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US 9,574,503 B2Granted
Engine and outboard motor
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoaki Sato, Takuya Kado
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Abstract
An engine includes a catalyst disposed inside an exhaust passage that guides exhaust discharged from a combustion chamber and a controller programmed to control a throttle valve and a fuel injector. If the engine is overheating, the controller is programmed to control the opening degree of the throttle valve or the injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to decrease the rotational speed of the crankshaft and to control the injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to set a target air-fuel ratio to a value richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.
Claims17
An engine comprising:
- a combustion chamber in which an air-fuel mixture of air and fuel is combusted;
- a crankshaft which rotates in accordance with a combustion of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber;
- an intake passage which guides a gas toward the combustion chamber;
- a throttle valve which changes a flow rate of the gas supplied from the intake passage to the combustion chamber;
- a fuel injector which injects a fuel into the intake passage or into the combustion chamber;
- an exhaust passage which guides exhaust discharged from the combustion chamber;
- a catalyst disposed inside the exhaust passage;
- a temperature detecting device which detects a temperature of the engine;
- and
- a controller programmed to judge whether or not the engine is overheating based on a detection value of the temperature detecting device and, if the engine is overheating, to control an opening degree of the throttle valve or an injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to decrease a rotational speed of the crankshaft and to control the injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to set a target air-fuel ratio to a value richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio;
- wherein
- the controller includes a storage device that stores an initial map that includes a plurality of target air-fuel ratios, the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map are set according to operation conditions of the engine that include the rotational speed of the crankshaft;
- and
- if the engine is not overheating, the controller is programmed to use the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map, and if the engine is overheating, the controller is programmed to change all of the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map uniformly to values richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and to use the initial map after the change as an overheat map.
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An engine comprising:
- a combustion chamber in which an air-fuel mixture of air and fuel is combusted;
- a crankshaft which rotates in accordance with a combustion of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber;
- an intake passage which guides a gas toward the combustion chamber;
- a throttle valve which changes a flow rate of the gas supplied from the intake passage to the combustion chamber;
- a fuel injector which injects a fuel into the intake passage or into the combustion chamber;
- an exhaust passage which guides exhaust discharged from the combustion chamber;
- a catalyst disposed inside the exhaust passage;
- a temperature detecting device which detects a temperature of the engine;
- and
- a controller programmed to judge whether or not the engine is overheating based on a detection value of the temperature detecting device and, if the engine is overheating, to control an opening degree of the throttle valve or an injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to decrease a rotational speed of the crankshaft and to control the injection amount of fuel from the fuel injector to set a target air-fuel ratio to a value richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio;
- wherein
- the controller includes a storage device that stores an initial map that includes a plurality of target air-fuel ratios, the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map are set according to operation conditions of the engine that include the rotational speed of the crankshaft;
- the storage device further stores an overheat map that includes a plurality of target air-fuel ratios corresponding to the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map, each target air-fuel ratio of the overheat map is set to a value that is richer than the corresponding target air-fuel ratio of the initial map and richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio;
- and
- the controller is programmed to use the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the initial map if the engine is not overheating, and to use the plurality of target air-fuel ratios of the overheat map if the engine is overheating.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.