# US 10,309,325 B2 · Control device for internal combustion engine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,309,325 B2 - Document ID: US10309325B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/849,802 - Filed: 2017-12-21 - Published: 2018-06-28 - Granted: 2019-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-22 - Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Hajime Shimizu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10309325B2 ## CPC - F02D 41/0027: {the fuel being gaseous (non-electrical control F02D19/02)} - F02D 35/028: {by determining the combustion timing or phasing} - F02D 41/3047: {said means being a secondary injection of fuel} - F02D 41/403: {with pilot injections} - F02B 9/02: with compression ignition (engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression with compression ignition F02B1/12; engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition with compression ignition F02B3/06) - F02D 41/3005: {Details not otherwise provided for} - F02D 2200/02: the parameters being related to the engine - 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) - F02B: INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL (gas-turbine plants F02C; hot-gas or combustion-product positive-displacement engine plants F02G) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A control device for an internal combustion engine provided with a combustion control part sequentially injecting at least a primary auxiliary fuel, secondary auxiliary fuel, and main fuel from a fuel injector in predetermined operating regions, causing compressive ignition sequentially from a premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel after injection of the main fuel, and causing compressive ignition of a premix containing the main fuel using heat generated when causing compressive ignition of a premix containing the secondary auxiliary fuel, the combustion control part setting a target injection amount and target injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel so that a peak value and a slant of a heat generation rate pattern formed by a premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel is smaller than peak values and slants of heat generation rate patterns formed by the premixes containing the secondary auxiliary fuel and the main fuel. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A control device for an internal combustion engine for controlling an internal combustion engine provided with: an engine body; and a fuel injector injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine body, the control device comprising a combustion control part configured to sequentially inject at least a primary auxiliary fuel, secondary auxiliary fuel, and main fuel from the fuel injector in predetermined operating regions, cause compressive ignition sequentially from a premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel after injection of the main fuel, and cause compressive ignition of a premix containing the main fuel using heat generated when causing compressive ignition of a premix containing the secondary auxiliary fuel, the combustion control part configured so as to set a target injection amount and target injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel so that a peak value and a slant at the start of combustion of a heat generation rate pattern formed by the premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel is smaller than peak values and slants at the start of combustion of heat generation rate patterns formed by the premixes containing the secondary auxiliary fuel and the main fuel. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the combustion control part is configured so as to set the target injection amount and target injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel so that the premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel first burns by compressive ignition after an equivalent ratio of the premix becomes less than 1. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the combustion control part is configured to set a target injection amount and target injection timing of the secondary auxiliary fuel so that the premix containing the secondary auxiliary fuel burns by compressive ignition when an equivalent ratio of the premix containing the secondary auxiliary fuel is 1 to 2 after the premix containing the primary auxiliary fuel starts to burn by compressive ignition. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 1 further comprising a first auxiliary fuel injection timing setting part configured to set the target injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel based on the target injection amount of the primary auxiliary fuel and engine rotational speed so that a time from the target injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel to a self-ignition timing of the main fuel is a first premixing time corresponding to the target injection amount of the primary auxiliary fuel regardless of the engine rotational speed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein the combustion control part further comprises: an overall fuel injection amount setting part configured to set an overall fuel injection amount based on an engine load; and a distribution part configured to distribute a remaining injection amount, calculated by subtracting a preset target injection amount of the main fuel from the overall fuel injection amount, between the target injection amount of the primary auxiliary fuel and the target injection amount of the secondary auxiliary fuel, the overall fuel injection amount setting part is configured to as to increase the overall fuel injection amount when the engine load is high compared to when it is low, and the distribution part is configured so as to raise a ratio of the target injection amount of the primary auxiliary fuel to the remaining fuel amount when the engine load is high compared to when it is low. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein the combustion control part further comprises a second auxiliary fuel injection timing setting part configured to set the target injection timing of the secondary auxiliary fuel based on the target injection amount of the secondary auxiliary fuel and engine rotational speed so that a time from the target injection timing of the secondary auxiliary fuel to a self-ignition timing of the main fuel is a predetermined second premixing time shorter than the first premixing time regardless of the engine rotational speed. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The control device for internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein an interval from a crank angle corresponding to the injection timing of the primary auxiliary fuel to a crank angle corresponding to the injection timing of the secondary fuel is larger than an interval from a crank angle corresponding to the injection timing of the secondary fuel to a crank angle corresponding to the injection timing of the main fuel.