Abstract:
A method and apparatus compensates throttle area in an engine control system with an electronic throttle using intake diagnostic residuals. A plurality of tables relate throttle area, breakpoint numbers, flow loss factors and residual values. At least one of the tables is updated based on the intake diagnostic residuals to generate a compensated throttle area.
Abstract:
A method of operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle provided with a vacuum accumulator which provides an auxiliary energy required for at least one servo function of the internal combustion engine in form of a vacuum and which is acted upon by a vacuum acting in a suction pipe of the internal combustion engine. The method computes a pressure acting in the vacuum accumulator, supplies mass flows to the vacuum accumulator when at least one servo function is performed, and withdraws the mass flows from the vacuum accumulator when a pressure acting in the suction pipe is smaller than the pressure acting in the vacuum accumulator. The pressure acting in the vacuum accumulator is computed from a mass balance of the mass flows supplied to the vacuum accumulator and withdrawn from the vacuum accumulator.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine having an intake passage that is closed at the time of engine starting operation wherein a holding time for completely closing a throttle valve is made as long as possible within such a range that the engine does not fail to be started. The throttle valve is held at its full-closure position when an ignition switch is turned on. Then, at the time of engine starting operation, an amount of air consumed by the engine is calculated based on a cumulative rotational speed of the engine, a cylinder volume of the engine, and a parameter of volumetric efficiency corresponding to an engine rotational speed, and, if so, the throttle valve is opened to a predetermined opening degree.
Abstract:
A rotary valve actuator arrangement including a rotary valve and an electromagnetic actuator actuating the rotary valve. The rotary valve includes a valve shaft rotatable about an axis and a valve body disposed on the valve shaft for unitary rotation therewith. The electromagnetic actuator includes two stator cores, two coils wound on the stator cores, and a rotor rotatable about the axis and including two projecting portions opposed to the stator cores. Mutually opposed surfaces of the stator cores and the projecting portions define a continuously variable area forming a magnetic path when the coil is energized.
Abstract:
A system and method for controlling a powertrain using multiple position sensors for electronic airflow control include comparing values corresponding to position signals generated by each of the sensors to upper and lower thresholds to determine if each signal is within a first range, and comparing at least one pair of values corresponding to the signals to generate at least one difference value which is compared to a corresponding difference threshold.
Abstract:
An electronic throttle control apparatus is provided with an electronic throttle (1) including a throttle valve (4) which is opened and closed by a motor (5), and a microcomputer (11) which controls the motor (5). The microcomputer (11) calculates a deviation between a target opening degree which is set by detection of an accelerator sensor (5) and an actual opening degree which is detected by a throttle sensor (6) to calculate a motor control amount in accordance with the deviation and a control gain in correspondence to the deviation. The microcomputer 11 sets a control gain which becomes smaller as the deviation becomes larger, and limits the control gain by the previous control gain at a time when the control gain is larger than the previous control gain. The microcomputer (11) cancels the limit of the control gain when the calculated actual opening degree change is reduced from a predetermined value.
Abstract:
A throttle adjusting apparatus for use with a machinery for soil management includes a throttle cable. The throttle cable has one end portion to which a throttle valve, a choke valve, and a fuel cock are connected. The apparatus further includes a throttle lever. The throttle lever is disposed to pivot in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of a central axis of a grip mounted to a handle of the machinery. The throttle lever is connected to another end portion of the throttle cable. The throttle valve, the choke valve, and the fuel cock are operated simultaneously by means of the throttle lever.
Abstract:
A load adjustment apparatus for a final control element (4) which determines the power of an internal combustion engine and is arranged on an actuating shaft (2) has a torsion spring (18) which is stressed by a minimum-load gear between a minimum-load position and an emergency-running position and is stressed by an actuating gear (5) between a full-load position and the emergency-running position. The minimum-load gear has a dog (10) which can be pivoted in the same sense as a gearwheel (9) arranged on an intermediate gearwheel (8) and serves to take along one end (12) of the torsion spring (18), the end resting against a stop (13) in the emergency-running position. The torsion spring (18) loads the actuating part (4) and hence the actuating shaft (2) continuously into the emergency-running position.
Abstract:
An engine control unit and method of controlling the operation of a gas fuelled internal combustion engine of the kind having a gas injector for injecting gaseous fuel into each cylinder and an inlet manifold through which air flows into each cylinder of the engine, the inlet manifold having a manifold valve to control the flow of air into the inlet manifold. An improved control strategy employed by the engine control unit involves closed loop control of airflow through the inlet manifold of the engine. Manifold absolute pressure (MAP) (70) and manifold air temperature (MAT) (72) are employed to calculate air density (84) which is representative of the mass of air flowing through the inlet manifold (28). The detected air density (84) is compared to a desired air density (DAD) (86) and an air density correction (88) is calculated to adjust the manifold valve position (MVP) (90).
Abstract:
A throttle valve control apparatus of an engine is constructed so that the poorer the response of the throttle valve, the larger the value of a control signal given as a control signal for opening of the throttle valve, whereby the speediness of control and response of the throttle valve are improved. The engine throttle valve control apparatus has means for comparing a target opening which is a control target of the throttle valve and a real opening which obtained by a sensor or the like, and obtaining a corrected target opening of the throttle valve by a map or computing, corresponding to a difference obtained as the result of the comparison.