摘要:
When a vehicle state is detected during an engine is stopped, a sampling cycle of a detection signal indicating the vehicle state and a clock frequency of a CPU are changed, according to a change speed of the detection signal or an elapsed time after the engine is stopped.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a circuit for processing internal combustion engine crank angle sensor signals. The construction is such that an output side circuit of a crank angle sensor outputs a crank angle signal with a high level pulse generated in response to the switching on and off of a switch element connected in series to a power source. Moreover, an input side circuit of a signal processing circuit includes a voltage reducing circuit which pulls down a power source voltage applied at the time of pulse generation, to a predetermined voltage and supplies this to an arithmetic processing section. Consequently, the output signal at the time of no pulse generation becomes a low level so that influence from noise is minimized. Also, since the input signal at the time of momentary disconnection of terminals connecting between the crank angle sensor and the processing circuit is a low level, then erroneous recognition of pulse generation is prevented. Moreover, since at the time of pulse generation, current flows between the terminals, then terminal oxidation film is removed so that poor contact can also be prevented.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting pressure in an engine cylinder comprises a cylinder pressure sensor inserted between an ignition plug screwed into an engine cylinder head and a bearing surface on which the ignition plug is mounted. The sensor outputs a detection signal depending upon a change in the sensor load corresponding to a change in the pressure in the cylinder, to detect the pressure in the cylinder based on a detection signal from the cylinder pressure sensor. The detection signal from the cylinder pressure sensor is invalidated for only a predetermined period based on an ignition signal that controls the ignition of the ignition plug so that the S/N ratio in the sensor output will not be deteriorated by the ignition noise.
摘要:
The present invention is able to detect the intake air quantity which has been discriminated into flow direction by detecting the engine intake air quantity at two locations separated in the direction of flow of the intake air, comparing the detection values and detecting the flow direction of the intake air based on for example the advance or delay of the phase of the intake air pulsations. As a result, when the flow is reversed, the detection value is subtracted so that a normal flow direction averaged intake air flow quantity is detected, thereby enabling improvement in for example the setting accuracy for the fuel supply quantity of an engine.
摘要:
A slip condition of a torque converter is learned at a predetermined operating condition with a lock-up mechanism disengaged, and a diagnosis condition (for example a start time or judgement level of the fault diagnosis) used in diagnosing a fault in the lock-up mechanism on the basis of slip conditions of the torque converter which change after issue of a disengage command to the lock-up mechanism, is corrected in accordance with the learned result. As a result, the diagnosis condition which is conventionally set assuming a maximum viscosity for the operating fluid, can be changed to correspond to the actual viscosity of the operating fluid being used. Hence, the time delay from issue of a disengage command to the lock-up mechanism until starting fault diagnosis can be reduced, so that it is possible to diagnose if normal lock-up mechanism disengagement is being made at a response speed which follows the demands for rapid lock-up mechanism disengagement under operating conditions including acceleration and deceleration operating conditions such as encountered with city driving and the like.
摘要:
A fuel vapor control system for an internal combustion engine is constructed so as to first determine a basic purge gas quantity based on an operating condition of the engine, then corrects the basic purge gas quantity in accordance with an altitude at which the engine is located and determines a conclusive purge gas quantity. The conclusive purge gas quantity is determined so as to increase as the altitude becomes higher, whereby the escape of fuel vapor from the intake system of the engine can be prevented with efficiency and assuredness.
摘要:
A water temperature base increase correction amount for an internal combustion engine is reducingly corrected while maintaining the level of the surge-torque below a fixed level. A time constant for updating of the reduction correction is set based on a delay time from supply of fuel until generation of torque from combustion of the fuel. In this way responsiveness to the fuel reduction correction can be maintained, enabling improvement in fuel costs and exhaust emissions. Furthermore, the detection of the surge-torque necessary for example, for the control of fuel reduction correction, involves detection of scatter in combustion pressures between cylinders, while at the same time detecting variations in combustion pressure occurring in the same cylinder. The surge-torque level is then detected on the basis of these results. Since the influence or the occurrence of surge-torque is greater at low speed in the case of the former, and at high speed in the case of the latter, good surge-torque detection can be achieved over the whole operating range.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for controlling an air/fuel mixture ratio for an internal combustion engine which can start the air/fuel mixture ratio at a earlier timing than the conventional air/fuel mixture ratio controlling apparatus. For example, a control unit determines whether the engine is revolved and, thereafter, accumulates an intake air quantity. When the accumulated value exceeds the predetermined value SQ.sub.ST and the control unit determines that the activation of an oxygen sensor sufficiently occurs, the start of the air/fuel mixture ratio feedback control is determined. At this time, a fuel supply quantity T.sub.I is corrected so that the air/fuel mixture ratio which tends to be inclined to a lean side is shifted to the rich side.
摘要:
Based on a combustion pressure detected by a cylinder internal pressure sensor, a mean effective pressure Pi is calculated and a fluctuation amount .DELTA.Pi of the mean effective pressure Pi is calculated. The level of a predetermined frequency component of the fluctuation amount .DELTA.Pi is compared with a predetermined level. When the fluctuation amount .DELTA.Pi exceeds the predetermined value, it is judged that an increasing correction coefficient KTW according to a water temperature is smaller than a required value corresponding to a used fuel, and the increasing correction coefficient KTW is increasingly modified. When the above fluctuation amount .DELTA.Pi is less than the predetermined value, it is judged that the increasing correction coefficient KTW is larger than the required value corresponding to the used fuel, and the increasing correction coefficient KTW is decreasingly modified. Therefore, the increasing correction coefficient KTW according to the water temperature is optimized corresponding to the fuel being used.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting deterioration of a hot-wire type sucked air flow quantity-detecting device of an engine, in which the change ratio of the output voltage of the hot-wire type sucked air flow quantity-detecting device is measured when the output voltage of the sucked air flow quantity-detecting device is to be changed while the engine is in the substantially non-revolving state, and deterioration is judged by comparing the measured change ratio with a predetermined value, whereby it is possible to exchange parts promptly just in time and prevent degradation of the exhaust gas-purging performance of a vehicle.