Abstract: A control apparatus and a control method are used in a fuel cell system, in which fuel gas and oxidant gas are supplied to a fuel cell stack 1 to generate electric power, a load unit 9 is driven by supplying the generated power thereto, and the generated power is stored in a power storage unit. A control unit 10 sets in advance a margin load power to be supplied from a power storage unit 8 to the fuel cell stack 1 when the load of the load unit 9 changes at a predetermined rate, and computes outputable power of the power storage unit 8. Then, the control unit 10 compares the margin load power and the outputable power to generate an amount judgment result. When the outputable power is larger than the margin load power, the control unit 10 controls the power generation amount of the fuel cell stack 1 such that charged power becomes equal to an electric power difference between the margin load power and the outputable power.

Abstract: An electronic engine control system of an internal combustion engine with a supercharging device operable to produce a desired boost pressure, includes an electronically-controlled throttle valve and a pressure sensor located in an induction system to detect an actual boost pressure. The system computes a target air quantity used in a stratified combustion mode or in a homogeneous lean combustion mode, based on at least an operated amount of an accelerator, and computes the desired boost pressure based on engine speed and engine load, and computes a boost-pressure correction factor as the ratio of the desired boost pressure to the actual boost pressure, during the stratified combustion mode or during the homogeneous lean combustion mode. An arithmetic-calculation section is also provided to compensate for the target air quantity by the boost-pressure correction factor during the stratified combustion mode or during the homogeneous lean combustion mode.

Abstract: A throttle actuator varies an actual throttle valve opening degree for an engine in response to a control signal independently of driver's accelerator operation. An engine control unit determines a target torque (or a variable quantity representing the target torque) in accordance with an accelerator opening degree, and normally controls the actual throttle opening degree in a normal mode based on the target torque. In a predetermined operating region where the throttle opening responds too sensitively to a change in the target torque, the control unit controls the throttle opening degree in a constraint mode in accordance with a parameter, such as the accelerator opening degree, independent of the target torque.

Abstract: The disclosed control apparatus and method of an engine of the present invention calculates a target engine torque using an operation amount of an accelerator, converting the target engine torque into a first opening area of a throttle valve, calculates a required air amount at the time of idling, converting the required air amount into a second opening area of the throttle valve, calculates a target total opening area of the throttle valve by adding the first opening area and the second opening area of the throttle valve, calculates a target opening degree of the throttle valve in correspondence to the target total opening area, and outputs the target opening degree to the throttle valve controller which controls an opening degree of the throttle valve.

Abstract: An engine comprising a throttle controller operable in response to an intake air control command, a fuel controller operable in response to a fuel control command, and an engine controller for generating the intake air control command and the fuel control command. The engine controller determines a target equivalence ratio for detected operating state of the engine, controls a change between stratified charge combustion and homogeneous charge combustion, delays the target equivalent ratio, determines the intake air control command and the fuel control command in response to the delayed target equivalence ratio.

Abstract: In a control apparatus and method for a vehicular internal combustion engine, an accelerator operating variable detector is provided for detecting an operating variable of an accelerator operated by a driver, a revolution speed detector is provided for detecting a revolution speed of the engine, a driver demand torque calculator is provided for calculating an engine torque demanded by the vehicle driver on the basis of the detected operating variable of the accelerator and the detected revolution speed as a driver's demand torque.

Abstract: A torque controller for a direct-injection type internal combustion engine achieves the target engine torque accurately, without being affected by the combustion mode. The combustion efficiency is different depending on whether an engine combustion mode is in a homogeneous combustion mode or a stratified combustion mode. The torque controller calculates an eventual target intake air flow rate TTP2 based on the target intake air flow rate TTPO, the target air/fuel ratio tDML, and the combustion efficiency correction rate ITAF, which is calculated based on the combustion mode.

Abstract: A cylinder direct injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine comprising an EGR system is provided to control an amount of EGR gas recirculated from an exhaust gas passage to an intake air passage in which a throttle valve is disposed. The EGR system includes an EGR passage connecting the exhaust gas passage and the intake air passage, and an EGR valve disposed in the EGR passage. A control system is provided to control the EGR valve and the throttle valve. The control system includes a section for calculating a fresh air amount conversion value of an amount of the EGR gas, the fresh air amount conversion value being an amount of fresh air to be introduced to the intake system through the EGR system in place of the amount of the EGR gas. The control system further includes a section for controlling respective opening degrees of the throttle valve and the EGR valve in accordance with the fresh air amount conversion value.