Control apparatus for a turbocharged alcohol engine
AssigneeFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Mochizuki, Takamitsu Kashima
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Abstract
A control apparatus for an alcohol engine of a vehicle, the engine having an auxiliary equipment and using a fuel containing alcohol, comprising: an alcohol concentration sensor for outputting a detection signal corresponding to an alcohol concentration of the fuel; alcohol concentration calculating means responsive to said detection signal for calculating said alcohol concentration; determining means responsive to said alcohol concentration for computing an optimum condition to operate the auxiliary equipment; and driving means responsive to said optimum condition for driving the auxiliary equipment.
Claims5
A control apparatus for an engine of a vehicle, said engine using a fuel containing alcohol and having supercharging means for supercharging intake air to the engine and actuating means for controlling a supercharging pressure supercharged by said supercharging means, comprising:
- an alcohol concentration sensor for outputting a detection signal corresponding to an alcohol concentration of the fuel;
- alcohol concentration calculating means responsive to said detection signal for calculating said alcohol concentration;
- optimum supercharging pressure setting means for setting an optimum supercharging pressure with respect to said alcohol concentration;
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- driving means responsive to data of said optimum supercharging pressure for driving said actuating means so as to control said supercharging pressure for the engine to said optimum supercharging pressure, thereby operating the engine efficiently in any alcohol concentration of the fuel.
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