# US 2021/0340927 A1 · Engine device

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- Number: US 2021/0340927 A1
- Document ID: US20210340927A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/242,304
- Filed: 2021-04-28
- Published: 2021-11-04
- Earliest claimed: 2020-04-29
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Masanao IDOGAWA; Takahiro UCHIDA; Masahiro KACHI; Reiko GOH; Hirokatsu YAMAMOTO
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210340927A1

## CPC

- F02D 41/1454: {the characteristics being an oxygen content or concentration or the air-fuel ratio}
- F02B 37/16: by bypassing charging air
- F02D 9/08: Throttle valves specially adapted therefor; Arrangements of such valves in conduits
- F02D 41/003: {Adding fuel vapours, e.g. drawn from engine fuel reservoir}
- F02D 41/0032: {Controlling the purging of the canister as a function of the engine operating conditions}
- F02D 41/0042: {Controlling the combustible mixture as a function of the canister purging, e.g. control of injected fuel to compensate for deviation of air fuel ratio when purging}
- F02D 41/1439: {characterised by the position of the sensor}
- F02D 41/2445: {characterised by a plurality of learning conditions or ranges}
- F02D 41/2454: {Learning of the air-fuel ratio control}
- F02D 41/38: of the high pressure type
- F02D 2041/389: {for injecting directly into the cylinder}
- F02D 2200/021: Engine temperature
- F02D 2200/04: Engine intake system parameters
- Y02T 10/12: Improving ICE efficiencies
- 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

Fuel injection control of an engine is executed by setting a required injection amount and an air-fuel ratio correction amount. When setting conditions are met, the air-fuel ratio correction amount is set for a corresponding region to which a current intake air amount or load ratio belongs among a plurality of regions into which the range of the intake air amount or the load ratio is divided such that a region of a larger intake air amount or a higher load ratio becomes wider than a region of a smaller intake air amount or a lower load ratio. When purge conditions are met, a purge control valve is controlled such that purge of supplying an evaporated fuel gas to an intake pipe is executed based on a required purge ratio.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An engine device installed in a vehicle, the engine device comprising:
an engine that has a throttle valve disposed in an intake pipe and a fuel injection valve, and outputs power using fuel supplied from a fuel tank;
an air-fuel ratio sensor mounted on an exhaust pipe of the engine;
a turbocharger having a compressor disposed in the intake pipe, upstream of the throttle valve;
an evaporated fuel processing device having
a supply passage that splits into a first purge passage and a second purge passage that are connected to the intake pipe, downstream of the throttle valve, and supplies an evaporated fuel gas containing evaporated fuel generated inside the fuel tank to the intake pipe,
an ejector having an intake port connected to a circulation passage extending from the intake pipe, between the compressor and the throttle valve, an exhaust port connected to the intake pipe, upstream of the compressor, and a suction port connected to the second purge passage, and
a purge control valve provided in the supply passage; and
a controller, wherein:
the controller executes fuel injection control of the engine by setting a required injection amount using a required load ratio of the engine and an air-fuel ratio correction amount that is related to deviation of the air-fuel ratio sensor;
when setting conditions are met, the controller sets the air-fuel ratio correction amount for a corresponding region to which a current intake air amount or load ratio of the engine belongs among a plurality of regions into which a range of the intake air amount or the load ratio of the engine is divided such that a region of a larger intake air amount or a higher load ratio becomes wider than a region of a smaller intake air amount or a lower load ratio;
when purge conditions are met, the controller controls the purge control valve by setting a driving duty of the purge control valve such that purge of supplying the evaporated fuel gas to the intake pipe is executed based on a required purge ratio; and
in a natural aspiration region, the purge conditions include a condition that there is a setting history of the air-fuel ratio correction amount for the corresponding region, and in a supercharging region, the purge conditions include a condition that the air-fuel ratio correction amount for the corresponding region has been set in a current trip.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The engine device according to claim 1, wherein:
the controller executes the fuel injection control by setting the required injection amount using the required load ratio, the air-fuel ratio correction amount, and a purge correction amount that is based on a purge concentration-related value related to a concentration of the evaporated fuel gas; and
when the purge is being executed, the controller sets the purge concentration-related value based on deviation of an air-fuel ratio detected by the air-fuel ratio sensor from a required air-fuel ratio.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The engine device according to claim 1, wherein, in the natural aspiration region, the purge conditions include a condition that a temperature of the engine is not lower than a first predetermined temperature, and in the supercharging region, the purge conditions include a condition that the temperature of the engine is not lower than a second predetermined temperature that is higher than the first predetermined temperature.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The engine device according to claim 3, wherein, in the natural aspiration region, the purge conditions include conditions that the temperature of the engine is lower than the first predetermined temperature and that an integrated value of the intake air amount is not smaller than a predetermined air amount.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The engine device according to claim 1, wherein:
the fuel injection valve is a cylinder injection valve mounted on a combustion chamber of the engine; and
in the natural aspiration region, the purge conditions include a condition that a pressure of fuel supplied by the cylinder injection valve is not lower than a first predetermined fuel pressure, and in the supercharging region, the purge conditions include a condition that the supplied fuel pressure is not lower than a second predetermined fuel pressure that is higher than the first predetermined fuel pressure.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The engine device according to claim 1, wherein:
the turbocharger has a blow-off valve provided in a bypass pipe that connects two points in the intake pipe, upstream and downstream of the compressor, to each other; and
in the supercharging region, the purge conditions include a condition that the blow-off valve is closed.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The engine device according to claim 1, wherein:
the controller performs an inference process in which, when a post-throttle-valve pressure that is a pressure inside the intake pipe, downstream of the throttle valve, is lower than a threshold value, the controller infers that the purge does not include second purge of supplying the evaporated fuel gas to the intake pipe through the second purge passage, and when the post-throttle-valve pressure is not lower than the threshold value, the controller infers that the purge includes the second purge, and in this inference process, when the post-throttle-valve pressure equal to or higher than the threshold value falls below the threshold value, the controller continues to infer that the purge includes the second purge until a predetermined time elapses;
when the purge is being executed, the controller estimates an ejector relative pressure that is a pressure at the suction port of the ejector, based on a pressure difference between a supercharging pressure that is a pressure inside the intake pipe, between the compressor and the throttle valve, and a pre-compressor pressure that is a pressure inside the intake pipe, upstream of the compressor, and on the driving duty, and then based on the ejector relative pressure and the post-throttle-valve pressure, determines a dominant purge that is a dominant one of the first purge and the second purge; and
when the purge is started or resumed, the controller determines which of the natural aspiration region and the supercharging region applies based on an inference of whether the purge includes the second purge, and when the purge is being executed, the controller determines which of the natural aspiration region and the supercharging region applies based on the dominant purge.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The engine device according to claim 7, wherein the controller determines the dominant purge based on the ejector relative pressure and a value that is the post-throttle-valve pressure allowing for an offset amount based on a cross-sectional area of the second purge passage relative to a cross-sectional area of the first purge passage.