# US 8,751,137 B2 · Apparatus for estimating exhaust gas recirculation quantity

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- Number: US 8,751,137 B2
- Document ID: US8751137B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/279,548
- Filed: 2011-10-24
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Granted: 2014-06-10
- Earliest claimed: 2010-10-25
- Assignees: Denso Corporation
- Applicants: Hiroyuki Takezoe
- Inventors: Hiroyuki Takezoe
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8751137B2

## CPC

- F02B 47/08: the substances including exhaust gas
- F02D 21/08: the other gas being the exhaust gas of engine
- F02D 41/0072: {Estimating, calculating or determining the EGR rate, amount or flow (sensors in EGR systems F02M26/45)}
- F02M 26/64: the EGR valve being operated together with an intake air throttle
- F02D 41/18: by measuring intake air flow
- F02D 2200/0402: the parameter being determined by using a model of the engine intake or its components
- F02D 2200/0406: Intake manifold pressure
- Y02T 10/40: Engine management systems
- F02B: INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL (gas-turbine plants F02C; hot-gas or combustion-product positive-displacement engine plants F02G)
- 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)
- F02M: SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

An apparatus estimates a quantity of recirculated exhaust gas. The apparatus includes a first unit computing a total quantity of gas, a second unit computing a quantity of exhaust gas passing through an EGR vale by means of an EGR valve model, a third unit computing a temporal quantity of the exhaust gas by means of an EGR diffusion model which simulates a behavior of the exhaust gas, a fourth unit obtaining an intake air quantity by subtracting the temporal exhaust gas quantity from the total gas quantity, a fifth unit correcting the computed intake air quantity by means of intake air quantity measured by the airflow meter, a sixth unit computing an intake air pressure based on the corrected quantity of the intake air, and a seventh unit computing a quantity of the recirculated exhaust gas based on at least the intake air pressure.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An apparatus for estimating a quantity of recirculated exhaust gas flowing into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the apparatus comprising:
an EGR valve controlling a quantity of an exhaust gas recirculated from an exhaust passage into an intake passage through an EGR passage;
a measuring means for measuring a quantity of an intake air flowing through the intake passage;
a first means for computing a quantity of a total gas flowing into a cylinder by means of an intake valve model which simulates a behavior of gas flowing through the intake passage toward a cylinder;
a second means for computing a quantity of the exhaust gas passing through the EGR valve by means of an EGR valve model which simulates a behavior of the recirculated exhaust gas passing through the EGR valve;
a third means for computing a temporal quantity of the exhaust gas flowing into the cylinder based on the quantity of the exhaust gas passing through the EGR valve by means of an EGR diffusion model which simulates a behavior of the exhaust gas flowing through the intake passage toward an intake port of the internal combustion engine;
a fourth means for obtaining the quantity of the intake air flowing into the cylinder by subtracting the temporal quantity of the exhaust gas flowing into the cylinder from the total quantity of the gas flowing into the cylinder;
a fifth means for correcting the quantity of the intake air flowing into the cylinder by means of the intake air quantity measured by the measuring means;
a sixth means for computing an intake air pressure based on the quantity of the intake air corrected by the fifth means, and
a seventh means for computing a quantity of the recirculated exhaust gas flowing into the cylinder based on at least the intake air pressure.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the fifth means switches a quantity of correction of the intake air quantity between for a stable driving condition and for a transitional driving condition.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the fifth means sets a quantity of correction of the intake air quantity to a differential value between the computed intake air quantity and the measured intake air quantity.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the sixth means computes the intake air pressure by means of an inverse model of the intake valve model.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the seventh means computes the quantity of the recirculated exhaust gas flowing into the cylinder based on the intake air pressure, an engine speed, and an opening degree of the EGR valve.