Abstract: An operation control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: an exhaust emission purifier; a fuel supplying valve for supplying fuel to an exhaust passage; ignition means for igniting the fuel supplied; a warm up determining section for determining whether or not the purifier need be warmed; an exhaust heating determining section for determining whether or not the engine is in an operational state in which the fuel should be ignited and burned; an exhaust heating predicting section for predicting the transition from the operational state in which the fuel should not be ignited and burned to an operational state in which the fuel should be ignited and burned; and a heat generation temperature setting section for setting the temperature of a heating portion of the ignition means based on the result by the heating determining section and the predicting section.

Abstract: There is provided an operation control method for an internal combustion engine, in which if an exhaust gas purifier needs to be warmed, a second glow plug is heated in an exhaust passage upstream of the purifier to a fuel ignition temperature or higher while fuel supplied to the exhaust passage is ignited and burned. In this method, if it is determined that the purifier and an engine need to be warmed, a first glow plug disposed in a combustion chamber is first heated to a predetermined temperature prior to the warm-up of the purifier to start the warm-up of the engine, and then the second glow plug begins to be heated when the temperature of the purifier is equal to or higher than a glow plug energization starting temperature which is lower than a warm-up start determination temperature of the purifier.

Abstract: An operation control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: an exhaust emission purifier; a fuel supplying valve for supplying fuel to an exhaust passage; ignition means for igniting the fuel supplied; a warm up determining section for determining whether or not the purifier need be warmed; an exhaust heating determining section for determining whether or not the engine is in an operational state in which the fuel should be ignited and burned; an exhaust heating predicting section for predicting the transition from the operational state in which the fuel should not be ignited and burned to an operational state in which the fuel should be ignited and burned; and a heat generation temperature setting section for setting the temperature of a heating portion of the ignition means based on the result by the heating determining section and the predicting section.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention is applied to an internal combustion engine that is equipped with an exhaust gas treatment device that is provided in an exhaust passage, and a burner device that is provided in the exhaust passage upstream of the exhaust gas treatment device so as to raise a temperature of exhaust gas supplied to the exhaust gas treatment device. The control apparatus performs an increase control for increasing a concentration of oxygen in exhaust gas supplied to the burner device if the concentration of oxygen is not higher than a predetermined required concentration of oxygen when there is a request to operate the burner device. The combustion performance of the burner device is stably ensured by securing or compensating for an insufficient concentration of oxygen.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce oxide stored in an NOx catalyst in a more preferable manner. According to the present invention, when oxide stored in the NOx catalyst is to be reduced, the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine is switched into a low air-fuel ratio mode in which the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture in the internal combustion engine is low, and supply of fuel is executed at a time when the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas has been made low by the switching of the combustion mode.

Abstract: A technique is provided that enables reducer concentrations in exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust purification device on the upstream side and an exhaust purification device on the downstream side provided to an exhaust pipe in series to be controlled separately with a simple configuration. Included are the two exhaust purification devices provided to an exhaust passage in series, a bypass passage that bypasses the exhaust purification device on the upstream side, an exhaust control valve provided to the bypass passage, and reducer supply means provided on the upstream side of a branch portion. A reducer is supplied intermittently from the reducer supply means to periodically change the reducer concentration in the exhaust gas, and the exhaust control valve is opened or closed periodically at a predetermined timing with respect to the change in the reducer concentration.

Abstract: A control system of an internal combustion engine which arranges in an engine exhaust passage an exhaust turbine of an exhaust driven type supercharger, arranges in the exhaust passage downstream of the exhaust turbine an exhaust purification catalyst connects the exhaust passage between the exhaust purification catalyst and the exhaust turbine with the exhaust passage upstream of the exhaust turbine by a bypass passage, arranges in the bypass passage a storing agent which stores a specific ingredient in the exhaust, and is provided with an exhaust gas flow switching device which selectively switches the exhaust gas flow between a flow which flows through the exhaust turbine into the exhaust purification catalyst and a flow which flows through the bypass passage into the exhaust purification catalyst.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve preferable promotion of the modification of reducing agent in a precatalyst in the case where the reducing agent is added through a reducing agent addition valve in order to supply the reducing agent to an exhaust gas purification catalyst. According to the present invention, one end of an exhaust passage in which an exhaust gas purification catalyst is provided is connected to an exhaust manifold, and a precatalyst and a reducing agent addition valve are provided in the exhaust manifold. The precatalyst is configured in such a way that the exhaust gas flows through the gap between the outer circumferential surface thereof and the inner wall surface of the exhaust manifold. The precatalyst and the reducing agent addition valve are arranged in such a way that the most part of the reducing agent added through the reducing agent addition valve flows into the precatalyst.

Abstract: A technique is provided that enables reducer concentrations in exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust purification device on the upstream side and an exhaust purification device on the downstream side provided to an exhaust pipe in series to be controlled separately with a simple configuration. Included are the two exhaust purification devices provided to an exhaust passage in series, a bypass passage that bypasses the exhaust purification device on the upstream side, an exhaust control valve provided to the bypass passage, and reducer supply means provided on the upstream side of a branch portion. A reducer is supplied intermittently from the reducer supply means to periodically change the reducer concentration in the exhaust gas, and the exhaust control valve is opened or closed periodically at a predetermined timing with respect to the change in the reducer concentration.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce oxide stored in an NOx catalyst in a more preferable manner. According to the present invention, when oxide stored in the NOx catalyst is to be reduced, the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine is switched into a low air-fuel ratio mode in which the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture in the internal combustion engine is low, and supply of fuel is executed at a time when the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas has been made low by the switching of the combustion mode.

Abstract: In a treatment for regenerating the purification capability of an exhaust emission control system, a technique for improving exhaust emission more positively is provided by supplying a reducing agent to the exhaust emission control system and allowing part of exhaust to bypass the exhaust emission control system. When an addition synchronous bypass control is carried out in which an reducing agent is added when an NSR is subject to NOx reduction treatment and the volume of exhaust passing through a bypass pipe out of exhaust passing an exhaust pipe is increased to thereby decrease the volume of exhaust passing through the NSR, a judgment is made (S106) as to which is larger a reduction in volume of Nox exhausted (S105) due to an increase in conversion efficiency of the NSR as the result of the addition synchronous bypass control carried out or an increase in volume of Nox exhausted (S103) due to an increase in exhaust passing through the bypass pipe.