the control quantity of the variable nozzle mechanism and controls the electric motor so that the intake air mass becomes coincident with the target intake air mass.