# US 10,119,491 B2 · Controller for internal combustion engine

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- Number: US 10,119,491 B2
- Document ID: US10119491B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/744,787
- Filed: 2015-06-19
- Published: 2015-12-24
- Granted: 2018-11-06
- Earliest claimed: 2014-06-23
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Shota Nagano
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10119491B2

## CPC

- F02D 41/40: with means for controlling injection timing or duration
- F02D 35/023: {by determining the cylinder pressure}
- F02D 35/028: {by determining the combustion timing or phasing}
- F02D 41/008: {Controlling each cylinder individually}
- F02D 41/3827: {for diesel engines}
- F02D 2041/0015: {for engines with means for controlling swirl or tumble flow, e.g. by using swirl valves}
- F02D 2200/0602: Fuel pressure
- F02D 2250/31: Control of the fuel pressure
- F02D 2250/38: Control for minimising smoke emissions, e.g. by applying smoke limitations on the fuel injection amount
- Y02T 10/12: Improving ICE efficiencies
- Y02T 10/40: Engine management systems
- F02D: CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES (vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed B60K31/00; conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit B60W)
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

A controller for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a fuel injection valve configured to supply fuel into a cylinder. The controller includes an electronic control unit configured to acquire an actual heat generation rate at time of combustion; and correct at least one of fuel injection pressure or amount of fuel injected when deviation amount between reference heat generation rate gradient and actual heat generation rate gradient is equal to or greater than predetermined value such that the deviation decreases. The reference heat generation rate gradient is a gradient of a predetermined reference heat generation rate at which a predetermined time elapses after a heat generation rate begins to rise. The actual heat generation rate gradient being a gradient of an actual heat generation rate acquired by the electronic control unit at which the predetermined time elapses after the heat generation rate begins to rise.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A controller for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a fuel injection valve configured to supply fuel into a plurality of cylinders and swirl control valves provided in the respective cylinders, the controller comprising
an electronic control unit configured to
i) acquire an actual heat generation rate at a time of combustion, and
ii) correct at least one of a fuel injection pressure or an amount of fuel injected when a deviation amount between a reference heat generation rate gradient and an actual heat generation rate gradient is equal to or greater than a predetermined value such that the deviation amount decreases, iii) obtain, for the respective cylinders, deviation timings at which the deviation amounts between the reference heat generation rate gradient and the actual heat generation rate gradient become equal to or greater than the predetermined value when the deviation amounts between the reference heat generation rate gradient and the actual heat generation rate gradient are equal to or greater than the predetermined value, and
iv) correct at least one of openings of the swirl control valves such that the deviation timings of the respective cylinders become the same timing,
the reference heat generation rate gradient being a gradient of a predetermined reference heat generation rate at which a predetermined time elapses after a heat generation rate begins to rise, and
the actual heat generation rate gradient being a gradient of an actual heat generation rate acquired by the electronic control unit at which the predetermined time elapses after the heat generation rate begins to rise.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The controller according to claim 1,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to
i) obtain an average value of the deviation timings of the plurality of cylinders,
ii) correct at least one of the openings of the swirl control valves of the respective cylinders such that the deviation timings of the respective cylinders become the average value, and
iii) set a correction amount for at least one of the fuel injection pressure or the amount of fuel injected to be greater as the average value of the deviation timings separates farther from a reference peak timing at which the reference heat generation rate becomes maximum.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The controller according to claim 1,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to
i) obtain an average value of the deviation timings of the plurality of cylinders,
ii) correct at least one of the openings of the swirl control valves of the respective cylinders such that the deviation timings of the respective cylinders become the average value, and
iii) set a correction amount for at least one of the fuel injection pressure or the amount of fuel injected to be greater as the average value of the deviation timings is closer to a timing at which the reference heat generation rate begins to rise.