Internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus

• US 9,164,012 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2012
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Matsushima, Yuhei
• Primary Examiner(s): Low, Lindsay
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAILEY, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US13/552,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20130245924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,189 Days
• Field of Search: 701/111, 701/30.2, 701/30.3, 701/30.4, 701/30.8, 701/30.9, 701/31.1, 701/31.2, 701/32.9, 701/33.1, 701/33.4, 701/33.6, 701/33.7, 701/33.8, 701/33.9, 701/34.1, 73/350.1, 73/350.3, 73/350.4, 73/350.5, 73/350.6, 73/350.9, 73/351.1, 73/351.2, 73/351.3, 731/140.2, 731/140.3, 731/140.7, 123/406.16, 123/406.17, 123/406.19, 123/406.21, 123/406.29, 123/406.34, 123/406.37, 123/406.38, 123/406.39, 123/406.4, 123/406.42, 123/406.43, 702/179, 702/181, 702/56
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/1432 the system including a filter, e.g. a low pass or high pass filter
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/286 comprising means for signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/027 using knock sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 23/221 for detecting or indicating knocks in internal combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/12 by monitoring vibrations

Abstract

An internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus is obtained that improves knock detection performance by making a correction period appropriate without performing matching, when calculating a transition correction factor for correcting a filter coefficient used for calculating a mean value and a standard deviation of a knock signal in a transitional operation state. A previous value of a filter coefficient for calculating a knock determination threshold value that has been corrected by a transition correction factor is used for a filter coefficient for calculating the transition correction factor so that the response characteristics are made equal between a filtering process used for calculating a transition correction factor for correcting a knock determination threshold value and a filtering process used for calculating the knock determination threshold value in a transition operation period.

Claims

1. An internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus comprising:

a sensor configured to output a signal based on vibration of an internal combustion engine;

a knock signal calculator configured to calculate, from an output of the sensor, a knock signal at every ignition timing;

a knock signal standard statistic calculator configured to calculate a standard statistic of the knock signal by first filtering processing of the knock signal;

a knock determination threshold calculator configured to calculate a knock determination threshold value for determining knock based on the standard statistic of the knock signal;

a knock determiner configured to determine that the knock has occurred if the knock signal exceeds the knock determination threshold value;

an operating state value detector configured to detect operating state values each indicating an operating condition of the internal combustion engine;

an operating state value deviation normalizer configured to calculate post-normalization operating state value deviations by normalizing deviations between the detected operating state values and values obtained by second filtering processing of the detected operating state values, using a representative value of the operating state values;

a transition correction factor calculator configured to calculate a transition correction factor based on the post-normalization operating state value deviations;

a filter coefficient corrector configured to correct a filter coefficient used in the first filtering processing performed by the knock signal standard statistic calculator, based on the transition correction factor; and

a filter characteristic adjuster configured to adjust a response characteristic of the second filtering processing performed by the operating state value deviation normalizer to be equal to a response characteristic of the first filtering processing performed by the knock signal standard statistic calculator.

2. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filter characteristic adjuster is configured to use a previous value of the filter coefficient calculated by the filter coefficient corrector as the filter coefficient used in the second filtering processing performed by the operating state value deviation normalizer.

3. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a process of the operating state value deviation normalizer is performed with a same period as a process of the knock signal standard statistic calculator.

4. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a process of the operating state value deviation normalizer is performed with a same period as a process of the knock signal standard statistic calculator.

5. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the knock signal calculator is configured to calculate, from the output of the sensor, a characteristic component of knock occurring in the internal combustion engine as the knock signal.

6. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating state value deviation normalizer is configured to perform the second filtering processing of the detected operating state values with the filter coefficient of a previous cycle.

7. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the filter coefficient corrector is configured to calculate the filter coefficient for a current cycle based on the transition correction factor calculated based on the filter coefficient of the previous cycle, which has been used in calculating the post-normalization operating state value deviation.

8. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the knock signal standard statistic calculator is configured to perform the first filtering by applying the filter coefficient for the current cycle, to calculate the standard statistic of the knock signal corrected based the transition correction factor.

9. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the operating state value deviation normalizer is configured to calculate the post-normalization operating state value deviations by dividing the deviations between the detected operating state values and the filtered operating state values by the representative value.

10. The internal combustion engine knock controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filter coefficient corrector is configured to calculate the filter coefficient for a current cycle as a weighted sum of a steady operating state filter coefficient and a transitional operating state filter coefficient, by applying the calculated transition correction factor as a weight.