Internal combustion engine
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKohei Yoshida, Shinya Hirota, Takamitsu Asanuma
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Abstract
A post-treatment system comprised of an SOx trapping catalyst (11), a particulate filter (13) carrying an NOx storing and reducing catalyst, and an NOx storing and reducing catalyst (15) and a fuel feed valve (17) for feeding fuel for post processing to the post-treatment system are arranged in an engine exhaust passage. Each time an operating period of the engine passes a certain period, values of operating parameters of the engine and the method of feeding the post-treatment use fuel are reset so that the total amount of consumption of the combustion use fuel and post-treatment use fuel becomes smallest while maintaining the amounts of the harmful components discharged into the atmosphere at below the regulatory values.
Claims12
An exhaust gas control system comprising:
- an internal combustion engine having combustion chambers into which a combustion use fuel is fed for generating engine output;
- a post-treatment system arranged in an engine exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, the post-treatment system feeding a post-treatment use fuel into the exhaust gas for treating harmful components in the exhaust gas;
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- an electronic control unit that controls the internal combustion engine and the post-treatment system, the electronic control unit storing (i) preset values of operating parameters of the engine such that different ones of the preset values are used for different operating states of the engine, and storing (ii) preset post-treatment use fuel feeding processes for feeding the post-treatment use fuel,
- wherein each time an operating period of the engine passes a predetermined time period, the electronic control unit (a) resets the different ones of the preset values of the operating parameters for the different operating states of the engine and (b) resets the preset post-treatment use fuel feeding processes so that a total amount of consumption of the combustion use fuel and the post-treatment use fuel per set driving distance is minimized while maintaining the amounts of harmful components in the exhaust gas discharged into the atmosphere below regulatory values.
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