Control apparatus for internal combustion engine

• US 7,788,022 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Issued: 08/31/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Hagari, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh; Hai H
• Application Number:
  US12/189,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20090277247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 123/435, 123/406.16, 123/406.17, 123/406.21, 123/406.22, 123/406.29, 123/406.34, 123/406.37, 123/406.38, 123/406.41, 123/406.43, 701/111, 73/350.4, 73/350.7, 73/351.2
• US Class Current: 701/111
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/288 for performing a transformation into the frequency domain, e.g. Fourier transformation
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/152 dependent on pinking detecting or indicating knocks in internal-combustion engines G01L23/22
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 23/225 circuit arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems

Abstract

Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine with which temporal and frequency resolutions necessary for analysis of a frequency of knock by digital signal processing are ensured with limited amounts of processing and memory. The control apparatus includes a lowpass filter for eliminating a high frequency component of an output signal from a knock sensor or a cylinder internal pressure sensor, an A/D conversion unit for performing A/D conversion on the output signal from the filter, and DFT processing units for performing digital signal processing on data obtained by the A/D conversion as knock detection units, each of the DFT processing units includes observation interval setting units for dividing the A/D-converted data to set observation intervals each containing a predetermined number of samples, and a multi-frequency simultaneous analysis unit for simultaneously analyzing multiple frequencies by a discrete Fourier transform for each of the set observation intervals.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising:

knock detection means for determining occurrence of knock based on an output signal from at least one of a knock sensor and a cylinder internal pressure sensor provided for the internal combustion engine; and

knock control means for performing knock control to avoid the knock in detection of the knock by the knock detection means;

wherein the knock detection means includes;

a lowpass filter for eliminating a high frequency component of the output signal from the at least one of the knock sensor and the cylinder internal pressure sensor;

A/D conversion means for performing A/D conversion on the output signal from the lowpass filter for each predetermined time; and

digital signal processing means for performing digital signal processing on the data obtained by the A/D conversion performed by the A/D conversion means to perform a time-frequency analysis, the knock detection means performing knock detection based on a result of the digital signal processing by the digital signal processing means,

wherein the digital signal processing means includes;

observation interval setting means for dividing the data obtained by the A/D conversion performed by the A/D conversion means to set observation intervals each containing a predetermined number of samples; and

multi-frequency simultaneous analysis means for simultaneously analyzing multiple frequencies by a discrete Fourier transform for each of the observation intervals set by the observation interval setting means, and

wherein the observation interval setting means changes the number of samples contained in each of the observation intervals according to a frequency to be analyzed.

2. The control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the observation interval setting means moves a subinterval included in each of the observation intervals to make the subinterval partially overlap a previous subinterval.

3. The control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the observation interval setting means sets the number of samples large on a low frequency side and small on a high frequency side according to the frequency to be analyzed.

4. The control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the multi-frequency simultaneous analysis means prestores a constant used for a computation in a table when the multiple frequencies are simultaneously analyzed by the discrete Fourier transform.

5. The control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein the constant calculated from a basis function and a window function is set in the table.