Abstract:
In a SOHC type internal combustion engine having a single camshaft, a fuel injector is provided for directly injecting a fuel into a combustion chamber, and an intake port is provided such that one end of the intake port is open at intake openings to the combustion chamber. The intake port extends toward the top face of a cylinder head between the camshaft and two intake valves, such that at least a part of the intake port passes through a region between the shortest lines connecting respective head portions of the intake valves and the camshaft.
Abstract:
In a SOHC type internal combustion engine having a single camshaft, a fuel injector is provided for directly injecting a fuel into a combustion chamber, and an intake port is provided such that one end of the intake port is open at intake openings to the combustion chamber. The intake port extends toward the top face of a cylinder head between the camshaft and two intake valves, such that at least a part of the intake port passes through a region between the shortest lines connecting respective head portions of the intake valves and the camshaft.
Abstract:
A particulate oxidizer system for a diesel engine comprises a diesel particulate oxidizer (DPO) in the exhaust line to collect and burn particulates in the exhaust. The DPO comprises ceramic foam with a catalyst. When the quantity of particulates in the DPO reaches a predetermined value, high temperature gas containing oxygen is fed to the DPO to burn off (regenerate) the collected particulates. This is achieved by retard control of the injection timing under control of an engine control unit (ECU). A regeneration timing detection means detects the regeneration timing in the DPO. When the quantity of particulates in the DPO falls below a predetermined value, the ECU provides a signal to increase the idling revolution of the engine.
Abstract:
In a thermostat failure diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a failure diagnosis of a thermostat can be effectively made, in the case where, after starting of the engine, an intake air quantity of the engine or a parameter related to the intake air quantity is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, and a cooling water temperature is equal to or higher than an intake air temperature (outside air temperature), on the basis of a time in which a rising quantity in the cooling water temperature at an upstream side of the thermostat reaches a predetermined value, or a time in which the cooling water temperature rises to a predetermined temperature, the failure of the thermostat is judged. By this, the failure diagnosis of the thermostat can be rationally made only when the engine generating heat quantity is large to some degree to prevent erroneous diagnosis.
Abstract:
A variable compression ratio apparatus is provided for use in an internal combustion engine. The apparatus has an eccentric sleeve rotatably arranged in one of pivot portions at opposite ends of a connecting rod so as to make a bearing hole of the connecting rod and a pin, which extends through the bearing hole, eccentric relative to each other. The apparatus also has an eccentric sleeve lock device capable of fixing rotation of the eccentric sleeve at a desired position. The lock device includes a pin member engageable with one of engagement portions formed in the eccentric sleeve and a piston-type fluid pressure drive system. The drive system is adapted to produce a pressure difference between fluid pressure chambers formed at opposite sides of a piston portion, which is connected to the pin member, in a state that the fluid pressure chambers are applied with a prescribed fluid pressure, whereby the piston portion is moved to drive the pin member.
Abstract:
An air/fuel ratio control system is provided for use with an internal combustion engine. The system includes an air/fuel ratio detector arranged on an upstream side of a catalytic converter so as to detect the air/fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine from components of exhaust gas, a device for controlling the air/fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine on the basis of results of a comparison between a detection value from the air/fuel ratio detector and a predetermined reference value; and a device for shifting the reference value to a lean air/fuel ratio side in a specific operation state of the internal combustion engine.
Abstract:
A self-diagnosis system for a vehicle, with which it is possible, without requiring skill and practice, to realize running according to a running pattern and easily and certainly cause an ECU to execute a self-diagnosis. The self-diagnosis system comprises: a vehicle state detecting unit for detecting a vehicle state; a data processing unit for executing a diagnosis of a diagnosis object device on the basis of a predetermined running pattern preset in correspondence with the diagnosis object device and a vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting unit when running according to the running pattern is carried out; and a diagnosis data processing unit, data-transferably connected to the data processing unit, for obtaining and displaying data from the data processing unit, and under a condition that the diagnosis data processing unit is data-transferably connected to the data processing unit and the vehicle is run in a predetermined running pattern corresponding to a diagnosis object device in order to execute a diagnosis to the diagnosis object device, the diagnosis data processing unit displays that an execution condition is established when the execution condition of the diagnosis corresponding to the running pattern is established.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an air/fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine. The system includes a first oxygen density sensor element, a second oxygen density sensor element having a slower detection response speed than the first sensor element, an air/fuel ratio control unit for controlling the air/fuel ratio of the engine on the basis of results of a comparison between a detection value from the first sensor element and a standard value, and an air/fuel ratio control correction means for effecting a correction to the air/fuel ratio control by the air/fuel ratio control unit on the basis of results of comparison between a detection value from the second sensor element and a second standard value. An air/fuel ratio controlling oxygen density sensor is also disclosed. The sensor is constructed of a first oxygen density sensor element and a second oxygen density sensor element for detecting the density of oxygen in exhaust gas at a slower detection response speed compared to the first sensor element. The first and second oxygen density sensor elements are both provided on a common base member.
Abstract:
In a thermostat failure diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a failure diagnosis of a thermostat can be effectively made, in the case where, after starting of the engine, an intake air quantity of the engine or a parameter related to the intake air quantity is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, and a cooling water temperature is equal to or higher than an intake air temperature (outside air temperature), on the basis of a time in which a rising quantity in the cooling water temperature at an upstream side of the thermostat reaches a predetermined value, or a time in which the cooling water temperature rises to a predetermined temperature, the failure of the thermostat is judged. By this, the failure diagnosis is not made in the state where an engine generating heat quantity is small so that there is a fear that an erroneous diagnosis occurs, and the failure diagnosis of the thermostat can be rationally made only in the state where the engine generating heat quantity is large to some degree so that there is no fear of erroneous diagnosis.
Abstract:
A fault diagnosing apparatus for evapopurge systems, including a device adapted to detect a pressure in the interior of an evapopassage including a fuel tank, a depressurization device adapted to close a first valve provided in an atmosphere-opened port of a canister and depressurize the interior of the evapopassage by a negative pressure occurring in a suction passage of an internal combustion engine, a repressurization device adapted to close a second valve after the operation of the depressurization device finishes, to repressurize the interior of the evapopassage, and a fault judgement device adapted to allow a judgement, which is based on an output from the pressure detecting device, that an evapopurge system is abnormal to be given on condition that the depressurization and repressurization devices are operated plural times.