Engine system control apparatus and vehicle

• US 9,771,858 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2015
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Subaru Corp.
• Original Assignee: Subaru Corp.
• Inventors: Masuma, Tetsuro, Watanabe, Tazuki, Kato, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wongwian, Phutthiwat
• Assistant Examiner(s): Newton, Jason T
• Application Number:
  US14/945,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20160153353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 60601
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2037/125 Control for avoiding pump stall or surge
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 33/44 Passages conducting the charge from the pump to the engine inlet, e.g. reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/24 by using pumps or turbines with adjustable guide vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/0406 Intake manifold pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/501 Vehicle speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/502 Neutral gear position
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 23/02 the engines being of fuel-injection type
• 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 41/021 Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine conjoint control of vehicle sub-units for propelling the vehicle B60W30/18
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0225 in relation with the gear ratio or shift lever position
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/023 in relation with the gear ratio shifting conjoint control for improving gear change B60W30/19
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/10 for acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/3005 Details not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/05 High pressure loops, i.e. wherein recirculated exhaust gas is taken out from the exhaust system upstream of the turbine and reintroduced into the intake system downstream of the compressor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An engine system is mounted on a vehicle and includes an engine and a turbocharger. The engine system control apparatus includes: a driving state identifier that identifies a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states; a surge determiner that determines whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and a variable nozzle controller that controls, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of a variable nozzle of the turbocharger to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied.

Claims

1. An engine system control apparatus of an engine system, the engine system being mounted on a vehicle and including an engine and a turbocharger, the engine including a combustion chamber, the turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, the engine system control apparatus comprising:

a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;

a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and

a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied,

wherein the plurality of driving states of the vehicle include at least one vehicle stop state where the vehicle is stopped and at least one vehicle running state where the vehicle is running.

2. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the driving states of the vehicle further include input values for a pressure of an intake manifold that is in communication with the combustion chamber, and input values for a fuel injection amount change rate of an injector that injects a fuel into the combustion chamber, and

the surge determiner determines that the surge condition is satisfied, when the pressure of the intake manifold is equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure and the fuel injection amount change rate of the injector is equal to or greater than a predetermined change rate.

3. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined pressure has mutually-different values that are set according to a number of revolutions of the engine.

4. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.

5. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.

6. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and

the predetermined value has mutually-different values that are set according to the respective driving states of the vehicle.

7. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and

a predetermined value for the at least one vehicle running state is set so as to make it difficult to satisfy the surge condition, compared to a predetermined value for the at least one vehicle stop state.

8. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one vehicle stop state comprises a revving of the engine.

9. A vehicle, comprising:

an engine system; and

an engine system control apparatus of the engine system,

the engine system including;

an engine including a combustion chamber; and

a turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, and

the engine system control apparatus including;

a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;

a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and

a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied.

10. An engine system control apparatus of an engine system, the engine system being mounted on a vehicle and including an engine and a turbocharger, the engine including a combustion chamber, the turbocharger including a turbine, a compressor, and a variable nozzle, the turbine being in communication with the combustion chamber and being rotated by exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber, the compressor being rotated integrally with the turbine and pressurizing intake air to deliver the pressurized intake air to the combustion chamber, and the variable nozzle being provided in an exhaust gas flow passage of the turbine and varying flow passage area of the exhaust gas, the engine system control apparatus comprising:

a driving state identifier configured to identify a driving state of the vehicle from a plurality of driving states;

a surge determiner configured to determine whether a surge condition as a condition under which a surge noise is generated is satisfied, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and an operating state of the engine; and

a variable nozzle controller configured to control, based on the identified driving state of the vehicle and the operating state of the engine, an opening degree of the variable nozzle to be varied in an open direction, upon determination by the surge determiner that the surge condition is satisfied,

wherein the plurality of driving states of the vehicle at least include a shift-changing state and a coast state.

11. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition is satisfied, and

the predetermined value has mutually-different values that are set according to the respective driving states of the vehicle.

12. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the surge determiner compares a parameter indicating the operating state of the engine with a predetermined value to determine whether the surge condition satisfied, and

a predetermined value for the coast state is set so as to make it difficult to satisfy the surge condition, compared to a predetermined value for the shift-changing state.

13. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the driving states of the vehicle further include a driving state in which there is a revving of the engine.

14. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the driving states of the vehicle further include input values for a pressure of an intake manifold that is in communication with the combustion chamber, and input values for a fuel injection amount change rate of an injector that injects a fuel into the combustion chamber, and

the surge determiner determines that the surge condition is satisfied, when the pressure of the intake manifold is equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure and the fuel injection amount change rate of the injector is equal to or greater than a predetermined change rate.

15. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined pressure has mutually-different values that are set according to a number of revolutions of the engine.

16. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.

17. The engine system control apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined change rate has mutually-different values that are set according to the pressure of the intake manifold.